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Southern composer Yuvan Shankar Raja says his father Illayaraja was never against his decision to convert to Islam, and subsequently marry a Muslim. He says the music maestro was neutral towards his conversion and marriage.
In 2014, Yuvan converted to Islam for unexplained reasons and married Jaffrunnisha earlier this year.
“My father was neutral towards my decision to convert to Islam and my third marriage. He couldn’t attend my wedding owing to the short notice and his work commitments. We were welcomed with open arms when I returned home after marriage,” Yuvan told IANS.
Parents of obese children may not be able to recognise that their kid is overweight unless they are at very extreme levels of obesity, new research led by an Indian-origin scientist shows.
Moreover, the study published in the British Journal of General Practice found that parents are additionally more likely to underestimate their child’s weight if they are Black or south Asian, from more deprived backgrounds or if their offspring is male.
The rupee fell by 17 paise to 62.58 against the US dollar in early trade today at the Interbank Foreign Exchange due to rise in the American currency’s value against other global currencies amid month-end demand for the dollar from importers.
Forex dealers attributed the fall in the rupee to the dollar’s strength against other global currencies and sustained capital outflows but a higher opening in the domestic stock market capped the rupee’s fall.
The rupee had recovered by 26 paise to end at 62.41 against the dollar on Friday.
The British Museum plans to open two new galleries for its Islamic artifacts.
Albukhary Foundation of Malaysia funded the undisclosed amount with the hopes to offset the image created by IS militants.
Acccording to Syed Mokhtar Albukhary, the foundation’s chairman, people should make more aware of the value of art and artefacts from the Islamic world, especially at the time the terrorist group known as ISIL destroying the Islamic heritage in Iraq.
“The British Museum … has been building this collection, without them we would not have any history,” Mokhtar told Reuters.
Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth rounded up a brilliant Sunday for Indian badminton winning their respective $275,000 India Open Superseries titles at the Siri Fort Sports Complex here.
Women’s singles top seed Saina Nehwal trumped former World Champion Ratchanok Intanon in the final to win 21-16, 21-14 in 49 minutes. Later, 22-year-old Srikanth had a contrasting victory but made sure that he made it a double for Indian badminton by defeating Danish World No.6 Viktor Axelsen 18-21, 21-13, 21-12 in 55 minutes.
A minor girl and her grandmother were killed while her father was seriously injured, after the two wheeler they were riding on was hit by a speeding truck.
The deceased were identified as three-year-old Dishu and her 50-year-old grandmother Roopwati, residents of Maadipur in west Delhi.
A senior police officer said that all the three injured were taken to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital where the girl and her grandmother was declared brought dead.
The police said that the three were heading towards home when the accident occurred at around 1 pm yesterday.
Several areas in North Kashmir are facing a flood-like situation due to the ongoing incessant rains in Jammu and Kashmir, the government said here today.
Giving details of the report on flood-like situation in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, the Minister for Relief and Rehabilitation Syed Basharat Bukhari informed the Legislative Assembly said that due to incessant rains, flood-like situation has arisen in various areas of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
A female elephant was today found dead in the army cantonment area here.
Elephant movement was noticed last night at Narangi Cantonment 222 Advance Base Ordnance Depot Area and all guard posts were warned to stop outside patrolling movements, a Defence Spokesman said.
At around 11 PM, Guard post No 5 heard a lot of noise and saw elephant herd movement in the area.
Early this morning during routine patrolling an army personnel noticed an elephant carcass entangled in broken electric wires probably causing it to be electrocuted, he said.
Local favourites Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth today gave double delight to the nation by clinching their maiden women and men’s singles titles at the India Open Super Series badminton tournament here today.
An independent lawmaker in Jammu and Kashmir today served an “ultimatum” to the government to curb the stray dog menace in the state failing which he would catch and drop five canines in the house of every minister.
“Dogs rule the roost in our area; people are scared to move out. I give you an ultimatum of four months to get rid of the stray dogs in the Valley,” Independent MLA from Langate assembly constituency Engineer Rashid said while participating in the debate over grants of power sector today.
Five primary processing or collection centres and pack houses would be set up in the state as part of the proposed Rs 140 crore multi-product mega food park in Ludhiana, officials today said.
The park would be set up by Punjab Agro Industries on 100 acres of land at Ladhowal.
Stating this here today, an official spokesperson said that Punjab has been growing rapidly in the area of food processing, which will definitely witness transformation in the current beleaguered agriculture sector in the state.
The country’s biggest contemporary art festival came to a close late this evening amid a last-day surge in visitors to its eight venues, as the second edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) reinforced India’s reputation in the global cultural circuit and bolstered this coastal city’s potential as a tourism destination.
AAP leader Ramzan Choudhary today filed a complaint with police over his alleged manhandling in the National Council meeting yesterday.
A probe has been initiated by the Kapashera police but an FIR is yet to be lodged.
“Choudhary claimed that he was manhandled and physically attacked by some unknown people. We have initiated a probe but are yet to file an FIR because he came to us more than 24 hours after the incident,” said a senior police officer.
The police said after a preliminary inquiry it would take a call on whether to register an FIR in the case or not.
The desk where Charles Dickens wrote ‘Great Expectations’ is finally on public display here thanks to a 780,000-pound grant.
The Charles Dickens Museum in London has been given the grant to buy the desk and chair, which has always been in private ownership.
They had been passed down through the Dickens family after his death in 1870, but were auctioned for the Great Ormond Street Charitable Trust in 2004.
Dickens used the desk in his final home in Gad’s Hill Place in Kent.
‘Our Mutual Friend’ and his unfinished novel ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ were also penned at the desk.
Andhra and Hyderabad made the Super League stage from South Zone after defeating Tamil Nadu and Goa respectively in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy here today.
Surprisingly, mighty Karnataka failed to advance in the competition after finishing third in the points table.
Karnataka collected three wins from five games, same as Hyderabad, who advanced on a better net run rate.
Andhra won four out of their five games.
The head of the UN’s Ebola fighting force today warned against complacency as the fight against the disease entered its final lap, hailing Guinea for tightening surveillance.
Mauritanian Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed’s comments came a day after Guinea announced a health emergency in five regions in the south-west and west for 45 days.
Since the Ebola outbreak began in Guinea in December 2013, more than 24,000 people in nine countries have been infected with the virus, and over 10,000 of them have died. All but a handful of those deaths have occurred in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea today, US seismologists said, with “hazardous” tsunami waves possible in areas near the epicentre although no major damage was immediately reported.
The quake hit at a depth of 33 kilometres, some 55 kilometres from the nearest city of Kokopo on New Britain island and 787 kilometres from the capital Port Moresby, the United States Geological Survey said.
BJP on Sunday claimed it has emerged as the largest party in the world with a membership strength of 8.8 crores, surpassing the Communist Party of China which has 8.6 crore members.
According to BJP leaders, the membership of BJP has touched 8.8 crores as of tonight and it might surpass the 10-crore target set by party president Amit Shah.
The ambitious online membership drive of the party was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 1 last year by becoming its first member after dialing a mobile telephone number.
CPI today charged the BJP led NDA government with trying to divide the country along religious lines by “terrorising” minorities and unleashing “cultural terrorism” against artists and historians and said the party would never tolerate or accept it.
The 34th Formation Day of the Telugu Desam Party was celebrated here at a grand function with party leaders offering rich tributes to TDP founder and former Chief Minister N T Rama Rao.
TDP president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu led party leaders in paying homage to the party’s founder at NTR Ghat.
Naidu and other senior leaders from both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh earlier participated in the party flag hoisting at NTR Bhavan. They also offered garlands as a mark of respect to NTR. Naidu also cut a cake to mark the occasion.
A man cannot be convicted on charges of instigating his wife to commit suicide just because he criticised her for being dark, ruled the Madras High Court here today.
Justice M Sathyanarayanan of Madurai bench, allowing a petition filed by Paramasivam against a lower court order, said “criticising the wife for being dark in colour does not amount to harassment or torture, and it cannot be said that the husband instigated the wife to commit suicide”. The Judge acquitted him from the charges.
The petitioner Paramasivam’s wife Sudha was found dead on September 12, 2001.
Just four percent of emergency work in Syria for Palestinians has been funded so far this year, threatening the viability of a cash assistance program that UNRWA spokesman Christopher Gunness described today as a “lifeline” for refugees.
He said the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees needs around USD 415 million, of which USD 250 million would fund its cash program which provides cash distributions for roughly half a million Palestinian refugees affected by the war in Syria.
The Barkatullah University, Bhopal, in a prelude to explore the possibility of opening up a campus in Afghanistan, has signed a ‘Letter of Intent’ with the neighbouring country’s Shaikh Zayed University.
After the ‘Letter of Intent, we have plans to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shaikh Zayed University (SZU) for academic exchange, Vice Chancellor, Barkatullah University (BU), Prof M D Tiwari told PTI today.
The LoI was signed with Afghanistan Ambassador to India Shaida Mohammed Abdali here yesterday.
Echoing Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s views on the ODI four-fielder rule, Australian captain Michael Clarke today said he would like to have five fielders outside the 30-yard circle as it gives the bowlers more of a chance.
Clarke, who had a dream last day in ODI cricket after leading Australia to their fifth 50-over World Cup title at the MCG, had said that he would express his views on playing conditions, once the finals are over, and when the question was repeated today, he didn’t disappoint.