Congress leader Kiran Walia had made a plea seeking removal of Kerjiwal’s name from the Delhi electoral rolls on the ground that he has illegally declared himself to be a resident of the national capital.
AAP chief Arvind Kerjiwal is correctly enrolled in the voters’ list for the upcoming assembly polls in the national capital, the Election Commission today told the Delhi High Court.
The BJP Wednesday again regretted using the word “immigrant” for people from the northeast, calling it an “inadvertent mistake”.
“Due to an inadvertent mistake the word immigrant was used in the Vision Document. The party regrets this,” Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said here Wednesday.
“The word immigrant was used in the heading, but the paragraph ahead used the word migrant,” he said.
A delegation led by Union Minister of State for External Affairs General (retired) VK Singh on Tuesday visited Saudi Arabia for signing of Annual Haj Agreement for Haj 2015.
During his visit, The Minister met H.E Dr. Bandar Ibn Muhammad Hajjar, Saudi Minister of Haj in Jeddah and discussed issues pertaining to arrangements for Haj 2015. Following the discussion the Haj agreement between India and Saudi Arabia was signed.
An Indian-owned jewellery chain has partnered with a local bank in the UAE to launch a co-branded credit card, becoming the first organisation to offer ‘Goldback’ in the country.
The Rakbank Kalyan Jewellers MasterCard Credit Card, is accepted globally for purchases and cash withdrawals.
The loyalty points are earned at a rate of up to 7 per cent and can be redeemed at any Kalyan Jewellers outlets in the UAE in the form of jewellery.
The card also offers a zero per cent easy payment plan on diamond and gold jewellery purchases.
Not withstanding stiff opposition from rival parties and different groups regarding shifting of present Secretariat to Erragadda on ‘vaasthu’ reasons, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has openly declared that “he plans to build a new secretariat at a cost of Rs. 150 crore because the vaasthu dosham of the old secretariat is bad”.
KCR says it is a fact. History is proof of that. No one has boomed because of that. I don’t want that to happen with Telangana and its people, he added.
The Shiv Sena Wednesday welcomed Pune Police’s decision to decline permission for a gathering to be addressed by All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (MIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Muslim reservation and charged that his speeches are a threat to religious tolerance.
The BJP-ally accused Owaisi of “provoking communal tension” and pressed for steps to ensure he and his men are banned in the state.
Bagli Swapna (18),a 2nd year student at IIIT Basara, Adilabad, committed suicide by hanging herself at Usirakapally village of Manur mandal in Medak on Tuesday. Police found a suicide letter from her room, in which she alleged that mental harassment by her lecturer, Vijayabhanu, had forced her to take the extreme step.
Defending his party against the Hawala allegations, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday threw an open challenge to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, saying he should be sent to jail right away if he had done anything wrong.
“I challenge our Finance Minister, if I have indulged in money laundering he should take action against me and arrest me right now. And I want to tell Kiran Bedi, look into my eyes and tell me I have done something wrong,” said Kejriwal.
Seeking quick revenge for the killing of a Jordanian hostage by the Islamic State (IS), Amman is set to execute an IS militant on death row over a failed bombing.
A security official said that the death sentence pending on Iraqi militant Sajida al-Rishawi will be carried out at dawn, reported News 24.
Rishawi, was sentenced to death for her role in a terror attack in Amman in 2005. The IS had offered to spare the life of Jordanian fighter pilot, Lieutenant Maaz al-Kassasbeh , if she was freed.
A district magistrate-cum-collector level joint border conference between India and Bangladesh was held here on Tuesday
India was represented at the talks by officials of the Tripura Government, while Bangladesh was represented by a team of deputy commissioners-cum-magistrates, and was held at the state guest house here.
The two-day conference discussed issues such as ways to tackle smuggling, trans-border crime, insurgent movements, narcotics, human trafficking and improving border management between the two countries.
Punjab police rescued a 13-year-old kidnapped boy from Begumpet area. According to sources Anup was kidnapped from Jalandhar and was shifted to Hyderabad. He was kept at an unknown place at Begumpet. With the help of Hyderabad police, Punjab police succeeded in releasing the boy. The kidnapper has been arrested.
Siasat news
Alumni of two old and historical schools of Hyderabad Madrasa Aliya and Mahboobia Girls High School expressed grief over the miserable condition of the schools. The pathetic and miserable condition of their Almae Matres even made the eyes of some of them wet. The schools which were once the educational hubs and whose alumni are holding prominent positions and making a contribution in every field of life, has been converted to relic by prejudiced officers.
Dead body fished out from bowli
(Siasat News): Shamirpet police has fished out a dead body from a bowli. Later, it was identified that of one Sudhakar who hailed from Nizamabad. The bowli is situated in the farm owned by one Balwant Reddy.
Police suspect that the deceased might have accidentally fallen in it. A case has been registered and further investigations are on.
Fatal fall from height
The Shiv Sena welcomed Pune Police’s decision to decline permission for a gathering to be addressed by All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (MIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Muslim reservation and charged that his speeches are a threat to religious tolerance.
The BJP-ally accused Owaisi of “provoking communal tension” and pressed for steps to ensure he and his men are banned in the state.
Britain on Tuesday created history by becoming the first country to legalise children conceived with DNA from three parents after lawmakers voted in favour of the controversial procedure that sparked a fierce ethical debate with senior Church figures.
In the House of Commons, 382 MPs were in favour and 128 against the technique that stops genetic diseases being passed from mother to child.
During the historic debate, ministers said the technique was “light at the end of a dark tunnel” for families. Proponents said the backing was “good news for progressive medicine”.
The son of music composer Ismail Darbar and his two friends were today arrested for allegedly assaulting an assistant director over a monetary dispute, police said. Darbar (50), too, has been named as a wanted man in the case. The Bollywood composer’s son Zaid (21), his friends – Nishant Singh (21) and Mohsin Khan (29) – were arrested after a complaint was filed at Amboli Police Station by Prashant Choudhary, an assistant director, early this morning.
Minority Welfare Department has released Rs/- 48,02,96,000 for Pre Matric Scholarship of minority students. Special Secretary Minority Welfare Syed Omer Jaleel issued orders to release of budget. The GO stated that the budget would be released under planned expenditure of the financial year 2014-15 to be spent towards pre matric scholarship of minority students. With this the government has made lump sum payment of the budget allocated for pre matric scholarship during the current year. Director Minority Welfare has been directed to take necessary measures to release pre matric scholarship.
Vitamin A may protect children against the mosquito-borne malaria parasite, a study said.
Children under the age of five living in sub-Saharan Africa were 54 percent less likely to develop malaria if they had been given a single large dose of vitamin A, the findings showed.
“Our research found that children who received vitamin A supplementation were less likely to become infected with malaria,” said study leader Maria-Graciela Hollm-Delgado, postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Ryan Reynolds has denied reports that he and wife Blake Lively have named their newborn daughter Violet.
There were reports that the Hollywood pair chose to name her Violet, according to E!Online.
“No that’s not the name. I don’t want to get into that but I don’t know where that came from,” he said.
The couple welcomed their first child together in early January and are yet to reveal their daughter’s moniker.
The 38-year-old first time father said being a dad is amazing.
At least two people were killed Wednesday when a Taiwanese TransAsia Airways plane with over 50 people on board clipped a bridge and crashed into a river near Taipei, BBC reported.
Several people were reportedly injured following the domestic flight’s crash. Taiwan’s Central News Agency broadcast footage of the plane almost submerged in the Keelung river.
Contact with the ATR-72 flight, from Taipei to Kinmen, was lost at about 11 a.m. The plane was found in the river.
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Kevin Costner can’t imagine what Bobbi Kristina Brown’s family must be going through, and expressed he was really sad about the whole news.
The 21-year-old daughter of late Whitney Houston, who’s been fighting for her life after she collapsed unconscious in a bathtub just like her mother, has been put in medically induced coma with reports saying that with the brain function decreased, her chances survival are slim, News.com.au reported.
A China-based elderly woman has woken up from a two-week coma, after suffering a stroke, speaking perfect English, but not a word of her native language.
Ninety-four-year-old Liu Jieyu formerly worked as an English teacher, but her family insists that she had not spoken the language for more than 30 years, the Daily Star reported.
Defending his party against the Hawala allegations, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday threw an open challenge to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, saying he should be sent to jail right away if he had done anything wrong.
“I challenge our Finance Minister, if I have indulged in money laundering he should take action against me and arrest me right now. And I want to tell Kiran Bedi, look into my eyes and tell me I have done something wrong,” said Kejriwal.
Filmmaker Prabhu Solomon, whose last Tamil outing “Kayal” failed to hit the bull’s eye, will team up with actor Dhanush in a yet-untitled action entertainer. It is set to be a big budget project.
Sathya Jyothi Films’ T.G. Thyagarajan “is happy to announce the coming together of Solomon with Dhanush for their upcoming motion picture. It will be a big budget action entertainer that will appeal to all sections of audiences”, a statement said.
The rest of the film’s cast will be finalised soon.
North Korea today appeared to rule out any resumption of dialogue with the United States, threatening to react to any US “war of aggression” with nuclear strikes and cyber warfare.
The statement from the country’s top military body, the National Defence Commission (NDC), came after reported moves by Washington and Pyongyang to revive long-stalled six-nation talks on denuclearisation.
The NDC said recent comments from President Barack Obama had revealed that the United States’ goal was to “bring down” North Korea.