Army today paid glowing tributes to Colonel M N Rai, who died fighting militants in Jammu and Kashmir, recalling his efforts to reach out to youths in the militancy-hit region and said such sacrifice only strengthens its resolve to fight elements inimical to peace.
Castigating municipal bodies here for not clearing garbage, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday observed that the Capital was “not even an Asia-class city” in terms of cleanliness.
“How will we make Delhi a world-class city? It is not even an Asia-class city. Despite all the norms and a number of safai karamcharis available, we find that garbage is strewn on virtually all roads of Delhi and drains are not being cleaned properly,” a Bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said.
Siasat Urdu Daily has compiled SSC English Medium Question Bank of 5 new subjects under the new examination scheme. This question bank will be released by Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily today at 4:30 p.m. at Mahboob Husain Jigar Hall, Siasat Office Complex, Abids. This question bank has been prepared under the guidance of Mr. Ahmed Basheeruddin Farooqui, Retired Dy. DEO. Ms. Jansi Rani, Dy. DEO of Golconda and Mr. Nehru Babu, Dy. DEO of Bahadurpura are the Chief guests. Mr. M.A.
US President Barack Obama said that he will not meet the visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March, because the Israeli leader’s US trip would be too close to the elections in his country.
“I’m declining to meet with him (Netanyahu) simply because our general policy is (that) we don’t meet with any world leader two weeks before their election,” Obama said in an interview to CNN. “I think that’s inappropriate, and that’s true with some of our closest allies.”
Hyderabad City Police had to cut a sorry figure when the 14th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Nampally Criminal Court granted bail to two alleged SIMI activists belonging to Maharastra, namely Shah Mudassir and Shoeb Ahmed Khan who were arrested on 22nd October 2014 from Secunderabad Railway Station. Gopalpuram Police of Secunderabad had arrested them claiming that they were planning a terrorist attack on the country. They were trying to go to Afghanistan. After arresting them the case handed over to Special Investigation Team. They were interrogated in police custody.
The demise of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is a great loss to the Islamic World. The services rendered by him for the Hajj pilgrims are laudable. While addressing a condolence meeting organized by India-Arab Friendship Foundation held at Salarjung Museum yesterday, Mr. Mohammed Mahmood Ali, Dy. CM of Telangana State paid rich tributes to late King Abdullah. He mentioned the cordial relations of India and Saudi Arabia. In the past the Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawab Meer Osman Ali Khan had helped Saudi Arabia. He had arranged electricity for Makkah and Madina cities.
Out to campaign in the BJP strongholds of Karol Bagh and Rajendra Place, the party’s chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi on Wednesday had to keep mostly silent as she was suffering from a severe throat infection.
All that Bedi, whom the party has said will hold as many as 70 rallies in Delhi ahead of the Feb. 7 polls, managed to say was that she will be victorious at the hustings and would come out to meet the people thereafter.
Bedi canvassed for votes for the party’s Karol Bagh candidate Yogendra Chandolia in the congested lanes of Paharganj and on Ajmal Khan Road in Karol Bagh.
Four college students and a school dropout of a gang, wanted in connection with a case of attempt to kidnap and theft of bikes as well as high-end cellphones, were today arrested from Gandhi Nagar here, police said.
The accused collegians Ninavath Vinod Kumar, N Santosh, V Chandrasekhar, N Hanvma and school dropout G Sateesh were arrested, police said adding that their juvenile friend, too, has been apprehended.
The accused were involved in snatching high-value cellphones from female pedestrians in Banjara Hills area and also committed two-wheeler thefts, they said.
In a bid to radicalize children and “desensitize” them towards acts of violence, the Islamic State ( IS) militants have been reading bedtime stories of jihad to their kids and showing them snaps of killings, a report said.
In a parenting guide, called the “Sister’s Role in Jihad,” the terror outfit urged mothers to show their children terror websites and read tales of jihad to them, reported The Daily Star.
Jordan said Wednesday that it wants the Islamic State (IS) to prove that the Jordanian pilot abducted by the militant group last month was still alive.
“Jordan has asked the Islamic State (IS) to provide a proof of life for the Jordanian pilot it captured last year (December 2014), but we have not received a reply,” Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said in a statement, according to a Xinhua report.
Earlier in the day, the Jordanian government said it was willing to swap Sajida Rishawi, an Iraqi suicide bomber, with captured pilot Muath Kasasbeh.
The Nigerian government Wednesday confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in 11 states.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwumi Adesina, made the disclosure at an emergency meeting on avian influenza (bird flu) in Abuja, according to a Xinhua report.
The states affected by the outbreak of the disease were Kano, Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Delta, Edo, Plateau, Gombe, Imo, Oyo and Jigawa, the minister said.
He announced that the government had approved funds to compensate farmers affected by the outbreak.
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The Indian Premier League (IPL) player auction will be held on February 16 in Bangalore.
As if now, there is no clarity on the number of players in the auction pool because the deadline for franchises to prune the original list has been deferred to February 4.
S. Jaishankar, the Indian envoy to the US, has been appointed the new foreign secretary of India.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, in a decision taken Wednesday, decided to “curtail the tenure” of incumbent Sujatha Singh “with immediate effect”.
The committee, in a note put up on the website of the Department of Personnel and Training, said Jaishankar, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1977 batch, has been appointed the new foreign secretary for a period of two years.
Sujatha Singh had assumed office in August 2013 and was due to retire in August this year.
VHP leader Praveen Togadia on Wednesday said the West Bengal government should take timely action against infiltrators or else the state will be a part of “greater Bangladesh” in the near future.
Addressing a public rally at Rampurhat, the VHP leader said “The way the demography of this state is changing, soon it will be a part of greater Bangladesh. The state government must take time-bound action to oust the infiltrators from this state.”
“The people must remain alert about the infiltrators and they should not be given any scope to stay, earn or do business here,” Togadia added.
The severe cold wave conditions persisted in most parts of Himachal Pradesh today as the mercury dropped by a few notches following overnight snowfall and rain in isolated places.
The region had a clear day in the morning but icy winds swept the hills and valleys and the sky was overcast and thick fog engulfed the landscape as the day advanced.
The clouded sky and fog kept the day temperature low while the minimum temperature dipped to minus 11.9 degrees Celsius at Keylong in Lahaul and Spiti, and minus 5.6 degrees at Kalpa in Kinnaur.
Paying rich tribute to his home ground Eden Gardens, former India captain Sourav Ganguly today said he has collected many cherishable moments at the hallowed turf, where he has an all-win record as Test skipper.
“I started my cricketing life here at the age of 14, and got a century here against Odisha. It is a ground which has never disappointed me. I’ve not lost a match as Test captain. Obviously the one against Australia is very very special,” Ganguly said remembering the epic win against Australia in 2002.
The Congress Wednesday said it would provide housing to all slum dwellers here if voted to power, a day after party vice president Rahul Gandhi promised right to shelter to the poor in the national capital.
“If we come to power, we will pass a bill in the assembly which will benefit all the slum dwellers of the capital. This bill will ensure multi-storey flats of 25 to 40 square metre area to every family living in slums,” Congress campaign chief for Delhi Ajay Maken said.
The slums in Delhi with a population of nearly 18 lakh were once a stronghold of the Congress.
Rashtriya Lok Dal activists today staged a protest against land acquisition ordinance and raised slogans against Central government at district collectorate here.
“The policies of the BJP government are totally anti-farmer and the Central government has forcefully brought the land acquisition ordinance,” RLD district president Manveer Singh, while addressing the party activists, said.
He said the ordinance will adversely affect crores of farmers in the country. Singh also handed over a memorandum to the District Magistrate addressed to the president of India on the issue.
Relegated to the third position in Delhi, Congress today pressed into service an array of its heavywieghts, who include current and former Chief Ministers and union ministers, to oversee its campaign in Assembly elections.
Seven senior leaders have been put in charge of one Lok Sabha constituency each in the national capital, Congress sources said. Delhi has 70 assembly and seven Lok Sabha seats and each leader will monitor campaign in 10 assembly seats.
Arvind Kejriwal will move the High Court after the Assembly elections against the Election Commission (EC) order directing him to desist from commenting on BJP and Congress allegedly distributing money to voters, AAP said tonight.
A spokesperson of the party said that, “We will move the High Court against the Election Commission after the election. But at the moment we will fully respect the EC order”.
Earlier, the EC had warned Kejriwal that it will be constrained to take stern action against him in the event of any further violation.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly Wednesday revealed that his biggest fear in his cricketing career was to have not scored an international hundred at his home ground, the historic Eden Gardens.
“My biggest fear was that I thought I would never get a hundred at the Eden. But then it came against Pakistan,” Ganguly said.
The southpaw overcame his worst fear Dec 1, 2007 when he scored 102 in the first innings of the second Test against the arch rivals, that was eventually his last Test match at the ground.
The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Sigrid Kaag expressed Wednesday deep concern over the serious deterioration of the security situation in South Lebanon following the attack on the Israeli Defence Forces in the area of the Shebaa Farms.
Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militant party, claimed Wednesday responsibility for an attack that targeted an Israeli army patrol in the occupied Shebaa Farms leading to the death of two Israeli soldiers.
The attack prompted Israel to launch combined aerial and ground strikes at Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
The peace process in Syria will be protracted and knotty, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday at a meeting with participants in the inter-Syrian consultations in Moscow.
“Russia’s efforts to assist the Syrian peace settlement are absolutely transparent,” he said.
“We’re all open to collaboration on the basis of principles of the UN Charter with anyone interested in offering genuine support to the efforts that may bring about the start of peace settlement,” he said.
Politician Amar Singh was today questioned for nearly two hours by a special team of Delhi Police probing the Sunanda Pushkar case after he had recently claimed that she had spoken to him about the IPL controversy a couple of days before her death.
Sources said that Singh was asked about what Sunanda had told him regarding the IPL controversy and about allegedly taking the blame for Shashi Tharoor.