The wife of a farmer who committed suicide recently, allegedly immolated herself in front of her husband’s body in a field in Gujarat’s Rajkot District.
Police officer, P. C. Chudasama, said the 34-year-old farmer, identified as Haresh Rabadia, was distressed.
Fourteen time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal said that he is not worried of his recent slump in form and will put up a good show for winning his 10th French Open title.
Nadal is currently ranked fourth in the ATP rankings and has the maximum points to defend at next week’s Madrid Masters, where he is the double defending champion.
A new study on drug’s preventive effects on colorectal cancer has indicated that taking aspirin reduces a person’s risk of colorectal cancer.
The study conducted at University of Minnesota discovered that aspirin might exert its chemopreventive activity against colorectal cancer, at least partially, by normalizing the expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in gastrointestinal precancerous lesions.
Filipino politician-turned-boxer Manny Pacquiao has reportedly expressed that he is expecting to develop a real friendship with unbeaten US boxing champion Floyd Mayweather after they beat the ‘hell out of each other’ in the high-octane ‘fight of the century’ bout on Saturday in Las Vegas.
Pacquiao would go head-to-head against Mayweather in the richest fight in history at the MGM Grand Arena in his bid to defeat the undefeated five-weight world champion.
A low intensity earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale shook the Andaman Islands on Friday.
The tremors were felt at around 6 am.
This tremor comes close to a week after a massive earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, devastated Nepal and northern India. (ANI)
Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, who arrived in earthquake-hit Kathmandu today, said the rescue operations in remote areas should be given priority and added that the relief materials should reach the victims in time.
The duo, who conducted an aerial survey, also directed all the Indian agencies to carry the relief and rescue operations in full swing in the quake ravaged nation.
Doval praised the rescue operations carried out by different groups.
Adult entertainment company Vivid has revealed that it has sent a letter to Courtney Stodden offering her 1 million dollars to distribute a sex tape.
Vivid Entertainment boss Steven Hirsch appears to have been so impressed by what he has seen in Stodden’s explicit video that he has suggested he is willing to give 1 million dollars for ownership of it, TMZ.com reported.
Hirsch sent a letter to former Celebrity Big Brother star Stodden asking for exclusive rights to the full video and even suggested that she could make further royalties through bonuses.
The National Green Tribunal on Friday gave authorities in the national capital two more weeks to implement its ban on ten-year old diesel-run vehicles. The NGT has put its order on hold till May 18.
The Supreme Court had earlier in the month dismissed a plea against the NGT’s order banning old vehicles from plying in the national capital.
The apex court reportedly observed that the tribunal should be assisted and not discouraged on the matter.
The Congress party on Friday criticized the Government for the latest fuel price hike and said that it reflected insensitivity on the part of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre.
“This is totally uncalled for in a very better situation of international oil pricing. I think this deserves to be condemned all around. It shows the insensitivity of the government to the common man. It shows that all (Prime Minister) Modi and BJP talk about is rhetoric,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said.
A rice trader who hails from Warangal district attempted suicide by consuming poison. 42-year-old, G Krishna R/O Jangaon runs a wholesale rice business. Officials of Commercial Tax and Revenue Department raided his godown two days ago and warned him of strict action on non-payment of tax. Distraught over this the man consumed poison.
It is believed that reporter of a local TV channel of Jangaon had allegedly prompted the officials for the raid. However police has not confirmed this. G Krishna has been admitted in Aditya Hospital Uppal where his condition is said to be critical.
In the wake of the Nepal earthquake, union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan on Friday asserted that India’s early warning systems are “world class”.
He dismissed recent reports that alleged the country’s monitoring and alert systems are not up to date.
“There is no technology to predict earthquakes. India’s early warning system is world class. Even for many other countries around the ocean, we are the ones helping them,” Vardhan told the media here.
He was visiting the Indian Association For the Cultivation of Science.
Slamming the recent hike in prices of petrol and diesel, AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalithaa today demanded revision of the price fixation policy for petroleum products.
“The increase in prices of petrol and diesel effected by Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) will result in the rates of all commodities going up. The lives of ordinary people will be impacted due to this,” she said.
The hike will result in inflation going up further, she said in a statement here.
Jayalalithaa reiterated her stand that the existing price fixation formula for petroleum products be changed.
Uttarakhand Government has asked the intelligence wing of the state police to keep an eye on possible mass exodus from Nepal to the state following the massive earthquake that hit the Himalayan country on April 25.
“We have alerted the intelligence network along the 275-km border the state shares with Nepal to keep an eye on possible mass exodus following the earthquake in Nepal,” Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) Ashok Kumar said here today.
A 24-year-old woman has been pulled out alive from the wreckage of a building in Nepal, 128 hours after a deadly 7.9-magnitude tremblor devastated the Himalayan nation.
Krishna Devi Khadka was rescued by a joint team of Nepal Army, Nepal Police and Israeli rescue team from Janasewa Guest House in Gonggabu village yesterday, ekantipur reported.
Khadka was buried under the rubbles of the collapsed guest house. She was rescued five days after the deadly earthquake struck the country on Saturday.
In a boost to infrastructure development in the North-East, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari today said the government will award road projects worth Rs 15,000 crore in the region by December.
“Of the total Rs 15,000 crore road projects envisaged for the North-East, Rs 6,000 crore worth highways will be developed in Arunachal Pradesh, Rs 2,000 crore projects each in Nagaland and Meghalaya and the remaining ones in other parts of the region,” Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said here.
On the direction of Dr. Wasiya Naveed Principal Nizamia Tibbi College, Charminar, Dr. Shaheda Fatima PG research scholar, under the supervision of Prof. Shahzadi Sultana, will undertake free Unani treatment for gynic ailments such as white discharge, diabetes etc. on Tuesday and Thursday from 10 am to 12 noon, at room no 9, Out Patient Block, Nizamia General Hospital, Charminar, Hyderabad.
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Telangana government has released a budget of Rs. 87,28,36,000. With this the release of budget for the current financial year 2015-16 has virtually begun. The amount has been released as the 1st quarterly instalment of the year. Government has allocated Rs. 1105 Cr. for Minority Welfare of which Rs. 87 cr has been released after nearly one month.
Yoga guru and Ayurved drugmaker Ramdev on Friday slammed his critics and defended the ‘Divya Putrajeevak Seed’, sold by Divya Pharmacy; by saying it has nothing to do with the birth of a male.
“The botanical name of this medicine is ‘Putranjiva roxburghi’. It’s called ‘Putrajeevak’ in Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, Bengali and other languages. What do I do when its very name is Putrajeevak?” Ramdev told the media persons.
“If it creates any confusion, we will add a line to the product saying it has nothing to do with the birth of a male or a female child,” Ramdev said.
Sikhs have to explain to American people what the turban means because that is the immediate source of their identification, according to the author of a new report on Sikhs in America presented to US lawmakers.
“Sikhs have to explain what it symbolizes and what values it represents,” said Geoff Garin, former political strategist for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton presenting the key findings of the report at a briefing arranged by the National Sikh Campaign (NSC).
A 22-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped by an acquaintance and his two friends in a moving car before being dumped in the forest near Ajrada village here, police said today.
The girl, a resident of Nagina in Bijnor district was found unconscious yesterday in the forests near Ajrada village after being raped by three youths, Station Incharge of Mundali police station, Wasim Khan said.
Microsoft has announced that the phone version of its Windows 10 operating system will not be launched this summer.
Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President, Operating Systems Group at Microsoft said that the phone builds have not been as far along as PC builds.
Belfiore also said that from the device view, their main focus is to kick off the Windows 10 launch wave with a great launch on the PC. Users should expect that the other devices like phone, HoloLens, Xbox, Surface Hub will be staggered.
Microsoft has built a new website that will tell an individual how old does one look by analyzing the face through a picture.
Microsoft’s machine-learning team has launched a website Howold.net on trial bases recently at the BUILD conference that will let a person upload a picture , and then will quickly analyze the individual, and spits out an estimated age, TechCrunch reported.
The new age guessing website requires an under 3MB well-lit photo to evaluate one’s age right away with the help of their robot.
Two burglary cases were registered from two houses of the same apartment in Ramakrishna Nagar, under Amberpet police station on Thursday.
According to police flat No. 205 of Heera Moti Apartment at Central Excise Colony in Ramakrishna Nagar reported a case.
U Venkata Chalapathi Rao, 52, a professor and his wife, Aruna, employee of NEDCAP, had left for office on Thursday around 9.30 am. After returning home they found that the front grill door was broken and 34 tolas of gold, cash and some silver articles were missing from the almirah.
Barcelona talisman Lionel Messi has confirmed that he is going to be a father again by posting a picture of his pregnant wife on social media.
The argentine international took to Instagram to share a picture of his son, Tiago , kissing Antonella Roccizzo’s stomach, and added a message, “Can’t wait to welcome you into our world!!! We love you! Thiagui, mum and dad,” Sport24 reported.
Messi, the four-time Ballon d’Or winner, and Roccuzzo’s first son was born in November 2012. (ANI)
An interesting survey has listed down the jobs that make people drink most.
According to the data from US Government, Mining industry topped the list with almost 20 percent followed by Construction and Accommodation and food industry just above 15 percent, the Mirror reported.
People working in Hotels and Restaurants and Arts and Entertainment industry drank between 10-15 percent because of their jobs.
Industries namely Real estate, Finance and insurance, Public Administration, Education and Health had the least number of employees drinking less than 5 percent.