The Narendra Modi government might witness expansion of the Cabinet and soon will see new faces before the start of second half of the Budget Session scheduled on April 20. Sources claimed that a few non-performing ministers may be kicked off the cabinet.
The expansion and reshuffle exercise of the Cabinet will take place after the two day national executive meeting of the BJP, starting on April 3 in Bengaluru.
A 55-year-old woman died, while her husband and son were injured after their neighbours allegedly beat them up with iron rods and sticks in Telangana’s Ranga Reddy district, police said on Tuesday.
K Ashayya and K Laxmaiah have been apprehended for allegedly beating their neighbour T Mogalamma, her husband T Bithcaiah and son T Narahari with iron rods and sticks last night at Mominpet area in the district, over a minor dispute, police said.
Iran has categorically dismissed as “sheer lies” allegations of weapons and ammunition delivery to Yemen.
“Claims about the dispatch of weapons from the Iran to Yemen are completely fabricated and sheer lies,” Press TV quoted Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Marzieh Afkham as saying on Tuesday.
“Such claims can never justify the military attack on Yemen,” she added.
The official said that Iran has so far dispatched consignments of medical aid and health products to the Arab country.
The government of Andhra Pradesh, the National University of Singapore and the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) signed an MoU on Tuesday to work on the ‘ease of doing business in Andhra Pradesh’.
The MoU was signed on the second and last day of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s visit to Singapore.
The agreement is for cooperation in relation to preparing a Masterplan on the ease of doing business in Andhra Pradesh and related activities.
The duration of the MoU is from April 1, 2015 to March 3, 2018, according to a statement from the chief minister’s office here.
Alabama resident Kyesha Smith Wood’s apology through a public post on Facebook for her daughter and stepdaughter’s bad behaviour at a movie theatre has garnered much appreciation from all quarters.
When Kyesha Smith Wood learned that her daughter and stepdaughter reportedly were disruptive at a recent movie screening, she issued a public Facebook apology for their “rude and obnoxious” behaviour, Today.com reported.
According to Wood’s March 28 Facebook post, her public social media message was a “long shot” to apologise to a woman who’d asked the girls to quiet down.
Justin Bieber’s on-off relationship with pop star Selena Gomez ended last October and the singer is now focusing on improving himself rather than being with someone else.
“At this point in my life I’m so focused on myself that I’m not looking for a girlfriend. I’m just trying to make sure I’m 100 percent so I can add to the person I want to be with. I want a girl I can trust, who I can lean on. This business is hard, and I want someone I can confide in,” Bieber told usatoday.com.
Low family income can affect the brain development of children, new research says.
The study, led by researchers at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and Columbia University Medical Centre (CUMC), was published online in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
“While in no way implying that a child’s socio-economic circumstances lead to immutable changes in brain development or cognition, our data suggest that wider access to resources likely afforded by the more affluent may lead to differences in a child’s brain structure,” said Elizabeth Sowell from CHLA.
An Indian American woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison following her conviction last month for of female foeticide.
A judge in South Bend, Indiana, announced the sentence on Monday, Public Radio International (PRI) online reported.
Purvi Patel, 33, comes from a family of Indian immigrants who settled in Granger, Indiana, a suburb of South Bend.
Entry tickets to museums, zoo and tiger reserves would become cheaper, while business class air travel, investment in MFs and chit funds would become expensive with some of the service tax proposals announced in the Budget coming into effect from Wednesday.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had came out with a host of proposals last month to rationalise service tax, which is levied at an effective rate of 12.36 percent.
A bank officer was arrested by an anti-corruption team for allegedly accepting bribe from a farmer to increase the credit limit of his Kisan credit card in Gandwar area here, police said on Tuesday.
Pankaj Srivastava, an officer of Poorvanchal Bank, was arrested yesterday while taking a bribe of Rs 4,000 from Mukesh, a farmer, to extend the credit limit of his Kisan credit card from Rs 60,000 to Rs 80,000, they said.
A case has been registered against Srivastava, police said.
–PTI
In yet another crackdown, a court in China has sentenced a Muslim couple for practicing their religious belief.
A 38-year-old Muslim man was sentenced to six years in prison for growing a beard, a practice discouraged by local authorities, whereas his wife was given a two-year sentence for wearing a veil.
The man “had started growing his beard in 2010″ whereas his wife “wore a veil hiding her face and a burqa”.
According to local officials, the Kashgar couple had “received several warnings” before being charged.
Out-of-favour India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh has appealed to the cricket fans to respect Test captain Virat Kohli and his actress girlfriend Anushka Sharma’s personal lives.
Anushka, who was in attendance at the Sydney Cricket Ground during India’s World Cup semifinal against Australia, was blamed for Kohli’s failure in the match which the team lost by 95 runs.
“To all our real Indian fans who support us in our wins and loses ! Let’s respect @imVkohli and @AnushkaSharma personal life,” Yuvraj wrote on his twitter handle.
The central govt has nodded the head to Pextend the required financial, technical and other assistance to the state government to provide 24X7 power supply to consumers, after including Telangana in the central government’s ‘Power For All’ scheme.
After including Andhra Pradesh in ‘Power for All’ scheme, the Telangana government too urged the Centre to include it in the scheme, saying it is also facing shortage of power.
Jayanti Gohil (57) an accused in 2002 Best Bakery case, who was also allegedly involved in Ajmer blast case in 2007 passed away after a long ailment and heart attack in Arthur Road Central Jail in Mumbai on the night of Sunday.
Vadodara Court has acquitted him in 2004 in Best Bakery case but had disappeared when the trail started again in Mumbai. Later NIA arrested him and was handed over to Maharashtra ATS in 2013.
There was a time, not very long ago — one year short of 30, to be precise — when only a Christian was chosen to go to Punjab to fight what then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi termed “the nation’s battle” against separatists. I had accepted a “demotion” from secretary in the Union home ministry to DGP of the state of Punjab at the personal request of the prime minister.
Criticising the ruling TRS government for “delaying” elections to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), the Telangana BJP on Tuesday demanded early conduct of the polls.
“The Telangana government through an affidavit has informed the Hyderabad High Court that it will take 249 days to complete the necessary procedures to hold elections to the GHMC,” BJP state president and MLA G Kishan Reddy, told reporters here.
The Gujarat Assembly on Tuesday passed the controversial Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organized Crime Bill 2015 that makes confessions before police admissible in court.
The bill that aims to empower law enforcing authorities to intercept and record phone calls as evidence was earlier returned by two presidents to the state government for reconsideration.
The bill also puts the onus of proving the innocence on an accused.
As many as 98 pc girls from SC and ST studying in junior colleges complained that they were discriminated against and mocked at by their teachers mainly due to caste factor, in a study conducted by MV Foundation, an NGO dedicated to child rights.
“We have conducted the study at the individual and family levels, and took into consideration school experiences and infrastructural factors, said M Vikram, secretary-trustee of MV Foundation at a press conference here on Monday.
“We have mainly Focused on different obstacles faced by girls in pursuing higher education,” he said.
Realty firm Godrej Properties today said it has entered into a new deal to develop a housing project at Bengaluru.
The proposed project will offer about 79,000 square metres (0.85 million sq ft) of saleable area.
“Godrej Properties, the real estate development arm of the Godrej Group, has entered into a new deal to develop a residential project at Whitefield in Bengaluru,” the Mumbai-based developer said in a statement.
As with most Godrej Properties’ projects, this project will be developed under a profit-sharing model.
Saudi Arabia has assured India full assistance in safe evacuation of Indians stranded in strife-hit Yemen as Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh flew to Djibouti on Tuesday to oversee evacuation efforts.
Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday night and assured him of his “full attention to the safety of Indians in Yemen and all possible assistance for their early and safe evacuation”.
Bollywood diva Deepika Padukone’s women empowerment video ‘My Choice’ has landed in a Twitter controversy for advocating sex outside marriage.
In the video, the actress is heard saying that it is a women’s choice to have sex outside marriage.
This statement has not gone down well with many and the irked viewers took to Twitter to condemn the actress for encouraging adultery.
Defending an under-fire Virat Kohli, Indian cricket Team Director Ravi Shastri today said the swashbuckling batsman’s ordinary run in the World Cup had nothing to do with his actress-girlfriend Anushka Sharma’s presence and to call it that is “utter nonsense”.
“If it was so, Virat wouldn’t have got 700 runs and smashed four centuries in Tests in Australia. His work ethics is as good as any I have seen. His heart beats for India. It’s a pedigree you don’t see often. And to tell you the truth, he isn’t a finished article yet,” Shastri told PTI.
Custom officers of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamsabad, arrested a man and seized 400 gms gold from his possession. According to details a man from Tamil Nadu reached Rajiv Gandhi International Airport from Singapore on Monday, where custom officers recovered 400 gm gold from his possession during routine search. The man was arrested.
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Five inmates escaped from the high-security Nagpur Central Prison here in the wee hours Tuesday, police said.
According to initial reports, the jail break took place between 2 am and 4 am. The escapees include three MCOCA accused and an arms case convict, police said.
They were identified as Bisen Singh from Seoni (MP) besides Mohammad Saleb Salim and Satyendra Gupta, who were facing MCOCA charges.
The others were Prem Nepali from Nepal who was detained under Section 425 (Arms Act) and Akash Golu (22) who was detained under Section 392 (Robbery).
Task Force police arrested two persons on Monday for making fake education certificates at Kanchanbagh and Santoshnagar. Police seized several fake mark sheets for various courses affiliated to Osmania University, and also fake memos for SSC and Board of Intermediate.
The accused Qutubuddin Khan and Abdul Khadeer, the owner of a photocopy centre and the other is a private tutor. Based on the information given by Khadeer, police arrested Khan from his house at Santoshnagar. They also seized a desktop, a colour printer-cum-scanner, 30 fake stamps of various universities from the culprits.