Month: October 2014

Jennifer Hudson has just dropped a hint revealing that ‘ Sex and the City 3 ‘ might be on the cards.

In a recent interview, the 33-year-old actress revealed some behind-the-scenes buzz for the third installment of the movie, E! Online reported.

Hudson said that the third installment might happen as somebody just came to her talking about the movie.

Producer Michael Patrick King had earlier revealed that the ‘Sex and the City’ team had one story left. (ANI)

With opposition BJP leaders flaying the state government on the stampede which left 32 dead and 26 injured, a senior minister said responsibility would be fixed on the guilty after a probe.

“Some are saying the incident took place after some people fell in a drain. Still others are talking about snapping of a live wire and rumour spread by a few in the crowd. The truth will come only after a thorough inquiry into the incident,” Minister Vijay Chaudhary told reporters tonight.

American law enforcement officials are investigating a “racially charged” death threat emailed to several hundred students of Harvard University that claimed an individual would come to the Ivy League institution and “shoot all of you” and “kill you individually”.

Harvard University police are investigating the death threat and plan to increase its campus presence over the weekend.

Pop star Lady Gaga has shared a series of photographs on photo-sharing website Instagram while getting tattooed and she is seen baring her derriere in one.

The singer who calls her fans Little Monsters and herself Mother Monster paid homage through getting a tattoo on her back.

The 28-year-old, who is currently travelling round Europe on her hit ArtPOP tour, shared it with her followers on Thursday, reports dailymail.co.uk.

NASA has recently observed a giant million miles long filament across the Sun, it has been reported.

Filaments are clouds of solar material suspended above the sun by powerful magnetic forces. Though notoriously unstable, filaments can last for days or even weeks.

Impressed by the “energy and vigour” shown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to the US despite being on fast, President Barack Obama has expressed his interest in yoga, officials have said.

While the First Lady has been instrumental in introducing yoga inside the White House, Obama appeared to be very impressed by the energy shown by Modi when he hosted the latter over a private working dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on Monday.

The 9th day of Dhul-Hijjah is the day of Arafat. It is this day when the pilgrims gather on the mountain plain of Arafat, praying and supplicating to their Lord.

The day of Arafat holds great importance in Islam since this is the Day when Allah completed his revelation on His Messenger (sallahu alaihe wa-sallam). It is reported in the Saheehayn (i.e. Saheeh al-Bukharee and Saheeh Muslim), from Umar Ibn al-Khattab (radhi allahu anhu) that a Jewish man said to him:

Scientists have found that the HIV pandemic originated in almost certainly began in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. An international team, led by Oxford University and University of Leuven scientists, has reconstructed the genetic history of the HIV-1 group M pandemic, the event that saw HIV spread across the African continent and around the world, and concluded that it originated in Kinshasa.

In a security scare, the Air India crew on Friday night found a defused grenade in the business class of an Air India jumbo aircraft, which was kept as a standby for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent US visit.

The grenade was found on board the Boeing 747-400 which was operating the Mumbai-Hyderabad-Jeddah flight, airline sources said on Saturday.

On landing at Jeddah, the incident was reported to the local security agencies who took over the aircraft, the sources said.

t least 33 people, including 20 women and 10 children, were killed and 26 others injured in a stampede that broke out this evening outside rpt outside the sprawling Gandhi Maidan filled with huge crowds here shortly after the end of the Dussehra celebrations.

The tragedy struck at around 7 PM at the South East corner of the ground near the Exhibition road when people were returning after watching the “Ravana Vadh” (killing of demon king) event and jostled with each other to move ahead, eyewitnesses and officials said.

In a security scare, the Air India crew on Friday night found a defused grenade in the business class of an Air India jumbo aircraft, which was kept as a standby for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent US visit.

The grenade was found on board the Boeing 747-400 which was operating the Mumbai-Hyderabad-Jeddah flight, airline sources said on Saturday.

On landing at Jeddah, the incident was reported to the local security agencies who took over the aircraft, the sources said.

At least four persons were injured today after Pakistan violated the ceasefire at RS Pura’s Arnia sector in Jammu and Kashmir.

The injured have been admitted to the hospital.

Pakistan resorted to unprovoked firing in Arnia from 7:00 pm after violating the ceasefire in Saujian sector of Poonch in which a 17-year-old girl lost her life.

“A 17-year-old girl died in the firing and four civilians got injured. Today is the third day of firing from the Pakistani side. Huge amount of mortar shelling has been done,” said Poonch Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shamsher Hussain.

Islamic State militants have reportedly released a video showing the beheading of another UK hostage Alan Henning who was kidnapped in December last year.

Henning was a Salford taxi driver who delivered aid to Syria in December when he was later held hostage by IS fighters.

IS militant group had earlier threatened to kill Henning in a footage released last month showing the beheading of Briton David Haines.

In the latest video, they threatened to kill a U.S. aid worker Peter Kassing, reported the BBC.

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( AIADMK) workers in Chennai held a ‘silent protest’ in support of their jailed party leader J. Jayalalithaa on Saturday.

The workers, all of them dressed in black, were seen clutching Jayalalithaa’s photographs in their hands.

Various protests have been held in Chennai after Jayalalithaa was sentenced to four years in prison following her conviction in the disproportionate assets case. The former Tamil Nadu chief minister was also fined Rs 100 crores by a Bangalore court.

A man from Hyderabad has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in the city, police said today.

The accused identified as Mamillapalli Santoshkumar, now working in Goa, was arrested on Thursday for the incident of rape which had taken place around six months back here, police said.

The complaint lodged by the victim at Panaji police station on Wednesday states that she is six months pregnant.

In a bad mood? Head to Facebook and find someone worse off!

When people are in a bad mood, they are more likely to actively search social networking sites such as Facebook to find friends who are doing even worse than they are, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that, in general, people use social media to connect with people who are posting positive and success-oriented updates.

Real estate developers should focus on addressing the housing demand of lower income group and economically weaker section, a senior government official said on Monday.

Addressing a real estate conference here, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Joint Secretary Karan Bir Singh Sidhu said that there is shortage of about 2 crore houses in the country, of which maximum exists for the EWS/LIG section of society.

“Organised real estate must address the demand of LIG and EWS,” he said at a conference organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce.

The Petroleum Ministry has set up a committee headed by DGH to inquire into the reasons for delay in developing gas discoveries in ONGC’s Krishna Godavari basin KG-D5 block.

The three-member committee will be headed by B N Talukar, Director General of Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, and will have the financial advisor and a director from the ministry.

The panel will inquire into delay in developing fields by Oil and Natural Gas Corp in the block KG-DWN-98/2 or KG-D5, and submit its report by end-October, sources said.

Falling for the fourth week in a row, India’s foreign exchange reserves went down by USD 1.415 billion to USD 314.181 billion in the week to September 26 on account of a hefty drop in non-US currency assets.

In the previous week, the reserves had fallen by USD 101.3 million to USD 315.596 billion. During the week to July 25, the reserves had touched USD 320.56 billion, a shade away from the life-time high of USD 320.79 billion recorded on September 2, 2011.

The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) is observing a 12-hour bandh in all four regions of Puducherry — Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam, on Saturday, in protest against the ‘false case’ imposed on party leader Jayalalithaa, who has been convicted in an illegal assets case.

The bandh commenced from 6 am today in protest against the ‘false case’ imposed on Jayalalithaa and her ‘wrongful imprisonment’.

At least 11 people were killed when a mini truck carrying them hit a roadside tree in Odisha`s Nabarangapur district, police said Saturday.

Over a dozen people were injured in the accident which took place Friday night in a hilly and forested area near Jharigaon, over 700 kms from state capital Bhubaneswar.

The vehicle with over 50 people on board was on its way from Dabugaon to Chandahandi, police officer GN Manipatro told IANS.

Most of the computer users suffer from the symptoms of Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) and an expert says that it is important to take breaks and blink regularly.

According to a recent study, prolonged sitting while at your desk can increase your risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

But that’s not the only thing at work that poses a risk to our health.

A new study has revealed that when eating with or near an overweight person, one may end up eating more “unhealthy” food.

The study at Cornell University investigated the impact the presence of an overweight diner on healthy and unhealthy food choices and found that people are likelier to serve and eat more unhealthy foods and less healthy foods, when eating with or near someone who is overweight.

London has converted many of its red phones booths into green solar-powered phone charging stations.

The solarboxes are fitted with a roof-mounted solar panel and inside there is a variety of phone charging ports for a range of smartphone models, as well as a screen that displays ads, the Independent reported.

Harold Craston, who came up with this idea with Kirsty Kenny, said that he thought that there are 8,000 of the phone booth lying unused in London and they must be able to find a use for them.

The 81-year-old father of the British journalist John Cantlie, who was captured by the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, Friday pleaded with the Sunni radical group to release his son.

In a nearly five minutes video, Paul Cantlie made the heartbreaking appeal sitting in a hospital bed. His voice was raucous as reports said he just underwent a throat surgery, Xinhua reported.

“As a family we experienced great relief seeing and hearing John and knowing that he is alive. This was followed by the feeling of despair and helplessness,” said Cantlie.