As part of its efforts to establish ‘Gourav Sadans’, shelters for beggars in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) areas, the civic body is mulling to involve NGOs. “The GHMC is planning to involve the NGOs interested in providing shelters to the old, aged, crippled, disabled, terminal type of beggars for their rehabilitation,” GHMC
Commissioner Somesh Kumar said today.
The conference room of Delhi’s Tihar jail has been declared a “special jail” which will be offered to Sahara group chairman Subrata Roy to hold negotiations for sale of his luxury hotels in New York and London.
The Supreme Court in its decision today allowed Roy to stay in and use the conference room of the jail for 10 days to negotiate the sale of his luxury hotels to raise Rs 10,000 crore so the money can be deposited as ordered by the court to secure his bail.
With hopes of finding more survivors fast receding, rescuers have dug out 27 more bodies since last night as the toll in the Malin landslide disaster rose to 68.
Over 100 people are still feared trapped under the debris of the landslide that flattened 44 houses in the village located in a hilly terrain in Ambegaon taluka, in the vicinity of the Bhimashankar forest range.
NDRF jawans, whose relentless rescue efforts entered the third day today after the village was buried under masses of mud on Wednesday morning, wore masks to keep out stench of the decomposed bodies.
58 Indian nurses from Libya are on their way back home, the government said today while making a fresh appeal to all the Indians in the strife-torn nation to leave in view of deterioration in situation with a promise to make all arrangements for evacuation.
External Affairs Ministry said the government has made arrangements for a special flight as well as a ferry besides taking other measures to evacuate those wanting to return home from Libya.
Twinkle Kumar, former actor and daughter of Bollywood superstar Rajesh Khanna, today filed an appeal before a division bench of Bombay High Court against a single judge’s order asking her to give a copy of her late father’s will to his former companion Anita Advani.
Justice R D Dhanuka, on July 30, had allowed Advani to secure a copy of the will.
Twinkle today filed appeal before the bench headed by Chief Justice Mohit Shah which would hear it on August 4. The bench said she need give a copy of the will to Advani in the meantime.
In an audacious act caught on CCTV, a woman has stolen a new born baby after entering the labour room at a well known hospital here.
The CCTV visuals showed the unidentified woman walking away nonchalantly with the infant tucked in her clothes, police said today.
The woman took away the infant from its grandmother at KLE Hospital here on Wednesday, saying it had to be administered vaccine.
Belgaum District Superintendent of Police Chandragupta said police had obtained clues and were confident of nabbing the accused.
NIA today told a special court that suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists Tehsin Akhtar and Zia-Ur-Rahman are “still conspiring” to carry out terror strikes at various prominent places in India, especially the national capital, with the aid of Pakistan-based handlers.
The Andhra Pradesh government announced its new information technology policy today, offering an investment subsidy of 10 per cent (of capital expenditure) for mega projects which employ 5,000 people or more.
Entrepreneurs who are women, scheduled castes or scheduled tribe setting up infotech units would get 25 per cent investment subsidy on fixed capital besides other incentives, it was announced today.
China has acknowledged the existence of a new inter-continental ballistic missile said to be capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads as far as the United States, state-run media reported today.
A government environmental monitoring centre in Shaanxi said on its website that a military facility in the province was developing Dongfeng-41 (DF-41) missiles, the Global Times reported.
The DF-41 is designed to have a range of 12,000 kilometres, according to a report by Jane’s Strategic Weapon
Systems, putting it among the world’s longest-range missiles.
Saudi King Abdullah said today that world silence over Israeli “war crimes” in the Gaza Strip was “inexcusable,” in a speech published by the official SPA news agency.
“We see the blood of out brothers in Palestine being shed in collective massacres, that have spared nobody, and in war crimes against humanity… All taking place under the eyes and ears of the international community… That has stood indifferently watching events in the whole region,” the king said.
“This silence is inexcusable,” he said.
Claiming to have achieved zero power deficit, the Andhra Pradesh government today announced a plan to supply 24×7 electricity to all domestic, commercial and industrial users from October 2, even as it plans to generate over 6,100 MW of power in the next five years.
The AP Cabinet, which met here today, approved a programme to generate 4,400 MW of thermal power and another 400 MW of hydro power in the next five years.
Power Minister Piyush Goyal Friday said the NDA government will pursue a three-pronged strategy to enhance generation and ensure continuous power supply.
“I can assure this house that we are committed to our task of providing 24-7 power to every home and to every industrial and commercial establishment irrespective of the state and irrespective of the government in any state,” Goyal said during the debate on a private member’s resolution in the Rajya Sabha.
Terming innovation as key to “lasting and sustainable” way of development, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said that focus on “cleaner energy through a well defined roadmap” was the new mantra of the government.
He, however, rued that the country lacks in innovation and said that the system does not allow innovative brains to flourish despite having talent.
The environment minister said that the new dispensation has done many things to give real impetus to the solar, wind and clean energy sector in this year’s budget.
Top Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders including Mohan Bhagwat have gathered here for a four-day long brainstorming session amidst tight security.
The four-day long brainstorming session began yesterday in which Bhagwat took part.
Bhagwat arrived for the session last evening.
However, no official communication about deliberations going on inside the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s (ABVP) Madhya Pradesh office and adjacent Dattopant Thengdi Building was made available to reporters.
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley Friday said Health Minister Harsh Vardhan’s request to ban tobacco products in military canteens has been forwarded to the services for their opinion.
In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Jaitley said: “A reference has been received from Harsha Vardhan … and (the) same has been sent to (the) services.”
“I strongly feel that we need our armed forces to be physically and mentally fit and avoid using substances that compromise their health, fitness and well being,” Harsh Vardhan had said.
Exactly 157 years after they were pushed into a well by the British rulers, the remains of 282 martyrs from the first war of independence in 1857 which were dug up from a well in Punjab’s Ajnala town this year were paid their last respects Friday.
The remains were dug up from the “Kalian wala khu” (well of the blacks), now referred to as the “shaheedan wala khu” (well of the martyrs), at Ajnala near Amritsar.
The victims, mostly Indian soldiers in the British Army who had rebelled, were mercilessly pushed into the well and killed after being covered with soil by British troops.
The leader of a pro-monarchist and pro-Hindu political party in Nepal has said his party would not seek Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s help to restore the country’s status as the world’s only Hindu state.
Kamal Thapa, president of Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal (RRP-Nepal), said whether Nepal should be a Hindu state or a secular state is the internal matter of the country.
“We don’t want leaders of other country to get involved in our internal matter,” he told a private television channel during an interview.
“We will raise the matter within our own country.”
Singer Hilary Duff admits she has had a tough time ever since she split from husband Mike Comrie.
“I’m separated from my husband right now, which has been a very difficult thing to go through, but we have a lot of love for each other and we have this beautiful baby,” people.com quoted Duff as saying.
The 26-year-old has been working on her music and admits there’s a song in her upcoming album about her separation and her feelings for her ex-husband saying: “It’s very, very personal.”
In college and cannot manage stress owing to studies or frequent relationship troubles? Take heart.
A new research shows that many college students are stressed out and are not coping well.
“This is despite the fact that there are simple ways for students to relieve stress and feel happier,” said Keith King, professor and coordinator of University of Cincinnati’s health promotion and education programme.
Stop, pause and breathe, contact your buddy to express yourself, eat healthy, maintain an exercise regime and do not miss on daily “Me Time”.
‘Khiladi’ Akshay Kumar is a proud hubby! While his wife Twinkle considers him the “man of the house”, he makes no bones about calling her his “superwoman”.
“She calls me man of the house in her column but she is my superwoman,” Akshay tweeted Friday alongside a photograph featuring Twinkle on the cover of a leading fashion magazine.
The couple got married in 2001, and they have two children together – son Aarav and daughter Nitara.
Twinkle, daughter of Dimple Kapadia and late Rajesh Khanna, was an actress and now she’s a popular interior designer.
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As the Gaza conflict shows no immediate signs of let-up and the number of deaths, including of scores of children, mount to over 1,400, a concerned India is planning to send $1 million to a UN fund to provide aid to the suffering Palestinians fleeing the battle zone.
The $1 million would go towards providing medicines, food, constructing shelters for the Palestinians in Gaza whose land is being bombarded relentlessly in Israeli air and ground attacks, said an official source declining to be named.
Fifty students of a government primary school fell ill in Bihar Friday after eating their mid-day meal in which a dead lizard was found, an official said.
After villagers protested, the district administration has ordered the suspension of two officials concerned, including the school headmaster.
“An FIR has been lodged against both of them,” a district official said.
This is the fourth such incident in the last one month in the state.
The life expectancy of Japanese men stood at 80.21 years in 2013, the first time that men have gone past the 80-year mark in the Asian country, according to the country’s ministry of health, labour and welfare.
The data, reported Friday by national broadcaster NHK, reveals a rise of 0.27 years compared to 2012.
At the same time, life expectancy among Japanese women is 86.61 years, once again the highest in the world.
For 26 consecutive years until 2010, Japanese women had the highest life expectancy in the world.
Pakistani actress Humaima Malick, who was reportedly in a relationship with Pakistani cricketer Wasim Akram, says he is still good friends with him.
“He is a very dear friend and will always remain one,” Humaima said here.
The actress, who will be seen in Bollywood film “Raja Natwarlal” with Emraan Hashmi, says she is is not planning to shift her base to Mumbai.
“I live in Dubai, Pakistan. I have to keep on travelling. India is my home whenever I come here I love to be here. I don’t plan to shift my base,” she said.
Her people back home in Pakistan are happy with her work.
The Supreme Court Friday told the central government to take steps to fast-track the criminal justice system so that cases can be decided expeditiously instead of lingering for years.
A bench of Chief Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman said the creation of additional courts coupled with related judicial infrastructure should be “substantial and not just symbolic”.