The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against the former CMD of Syndicate Bank SK Jain and others who were last year arrested by CBI in a bribery and corruption case.
A confident Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would never succeed in its mission of gaining power in the state despite chalking out several strategies in its meetings.
“They would not gain anything here despite several meetings,” he said while commenting on the ongoing BJP’s national executive meeting in Bengaluru where the saffron party discussed its strategies for the Bihar assembly polls due later this year.
The flavours of Lakhnavi cuisine will tingle the taste buds at cricketer Suresh Raina’s New Delhi wedding where rich and succulent Tundey kebabs wrapped in thick crusty parathas will be offered with onion rings and spicy dhaniya chutney.
Suresh Raina will marry Priyanka Chowdhary at a five star hotel in Delhi late on Friday.
Lucknow’s Tundey kebab owner Mohd Usman said that “he was not doing this only for commercial purposes” but also as a “fulfilment of a long due commitment to Raina”.
He added that whenever Raina is in town, he is a regular at his outlet in Aminabad.
Premier League managers Arsene Wenger and Tony Pulis believe that Football Association chairman Greg Dyke ‘s proposals to improve the quality of English players is flawed, as the Arsenal boss claims that the right to play has to be earned, while the West Brom head coach says that the quality of English youth is the problem.
Dyke wants to increase the number of home-grown players in top-flight squads from eight to 12 and his plans have received the backing of five former England managers.
Google has declared war on China’s biggest web registrar, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), due to its “bad behavior.”
In its security blog post, Google made it clear that it would no longer accept HTTPS certificates from the CNNIC, effectively cutting the registrar out of the SSL system that secures the web. HTTPS certificates ensure that web content cannot be intercepted in transit and CNNIC controls that process for the whole Chinese web, The Verge reported.
Twitter has reportedly purchased TenXer, a platform for developers and engineers to work together better, in a deal that sources said was priced under 50 million dollars and would lead to the closure of the San Francisco-based startup.
TenXer CEO and co-founder Jeff Ma said that they will shut down operations at their firm and continue their work with the micro-blogging platform, reported The Verge.
He added that the firm was excited to apply what they had learnt in the past three years to a world-class engineering organization.
Chris Brown recently teamed-up with Beyonce to produce the remix version of her popular song ‘ Jealous.’
The duo’s new amazing music, which recently surfaced the internet, begins with the 33-year-old singer singing, with Brown jumping in right before the second verse, E! Online reported.
The 25-year-old rapper sings “Queen B, I’m trippin’ ’cause I’m a little insecure when your phone go off,” and ends it with, “So mad I’m drunk texting / Now I’m reminiscing how we fell in love in Texas / Girl, I’m jealous.”
LinkedIn has bought and will be shutting down Refresh.io, a startup and iOS app of the same name that provides insights about people in your networks right before you meet them.
The terms of the deal have not been revealed but the main app will be shutting down on April 15 after which the company will not accept any new sign-ups. Twelve of the current team of 15 employees will join LinkedIn in Mountain View to work on incorporating the technology they have developed into various LinkedIn products, reported TechCrunch.
The police department of Malegaon in Maharashtra has asked farmers and owners of cows and bullocks to submit photographs of their animals with details in view of the new law that bans beef trade in the state.
According to Mahesh Sawai, Deputy Superintendent of police, “The purpose is to carry out a census and keep a record. Besides, this will help to verify mattes if someone feeds us wrong information about pet animals or animals working in the field.
Former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming has said that Brendon McCullum’s inspirational captaincy has lifted the nation and the big-hitting batsman should continue to lead the side in all the three formats of the game until next year’s World Twenty20 tournament.
Since last year, New Zealand at home have won Test series against India, West Indies and Sri Lanka and dazzled in 50-overs and made it to their maiden Cricket World Cup final at Melbourne, where they lost to eventual winners Australia.
A 400,000 dollars worth helmet is being provided to the US Air Force’s pilots with the fighter jets that will help them see through the aircrafts.
The U.S. Air Force’s F-35 Lightning II comes with a 400,000 dollars helmet that allows pilots to “see” through the plane, the Washington Times reported.
Lockheed Martin’s single-engine fighter aircraft has been equipped with six cameras and 8 million lines of code, which would assist the pilot wearing the helmet 360 degrees of vision. Anywhere the pilot looks, vision would not be hindered. (ANI)
A new research has revealed that eating eggs may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes as it improves glucose balance in the body.
The research led by University of Eastern Finland examined men aged between 42 and 60 years and observed that egg consumption was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes as well as with lower blood glucose levels.
A plus-sized YouTube sensation left Mario Balotelli and his Liverpool teammates stunned with his free kick skills.
Dutchman Bas van Velzen, whose videos have been viewed online over five million times, rocked up at Liverpool training posing as an online competition winner for a Reds’ dead-ball masterclass.
After watching Balotelli, Rickie Lambert, Lazar Markovic and Fabio Borini take pot shots at goal, Van Velzen stepped up and left the Premier League stars star-struck with his free-kick shooting skills, News.com.au reported.
The first trailer for the upcoming Amy Winehouse documentary ‘Amy’ features previously unreleased audio of the singer admitting that she thought she couldn’t handle fame.
In the trailer , Winehouse, who died at an early age of 27 due to alcohol poisoning in 2011, can be seen dancing in the mirror, singing in the recording studio and joking around with friends before becoming a star in 2006 for her first single ‘Rehab,’ New York Post reported.
Young Winehouse said in the teaser, that she never thought she would become famous at all and would probably go ‘mad’ if she would become one.
The Kanpur unit of the Youth Congress has filed a First Information Report (FIR) in a court against union minister Giriraj Singh for his controversial “white skin” remarks against party president Sonia Gandhi.
A local court in Bihar had also ordered the filing of an FIR against Singh on Thursday.
The Congress has repeatedly been condemning Giriraj Singh, with the Youth Congress and Mahila Congress workers taking to the streets of Bengaluru with demands of his resignation. The party’s Delhi unit also led a protest outside Singh’s residence in the national capital.
The government said on Friday there is likelihood it would launch evacuation of Indians by air from the Yemeni city of Sana’a even as an Indian naval ship left the Yemeni port of Al Hodeidah with 306 Indians on board for Djibouti to be flown back to India.
External affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted that the government is “working on all fronts” to pull out its citizens from strife-torn Yemen.
“Working on all fronts. We are making all out efforts to significantly enhance evacuation of Indian nationals from Yemen,” he tweeted.
Taking a dig at the Congress Party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Friday said that a depressed and directionless opposition should search for its missing leaders rather than blaming the ruling dispensation at the Centre.
Showing a clear connection between overall well being and nightmares, Finnish researchers have found that symptoms of depression and insomnia are the strongest predictors of having frequent nightmares.
“This is most evident in the connection between nightmares and depression, but also apparent in many other analyses involving nightmares and questions measuring life satisfaction and health,” said lead study author Nils Sandman, researcher in the centre for cognitive neuroscience at the University of Turku in Finland.
President Pranab Mukherjee participated in the celebration of the 100th year of the advent of the Divine Adya Mata organized by Dakshineswar Ramakrishna Sangha Adyapeath at Kolkata yesterday and inaugurated Adyapeath Annada B. Ed. College and an orphanage for boys on the occasion.
A British man dubbed as “Britain’s biggest playboy” has bought his girlfriend a chocolate running bath as an Easter present, a media report said.
Hotelier Danny Lambo, 37, purchased the world’s first chocolate running bath for his girlfriend Natasha Flynn for 10,000 pounds (about $14,000), Mirror online reported.
“(Egyptian queen) Cleopatra was the ultimate queen of luxury, so a bath that runs chocolate instead of water was the perfect Easter gift for the queen in my life,” Lambo said.
MRSA bacteria, an antibiotic-resistant superbug, become even more resistant to killing by the immune system if they are exposed to cigarette smoke, warns a new study.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can cause life threatening skin, bloodstream and surgical site infections or pneumonia.
“We already know that smoking cigarettes harms human respiratory and immune cells.
In an appalling incident occurred near old Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad two sleeping auto drivers were set ablaze. According to sources auto driver Narsingh Rao was sleeping in his auto when some unknown miscreants set him ablaze after pouring kerosene over him.
In another incident auto driver Anand who was sleeping near Bata showroom was also set ablaze after dousing him with petrol. Both the drivers were rushed to the Gandhi Hospital where their condition is said to be critical. North zone police has registered a case.
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Efforts for formation of a 3-member committee in Waqf Board keeping in view the absence of a special officer received jolt on Thursday when Andhra Pradesh government opposed the formation of the committee. Sending a letter to Special Secretary Minority Welfare Telangana Syed Omer Jaleel, incharge Secretary Minority Welfare Andhra Pradesh Shaikh Mohammed Iqbal declared the formation of 3-member committee for Waqf Board as unacceptable for Andhra Pradesh.
As many as 22 child labourers, most of them hailing from Gaya district of Bihar and pushed to work in hazardous industries here have been rescued, police said today.
“22 children in the age group of 5-13 years, who were forced to work in leather and bangle units at Sultanshai area were rescued last night,” Deputy Commissioner of Police V Satyanarayana said.
If your girlfriend insists on clicking her selfie from the right-hand side, then she is not alone. Women ensure that the camera always captures their best side — and almost half of women say that they will always turn a particular way when confronted with a camera.
In a poll of 1,000 women, most preferred to be photographed from their right-hand side, Daily Mail reported. Women said they preferred one side over the other because of their hairstyle or parting, the profile of their nose or to avoid a mole or scar.