Nitin Gadkari ¬Union Transport Minister told the government would change the law to revoke a ban on e-rickshaws in the capital and Launch of “Deen Dayal scheme” under which potential buyers of the vehicle would get a loan of 3 per cent interest.
This was not only good news for estimated 1 lakh operators who currently carryout their business in a legal grey zone but also for a company in Nagpur closely linked with Gadkari.
Ten school children Saturday complained of giddiness during a laboratory experiment in Goa’s Vasco town and were rushed to a hospital, a school spokesperson said.
They were later discharged after preliminary examination at the hospital in Chicalim village.
Students from St. Andrew’s school in Vasco, a port town located 35 km from here, complained of giddiness after inhaling some gases in the laboratory while conducting experiments, said the school spokesperson.
A new study has revealed that Chimpanzees are copycats and, in the process, they form new traditions that are often particular to only one specific group of these primates, as “grass-in-the-ear” has become a new trend.
According to the researchers, a female chimp named Julie repeatedly put a stiff, strawlike blade of grass for no apparent reason in one or both of her ears and left it there even when she was grooming, playing or resting, after which other chimpanzees also followed suit.
A new study has revealed that positive portrayal of unhealthy food habits by TV characters lead to set bad example for kids in real life.
The researchers established that statutory legislation to curb children’s exposure to high sugar and fat in food/drink in TV adverts was introduced in the UK in 2007, and similar regulations have recently come on stream in Ireland, however these weren’t applied to programme content.
BJP MP from Secunderabad, Bandaru Dattatreya Saturday asked Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to immediately convene a meeting of all MPs from the state to discuss various issues pending with the Centre so that they could be raised in the forthcoming Budget session of Parliament.
A two-and-a-half year old boy died, allegedly due to suffocation after he accidentally locked himself in a car in busy New Market area here, a police official said on Saturday.
The incident took place yesterday when the kid identified as Atishay Jain, son of a local garment trader was playing in the shop and later took the keys of a car quietly and went inside the vehicle to play, his grandfather Kamal Jain told reporters.
Soon after the child entered inside, the car got locked and the windows remained closed causing suffocation, a sub inspector said.
A couple in remote Itki village, about 30 kms from Ranchi, educates young Muslim girls to be self- dependent by familiarising them with hi-tech know-how.
On one hand, while the usual restrictions are imposed by fundamentalists on Muslim women, particularly in the field of education, Fatima Education Academy in the Naxal-affected village has come up with an advanced system of teaching.
The wife and principal, Tabassum Fatima, on Friday said she believes that girls should not be confined to cooking alone.
A judge in a local court here has received a letter from a person claiming to be a top operative of terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba who has threatened to kill him if he did not dismiss a case filed against Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
After being released from the police custody Friday night, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sangeet Som told ANI here that the Mahapanchayat issue had been purposely heated up to target his party.
Criticising the Samajwadi Party (SP), Som said it was trying to divert the people’s attention from the poor law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh with incidents such as the clashes that had taken place with the police on Thursday.
At least six persons were injured in a clash between two parties belonging to different communities over a minor dispute here, police said on Saturday.
The incident took place last night when two youths belonging to different communities had an argument over a mere sum of hundred rupees, which one person owed to another, they said.
The argument later worsened as people from the two parties took to the streets and indulged in stone-pelting which left at least 6 persons injured, SSP Omkar Singh said.
The injured have been admitted to a hospital.
The Special Court for Prevention of Corruption has convicted a Deputy Director of Fire and Rescue services in a bribery case and sentenced him for three and a half years imprisonment, besides slapping a fine of Rs 11,000.
His assistant Durairaj was also sentenced to one year in the same case.
The case was that Deputy director of Fire Service Noorudin, who was suspended from service pending investigation before his retirement, had demanded a bribe of Rs 5000 from fireman Nagarajan for effecting transfer from Kallikudi Fire service station to Sivakasi on September 29, 2003.
Forty-six nurses, who were held captive by ISIS militants in Iraq, on Saturday returned home by a special Air India flight to a happy reunion with their families here, bringing to an end their about month-long ordeal.
The special aircraft, which also had on board about 137 others, touched down the tarmac at the Kochi International Airport at 11.57am, a senior airport official said.
Six Taliban militants were killed and 10 others sustained injuries in a clash with security forces in Jarm district of Badakhshan province 315 km northeast of Kabul, a government spokesman said Saturday.
“A group of armed Taliban rebels attacked police checkpoints outside Jarm city Friday night and police returned the fire killing six militants on the spot and injuring 10 others,” Ahmad Naved Frutan, spokesman of the provincial government, told Xinhua.
There were no casualties among the security personnel, he added.
…………..IANS
Curfew was last night imposed in this town in Madhya Pradesh after a clash between members of two communities which left seven persons injured, three of them with gunshot wounds, and saw a number of shops and vehicles being torched, police said on Saturday.
Police lathi-charged the rioters and lobbed teargas shells before being forced to fire in the air as the situation got out of control, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mukesh Vaishya, told reporters.
A two-and-a-half year old boy died, allegedly due to suffocation after he accidentally locked himself in a car in busy New Market area here, a police official said on Saturday.
The incident took place yesterday when the kid identified as Atishay Jain, son of a local garment trader was playing in the shop and later took the keys of a car quietly and went inside the vehicle to play, his grandfather Kamal Jain told reporters.
Soon after the child entered inside, the car got locked and the windows remained closed causing suffocation, a sub inspector said.
Suraj Pancholi’s parents Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab have filed a Rs. 100 crore defamation suit in the Bombay high court against Rabia Khan, the mother of actor Jiah Khan. Suraj is facing charges of abetting the suicide of Jiah.
On Thursday, the high court had transferred the probe from Mumbai police to CBI, while hearing Rabia’s plea, asking the agency to find out whether it was a case of suicide or homicide.
Do find time to talk to your wife even if you come tired from office and want to hit the sack – for a better heart health.
According to new research, positive interactions with your partner can lower the risk of heart attack or stroke for you.
“More negative interactions between partners were linked to having thicker carotid arteries – the blood vessels that carry blood through the neck to the brain,” Nataria Joseph from VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in California was quoted as saying.
Thicker carotids are linked with increased risk of cardiovascular problems.
Gender-based violence, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, and maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity all flourish in times of conflict, says a review, suggesting clinicians need to be sensitive and aware of the unique challenges of women’s reproductive health needs in such times.
The Karnataka Assembly was adjourned on Friday to July 07 as it plunged into pandemonium after agitated BJP members demanded arrest of a ruling Congress MLA, who is facing a criminal case along with six supporters for alleged assault of two police constables in a midnight bar brawl.
As the House assembled, BJP insisted that the issue be taken up before the Question Hour and accused the government of shielding MLA Vijayanand Kashpannavar, who is reported absconding since the July 2 incident landed him in trouble.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, arrested in connection with the 2011 Mumbai triple blast case, told the Mumbai police that he feels “proud of himself” for carrying out the blasts.
“Whatever I have done, I feel proud of myself,” Bhatkal said in his confessional statement, recorded by the Mumbai police.
The Maharashtra control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), under which Bhatkal is charged with, authorises the DCP-level officer to record the confessional statement of the accused.
70 teachers of government-run primary schools were found absent from duty during checking by a team of the education department in the district, an official said today.
“During checking in different government-run primary schools yesterday, 70 teachers were found absent from duty. One day’s salary would be deducted of the absentee teachers,” District Education offical K K Singh told reporters here.
The teachers have been warned and strict action would be taken against them if they found absent again, he said. PTI
Karnataka Government is planning to introduce a bill which will give powers to gram panchayats to levy taxes on services provided by commercial establishments, including airports, falling under their jurisdiction to rev up revenue collection.
The government move was prompted by the dwindling gram panchayat revenues to take up developmental works in villages, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H K Patil said in the state Assembly.
Japanese car maker Nissan on Thursday rolled out a new model here of its mid-size sedan Sunny, both in petrol and diesel variants priced between Rs 7.29 and 10.22 lakh (ex-showroom Mumbai).
Nissan had launched Sunny for the first time in the Indian market in 2011.
“India is a key strategic growth market for Nissan. We continue to monitor its evolution extremely closely to ensure our expanding product portfolio fits regional needs. The new Sunny is our answer that responds to the changing demands and desires,” Nissan Motor Corporation chief planning officer Andy Palmer said.
Several oil tankers caught fire and were reduced to ashes as three rockets fired by militants slammed into a parking lot in the western part of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, drivers at the site said.
“It was 11 p.m. Friday night when three rockets hit the parking lot in Arghandi area on the outskirts of Kabul city burning several oil tankers,” Tawab Khan, a driver, told Xinhua at the site of the incident.
“Two of my own oil tankers have burned to ashes and I have lost whatever I had in my life,” Khan added.
Two children were killed and as many injured when the wall of a house collapsed at Mujhera village under Miranpur police station in Muzaffarnagar district, police said.
The incident took place on Friday evening when the children were playing near the house, they said.
Karin (5) and Farin (3) were killed on the spot while the injured were shifted to a nearby hospital, they said.
–PTI