Month: July 2014

A father and his son were allegedly killed in a clash between two families over a land dispute in Khosa Kotla village here Tuesday, police said.

Five members of family allegedly armed with fire arms and lethal weapons today attacked the father-son duo identified as Darshan Singh (50) and his son Kirpal Singh (25), killing them on the spot, police said.

The other family members allegedly involved in the brutal attack are identified as Pyara Sngh, Mukhtiar Singh, Avtar Singh, Jaspal Singh and Rachpal Singh police said.

British Airways recently tested a wearable technology, called “happiness blanket” to measure passengers’ moods in flight in their London to New York flight.

Passengers were fitted with wearable technology that measured brainwave patterns and used neurosensors to capture the passengers’ moods in fiber-optic blankets and it turned colors red for tense and blue for calm, ABC News reported.

Expressing disbelief at Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal’s alleged remarks threatening to kill CPI(M) workers and have their women raped, eminent director Aparna Sen on Tuesday wondered whether jumping into politics had changed the nature of the “sweet” actor.

“I am shocked and stunned. This is not the Tapas Pal I knew for so long. He was a sweet boy and we had worked together in some films. We had good relations and he was gentle. I used to like him,” Sen, the National Award winning director, said.

Clutching banners and chanting slogans, tens of thousands of protesters today began a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong that organisers say could be the largest since the city was handed back to China.

The rally reflects surging discontent over Beijing’s insistence that it vet candidates before a vote in 2017 for the semi-autonomous city’s next leader.

The march comes after nearly 800,000 people voted in an informal referendum to demand a electoral mechanism that allows voters to nominate candidates.

A Naxal, wanted in several incidents of crime, has been arrested during a search operation in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Kanker district.

The cadre, identified as Daya Ram Dhruve (21), was nabbed from Bilaikachhar village under Siksod police station limits last evening, Kanker Superintendent of Police RN Dash said today.
A joint party of BSF (Border Security Force) and district force was on a combing exercise in Siksod region, located around 200 kms away from the state capital, when they got a tip-off about the movement of a man with suspicious motives near Bilaikachhar.

Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal who has repeatedly contested the allegation of sexual harassment against him, has been granted regular bail by the Supreme Court.

Abu Dhabi International Airport has recorded a significant increase of 60 per cent traffic to India owing to an increase in Jet Airways services.

Jet is now operating 65 flights per week, with the number of destinations reaching 6 from 3 last year.

Manila was the most popular route in May, witnessing 21 per cent increase due to a boost in Philippine Airlines’ operations, followed by Doha which gained by 27 per cent, due to rise in Etihad flights to Qatar.

Adam Levine has said that his latest gig alongside Keira Knightly in ‘Born Again’ was a passion project, rather than just another paycheck.

The Maroon 5 frontman told USA Today that he wanted to have good experiences and he did not want to do a bunch of expletive that he hated, the New York Post reported.

The 35-year-old musician said that he wanted to treat acting completely differently because he had a very fortunate luxury of not having to think of this in terms of money.

Levine asserted that he did not have much of a filter and the most important thing was to be honest.(ANI)

India’s largest passenger car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki Thursday reported a healthy sales growth of 33.5 percent in total sales, including exports, for June at 112,773 units.

The company sold 84,455 units in June 2013.

The company’s domestic sales zoomed by 31.1 percent to 100,964 units during the month under review as compared to 77,002 units sold in the corresponding month of last year.

Maruti Suzuki exported 11,809 units last month, which was an increase of 58.4 percent from 7,453 units sold overseas during the corresponding month of 2013.

Automobile manufacturer Hyundai Motor India Tuesday reported a fall of 7.6 percent in its sales for June at 50,518 units from 54,665 units in the corresponding month of last year.

However, the company said its domestic sales during the month under review grew by 9.5 percent and stood at 33,514 units – up from 30,610 units sold in the corresponding month of 2013.

The company’s exports last month crashed by 29.3 percent at 17,004 units – down from 24,055 units shipped out during the corresponding month of last year.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has finally announced that the ceasefire with pro-Russian militants in Eastern Ukraine has ended and the government will make attempts to free their land.

Poroshenko said the hope for peace between the two sides has been lost due to increasing rebellion activities and the decision to end ceasefire is Ukraine’s answer to Russian terrorists and rebels.

Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for violating the peace accord, reports BBC.

Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday said TMC leader Tapas Pal should be suspended for his derogatory comments about sending his men to the homes of her party leaders to rape their women.

“To condemn his actions, there are no words. An FIR should be lodged against him and strict action should be taken. He should be suspended,” said Karat.

Women rights activists Kavita Krishnan said that Pal was instigation sexual violence.

“He is clearly instigating sexual violence against women, he should be arrested for this,” said Krishnan.

The Congress Party has come out strongly against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the recent hike in fuel rates and for failing to curb inflation.

While the Youth Congress staged a protest in Bangalore today against the fuel price hike, Congress leaders also condemned the BJP for the price rise.

Youth Congress protesters blamed the government for failing to deliver on its promise of good days, and said it is against the people.

Congress leaders, too, criticized the BJP government for failing to rein in inflation and adding to the woes of the common people.

The Indian subsidiary of Japanese automobile firm Nissan Motor Company last month recorded a 48 percent growth in sales over the like period of last year, the company said Tuesday.

In a statement issued here, Nissan Motor India said it sold 4,362 vehicles last month up from 2,949 units sold in June 2013.

According to the company, its Datsun Go model contributed 1,097 units to the total sales. The company also sells Micra another small car.

Describing his five-day bilateral visit to China as fruitful and productive, Vice President Hamid Ansari has said that the Chinese leadership is keen to establish personal-level contacts with India’s new leadership.

Salman Khan was recently spotted at Sidharth Malhotra’s success bash for his latest film ‘Ek Villain’ in Mumbai.

Speaking on the occasion, the ‘Dabangg’ star said, “When I saw the trailer of the film I really liked it. I am glad that the film is doing well and he didn’t get much credit in his first film but now he is getting the full credit of this film.”

Malhotra thanked Salman for coming to the success party and said, “It wasn’t necessary for him to come but still he came and showed his love. He has a heart of gold. Thank you so much”.

A new study has revealed that malaria parasites alter the chemical odor signal of their hosts to attract mosquitoes and better spread their offspring.

According to researchers, malaria-infected mice are more attractive to mosquitoes than uninfected mice and they are the most attractive to these mosquito vectors when the disease is most transmissible.

Mosquitoes ingest the parasite with a blood meal, and the parasite creates the next generation in the mosquito’s gut and these nascent parasites travel to the vector’s salivary glands and are passed to the host during the next meal.

Doctors in a hospital here are preparing to remove a tumour weighing more than 100 kg from the waist of a patient who has lived with it since childhood, media reported.

Yang Jianbin, who is in his 30s, was given two hospital beds at the PLA’s Hospital 304 to accommodate his 1.2-metre-long tumour, which currently makes up nearly two-thirds of his total body weight, a Global Times report Monday said.

“We weighed him a few days ago and he was around 150 kg,” the report quoted Yang’s father as saying

Along with the hike in petrol and diesel rates, the price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) was Tuesday raised by Rs.16.50 per cylinder in the wake of international crude oil prices surging due to the ongoing Iraq crisis.

With this first hike in six months, each non-subsidised 14.2-kg cooking gas cylinder which customers buy after consuming their current quota of 12 cylinders will now cost Rs.922.50 in Delhi, up from Rs.906, state-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) said.

Allowing for local taxes, the price per cylinder is now Rs.966 in Kolkata, Rs.949.50 in Mumbai and Rs.924 in Chennai.

The mesenchymal stem cells found in the bone marrow can give rise to bone, fat, and muscle tissue, and have been used in hundreds of clinical trials for tissue repair.

Unfortunately, the results of these trials have been underwhelming, the main problem being that these stem cells do not stick around in the body long enough to benefit the patient.

Researchers have now found that transplanting mesenchymal stem cells along with blood vessel-forming cells naturally found in circulation improves results.

Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International Tuesday slammed the Odisha government for not collecting Rs.68,700 crore penalties the state imposed on mining companies about two years ago.

Although fines were imposed for excess mining in September 2012, the government has not been taking steps to realise the amounts, Transparency International (TI)-India member Biswajit Mohanty said in a statement.

An Australian report reveals that Apple may lose half of iPhone 6 buyers if it does not increase its screen size.

Figures from Telsyte`s Australian Smartphone Market Study reveal Apple`s big risk, showing two in five people intending to buy a new iPhone would change their minds if the handset did not have a screen larger than four inches, CNET reported.

The sudden drop in Apple customers could cripple the company`s chances of leading the smartphone market again, a position it once held by a large margin.

Kerala will soon set up a CyberDome in the Technopark campus to tackle cyber crime in the state, the assembly was informed on Tuesday.

Replying to a calling attention motion moved by Congress legislator V.P. Sajeendran who pointed out that innocent women and children are getting trapped by unscrupulous elements who target them through the internet and the social media, Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala said the government is seized of this new generation crime that has become a social evil.

A railway loco pilot was arrested on Tuesday on charges of molesting a woman in a running train in Bihar, police said.

Manoj Pandey, who was travelling in the Mahananda Express, was arrested by the Government Railway Police on charges of molesting a woman passenger near Mokama railway station in Patna district.

“Manoj was arrested following a complaint lodged by a woman that he molested her,” said a police official.

Manoj Pandey told police that he is a railway loco pilot, posted at New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal.

Police have begun investigation into the case.

…..IANS

President Pranab Mukherjee will receive the first copy of a coffee table book, “First Citizen: Pranab Mukherjee in Rashtrapati Bhavan” Wednesday, an official release said on Tuesday.

Congress leader Karan Singh will release the book in the presence of the President and Philip Mathew, The Week magazine’s managing editor at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The book, published by The Week magazine, is a compilation of articles that have appeared in The Week under the title “First Citizen” from January 2013 to May 2014.