A new resurgent, stronger and more prosperous India and Nagaland needs to be built, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday, adding that the region is a. Screen Grab
A new resurgent, stronger and more prosperous India and Nagaland needs to be built, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday, adding that the region is a Natural Economic Zone (NEZ) and it is his priority to tap it.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday expressed hope that the much-awaited GST (Goods and Services Tax) Bill, which provides for a uniform indirect tax structure, would be introduced in the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.
“We will try and introduce GST Bill in this session. GST Bill would be taken up by the Cabinet after (the) Empowered Committee (of state finance Minister) meeting on December 12,” Jaitley said in the national capital on Monday.
The new James Bond film will have Rome as one of the locations, it has been revealed.
According to The Local, British actor Daniel Craig, who’ll return as the famous secret agent for the 4th time, would be seen landing through a parachute out of a helicopter, on the Ponte Sisto, a narrow 15th-century pedestrian bridge across the River Tiber, that is itself a replacement for an earlier walkway dating back to the fourth century.
Jerry Hall has recently criticized “normal women” who undergo plastic surgery and described them as “pathetic and insecure creatures.”
The former wife of ‘Rolling Stone’ Mick Jagger said that it’s so idiotic when women risk their lives for their looks and every time they have anaesthesia they kill a lot of brain cells plus they could also get infections or even worse die, the Independent reported.
She loathes the women make themselves look like a grotesque caricature, she further added.
Former IPS officer-turned-social activist Kiren Bedi on Monday said that following the incident of eve-teasing in a public bus in Rohtak, it is evident that women are not willing to tolerate what she termed as ‘nonsense’ anymore.
“Women are picking up courage. They are retaliating and it is quite evident that they are not willing to take this nonsense anymore,” Bedi said to the media.
Images of a new Microsoft Lumia phone with a large camera bump have reportedly been leaked online
According to The Verge, leaked photos from a Chinese auction site show a device identified only as ” Nokia RM-1052″ running Windows Phone 8.1 alongside 2GB of RAM and what appears to be a 5-inch 1080p display.
The larger than life camera bump seems to be the new addition to the phone.
The phone’s body appears to be made of aluminum, but there’s a plastic strip at the bottom of the device, an addition that looks odd but may assist with radio signal strength, the report said.
Leaders across the political spectrum on Monday shared their praise for the brave actions of two sisters in the recent sexual harassment case in a public bus in Rohtak, but also voiced their displeasure over the indifference bystanders while the incident was taking place in front of their eyes.
“I respect the bravery with which the girls fought back, but unfortunately no one helped them. This is highly condemnable,” Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said to the media.
Former IPS officer-turned-social activist Kiren Bedi on Monday said that following the incident of eve-teasing in a public bus in Rohtak, it is evident that women are not willing to tolerate what she termed as ‘nonsense’ anymore.
“Women are picking up courage. They are retaliating and it is quite evident that they are not willing to take this nonsense anymore,” Bedi said to the media.
Images of a new Microsoft Lumia phone with a large camera bump have reportedly been leaked online
According to The Verge, leaked photos from a Chinese auction site show a device identified only as ” Nokia RM-1052″ running Windows Phone 8.1 alongside 2GB of RAM and what appears to be a 5-inch 1080p display.
The larger than life camera bump seems to be the new addition to the phone.
The phone’s body appears to be made of aluminum, but there’s a plastic strip at the bottom of the device, an addition that looks odd but may assist with radio signal strength, the report said.
Ingredients
1/2 cup maida
1/4 cup cashew powder (grind cashews in a mixer)
1/4 cup almond powder
1/4 cup sugar
3 tsp ghee
A pinch of cardamom powder
A pinch of grated coconut (dry)
1/2 cup milk
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
Method
Preheat the oven to 350 degree F.
Grease the baking pan and apply some ghee. Use parchment or wax paper to cover the bottom and sides of the pan and keep it aside.
Take a bowl and mix cashew powder, almond powder, maida, baking soda, baking powder and cardamom powder.
Stung by a series of corruption scandals involving top Generals, China’s military has issued a new set of rules to beef up supervision to fight graft within the ranks to properly utilise the massive defence spending.
The new rules promulgated by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) came into effect today.
It targets specific high risk areas like project construction and medical and weapons procurement where more than 90 per cent of the corruption took place in the military, an official with the military procuratorate was quoted as saying by the official media today.
The body of an infant was found buried under 30 cms of sand in Sydney’s Maroubra Beach.
Two brothers, aged six and seven, who were digging at the southern end of the beach Sunday found the body, the Syney Morning Herald reported.
A police officer said that the depth at which the infant’s body was found and the distance from the sea indicated the victim had been deliberately buried.
“The sex and age of the child are unable to be determined at this point due to the decomposition,” he said.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said that interlocutory talks with Shiv Sena leaders were heading in the right direction insofar as the latter’s inclusion in the state government was concerned.
“We are holding talks with the Shiv Sena, the talks so far have been positive. It would be better if no one other than the interlocutors who are meant for the discussion talk to the media,” Fadnavis told here at a press conference.
Gold prices slumped by 1.93 per cent to Rs 25,668 per 10 grams in futures trade on Monday as speculators indulged in trimming positions, tracking weak global and domestic cues.
At the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), gold for delivery in far-month February, 2015 contracts slumped by Rs 504, or 1.93 per cent, to Rs 25,668 per 10 grams in 381 lots.
Ingredients
250 gm baby potatoes
Salt
1/4 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp red chilli flakes
1 Tbsp semolina (sooji)
1 1/2 Tbsp ghee
1 1/2 Tbsp garlic, finely chopped
2-3 green chillies, finely chopped
Method
Scrub and steam the potatoes till they’re tender. Cool and peel them.
Take a bowl and mix salt (to taste), sugar, chilli flakes, turmeric powder and semolina together. Coat the potatoes well with this mixture.
International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson revealed that a clampdown down on bouncers is unlikely despite the passing of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes last Thursday.
The cricket world was in shock after Hughes passed away on Thursday last week, two days after being struck on the neck by a short-pitched ball in a domestic fixture.
The human brain has a fragile spot for Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia, a study involving 484 healthy people aged between eight and 85 years has found.
The team of British researchers looked at how the brain naturally changes as people age.
The images revealed that parts of the brain that were the last to develop were also the first to show signs of age-related decline, BBC reported.
When the team led by Gwenaelle Douaud from Oxford analysed scans of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and scans of patients with schizophrenia, they found the same brain regions were affected.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs on Monday staged a walk out in the Lok Sabha seeking statement from the government on a reported recovery of a diary from Sahara chief Subrata Roy figuring the name of BJP President Amit Shah.
As soon as the House met, the TMC MPs raised the issue and demanded suspension of the Question Hour.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan rejected the motion quoting rules which prompted the TMC MPs to stage a walk out expressing their dissatisfaction.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar,in a statement released on Monday, said that his government will honour the two sisters who took on three alleged molesters in a moving bus.
He said the girls will be honoured and would get cash awards on Republic Day for their bravery.
“Both the girls had shown indomitable courage and bravery by opposing the misdemeanour of three youth who tried to “molest” them in a moving bus of Haryana Roadways at Rohtak, Khattar said in his statement.
He also said that effective steps will be taken to ensure the security of women passengers.
As many as 1.4 million Chinese people have applied for 22,200 civil servant jobs and taking the annual national public servant exam which is considered one of the most competitive tests in the country.
According to Xinuah, the figure is the lowest in five years and the actual number of people who turned up for the exam is not yet available.
Civil servant jobs are favoured by many people in the country as it offers stability. However, the popularity of government jobs has dropped in the past years.
A new study has found that HIV drugs have the capacity to slow down the spread of prostate cancer.
Researchers have shown that the receptor CCR5, best known for its role in HIV therapy, may also be involved in driving the spread of prostate cancer to the bone.
Even playing a solitary season of American football could lead to abnormalities in the brain structure of youth, that too without suffering a concussion, says a new research.
“This study adds to the growing body of evidence that a season of play in a contact sport can affect the brain,” said Christopher Whitlow, associate professor of radiology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in the US.
For the study, the researchers studied 24 high school football players between the ages of 16 and 18.
A new study has examined why people have different laughs and has shown that laughter can be used as a social tool i.e. one is used to interact with each other and also to take advantage of its benefits.
Body language and behavior expert Judi James, author of The Body Language Bible, said that they all had a range of different laughs that they use for different purposes and circumstances and most were within the “social masking” spectrum that is, they did them to be polite or to create social bonds, the Mashable reported.
According to researchers from the Utah-based Brigham Young University, babies are more likely to remember an incident if there is a positive emotion or affect that accompanies it. “People study memory in infants, they study discrimination in emotional affect, but we are the first ones to study how these emotions influence memory,” said lead author and psychology professor Ross Flom.
Babies are more likely to remember an incident if there is a positive emotion or affect accompanying it
Babies are more likely to remember an incident if there is a positive emotion or affect accompanying it
Health club chain Anytime Fitness will invest Rs 75 crore to open 40 new centres across the country by the end of the next year.
Anytime Fitness, which entered India in 2012 with its first centre in Delhi, currently has 10 fitness centres in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Dimapur(Nagaland) and Bhuj (Gujrat). The new centres will be based on franchise model.