A cartoonist who designed the front page of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, said he will no longer draw the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), media reported on Thursday.
The magazine’s office in Paris was attacked on January 7. The two Islamaist attackers — Cherif and Said Kouachi — killed at least 12 people including its chief editor.
Renald Luzier has told French magazine ‘Inrocks’ that drawing Mohammad(PBUH) “no longer interests me”.
In a shocking incident, a 14-year-old girl died and her mother was seriously injured in Punjab after they were forced to jump out of a moving to prevent getting molested.
The incident took place yesterday night on the Moga-Bhatinda highway, near Moga city. The 35-year-old woman, wife of a marginal farmer, was travelling with her daughter and son in a AC bus operated by Orbit Bus Service – allegedly owned by the family of Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal – when some youths started to harass the girl.
Leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has said that his recent visit to India has reassured him that the country is in “safe hands”.
The Caparo Group chairman met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leading members of the political establishment, including human resource development minister Smriti Irani and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje, during a visit to New Delhi last week.
The concept of marital rape cannot be applied in India where marriage is considered as a “sacrament”, government said on Wednesday, adding there is no proposal to make it a criminal offence.
“It is considered that the concept of marital rape, as understood internationally, cannot be suitably applied in the Indian context due to various factors, including level of education, illiteracy, poverty, myriad social customs and values, religious beliefs, mindset of the society to treat the marriage as a sacrament,etc,” Minister of State for Home, Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said.
Pakistan’s “sincere” desire for good neighbourly ties with India have not been “reciprocated”, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said, ascribing the continuing deadlock in bilateral talks to a “frivolous” issue.
Sharif told the Saudi Gazette in an interview during a recent visit that he took an “exceptional decision” to accept an invitation to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s oath-taking ceremony but India did not respond to his peace overtures.
Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi arrived Nagpur for a day-long ‘padyatra’ to highlight the agrarian crisis in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, where several farmers have committed suicide.
Rahul was accorded a grand welcome by party activists, including women, who shouted slogans hailing him.
The Congress leader landed at the Nagpur Airport around 10 pm, about 40 minutes behind schedule, even as a stampede-like situation prevailed outside the airport with party workers jostling each other to greet him.
IGATE’s acquisition by French rival Capgemini will make its CEO Ashok Vemuri richer by over USD 19 million (about Rs 120 crore).
Yesterday, the French IT services company had said it would buy IGATE for USD 4 billion in an all-cash deal.
Both the firms in a joint statement said Capgemini would offer USD 48 for every IGATE share as part of the merger agreement, which was 4.7 per cent more than the New Jersey-based firm’s Friday stock closing price of USD 45.85 on the Nasdaq.
Windows 10 is the new generations of windows build for the new era of personal computers for variety of devices, which would open up an altogether “new vista” of internet user experience for people across the globe, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said today.
Microsoft “Edge” is the new web browser announced by the company for Windows 10, which its exponents claimed would give a new experience to millions of internet users.
Opening up new vistas for the nearly 1.6 million strong developers community in India, which is the second largest in the world after the US, Microsoft has unveiled a set of software development kits (SDKs) to help them bring their code for the Web, .NET, Win32, Android and iOS to Windows 10.
The launch date for Windows 10 has not been announced yet, but is expected to be before the festival season this fall.
Wrapped under secretive ‘Project Spartan’ so far, Microsoft has unveiled future looking Edge as its new web browser, which would eventually replace the existing Internet Explorer.
Edge, Microsoft officials argued, is lighter and faster than Internet Explorer and comes with new features like a built-in notation tool, a distraction-free reading mode, and website information from Cortana, a personal voice-assistant app for Windows.
Less than 100 days after it informed to the world about its innovative HoloLens, Microsoft presented a live demonstration of what it called as the world’s first, and only, fully untethered holographic computer powered by Windows 10.
“That’s just magical stuff,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, told a house-full gathering of developers on the first day of the three-day annual Build 15 conference in San Francisco, after a scintillating live demonstration of the HoloLens, a headset that displays 3-D holograms in augmented reality.
German luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz today launched a campaign to emphasise awareness on road safety in India in association with its four group companies working in the country.
Named as ‘Safe Roads’, the campaign is a joint CSR initiative of Mercedes-Benz global headquarter and its group firms operating here, in which the message is spread through visual aids, physical demonstrations and research projects.
The benchmark BSE Sensex fell over 108 points in early trade today as stocks of IT, FMCG, metal, oil & gas and auto companies succumbed to profit-booking by speculators ahead of tomorrow’s monthly expiry in derivatives segment amid a weak trend at other Asian bourses.
The 30-share index declined by 108.97 points, or 0.39 per cent, to 27,287.41. The gauge had gained 219.39 points in the previous session.
In similar fashion, the National Stock Exchange index Nifty edged down by 33.40 points, or 0.40 per cent, to 8,252.20.
The benchmark BSE Sensex today fell by 170 points to 27,225.93, bogged down by heavy selling in heavyweights HDFC and Airtel on lower-than-expected earning numbers.
Ahead of April derivatives expiry tomorrow, the index was also bugged by persistent foreign fund outflows and delay in land acquisition bill, brokers said.
Shares of Bharti Airtel suffered the most among Sensex constituents by falling 3.32 per cent after company’s March quarter net profit failed to meet market expectations.
India is expected to clock a GDP growth of 8.4 per cent in the current financial year, spurred by policy reforms, fall in food inflation and lower fuel prices, says a Dun & Bradstreet report.
According to the research firm, the partial unclogging of domestic policy logjam, focus on public investments in infrastructure, fall in food inflation and lower fuel prices along with improving income growth is likely strengthen aggregate demand.
Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia have announced inclusion of a third gender category in all kinds of student application forms.
“It is notified for necessary compliance by all concerned that in all application forms to be submitted by students for different purposes, a third category as “others” will be added against “gender” of the students in addition to male/female,” DU Registrar said, in a communication to all department heads and college principals.
The varsity had last year announced inclusion of transgender in admission forms for post-graduate courses.
Jamia Millia Islamia has extended till May 4 the last date for submission of online application forms for admissions, in view of the earthquake in parts of India and Nepal.
“Keeping in view the earthquake that struck the Himalayan nation and parts of India and the scale of devastation, the university administration has decided to extend the last date of submission of application forms to enable students from affected parts of Nepal and India to complete the process of submission,” Jamia spokesperson Mukesh Ranjan said.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday faced two-pronged attack from the opposition over Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar’s alleged fake law degree and a Delhi Police report indicting its volunteers for instigating farmer Gajendra Singh to commit suicide in a rally by the party.
While BJP, led by Delhi Chief Satish Upadhyay, protested outside the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal demanding Tomar’s dismissal, Congress mocked AAP for failing to live up to the standards of even a “students union” in organising the rally that saw farmer’s death.
A Bengaluru airport CISF sub-inspector was today arrested here for allegedly subjecting his wife to cruelty, saying she was not beautiful, police said.
The accused, 32-year-old Sureshkumar hailing from Salem,was booked under IPC section 498A (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty), they said.
He got married to the woman in 2011. Some two years after his son’s birth, he was transferred to Bengaluru. He then refused to take her to Bengaluru, saying she was notbeautiful as per the complaint lodged with police.
Varthur lake, considered one of the biggest water bodies in the city, has been filled with a pile of froth after recent rains mixed with untreated sewage were let out into it, raising health concerns among people living nearby.
Such was the effect of this piled up froth that it spilled over to a road adjacent to the lake, causing hindrance to traffic movement on the busy road even as an unbearable stench hung in the air.
The national level road transport organisations have jointly called for a nation-wide day-long strike that began midnight last night in protest against the proposed new road transport bill.
The strike has been called jointly by both public and private sector workers which are affiliated to central trade unions like All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), BMS, INTUC, HMS, AICCTU, LPF and state-level outfits.
In the proposed bill, hefty fines have been proposed for minor traffic violation.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said the government has successfully rescued all the people of the state from quake-hit Nepal.
“We are almost successful in rescuing the Maharashtra people from Nepal. We haven’t received any figures relating to the Maharashtra people who are missing,” Fadnavis told ANI here.
“More than 1,000 people have reached and 600 are coming by bus. Our medical teams are already working in Nepal and are conducting rescue and relief operations there with the help of Central Government,” he added.
Mr. Mohammed Saleem filed a petition in High against the appointment of Mr. Mohammed Asadullah, Asst. Secreatary as CEO of Wakf Board. Justice Kodandaram heard this Public Interest Litigation petition and ordered the Govt. to file a counter affidavit before 18th June.
Congress M.P. of Rajya Sabha from Hyderabad, Mr. M.A. Khan expressed his anxiety over the slow progress of investigations on Alair fake encounter. He has given a notice to Chairman Rajya Sabha for initiating discussions in Rajya Sabha on Alair fake encounter.
Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mr. Gulam Nabi Azad condemned strongly the fake encounter in Alair. He said that police killed five Muslims under-trial prisoners who were handcuffed and they were in police custody. It is impossible for them to attack policemen and to snatch their weapons.
Mr. Mohammed Mahmood Ali, Dy. CM of Telangana State informed that Govt. of Telangana is considering new welfare schemes for Minorities so that the petty traders could be benefitted. He further said that CM has agreed to convene a high level officers’ review meeting after the party’s training camp which is being held from 1st to 4th May. CM is in favour of spending the entire budget allocated for Minorities. The officials of Minorities Welfare Department have been instructed to propose new schemes. It is propose to release loans to petty traders directly from the Government.