Month: July 2014

Croatian footballer Ivan Rakitic has said he is not joining FC Barcelona to replace Cesc Fabregas or Xavi.

“I’m going to be Ivan Rakitic, do the best possible and always be true to myself. I’m not going there to replace anybody,” the Croatian said on leaving Sevilla, reports EFE.

“I never thought it would be this painful to talk. I had something prepared but I’d prefer to say what comes straight from my heart,” Rakitic struggled say as he tried to stop his tears while reading his statement at the time of bidding farewell to Sevilla’s fans Monday.

A court Tuesday sentenced a person to four years’ rigorous imprisonment for converting incoming international calls into local ones, said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

In a statement issued here, the CBI said S. Murali and two others — all directors of Tele Data Networking Service — were charged with criminal conspiracy to cheat the central government of revenue by switching international incoming calls to local ones.

The Bharatiya Janata Party was one of the six political parties across the world which a US court in 2010 authorised the National Security Agency to spy upon, a classified document has revealed.

The foreign political parties NSA had authority to spy upon were Lebanon’s Amal, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Continental Coordinator, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and National Salvation Front, and the Pakistan People’s Party, The Washington Post reported Monday.

The document was released by the former NSA contractor-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The south-west monsoon has advanced to Himachal Pradesh with many areas witnessing moderate to heavy rainfall since Monday, the Met office said here Tuesday.

“Heavy rainfall may occur at some places in low and mid hills of the state Wednesday,” the meteorological department said in a statement.

Bangana town in Una district got 88 mm rainfall till 8.30 a.m. Tuesday, the highest in the state, while Nadaun in Hamirpur district and Rajgarh in Sirmaur district recorded 78 mm and 74 mm rain, respectively.

With a weak monsoon likely this year, the Haryana government Tuesday said it has prepared a comprehensive contingency crop plan to tide over the crisis.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the plan has been formulated in consultation with Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar and it has been forwarded to the field staff.

Under the plan, farmers have been advised to grow short-duration varieties of bajra, moong and urad, he said. Free mini-kits of bajra, moong and urad seeds will be distributed among the farmers.

TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu today issued appointment orders in the party’s health cell across the State which takes care of health of poor people.

La Liga champions Atletico Madrid are waiting for the Diego Costa transfer money to arrive from Chelsea to seal the deal for Manchester City’s Alvaro Negredo.

The negotiations are on between Chelsea and Atletico Madrid to finalise Costa’s transfer to the English capital to provide enough cash to sign Negredo as Costa’s replacement, reports EFE.

According to reports, the ‘Los Rojiblancos’ will also discuss the possibility of extending the loan of Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois for a fourth season.
IANS/EFE)

India and Singapore Tuesday discussed ways to boost economic cooperation, with New Delhi keen to gain from Singapore’s expertise in urban development projects for the proposed ‘smart cities’ along the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC).

Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam Tuesday met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj with the two countries exchanging views on the recent report on riots in Little India in Singapore.

Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao on Tuesday directed his cabinet colleagues and MLAs and MLCs to attend a scheduled meeting to elect Chairman for Telangana Council.
The CM asked them to be present at the meeting hall at 10 am. The TRS fielded its MLC Swamy Goud for the top post, while the Congress fielded Farooq Hussain.
During the meeting held earlier, KCR is said to have instructed the leaders on the election process. He is said to have exuded confidence that the TRS has got total strength to win the post. (NSS)

Costa Rica defender Roy Miller will miss the FIFA World Cup quarterfinal against the Netherlands to be held at Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador Saturday due to injury.

The Costa Rican football association said that Miller is suffering from a hamstring strain in his left leg which would keep him from participating in the last eight clash, reports EFE.

Former minister Dharmana Prasada Rao today called on Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao at Camp office here. They reportedly discussed on various issues. However the details were not known.
Talking to mediapersons later, Prasada Rao said he just made a courtesy call to the Chief Minister. He refused to divulge as to what transpired between them for about half-an-hour. (NSS)

Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar Tuesday notified the Bor Sanctuary, New Bor Sanctuary and the New Bor Extended Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra as a critical tiger reserve.

“Bor is the 47th tiger reserve in the country and the sixth tiger reserve of Maharashtra. With Project Tiger coverage, the reserve would receive funding and technical support which would strengthen tiger conservation, besides eco-development to benefit fringe people,” Javadekar’s office said.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Tuesday called for greater cooperation between France and India to tackle climate change and offered a proposed credit line of 1 billion Euro to enable sutainable urban development.

“In order to boost our cooperation, I am happy to announce that France has decided to propose a credit line of up to 1 billion Euros over the next three years for sustainable infrastructure and urban development in India through the French Development Agency,” he said.

Argentina winger Angel di Maria said there is no one specific team that is a powerful candidate to win the FIFA World Cup but that teammate Lionel Messi “is the best in the world”.

“Lionel is the best in the world. What he does nobody else can do and luckily he’s ours. He is going to be the World Cup’s big goalscorer. He’s at a tremendous moment,” reports EFE.

About the Argentine quest at the tournament so far, di Maria said: “We’re going from less to more. We haven’t reached our best level yet but I still believe we can win the World Cup.”

Six Accused persons held in murder case of Kareem Bin Salam (30), an auto driver from Cha cha Garage of Bhavaninagar.

Brazilian football association communications director Rodrigo Paiva was banned for one game after punching Chilean striker Mauricio Pinilla during halftime of the World Cup Round of 16 match between the two sides Saturday.

FIFA said a number of players engaged in a discussion after the first half leading to Paiva punching Pinilla in the players’ tunnel, reports EFE.

FIFA is still investigating the incident and more sanctions could be imposed later. Brazil won 3-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in regular and extra time.
(IANS/EFE)

DEECET 2014 Convener Dr R Surender Reddy on Tuesday informed that the results of the DEECET-2014 Common Entrance Test for admission of candidates into two year Diploma in Elementary Education Course in DIETs./Private Elementary Teacher Training Institutions for the batch 2014-2016 held on June 15 have been kept on website http://dietcet.cgg.gov.in.

Dr Reddy said that the final Key medium-wise and Booklet Code-wise was kept on the website on June 30 for the convenience of the candidates.

If you log on to your Facebook account while at work, you have now less reason to be apprehensive as researchers have found that top managers are the ones who use private social media most for personal purposes during working hours.

“It is very interesting that top executives, who are negative to private web-surfing during working hours, are the ones who surf the most for private purposes when at work,” said Cecilie Schou Andreassen from University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway.

The civil aviation ministry Tuesday said it will take major initiatives aimed at providing comfort to air passengers.

The ministry said it has identified passenger-centric issues and will take them up on a priority basis.

“These (issues) are meant to give better comfort level to the passengers and make the system more responsive to the needs of the citizens,” the ministry said in a statement.

According to the statement, the initiatives include security help desks being operationalised at all airports of the country.

A-20-year old Driver killed in road accident after hit by Unknown vehicle while trying to cross the road in Nampally police station limits.

“The suicide of Weaver couple Bandi Ambadas and Lavanya of Sircilla of Karimanagr district yesterday, displays the agony prevalent among the weaving families and high lights their growing loan burden and inability to repay,” Rajya Sabha member Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar said here on Tuesday.

A-71-year old woman killed in road accident after hit by Car while trying to cross the road in L B Nagar police station limits.

According to L B Nagar police, the deceased Parvatamaiyya (71) an Housewife W/o Late Seetaramaiah Resident of Chaitanyapuri Sainagar of Nagole, the accident occurred on Tuesday early hours while deceased trying to cross the road near L B Nagar Traffic Police Station suddenly one speeding Alto Car came rash and negligent manner and dashed to deceased due to which she received multiple injuries and died on the spot.

New Zealand defeated West Indies in the third Test in Barbados to clinch a 2-1 series victory.

West Indies lost the third and final Test of the series by 53 runs.

According to the BBC, New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum declared on their overnight 331-7 to set West Indies a target of 308 runs to win.

However, New Zealand”s Tim Southee, Trent Boult and Mark Craig claimed nine wickets among themselves as the bowled out West Indies at 254 with 13 overs still left.

Reports have surfaced that the US had authorized National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on foreign-based political organizations including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from India and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from Pakistan.

According to the Express tribune, a classified document revealed that US spy agency NSA had been sanctioned to spy on most countries and some international bodies and political parties under the FISA court certification.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has promised to ensure the processing of visa applications for Indian nationals within 48 hours from January 2015.

Addressing this year’s French Scholarship Award Ceremony and Pre-Departure Session held at the Embassy of France, Fabius revealed that this move of the French Government is aimed at strengthening tourism and to facilitate human exchanges between the two countries.