A division bench of the Calcutta High Court Thursday extended, till Aug 13, the stay on a single judge’s order directing a CID probe and filing of an FIR into the rape and violence remarks by Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul.
A bench of Justice Girish Chandra Gupta and Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty concluded hearing into the matter and said they would pass the order Aug 13.
Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar displayed his tricks of Taekwondo on a reality TV show when he went to promote his upcoming movie “Entertainment” on the platform. There, he happened to have a face-off with a contestant, also named Akshay.
Akshay Nalawade, a contestant on Zee TV’s “Cine Stars ki Khoj” has earlier performed as a background dancer behind the Bollywood ‘khiladi’ at award functions, and he always wished to meet the actor personally someday.
The Mirchi Music Awards South 2013, which brings together the music fraternity across all the four southern language films, will take place in Hyderabad Aug 16.
This year, the music artists from South India get a chance to win 14 awards across popular categories, Radio Mirchi said in a statement here Friday.
Each of the four south Indian languages will have a separate jury panel headed by a chairman.
The Tamil jury is headed by Gangai Amaran, Telugu by D. Suresh Babu, Kannada by D.Narayanan and Shyamaprasad will be doing the honours for the Malayalam industry.
Vogue Wedding Show 2014 has returned for the second time to the capital. The three-day bridal exhibition commenced Friday with creations by Indian fashion industry’s big names like Manish Malhotra, Tarun Tahiliani and JJ Valaya.
With as many as 44 participants, the wedding exhibition was visited by the niche segment of the society. Dressed in palazzos or dresses, the would-be brides and grooms were either accompanied by their friends or mothers.
Sridevi-starrer “English Vinglish” has amassed $420,000 at the Japanese box office, as it continues its dream run in international markets.
It is said to have become the second highest Hindi film in Japan after “3 Idiots”.
The movie, backed by Eros International, set the cash registers ringing at the Japanese box office with earning of a bumper 42,608,115 yen ($420,000 approx) and continues to run successfully in theatres.
Ford India, the Indian subsidiary of US auto major Ford Motor Company, closed last month with 24 percent increase in total sales, the company said Friday.
In a statement issued here, the company said it sold 15,282 units (domestic and exports) last month as compared to 12,338 units sold in the corresponding period in 2013.
July exports grew to 7,690 vehicles from 4,471 vehicles a year ago, while domestic wholesales stood at 7,592 units compared to 7,867 units sold in July last year.
Stressing the need for proper training to make the socio-economically weaker sections of the population more employable, President Pranab Mukherjee Friday said efforts should be made to turn the huge number of job seekers into skilled workers.
Vishal Sikka Friday took over as chief executive of Indian IT bellwether Infosys, two days after the iconic company’s investors unanimously approved his appointment to the top job and as a whole-time director on its board at an extraordinary general meeting here.
“I am really looking forward to serving as the CEO of Infosys, one of the most iconic companies we know. To lead Infosys is nothing less than a privilege and an opportunity of a lifetime,” the 47-year-old Sikka said in an e-mail to his over 1.6-lakh employees the world over.
Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan Friday met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to discuss economic issues ahead of the central bank’s bi-monthly monetary policy review Tuesday.
“I caught up on economic issues with the finance minister,” Rajan said after the meeting here.
The RBI is likely to keep rates unchanged when it reviews its monetary policy Tuesday.
Known for the primacy he accords to controlling inflation, Rajan raised interest rates three times since he took office in September 2013, even as economic growth slowed to decade-low rates.
Does the 72-hour ceasefire in the three week long conflict in Gaza brokered by the UN and US advance peace? Just as I write this comes news that the Palestinians have captured an Israeli soldier. Has the ceasefire collapsed? I am keeping my fingers crossed.
The Andhra Pradesh government has announced that Visakhapatnam will get the Metro rail project.
Announcing a slew of schemes, AP Information Technology Minister Palle Raghunatha Reddy said children between 6 to 14 years of age will be educated under the “Badi Pilustondi” scheme. Speaking to media persons here, he said 24,596 children have been enrolled under the scheme and a biometric system will be introduced to mark attendance.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary IYR Krishna Rao convened a meeting on ‘Land Acquisition Rules & Act’ at the State Secretariat on Friday.
An Indian-origin woman bank employee has been jailed for stealing 120,000 pounds (around $202,000) from a customer’s account in Scotland, a media report said Thursday.
Satnam Kaur, 30, a Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) employee, transferred a large sum of money from Robert Brown’s account to India from Aberdeen in Scotland in 2011, BBC reported.
Glasgow-based Kaur was jailed for 12 months by the Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wednesday.
Kaur was working as a customer adviser at the RBS in Aberdeen when she took the money between Oct 20 and Nov 2 in 2011.
The first batch of 58 of the total 252 Kerala nurses working in Libya who have registered to return home are on their way to the Tunisian border, a state government official said here Friday.
Speaking to IANS, P. Sudeep, chief executive officer of Norka (the state agency that looks after the welfare of non-resident Keralites) said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy spoke to them Friday around 11.30 a.m. (IST) before they started their bus journey.
Haryana’s main opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) Friday announced its first list of 62 candidates for the state assembly elections to be held later this year.
INLD secretary general Abhay Singh Chautala announced the list here.
Chautala himself will contest from the Ellenabad seat, from where he is the sitting legislator.
The 90-member Haryana assembly is scheduled to go to the polls in October.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday sought minimum use of affidavits for official work, asking government departments to shift to self-certification to benefit the common man.
In a citizen-friendly initiative, all ministries and departments of the central as well as state governments have been asked to make provision for self-certification of documents in place of affidavits, an official release said here.
The requirement of attestation by a gazetted officer is also sought to be replaced by self-certification by the citizen.
Former Union minister and BJP MP from Secunderabad Bandaru Dattatraya today urged the Union government to send a Central team to assess the drought situation in Telangana State and also to provide expeditious relief to the farmers.
Andhra Pradesh IT and Information Minister Palle Raghunath Reddy today said his government has decided to make Andhra Pradesh as a drought-free State within five years with effective implementation of agricultural policy.
Giving details of Cabinet meeting held under the leadership of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Raghunath Reddy said incentives to IT companies were announced.
Telangana CPI secretary Chada Venkat Reddy today slammed the Telangana Congress for its allegations.
In a pressnote released here on Friday, Venkat Reddy alleged that the Congress had failed to allot seats to the CPI as per its previous agreement.
During the Khammam Congress Committee review, the party leadership blamed the CPI for its poll debacle, he said. Though the Congress promised to allot 10 MLA seats it gave only seven, he pointed out.
Indian benchmark equity indices ended sharply lower with a cut of more than 1.5 percent Friday (Aug 1) afternoon. The sell-off was on the back on solely global cues, particularly the confusion over the US Federal Reserve’s QE exit strategy, the strength in the US Dollar Index and the uptick in US 10-year yields.
The Delhi High Court Friday sought a status report from the city government on the steps taken by it to refund excess fee taken by unaided private schools.
A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul asked the department of education to file the status report while stating the steps taken in the issue.
The bench posted the matter for Oct 28.
“What are you (government) doing? Let us know what you have done. File status report on this,” said the bench.
Maoist leader K. Ravinder alias Arjun and his wife Adimila were arrested, Telangana DGP Anurag Sharma said here today.
Speaking to mediapersons in his office, the Anurag Sharma said Rs 20 lakh reward was announced by the government on the Maoist leader. The DGP said the Maoist couple were working as incharges of the Dandakaranya unit and were suffering from health problems.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and spokesperson Siddharth Nath Singh today said that taking up the issue of snooping by the United States at the fifth Indo- US Strategic Dialogue by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, reflects that the NDA government is strong unlike the previous UPA government.
Former Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today said the campaigning schedule of the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Janata Dal United does not matter to him, and added that what was important is that both parties are contesting together.
Telangana State Director General of Police Anurag Sharma has said two Innova vehicles would be allocated to each police station in the State.
Speaking to mediapersons here on Friday, the DGP said the newly acquired vehicles would be linked to the Control Room. He also disclosed that the design of the police uniform would be finalized by August 15.
The DGP said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao would hand over two-wheelers and Innovas. Wherever the Innovas cannot ply, the two-wheelers would be used, he added.
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