Month: January 2015

Inteqal (29.1.2015)

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Mohtarma Hameeda Begum w/o Janab Zafar Khan, resident of Warsiguda, Secunderabad, died on January 26.

Namaz-e-Janaza was offered at Masjid Kausar, Warsiguda followed by burial at Chilkalguda qabrastan.

Fateha sewam is fixed on January 29 at 3.30 pm at Masjid Kausar. Further information can be had on 9949215510.

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Mohtarma Shaukat Jahan w/o Syed Ibrahim died. She was 58.

VHP to organise ‘Ram Mahotsava’ for building temple in Ayodhya

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Seeking to “mobilise Hindus” and“remind them of their resolve” for construction of a Ram temple, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is planning to organise ‘Ram Mahotsava’ for the first time on the lines of Durga Puja aross the country.

“We will celebrate Ram Mahotsava from March 21 or March 22 and it will continue till April 1. This will be for the first time that such an event is being organised by the organisation,” VHP Media incharge Sharad Sharma said today.

This programme would be organised in every village in thecountry, he said.

Congress questions abrupt removal of Foreign Secretary

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Congress today questioned the timing of government’s decision to remove Sujatha Singh as Foreign Secretary and wondered whether it was “retribution” for her stand on IFS officer Devyani Khobragade.

“Is sacking of Foreign Secretary late retribution for her stand on Devyani Khobragade affair? Removal after a Presidential visit “coincidental”? former Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari wrote on Twitter. Government last night decided to replace Singh curtailing her tenure by eight months and appointed India’s ambassador to the US S Jaishankar in her place.

Penelope Cruz, Diane Kruger join cast of ‘This Man, This Woman’

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Penelope Cruz and Diane Kruger are set to star in Isabel Coixet’s upcoming film ‘This Man, This Woman’.

The project, which has been penned by Frederic Raphael, is backed by Fortitude International co-founders, Nadine de Barros and Robert Ogden Barnum and founder Daniel Wagner, and producer Mike Lobell, Deadline.com reported.

Fortitude is taking care of the finances as well as foreign sales at the market, while Lobell is producing with De Barros and Barnum as exec producers.

Dr. Qayam Khan protests shifting of TB hospital

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Protesting over the announcement of shifting of historical TB Hospital by the state government President Majlis Bachao Tahreek Dr. Qayam Khan told that TB Hospital Erragadda is the No. 1 hospital of South Asia where not only people of Hyderabad but people from far off places arrive to get treatment. TRS government announces to shift the hospital which is sheer injustice.

Five killed in explosions in Afghanistan

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Four civilians and a policeman were killed Thursday in two separate bomb attacks in eastern Afghanistan, Xinhua reported citing the authorities.

In one attack, three civilians and one Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel were killed after a roadside bomb was detonated in Mehtarlam city, the provincial capital of eastern Afghan province of Laghman, the provincial government said in a statement.

Following the blast, which occurred at around 8.30 a.m., police launched an investigation and have arrested a suspected militant, the statement noted.

–IANS

11 of family suffocate to death in Pakistan

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Eleven members of a family died of suffocation in a house in Pakistan’s Balochistan province Thursday, a media report said.

Levies official Asmatullah told Dawn that all victims were members of the same family and had left a gas generator on before going to bed.

The bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital in Pishin district for the autopsy.

–IANS

Afghanistan, Ireland will join 10 full members in rank-based qualification for 2019 WC

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) Board on Wednesday approved that Afghanistan and Ireland would join the 10 Full Members in the rankings-based qualification system for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

The top eight-ranked sides on the Reliance ICC ODI Team Rankings as at 30 September 2017 would qualify automatically to the 2019 event, while the bottom four would play in the 10-team ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018 that would determine the final two teams in the line-up.

The Lego effect: Blocks and puzzles do increase spatial skills in kids

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Playing with blocks and puzzles and board games can help boost spatial skills of your children, claims a new study.

Lead researcher Jamie Jirout of Rhodes College said that as per their findings, spatial play specifically is related to children’s spatial reasoning skills. This was important because providing children with access to spatial play experiences could be a very easy way to boost spatial development, especially for children who typically have lower performance, such as girls and children from lower-income households.

Crime In Hyderabad (29.1.2015)

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Two arrested for stealing motorbikes
(Siasat News): Rajendranagar police in two separate operations arrested two persons involved in stealing motorbikes. The culprits are a mistry and a student.

They used to steal motorbikes from a parking lot situated in Hyderguda. Police in a search operation arrested one Srikant, 30, said to be a student who was roaming in the area in suspicious manner near Himayathsagar.

Facebook ‘gets a lot done in 2014’ as it nets ‘strong profits,’ millions of users

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Facebook has recorded profits of 701 million dollars in the fourth quarter, marking a 34 percent increase on the same period last year.

The company’s advertising revenue rose by 53 percent to 3.59 billion dollars, with 70 percent of the total coming from mobile ad sales, reported the BBC.

A statement released by the social media network quoted CEO Mark Zuckerberg as saying, “We got a lot done in 2014.”

Total profits for the year stood at 2.9 billion dollars, almost double the total for 2013.

India-based messaging app Hike adds voice-calling feature to Android app

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India-based messaging app Hike has added a free voice-calling feature to its Android app.

The move comes just three weeks after the company acquired Zip Phone.

According to Tech Crunch, when Hike bought Y Combinator-backed Zip Phone, which allows users to make Wi-Fi-enabled phone calls, CEO Kavin Bharti Mittal said that it would allow the company to add free voice-calling, one of its most requested features from users, much more quickly.

The addition of a voice-calling feature gives Hike advantage over Facebook-owned Whatsapp, which does not have a voice calling service as of yet.

Ranchi police arrest Maoist commander

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Acting on a tip-off, police arrested a Maoist commander in Ranchi.

The Maoist was involved in at least 15 cases including murder and extortion. He had launched a separate outfit named Jharkhand Gram Raksha Dal (Village Defence Party).

A special team was formed to arrest the Maoist, identified as Prakash Kerketta alias Arvind.

Senior Superintendent of Police, Prabhat Kumar, said the Maoist tried to flee but police cornered and captured him.

Delhi polls: Rahul Gandhi to hold rally in Seelampur

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Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday is scheduled to hold an election campaign rally in the Seelampur constituency of the national capital.

Earlier on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi had launched an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that the latter was busy with his ‘personal PR’ and no concrete work has been done by the NDA Government.

Expert says Hafiz Saeed’s latest charity ‘calculated rebuke’ to Pak’s possible action against JuD

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Experts have reportedly dubbed Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed’s decision to launch an ambulance service in Karachi as a “calculated rebuke” to speculations that suggest that the Pakistani authorities were finally going to act against the group.

According to The New York Times, the group’s freedom of movement, despite a wave of anti-militant sentiment in the aftermath of the Peshawar school massacre last month, showed that the group still enjoys “official tolerance.”

White House spokesman says Taliban not a terrorist group

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White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz has said that the Taliban is not a terrorist group.

According to the Washington Times, Schultz argued during Wednesday’s briefing that the United States can negotiate prisoner swaps with Taliban members, because the Taliban is not considered a terrorist group.

Yesvantpur-Katra train to be launched today

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Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will launch a new premium train from Yesvantpur to Katra on Thursday to cater to the growing number of pilgrims to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Besides, Prabhu will also flag off three more trains including two premium services from Bangalore to Patna, Kamakhya and Tatanagar.

Obama’s visit has helped in forging new commercial ties: Arun Jaitley

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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that US President Barack Obama’s visit has helped both the countries in forging new commercial ties.

He added that in the conclave of Indian and American business leaders, the CEOs exhibited a strong confidence about India and showed great interest to invest.

Jaitley said that the queries of American business leaders were essentially related to the ease of doing business in India.

Sunanda Pushkar murder case: Delhi Police to question Tharoor’s son

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Delhi police has said Shiv Menon, son of former union minister and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, will be questioned in connection with murder of his mother Sunanda Pushkar.

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Menon is Pushkar’s son from an earlier marriage.

Sunanda was found dead in a five-star hotel room in Delhi in January 2014, after publicly accusing Congress party lawmaker and former UN diplomat Tharoor of having an extra-marital affair with a Pakistani journalist.

New change, not third party attack caused Facebook, Instagram to go offline

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It was not the result of a third party attack but a change that affected Facebook and Instagram’s configuration systems, resulting in both the social networking websites being taken offline on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson.

A Facebook spokesperson revealed that both the social networking websites were offline on Tuesday because they introduced a change that affected their configuration systems, and claimed that it was not the result of a third party attack.

Jordon bow down to IS demand, militant to swap with captive pilot

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Jordan has become the first Arab state to offer prisoner/hostage swap to ISIS.

Mohammad Momani in a statement to state-run media said that Jordan was ready to trade the Iraqi prisoner Sajida al-Rishawi from death row in exchange for a Jordanian fighter pilot Mu’ath al-Kasaesbeh, who has been held by ISIS since his fighter jet crashed in Syria in December.

The militants threatened to slay the pilot and a Japanese journalist if the deadline was not met within 24 hours.

New species of 160m yr old long-necked dinosaur discovered in China

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Paleontologists have discovered new species of a skeleton of a long-necked dinosaur in China, which lived 160 million years ago.

The species found by scientists from the University of Alberta paleontologists including PhD student Tetsuto Miyashita, former MSc student Lida Xing and professor Philip Currie, called Qijianglong (pronounced ‘CHI-jyang-lon’) is about 15 metres in length and lived in the Late Jurassic.

THE STAGE OF PATIENCE – I

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Allah The Almighty describes His closest allies and beloved ones with a quality. Do you know what it is?
Allah The Almighty praises those who have this attribute in the best way. Do you know what it is?
Allah The Almighty promises those who have this virtue with the greatest reward. Do you know what it is?
You will immediately recognize this trait when you know that those who have it, unlike others, will be given their reward in full without account.