Security and strategic analyst C Uday Bhaskar on Saturday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘s visit to Japan as very critical for the whole of Asia, and added that this would have an impact on the global strategic framework.
Pop star Britney Spears has turned to work to get over her split from boyfriend David Lucado.
The couple began dating in 2013, two months after Spears ended her engagement with Jason Trawick, but the 32-year-old singer decided to end the relationship after a video of Lucado with another girl surfaced online, reported People magazine.
Hours after the news of split broke, the singer hit the stage in Las Vegas.
“She looked amazing and seemed to be doing great,” a source said.
“She is upset, but she’s focusing on her show right now. She’s moving on,” another source said.
The onset of a new season can get people worried and stressed about making the right purchases for wardrobe updation, new research indicates.
As the season changes from hot to cold, men and women alike are already starting to worry about their attire, with two-thirds having planned their new seasonal wardrobe a month in advance, according to a survey conducted by e-commerce site QVC, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Kochi has acquired some fame in the wake of it recording the first combined instance of a pancreas kidney transplant.
This landmark surgery was successfully carried out at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) here.
This highly complex surgery was done on 35-year-old civil engineer S.Syed Yunus Shahi, who hails from Palakkad.
Syed’s family is thankful to the family of a 38-year-old donor, who was declared brain dead.
In a new study, possible bacterial culprits behind inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, have been identified.
Trillions of bacteria exist within the human intestinal microbiota, which plays a critical role in the development and progression of IBD. Yet it’s thought that only a small number of bacterial species affect a person’s susceptibility to IBD and its potential severity.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday asked leaders and ministers to ensure the party’s victory in the by-polls, which will be held on September 13 for 11 Assembly and one Lok Sabha seats in the state.
“Netaji (Yadav) has directed us to ensure that all the seats are won by SP,” Uttar Pradesh Minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati told reporters after the meeting.
The meeting was held at the Samajwadi Party headquarters here, in which ministers in charge of the by-polls, were present.
Ram Gopal Varma the controversial film maker has sparked another controversy with his atheist tweet on the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi.
RGV tweeted, “The guy who couldn’t save his own head from being cut, how he will save others heads is my question? But Happy Ganpathi day to morons!”
His tweet has initiated a barrage of reactions on the social media, condemning his insensitive remark on the micro-blogging site.
Email turned 32 today but how many of us know that this quick method of message transfer was invented by Indian American V A Shiva Ayyadurai when he was just 14.
In 1978, Ayyadurai created a computer programme, which he called “email,” that replicated all the functions of the interoffice mail system: Inbox, Outbox, Folders, Memo, Attachments, Address Book, etc. These features are now familiar parts of every email system.
In the wake of recent cases of loot of cash from people while carrying money from bank, city police today said that they will provide security to people withdrawing a large sum of cash from banks.
City police has decided to provide security to those who wants to withdraw a huge sum of cash from their bank accounts and require security to take it to home or any other destination, Deputy Commissioner of Police Sandip Diwan said today.
For the purpose, people will have to inform the police in advance and tell the bank and destination, he added.
Pakistan may have transitioned to a democratically elected government from military dictatorship, but the recent political crisis and subsequent intervention by the army is a sign that the country is still under its control.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently assigned the army the role of a mediator to broker a feasible solution between the government and protesting parties, PTI and PAT, in a bid to end political deadlock.
According to a study by the Public Religion Research Institute, only one percent of an average white American’s friends are blacks while 91 percent of them are whites.
However, black Americans have 83 percent blacks, 8 percent whites, two percent Latinos and zero Asians amongst their friends.
Despite the notions of ‘post-racial’ society, Americans have prominently segregated friend groups.
One of the statistics showed that 75 percent of white Americans are only friends with people from the same racial group, reported the Huffington Post.
Taking a dig at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s statement that Left parties are not “untouchable” for her, BJP today said her views corroborated the saffron surge in the state.
“She has admitted and her statement endorses the fact that BJP is rising in Bengal. Actually, she is scared of BJP gaining momentum in the state, well aware that her votebank and appeasement politics won’t be able to help her win the next Assembly polls,” BJP National Secretary Siddharth Nath Singh told PTI.
An eight-year-old boy was today killed in Kaptanganj area here when his friend accidentally fired from his father’s gun, police said.
Ajesh Kumar was killed when his friend Bhimbati Yadav fired from the licenced gun of his father, SP Dinesh Chandra Dubey said.
He said a case has been lodged in this connection.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through Syria and Iraq, unless there is “rapid” action.
“If we ignore them, I am sure they will reach Europe in a month and America in another month,” he said in remarks quoted today by Asharq al-Awsat daily.
“Terrorism knows no border and its danger could affect several countries outside the Middle East,” said the king who was speaking at a welcoming ceremony yesterday for new ambassadors, including a new envoy from Saudi ally the United States.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani today called Western sanctions an “invasion” after Washington imposed penalties on 25 businesses, banks and individuals.
“Sanctions are an invasion of the Iranian nation. We should resist the invasion and put the invaders in their place,” Rouhani told officials in remarks broadcast by state TV. “We should not allow the continuation and repetition of the invasion.”
IUML leader E Ahamed today met Home Minister Rajnath Singh to express the party’s concern over “rising” incidents of communal violence in the country after the NDA government came to power in May this year.
“It is a serious question of pondering why the incidents of communal violence have shot up after May 16, 2014. The whole purpose seems to be to further polarise Indian polity and pitch communities against each other.
Native to southern Africa, Mozambican tilapia fish use urine to reduce aggressive behaviour in other males, lure females to the nests that they make and stimulate spawning, says a study.
Researchers have identified that the urine of the male tilapia fish contains pheromones (a chemical substance produced and released into the environment by an animal), that boosts hormone production and accelerates egg cell maturation in reproductive females.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati today claimed that the newly-launched ‘Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojna’ will “not serve” much purpose, as there was a need to give direct monetary benefit to the poor and downtrodden and not merely open bank accounts for them.
“By merely getting the bank accounts opened for the poor would not serve much purpose and not provide any monetary benefit to the poor….They would also not get the Rs 100000 of insurance money easily”, Mayawati told reporters here.
The Left parties, including major partner CPI(M), today ruled out the possibility of joining hands with Trinamool Congress to counter BJP, a day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that no one was “untouchable” in politics including the communists. “There is no question of alliance with Trinamool or Mamata Banerjee. It is due to her policies and politics that BJP has made inroads in West Bengal. If we have to fight the communal BJP, we will fight it on our own,” CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta told PTI here.
California legislature has recently sent the governor the first law of its kind called the ‘yes means yes’, which has been designed to reduce sexual assaults .
The bill was unique because it requires “an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement” before students have sex and the legislation also says a “lack of resistance or silence cannot be interpreted as a yes”, CBS News reported.
Amid Pakistan Army’s mediation efforts, protesters have stepped up pressure on the embattled government with cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri setting yet another deadline of 24 hours for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to quit.
In a late night development, Qadri’s camp was visited by a delegation of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) led by Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who convinced the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief to delay his next move.
With a buoyant RJD, JD(U) and Congress planning to take their “secular alliance experiment” outside Bihar after the bypoll victory, LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan today said their happiness would be “short-lived” as they won by “fluke”.
Paswan, however, admitted that the performance of NDA in the bypoll was due to some “shortcomings” including delay in selection of candidates. “The victory of RJD, JD(U) and Congress alliance in Bihar bypoll is by fluke…this experiment has no future within the state as well outside in the future,” Union Minister Paswan told PTI.
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and invited England to bat first in the third cricket one-day International at Trent Bridge, here today.
The Indian think-tank has opted for Ambati Rayudu in place of injured Rohit Sharma, who fractured his middle finger of the right hand.
For England, medium-pacer Steven Finn comes in place of Chris Jordan in the XI.
Ajinkya Rahane is slated to open the innings alongwith Shikhar Dhawan.
The first ODI was washed out in Bristol while India humbled the hosts in the second match to take 1-0 lead in the five-match series.
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Power major NTPC said it is aiming at 8,000-9,000 MW capacity takeover in stressed power plants but the recent Supreme Court ruling on coal mines may have an impact on the move.
“We have received 34 applications aggregating 55,000 MW generation. But, on a realistic basis, we expect to acquire plants worth 8,000-9,000 MW capacity after due diligence,” NTPC chairman and managing director Arup Roy Choudhury said on the sidelines of the annual conclave on environment and energy organised by The Bengal Chamber.
Amid Pakistan Army’s mediation efforts, protesters have stepped up pressure on the embattled government with cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri setting yet another deadline of 24 hours for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to quit.
In a late night development, Qadri’s camp was visited by a delegation of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) led by Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who convinced the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief to delay his next move.