According Prof. S A Shukoor General Secretary, Urdu Maher, Urdu Aalim and Urdu Fazil exams of Idara-e-Adabiyat-e-Urdu were held from December 27 to 31, 2014. Students appeared at 7 centres in Hyderabad and Secunderabad and 10 centres in districts.
Prof. S A Shukoor told that results of the exams would be announced shortly.
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The government has withdrawn excise duty concessions to the auto industry, which were given by the previous UPA Government in the interim budget in February.
Media reports quoted finance ministry sources, as saying that excise duty for SUVs had been reduced to 24 per cent from 30 per cent, whereas for mid-sized cars, it was reduced to 20 per cent from 24 per cent.
It was slashed from 27 percent to 24 percent for the large cars.
The decision not to extend excise duty for the auto industry will make SUVs and two-wheelers more expensive from today.
—ANI
According to new reports, Sony employees had to resort to older technologies like the Blackberry to keep the work going and used a phone tree to relay messages when the cyberattack on Sony Pictures was launched.
The employees relayed details about the hack from one person to another via phones and had to use ancient technology to issue physical checks since they couldn’t transfer salaries through bank deposit.
Sony CEO Michael Lynton said that it took him more than 24 hours to realize the severity of the attack, reported CNN.
In the context of growing terrorism, sectarianism and radicalization in Pakistan, it is worth recalling some aspects of the Munir Committee Report that had, over 60 years ago, pointed out the dangers in the path that Pakistan was treading.
Unfortunately, those warnings were ignored and what we have is the Pakistan of today, violently rent asunder by differing versions of Islam.
In 1954, a committee was set up under Justice M. Munir with Justice M.R. Kayani as member to enquire into the Punjab disturbances of 1953.
Expressing solidarity with the plantation workers of Assam who were recently attacked by a banned militant outfit, a tribal organisation ‘ Bharat Jakat Majhi Pargana Mahal’ staged a protest demanding compensation for the victims here.
The protesters walked on the streets with sticks and weapons and blocked the roads.
More than 10,000 people participated in the agitation and demanded strict punishment for the culprits.
Indian Oil Corp (IOC) and other state-run fuel retailers have piled up inventory loss of over Rs 10,000 crore which together with depreciating rupee has severely strained their finances ahead of a revision in petrol and diesel prices.
IOC along with Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) are to decide on revising petrol and diesel prices tomorrow, amidst clamour for a rate cut on falling crude oil prices.
There is a rare opportunity for India to embrace the Sikh Diaspora and right the wrongs that have festered for years and alienated the community.
Many Sikhs want to go home, visit their families and rebuild connections, but the troubled history comes in the way, as do some punitive Indian government policies. But this distance from Operations Bluestar and Black Thunder to operation reconciliation can be shortened-with sagacity and outreach.
Singer Britney Spears reportedly got her boyfriend Charlie Ebersol horses for his birthday.
The writer-producer’s girlfriend showed off the equestrian-tailored gift she bought him for his recent 32nd birthday on Twitter, writing: “Birthday horses for the birthday boy”.
She even shared photographs of both of them taking a turn around the stable, reports eonline.com.
–IANS
Supporters of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League poured onto the streets here on Wednesday to defy a two-day strike called by Jamaat-e-Islami party, which was protesting against the death sentence given to one of its leaders by the war crimes tribunal.
Police pickets were set up across the streets of Dhaka during the strike. However, people and supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League held marches, shouted slogans against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for having allied with the Jamaat.
Fans of Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni took to streets in Ranchi and Vadodara yesterday to urge him to reconsider his decision to retire from Test cricket.
” Mahendra Singh Dhoni is not only Jharkhand’s, but also India’s pride. The players of the Jharkhand State Disabled Cricket Association and other people here are demanding that he change his decision. It is difficult to even think of cricket without him,” said Hiten Bharadwaj a fan of Dhoni’s who is based in Ranchi.
Imran Khan has slammed the reports of his marriage saying that reports of his marriage to BBC weathergirl are “greatly exaggerated”.
The former Pakistani cricketer has denied the rumors on Twitter that he has secretly married Reham Khan, the Daily Express reported.
Friends in Pakistan said the former test star had wed divorced mother-of-three Reham, despite rumors his family was against the union.
A new study has explored that exercise may help people with Parkinson’s disease to improve their balance, ability to move around and quality of life.
Eight pregnant women have lost their lives in a week after undergoing Caesarean section in Ooty.
Most of the deaths occurred between December 24 and December 30.
Some of the patients, who were referred to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital after developing complications, also did not survive.
Relatives said most of them died of excessive bleeding post surgery.
Anandraj, husband of a victim Saraswati, said she was keeping fine till she was brought to the hospital.
Consumers of LPG (cooking gas) across the country will get cash subsidy directly into their bank accounts from today so that they buy the cooking fuel at the market price.
Domestic LPG users will get 568 rupees in the bank account the moment they join the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for LPG, which has now been renamed PAHAL.
They will have to use this money to buy 14.2-kg refill at the market price.
Currently, the subsidised LPG costs 417 rupees per 14.2-kg cylinder, while a market-priced refill costs 752 rupees in Delhi.
Pakistani troops have violated the ceasefire again by resorting to overnight firing on 15 border outposts in the Samba Sector of Jammu and Kashmir, leaving one civilian injured on Thursday.
The firing is believed to have started around midnight.
The latest ceasefire violation comes after Islamabad reportedly summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner to that country last evening to register its protest over the alleged killing of four Pakistani Rangers by the Border Security Force (BSF) in the border areas of the Samba Sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has wished citizens of the country on New Year and expressed the hope that the year 2015 brings immense happiness, peace and prosperity in everyone’s lives.
“Wishing you and your family a wonderful 2015! May this year bring immense happiness, peace and prosperity in everyone’s lives,” he tweeted.
The New Year was ushered across the world over with much gusto, with people in India too joining the bandwagon celebrating with fireworks and rejoicing with other fun filled activities.
—ANI
A new study where scientists used patient stem cells to make dementia-in-a-dish has offered new potential treatment for the disease.
Belgian researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease.
Auto companies may be propelled to hike auto price following government decision to withdraw excise duty concessions from January 1, sources said on Tuesday.
Earliler, in the interim Budget, UPA government had reduced excise duty to 24 percent from 30 percent in the case of SUVs, 20 percent for mid-sized car from 24 percent and 24 percent for large cars from 27 percent.
In June, the new government led by Narendra Modi extended the excise duty concession by six months to 31 December.
NASA is all set to launch an instrument that will measure the moisture lodged in Earth`s soils with unprecedented accuracy and resolution.
Scheduled for launch Jan 29, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instrument has a radar, a radiometer and the largest rotating mesh antenna ever deployed in space.
The real estate industry has welcomed the Cabinet’s decision to amend the Land Acquisition Act, saying it will boost construction of affordable housing.
The ordinance makes significant changes in the Land Acquisition Act including removal of consent clause for acquiring land for affordable housing and four other areas.
LPG consumers across the country will get cash subsidy in their bank accounts from Thursday and will have to buy the cooking fuel at market price. Domestic LPG users will get Rs568 in the bank account the moment they join the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for LPG, which has now been renamed PAHAL.
They will have to use this money to buy 14.2-kg refill at market price. Currently, subsidised LPG costs Rs417 per 14.2-kg cylinder while a market priced refill costs Rs752. T
In a move that will increase the numbers of autorickshaws in the capital, Delhi government will issue permits to 10,000 new autos and give top priority to women drivers to run three-wheelers in the city.
Transport department has invited applications for issuing permits to about 10,000 autorickshaws, making it mandatory to install GPS in these new vehicles. At present, there are around 80,000 autos plying in the national capital and with the government’s new move, it will increase the numbers of autos, facilitating commuters.
The doctors at the government-run Goa Medical College and Hospital have reserved opinion on the cause of death of Isha Mantry, a Mumbai-based fashion designer.
The panel of four doctors who conducted autopsy said the opinion was reserved as results of chemical analysis of viscera and hysto-pathological examination were awaited.
“We are waiting for the final report…doctors have reserved their opinion,” said the Superintendent of Police (North) Priyanka Kashyap, who is heading the investigation team, today.
The first day of New Year brought respite from intense cold as the minimum temperature was recorded two notches above the season’s average at 8.8 degree Celsius Thursday.
Moderate fog delayed over 40 trains and the Met Office has forecast a cloudy day.
According to Northern Railway, 36 trains coming to the national capital were running late due to the fog, seven were rescheduled and 15 were cancelled.
“The sky will remain partly cloudy and the maximum temperature will hover around 20 degrees Celsius,” said an India Meteorological Department official.
The Constitutional amendment Bill that seeks to scrap the collegium system of appointing judges to higher judiciary has received Presidential nod.
The National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) bill passed by Parliament in August this year has received President’s assent, official sources said.
The new law facilitates the setting up of a commission for appointment of judges, replacing the 20-year-old collegium system, which has been under severe criticism.