Month: September 2014

Expressing your thoughts and views in 140 characters on Twitter may actually be improving your language skills, shows a new study.

To prove this, researchers looked at the top 100 most commonly used words on Twitter.

Out of the 100 most used words, only two were shortened “RT” (shortened for re-tweet) and “u” (shortened for you).

The rest of the words averaged about 4.5 letters and none were contractions.

“Twitter may actually be improving its users’ writing as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters,” researchers argued.

Actress Kristen Bell, who is expecting her second child with husband Dax Shepard, says she still wants to feel “sexy and dress funky”.

The blonde beauty, who already has a 17-month-old daughter Lincoln with Dax, expressed her desire to look appealing to Us Weekly magazine, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The “Veronica Mars” star has ditched a lot of her revealing clothes, but she is still dressing in a way that embraces her curvaceous body.

“I still like to feel sexy and dress funky, though I threw out all of my short shorts. I just dress for my current shape,” she said.

The District Education Officer in the state capital Hyderabad has directed private recognized school managements of Hyderabad district to provide free education to the children of journalists working in Hyderabad under Right To Education Act. Telangana Union of Working Journalists and Hyderabad Union of Journalists were making representations with the DEO in this connection and as a result of their effective representation DEO has issued orders.

Do you find it problematic to attain a perfect selfie? Try this hair brush that will not only groom your hair but will also help you click a cool self-portrait.

“Selfie Brush” serves as a double-edged sword as it is a hairbrush which works both as a mirror and an iPhone case.

Once you mount your phone onto a handle, the $20 “Selfie Brush” is easy to hold and will help you get the best selfie ever.

India’s ambitious Mars Orbiter Mission, scheduled to enter the Mars orbit later this month, is in the “pink of health” and sending vital information from a distance of 211 million km after covering 95 per cent of its journey, ISRO said.

“MOM keeps sending us vital information about the health of its various modules and measurements from sensors.

This is called Telemetry signal. Today’s telemetry confirms that MOM is in the pink of health,” Indian Space Research Organisation said on its micro-blogging site.

The Centre has chalked out plans to set up at least four more strategic oil reserves in the country in a bid to store adequate stock for meeting 90-100 days requirement during any crisis.

“It is planned to reserve crude oil for 90-100 days to meet the requirement during emergency situations and crisis. The present storage capacity is 70-75 days and the four proposed projects will raise it further,” Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told reporters here.

Chief Justice R.M. Lodha Saturday said that India has already arrived at a stage where nobody can tinker with the independence of the judiciary, but exhorted that to strengthen the role of law, the judiciary will have to ensure that it was completely corruption-free.

“The independence of the judiciary is not negotiable. I can say with confidence that judicial independence has come to stay and no effort will succeed in taking it away.

At least three people were killed Saturday when militants launched a massive offensive in Afghanistan.

“Around 40 militants stormed Jani Khil district at around 6 a.m., triggering a gun battle,” a police official told Xinhua.

According to the official, the victims were all militants.

“Taliban Commander Mullah Ahmad Hassan is among those killed in the clash,” the official said.

There were no security personnel among the casualties and the clash lasted for around four hours, the official added.

—IANS

Heavy loss in business led to suicide
(Siasat News): A man, who was very upset over the losses in his business, hanged himself to death last night.

This incident occurred in Gopalpuram police limits where the deceased Srinivas, 36, a painter by profession and residing in Regimental Bazar, took the extreme step. Police said that he was very upset since last few days as he incurred heavy losses in his business.

A case has been registered and further investigations are on.

Princess Esra wife of VIII Nizam Nawab Mir Barkat Ali Khan (Prince Mukarram Jah Bahadur) called on Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday. Chief Minister gave a warm welcome to the princess of Asif Jahi Sultanate in royal Hyderabadi style.

Police have arrested 25 people from different parts of Punjab province, including Lahore, for attacking the Pakistan Television (PTV) headquarters in Islamabad Sep 1.

Officials said the investigators had spotted 70 attackers through TV footage, Dawn online reported Saturday.

The investigators has also announced a reward of Rs.100,000 (about $977) for those who could help in identifying the attackers.

In this regard, an advertisement was also published in local newspapers.

The arrested protesters were being interrogated about the whereabouts of other attackers.

To offer a better treatment option for arthritis patients, researchers have found that a small protein appears to protect against bone loss that often accompanies arthritis.

The researchers are now interested to see if Glucocorticoid-induced leucine zipper (GILZ), which is produced naturally in the body, can prevent arthritis from developing in the face of inflammation.

Arthritis as well as ageing prompt the body to make more fat than bone.

To all the husbands out there: the key to a quality marital life is to keep your wife happy no matter what.

When it comes to a happy marriage, says an interesting study, the more content the wife is with the long-term union, the happier the husband is with his life no matter how he feels about their nuptials.

“I think it comes down to the fact that when a wife is satisfied with the marriage she tends to do a lot more for her husband, which has a positive effect on his life,” explained Deborah Carr, a professor at the school of arts and science, Rutgers University.

Indirect tax mop up inched up by 4.6 percent in the April-August period of this fiscal, while customs duty and excise duty collections rose marginally.

Indirect tax collections comprising excise, customs and service tax stood at Rs 1,94,492 crore in the first five months of 2014-15 fiscal as against Rs 1,85,881 crore in the corresponding period a year ago, the finance ministry said in a statement.

The growth at 4.6 percent is far less than 25 percent annual increase envisaged in the Budget for the full 2014-15 fiscal.

Dashing hopes of quick recovery, industrial output for July slowed to 4-month low growth rate of 0.5 percent due to contraction in manufacturing and poor offtake of consumer goods, though retail inflation for August eased marginally to 7.8 percent.

Factory output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production, had grown by 2.6 percent in July last year.

For the first four months of 2014-15 fiscal, IIP has recorded 3.3 percent growth, as against a contraction of 0.1 percent in the April-July period of 2013-14.

Hajj Camp began at Hajj House Nampally for the Hajj aspirants leaving for Holy pilgrimage through State Hajj Committee. Intending Hajj pilgrims who are leaving for Holy pilgrimage on September 14 reported yesterday.

Deputy Chief Minister Muhammad Mahmood Ali will flag off the first batch of pilgrims on September 14 at 7 am. The first batch will fly through special flight of Saudi Airlines at 11:30 am. Mr. Muhammad Mahmood Ali will see off the first batch by reaching the airport.

Polling began on a brisk note for the by-election to Medak Lok Sabha seat in Telangana and Nandigama (SC) Assembly seat in Andhra Pradesh at 7 AM today.

By-election is being held in Medak as the Lok Sabha seat was vacated by Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao upon becoming Chief Minister of the newly-formed Telangana state.

As many as 15.43 lakh voters, spread over seven Assembly segments, are eligible to exercise their franchise in the by-poll.

RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, who recently underwent a cardiac surgery, will get discharged from the Asian Heart Institute here on Saturday. Lalu will be discharged after 3 pm, after undergoing a successful surgery and rehabilitation programme, a hospital statement said here.

The former Bihar Chief Minister underwent a six-hour-long triple cardiac surgery at the hospital on August 27.He had been diagnosed with aortic stenosis, following which he underwent surgeries for aortic valve replacement, aortic repair and a repair for a hole in his heart.

Although most of the government offices, departments, railway stations and bus stations do not have Urdu on their sign boards but today we would like to mention only those police stations that used to have Urdu script on their sign boards during Nizam’s rule. Urdu is being wiped off from those sign boards which is also a part of conspiracy against Urdu language.

Indian-Americans from across the US would be attending the public reception in honour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on September 28, organizers of the event said.

The recently-formed Indian-American Community Foundation (IACF), with support of more than 400 community organisations, is hosting the event at the Madison Square Garden in New York, which is expected to be attended by nearly 20,000 people.

“The phenomenal response to this event suggests that this is an important moment for the Indian diaspora,” Anand Shah, IACF spokesperson, told PTI.

Scientists have claimed a major breakthrough in the production of hydrogen fuel from water, which could lead to a new era of cheap, clean and renewable energy. Chemists from the University of Glasgow report in a new paper in journal Science on Friday on a new form of hydrogen production which is 30 times faster than the current state-of-the-art method.

History of Islam lecture series will be held at Conference Hall Jama Masjid Aliya, Gunfoundry on September 13, after Asr prayers. Dr. Mir Akber Ali Iftekhari will deliver lecture on Zionist conspiracies against Islam.

Siasat news

Amid tight security, polling for the bye-elections to the two Assembly segments, Chowringhee and Basirhat Dashin, began this morning. “The polling in both the Assembly segments started at 7 am. So far everything is peaceful in both the constituencies,” said Amitjyoti Bhattacharya, an election department official.

The fate of a total 14 candidates in the fray would be decided in the bye-elections, nine in the city’s prestigious Chowringhee seat and five in the Basirhat Dakshin constituency in North 24-Parganas district bordering Bangladesh.

International Dental Conference is being held for the first time in India. Expert dental surgeon Prosthodontist Dr. Muhammad Siraj-ur-Rahman, MDS Civil Surgeon, Govt. Hospital will attend the 3-day conference on the special invitation by India Expo Mart.

Siasat news

The crime branch of Delhi Police has begun an investigation into the alleged sting operation done by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which purportedly showed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit vice-president Sher Singh Dagar offering a bribe to AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya to switch sides. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav confirmed that the Crime Branch is investigating the case.

Yadav, however, clarified that no FIR has been registered in this connection. Although he refused to divulge many details about the nature of the probe, he said, “Whatever is needed will be done.”