In the fallout of alleged rape of a six-year old girl at a public school that triggered public outrage, police on Saturday issued tough guidelines to schools here for safety of children and warned of prosecution in the event of its non-compliance.
Under the guidelines, school buses should fix GPS and CCTV cameras and drivers should be isolated and not allowed to mingle with the children after they had parked the vehicles.
On July 19, two days after the Shiv Sena’s Rajan Vichare force-fed a Muslim, who was fasting on Ramzan, a group of 50 Hindu traders of Kinari Bazaar in old Delhi organised an “iftaar” at Pipalwali Masjid, a small mosque located in the market.
A new study has revealed that people start connecting with others since childhood and the interaction mold and develop their adult character.
The early relationships help people learn to think beyond themselves as well as to understand the values and desires of others.
As a comet heads towards a close flyby of Mars Oct 19 this year, NASA is taking steps to protect its Mars orbiters while preserving opportunities to gather valuable scientific data, the US space agency said in a statement.
The “C/2013 A1 Siding Spring” comet’s nucleus will miss Mars by about 132,000 km, shedding material hurtling at about 56 km per second, relative to Mars and Mars-orbiting spacecraft.
At that velocity, even the smallest particle – estimated to be about half a millimetre across – could cause significant damage to a spacecraft.
Addressing All Party Protest Public Meeting organised against Israeli atrocities, senior communist leader and former MP Mr. Syed Aziz Pasha strongly condemned the incidents of targeting innocent children and women of Gaza by Israeli army. During his presidential address he lamented international community’s silence over Israeli atrocities and said that international community which is playing the role of silent spectator to the Israeli atrocities is responsible for the death of innocent children and women who are undergoing the punishment of uncommitted crimes.
JULY 26: Three persons were killed in communal violence in Saharanpur after Sikhs and Muslims clashed over a piece of land.
JULY 25: One person was killed allegedly in police lathi charge in Lucknow, after clashes broke out during a protest march organised by Shia Muslims against the Waqf Board, which is presently controlled by the Sunni Muslims.
JUNE 19: Nearly halfa- dozen people were injured after two communities clashed in Meerut over some political argument.
Facebook is soon to launch a new feature that will let its users flag content like movies, music, TV shows and links for later viewing.
Called “Save”, the new function will let you move content in a specified list within the social network.
“The new function is convenient because users would not have to be redirected to a different service to save a link from their news feed,” the company said in a statement.
“Save” will be available on Android and iOS devices.
Purchasing books, video games or other experiential products designed to enhance your buying experience can make you just as happy as travelling.
While life experiences help consumers feel closer to others, such products allow them to utilise and develop new skills and knowledge, resulting in similar levels of happiness, a new study showed.
“This is sort of good news for materialists,” said Ryan Howell, an associate professor of psychology at San Francisco State University.
Helped by a smart rally in the market valuation of IT bellwether TCS, the top-seven most valued Indian companies together added Rs 76,793 crore in their market capitalisation (m-cap) last week.
Amid a strong stock market where the benchmark Sensex gained 485.19 points or 1.89 percent, top-seven companies, including RIL, ITC, CIL, HDFC Bank, Infosys and HDFC, saw surge in their m-cap.
ONGC, SBI and ICICI Bank, however, suffered losses in their market valuation.
Wadias’ promoted budget carrier GoAir has recorded a 21 percent growth in traffic on the back of capacity addition and an expanded route network in non-metro markets in the first quarter of the fiscal.
“Our passenger traffic grew 21.42 percent in the June quarter as we carried 3 lakh more passengers during the period. During the quarter, our total passenger traffic stood at 1.7 million against 1.4 last year,” an official of the city-based airline said.
This growth was achieved following addition of new flights and destinations, the official added.
Office space absorption rose 11 percent to 1.38 million sq ft in Delhi-NCR during the April- June quarter, over the year-ago period, on higher demand from IT/ITeS sector, global property consultant DTZ said.
However, the absorption fell by 18 percent when compared with the previous quarter.
“Office space in Delhi NCR witnessed total take-up of 1.38 million sq ft in Q2, representing a decrease of 18 percent q-o-q (quarter-on-quarter) but an increase of 11 percent y-o-y (year-on-year),” DTZ said in its report ‘Property Times Delhi NCR Q2 2014’.
Country singer Sarah Darling has used her design instincts to use by creating a shoe collection for popular boot brand Durango.
The “Bad habit” singer has been a spokesperson for the company for some time, but now she has been given the chance to show off her own style by adding the Sunflower Slouch and the Darling Coral boots to Durango’s Crush line of footwear, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The rupee broke its two-week of losing streak and appreciated by 18 paise to close at 60.10 against the American currency during the week under review following bullish local equities amid fresh dollar selling by exporters.
Continued capital inflows also aided the rupee recovery.
At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the domestic unit commenced slightly better at 60.25 a dollar from last weekend’s close of 60.28 and dropped to a low of 60.3250 on dollar demand from importers, mainly oil refiners, to meet their month-end requirements.
Despite appeals for austerity by religious and social groups, frenzied Eid shopping started Sunday here two days ahead of the festival, with sellers dictating the prices.
Markets are full of edibles, including mutton, poultry, eggs and festive merchandise like firecrackers and toys for children, garments for families and jewellery for the rich.
Despite a public holiday Sunday, the Jammu and Kashmir Bank kept all its branches open in the state so that customers could withdraw heavy amounts and transact businesses not normally possible through ATM cards.
Hinduja Group flagship company Ashok Leyland is pinning hopes on exports and non-truck segment to sustain business as it struggles to overcome slump in the commercial vehicles category.
“Outside India we are growing very well. Exports to the Middle East and Bangladesh continue to perform very well. Sri Lanka in the first quarter… You saw last year it did very badly but now you can see there are very large orders from the Sri Lankan government”, Ashok Leyland Managing Director Vinod K Dasari told reporters after the company’s 65th AGM here.
More 10,000 pro- Palestinian protesters opposed to Israel’s military action in Gaza marched through central London for the second consecutive week on Saturday.
The march started outside the Israeli embassy in Kensington before passing Downing Street and coming to a halt outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.
Demonstrators held placards reading Stop Israeli State Terror!, Freedom for Palestine and Gaza — End the Siege. They also chanted Shame on you David Cameron as they filed past the British prime minister’s Downing Street office.
Suzlon Energy’s board has approved a proposal to raise up to Rs 5,000 crore through the issue of securities.
It is an “enabling resolution to facilitate the company to raise funds at an appropriate time should that be required,” the wind turbine maker said in a regulatory filing today.
During a meeting held yesterday, the board also gave its nod for increasing the company’s authorised share capital from Rs 1,100 crore to Rs 1,500 crore.
Trading in stock markets would largely be driven by corporate earnings in a holiday-shortened week ahead and may see volatile trading amid futures and options (F&O) expiry on Thursday, say experts.
Stock markets will remain closed on Tuesday for ‘Id-Ul-Fitr’.
Investors will also watch progress of monsoon, investment trend by overseas investors, oil price and movement of rupee against the dollar.
Besides, shares of auto companies will be in focus on announcement of sales data for the month of July from Friday.
India has emerged as the top destination for human trafficking in South Asia, a top UN official has said.
South Asia representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Cristina Albertine, said that a majority of the victims are from Bangladesh and Nepal.
“India is a top destination for human trafficking in South Asia. People are trafficked from Nepal, the Gulf, Bangladesh and so on.” Albertine told IANS in an interview at the UNODC office.
Albertine said that there is no exact figure on human trafficking in India as only a few studies have been done.
Singer Rochelle Humes has banned her husband from wearing scoop-neck tops and feels “lucky” that he now has great style.
The Saturdays singer has had many of her own style disasters, but she doesn’t think they are as bad as spouse Marvin Humes’ infamous low-cut shirts, reports contactmusic.com.
Quizzed on whether she gives Marvin fashion advice, she said: “I’m lucky because he has great style. Although he had to get rid of those tops with the scoop neck – they had their day.”
Tamil TV and film actress Sandra Amy has landed a plum role in yet-untitled Emraan Hashmi’s next Bollywood outing with director Anthony D’Souza. Sandra will be seen playing a Tamil girlfriend to Emraan in the film.
“I’m playing a small role as Emraan’s love interest in the film. I have a few scenes with him. It was director Anthony who saw my pictures and felt I would be perfect for the role. It may be a brief role but I’m glad I’m entering Bollywood with it,” Sandra told IANS.
Sameera Reddy plays the female lead in the film, which is yet to go on floors.
A woman working with Railways on Saturday alleged that four co- workers had gang- raped her for years in Sealdah. Three persons were arrested for the crime.
The victim, a married woman, had lodged an FIR with Dum Dum GRP on Friday, accusing four co- workers of Chitpur railyard in the city of gangraping her on several occasions inside the railyard.
“ They raped me for the last few years and whenever I asked them to stop, they threatened me to upload those obscene pictures on internet. They had also threatened to kill me,” the victim said in her complaint.
The team investigating the MH17 crash in Ukraine has reportedly identified the first of the 298 persons on board who was killed when the plane was shot with a surface to air missile on July 17.
A statement released by the Dutch government, who is leading the investigation, confirmed on Saturday that the victim was Dutch and added that the victim’s family and the mayor of the town in which they live have been informed, reported News 24.
Out of the 298 people that the Boeing 777 aircraft was carrying, 193 were Dutch.
The Samajwadi Party Saturday named Mulayam Singh Yadav’s nephew Tejas Singh Yadav as its candidate for the forthcoming Lok Sabha bypolls in Mainpuri, the constituency vacated by his uncle and party chief.
Tejas, the son of Mulayam Singh’s brother, has been active in the area for some time now.
There was speculation that the party would instead opt for Rajya Sabha member Ram Gopal Yadav to contest from the high profile constituency.
Many leaders had advocated that this was necessary to give “voice to the party” in the Lok Sabha, given its poor numbers in the house.
BJP president Amit Shah with Mahila Morcha president Saroj Pandey during BJP Mahila Morcha national executive meeting in New Delhi on Saturday.
After comunalising the political atmosphere in Uttar Pradesh and other Hindi states Bjp is looking forward to use Women who account for 50 % of population in furthering the Hindutava card.