A Palestinian man says he was tricked into selling a mural by British graffiti artist Banksy that is estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, a media report said on Wednesday.
Rabie Darduna told the BBC he was given less than $175 for the image drawn on the only remaining door of his house in Gaza.
Banksy visited Gaza in February and used the rubble as a canvas for his graffiti.
In a relief to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Supreme Court today stayed the trial court order summoning him as accused in a case pertaining to grant of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 to Aditya Birla group company Hindalco.
Woman arrested at airport
(Siasat News): The custom officials at RGI airport arrested a woman passenger and seized 590 grams gold from her possession. As per the details, the said woman passenger had arrived from Dubai and during the custom checking, officials found gold bangles weighing 590 grams in her possession.
When she was grilled about the recovery, she could not give a satisfactory reply. She was arrested and the gold bangles were seized. Further investigations are on.
Petrol price has been cut by 49 paise a litre in the national capital (including State levies) while diesel prises have been slashed by one rupees 21 paise per litre.
With this change, the price of petrol in Delhi will become Rs. 60 per litre and Diesel Rs. 48.50 per litre.
The new rates will come into effect from midnight tonight.
Earlier, the prices of petrol and diesel were revised on March 1, 2015. (ANI)
Mahdavia Conference Chicago from 3-5 April which will be organise by Mahdavia Islamic Center of Chicago (MICC) on the occasion of silver jubilee of (MICC).The Guest Lectures in the Conference. Hazrath Syed Qasim Khundmiri Manzoor Miya Sahab Hazrath Syed Badrudduja Munawari Sahab Hazrath Syed Baqtiyaar Alam Sahab Mr Maheb e Millat Maqsood Ali Khan (Noor e Wilayath) Mr Namdar Khan Bozai (Pakistan) Mr S.Y.M Foujdaar,Chairman MDC,Karnataka Prof Daryll Maclean (Simon Fraser University Canada) Prof Marcia Hermansen (Loyola University Chicago) Conference Venue;
Siasat editor Mr. Zahed Ali Khan hosted tea-party for Chiropractic doctors of Palmer University America at his residence. Prof. Moin Ansari Chairman Board of Nutrition Palmer University and Mrs. Shaheda Ansari introduced chiropractic doctors to Mr. Zahed Ali Khan. Mr. Zahed Ali Khan welcomed all doctors on behalf of Siasat daily and told that he was pleased that Chiropractic doctors of Palmer University America were conducting 5-day free Chiropractic camp in Hyderabad for the past many years. He also thanked Prof.
Amid a walkout by the Opposition, the Gujarat Assembly passed a controversial anti-terror bill by a majority vote on Tuesday.
Rejected on three earlier occasions by two Presidents (President Kalam in 2004 and President Pratibha Patil in 2008) for violating basic principles of justice, the bill is a re-worked version of the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Bill (GUJCOC), 2003.
The bill similar to the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) was therefore passed for the fourth time in past 12 years.
Number of beneficiaries of Shaadi Mubarak Scheme is on increase after relaxation in rules of Shaadi Mubarak Scheme. Minority Welfare Department sources told that after the relaxation of rules submission of applications is continued in fast pace. Officials are trying to ensure speedy settlement of applications.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today attached assets, including over a dozen bank accounts and cars, of a self-styled godman ‘Icchadhari baba’ in connection with money laundering probe against him and his associates for allegedly running a sex racket in Delhi.
The case dates back to 2010 when a Delhi police team nabbed the alleged kingpin of a flourishing sex racket in the national capital, Shiv Murat Dwivedi alias Shiva alias Rajeev alias Swami alias ‘Icchadhari baba’ when he was allegedly conducting a flesh trade deal near PVR Saket cinema along with his accomplices.
Fresh rainfall today reignited the fear of floods in Kashmir Valley though the water level in river Jhelum had receded for second consecutive day.
Rainfall which began last night and is expected to continue for next two days, can again cause surge in the water of level of River Jhelum and its tributaries, officials said.
The flood situation had started showing improvement yesterday after causing the death of 17 people.
After two consecutive hikes, petrol prices were today cut by 49 paise per litre and diesel by Rs 1.21 a litre on softening international oil rates.
The reduction in rates will be effective from midnight tonight.
Prices of petrol in Delhi will be Rs 60 a litre from tomorrow as against the current Rs 60.49, while diesel will cost Rs 48.50 per litre as compared with Rs 49.71 currently, Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the nation’s largest oil company, said.
Mercury dropped in several parts of north India today as rains lashed many places including Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, where eighteen people died due to house-collapse and landslides.
Incessant rains led to flooding of several areas in Kashmir causing panic among the people. Due to heavy rains over the past 36 hours, river Jhelum was flowing above the danger mark at several places including Sangam in Anantnag district and Ram Munshi Bagh in Srinagar.
Pakistan’s former president and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is planning to launch his daughter into politics, a move indicative of strained ties with his son Bilawal.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari formally stepped into politics last year, but soon developed differences with his father over handling of party affairs.
According to party sources, Bilawal is living in London and planning to take a two-year break from politics to pursue his higher education after earlier completing his graduation from Oxford university.
A 33-year-old property dealer and two alleged contract killers, which he had hired to settle financial matters and intimidate other businessmen, have been arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police.
According to police, the main accused was wanted in several other crimes including an alleged rape and bank frauds amounting to the tune of Rs 16 crore which is currently being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The latest adventure of Spider-Man, the American comic book fictional superhero, is taking him through the strange and mysterious world of US patent law.
The Supreme Court was snarled in a web of legal arguments today over whether an inventor can keep collecting royalties on a Spider-Man toy even after his patent expired.
The dispute involves a popular Web Blaster toy that lets children shoot foam string from a glove, much like the web-shooting super hero.
Several people, including a woman have been booked for allegedly tresspassing into the office of VK Shunglu, chairman of DPS society at F Block, East of Kailash in the national capital here.
According to police, they had received a complaint in this regard at Amar Colony Police Station from Rear Admiral MM Chopra, who is the Vice Chairman of DPS Society.
The ongoing stir by sanitation workers of cash-strapped East Delhi Municipal Corporation continued today
Scores of workers assembled at Jheel Chowk here and pressed for their demands.
The agitating employees, who went on strike on Friday, also torched effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the EDMC said.
Demanding release of salaries, several sanitation workers of EDMC have gone on strike called by the Delhi Pradesh Safai Karmachari Union. The stir has led to heaps of garbage left strewn in the streets in east Delhi.
Madras High Court ordered notice to the Commissioner of Police on a PIL by Popular Front of India, charging police with having given misleading information to HC on its annual ‘unity march’ and sought a direction to register a case against him and SP,Dindigul and Rs 33 lakh compensation from the CoP for ‘loss of image, reputation and defamation.’
The compensation sought for from S George was for ‘loss of image, reputation and defamation..Which amounted to scandalous overtures’, it said.
Oil sank today as dealers tracked last-ditch efforts between global powers and Iran to reach a deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme and ease sanctions imposed on the key crude producer.
In late afternoon London deals, Brent North Sea crude for delivery in May slid 63 cents to USD 55.66 per barrel.
US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for May shed 51 cents to USD 48.17 a barrel.
“Oil prices fell further today amid concerns that talks in Iran may prove fruitful and result in the lifting of sanctions on the country’s export of oil,” said CMC Markets analyst Jasper Lawler.
A scuffle between students of Kalyani Medical College and boys from the nearby tribal pocket led to a over 200-strong mob of tribals gheraoing the students hostel as a big police force warded off the mob in Nadia district tonight.
A senior police officer said, trouble started after some of the hostel students playing cricket allegedly beat up some adivasi boys playing football nearby in the playground adjacent to the hostel during afternoon.
Over 6,000 government employees, including more than 100 officers, retired here on a single day today.
The superannuated employees included Directors of Higher and Primary Education, Director of Health, over two dozen Joint Directors of various departments and three dozen employees of state secretariat.
Maximum number of about 2,500 employees, including a dozen officers, and about 600 headmasters retired from Education department while other departments with larger number of superannuating employees are Public Works, Irrigation and Public Health, and Police.
Stressing that it was “committed” to the development of Andhra Pradesh, the Centre today said that it was examining the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission which has not made a distinction between special and general category states.
Andhra Pradesh has been demanding for special category status to the state that was bifurcated last year, creating Telangana state.
Taking advantage of lower oil prices, the government today allocated Rs 4,948 crore to full India’s maiden strategic oil reserves to insulate itself from supply disruptions.
India, which is 79 per cent dependent on imports to meet its crude oil needs, is building emergency stockpiles with millions of barrels of crude that mirror the reserves that the US and its western allies amassed after the first oil crisis of 1973 to 1974.
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has sealed 19 properties in the areas under its jurisdiction during the last two days to recover pending conversion or misuse charges, the civic body said.
The conversion charges are applicable in respect of residential and industrial buildings which are being used for commercial purposes. The charges are payable as per the provisions of Master Plan of Delhi (MPD) 2021, the SDMC said.
The sealing was carried out by the building department of West Zone.
Australian researchers have come up with a unique way of preventing the spread of the dengue virus, a mosquito-borne disease that currently has no approved vaccine, according to a media report on Wednesday.
The University of Melbourne-led team of researchers discovered that mosquitoes, exposed to an insect bacterium called Wolbachia, were unable to acquire the dengue virus from infected humans, Xinhua reported.