Month: April 2015

Indian debt market gets mutual fund investment worth Rs 6 trillion

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Mutual fund managers pumped in nearly Rs 6 trillion in debt market in 2014-15, an increase of eight per cent from the preceding year, primarily on account of improved business sentiments.

Besides, fund managers invested a net amount of Rs 40,000 crore in equity markets during last financial year.

Moreover, mutual fund houses are upbeat about overall inflows in equities and debt markets for the current financial year (2015-16) as well.

Arms, explosives seized from Maoist hideout in Bihar, IED defused

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Security forces on Friday seized a cache of arms and ammunitions from a Maoist hide out and defused an IED planted by ultras in Bihar’s Rohtas district.

Superintendent of Police (SP) Shivdeep Lande said acting on a tip-off about movement of a Maoist group led by Ajay Rajbhar in hilly Chunhatta village, the security forces led by CRPF Commandant Mithilesh Kumar launched a combing operation there this morning.

Neymar the next big superstar, says coaching legend Sir Alex Ferguson

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Former Manchester United manager and coaching icon Sir Alex Ferguson is hopeful that Neymar would be the next one who’ll produce the type of talent people see in Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but has insisted that the Brazilian still has some way to go.

Ferguson claims there is no one ready to currently challenge Real Madrid’s Ronaldo and Barcelona’s Messi for the title of the world’s best player.

Saina enters Malaysia Open semis

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World No.1 Saina Nehwal beat Chinese Sun Yu 21-11, 18-21, 21-17 to reach the semi-finals of the $500,000 Malaysia Open Superseries Premier at the Putra Stadium here on Friday.

In the next match on Saturday, Olympic bronze medallist Saina will meet reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui, who battled past former World champion Yihan Wang 14-21, 21-15, 21-12 in 55 minutes.

IANS

Bihar man kills wife for refusing medicines

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Infuriated by his ailing wife’s refusal to take her medicines, a man in Bihar’s Buxar district killed her, police said on Friday.

Salma Khatoon, 26, died of her injuries after her husband Mohammed Mustafa Abbasi hit her with a blunt object on Thursday.

“Salma was sick for some days and a doctor had prescribed some medicines to her. But she was not taking them regularly,” Gorakh Ram, the Brahampur police station chief, said.

“Her husband was unhappy over it. When she refused to take medicines, her husband in a fit of anger hit her with a blunt object,” he added.

Sri Lankan president to pay three-day visit to Pakistan

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Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will pay a state visit to Pakistan from April 5 to 7 at the invitation of the president and prime minister of Pakistan, officials said Friday.

This will be the first visit by the newly elected Sri Lankan president to Pakistan. He assumed office in January this year.

During the visit, Sirisena will meet with President Mamnoon Hussain, who will host a state banquet in his honour, Xinhua news agency cited the Pakistani foreign ministry as saying.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will hold bilateral talks with Sirisena.

IPL 8: Simon Taufel to hold two-day workshop for match officials in Mumbai

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Twenty six match officials, including umpires and referees at this season’s Indian Premier League will be taking part in a two-day workshop, conducted by Simon Taufel and organised by the BCCI, on April 4 and 5 at Mumbai.

A wide range of topics from clothing regulations to on-field player behaviour and the overall playing conditions, would be covered during the workshop. Taufel, a former member of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel and five-time winner of the ICC Umpire of the Year Award, is presently the ICC’s Umpire Performance and Training Manager.

Empowerment is about evolving, not being a sexist: Kangana

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Actress Kangana Ranaut says the video “My Choice” must be appreciated for the effort towards promotion of women empowerment, but she is of the view that empowerment cannot happen by becoming sexists.

“Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist,” Kangana said here on Thursday at an event where she was asked about her views on the video.

Congress demands withdrawal of cases against Vimalakka

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Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Friday accused the TRS Government of implicating its opponents into false cases.

Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan, along with Leader of the Opposition in Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir, Working President N Uttam Kumar Reddy, AICC Spokesperson Madhu Yashi Goud and former MPs Balram Naik and Rajaiah, the TPCC chief demanded immediate withdraw of cases registered against activists, farmers and students since Telangana formation.

KCR expresses shock over demise of journalist TN Pillay

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Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao has expressed shock and grief over the demise of veteran sports journalist T N Pillay. He described Late Pillay as the one who was instrumental in not only promoting younger sports journalists, who chose to make it their career, but also the initiatives of all the sports bodies.

Smriti Irani spots CCTV directed at changing room

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Police are probing a niche clothing boutique in a Goa village for installing a CCTV that overlooks the store’s changing room in which central minister Smriti Irani was trying out clothes on Friday, a police official said.

Police Inspector Nilesh Rane told IANS that Smriti Irani had visited the boutique in the north coastal village of Calangute, 20 km north of Panaji, and was trying out clothes when one of her assistants noticed the camera and raised a hue and cry.

Madge: I think people should go more crazy over me

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Madonna has recently revealed that she thinks people should go “more crazy” over her.

On ‘The Ellen DeGeneres’ show, the 56-year old singer couldn’t get enough of herself and declared that people should go more crazy over her, US magazine reported.

On ‘Watch What Happens Live,’ Bethenny Frankel shared her candid opinions on permanent unions to Andy Cohen after her intense divorce battle by saying that marriage was like the Hotel California, where one could check out anytime but not leave.

Richard Nixon’s Western White House on sale for $75M

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US’s 37th President, Richard Nixon’s 1969 Western White House in Southern California is up for sale for 75 million dollars.

According to Orange Country Register, retired Allergan CEO, Gavin S. Herbert, the current owner of former American president’s oceanfront San Clemente estate, decided to sell the 5.45-acre house after owning the property for 35 years.

The western White House property, which is set behind private walls and fences, has some 15,000 square feet among all the structures, including a 9,000-square-foot main residence.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov’s teen daughter takes up modelling after racy video controversy

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Yevgeny Kafelnikov’s teen daughter Lesa Kafelnikov has stepped into modelling in Paris following her recent raunchy video controversy.

The former Russian tennis player’s daughter posted some of her modelling snaps on Instagram and wrote that she loved her job and was shooting with photographer Katja Kat and with Elite Paris Model Management, the Mirror reported.

The 16-year-old daughter of the former tennis star posted another picture of her wrapped in a bed sheet while sitting on a balcony overlooking a Parisian street. (ANI)

Land Bill to be focus at BJP National Executive

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Under attack over the land bill, the BJP today said it will launch a mass contact programme to dispel “myths and propaganda” spread by the opposition and engage farmers in dialogue even as it insisted that it remains open to changes suggested by rival parties and farmers.

Ferguson hopes Neymar will be next one to showcase Messi, Ronaldo-like talent

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Former Manchester United manager and coaching icon Sir Alex Ferguson is hopeful that Neymar would be the next one who’ll produce the type of talent people see in Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but has insisted that the Brazilian still has some way to go.

Ferguson claims there is no-one out there ready to currently challenge Real Madrid ‘s Ronaldo and Barcelona’s Messi for the title of the world’s best player.

Are Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin trying to make divorce easy?

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Gwyneth Paltrow and her estranged singer husband Chris Martin, who announced their split a year before, are trying to make their divorce easy as they were spotted vacationing together with their kids.

The sources informed that although the couple was spotted vacationing together in Puerto Vallarta as they were still friends, but that didn’t mean that they were getting back together, TMZ.com reported.

IOC chief to meet PM this month, India may bid for Olympics

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In a significant development, The union government and the national Olympic body have invited International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach for a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this month to discus the development of sports in the country and a likely bid for 2024 Olympic Games.

Bach, who took over as IOC President in 2013, has been invited to visit India for a meeting with Prime Minister Modi here. The date of the meeting has been tentatively fixed on April 27. This will be Bach’s first visit to India after becoming IOC President.

McIlroy set sights on winning all four Majors when he was only seven years old

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Northern Irish golf ace Rory McIlroy had set his sights on turning professional and winning all the four Majors when he was only seven years old and he believes that now he has got the chance to do it.

And the world number one has now admitted it would be unthinkable if he never completes his career Grand Slam at the Masters, which begins its 2015 drama next Thursday.

It was revealed this week that as a nine-year-old McIlroy wrote to former world number one Tiger Woods in 1999, warning him that he was coming to get him, The Mirror reported.

Stop finding faults with BJP, find you leader, Shah to Cong

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Attacking the Congress-led opposition for “deliberately spreading misgivings” about land bill, BJP today said the party should stop finding “non- existing” faults with the government and instead concentrate on finding its leader, a dig at Rahul Gandhi’s absence.

In his inaugural address at the two-day BJP National Executive meeting, party president Amit Shah sought to rally the rank and file around the controversial bill, saying it was pro-farmer and BJP was committed to the welfare of peasants.

Barack Obama hails Iran framework as ‘historic’ understanding

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President Barack Obama heralded a framework nuclear understanding with Iran as an “historic” agreement that could pave the way for a final deal that would leave the US, its allies and the world safer.

Speaking from the White House today, Obama said the agreement “is a good deal, a deal that meets our core objectives.” He said verification mechanisms built into the framework agreed to in Switzerland hours earlier would ensure that “if Iran cheats, the world with know it.”

US man rescued after surviving on fish and rain water for 66 days at sea

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A missing man, who survived 66 days on sailboat by catching fish and drinking rain water, has been rescued.

37-year-old Louis Jordan, whose father had reported him missing in January, was found by the crew of the Houston Express, a German-flagged container, who spotted him on his disabled sailboat Angel off the coast of Cape Hatteras and took him aboard, CBS News reported.

Indians not allowed to fish in Lankan waters, says Sri Lankan President Sirisena

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Dismissing opposition’s claim that his government has given fishing rights to Indians, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said he has issued clear instructions to the navy to seize boats that violate the country’s territorial waters.

“We have not allowed fishing in our waters for the Indians. I have given clear instructions to navy to arrest boats or trawlers that violate our water limits,” Sirisena told a gathering of fishing industry and political representatives last night.

KTR to replace KCR as party chief? Speculation making rounds

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Minister for IT and Panchayat Raj K T Rama Rao is most likely to replace his father and party president K Chandrasekhar Rao.

As per the party sources, KCR has decided to step down to focus fully on the government so that he could fulfill all the promises made in the election manifesto.

He was not in a position to focus both on the party as well as the government and it’s time he hands over the party reins to another capable hand, according to his close confidants.

Akshay Kumar starts filming ‘Singh Is Bliing’

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Superstar Akshay Kumar, who will be seen playing a sardar again in upcoming film Singh is Bliing, has begun shooting the action-comedy in Patiala.

Directed by Prabhudheva, Singh Is Bliing is the filmmaker and Akshay’s second outing after Rowdy Rathore

“In Patiala, started the day with Waheguru’s blessings at the Gurudwara and now it’s time for day 1 of #SinghIsBliing!,” Akshay, 47, posted on Twitter.

Akshay, who was born as Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia, had earlier donned the turban in Singh Is Kinng.