Leader of Opposition YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has said that YSR Congress will hold protest dharnas at all District Collector offices on December 5 to voice the concern and ire of people who feel cheated as the TDP government has failed in implementing loan waiver scheme and has been downsizing welfare schemes to match its meager budgetary allocations.
Deputy CLP leader in Telangana Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir has described the six-month rule of Telangana Rashtra Samithi in Telangana State as highly disappointing.
Addressing a press conference at the Congress Legislative Party office here on Tuesday, Shabbir Ali said that the TRS Government appears to be working in “installment mode” and there were not even six big achievements worth mentioning during the last six months. He cited 16-17 instances where the TRS Government has completely failed to perform.
Pakistan today said that it is not hopeful about an early resumption of Indo-Pak talks alleging that India was trying to divert global attention from the core issue of Kashmir by branding it as terrorism.
Sartaj Aziz was talking to reporters after inaugurating the annual conference of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) in Islamabad.
“India has suspended the dialogue process and now it is New Delhi’s responsibility to resume it,” he said.
Australia captain Michael Clarke will be one of the men, who will be carrying his dear friend Phillip Hughes’ coffin, at the funeral service in the deceased cricketer’s hometown in Macksville near Sydney, tomorrow.
Cricket Australia today announced that Clarke will be one of the pallbearers (someone who helps to carry the casket at funeral service where a pall covers late person) and will lead tributes at the funeral service.
Apart from Clarke, other notable cricketer, who will also be a pallbearer, is Australia’s ODI opener Aaron Finch.
Mate competition and survival is tougher on males than on females, reducing their lifespan by about a third, a new study on flies has found.
The study from the University of Exeter has found that male flies die earlier than their female counterparts when forced to evolve with the pressures of mate competition and juvenile survival.
The results could help researchers understand the mechanisms involved in ageing.
The research used populations of the fly Drosophila simulans that had evolved under different selection regimes.
Several riot victims, including women, staged a dharna and raised slogans in Shahpur town over delay in the arrest of those accused in the Kutba killings in Muzaffarnagar during the communal clashes last year.
The victims alleged that the accused who were found involved are roaming free even after 13 months have passed.
The accused will be arrested soon, SP (rural) Alok Priyadarshi said, adding attachment proceedings have been initiated.
Following the assurance from the SP, victims called off their dharna.
In line with its zero tolerance policy, the army will not go ahead with the recruitment process of two of the three alleged molesters onboard a moving Haryana roadways bus, who had cleared physical and medical tests for the force.
Army sources said the next step for the youths would have been a written test but since they have been booked under an FIR for such an act, they will be barred from further recruitment process.
Vitamin D supplements can reduce chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) flare-ups by over 40 per cent in patients with a vitamin D deficiency, according to a new research.
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London conducted a randomised trial on 240 patients with COPD in and around London.
Half of the patients (122) received vitamin D supplements and the other half (118) received an equivalent placebo.
The risk, severity and duration of flare-ups was then compared between the two groups.
Pakistan Supreme Court today threatened to issue notices against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah if they failed to appoint a permanent Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) by its December 5 deadline.
The apex court said it would consider issuance of notices against Sharif and Shah on December 8 if a permanent CEC was not appointed by December 5.
A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk, was hearing the case about the appointment of a permanent CEC.
BSF personnel should check the smuggling of cattle, especially cows, from India-Bangladesh border and clamp it down at any cost, home minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday. “You (BSF) have to work on many frontiers. You have to strive to stop illegal infiltration from Bangladesh, deal with narcotics,fake currency notes being smuggled from this border.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu Tuesday urged the US to set up a consulate in Vijayawada, where the state is building its new capital.
The chief minister made the request when a delegation from the US State Department met him here.
“Most of the people flying to the US from the state hail from this region. Hence, it would be beneficial if you set up an office there,” Naidu told the delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Puneet Talwar.
The UShas a consulate in Hyderabad.
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“Can you go to Bhopal immediately? Something big seems to have happened. Many people have died. You can help out our local bureau and return after two or three days.”
This was U.R. Kalkur, a marvel of a journalist who was the deputy general manager of UNI. He spoke hours after the Bhopal gas leak of Dec 2-3, 1984, whose bloody magnitude wasn’t clear then but which turned out to be the world’s worst industrial disaster.
Contrary to popular belief, tactics such as spreading malicious rumours, social exclusion and rejection to harm or manipulate others are used more often by boys than girls, says a new research.
At every grade level, boys engaged in such relationally aggressive behaviour more often than girls, showed the findings of the study that followed a cohort of students from middle to high school.
National Award winning actor Manoj Bajpayee compromised on remuneration for good roles, but says he will not do it any more.
The actor, who rose to fame with his performance in “Satya”, a role that fetched him the National Award, later proved his mettle in films like “Shool”, “Pinjar” and “Zubeidaa”.
Nowadays, he is trying to balance good roles with good money and said: “I will work only when I’d get the money I demand. I made this decision because for a long time I worked without money in the name of good roles. Now it’s payback time.”
Telangana State Chief Minister,K.C.R has directed all the District collector to issue new Food Security Cards from January 1, and from new year every one must have new Food Security cards.
Showing unhappiness on delay for issuing FSC, and pension beneficiary, leading unnecessary confusion among people, CM ordered all District collectors to finish verification process for pension scheme by 15 Dec and food security by 31 Dec. Collectors themselves should check the quality of works on regular basis, he said.
Singer-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham and actress Emma Watson have been honoured for their excellent style sense at the 2014 British Fashion Awards.
Victoria, who was escorted to the event Monday by husband David Beckham just two days after he was involved in a car crash, was presented with the Best Brand prize during a ceremony at Coliseum venue here, reports hollywood.com
“Wow, thank you. I am so, so proud to be British and incredibly proud to have built my brand in the UK. I want to thank my team. I love you all so much and this is for all of you,” she said.
Out-of-favour Indian opener Virender Sehwag today said that ICC should not consider banning bouncers from the game in the wake of the tragic death of Australian cricketer Philip Hughes, as it will take the “fun” out of the system.
“It was very sad that Phil Hughes died in such a way, hitting the pull shot and got hit on his head and died. But it is a part of cricketing life. If you are playing any sport, injuries will come your way. May be you can die also, but you have an option to duck it (bouncer). So it is up to you as a batsman,” said the dashing batsman here.
There have been 561 incidents of communal violence in the country till October this year in which 90 people were killed and 1,688 injured, with Uttar Pradesh topping the list, Lok Sabha was informed today.
Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said that in 2013, 133 people were killed and 2,269 were injured in 823 incidents of communal violence across the country.
Altogether 94 people were killed and 2,117 others injured in 668 incidents of communal violence in 2012.
Syrian National Coalition president, Hadi Al-Bahra, has voiced concern over suspension of food aid to 1.7 million refugees due to lack of funding in the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
He said the suspension of food aid has endangered the lives of thousands of Syrian families, MENA news agency reported Tuesday.
More than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt are facing a disastrous and hungry winter after a funding crisis forced the UN’s World Food Programme to suspend food vouchers to hundreds of thousands forced into exile by the conflict.
A new research has revealed that the ozone depletion, which acts like a climate driver, potentially has devastating effects in the southern hemisphere.
Costly floods, drought, wildfires, and serious environmental damage are some of the consequences of ozone depletion.
People generally tend to get confused that depletion of the ozone layer gives rise to sunburns and other health risks, but new research has showed that the ozone depletion changes atmospheric and oceanic circulation with potentially destructive effects on weather.
Women are better at defining casual sex encounters than men, says a new study, adding that this is because such sexual encounters put women in a more risky situation in society.
To reach this conclusion, researchers from the University of Ottawa in Canada sent an online questionnaire to 800 participants below the age of 30 on social media.
It asked about their personal sexual experience and how would they define forms of causal sex such as one night stands, booty calls and friends with benefits, the National Post reported.
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has now gone over its threat to shut down the country by December 16 and has postponed the deadline because the Jamaat-ud-Dawa has planned an event in Lahore on December 4 and 5 which was coinciding with the party’s Lahore strike, a report said.
More than 500 people crossed the Rafah terminal when Egypt opened the one-way crossing for a second time in a week to allow the return of stranded Palestinians to the Gaza Strip, an official said.
The Palestinian department of borders and crossings said in a statement Monday that 537 people returned to Gaza during the two days — on Sunday and Monday — the crossing was open.
Rafah was open only for Palestinians entering Gaza via Egypt.
The Government of Kazakhstan’s decision to import uranium to India for that country to meet its civil nuclear energy needs is an ongoing and a live project, said Kazakhstan’s Ambassador-Designate to India Bulat Sarsenbayev.
The FBI has confirmed an investigation into the computer hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment that saw several unreleased films of the studio leaking online and forced it to shut down its email service.
A group called Guardians of Peace has claimed responsibility for hacking into the Sony computers a week ago but it is still not known whether they are responsible.
The hackers gained access to the studio’s system and arranged for a bizarre image and poorly worded text to appear on the computer screens of employees.