Pakistan faces grave danger from the Islamic State militants, Mutthaida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain warned today and asked the government to take immediate steps to root out its influence.
Hussain said if the government didn’t take immediate steps to root out the Daish/ISIS influence, mindset and extremists from Pakistan this menace would spread quickly and would be more dangerous than even al-Qaeda and Taliban.
Yemen’s Shiite rebels, who are in control of the capital, gave the president 10 days starting from today to form a government, hinting at a takeover attempt if their demands are not met.
The Shiite group, also known as Houthis, rallied some 30,000 tribal leaders in Sanaa, where they delivered a communique warning President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi that “all revolutionary options are open” if he failed to form a government.
Iraqi peshmerga fighters began entering the Syrian border town of Kobani where they were expected to join the battle against Islamist militants besieging the town, activists have said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Kobani-based activist Mustafa Bali last night said 10 vehicles carrying Iraqi peshmerga fighters and their weapons have entered the town. They said the Iraqi Kurdish force entered from an area west of the town near the strategic Tel Shair hill.
A drug combination has been discovered which can trigger the self-destruct process in lung cancer cells.
Using lung cancer cells and mice the Cancer Research UK team, based at the UCL Cancer Institute scientists, showed that the combination of two drugs, called TRAIL and a CDK9 inhibitor, altered the molecular switches in the cell suicide process, hence forcing the cancer cells to self-destruct.
The US President Barack Obama ordered a sinister “Death by Chocolate” cake from a server disguised as the devil for Halloween, at Gregg’s Restaurant and Pub in Providence, Rhode Island.
The 53-year-old President, who after meeting the restaurant’s owner Bob Bacon, headed straight to the sweets, said that the word is that the chocolate-layer cake here is deadly and it’s devilish, and so for Halloween, this is the kind of sin that people want to commit, ABC News reported.
Police has revealed that a man who appeared in court on Friday in connection South Africa’s football team captain and goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa’s murder has been positively identified in an identity parade.
Gauteng police spokesperson Neville Malila said that since the beginning of the week, they have questioned a number of people in connection with the killing of Orlando Pirates keeper Meyiwa.
A new research has explored that a major tectonic event may have triggered the rise in sea level and other environmental changes that accompanied the apparent burst of animal life.
The study conducted at The University of Texas explored the geologic history that may help solve the riddle of the “Cambrian explosion” i.e. the rapid diversification of animal life in the fossil record 530 million years ago.
The surge of the evolution led to the sudden appearance of almost all modern animal groups. Fossils from the Cambrian explosion document the rapid evolution of life on Earth.
Eminent Malayalam poet and environmental campaigner Sugathakumari has been selected for the prestigious Mathrubhumi literary award.
The Mathrubhumi award, a prestigious literary prize in Malayalam, was announced on Friday by Mathrubhumi Managing Director M P Veerendrakumar and Managing Editor P V Chandran.
The award carries a prize of Rs two lakh, citation and memento.
Sugathakumari was chosen for the honour by a judging committee, comprising writers Vishnu Narayanan Namboodiri, Sachithanandan and M Leelavathi.
British built satellites are now being used for the first time ever to help fight against the Ebola disease, it has been revealed.
The technology has now been used to map the spread of the disease and help aid workers plan the location of key resources after they were activated by the International Charter for Space and Major Disaster., the Sky News reported.
Business Secretary Vince Cable visited Surrey Satellites Technology, near Guildford, which has been building satellites for more than 30 years and has been heavily involved with this new mission.
Shiv Sena on Friday cautioned new Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis against taking the people for granted and asked him to fulfil the expectations of the common man.
“The new Government is like a newly-wed woman who initially pleases her mother-in-law. In this case the mother- in-law is the people of Maharashtra. You cannot take people for granted. They have the power to pull your ears when you err,” an editorial in Sena mouthpiece `Saamana’ said.
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced cash rewards for information leading to the arrest of 12 absconders in connection with the West Bengal’s Burdwan blast.
A cash reward of ten lakh rupees each against five absconders, five lakh rupees each for three accused and three lakh rupees for the remaining four suspects has been announced by the NIA.
All of them are alleged to be associated with banned terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). They were reportedly conspiring to target installations in Bangladesh.
Country’s largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) today reported a 1.1% decline in total sales in October at 1,03,973 units as against 1,05,087 units in the same month last year.
The company said its domestic sales rose by 1% during the month to 97,069 units as against 96,062 units in October, 2013.
Sales of mini segment cars, including M800, Alto, A-Star and WagonR, declined by 9.2 % to 35,753 units compared to 39,379 units in the year-ago month, MSI said in a statement.
Chinese manufacturing growth slowed in October, the government said today, as the world’s second-largest economy expands at its weakest pace in five years.
China’s official purchasing managers index (PMI), a measure of activity in the sector, came in at 50.8 last month, Xinhua news agency quoted the National Bureau of Statistics as saying.
The figure was lower than the 51.1 recorded in September and compared with the preliminary 50.4 figure in a private survey released by British bank HSBC on October 23.
A 14-year-old US girl has died after being critically injured when a fellow high school student went on a shooting rampage last week, hospital officials have said.
“Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, known affectionately as Shay to her family and friends, passed away at Providence Regional Medical Centre as a result of severe injuries from last Friday’s school shooting,” the hospital said yesterday in reference to the assault in the northwestern state of Washington.
As Devendra Fadnavis on Friday took oath as the first BJP chief minister of Maharashtra, senior party leader J P Nadda said they would like to take their former ally Shiv Sena along.
“Discussions are on. We would like to take Shiv Sena along,” Nadda, BJP general secretary in-charge of Maharashtra, who was here to attend a party programme told PTI.
Nadda along with Union Home Mnister Rajnath Singh was present as central observer when Fadnavis was elected leader of BJP legislature party in Maharashtra.
A complaint was filed on Friday in a Pune court against Devendra Fadnavis, the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra, alleging that he had violated the provisions of Motor Vehicles Act by riding a two-wheeler without wearing a helmet during the Assembly elections campaign.
A similar complaint was recently filed against union minister Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur.
The complaint against Fadnavis has been filed by Hemant Patil, president of `Desh Bachao Party’, a local outfit, at the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class at Shivaji Nagar, Pune, under sections 129 and 177 of Motor Vehicles Act.
British author Joanne Kathleen Rowling, the author of the “Harry Potter” series, has revealed previously undisclosed background details of the saga’s characters on her website, Pottermore, media reported.
The author is immersed in writing short stories relating to places and characters that appear in the Harry Potter series on her site.
Some pieces provide additional information about the Azkaban prison and the murky origins of Dolores Umbridge, the treacherous Ministry of Magic official portrayed on screen by Imelda Staunton, the Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch BJP’s membership drive on Saturday with a target to increase its strength.
“As per the BJP’s constitution, the party renews the membership every two years. Tomorrow (Saturday), Narendra bhai will launch party’s new membership drive with an aim to increase its strength by four times than the present one,” party president Amit Shah said on Friday while addressing the Karyakarta Sankalp Adhiveshan in Bhopal ahead of local bodies elections in Madhya Pradesh.
British golf ace Lee Westwood putt a hole-in-one as he moved to joint third at the PGA Tour’s Malaysia Classic in Kuala Lumpur.
The Englishman aced the 226-yard 11th and also posted five birdies in his seven-under-par second-round 65 and is three shots off the lead. His Ryder Cup teammate Sergio Garcia is also seven under after mixing six birdies and two dropped shots in a 68.
American Billy Hurley III moved two shots ahead at 10 under after firing six birdies in his opening nine holes. He is yet to win on the PGA Tour, The BBC reported.
World number one Novak Djokovic ended Britain number one Andy Murray’s winning streak by a straight-sets win in the quarterfinals of the Paris Masters.
Murray, who was seeking his 12th win in a row, lost 7-5, 6-2 against the defending champion in one hour and 41 minutes. He has lost all four matches against the Serb this year and would now take a week off before the end-of-season World Tour Finals in London.
Djokovic will next face Japan’s Kei Nishikori in the last four in Paris, The BBC reported.
Suspected militants of National Democratic Front of Boroland- Songbijit ( NDFB-S) faction on October 25 hurled a hand grenade at a busy area in Assam’s Sonitpur district.
Five persons, including a tea garden official were injured and two vehicles were damaged.
Injured were immediately admitted in the hospital.
—-ANI
Emma Watson has dedicated her Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year, hosted by Bafta to her late hamster Millie.
At the Jaguar Britannia Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, the 24-year-old British star said that her on-set furry pal had passed due to heart attack during the first ‘Harry Potter’ film, E! Online reported.
She added that the set decorators built a beautiful tiny mahogany coffin with Millie’s named engraved, and it was a “sweet, but slightly morbid example” of the film community being like a second family.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will not attend the controversial anointment ceremony of the son of Jama Masjid Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari here next month.
Asked if Gandhi had received the Imam’s invite, Congress sources said they were not aware if any such invitation had come.
Prodded further about her possible attendance, a source only said, “the question does not arise”.
The auspicious festival of Ningol Chakkouba was recently celebrated with pomp and gaiety in Manipur.
On the occasion, a grand feast is prepared in the honor of the daughter at her mother’s house and they are presented gifts by the parents and brothers.
During the festival sister give blessing to their brothers for well being and prosperity in life.
As a part of the festival, a fish Fair-cum-Fish Crop Competition was also organized by the fishery department at Mapal Kangjeibung in Imphal.
Around 90 fish stalls were put up in the fair.
The Silicon City has a new name now. From Nov 1 onwards, Bangalore and other 11 cities in Karnataka will be called by their old Kannada names.
So Bangalore becomes Bengaluru, Mysore becomes Mysuru and more. This change comes on Kannada Rajyotsava, a day when Karnataka turns 68.
While the Karnataka government had proposed the move in 2006, the Central government cleared it only this month and a notification to this effect was issued last evening
The names of a total 12 cities and towns have been changed in consonance with their pronunciation in Kannada language.