An engineering student committed suicide at Meerpet on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The victim Anand Sai Reddy, 22, was a BTech third year student of Vardhaman College of Engineering in Shamshabad and a resident of Lalitha Nagar in Meerpet.
According to police Sai was depressed over his chronic illness and poor performance in studies committed suicide at his house in the early hours of Sunday.
Delhi Police on Monday said that it is working on definite clues to solve the case in which Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Bharat Singh and two of his personal security officers were shot at in Delhi’s Najafgarh area.
Prepaid mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeastern states will be allowed to continue for two more years from Wednesday in a decision on Monday by the government that will benefit the existing 33 million subscribers there.
The licence of the telecom operators for providing pre-paid services in these areas expires on Tuesday. A high-level committee headed by Union Home Secretary LC Goyal discussed the matter after which it was decided to give the nod for continuance of these pre-paid services, official sources said.
Jamie Foxx was criticized by his fans, for poking fun at Bruce Jenner’s recent transition from man to a woman while hosting iHeartRadio Awards.
The ‘Annie’ actor was slammed by people on Twitter that he shouldn’t be allowed to host the show as he was rude and that he should grow up and need to be learned how to talk, Us Magazine reported.
Foxx introduced Jenner on the stage and intentionally fumbled on whether to call him or her and didn’t even stop there he added that he was just busting the former athlete’s balls while he still could. (ANI)
The Beatles former member Ringo Starr has expressed his regret over the band’s failure to reunite after their split in 1970.
The famous English drummer said that they still had the songs that they could play together, but things didn’t work out well and they never had a reunion and he felt shameful about it, the Daily Express reported.
The 74-year-old drummer added that Sir Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison were bad at communicating with each other post-split, when there was a ray of hope that the reunion could happened.
A new research has found that parents usually misunderstand their healthy child is an obese child or not and ignore the official parameters.
The research led by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explained that parents from deprived backgrounds underestimate their child’s weight if they are Black or south Asian (v white), or if their child is male.
The research suggested that public health interventions for obesity in children was important to fill the gap between the parental perceptions and official guidelines
The government has rejected BP’s application for selling ATF, saying its expenditure in India so far does not qualify it to get a fuel retailing license, but has allowed it to apply afresh with more details.
The Petroleum Ministry, earlier this month, wrote to Europe’s second-largest oil company, saying its USD 477 million investment in India till date does not qualify it to begin selling jet fuel to airlines, a senior Oil Ministry official said.
Noted historian Irfan Habib has rubbished critics of Mahatma Gandhi, including some western authors, saying their criticism is not based on history. “The amount of criticism heaped on the Mahatma, especially in the last few months, was simply not based on history,” Habib said while delivering a lecture on “Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian Nation” last evening.
Facing opposition flak for supporting Centre’s controversial Land bill in the Lok Sabha, ruling AIADMK on Monday denied that the legislation was against the welfare of people and insisted that party chief Jayalalithaa will not back any move which is inimical to people’s interests.
Chief Minister O Panneerselvam reiterated Jayalalithaa’s statement that the party had supported the Narendra Modi government’s land bill only after its suggested amendments against land acquisition for private hospitals and colleges were accepted by the union government.
Depleted by the unavailability of some key players including skipper Aditya Tare, Mumbai selectors on Monday named Sufiyan Shaikh to lead the team in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament’s inter-zonal league cum knock out rounds to be held from April 1-7 in Cuttack.
Mumbai cricket: MCA yet to decide Pravin Amre’s future as Mumbai coach
Akhil Herwadkar has been named as deputy to wicket keeper batsman Shaikh, according to the team announced by Mumbai Cricket Association’s joint secretary Nitin Dalal.
New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum has played down the sledging leveled against his teammates by Australia during the just-concluded World Cup final in Melbourne.
Australia lifted their fifth World Cup title following their seven-wicket win over New Zealand on Sunday, however, the sledging left a blemish in their celebrations.
Sledger-in-chief Haddin was seen giving a few words to Martin Guptill after Glenn Maxwell dismissed the New Zealand opener for 15.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has asked the Army to provide logistic support, in terms of men and machinery, to the civil administration to effectively counter the flood situation in the Valley.
The direction to this effect was issued during a review meeting chaired by Sayeed here last evening. The army representative assured the Chief Minister that the Army will provide all required support to the government to tackle the imminent threat of floods, an official spokesman said.
A 27-year-old Bangladeshi blogger was today hacked to death by three machete-wielding suspected Islamists with two of them being arrested here, a month after a prominent American writer was killed in a similar manner.
Washiqur Rahman Mishu was stabbed to death in broad day light in Tejgaon Industrial area of Dhaka this morning.
“He died on the spot as the assailants attacked him with machetes…Doctors declared him dead when he was brought to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital,” a police official told PTI.
Bollywood actor Salman Khan, center, is escorted by policemen to a court in Jodhpur, India, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. PTI photo
Ashok Singh, the family driver of Bollywood star Salman Khan, today told the sessions court here that it was he and not the actor who was driving at the time of the 2002 hit-and-run accident in which one person was killed and four others were injured.
Expressing delight over her father Lal Krishna Advani and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee being honoured with the Padma Vibhushan and Bharat Ratna awards respectively in the same year, Pratibha Advani on Monday said that their team in the politics of this country would always be remembered.
“I have seen them both working together as a team and it’s always talked about that Atal-Advani team in the politics of the country will always be remembered. I am happy that both got it together in the same year,” she told ANI.
‘The seduction of Delhi’, a poetry book authored by Indian poet diplomat Abhay K, released at the beginning of this year at Jaipur Literature Festival has made it to the best seller.
The book contains poems on historic cities of Delhi such as Purana Qila, Feroz Shah Kotla, Shahjahanabad as well as modern landmarks such as Khan Market, Connaught Place, South Block, Shashtri Bhawan, Lodhi Garden, Nehru Park and Jawaharlal Nehru University among others.
In the 2002 hit-and-run case, accused actor Salman Khan’s driver Ashok Singh has come forward to give his statement to the court which may provide relief to the actor.
He has testified in the court that he was driving the car on that ill-fated night and not Salman when the tyre burst and he lost control of the car.
Few days back, the 49 year-old actor had said in the court that a false statement was registered against him. He denied that he was drunk and he was not driving when the accident happened.
A new report has shown that an unusually high number of students are suspected of cheating during the most recent term at Stanford University, putting faculty members and administrators of the prestigious institution on alert.
University Provost John Etchemendy sent a letter to faculty highlighting an unusually high number of troubling allegations of academic dishonesty that stem from a smattering of concerns from a number of winter courses, Fox News reported.
Etchemendy said students were cheating themselves and risk severe consequences.
Tom Cruise, who has earned a name for doing his own stunts in his movies, continued the tradition in fifth franchise of ‘Mission: Impossible’ as well.
The stunt co-ordinator strapped the American actor to the outside of an A400M military airbus, which took off at the steepest angle possible, then sped up to a terrifying 160 knots, the New York Post reported.
Wade Eastwood, the movie’s stunt co-ordinator and Cruise’s friend asserted that Cruise stomps his feet and fights for it and told the studio that basically if they did not let him, he was not going to do the movie.
Chief Justice of India Justice H L Dattu appears firm on going ahead with the conference of high court chief justices beginning in New Delhi on Good Friday, notwithstanding opposition from the Christian community.
“Good Friday”, the day of crucification of Jesus Christ and a pious day for Christians universally, is a declared holiday in the country, and the community has urged for a rethink on the issue of having a conference on such a day. The CJI is slated to inaugurate the three-day conference on April 3.
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Agar Haa…………….
Toh Type Kijiye …..
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(girlfriend ka Naam)”
Aur
Send are apni wife ko
Kasam se Life Mein
hungama Machh Jayega…..
Train services and road traffic were disrupted, vehicles damaged and shops forcibly closed at several places in Bihar today during a 24-hr Bihar bandh called by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
The bandh was called to protest police lathicharge and firing during ABVP’s ‘Vidhan Sabha march’ on March 26, in which several ABVP members were injured.
ABVP members assembled in the Patna University area of the state capital today and forced suspension of classes, closure of university offices and other educational institutions in the area.
If you want to have a longer life, make sure to have that bowl of cereal in the morning, as new study has indicated that cereal fiber are potentially protective component for a longer and healthy life.
The Harvard School of Public Health research, which included over 367,000 AARP members, aged 50 to 71 years, from 6 states and two large cities, found that people who had a diet rich in cereal fiber in the morning, lived longer as compared to those who didn’t, the CNN reported.
Splashing water on the dreams of private management, the Telangana government has decided not to allow any new college to come up in the next academic year.
The Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) believes there are more than the requisite numbers of colleges in the State. According to its records, over 300 new degree colleges came up in the State without meeting the criteria set by the govt.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran Lal Krishna Advani on Monday said that he was overwhelmed by the Padma Vibhushan award given to him for his service to the nation, but added that those in government should ensure that such awards are given in time.