K.K. Textile Agencies Group on Friday launched a three-day second National Textile Agency Expo-2014 at Hotel Millennium here. The Expo was inaugurated by Shamlal Agarwal, Chairman of the Expo.
Kishan Kumar Agarwal, director, said the Expo is mainly aimed at exhibiting the textile might of India where a large number of textile dealers from across the country will take part in this big event showcasing various fabrics and textiles products at the exposition.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh met Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari here today to discuss road and transportation matters related to his state.
Interacting with media after the meeting, Singh said, “We ( Himachal Pradesh) depend a lot on road transport as railways is almost non existent in our state”
Slain gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh’s brother today moved the special CBI court seeking directions to conduct narco-analysis test on BJP President Amit Shah and 37 others accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati encounter cases.
The court is likely to hear the application on August 14.
In the application moved before special CBI judge B H Loya, Sheikh’s brother Rubabuddin said that the CBI has not
decided who was the mastermind behind his brother’s killing.
“CBI has not decided on the mastermind and the role of each accused”, said Rubabuddin through his lawyer Feroz
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Friday asked the NGOs to furnish their details if they are interested in rehabilitation of beggars and provide them shelters.
Gold prices inched up by Rs 5 to Rs 28,250 per ten gram in the national capital on scattered buying by retailers amid recovery in global prices.
Silver, however, met with resistance and shed Rs 50 to Rs 44,850 per kg.
Traders said apart from buying by retailers for the coming festive season, a better trend in the global market mainly led to rise in gold prices. Globally, gold traded 0.20 per cent higher at $1,284.91 an ounce in London.
Law department has given green signal for separate Minority Commission for Telangana thus paving way for formation of Telangana Minority Commission. Telangana government had sought legal opinion from law department in connection with the formation of separate Telangana Commission.
According to reliable sources law department has given nod to formation of separate Commission for Telangana and present commission will be of Andhra Pradesh government. According to sources government has begun preparations for formation of Minority Commission and Minority Finance Commission.
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Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday asked officials to ensure that the proposed “Intensive Household Survey” is conducted in a serious and professional manner.
Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Satish Upadhyay said here on Friday that the party fully supports the use of E-rickshaws in the national capital and would ensure that this service continues.
“E-rickshaws will not stop functioning in Delhi; the Lieutenant Governor will put forth the best defence and will even go to the Supreme Court if necessary,” said Upadhyay after a delegation of Delhi BJP leaders had called on L.G. Najib Jung to discuss the issue.
He also criticized the opposition for indulging in dirty politics over the E-rickshaw issue.
Finding fault with the TRS government in Telangana over the students’ tuition fees reimbursement issue, state BJP president G Kishan Reddy today wondered how would students obtain certificates proving their nativity before 1956, as laid down in a new scheme.
The Telangana government has recently decided to introduce a new scheme ‘Financial Assistance to Students of
Telangana’ (FAST) and the students should be natives of Telangana before 1956 to benefit from the scheme.
Records are not available in many villages on pre-1956 period. There was no awareness. Only some forward
A day after an environment body said that “large-scale and indiscriminate” use of antibiotics in poultry industry might be “strongly linked” to growing antibiotic resistance in Indians, Indian Medical Association (IMS) today called for a ban on use of antibiotics for growth promotion and mass disease prevention in poultry.
It should only be used to cure the sick based on prescription of veterinarians, the medical body said.
Actress Nimrat Kaur, best known for her role in epistolary romance film ‘The Lunchbox’, has landed a recurring role in popular political thriller ‘Homeland 4’.
This is the 32-year-old actress’s first international project in which she will be playing the role of a high-level operative within Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Nimrat, who is currently shooting in Capetown for the show’s fourth season, confirmed the news on Twitter today.
The Delhi High Court today issued notice to BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on a batch of petitions filed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi and others in the case of alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds in acquiring ownership of the now-defunct daily National Herald.
A bench of Justice V P Vaish has fixed the petitions for hearing at 2.30 PM on August 5.
Former law minister and senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Sonia Gandhi, sought a stay on the proceedings pending in the trial court.
The benchmark Sensex today plunged over 414 points, logging its biggest single-day drop in over 3 weeks, to end at 25,480.84 on across-the-board losses in bluechips amid a global sell-off.
With dollar gaining strength against most global peers, the rupee breached the 61-mark to trade at over three-month low of 61.17 (intra-day). After US Fed trimmed monthly stimulus, fears have heightened that inflows into emerging markets would slow. All eyes are on a US non-farm payroll report to be released later today for more cues, said brokers.
Samsung is reportedly planning to launch two new high-end smartphones in the latter half of this year.
Hyun-Joon Kim, senior Vice President of Samsung’s mobile communications business, said during a conference call on Wednesday that one of the products will be an innovative new product among large-screen phones and the other will be a new model that uses new materials and new displays, reported CNET.
The United States has blamed India for the collapse of the talks for a Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) and said that New Delhi taking a hardline position has put the future of World Trade Organisation in “uncertain ground”.
In a statement, the US has regretted that “India and handful of (WTO) Members” decided not to adhere to their commitment to implement the TFA consistent with the Bali agreement.
India has been maintaining that it would not adopt the protocol on the TFA until a permanent solution is found on the public stock holding for food security purposes.
More than 1,700 people were killed in Iraq in July, the United Nations said today, making it one of the deadliest months of the year but marking a decline from the previous month, when Sunni militants swept across much of the country.
The UN mission to Iraq said in its monthly statement that at least 1,737 people were killed in July, down from 2,400 deaths in June, when the Islamic State group spearheaded a lightning blitz that saw Sunni militants seize much of northern and western Iraq, including the second largest city Mosul.
Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) today reported a marginal decline of 1.42% in total sales to 48,010 units in July.
The company had sold 48,704 units in the same month of last year, it said in a statement.
In the domestic market, Hyundai sold 29,260 units last month as compared to 25,965 units in July 2013, an increase of 12.69%.
During the month, Hyundai’s exports declined 17.54% to 18,750 units as against 22,739 units in the same month last year.
India’s manufacturing sector growth jumped to 17-month high in July, driven by “flood of new orders” from both domestic and overseas companies on the back of post-election boost to sentiments, an HSBC survey said.
The HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a measure of factory production, rose to 53.0 in July, up from 51.5 in June, signalling a solid improvement in business conditions.
A PMI reading above 50 indicates growth while a lower reading means contraction.
The latest Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen shows South Africa’s Hashim Amla returning to the top three, Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews achieving a career-best ranking and Ian Bell of England earning a place in the top 20, on Friday.
Amla, who scored 139 not out and 25 in Colombo to inspire his side back to the number-one Test ranking, has earned 34 ratings points for his achievement, which has help him leapfrog Australia’s David Warner and Shivnarine Chanderpaul of the West Indies into third position.
Nothing can be more shocking and shamefull as a 26-year-old man has been sentenced to ten years in prison by a court here for raping a 92-year-old woman four years ago.
The victim was raped by Mantu at her house in Kandhla town of Shamli district on August 10, 2011.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Shyam Kumar also imposed a fine of Rs 55,000 on the accused Mantu after holding him guilty yesterday.
The victim died during pendency of the case but her statement was recorded in court.
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Women in Imphal are earning handsomely by engaging in traditional embroidery work. The credit for this goes to Ranjana Devi, who has been providing training to women in order to make them self-reliant.
These women come together every day to learn traditional hand embroidery under the guidance of Ranjana Devi, who runs the popular Ranjana Emporium.
At present, 20 women are undergoing training at the work shed at Wangkhei Thambalkhong and produce bed sheets, pillow covers, curtains, sarees and other clothes.
The frosty relationship between Sonia Gandhi and late Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao comes out in full view in Natwar Singh’s autobiography which says Gandhi was “never fond of” Rao who wondered why she was so “hostile” to him.
“Sonia had made P V Narasimha Rao Prime Minister. But she wasn’t very fond of him. I, too, had fallen out with him and joined the Tiwari Congress, but we later made up,” Singh recalls in his just-released book “One Life Is Not Enough” published by Rupa.
A new study has revealed that cosmetic eyelid surgery technique can help cure migraine.
A team of plastic and reconstructive surgeons have reported a high success rate using a method to screen and select patients for a specific surgical migraine treatment technique and that more than 90 percent of the patients who underwent this surgery to decompress the nerves that trigger migraines experienced relief and also got a bonus cosmetic eyelid surgery.
The Delhi High Court Thursday asked union minister Nitin Gadkari and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal to find an amicable solution and reach a compromise in a defamation case filed by the former BJP chief to seek redressal for charges of corruption hurled at him.
A division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice S.P. Garg asked both the leaders to “shake hands” and solve the issue amicably. The bench also said it was only a “matter of ego”.
President Barack Obama is looking forward to a Summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September to set an “ambitious new agenda” to chart a new course in the bilateral ties, top US functionaries John Kerry and Penny Pritzker said today.
Kerry, US Secretary of State, and Pritzker, Secretary of Commerce, conveyed this during a meeting here with Modi who said the two countries should prepare for concrete outcomes during the Summit to take the relationship to “an entirely new level on the basis of vision, strategy and action plan.”