There have been no “incursions” by China into Indian territory, the government said Friday, adding that there were some transgression due to different border perceptions.
“There is no commonly delineated LAC (Line of Actual Control) between India and China. There are areas along the border where India and China have differing perception of LAC,” Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has defended the country’s security services amid criticism they failed to stop Mohammed Emwazi, known as “Jihadi John”, from joining Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
Cameron Friday said the security services made “incredibly difficult judgments” on Britain’s behalf, BBC reported.
His comments came after it emerged Emwazi was known to authorities.
The prime minister said he would not comment on specific cases but urged the public to back the security services.
The frozen remains of a baby woolly rhinoceros over 10,000 years old, with its fur, eyes and horns still intact have been discovered on one of the coldest parts of northern Russia, a media report said Friday.
The remains of the 18-month-old woolly rhinoceros christened “Sasha” was the first of their kind to be ever discovered, The Independent reported.
The remains were so well preserved in Siberia’s permafrost that most of the rhinoceros’s fur, an ear, an eye and a set of small horns were found intact, the report said.
A former chief of Israel’s Mossad spy agency is slamming the prime minister’s handling of the Iranian nuclear threat.
Ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious speech to Congress, Meir Dagan says “the person who has caused the greatest strategic damage to Israel on the Iranian issue is the prime minister.”
The comments were published today in the Yediot Ahronot daily.
Dagan has been a fierce critic of Netanyahu’s approach to Iran, emerging as a key opponent of a potential Israeli military attack against its nuclear facilities.
Stepping up his attack on the government over the land acquisition bill, Anna Hazare today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “allergic” to him due to which he does not expect any talk with Modi on the issue.
Hazare also said that he will launch a three-month long padyatra from Maharashtra’s Wardha to Delhi which he said would culminate with a “jail bharo andolan” in the capital.
The 77-year-old anti-graft crusader assailed the government’s move to get the proposed legislation passed in Parliament, saying it was as draconian as the Ordinance.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today described the Budget presented in the state Assembly by Finance Minister Amit Mitra as “a budget for maa-mati-manush (mother, soil, masses)”.
“It is a Budget for maa-mati-manush,” Banerjee told reporters after presentation of the Budget.
She said that the Budget aimed at an all-round development of the society starting from the rural, urban, farmers, small industry and students.
We must pay attention to our gatherings and meetings, because they have a major effect on us. If one were to take a quick look at Muslim gatherings today, he would find that it is nothing but a means of people occupying themselves with life, each according to his interest or field of work; this is aside from indulging in some prohibitions and major sins, in some cases.
A youth was arrested for allegedly raping a girl on the pretext of marriage, police said today.
Police yesterday arrested Pradeep, a resident of Bhatsana village near Dharuhera, who allegedly promised to marry a girl (22) of Chillarh village, about 15 km from here and then brought her from Chillarh to Dharuhera where he allegedly raped her on February 13, an official said.
Later when Pradeep declined to marry her, she made a complaint yesterday following which police registered a case of rape, abduction and criminal intimidation against Pradeep, he said.
The health authorities on Friday informed that the death toll due to Swine flu this year in Telangana State has touched 56.
According to the Swine Flu Bulletin, this year, from 1st January till 23th February, of 4,483 samples tested, as many as 1,412 were found to be positive and number of deaths because of other complications and Swine flu as on date are 56. On 26th February, of 102 samples tested, 27 were found positive. “The number of positive cases reported in the last six days (up to 26th February) are 47, 56, 09, 27, 33 and 27,” the bulletin said. (INN)
A Congress member on Friday urged the government to implement the provisions of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act and sought special category status to the state to speed up its development.
Raising the issue in Rajya Sabha during Zero Hour, Jesudas Seelam (Cong) said the announcements for development of the state were not being implemented despite assurances by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu.
Fulfilling a major election promise, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday announced that all Beedi workers in the State would get monthly allowance of Rs 1,000 from March 1 onwards.
Delhi Police has registered an FIR against All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimin (AIMIM) leader and MP Asaduddin Owaisi for waging war and promoting enmity among religious groups among other sections in connection with an alleged hate speech he had delivered last year.
The FIR was registered yesterday at the Farsh Bazar Police Station in East Delhi after a local court here had
directed the Delhi Police on February 18 to lodge a criminal case against Owaisi under relevant provisions of the IPC on a
private complaint.
Nearly one kg of gold worth Rs 30 lakh was seized from a private aircraft here today.
According to airport officials, the cleaning staff stumbled upon 950 grams of gold kept concealed in the seat of the Indigo flight that arrived from Dubai here this morning.
A passenger was suspected to have left the gold, officials said, adding, a probe is on into the matter.
This is the second incident of seizure of gold from passenger aircraft at the airport here since yesterday.
The Prime Minister’s attack on the Opposition on the failure of MNREGA scheme today did not go down well with the Congress which hit back saying Gujarat remained a poor state even when Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister.
As soon as Modi ended his reply in Lok Sabha on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address, Leader of Congress in the Lower House Mallikarjun Kharge said while there was no doubt that the Prime Minister delivered a good speech, “words do not help fill empty stomach.”
As BJP and PDP reached an alliance, former chief minister Omar Abdullah today said it was a tie-up between North and South Poles and questioned “where are the celebrations on the streets of Jammu and Kashmir”.
The NC leader also claimed that with the sealing of the alliance the capital of the state has shifted to Nagpur, an oblique reference to the RSS headquarter.
“With this hug (between PDP chief Sayeed and Prime Minister Modi) the South Pole and the North Pole met and the capital of J-K shifted to Nagpur,” Omar wrote on Twitter.
Taking suo motu note of a letter on posting of two rape videos on WhatsApp, the Supreme Court today asked CBI to launch a probe “forthwith” to nab the culprits and sought responses from the Centre and governments of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Delhi and Telangana.
“The fact of the matter is that it is a very serious issue and something needs to be done,” the social justice bench of justices Madan B Lokur and U U Lalit said after going through the contents of the letter written by Hyderabad-based NGO Prajwala to Chief Justice of India H L Dattu.
A team of 47 Foreign Police Officers from 21 countries visited the office of the Director General of Police Telangana State on 26th February.
They are in India as part of 12 week training programme at National Crime Records Bureau, New Delhi.
The United States has flown its most advanced surveillance plane from a military base in the Philippines over flashpoint areas of the South China Sea, Filipino authorities said today.
With Filipino soldiers on board, the US Navy flew the P-8A Poseidon from a former American airbase about 80 kilometres north of Manila and over the disputed sea on February 17, they said.
The Philippines is in the midst of a bitter row with China over competing claims to parts of the South China Sea that are close to the Philippine coastline.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary IYR Krishna Rao convened a meeting with the officials of Transport Department to discuss on the existing guidelines and composition of Road Safety Authority at the State Secretariat here on Friday.
GHMC Commissioner and Special Officer Somesh Kumar on Friday inspected the works on weaker section housing at the IDH Colony at Bhoiguda.
The houses are being constructed under the innovative housing scheme of two bed rooms, kitchen, hall, toilets on 580 Sq Ft. They are being constructed by the GHMC as per the directions of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao who have announced on 3rd October, 2014, that the project would be completed within a span of six months.
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board invoked the RR Act by confiscating mobile assets for non-payment of dues from a defaulter under the jurisdiction of O&M Division. No.X, Sahebnagar here on Friday.
The occupants of the premises of H.No.8-85, Goutham Nagar, Dilsukhnagar with CAN No. 024227128 already under disconnection, served Red Notice and Form-I under the RR Act for seizing assets but still the customer failed to pay the dues of about Rs. 83,512/-.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Vice-President Mohammed Ali Shabbir has alleged that the BJP Government at the Centre has insulted both the Telugu States by allocating meagre funds in the Railway Budget.
West Indies batsman Darren Bravo was ruled out of the rest of the World Cup today after failing to recover from a hamstring injury, the squad’s players’ association said.
“Darren Bravo has been ruled out of the World Cup and will be replaced in the West Indies squad. Get well soon @DMBravo46#cwc15,” tweeted the West Indies Players Association (WIPA).
Bravo suffered a left hamstring injury in the 150-run win over Pakistan in Christchurch last weekend and missed Friday’s 257-run defeat by South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
In order to facilitate Metro Rail crossing works over the SCR Rail track network between Bharat Nagar and Sanathnagar Stations in twin cities, the South Central Railway has imposed a traffic block on train movements in this section from 12:15 pm to 03:15 pm on Saturday.
It would lead to cancellation of 18 MMTS services which run to and from Lingampally and also Lingampalli – Falaknuma and Hyderabad-Lingampalli MMTS trains. Four passenger trains – Vikarabad – Kacheguda; Tandur – Hyderabad; Hyderabad – Tandur and Secunderabad – Vikarabad have been cancelled.
The United Arab Emirates top-order batsman Shaiman Anwar has admitted that he is overwhelmed with the response to his maiden World Cup ton, describing the feat against Ireland as ‘special’ ahead of next tie against India on Saturday.
Anwar smacked a power-packed 106 off 83 balls against Ireland in Brisbane on Wednesday, but his valiant century went in vain as the UAE failed to defend their score.