The body of a 50-year-old woman was found from her husband’s pyre, giving rise to suspicion that she performed ‘sati’, a banned practice in India, police said today. The incident happened in Latur district of Maharashtra.
Within hours of Tukaram’s funeral, his 50-year-old widow Usha went missing on Monday evening. When family members went to collect her husband Tukaram’s ashes on Tuesday, they found the woman’s burnt body in the pyre as well.
A new study has provided a deeper insight into the complex birth of the giant stars.
A research group led by Aya Higuchi, a researcher at Ibaraki University, conducted observations of the massive-star forming region IRAS 16547-4247 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
Scores of women from various villages of the district will take out an anti-liquor rally here from Azad Maidan to the collectorate on April 20, activist Sangeeta Pawar said on Wednesday.
By Beigh Irsha S rinagar 1, April 2015||Candidates pursuing different degrees and diploma courses from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Regional Centre, Srinagar have appealed varsity higher ups to extend the date for their submission of assignments and term end examination forms in view of the inclement weather across kashmir Valley.
They said their exams are scheduled to be held in June and the last date for submission of assignments was 31 of March but they couldn’t reached to the study center as there were heavy rainfall.
The first human settlers on the Moon may live inside giant lava tubes large enough to house cities, which were formed by ancient volcanic eruptions, new research suggests.
The volcanic features are an important target for future human space exploration because they could provide shelter from cosmic radiation, meteorite impacts and temperature extremes, researchers said.
Lava tubes are tunnels formed from the lava flow of volcanic eruptions. The edges of the lava cool as it flows to form a pipe-like crust around the flowing river of lava.
As per a new study, policy changes are needed to save lives of mothers and newborns.
The study states that governments can substantially reduce the tragic death toll of infants and mothers by making postnatal care services more accessible, especially to impoverished and poorly educated women in rural areas.
A 37-year-old milkman died after being shot in back by some unidentified persons who later smashed his face with stones and bricks in Chaubepur area here, police said today.
Rakesh was first shot in back and then was hit in face with stones and bricks yesterday probably to ensure he could not be identified, SP (rural) Surendra Tiwari said.
Police said that Rakesh had gone to deliver milk at a collection centre last evening, some 2km from his village but didn’t return home. His body was recovered today morning, he said.
Adam West and Burt Ward, who starred in the original Batman TV series in the 60s, are teaming up to voice characters in upcoming animated Batman flick.
Announcing the news at Mad Monster Con, Ward said that fans could look forward to the full-length 90-minute animated feature coming out on the 50th anniversary of the classic show, the Daily Star reported.
The animated film will possibly release in 2016, and would also coincide with the release of the highly anticipated ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice.’ (ANI)
Washington, April 01 (ANI): Google has created a new Pac-Man Easter egg on Google Maps on the April Fool’s Day which lets users play the classic arcade game on the streets of Google Maps.
According to TechCrunch, it is available on the desktop version of Google Maps or on Android and iOS mobile devices.
Users only have to open the app, activate the game and select a location where they want to play to start with the game.
Including veggies like spinach and kale can keep your cognitive functions from declining by 11 years.
Rush University in Chicago researchers found that adults who ate the leafy vegetables suffered considerably less cognitive decline than those who didn’t, the Independent reported.
The findings were regardless of other factors such as education, exercise and family medical history.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Wednesday said that a total number of 350 Indian nationals, who have been evacuated from strife-torn Yemen’s Aden city to Djibouti, will be home tonight.
“Braving the weather with high spirits. Indian nationals evacuated from Aden now in Djibouti. Will be home tonight,” MEA official spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted.
Minister of State for External Affairs General (Retd.) V.K. Singh, who was in Djibouti to oversee the evacuation process, assured the evacuated people that they were safe now.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Wednesday said that a total number of 350 Indian nationals, who have been evacuated from strife-torn Yemen’s Aden city to Djibouti, will be home tonight.
“Braving the weather with high spirits. Indian nationals evacuated from Aden now in Djibouti. Will be home tonight,” MEA official spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted.
Minister of State for External Affairs General (Retd.) V.K. Singh, who was in Djibouti to oversee the evacuation process, assured the evacuated people that they were safe now.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has postponed for a fortnight his public hearing, which was to begin at his Civil Lines residence today, due to the ongoing renovation work.
“It may take another 15 days to get all renovation works completed, hence Kejriwal would not be able to meet the applicants,” said one of his aides involved in the management of his public hearing, which will be held thrice every week.
After two day of losses, gold prices recovered by Rs 200 to Rs 26,775 per ten grams at the bullion market today on emergence of buying by jewellers and retailers at existing lower levels amid a firm global trend.
Silver also found buying support and gained Rs 150 to Rs 37,350 per kg.
Traders said apart from buying by jewellers at prevailing levels, a firm global trend as the dollar retreated, raising appeal of the precious metals, mainly led to the recovery in the precious metal prices.
Enforcement Directorate officials have attached immovable properties worth Rs 3 crore of three persons for cheating a private sector bank by not paying the Rs 28 crore loan they availed fraudulently.
Acting on a complaint from HSBC Bank, ED officials filed an FIR against G R Mohan of G R Enterprises, Joseph Premkumar and D Suresh Rao for entering into a criminal conspiracy and cheating the bank.
“The trio cheated the bank by availing letter of credit facilities fraudulently and non-repayment of loan to the tune of Rs 28 crore”, Enforcement Directorate said in a release here today.
Seems like, neither the ongoing court cases, nor the devastating floods in Kashmir can stop Salman Khan from delivering his role as an actor.
According to a report published in Deccan Chronicle, the ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ team will be heading to the flood-stricken Kashmir on April 9 for shooting the last schedule of the film.
Rubbishing reports about the shooting being postponed following the calamity in Kashmir, director Kabir Khan stated that the shooting will take place as per the schedule.
Produced by Salman Khan, the film revolves around cross-border love story.
Cricket South Africa (CSA) chief executive Haroon Lorgat has slammed reports that claimed he had sent coach Russell Domingo, an SMS informing the latter to select a player of colour for the high-octane semifinal clash against New Zealand last week.
Describing reports as ‘ utter nonsense’, Lorgat said that there was no SMS,WhatsApp or BBM sent by him to the coach, explaining that why would he want to do that when he know the team was confirmed and already announced to the players and team management at their usual 18:00 team meeting that evening, Sport24 reported.
A new study has revealed that it is hard for consumers to save money because they are often impatient and do not think about the long-term consequences of spending money thinking.
Daniel M. Bartels and Oleg Urminsky (both University of Chicago Booth School of Business) said that they’ve known that being aware of the benefits of not spending and being patient contribute to savings, but the research finds that one or the other is not enough.
Zayn Malik has reportedly lost his 50,000 fans from his Twitter as Naughty Boy leaks the first solo music of the former 1D vocalist.
The ‘La La La’ hit-maker took to twitter to share the link of the music, but it sparked huge online backlash as the fans of the 22-year-old singer went aggressive and even called him a selfish, the Daily Star reported.
The music producer and Malik were even spotted together at a recording studio that made people to spark the rumours about the singer looking for his solo music career.
A new report by a think tank has revealed that there has been 64 terror plots against American homeland since 9/11.
The report was revealed after two Chicago-area cousins were nabbed by FBI agents after a frightening plot to kill 150 National Guard members was unraveled last week, reported Fox News.
Analysts and experts at the Heritage Foundation, who track such plots, said that the number of attempts will continue to increase.
Actress Sonakshi Sinha does not agree with her contemporary Deepika Padukone’s ideas about choice of freedom in “My Choice”, a video aimed at spreading awareness about women empowerment.
The video shows Deepika talking about the freedom of choice that women must have regarding multiple issues, including having the choice to indulge in sex before marriage or out of marriage or not having sex at all.
Pakistani government has dismissed reports about fighter jets and naval ships taking part in military action against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
According to the Express Tribune, Pakistan’s foreign office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said that the reports were “speculative, misleading and incorrect”
Earlier on Monday, there were reports that Pakistan had sent troops, PAF fighter jets and naval ships to Saudi Arabia.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was told earlier that a Chinese ship would be reaching Aden on Wednesday to evacuate 200 Pakistanis stranded from the city.
Internet users have already picked the star they want to play Mulan in Disney’s upcoming live-action flick, and it’s none other than original film’s star Ming-Na Wen.
The studio had announced the project just days ago, but fans have already given their opinion, and think that the actress, who had voiced the character of the female warrior in 1998 film, was just perfect for it, E! Online reported.
Misao Okawa, who was named world’s oldest living person, has died from heart failure at the age of 117 in Japan.
Okawa died in a nursing home in Osaka, the city she was born in on 5 March 1898, the BBC reported.
Okawa, who died just week after her 117th birthday, was recognized in 2013 as the world’s oldest living person, as well as the world’s oldest living woman, by Guinness World Records .
While celebrating her birthday earlier in March, Ms Okawa said that 117 years did not seem such a long time.
Nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers could be extended past today’s deadline for the outline of an agreement if enough progress is made to justify it, the White House said.
Today’s statement by White House press secretary Josh Earnest suggested that talks meant to produce an outline that would allow the sides to continue negotiations until the June 30 final deadline had not bridged all gaps, but that the sides were working to produce a text with few specifics, accompanied by documents outlining areas where further talks were needed.