Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wife Jashodaben has filed an appeal under RTI act after she was denied information by Mehsana District police saying that all queries about the protection given to her were related to local intelligence bureau, which is exempted under RTI Act.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has released a video online, two weeks after the Peshawar school massacre, wherein the purported child of a Taliban leader is justifying the terrorist group’s violence saying that Pakistan has an “apostate army”.
According to ABC News, the child said in the video that the Taliban’s battle is against the “Pakistani government and its apostate army “.
Buckingham Palace has denied “underage sex slave” claim against Prince Andrew asserted by a woman in US court papers.
A woman named Duke of York in documents she filed in a Florida court over how prosecutors handled a case against financier Jeffrey Epstein, the BBC reported.
She claims that between 1999 and 2002 she was forced to have sex with the prince in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein.
Sarah Palin has recently sparked controversy over posting pictures of her son standing on a dog with a New Year’s message on Facebook.
The former US vice presidential candidate intended to share an inspirational message on the New Year’s which garnered thousands of comments, many of which expressed outrage at the scene, the Independent reported.
Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Saturday extended his greetings and good wishes to all the citizens on the auspicious occasion of Milad-Un-Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad.
“I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the auspicious occasion of Milad-Un-Nabi , the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad,” said Ansari.
“On this hallowed occasion, let us commit ourselves to remain true to the timeless virtues of peace, compassion, tolerance and forgiveness, as taught by the Holy Prophet,” he added.
Former England player and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard’s sudden decision to quit his boyhood club has left his teammates surprised and they have revealed that their skipper’s decision has come as a big shock.
The veteran captain, who has been at Liverpool for 25 years and scored 180 goals for the club, confirmed on Friday that he would be leaving the club at the end of the season, while terming it as the toughest decision of his life.
Tech giant Microsoft’s search engine Bing.com and other sites, including live.com, suffered a brief disconnection of about 20 minutes on Friday, as per reports revealed on Twitter and other website-monitoring services.
While Bing.com and others have since returned from the outage, Yahoo’s search service, which is powered by Bing, at search.yahoo.com is reportedly down, as well. No explanation has been provided for the outages yet.
Donna Douglas, who is famous for her role in ‘ The Beverly Hillbillies,’ has died at the age of 81.
The actress’ niece Charlene Smith said that Douglas battled p ancreatic cancer , CBS News reported.
Douglas was probably best known as Elly May Clampett on the show, which ran from 1962-1971 on CBS, where she portrayed that character in all 274 episodes of the show and brought back the role in a 1981 TV movie reboot of the series.
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The security has been beefed up in Gujarat after the Indian Coast Guard intercepted an explosive laden Pakistani fishing boat in the Arabian Sea off the Porbandar coast.
Following the incident, the state authorities have sounded a high alert in the state. Indian Coast Guard and Border Security Force (BSF) along with the Gujarat Police are maintaining high vigil after the incident.
As per reports, Gujarat Police is already on alert in view of events like ‘Pravasi Bharatiya Divas’ and ‘Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit’ that are scheduled to be held in coming week.
In a meeting with the Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary, India on Friday rejected the allegations made by Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz to the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj over cross-border firing as baseless.
In the letter, Pakistan had alleged that India killed two Pakistani Rangers in cold blood after calling them for a meeting on the International Border earlier on Wednesday.
British number one Andy Murray brushed aside world number three Rafael Nadal in straight sets in the Mubadala World Tennis Championship semifinals in Abu Dhabi for the first time since the 2013 Wimbledon final clash.
Murray, who thrashed Nadal 6-2, 6-0, would face top ranked Novak Djokovic in the finals of professional tennis exhibition tournament on Saturday.
Nadal, who was playing his first match since losing to 17-year-old Borna Coric in the Swiss Open, appeared to be completely out-of-form as the Spaniard failed to convert any of his 12 break points, the BBC reported.
Pakistan’s National Cricket Academy (NCA) head coach Muhammad Akram has claimed that banned ace off-spinner Saeed Ajmal would be needed by the team following the 2015 World Cup once the bowler clears his official test.
Ajmal is out of consideration for the World Cup’s final 15-man squad after it was decided by the spinner and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials that he should focus on his comeback.
On the auspicious occasion of Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, an exhibition of unique and exquisite artistic creations of noted calligraphers of India and Iran will be inaugurated today, on January 3. Entry free for all. The exhibition is being held jointly by Counsel General of Iran at Hyderabad, Siasat daily and Salarjung Museum.
Rescue teams have recovered 30 bodies so far in the search for AirAsia flight 8501 crash victims wherein some bodies were still strapped to their seats.
After a week of search operations, rescue teams found a total of 30 bodies. Most of them were rescued by a U.S. Navy ship, reported News24.
The Airbus A320 disappeared while traveling from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board.
As the search operations continue, special equipment has also arrived to aid the search for the plane and its black box flight recorders.
Elvis Presley’s two private jets, the Lisa Marie and Hound Dog II up are up for auction.
The King of Rock and Roll bought the Convair 880 jet in 1975, two years before his death, and spent about 300,000 dollars, refitting it and renaming the Lisa Marie, the BBC reported.
The Hound Dog II, a Lockheed JetStar, was bought in 1975 as a stopgap while the Lisa Marie was being prepared and arrived at Graceland in 1984.
The Lisa Marie has been on display at Graceland for fans to tour.
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Gwyneth Paltrow has said that she and her estranged husband Chris Martin have worked really f****** hard on their relationship.
The Academy Award winning actress, who “consciously uncoupled” from the Coldplay frontman in March, 2014, asserted that she felt like it was in a way, the relationship they were meant to have, the Mirror reported.
Pakistani troops resorted to heavy mortar shelling and firing on several BSF posts along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba and Kathua districts.
The ceasefire violation drew a strong retaliation from India. As per the BSF sources, two Pakistani Rangers were killed in exchange of fire on Friday night.
Five Pakistani Rangers have been killed since Thursday in exchange of fire along the border.
Friday night’s ceasefire violation was the fourth by the Pakistani Rangers in as many days and the eighth in the last nine days.
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Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore has said that the software giant’s Office team has not forgotten the Windows Phone.
According to The Verge, Belfiore took to his Weibo account this week to explain the silence on Windows Phone, saying that a bundle of announcements were to be made on a single event prior to Chinese New Year, which falls on February 19th.
The announcements are expected to come at Microsoft’s Windows 10 event, which is set to take place on January 21st.
Urging businessmen to increase productivity to survive in the competitive world of today, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said they should aim for creating quality, standard and attractive products.
She was speaking after opening the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair.
The event aims to showcase Bangladeshi products to bolster export.Companies from home and abroad will be displaying their inventory in 500 stalls, reports the Daily Star.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday is scheduled to inaugurate the Indian Science Congress 2015 at the Mumbai University.
This year’s theme of the Congress is Science and Technology for Human Development. The five-day event will witness deliberations and presentation of papers by the scientific fraternity from across the globe.
More than 12 thousand delegates are expected to participate in the session.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday lashed out at Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for lavishing praise on the last Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, adding that unwarranted remark by somebody in his position can potentially harm the country’s peace process.
Defending its role in the rescue operations in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, ISRO today said the agency had played its role in the largest rescue operations in the country, saving thousands of lives.
“We did our role in the rescue operations by providing imagery and equipment,” ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan told reporters here soon after the space agency launched India’s first dedicated navigation satellite IRNSS-1A on board the PSLV-C22, which blasted off at 11.41 PM from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here last night.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today visited the Hindon Air Force Station Hindan here to familarise himself with the operations being carried out by C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 J Super Hercules, the two most modern transport aircraft in Indian inventory.
A case has been registered against the director, producer and actor of the film ‘PK’ at the Bajaj Nagar police station here, police said today.
A case under section 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings) and 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language) of the IPC was lodged last evening against director, producer and actor of the film, SHO Bajaj Nagar Chiranji Lal said today.
Actress Udita Goswami and her husband Mohit Suri welcomed their first child- a girl, says filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt.
“Mohit Suri and Udita have received a gift from the Gods! A baby girl has just descended from the ‘skies’ into their life,” Bhatt, also an uncle of Suri, tweeted Friday.
Suri tied the knot with Udita in 2013 after dating her for about nine years.
His cousin Pooja Bhatt had launched Udita in Bollywood with her 2003 film “Paap” and two years later, Suri directed the actress in her second film “Zeher”.