Month: August 2014

A West Bengal court Sunday sent a leader of the ruling Trinamool Congress’s labour arm, arrested for allegedly murdering an Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) contractor, to seven days’ police custody.

Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress (INTTUC) leader Kedar Pal was arrested Friday for allegedly murdering Ashim Mukherjee who supplied electrical goods to ECL colliery in Jambad in Burdwan district.

“Pal was presented before the Durgapur sub-divisional court which remanded him to seven days police custody,” said an officer of Andal police station.

A new survey has revealed that more than one third of Brits happily recycle their sex toys they once shared with an ex in a new relationship.

The survey conducted by online sex toy retailer bondara.co.uk showed that 35 per cent admitted that they used intimate items they shared with a former partner with their new love interest, the Daily Star reported.

Indian shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa lost to Malaysian duo Vivian Kah Mun Hoo and Khe Wei Woon in the women’s doubles final of the 20th Commonwealth Games here Sunday and had to settle for the silver medal.

The Indian third seeds lost to the second seeded Malaysian duo in straight games 17-21, 21-23 in 41 minutes at the Emirates Arena.
(IANS)

At least 150 people were killed, 1,300 injured and another 180 others were issing after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted southwest China’s Yunnan
Province today causing widespread death and destruction.

The strong quake hit at 4:30 pm Beijing time (0830 GMT) at a depth of 12 kms with the epicentre in Longtoushan township, 23 kms southwest of the county seat of Ludian, Zhaotong City.

More than 120 residents were killed, over 180 were missing and 1,300 injured in Ludian County, according to the local government. It said more than 12,000 houses were toppled and 30,000 damaged.

Every woman owns a few make-up products and a new study has found that the average British woman carries 231 pound worth of cosmetics in her bag.

According to a research from Hairtrade.com, women carry 16 items on average with the average value reaching 231 pound – the same price as an iPad Mini. The survey found that only two percent of women would consider their make-up bag a valuable item despite the high cost, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Top seed Prarthana Thombre, who lost to wild card entrant Thandi Kumar Kaur at Delhi in the very first round will be keen to make amends in the ITF Zuari Garden City Open women’s tennis tournament that gets underway here Monday.

The Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association was a beehive of activity Sunday with all the main draw players getting a feel of the courts.

The player to watch will be Aussie qualifier Abbie Meyers, a quarter-finalist in the Delhi event where she lost to wild card Snehadevi Reddy, but exacted revenge here Saturday in the final qualifiers.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, 41, wishes she could get rid of her wrinkles.

The mother of two – Apple, 10, and Moses, 8 – is unhappy with the ageing damage the sun has caused to her skin but doesn’t want to have surgery to erase the fine lines, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

She said: “I think my best feature is my legs. But if I could change anything I wish I could get wrinkles and sun damage reversed without looking like I’d done anything. So for now, I’ll just stick with my wrinkles and sun damage.”

Eighteen children who were being treated for fever at IGM Government Hospital in Bhiwandi town last night, developed complications, hospital sources said here today.

The leader of the house in the Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation (BMNC) Khalid Guddu expressed total displeasure about the manner in which the hospital is being managed and told reporters today that he had demanded an enquiry into its affairs.

Last night, children from the town aged between four and 12 were admitted to the hospital to be treated for common ailments like fever, cold and flu.

The Delhi Orthopaedic Association (DOA) organised a walk here Sunday to sensitise people about bone and joint health issues and ways to prevent arthritis.

Ahead of the Bone and Joint Day which falls Aug 4, the walk was held as part of Indian Orthopaedic Association’s Bone and Joint Week (July 29 to Aug 4).

Flagged off from the Lodhi Garden, the walk included participants with weak bones and knee problems.

The death toll from the deadly explosion at a metal factory in east China’s Jiangsu Province rose to 71 today as doctors battled to save the lives of 187 injured workers.

Initial investigations indicated that sparks had ignited dust yesterday at the car wheel polishing plant in Kunshan, 50km west of Shanghai, sate-run CCTV said.

The blast destroyed the roof of the sprawling factory which supplied materials to General Motors and was owned by
the Taiwanese company Zhongrong Plating.

From being the president of the low-profile Kho Kho federation to secretary-general of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), Rajeev Mehta has had a meteoric rise in Indian sports.

But the 49-year-old Mehta brought embarrassment for the country when he was arrested in Glasgow for driving without a valid licence and under the influence. Also arrested, but in a separate incident, was senior international wrestling referee Virender Malik on a sexual assault charge.

The team of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah Sunday accused Vice President Mohammad Karim Khalili of siding with opponent Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and involvement in electoral fraud.

A member from Abdullah’s team played an audio tape as an evidence regarding Khalili’s involvement in the alleged electoral fraud, Xinhua reported.

However, Khalili has rejected the claim and tweeted saying, “This tape is a fake.”

“Khalili had said that the government, the president, the election commissions were in favour of Abdullah,” the member said.

A doctor was shot dead by two unidentified persons in Civil Lines area of Badaun district, police said here today.

Neelratna Vishwas was shot dead by two unidentified persons while he was on his way back home after closing his
clinic last night, a police spokesperson said.

Vishwas was rushed to a district hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, police said.

A case has been registered and efforts are on to identify the assailants, they said.

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Senior Rajasthan Congress leader Ramnarayan Meena today said former Union Minister Natwar Singh’s criticism of Sonia Gandhi in his new book is aimed at boosting the prospects of his son in BJP.

The remarks in ‘One Life is not Enough’ about Gandhi is solely aimed at raising his MLA son Jagat Singh’s position in
BJP,” said Meena, former Deputy Speaker in state Assembly.

The language Singh has used for Sonia in his book clearly hints at “his individual ambition”, Meena said.

“Making such statements about Sonia after meeting Narendra Modi brings Singh into the circle of doubts,” the

At least 17 people were killed and 57 others injured in three separate road accidents today which also involved vehicles of security officials in upper Egypt governorates.

Seven people were killed in a car crash in Minya governorate while 13 others were injured, according to Osama
Metwali, the head of Minya Security Directorate.

In another incident, that took place in the upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag, four civilians were killed on a
crash between a private car and lorry which belonged to the security forces.

24 conscript were injured in the crash, a security official said.

Gujarat Chief Minister Anandi Patel today appealed to people to focus on building centralised kitchens to feed children instead of constructing temples.

“If we can provide quality food to children under mid-day meal scheme, we can drastically decrease the drop out
ratio.

I believe that it’s better to build kitchens to feed children than building temples,” Patel said, inaugurating a
fully-automated kitchen, built by an NGO ‘The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF)’, at Bhadaj village here today.

The Islamic State (IS) militants captured the town of Sinjar in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, a day after they seized the town of Zumar, a security official said Sunday.

The IS militants entered Sinjar, some 100 km west of Nineveh’s capital city of Mosul, early Sunday after clashes with the Kurdish security forces, the Peshmerga, the official told Xinhua.

“The militants raised the black flag of the IS on the buildings of the local government and the town’s municipality,” the official said.

As the Pakistani federal government’s decision to deploy army to secure Islamabad came into effect on Aug 1, army troops will now be guarding sensitive buildings in the state.

According to the Dawn, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had revealed last week that the government had issued a notification on July 24 to requisition services of the armed forces under Article 245 of the Constitution.

At least 150 people were killed Sunday when a 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit China’s Yunnan province.

The quake occurred at 4.30 p.m. in Yunnan’s Zhaotong city, Xinhua reported.

According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC), the earthquake occured at a depth of 12 km and with the epicentre in Longtoushan township, 23 km southwest of the county seat of Ludian county, Zhaotong city.
(IANS)

Angry with his wife for “chatting with other men” over phone and social networking websites, a man allegedly pushed her in the Ganges leading to her death.

The accused – Ravi Chaurasia – married the victim, Rubi, after his first wife left him along with their baby two years ago, police said today.

Chaurasia claimed Rubi used to chat with other men over phone and Facebook which led to frequent fights between them.

During one such fight yesterday on Ganga Barrage, Ravi ushed her in the river after she threatened to jump into it.

The Israeli offensive which started July 8 on the Gaza Strip has killed 1,766 people and left 9,500 injured, the health ministry said Sunday.

“Two-thirds of the victims are civilians, including women, children and the elderly,” Xinhua quoted the ministry as saying in a statement.

Meanwhile, the spokesman of the health ministry in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qedra said that 54 Palestinians were killed Sunday since midnight due to air strikes and shelling by tanks on various areas in the Gaza Strip.

Israel Defence Forces (IDF) withdrew majority of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip throughout Saturday and Sunday, as Operation Protective Edge reached day 27.

Over the weekend, the Israeli security cabinet decided that Israel will not strive to reach a cease-fire with Hamas and decided not to send an Israeli delegation to official talks in Cairo, Xinhua reported.

Instead, Israel is considering to withdraw unilaterally from the Strip and set up a “temporary security strip” where soldiers will remain after the fighting officially terminates.

The Gujarat High Court has allowed the Centre to withdraw its appeal against an earlier order which had termed as illegal the Justice U C Banerjee Commission appointed by the then UPA government in 2004 to to probe the Godhra train burning incident.

The high court, in its order passed on July 25, granted permission to the newly-formed BJP-led NDA government at the Centre to withdraw appeal against the high court order.

The high court had, in October 2006, discarded the findings of the Banerjee panel report and ruled that the probe

Israel Defence Forces (IDF) withdrew majority of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip throughout Saturday and Sunday, as Operation Protective Edge reached day 27.

Over the weekend, the Israeli security cabinet decided that Israel will not strive to reach a cease-fire with Hamas and decided not to send an Israeli delegation to official talks in Cairo, Xinhua reported.

Instead, Israel is considering to withdraw unilaterally from the Strip and set up a “temporary security strip” where soldiers will remain after the fighting officially terminates.

Apple’s long-rumoured set-top box will not be launched until 2015 due to the company’s inability to strike a deal with the cable providers, said reports.

The cable providers allegedly said that they were concerned that the tech giant might gradually change the cable providers into a TV servicing company for consumers.

According to the Verge, Comcast and Time Warner Cable collaboration is also one of the issues that is delaying the launch of Apple set-top boxes.