Deepika Padukone is the latest in a string of showbiz celebrities to have spoken her heart out on Shweta Basu Prasad against prostitution case.
when the ‘Finding Fanny’ actress questioned about the issue, she said, “Let me put it this way – if that was the only thing she could do to support herself and family and it was the only way she could make money, there’s nothing wrong with that.”
Sixteeen people were killed and seventeen injured today when a bus in which they were travelling fell into a gorge in Tehri district of Uttarakhand.
A total of 33 persons were on board the bus when it fell into a 300 ft deep gorge near Juyalgarh, Tehri Superintendent of Police Mukhtar Mohsin said.
Nearly half of the bus was submerged in a local stream, which joins River Alaknanda, after the accident, he said.
The bus was going from Haridwar to Karnaprayag. The mishap occurred as the driver tried to overtake another vehicle, he said.
The Outer Ring Road have left people petrified due to reports of gangrape, kidnappings and accidents so much so that even a mere sight of stranger makes them reckless.
A pair of techie’s who were employees of I-Q Solutions, Madhapur spooked so much on the ORR when the three strangers approaching their car make them sped away recklessly in poor visibility conditions. The“three strangers” gave them a chase for kilometres on the expressway scared them more.
Thoroughly shaken, the two filed a verbal complaint at the RGIA police station.
Leading Muslim clerics, scholars and intellectuals here have welcomed the official stand taken by Islamic seminary at Deoband on ‘Love Jihad’.
In a joint statement issued here today, three leading clerics and senior faculty members at the Department of Sunni Theology, Aligarh Muslim University, while welcoming the Deoband seminary’s stand also urged the media not to fall prey to communal politics by exaggerating and sensationalising isolated cases of interreligious marriages.
A 13-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by four persons in Jareefnagar area here, following which two of them have been arrested, police said on Saturday.
The incident took place last night when the victim, who was sleeping on the terrace of her house, was kidnapped and raped by the four, SSP Santosh Kumar Singh said.
The accused have been identified as Amit, Muktiyaar, Bhola Pandit, and Dannu, he said.
Amit and Muktiyaar have been arrested following a complaint by the girl’s father while Bhola and Dannu are absconding, police said.
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The issue of child abandonment has once again came in front again , when a three-month-old girl was abandoned on the Nanded-Hyderabad train on Thursday .
Over the past five years, more female children (120 per cent) were found to be abandoned when compared to their male counterparts. The statistic also includes the number of children who had been willingly surrendered by their parents or guardians.
The US and the European Union have decided to “intensify” their coordinated sanctions on Russia in the defence, finance and energy sectors as punishment for its illegal actions in Ukraine, President Barack Obama said today.
“I have said from the very beginning of this crisis that we want to see a negotiated political solution that respects Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Together with G-7 and European partners and our other Allies, we have made it clear that we are prepared to impose mounting costs on Russia,” Obama said in a statement.
When calamity strikes, it does not discriminate. This was on ample display when floods ravaged Kashmir.
Along with civilian population, security forces deployed here from various parts of the country were also hit badly. They lost their belongings and their weapons were damaged or left useless after water entered their camps across the Kashmir valley.
Hundreds of AK rifles, INSAS rifles and SLR rifles, along with their ammunition, are still submerged at various places across the Kashmir valley, so are bombs, hand grenades etc.
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan led bidders at the Osian’s auction of rare and vintage film memorabilia here as he bought two majestic original posters of “Mughal-e-Azam” for Rs 6.84 lakh.
Last night’s sale, part of the auction house’s “Greatest Indian Show on Earth” series, saw 163 of the 220 lots being sold for Rs 55.60 lakh.
Paramilitary personnel today recovered 61 silver coins of the Mughal era from Kanpur’s cantonment area containing Arabic and Persian inscriptions.
Army official CP Bhadola confirmed the report saying that they got the information from a saint of a temple who told them that some digging is going on in the area and the kids are taking out coins from there.
The Chhattisgarh government has decided to provide 10,000 solar lamps and other necessary electrical equipment, including transformers, to people of flood-ravaged Jammu & Kashmir.
The decision was taken during a meeting of Chhattisgarh State Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA), which was chaired by Chief Minister Raman Singh, at the Mantralaya last evening, an official release said here today. Besides solar lanterns, transformers and other equipment will be provided to maintain power supply in the flood-hit region of the northern state, it said.
Over 50 percent voter turnout was recorded till 3 p.m. Saturday during the bypolls in Telangana’s Medak Lok Sabha constituency and Andhra Pradesh’s Nandigama assembly seat.
Barring minor incidents, polling was peaceful, said Election Commission officials.
Voting was brisk in Medak, where 54 percent polling was recorded till 3 p.m.
Nandigama also witnessed heavy turnout, with 58 percent voters casting their ballot till 3 p.m.
Over 1,42,000 people have been rescued so far from various parts of flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir by the armed forces and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), a statement said Saturday.
Eighty six transport aircraft and helicopters of the Indian Air Force and Army Aviation Corps have been pressed into rescue and relief operations, the defence ministry statement said.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council accused the United States today of violating the sovereignty of nations on the “pretext of fighting terrorism” in Iraq and Syria.
“On the pretext of fighting terrorism, the United States want to pursue their unilateral policies and violate the sovereignty of states,” Ali Shamkhani said, quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
He said Washington was “trying to divert the eyes of the world from its pivotal role in supporting and equipping the terrorists in Syria in a bid to topple the legitimate regime.”
An Indian worker has died in Saudi Arabia after contracting MERS coronavirus and his family is reluctant to repatriate the remains back home amid fears that they might get infected if they came in contact with the body.
Dasharati Sattaih from Telangana, who was working in Jeddah with a leading maintenance company, contracted the virus and died on June 20 this year, the Arab News reported.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday launched a frontal attack on Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi over former CAG Vinod Rai’s claims that former prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh knew of the 2G scam, and alleged that the latter was their puppet.
Panchayat Raj Minister K Tarakarama Rao on Saturday announced that 1192 ST Tandas would be accorded the status of Gram Panchayats before the conduct of next Panchayat Raj elections.
The TRS Government is planning to launch several developmental schemes from Dussara.
This was disclosed by Deputy Chief Minister Dr T Rajaiah while addressing a press conference at the State Secretariat here on Saturday. According to him, the TRS Government has almost completed the process of meticulous planning for the effective implementation of all schemes. He said all existing and possible loopholes were identified and check-points have been created to ensure that the benefits of schemes reach the deserving beneficiaries.
The state of Jammu and Kashmir is grappling with the worst floods in the past five/six decades. Preliminary reports place the death toll at 200; the actual figure may be much more. Lakhs have remained marooned over many days and thousands have been left homeless. No doubt, the tragedy is of mammoth proportions. The primary thought goes out to those who have been caught in the throes of this tragedy; their helplessness against the havoc that the disaster has wreaked on their lives.
Former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Vinod Rai has claimed that former Union Minister of Civil Aviation Praful Patel had pressurized the Air India board to buy an extra 40 planes.
Rai said that Patel put pressure on the Air India board during his tenure at the Civil Aviation Ministry, which caused the flag carrier to purchase 68 planes instead of the 28 that it was originally to be bought. These extra planes, said Rai, were bought at a cost of Rs 38,000 crore.
A resolution to the Kashmir dispute is crucial for world peace, a group of cross-party lawmakers stressed during a debate in the UK Parliament complex. “A final resolution to the Kashmir issue is hugely important to world peace. Until the situation is resolved, the potential still exists for India and Pakistan to go to war,” said Liberal Democrat MP David Ward, who had secured the debate on the ‘Political and Humanitarian Situation in Kashmir’ as part of the regular Backbench Business Committee application process in the House of Commons.
All India Sunni Jam-iyyathul Ulama, a Muslim outfit, has asked the community to reject the reported call of al Qaeda to expand its activities in India.
The call would not have any impact in the country, the outfit’s General Secretary Kanthapuram AP Abubaker Musaliar said at a function here yesterday.
The country’s constitution is strong enough to protect the interest of minorities and there is no need for any help of any external forces, he said .
Pakistan opening batsman Ahmed Shehzad has escaped strong disciplinary action for his controversial religious comments to Tillakaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka as the Board let him off with just a stern reprimand for violating a clause of his central contract.
Sources in the PCB told PTI that before leaving for India with the Lahore Lions team for the Champions League Twenty20, Shehzad was called to the Board offices and given a severe reprimand for making religious comments to Dilshan after the third ODI in Dambulla last month.
A 20-year-old woman suffered minor burn injuries after a jilted lover allegedly threw acid on her face in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, police said today.
The incident occurred at Chagalamarri village last night when one Lal Basha threw acid on the woman, after she rejected his proposal to continue their affair, they said.
“The woman and Basha initially were having an affair. But after coming to know that Basha was already married she rejected his proposal,” Allagadda Circle Inspector Sudhakar Reddy said based on a complaint lodged by the victim.
A new research has revealed that massive global rapid response is required to tackle Ebola outbreak.
Professor Peter Piot, co-discoverer of the virus, said that the epidemic in West Africa is the result of a “perfect storm” involving dysfunctional health services, low trust in governments and Western medicine, denials about the virus’s existence, and unhygienic burial practices.