Pakistan’s legendary singing sensation Noor Jehan’s grandson Sikander Rizvi will be making his big screen debut alongside “Raja Natwarlal” actress Humaima Malick in upcoming film “Dekh Magar Pyaar Say”.
Directed by Asad-ul-Haq, the romantic-comedy, which starts production later this month, is expected to release in late 2015.
The Indian Navy on Wednesday said it has deployed three ships to help in the evacuation of Indian nationals from strife-torn Yemen.
A navy release said INS Sumitra, an offshore patrol vessel, which was deployed for anti-piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden, has evacuated some 350 Indian nationals from Yemen to Djibouti.
Djibouti, a country neighbouring Yemen, is located on the Horn of Africa in the Gulf of Aden.
The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group on Wednesday captured the southern part of a main Palestinian refugee camp south of Syria’s capital Damascus, sources told Xinhua news agency.
IS militants advanced into the Yarmouk Camp from the nearby district of Hajar al-Asawad, located south of the camp, said Khaled Abdul-Majid, a Palestinian politician and head of the Palestinian Struggle Front.
The IS militants captured the streets of Oruba and Taqadum and part of the Safad street south of the camp, he added.
In a remark that could land him in trouble, Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Tuesday allegedly advised the agitating nurses that they should not stage hunger strike in the sun because it will make them ‘dark’ and ‘ruin their marital prospects’.
“When we met the Chief Minister over our demands at Ponda today, he said the girls should not sit on hunger strike in hot sun as their complexion will become dark and they will not find a good bridegroom,” said Anusha Sawant, one of the nurses.
A court sentenced a German former police officer to eight years and six months in jail today for killing a willing victim he met on a website for cannibalism fetishists.
“He was found guilty of murder and disturbing the peace of the dead,” said presiding judge Birgit Wiegand at the regional court in the eastern city of Dresden.
Detlev Guenzel, 57, went on trial in August over the killing of Polish-born Wojciech Stempniewicz, a business consultant, at the defendant’s home, a bed-and-breakfast inn in the mountain town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau near the Czech border, in November 2013.
Baraats, or the processions, that accompany grooms are notorious for being late, and keeping the bride and her family waiting.
That doesn’t fly in a village in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The groom is fined if he’s not punctual, and the baraat is warned that it must not be noisy.
Elders in the village of Taunkpuri Tanda charge Rs. 100 for every minute that a baraat is late. The majority of the 10,000 residents are Muslim.
Retiring veteran left arm -spinner Daniel Vettori and outgoing bowling coach Shane Bond believe that New Zealand cricket is in good hands, with the latter describing the new crop of cricketers as ‘next golden age of New Zealand cricket’.
New Zealand reached their first World Cup final under the bold leadership of Brendon McCullum before a golden summer that saw them dominate Pakistan and Sri Lanka in test and one-day cricket.
India’s legendary sprinter Milkha Singh today said that doping is like cancer and government needs to take some strict measures to curb this menace.
“Doping is like cancer. If you visit the changing rooms or bathrooms of the athletes you will find syringes. They know that if they dope then they will have more strength. To stop this menace, it is important that government takes some strict measures,” said the 86-year-old at the launch of a multi-sport fitness programme, Milkha Surefit, which aims at identifying and nurturing sports potential of young school children.
The Centre has allocated about Rs 32 crore to Delhi Government for construction of household and public toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission for the fiscal 2014-15.
The target for Delhi is to construct 1,25,298 toilets in individual houses and 11,138 public facilities, besides putting in place solid waste management projects in three areas of the capital. The allocation of the funds for Delhi in the total mission period is Rs 1,684.38 crore, of which the central share is Rs 209.6 crore.
Barcelona talisman Lionel Messi has been declared as the best forward, while Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo was ranked 29th best striker in Europe’s top five leagues, according to a new study.
The study, conducted by the CIES Observatory in Switzerland, ranked all players from the European football leagues , which included Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and La Liga in 2015.
According to the study, Messi tops the chart as the best forward and is followed by Bundesliga-based duo Arjen Robben and Bas Dost, the Mirror reported.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has rejected media reports of the University Grants Commission (UGC) being scrapped.
Describing the news report as incorrect and uncalled for, the ministry in a statement said on Wednesday that it has constituted a committee of experienced and credible academicians to recommend the restructuring and strengthening of the UGC for attaining even better performance to meet the desired objective.
It said that the committee headed by Dr. Hari Gautam has submitted their report to the Secretary (Higher Education).
Robbie Williams has offered his Los Angeles home to the former One Direction vocalist Zayn Malik following his decision to quit the band.
The ‘Angels’ singer, who left his group Take That in the early 90s and was helped by Elton John, seemed to be playing same big-brother role for the 22-year-old singer in his critical life changing decision, the Daily Star reported.
A source has informed that the 41-year-old singer felt connected with Malik as he has steeped into his shoes, and also because both the singer completed five years in their respective groups and then had to leave. (ANI)
Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Giriraj Singh landed himself in another political controversy on Wednesday, saying Sonia’s “white skin” had been a ticket to securing the top job in the Congress Party.
Stoking the controversy further, he further queried, “If Rajiv (Gandhi) had married a Nigerian, things would have been different.”
The Congress lashed out at the BJP for the comment. “It reflects the BJP mindset,” a party spokesperson said.
The Madras High Court has held that the act prohibiting child marriages was not against the Muslim Personal Law and would prevail over the latter as it had been enacted for the welfare of girl children.
A Sikh man was beaten up in a suspected racial attack in the British city of Birmingham and police have launched an investigation after the sickening video of the assault emerged on the internet.
In the video, the victim can be seen desperately trying to cover his face, as a man punches and kicks him during the brutal attack on Sunday in Broad Street, Birmingham. A crowd is gathered around the man, but no one tries to help him, Birmingham Mail reported.
The Delhi government has decided to give Rs 1 crore as compensation to the families of Delhi Police personnel who die on duty, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced on Tuesday.
“Any employee of the Delhi Police or other armed forces associated with the Delhi government and serving in Delhi will be provided Rs 1 crore compensation if they die on duty,” Sisodia told reporters.
“We will create a separate fund in this connection. The allocation of this fund will also be included in the budget,” he added.
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An 18-year-old girl student was shot dead in her school premises here by an office attendant for spurning his advances, police said on Wednesday.
“We have registered a case against the accused (Mahesh, 30) who is absconding from the school, and have set up three special teams to hunt him down,” city police commissioner M.N. Reddi told reporters here.
Gauthami was a student of second year pre-university course at Pragathi school in the city’s eastern suburb and was staying in the girls hostel as she hailed from Pavagada in Tumakuru district, about 70 km from here.
A Vancouver-born artist uses his penis as a paintbrush to create royal portraits.
The well-endowed artist Brent Ray Fraser, who creates paintings up to 12-feet wide, has created some alternative royal portraits of Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II, the Daily Star reported.
Fraser, who uses a tourniquet to keep his brush firmed up as the paint is very cold, explained that working on the art gets him aroused.
Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Wednesday denied making any sexist comment related to some nurses.
Parsekar reportedly said he had never advised the nurses not to protest in the sun as it would darken their complexions.
One of the nurses had accused the chief minister of making the shocking remark.
Parsekar had said, “Hunger strike in sun will make you dark and ruin marital prospects”.
Two students, hailing from rural parts of Karnataka and Assam, have won ‘TCS Tech Bytes’ quiz competition organized by the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Board for IT Education Standards (BITES).
Sameer Desai and Rajnarayan Dutta have bagged the trophy along with the cash prize of Rs. 75,000 by excelling at the IT quiz competition conducted on March 31.
Both winners are studying in fourth semester of Computer Science Engineering at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology (NMIT) in Bangalore.
Asus is planning to launch a new PC-on-a-stick version, called the Asus Chromebit, which has the new Chrome OS.
According to CNET, the Chromebit looks like a large USB thumb drive, and connects via HDMI to a monitor or television, giving users instant access to Chrome OS and all its features. The stripped-down, always on operating system is essentially a Chrome Web browser, augmented by some basic OS file functions.
The Asus Chromebit has a Rockchip 3288 processor with 2GB of RAM and 16GB for storage and has a full-size USB 2.0 port for connecting accessories.
Indian company Fitgen Solutions has launched an activity tracking application named “Trek” that helps users stay fit and has an in-built Indian food menu from all over the country along with continental delicacies to calculate calories consumed.
Trek app helps people connect with friends, family members and build fitness communities of preferred members wherein each one of them can track the activities of others and create challenges to tap onto the competitive spirit.
Jamie Dornan has confessed that he seriously got into his character off the camera and stalked a woman to prepare for his role in BBC’s series ‘The Fall’.
The ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ actor admitted that it took him to do lot of thing to actually get into the mind of Paul Spector, the serial killer, and with that try he followed a woman off the train for a day, Us Magazine reported.
The 32-year-old actor added that following a woman was pretty exciting and interesting as he got to learn lot of things because obviously he never did any such thing before. (ANI)
The ‘ Woman in Gold’s director Simon Curtis has confessed that he was a tea boy to his movie’s actress Helen Mirren, when he was 18.
The 55-year-old British film director said that he was working at a theatre in London to gain some experience and was allotted to work as an assistant of the Academy award winning actress, New York Post reported.
Curtis added that he used to do Mirren’s work like helping with her fan mail and all the other favors that she required. (ANI)
A Kim Jong-un impersonator has disclosed that he made out with “30 to 40” girls while dressed as the North Korean dictator at the Rugby Sevens.
According to South China Morning Post, Jeremy was photographed hundreds of times at the event and the images have now gone viral around the world.
He revealed that the idea to dress like the North Korean despot started more than a year ago with a haircut that went wrong and gave him the look of the supreme leader.