Month: July 2014

Ramadan is observed with full devotion and fervour in the city of Hyderabad. People buy new clothes to celebrate Eid after fasting for the whole month. Nayapul to Charminar stretch turns into a human sea, as the shoppers throng to buy the articles according to their requirments.

While the Muslims try to seek blessings of Allah, trade sees an upsurge during the holy month. There are nearly 5 to 6 thousand shops in the area. According to Mr. Hasan Barazeeq nearly 25 thousand people find work at cloth shops and showrooms during Ramadan.

In order to check prices of onion and potato, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is likely to consider Wednesday a proposal to impose stock holding limits on these two commodities and curb hoarding.

Currently, stock limits are imposed for pulses, edible oils and oilseeds till September 2014, while for rice and paddy upto November this year.

“The CCEA meeting is scheduled for Wednesday. A proposal to impose stock limits on storage, movement and distribution of onion and potato is on the agenda,” sources said.

Researchers have successfully developed tiny muscle-powered “bio-bots” that can be controlled with an electric current and can “walk on their own.”

The scientists from University of Illinois demonstrated a class of walking “bio-bots” powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical pulses, giving researchers unprecedented command over their function.

West Bengal is likely to experience heavy rainfall over the next two days, Met officials said Wednesday.

Officials at the Alipur Met Office here said most districts of the state will witness moderate to heavy rains while southern parts of Bengal will receive the maximum rain from Wednesday to Friday.

Wind will be “generally light” and Thursday night is forecast to be the wettest.

Several areas of the eastern metropolis were Tuesday night water-logged following a downpour, causing traffic snarls.

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Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Atul Anjan here today alleged that the government is not able to stop black marketing and hoarding because these black marketers and hoarders supported Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during elections and also financed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election campaigns.

Tech giant Samsung has reportedly launched four new budget Galaxy devices – Galaxy Core II, Galaxy Star 2, Galaxy Ace 4, and Galaxy Young 2.

Samsung is making efforts to capture more market share and launch something for every segment. Just last week, Sprint announced it would exclusively offer the new fitness-focused, water-resistant, and dust-proof Galaxy S5 Sport.

The Korean company is focusing on ‘affordability’ with the new devices. However, they have not disclosed the pricing for the devices.

A key role of the American troops in Iraq is assessing whether the country’s security forces can hold together and whether its leaders are confident they can do their jobs, a top US military official has said.

Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters after a speech that some of the 750 troops in Iraq are specifically there to help determine what the US might do next to help Iraq fight an insurgency.

A new study has revealed that switching off a single gene, researchers have converted human gastrointestinal cells into insulin-producing cells.

The scientists at Columbia University’s Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center said that people have been talking about turning one cell into another for a long time, but until now they hadn’t gotten to the point of creating a fully functional insulin-producing cell by the manipulation of a single target.

The health of former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee admitted to a private hospital after suffering a cerebral stroke was stable, a doctor said Wednesday.

“His condition is stable and it is improving. We tested him for brain infection and the results came out as negative but he is not fully conscious,” attending doctor Subir Mondal told IANS.

Chatterjee was hospitalised Sunday evening after he complained of restlessness.

This is the second time in the last six months that the 84-year-old has been hospitalised.

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All-rounder Stuart Broad has rubbished former player Kevin Pietersen’s comment that England are an unhappy squad under the leadership of skipper Alastair Cook.

Pietersen, Geoffrey Boycott and Shane Warne have criticized various aspects of England captain Alastair Cook’s leadership after the team’s series losses to Sri Lanka recently.

But Broad said the “environment” within the England camp had improved since Pietersen’s departure, reports news.com.au.

Union Health Minister Dr.Harsh Vardhan has sought a report from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) director over an AIIMS doctor’s allegations that the autopsy in Sunanda Pushkar’s death was submitted under pressure.

“I have asked the director of AIIMS, Dr M.C Mishra, to submit an official report to me regarding this matter,” said Dr Harsh Vardhan.

NASA has recently tested an effective saucer shaped vehicle technology that could be used for future mars missions.

The 150 million US Dollars experimental flight was designed to deliver heavier spacecraft and eventually astronauts with a novel vehicle and a giant parachute, News.com.au reported.

Since the twin Viking spacecraft landed on the red planet in 1976, NASA has relied on the same parachute design to slow landers and rovers after piercing through the thin Martian atmosphere.

Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday refused to answer media queries on the allegations made in the autopsy case of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.

According to media reports, the head of the forensics department at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Dr. Sudhir Gupta, has said that he was pressurized to give a doctored report in Pushkar’s death case.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has tightened security arrangements in temple towns of Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi for the upcoming holy month of Shravan after intelligence inputs of possible disturbances.

Inspector General of Police (law and order) Amrendra Sengar told reporters that the state police has received an alert from intelligence agencies for Mathura, Kashi (Varanasi) and Ayodhya during the month when fairs drawing large crowds are organised.

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Congress party here today lashed out at Finance Minister Arun Jailtley for his inability to curb the rising inflation.

Taunting over Bharatiya Janata party’s (BJP’s) election slogan of good days, Congress leader Majid Memon said that the government is not able to stand by its slogan.

“When Finance minister himself expresses helplessness in fighting inflation then it’s a blow to the hopes of people who voted for them,” said Memon.

“The people had lot hopes from the government that it will look into the matter of inflation,” he added.

The “unparalleled” contribution of Tripura in the liberation war of Bangladesh is the subject of a new book.

In “Contribution of Tripura in the Liberation War of Bangladesh”, Bangladeshi author and human rights activist Salam Azad recalls how the northeastern state provided support to liberation war heroes and lakhs of refugees in the form of food and shelter.

He decided to write about Tripura’s contribution after he heard the story of a poor farmer who, despite finding it difficult to make ends meet, offered food and shelter to refugees fleeing Bangladesh.

Although government has claimed to make all necessary arrangements to provide facilities to the devotees in all major masajid of the city during Ramadanul Mubarak, but the historical Makkah Masjid still lacks basic facilities. Thousands of people reach Makkah Masjid to offer Taravih prayer but they are not provided with basic facilities.

The holy month of Ramadan comes to the Islamic world every year to remind the Muslim faithful on the need to return to Allah by following His teachings in all walks of their lives in order to achieve peace in this world and the Hereafter.

The daytime fasting and nighttime prayers spiritually energize the faithful to lead a new life, benefiting the whole humanity and opening a new chapter of peace and progress.

Ramadan is not a month for shopping festivals as many people wrongly believed.

Bor Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra will become the country’s 47th Tiger Reserve with Environment Ministry notifying it as a tiger reserve with an aim to strengthen the conservation efforts of the national animal.

Minister of State (Independent Charge), Environment, Forests and Climate Change and the Chairperson of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, Prakash Javadekar has approved the recommendation on a proposal from Maharashtra for notifying the Bor Sanctuary, New Bor Sanctuary and the New Bor Extended Wildlife Sanctuary as a core/critical tiger habitat of a tiger reserve.

The government has not yet taken any decision regarding permission of Jalsa Yaumul Quran at Makkah Masjid during Ramadanul Mubarak. The file is said to have been sent to chief minister for approval and further two days will be required for its approval.

It must be noted that permission is granted to various parties to hold Jalsa Yaumul Quran on Fridays of Ramadan. Of the 4 Fridays of Ramadan, 2 Fridays are allotted to MIM while 1 to MBT. 2nd Friday is allotted to a religious organisation of the city to hold meeting.

Siasat news

Commenting on the allegations made in the Sunanda Pushkar’s autopsy report case, Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday reiterated that Pushkar was murdered and called for proper investigation in the case.

“I have been saying this from the beginning that she was murdered by a professional gang. There should be proper investigations in this case as there are certain new aspects which have come out and which strongly indicate that she was murdered,” Swamy told ANI.

Swamy said that Pushkar had told people that she will expose the corruption in IPL.

At least eight people were killed and 13 wounded after a suicide bomb attacker triggered an explosion on a bus carrying military personnel in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, officials said.

According to Dawn, the explosion happened in the heavily secured downtown area near Kabul University at a time of increasing attacks by the Taliban and other insurgents around Afghanistan, where the outcome of a presidential election is still not known.

The Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital and Kashyap Memorial Eye Bank in Ranchi were Tuesday lauded for their community service by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on the occasion of Doctors’ Day.

The IMA Medachievers.com award – instituted by the Indian Medical Association – was conferred to the hospital charitable trust for its effort in combating blindness in rural Jharkhand.

The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) Tuesday said new cases of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) rose by 19 percent in May this year.

New cases recorded in January to May numbered 2,320, nearly 23 percent higher than the 1,892 cases reported last year, Xinhua reported.

Of the new HIV cases recorded in May, DOH said 465 were infected through sexual contact while 30 were drug users who shared contaminated needles.

DOH said 140 of those who were infected were aged between 15 to 24 years of age.

A recent study has found that the Arctic Ocean was very brackish and had reduced salinity back then, indicating that Sharks thrived some 50 million years ago.

The study, carried out by University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Chicago, indicated that the Eocene Arctic sand tiger shark was thriving in the brackish water, while the modern sand tiger sharks living today are very intolerant of low salinity.

The modern sharks require three times the saltiness of the Eocene sharks in order to survive.