Ingredients
3 cups curd
3 Tbsp gram flour
A pinch of asafoetida
A pinch of jaggery
1 tsp salt
3 cups water
1 Tbsp clarified butter
1/4 cumin seeds
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
3 cloves
1/2 tsp chopped ginger
Curry leaves
1 whole red chilly
3 green chillies chopped
Method
Take a bowl and mix the curd, gram four, asafoetida, jaggery, salt and water. Mix it well using a whisk.
Heat a pan and pour in the mixture. Keep stirring till the curry thins out.
Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, now on an official visit here, said on Tuesday that India and Afghanistan share strong, old ties and these can be “guide” to their future relations.
Addressing a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi here, Ghani said: “India and Afghanistan are bound by a million ties through millennium. Our ambassador was telling me that there are an estimated 13 million people in India who claim decent from Afghanistan and various parts.”
Facebook Messenger has launched free VOIP video calling over cellular and wi-fi connections on iOS and Android platforms.
The services will be available in the US, Canada, England and 15 other countries, TechCrunch reported. With 600 million Messenger users and 1.44 billion on Facebook, the new VOIP video feature has a massive built-in audience.
Messenger already accounts for 10 percent of global mobile VOIP calls, according to Mark Zuckerberg, one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook.
A part of India slid about one foot to 10 feet northwards and underneath Nepal in a matter of seconds during the devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the neighbouring country on Saturday, a US scientist has said.
“Saturday’s slip took place over an area about 1,000 to 2,000 square miles over a zone spanning the cities of Kathmandu and Pokhara in one direction, and almost the entire Himalaya mountain width in the other,” said Colin Stark, Lamont Associate Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.
A benchmark index for Indian equities, the sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange, closed 219.39 points, or 0.81 percent, up on Tuesday.
The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) also closed in the green — up 71.80 points or 0.87 percent — at 8,285.60 points.
The 30-scrip Sensex, which opened at 27,215.61 points, closed at 27,396.38 points provisionally (at 3.54 p.m.) — up 219.39 points, or 0.81 percent, over the previous day’s close at 27,176.99 points.
Gold regained sheen with its price surging by Rs 305 to over 7-week high of Rs 27,355 per 10 grams at the bullion market here today, tracking a firm global trend along with brisk buying by jewellers to meet wedding demand.
Silver also spurted by Rs 1,000 to Rs 37,500 per kg on increased offtake by industrial units and coin makers.
Bullion traders attributed the sharp rise in gold prices to firm global cues where it rebounded from five-week low.
Speculation that the US Federal Bank may wait longer before raising rates weakened the dollar to a seven-week low, boosting demand for gold.
A special NDPS court today allowed Mumbai police to arrest a drug peddler, who is now lodged in a Mumbai jail, in connection with recovery of 12 kilograms of mephedrone drug from a police constable’s cupboard at a city police station last month.
“We have got a transfer warrant of drug dealer G Samuels. We will arrest him tomorrow and produce him in the court,” DCP and Mumbai police spokesperson Dhananjay Kulkarni said.
So far, Mumbai police have arrested the accused police constable Dharmaraj Kalokhe, woman drug peddler Shashikala Patankar, alias Baby, and her son Satish in this case.
The Hyderabad High Court, today, directed Telangana Government to conduct elections to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) by December 15.
The bench of Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar refused to consider the state government’s argument for delaying the elections.
At one point, the Chief Justice questioned the government’s desire to hold the polls at the earliest.
“If you have the will to usher in a democratic set-up in the Corporation, you can do it,” he said in response to repeated requests by the Advocate General for more time.
At least nine people were killed and many injured when gusty winds and heavy rain lashed parts of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning, officials said.
The inclement weather was witnessed in Agra, Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Bahraich, Jhansi and many other parts of the state.
Two people were killed in Natwakhera village in the the state capital when lightning struck them. An aged person died in Hapur when he was thrown off the roof by gusty winds.
Two people were also killed in Etah when a wall of a house caved in and they were buried under the debris.
Andhra Pradesh is considering to form a special police force for the safety and security of tourists in the state.
“The force would have special police stations for tourists, apart from a round-the-clock call centre and a guidance centre,” Secretary (Tourism and Culture) Neerabh Kumar Prasad informed Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu during a meeting to finalise the state’s tourism policy.
Mr Naidu asked the department to explore whether one ticket for multi-modal transportation for a tourist could be feasible in the state, according to an official release.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will make historic first official visits to Sri Lanka, Kenya and Djibouti in the coming days.
After years of discord with Colombo due to its poor human rights record, Kerry will travel to the Indian Ocean island on May 2 to meet new leaders elected early this year.
He will be the first secretary of state to visit since Colin Powell in 2004, acting State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said yesterday.
Her passion for mountaineering knew no bounds but it ended in a tragedy when she perished in the avalanche triggered by the earthquake in Nepal during her maiden attempt to scale Mount Everest. 49-year-old Renu Fotedar, who hailed from Srinagar and is now settled in Australia, was among several mountaineers consumed by the killer avalanche.
Like many Kashmiri pandit migrants, Renu’s journey from the Valley took here to Delhi before she migrated to Australia after her marriage.
As part of its enhanced measures to check black money, country’s elite Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has begun tapping information on all suspicious cross-border fund transfers made from India to offshore destinations.
The premier technical snoop wing under the Finance Ministry has rolled out a new system where all banking and financial institutions are mandated to file formatted Cross Border Wire Transfer Reports (CBTRs) exceeding Rs 5 lakh to it under the provisions of anti-money laundering laws.
The Central Vigilance Commission has done away with a 50-year-old practice and asked ministries to decide on their own cases where corruption angle is ruled out against senior babus.
The relaxation in the rule is aimed at speeding up the probe in cases involving allegations of “administrative lapse”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has deputed four Union ministers to assess the loss of life and property in quake-hit areas of the country, especially Bihar, and oversee the relief and rescue operations there. While Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is already deputed at the Indo-Nepal border and in overseeing relief operations in quake-hit areas, the other Ministers deputed are Ananth Kumar, Radha Mohan Singh and J P Nadda.
The US today asked India to resolve land acquisition problems and address issues concerning foreign direct investment for attracting funds for smart city projects.
“…Right now we are very much in the nascent stage of finding ways forward with India on smart cities issues. We do not have clarity on financing for the many projects that need to be done,” US Ambassador Richard Verma said.
The emission intensity of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will be reduced by 20-25 per cent by 2020 from the 2005 level without reckoning the emissions from agriculture sector, Lok Sabha was informed Tuesday.
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said India is a party to Kyoto protocol and the responsibility of reducing the per capita Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission has been given to the developed countries due to their historical emissions.
Huthi rebels and their allies advanced in the heart of Yemen’s second city Aden in heavy fighting that killed at least 20 people, medical and security sources said today.
A Saudi-led coalition meanwhile pressed air strikes for a seventh straight day since announcing a halt to its bombing campaign last Tuesday, an AFP correspondent and witnesses reported.
The rebels and their allies have lost 200 dead to the strikes since they began on March 26, a spokesman said, accusing the coalition of escalating not ending its air war.
Switzerland’s 17-times Grand Slam winner Roger Federer said on Monday that he still believed Rafael Nadal was the favourite to win the French Open next month despite the Spanish star’s troubled start to the clay court season.
Federer, who took his sole French Open title in 2009, this week is refining his own clay court game at the Istanbul Open, the first ATP World Tour event to be held in Turkey and the first time that Federer has visited the country.
hennai-born Raja Rajeswari has been sworn-in as a criminal court judge in New York by Mayor Bill de Blasio, becoming the first India-born woman to be appointed a judge in New York City.
Ms. Rajeswari, 43, who had migrated to the U.S. from Chennai as a teenager, previously worked with the Richmond County District Attorney’s Office for her entire career in several bureaus including Criminal Court, Narcotics, Supreme Court, and the Sex Crimes Special Victims Bureau, where she last served as Deputy Chief.
Peter Hamby, one of CNN’s best political reporters, has joined Snapchat’s news division.
According to the Verge, Hamby is leaving the CNN network to join Snapchat as Head of News.
Though Hamby will stay on as a CNN contributor through 2016, his new focus will be to lend his considerable political and digital acumen to the social media network as it continues to grow its news product.
Courteney Cox has revealed that the cast of ‘Friends’ would hang out all the time if it weren’t for one cast member in particular.
The 50-year-old actress said that they’ve not really had a ‘Friends reunion,’ adding that they’ve gotten about 80 percent there but there’s always one person that flakes at the end, Us Magazine reported.
When asked if it’s David Schwimmer, the ‘Cougar Town’ star added that she is not going to name names, but it may not be Schwimmer.
As for an actual onscreen reunion, the ‘Just Before I Go director’ said that people need to give up on that idea. (ANI)
Gisele Bundchen may have walked away from her catwalk career, but she has recently stripped it all for the May 2015 40th anniversary issue of Vogue Brasil.
The Brazilian supermodel stood naked on a podium flaunting her enviable figure and long locks while carrying a letter “G” and number “20” in gold as she has completed 20 years in modeling career, E! Online reported.
The 34-year-old model also wore a nude lace dress in a bathtub full of water for an inside picture.
Unbeaten US boxing champion Floyd Mayweather and Filipino boxer-turned-politician Manny Pacquiao have been leaving no stone unturned in ensuring that they enter the ring for Saturday’s ‘ fight-of-the-century’ bout completely drug-free.
Mayweather would go head-to-head against Pacquiao in a mega bout in Las Vegas on May 2 in a bid to prove that he is the greatest fighter of his generation.
Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), said that a real tribute to both of these fighters for voluntarily agreeing to do it, Stuff.co.nz reported.
The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been asked to improve services and ensure that better quality of signal is maintained specially in the border and extremism affected areas.
Union Telecom and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said this at a meeting with the Members of Parliament from the states of Bihar, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland.