To meet the growing challenges in waste water management, the Centre for Science and Environment organized a three-day seminar in New Delhi.
Several South Asian and African countries came together to discuss and share their experience in mainstreaming sustainable water management and possible solutions to treat waste water.
Researchers have found evidence that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a result of immunological dysfunction, meaning it is a biological illness and not a psychological disorder as commonly thought.
People with CFS or systemic exertion intolerance disease experience extreme fatigue and difficulty concentrating due to headaches and muscle pain.
Telangana government has released a budget of ₹ 48,02,96,000 for pre-matric scholarships to minority students. Besides this ₹1.48 Cr. will be released as assistance to Minority Finance Corporation.
Special Secretary Minority Welfare Telangana issued orders in this connection. ₹ 48 Cr. was sanctioned for pre-matric scholarship to minority students under central government scheme. Students who applied fresh and also those who applied for renewal will be paid scholarship.
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A drunken woman in Milton Keynes, England recently forced an entire movie theater to be evacuated during ’50 Shades Of Grey’ showing after she reportedly lost control of all of her bodily fluids.
The Cineworld showing had barely got underway when the unnamed women, believed to be under the influence of alcohol, started vomiting and pooping, the Mirror reported.
One disgruntled cinema-goer said that they all expected to see Christian Grey gag Anastasia as part of the plot, but they certainly didn’t expect to be gagging themselves because of the stench.
NASA administrator, Charles Bolden , paid a touching tribute to ‘Star Trek’ actor Leonard Nimoy, who recently died after suffering lung disease.
Bolden issued a statement which mentioned that Nimoy, who was known for his role as Spock in the original Star Trek series (1966-69), was an inspiration to multiple generations of engineers, scientists, astronauts, and other space explorers and as Mr. Spock, he made science and technology important to the story, while never failing to show.
The inaugural session of ‘one main dish and one sweet dish campaign’ will be held tomorrow at 10:30 am, at Masjid-e-Husaini, Vijay Nagar Colony. Siasat editor Mr. Zahed Ali Khan will patronize the campaign. Mr. Mohammed Mushtaq Malik President Tahreek Muslim Shabban will monitor.
The campaign is being launched keeping in view the extravagant weddings prevalent in the society and their ill effects on the society.
The organising Committee has appealed all parties, scholars, clerics, to support and make the campaign a success. People are requested to attend in large numbers.
Insisting that he was tired of hyphenated Americans, Louisiana’s Indian-American Republican Governor Bobby Jindal has accused the “politically correct crowd” of trying to turn the American “melting pot” into a “salad bowl”.
Jindal, who unlike other Indian-American politicians declines to embrace his ethnicity, dilated Friday on the need for new immigrants to adopt American culture and learn to speak English.
World No.1 Novak Djokovic defeated World No.8 Tomas Berdych in the smifinal, while second seed Roger Federer swept away the Dubai Duty Free Championship’s surprise candidate, 18-year-old Boris Coric in a short match here.
World No.2 Federer entered the Dubai open final first by winning 6-2, 6-1 over Croatia’s Coric early Friday afternoon amid cloudy, but warm weather in Dubai. Coric, nevertheless, gained ample recognition when he kicked out Englishman Andy Murray in the quarter-finals Thursday, a major surprise of the tournament, reports Xinhua.
Kristen Stewart has joined the untitled indie drama project of Kelly Reichardt alongwith Michelle Williams and Laura Dern.
The ‘Twilight’ star will play a young lawyer from Boise who takes a teaching job several hours from her house and despite her nerves about teaching and she is determined to prove to herself that she can do it, Deadline.com reported.
James Le Gros and Jared Harris from ‘Mad Men’, and relative newcomer Sara Rodier also have been cast in the ensemble project, which is being produced by Neil Kopp and Anish Savjani.
Jennifer Lawrence has slammed the rumor that she and director David O. Russell got involved in a spat on the sets of their upcoming movie ‘Joy’.
The ‘Hunger Games’ star shared a post on her Facebook page and wrote that she and the 56-year-old American film director were very good friend and she was having a great time shooting her third film with Russell, Us Magazine reported.
The 24-year-old actress added that she adores the ‘Three Kings’ director, and these rumors were simply non-sense.
Two U.S. experts on South Asian Affairs have said that a major terrorist attack in India can lead to a massive military assault on Pakistan that could result in a nuclear war in one of the world’s most populous regions.
According to Dawn News, George Perkovich and Ashley Tellis presented the scenario before the U.S. senate this week.
The US Senate along with the House of Representatives held some hearings this week to see to the budget of the Obama administration for 2016.
Batman’s fictional character Catwoman aka Selina Kyle has finally come out of the closet about her sexuality in the latest issue revealing that she is a bisexual.
In Catwoman #39, Kyle is the head of Gotham’s Calabrese crime family, and, on the brink of a mob war, shares a kiss with the woman currently in the Catwoman costume, Eiko Hasigaway, in a moment that promises that have major ramifications for both characters as the storyline progresses, Deadline.com reported.
The “cultural cleaning” by IS militants in Iraq that include destruction of artefacts and smashing of statues in a museum is a war crime, said the head of the United Nations agency for culture, Unesco.
According to BBC, Irina Bokova said that the video posted by IS militants showing smashing of statues in Mosul was “a real shock” and called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
Researchers have recently converted human skin cells into appetite controlling neurons for the first time ever, which might eventually provide obesity cure.
The study, led by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and at the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF), found that cells provided individualized model for studying obesity and testing treatments.
The real estate industry has sought more tax incentives and lower interest rates for the home buyers in the upcoming Budget to revive demand.
Besides, it sought infrastructure status for housing. Addressing a real estate conference organised by RICS, CREDAI President (Elect) Getamber Anand said the government should provide some fiscal incentives to the real estate developers to build affordable housing.
NAREDCO Chairman Naveen Raheja said: “There should be some stimulus for the home buyers in form of lower interest rates.”
Highlighting the need to ensure place for women in India’s socio-economic set up, the Economic Survey today said the government has to play a pro-active role to change the “patriarchal mindset” prevalent in the country.
“With women accounting for nearly 48 percent of India’s population (Census 2011), there is need to ensure and safeguard their place in the socio-economic milieu,” said the Survey for 2014-15, tabled in Parliament.
The Economic Survey has prescribed a ‘4-D model’ for the banking sector to face competition in the changed environment.
“Banking is hobbled by policy, which creates double financial repression, and by structural factors, which impede competition,” the Economic Survey 2014-15, tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, said.
A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), Saturday surged 213.71 points or 0.73 percent in the early session ahead of the Union Budget.
The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 56.85 points or 0.64 percent up at 8,901.45 points.
The Sensex of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 29,411.33 points, was trading at 29,433.83 points (at 9.15 a.m.) in the early session, up 213.71 points or 0.73 percent from the previous day`s close at 29,220.12 points.
Syeda Naima student VIII class and Syeda Naila students of VII D/O Syed Ikram Husain Physical Director got I prize and medals in National Handwriting Competition for 2014-15. The brilliant students were also selected for 100 percent attendance prize for the current academic year.
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Study Circle Tameer-e-Millat will hold a symposium on ‘Future target for Muslims’ on Sunday, March 1, at 10:30 am, at Gulshan-e-Khaleel, Mansaheb Tank. Mr. Mohammed Abdur Raheem Quraishi, President All India Majlis Tameer-e-Millat and Asst. Gen. Sec. All India Muslim Personal Law Board will preside over the symposium.
Messrs. Iqbal Ahmed Engineer, Ziauddin Nayyar vice president Iqbal Academy, Inamur Rahman Ghuyoor and others will address on the occasion.
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Mr. Mir Sadat Ali Khan president Overseas Friends of Hyderabad Forum Chicago and President American International Marketing has arrived in Hyderabad. Mr. Mir Sadat Ali Khan can be reached on phone no 9676947711.
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The annual prize distribution function of Urdu academy Jeddah will be held on Sunday, March 1, at 10 am, at Salarjung Auditorium, Hyderabad.
GR editor’s Note
There are no reports in the Western mainstream media pertaining to this issue.
This report is based on statements emanating from the Iraq parliament, with photographic evidence. We have not been in a position to corroborate this report by FARS News.
Iraq’s army has shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons for the ISIL terrorists in Al-Anbar province, a senior lawmaker disclosed on Monday.
US President Barack Obama will meet new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah Abdullah here on March 24, the White House said today.
This would be the first US visit of the new Afghan President after taking over from his predecessor Hamid Karzai last year.
Obama will host Ghani, Abdullah, and key members of their unity government for meetings and a working lunch at the White House.
Cuba said progress had been made in the second round of talks aimed at restoring long severed diplomatic ties with the United States, but cautioned that differences remained.
In a historic press conference in the State Department – the heart of US global diplomacy – the head of the Cuban delegation, Josefina Vidal, renewed a call for Havana to be removed from the US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism.
“We made progress in our discussions,” Vidal said yesterday after meeting with a US delegation led by the top US diplomat for Latin America, Roberta Jacobson.