Month: January 2015

Prince William shares special bond with Middleton family

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Prince William has recently been reported of sharing a special bond with his wife Kate Middleton ‘s parents.

The Duke of Cambridge broke royal tradition recently invited all of the Middletons including Kate’s parents and siblings to join his family at church on Christmas morning, E! Online reported.

Ingrid Seward editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine informed that William didn’t stick to tradition, but the Queen has to move with the times and she’s good like that.

Hasina urges businessmen to make quality products at Dhaka International Trade Fair

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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.

Samsung edges past Apple in consumer satisfaction index for handsets

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South Korean tech titan Samsung has edged past arch rival Apple in the American Customer Satisfaction Index despite receiving a lukewarm response to its flagship Galaxy S5 handset.

Samsung, who came under increasing pressure in the wake of declining profits, received a satisfaction rating of 81 points out of a possible 100, two points ahead of arch-rival Apple, Fox News reported.

‘World’s largest ever city’ dating back 5,000 years found underground in Turkey

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A 5,000 year-old massive city, which might be the biggest city in the world, has been recently found in Turkey’s Cappadocia underground region, it has been reported.

The subterranean settlement was discovered in the Nevsehir province of Turkey’s Central Anatolia region, in the historical area of Cappadocia, the Independent reported.

Hasan Unver, the mayor of the city on those outskirts the discovery was found, said other underground cities were nothing more than a “kitchen” compared to the newly uncovered settlement.

Women with precancerous benign lesions at higher risk of future breast cancer

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A new study has recently revealed that women with atypical hyperplasia are at higher risk of developing breast cancer in future than previously thought.

Mayo Clinic study found that hundreds of women with these benign lesions indicate that their absolute risk of developing breast cancer grows by over 1 percent a year. The study found that after five years, 7 percent of these women had developed the disease; after 10 years, that number had increased to 13 percent; and after 25 years, 30 percent had breast cancer.

Non-subsidised LPG rate cut by Rs 43.50 per cylinder

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Price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) was today cut by Rs 43.50 per cylinder as international oil rates slumped to their lowest since May 2009.

A 14.2-kg cylinder of non-subsidised LPG will now cost Rs 708.50, down from Rs 752 previously, in Delhi, oil companies announced today.

This is the fifth straight reduction in rates of non- subsidised or market-priced LPG, which the customers buy after exhausting their quota of 12 cylinders at subsidised rates, since August.

A subsidised LPG refill currently costs Rs 417 in Delhi.

Banned Hafeez awaits crucial illegal bowling action test result from Chennai

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Banned Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez is reportedly set to return to his homeland after appearing for the informal bio-mechanic test in Chennai on account of his illegal bowling action.

The seasoned all-rounder was suspended from bowling with immediate effect after the International Cricket Council ruled his action was illegal.

According to a PCB spokesman, the results of the test would be received after a couple of days, which is important for Pakistan in deciding Hafeez’s World Cup fate.

Re.1 kg rice scheme in Telangana

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Telangana Government is launching an ambitious scheme under which the beneficiaries could buy rice at the rate of Re 1 per kg to all eligible families, as a New Year gift from CM K.C. Rao.

The state government was supplying only 4 kg rice per head with a maximum limit of 20 kg rice for family. Now under the new scheme, the state government will provide 6 kg of rice per person at without any cap on the quantity of rice provided to a family. ‘’If there are ten members in a family, the government will supply 60 kg rice,” Rajender said.

Pakistan has violated norms of International Border , says BSF IG

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The Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF), Rakesh Sharma, on Thursday termed the unprovoked cross-border firing by Pakistani Rangers as shocking and said that New Delhi would register a strong protest against Islamabad for violating the norms of the International Border.

“The Indian side stopped firing when the Pakistan Rangers raised a white flag, asking for time to remove the bodies. But they started unprovoked firing in the midnight,” Sharma said.

“We will stage a strong protest as Pakistan has violated the norms of the International Border,” he added.

IT notice to Vadra a ‘natural administrative process’: BJP

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said the income tax authorities sending Robert Vadra a notice over his controversial land deals in Haryana is a natural administrative process.

“I think it is a natural administrative process and it is the responsibility of the tax authorities to send notices and seek answers to all cases where windfall gains have been made. The issue concerning Robert Vadra’s firm, I think is in black and white; he has made several crores in windfall gains in just one transaction,” BJP spokesperson G V L Narasimha Rao told ANI.

Hyderabad Metro Rail goes on first automatic trial run

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The Hyderabad Metro Rail Project (HMR) will be transporting passengers from March this year, as told by the Managing Director of Metro rail project N.V.S. Reddy after successfully completing a trial run on the automatic train operation mode.

As part of the HMR trail runs, a train was operated without driver between Nagole and Mettududa, about eight kilometers distance.

Latest railway signaling systems with the equipment supplied by a French company were used for the same.

Youth gets life term for killing prostitute

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The Bombay High Court has upheld the life sentence awarded to a 21-year-old youth for stabbing to death a prostitute who refused to marry him.

A division bench of justices Anil Menon and Vijaya Tahilramani recently dismissed an appeal filed by the convict, Anant alias Rakesh Ratan Let, against a sessions court order convicting him for the murder.

He is currently serving his sentence in Nashik Central prison.

Pak violates ceasefire again, India reacts sharply

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In fresh ceasefire violation, Pakistan Rangers today targeted 13 border outposts in Samba sector, drawing sharp reaction from India, a day after an Indian jawan and four Pakistani soldiers were killed in exchange of fire.

India said it will launch a strong protest with Pakistan over the fresh ceasefire violations. Today’s incident was the third ceasefire violation by Pakistan along the IB in the past three days and seventh in last eight days.

We have earned the right to play the way we want: Haddin

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Defending his team’s tactics in the drawn third cricket Test against India, Australian vice-captain Brad Haddin today said the hosts earned the right to go about the way they wanted after playing India out of the series.

“We won the series, that’s the main thing we took out of it. I think we earned the right to play the way we did in Melbourne. We’ve played India totally out of the series,” he said.

“Come Sydney if we get ourselves into that situation it’d be different because we’ve taken India out of the series. We earned the right to play the way we did.

Don’t attend anti-Islam rallies:Merkel’s NY warning to Germans

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Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Germans in a New Year’s address against joining anti-Islam rallies backed by a right-wing group, whose leaders “are often prejudiced, cold-hearted and full of hatred”.

The anti-Islam movement organised by a right-wing group called Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) has continued to gain strength in the nation in the past few weeks, with an estimated 17,500 people attending the demonstration in the eastern German city of Dresden last week, the largest so far.

Indians are my mentor, says Dalai Lama

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Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel peace prize winner Dalai Lama, who is on his maiden visit to Gujarat, today said he considers Indians as his “Guru”.

“My mind is filled with Nalanda (an ancient Buddhist Monastery) thoughts. That is an ancient Indian institute. So, therefore I consider you Indians as my Guru (mentor) traditionally, historically,” the Dalai Lama said before reporters at Surat city air port.

“We are Chelas (disciple or proteges). So as a simple Chela I would like to express my greetings and appreciations to our Guru,” he added.

May take a week to recover AirAsia jet black box: official

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Doomed AirAsia jet’s black box which is crucial for solving the mystery surrounding the crash may take a week to be found, an Indonesian official said today, as searchers raced against time and weather to recover bodies and plane wreckage in the Java Sea.

Indonesian Transportation Safety Committee member Antonius Toos Sanitioso said finding the wreckage of the Airbus A320-200 carrying 162 people would not be easy if the bad weather off Pangkalan Bun persists.

Trinamool Congress office set ablaze on foundation day

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A Trinamool Congress party office was set ablaze on the party’s 18th foundation day today at Uluberia in the district.
Police, who rushed to the spot, said the early morning blaze also gutted several adjoining shops.

Inquiry into the blaze is on, the police said.

TMC MLA Nirmal Majhi has alleged that BJP and CPI-M were behind the blaze.

Majhi said photos of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Uluberia MP Sultan Ahmed, which were kept in the office for the day’s programmes were reduced to ashes.

Both parties when contacted, denied the charge.

—PTI

Egypt court orders retrial in Al-Jazeera case

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An Egyptian appeals court ordered a trial today in the case of three imprisoned Al-Jazeera English journalists.

The decision by Egypt’s Court of Cassation that lasted only a few minutes. However, Canadian-Egyptian Mohammed Fahmy, Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian Baher Mohammed, who have been held their arrest December 2013, were not granted bail.

The three journalists did not attend the brief hearing that began around 9 am local time (1230 IST) in Cairo. Reporters gathered to report on the hearing were not allowed in for those arguments, but later entered the court.

Physical inactivity can damage blood vessels

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Even a few days of inactivity can cause damage to blood vessels in the legs that can take a prolonged period of time to repair, scientists have found.

The researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine found that reducing daily physical activity for even a few days leads to decreases in the function of the inner lining of blood vessels in the legs of young, healthy subjects causing vascular dysfunction that can have prolonged effects.

Six die in Tripura accidents

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Six persons died and 25 others were injured in two separate accidents in northern part of Tripura, police said today.

“Last night, a heavily overloaded passenger jeep lost control while climbing a steep hill near Thalcherra, a remote tribal hamlet near Indo-Bangla border in Dhalai district and fell into a gorge,” SP (Police Control), Uttam Bhaumik said.

Four tribals died on the spot, another tribal person died on way to hospital and 25 others were injured, he said, adding the spot is about 160 km from here.

The injured are being treated at Kulai hospital of the district.

India to lodge protest with Pak against ceasefire violations

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India will launch a strong protest with Pakistan over fresh ceasefire violations at the International Border here that has left a BSF jawan dead and another injured.

“They (Pakistan) have violated the norms on international border. We are going to lodge strong protest to them (over ceasefire violation),” Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF) Rakesh Sharma told reporters here.

Home Minister Rajanth Singh said Pakistan should desist from such violations and officials of both the countries have been in touch over the issue.

It’s ‘aniti and durniti’, says Opp on renaming plan panel

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Opposition today criticised as mere “fluff” and “gimmickry” the government’s decision to restructure Planning Commission and rechristen it “Neeti Ayog” and voiced apprehension that it will discriminate against the states and help “corporates call the shots” in policy making.

CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury termed the renaming of Planning Commission as “aniti and durniti” (no policy and bad policy).

LIC launches co-branded credit card with UAE bank

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India’s LIC International and Abu Dhabi -based First Gulf Bank are planning to introduce a unique co-branded credit card in the United Arab Emirates to address concerns of insurance policy holders.

It is first of its kind payment solution. This is the first time that an insurance firm has entered into a strategic alliance with a bank in the gulf country.

Insurance payments, persistency and ad hoc surcharge levied by many insurance companies on premium payments through cards have been a concern among many policyholders in the UAE.

88 swine flu cases reported in Telangana, AP in 2014

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As many as 88 positive cases of swine flu were reported in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in 2014, a senior health official said here today.

Of them, about 22 cases were reported in last week of December last year, said Dr K Subhakar, nodal officer for the disease here.

Noting that swine flu is not life threatening for healthy people, P Sambasiva Rao, Director of Health of Telangana, said yesterday that the government has taken various steps for checking the spread of the disease.

As many as 10 persons have reportedly died due to the disease in Telangana last year.