A national workshop for academicians and media was organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Study Centre in New Delhi on March 27 and 28.
The workshop was attended by delegates from all chapters of the study centre across India and many invitees from the media and educational institutions.
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Sunday asked Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to reassure the people about the factual position and dismiss the rumours of fresh floods in the valley.
The former chief minister via Twitter said that the authorities should reassure the people.
“The poor residents of Srinagar must be absolutely terrified. Time for the authorities to reassure them,” he tweeted.
“From all the info I’ve been able to gather we are still a few feet below the danger mark but people are scared and rumours flying,” he added.
Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar presented the Player of the Match and Player of the Series awards at the closing ceremony of the 2015 World Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) here on Sunday.
Australia defeated trans-Tasman rivals and co-hosts New Zealand by seven wickets to clinch their fifth World Cup trophy.
All-rounder James Faulkner was named the Player of the Match for his figures of 9-1-36-3. The pacer took the key wickets of Ross Taylor, Grant Elliott and Corey Anderson.
Actress Angelina Jolie made her first post-surgery appearance when she attended the Kids’ Choice Awards, where she won the award for Favourite Villain for her role in “Maleficent”.
The 39-year-old was joined by daughters Zahara, 10, and Shiloh, 8, for the big event, where she was also up for the favourite actress award. But she lost out to Emma Stone, reports people.com.
Jolie made headlines earlier this week when on Tuesday she announced that she had her ovaries and fallopian tube removed in mid-March, after her doctors told her that she was showing early signs of cancer.
A day after it acted against dissident leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, the AAP on Sunday decided to set up a new internal Lokpal and a disciplinary committee.
The decision was taken at a meeting held at Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal’s residence.
“We have taken four decisions. A new internal Lokpal consisting of three members and a disciplinary committee will be formed,” party leader Pankaj Gupta told reporters.
The Centre will work with the state governments to raise the compensation limit for farmers affected by unseasonal rains and hailstorms, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today.
“The Prime Minister is deeply concerned about the loss to the farmers…. The government would raise the compensation limit to help the farmers whose crops have been affected by rain and hailstorm,” Jaitley said while interacting with farmers in Timeli, one of the worst affected villages, about 65 km from district headquarters.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India in its latest report has rapped Jammu and Kashmir government for poor infrastructure and lack of basic facilities for the police force in the state.
The government auditor came hard against the state’s ‘negligence’ towards police department as it revealed that 18 police stations and 103 police posts were operating without ‘own’ buildings.
The Government of India has released about Rs 385 Crore to Andhra Pradesh and Rs 150 Crore to Telangana as part of the 13th Finance Commission Recommendations.
For Andhra Pradesh, Rs 26 crore were released towards implementation of statistical system, Rs 298.8259 crore for PRI/ULB/Special Area, Rs 49.99 crore for A.C.A (for other project) and Rs 33.50 crore for State Specific New.
For Telangana, an amount of Rs 73.10 crore was released for PRI/ULB/Spl Area and Rs 76.77 crore towards grant for PRI/ULB/Spl Area, according to the Union Finance Ministry. (INN)
Filmmaker Bobby Khan, who roped in Sunny Leone for his movie ‘Ek Paheli Leela’, says many known actors refused to work in it because of the presence of the Indo-Canadian adult film star.
Khan told IANS: “Many big actors and known faces were approached for the film. They loved the script, but they refused it because Sunny belongs from the porn industry. It was very sad that many actors refused to do this film.”
After working with Sunny, Khan vouches for her professionalism.
UP minister Azam Khan, known for his frequent barbs against the Prime Minister, surprised MLAs from all parties with unusual ‘gifts’ of a broom and a pen along with a letter asking them to decide which among the two can take on the evils in the society.
“I am giving two gifts (pen and broom). You all should decide which one could eradicate sins in the society and which reminds you that you can not treat the society only by slogans,” he said.
Khan’s gift is seen as a covert attak on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has given slogan for ‘Swacch Bharat Abhiyan’.
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Germany next month, a ‘Make in India’ fortnight has been held near here which included a series of events highlighting initiatives to make India a preferred investment destination.
The Indian Consulate in Frankfurt, in close cooperation with the city authorities of Cologne, about 190 kilometres from here, organised a grand road show on Friday which was the concluding event of the ‘Make in India’ fortnight series.
UP minister Azam Khan, known for his frequent barbs against the Prime Minister, surprised MLAs from all parties with unusual ‘gifts’ of a broom and a pen along with a letter asking them to decide which among the two can take on the evils in the society.
“I am giving two gifts (pen and broom). You all should decide which one could eradicate sins in the society and which reminds you that you can not treat the society only by slogans,” he said. Khan’s gift is seen as a covert attak on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has given slogan for ‘Swacch Bharat Abhiyan’.
He doesn’t enthrall with his willow anymore but Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar got one of the loudest cheers at the presentation ceremony of the ICC World Cup final as he shared the stage with administrative bigwigs.
Tendulkar was the biggest name on dais during the presentations after Australia beat New Zealand by seven wickets to lift their fifth World Cup trophy, this time under the retiring Michael Clarke.
The much-talked-about merger of Janata Parivar could be announced next week as most of the major issues have been ironed out, JD(U) today said.
“The merger is bound to happen and it will happen sooner than later,” JD(U) president Sharad Yadav told PTI.
Mualyam Singh Yadav, whose party has the largest number of MPs in Parliament among this group, will be the chairman of the new umbrella party, the sources said.
In the Lok Sabha, the SP has five members, RJD-four, and JD-U, JD (S) and INLD two each. In total they have 15 members in the Lower House.
The much-talked-about merger of Janata Parivar could be announced next week as most of the major issues have been ironed out, JD(U) on Sunday said. “The merger is bound to happen and it will happen sooner than later,” JD(U) president Sharad Yadav told PTI.
Four-time Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel got back to winning ways as he outclassed reigning champion Lewis Hamilton to win the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Vettel, who moved to Ferrari this year from Red Bull as Fernando Alonso ‘s replacement, won a strategic battle as Mercedes struggled with tyres in the scorching heat. Hamilton’s teammate Nico Rosberg was third from Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, who fought back from an early puncture.
Both the McLarens drivers, Alonso and Jenson Button, retired from the race, the BBC reported.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Gopal Rai on Sunday said that Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were removed from the party’s national disciplinary committee as they were too ‘violent’.
“We have decided to form a National Disciplinary Committee and revive the Lokpal Committee. They (Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav) were removed because they were violent,” he said.
Earlier in the day, the AAP decided to form a new Lokpal Committee and a National Disciplinary Committee to oversee the party’s affairs.
Kedidja, 29-year-old, a heavily pregnant has been hospitalised in France after being attacked by two men on Tuesday morning. She is the nine-months-pregnant woman who is due to give birth in mid-April.
She suffered the attack only because she was wearing the hijab or Muslim headscarf.
As she dropped her two children off at school in the French city of Toulouse, one of the attackers hit her several times and threw her to the ground, according to La Depeche reports.
A UFO conspiracy theorist Clark McClelland who had claimed to be a NASA veteran, has said that he saw a nine-foot alien on the space shuttle.
McClelland has maintained the truth of his story, despite being dismissed by skeptics, as ‘delusional’ and never having worked with NASA, the Mirror reported.
Arab coalition warplanes targeting Iran-backed rebels bombed the runway at the Yemeni capital’s international airport and killed 15 pro-rebel troops elsewhere in Sanaa, military and aviation sources said today.
On the fourth night of raids against Shiite rebels and allied troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, Saudi-led strikes paralysed the airport in the rebel-controlled capital.
Terming spending on education as abysmally low at 3% of GDP, eminent industry leader Deepak Parekh today called for “aggressive” investments by the government as well as corporates in the sector, saying it is the key to unlock India’s demographic dividend.
Australia today clinched the coveted ICC Cricket World Cup for the fifth time, thrashing New Zealand by seven wickets to provide a perfect farewell gift to skipper Michael Clarke, who played a key role with a 74-run knock in his final ODI appearance.
After the bowlers produced a clinical performance skittling out New Zealand for 183, the stage was set for the Australian captain, who used the platform to the fullest with a stylish 72-ball innings as the hosts regained the trophy winning the match in 33.1 overs — ending an eight-year wait.
“Why?” was the question that Dibakar Banerjee asked himself while embarking on the journey of adapting “Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!” as the youthful, dhoti-clad crime solver in the politically volatile era of 1940s Calcutta.
Something of a childhood dream, his next film is his most ambitious and yet the most difficult project. The director, who has acquired the rights to Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s all Byomkesh stories, said his biggest motivation was the curiosity surrounding the unorthodox career choice of this young man in a time when jobs were rare to come by.
Amidst efforts by the NDA government to reach out to regional parties for securing their support for the controversial land Bill, JD(U) on Sunday said that no member of the Janata Parivar would support the proposed law in its present form.
Capital spending in India is likely to take 12 more months to start recovering as private companies have adopted a ‘Wait-And-See’ approach, says a report by global ratings agency Standard and Poor’s.
“We expect capital spending in India will continue to fall in fiscal 2016 despite its economy being one of the few bright spots in Asia-Pacific,” it said.
According to the report, corporates in capital-intensive sectors are mostly focusing on improving profitability and lowering leverage rather than looking at new projects.