Month: August 2014

Unlike earlier, the two leaders Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad have not only buried the hatchet and joined hands after losing badly in the Lok Sabha elections but also toned down their outreach to Muslims by giving Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations a miss.

Fallout of the massive counter-mobilization seen in favour of the Narendra Modi-led BJP during the polls, this was most obvious recently when the two leaders gave the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations a miss.

Besides, No Muslim candidate was fielded by JD (U) and RJD in the by-elections to be held on August 21 for 10 seats.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has said that he would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a delegation from the state to discuss the border row with Karnataka.

Talking to reporters here yesterday, Chavan said the dispute was currently a subject of litigation in the Supreme Court, and, also, he had taken it up with his Karnataka counterpart.

The dispute is about Belgaum and certain other areas of Karnataka along the border with Maharashtra, which have a sizeable Marathi-speaking population, and which Maharashtra has been claiming since the formation of the two states.

Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu held separate meetings with Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana here on Saturday and asked them to prepare detailed reports on projects that require Central assistance.

The Union Minister handed over notes on the Central schemes being implemented in the two states and their current status, officials said.

Talking to reporters after his meeting with Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, Venkaiah Naidu said the Centre and the state governments should work in close coordination to ensure development.

A photograph purportedly showing Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav with an accused of Saharanpur violence sparked a controversy but the Uttar Pradesh government was quick to dismiss it as “baseless and misleading”.

The photo was posted on the website of a Hindi news daily. It was said to be dated April and lifted from the account of a Samajwadi Party leader on the social networking site.

“The news related to photo of the CM with an accused in Saharanpur incident along with other persons is baseless and misleading,” an official spokesman said in a statement here.

A constable was killed and a sub-inspector injured after members of a fake currency circulation gang allegedly attacked them with sharp weapons even as one of the gang members died after police fired in retaliation in Shameerpet mandal of neighbouring Ranga Reddy district.

Flights were diverted due to bad weather after rain lashed the national capital and its adjoining areas Saturday leading to clogged roads and traffic snarls.

“Around nine flights were diverted due to bad weather,” an official of the Indira Gandhi International Airport here told IANS.

The rain, which lasted for close to an hour, led to clogged roads in many areas, including GTB Nagar, Civil lines, Yusuf Sarai, Green Park, Lajpat Nagar, Aurobindo Marg, R.K. Puram, Saket, Malviya Nagar and Anand Prabat.

Germany has become the penis enlargement capital of the world, as more men preferred going under the knives to boost their penis length in the country as compared to rest of the world.

According to figures from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS), there were 15,414 penoplasty operations performed worldwide last year, out of which 2,786 operations were in Germany, but not necessarily all were performed on German men, the Mirror reported.

A new study has revealed that women, who recently used birth control pills with high-dose estrogen are prone to increased risk for breast cancer.

Elisabeth F. Beaber, PhD, , a staff scientist in the Public Health Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington stated that their results suggested that the use of contemporary oral contraceptives in the past year was associated with an increased breast cancer risk relative to never or former oral contraceptive use, and that this risk may vary by oral contraceptive formulation.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has urged Ukrainian and pro-Russian separatists to agree to a cease-fire in the area surrounding the MH17 crash site.

According to News 24, speaking in a joint news conference with Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte in The Hague, Razak said the conflict in eastern Ukraine may not be easily resolved, but the people on board that plane had no part in it.

Spanish golf ace Sergio Garcia delivered a career-best, nine-under-par 61 to advance to a three-shot lead at the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio.

Garcia equalled the course record set by former world one Tiger Woods in 2000 with consecutive birdies on the final seven holes for a total of 11 under.

Garcia currently leads Justin Rose by three at the halfway stage, with Rory McIlroy and Marc Leishman a shot further back, The BBC reported.

The Spaniard, four off the pace at the start, said that he was thrilled with his round.

Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has sold the house where he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on valentine’s day last year and would reportedly use the money to pay his murder trial costs.

He sold his house to mining consultant Louwtjie Louwrens , who paid Pistorius 2,50,000 pounds; 1,20,000 pounds less than the original price.

Louwrens, who has two kids, said that there is some water damage to repair before he can retire to the property in Pretoria, The Mirror reported.

Louwrens said that the house is in a safe area and everyone he dealt with was very professional.

David Zayas is all set to play mobster in Fox’s upcoming drama series Gotham.

The 51-year-old former New York police officer, who started his acting career in 1992, will play the feared character mob chief, Salvatore Maroni, in the Batman prequel drama show, Deadline.com reported.

Zayas is best known for his role of homicide lieutenant, Angel Batista, in ‘Dexter.’ (ANI)

A 22-year-old Indian-origin student has been jailed for four months in Singapore for stealing four gold bars worth 14,775 dollars from a shop here.

Sivasakthi Kumanaran Nagarajan, who faced a jail term of seven years and a fine, pleaded guilty on Friday to the theft on July 4, The Straits Times reported on Saturday.

Nagarajan and two of his compatriots identified the shop in a suburb housing estate to steal the gold bars last month.

Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu held separate meetings with Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana here on Saturday and asked them to prepare detailed reports on projects that require Central assistance.

The Union Minister handed over notes on the Central schemes being implemented in the two states and their current status, officials said.

Talking to reporters after his meeting with Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, Venkaiah Naidu said the Centre and the state governments should work in close coordination to ensure development.

A mysterious lake has appeared in middle of the Tunisian desert and has instantly become a tourist attraction.

The stretch of water, dubbed the Lac de Gafsa , appeared like a mirage; one minute there was nothing but scorching sand, the next a large expanse of turquoise water, The Guardian reported.

A Tunisian journalist said that in the first few days, the water was crystal clear; a turquoise blue. Now it’s green and full of algae, which means it’s not being replenished.

Priyanka Chopra, who plays the lead in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s co-production “Mary Kom”, seems to be the filmmaker’s latest muse.

It was Aishwarya Rai who at one time inspired Sanjay Leela Bhansali to make a trilogy of great films – “Devdas”, “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam” and “Guzaarish”. For a while it was Rani Mukerji who seemed to occupy Bhansali’s muse-space. Then it seemed Deepika Padukone had taken over when he signed her for “Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela” and “Bajirao Mastani”.

2 Muslim youth were injured in the attack by miscreants at Santoshnagar. After hitting the bike of Asif Ali and Rashed the miscreants asked their names and later attacked them. The incident created tension in the surrounding areas.

Actress Drew Barrymore is launching three new fragrances this year.

The 39-year-old is teaming up with Stephen Nilsen from Swiss manufacturing company Givaudan to create a trio of scents for a collection. Barrymore is glad that she’s finally found the time to carry out the venture, reports contactmusic.com.

“A singular celebrity fragrance – I was never interested. Also, there was never really a time or venue to do it. I was told when I was seven, don’t promote everything, because after [movie] ‘E.T.’ there was so much stuff coming my way,” said the actress.

Microsoft filed a case against Samsung Electronics in a US court over breach of contract. The lawsuit accuses the South Korean company of not paying for cross-licensing of technology.

The dispute involves technology included in Android, the Google operating system for mobile phones and tablets.

Samsung is the leading maker of Android devices.

“After becoming the leading player in the worldwide smartphone market, Samsung decided late last year to stop complying with its agreement with Microsoft,” said David Howard, deputy counsel for Microsoft’s in an online post.

If we believe a shocking in-flight pattern revealed by researchers, lap infants are at greater risk of dying on board owing to bad sleeping arrangements.

Through a detailed analysis of over 7,000 reported medical emergencies involving children (from newborn up to 18 years of age) on flights worldwide between January 2010 and June 2013 and found 90 percent of deaths occurred in children under two years of age.

The absence of a protein known to reduce cancer risk can explain why brain tumours occur more often in males and are more harmful than similar tumours in females.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that retinoblastoma protein (RB) – a protein known to reduce cancer risk – is significantly less active in male brain cells than in female brain cells.

Glioblastomas, the most common malignant brain tumours, are diagnosed twice as often in males who suffer greater cognitive impairments than females and do not survive as long.

Blind bombings on Gaza strips, is not the attack on believers of a particular religion but tantamount to attack on entire humanity. Addressing a protest procession held by various voluntary organisations to express solidarity with oppressed Palestinians in Gaza at Chaderghat X-road after Friday prayers, revolutionary writer Warawara Rao told this.

The last date for admission into para-medical diploma courses of Maulana Azad National Urdu University is August 11 while for certificate courses it is August 12. Students who have not received the provisional letter can also take admission by reaching room no 23, CSVE, Polytechnic building, MANUU campus, Gachibowli, at 11 am. Details can be had from university website www.manuu.ac.in or by contacting coordinator Dr. S Maqbool Ahmed on phone no 9440366462.

Siasat news

A masjid of Qutub Shahi era in Balapur is uninhabited for long and buffaloes are fastened at the place. The masjid is so dilapidated that the miscreants eagerly await its collapse to occupy the place. There is another old Eidgah here, spread over 38 guntas of land. Muslims are not allowed to offer Eid prayers for the past 17 years. One Sanjiva Reddy claims that the Eidgah was build by his grandfather. He has done plotting on the surrounding land and named the colony as Raghu Homes Colony. He often fastens buffaloes in the premises.

ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has recently measured the temperature of its target comet for the first time.

It was found that it was too hot to be covered in ice and must instead have a dark, dusty crust.

The observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were made by Rosetta’s visible, infrared and thermal imaging spectrometer, VIRTIS, between 13 and 21 July, when Rosetta closed in from 14 000 km to the comet to just over 5000 km.