Authorities at the prestigious Scottish Church College here has prescribed a dress code for its students which include well below knee-length skirts for girls and a ban on any kind of earrings or facial studs for boys.
A notice put up on the college’s notice board has said that in order to maintain propriety and proper atmosphere in college campus, the dress code would have to be followed by the students.
Come July and Air India, Air India Express passengers from the UAE will face stricter rules on carry-on baggage.
“The free allowance for hand luggage would be restricted to eight kg on Air India and seven kg on Air India Express, inclusive of duty free items,” Khaleej Times reported on Sunday.
According to a senior airline official, the free allowance for hand luggage will be strictly restricted to 8kg and 7kg respectively on these airlines inclusive of duty free items.
One student was today arrested for transmitting questions via Whatsapp during an UGC Net 2015 examination, police said.
Rimon Hassan of Natun Beliashampur of Bhagwabgola in Murshidabad district was caught allegedly while transmitting photographs of questions from the examination hall of a school in central Kolkata during third paper of the UGC Net, they said.
Principal Sraboni Samanta of Abhinav Bharati High School, which was the exam venue, lodged a complaint with the Shakespeare Sarani Police Station against Hassan, acting on which police arrested the youth, police added.
Daily bathing of paediatric patients with disposable clothes containing two percent chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) reduces bloodstream infections by 59 percent, a study shows.
The study was presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
“We took great care to ensure successful implementation of the new bathing regimen,” said Adam N. Karcz, infection preventionist at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis.
A day after the director of a private residential school in Bihar’s Nalanda district was beaten to death by villagers, hundreds of angry protestors on Monday blocked traffic and demanded action against those involved, police said.
The family of the lynched director demanded a CBI probe, and private schools in Nalanda remained close on Monday in protest against the incident.
Two United Arab Emirates (UAE) expatriates – a woman and an 11-year-old child – were found infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, a media report said on Monday.
The victims, who live in the eastern region of Abu Dhabi, contracted the virus from a relative, who had the virus diagnosed last month, The National quoted the World Health Organisation (WHO) as saying.
Neither of them had been exposed to other risk factors in the 14 days before detection, the WHO said. They are being kept in isolation, where they have not shown any symptoms.
If you stop using your legs just for two weeks, you would lose a third of your muscular strength even if you are quite young and strong, says a new study.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen examined what happens to the muscles in younger and older men after a period of high inactivity — for example when we are injured, fall ill or simply take a very relaxing holiday.
The Hyderabad High Court on Monday dismissed a petition seeking orders to the central government to direct the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governor to implement section 8 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act.
The section vests special powers in the governor to monitor law and order in Hyderabad, the joint capital of the two states.
The court, while dismissing the petition filed by the Andhra Association of Telangana, observed that it cannot issue the orders as the act does not say that the governor will implement section 8 at New Delhi’s direction.
At 22, she played a mother to a 15-year-old in the TV show “Hasratein”. Now 20 years later too, seasoned actress Shefali Shah landed a mother’s role in “Dil Dhadakne Do”. She says slotting of actresses in the industry is not based on one’s age.
“I don’t think it has too much to do with the age as much it has with your image on screen,” Shefali told IANS when asked if roles to actresses are given based on their age and marital status in the industry.
Too much male sexual attention harms attractive females, according to a study on fruit flies.
The study showed that male harassment of females hampered the species’ ability to adapt to new environmental conditions.
“We found that sexually attractive females were overwhelmed by male suitors. Female fruit flies with superior genes that allow them to lay more eggs were so attractive to male suitors they spent most of the time fending off male suitors rather than actually laying eggs,” said Steve Chenoweth from Queensland University, Australia.
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex plunged over 600 points in the trade today as fears intensified over Greece likely to default on its debt repayment.
This triggered concerns about foreign selling in the emerging markets.
The Sensex, which opened 450 points, was soon trading 600 points down, while the 50-share Nifty index fell below 8,200 levels.
As per reports, the Sensex was at 11 a.m. down nearly 571 points to 27,240, while the Nifty fell to 8,205.
At least 11 soldiers were killed after Taliban militants ambushed a military convoy in Afghanistan’s Herat province, the media reported on Monday.
The incident took place Sunday night in Masjid-e-Chobi area of Kurkh district, Tolo News reported.
The convoy was travelling from Herat city to the neighbouring Badghis province. The insurgents also seized the weapons of the dead soldiers.
Three people were killed when a plane crashed into a house in Massachusetts state, US, the media reported on Monday.
The plane carrying three passengers crashed into a home in Plainville town on Sunday, setting the house on fire, reported CNN.
“The house immediately caught fire after the crash. The four occupants got out of the building before it became fully engulfed in flames,” state police said.
The victims have not been identified yet.
The aircraft departed from Lancaster airport in Pennsylvania and was headed to Norwood Memorial Airport, around 30 km from the crash site.
Poachers have killed yet another world famous one-horned rhino in Assam’s Kaziranga national park, taking the number to 12 since January this year, officials said on Monday.
Park officials said the guards patrolling the park recovered the carcass of a rhino from the Burhapahar range of the forest on Monday.
“It bore bullet injury and the horn was missing, which indicated it to be a case of poaching,” park director M.K. Yadav told IANS.
Seems like ice-cream maker Ben and Jerry’s has its own way to support the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage, as the brand has renamed its chocolate chip cookie dough flavour to ‘I Dough, I Dough.’
Honouring the court’s verdict, the company has re-designed its ice-cream tub that now depicts two loved-up cows in top hats with their tails knotted together, reported the Daily Star.
Tihar jail authorities have initiated a probe after two prisoners escaped, an official said on Monday.
“We have initiated a detailed inquiry under the guidance of superintendent of jail number 3 M.K. Dwivedi,” Tihar Jail Deputy Inspector General Mukesh Prasad told IANS.
Faizan, 19, and Javed alias Rinku, 18, escaped from jail number seven at Tihar on June 27. Faizan was caught while Javed is still on the run.
Prasad said that the two were found missing during the evening roll call.
The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to the central government on a plea seeking to restrain Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) chief Mukesh Kumar Meena from interfering in the activities of the anti-corruption department.
But Justice V.P. Vaish refused to pass an interim order on the Delhi government’s plea seeking to restrain Meena from entering the premises of the ACB.
The court sought a response from the central government by August 11 and asked Meena to “act in accordance with law”.
PA young Pakistani journalist was shot dead at his residence in Usta Mohammad district of Balochistan on Sunday morning.
According to the Express Tribune, 35-year-old Zafarullah Jattak was affiliated with a Quetta-based newspaper.
Jattak was sleeping when the attack occurred. The deceased was working as tehsil reporter for Daily Intikhab.
DSP Khawand Bukhsh said that armed men barged into his home and opened fire. Jattak died on the spot while his killers escaped unchallenged, he added.
A new study has suggested that consumers are unclear about the risks or benefits of e-cigarettes.
The Scotland study suggested that while some smokers consider electronic cigarettes a potential aid in quitting, some people who have already quit see them as a temptation to resume a habit they fought hard to ditch, Fox News reported.
Steered by a young woman, the first train of the Chennai Metro Rail chugged off from Alandur Station here today after being flagged off by chief minister J Jayalalithaa.
The first train which left at 12.15 PM from Alandur to Koyambedu was driven by A Preethi, a 28 year old diploma holder in engineering from Government Dharmambal Polytechnic College here.
The Chief Minister inaugurated it by flagging it off via live video from the State Secretariat here.
“I am excited, my daughter’s dream of becoming a loco pilot of Metro Rail has come true,” Preethi’s father R Anbu told PTI.
Here is the high intensity anti-“dad bod” workout routine for fathers out there, who’d prefer a fitter physique.
As per Yahoo! Health, on average, fathers are 10 pounds heavier than non-dads as they’re carrying nearly an extra two inches on their waist and their bellies stick out an extra half-inch.
Celeb trainer and Barry’s Bootcamp partner Derek DeGrazio said that the new ‘trend’ suggests women are more attracted to the dad bod than a chiseled, Brad Pitt-like body, but his suggestion to Dads is to do his workout and lose the 10 pounds.
The economic crisis in Greece may trigger capital outflows from India and the government is consulting the RBI to deal with the situation, Finance Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi said.
Stating that the Greece situation has no direct impact on India, he said there may be some indirect effect via Europe on capital inflows and outflows here.
“Greece criss does not have any effect directly on India. (But) interest rate may firm up in Europe. In case of firming up of interest rate in Europe, there can be outflow of capital from India,” Mehrishi told reporters here.
A Delhi court on Monday deferred the framing of charges against cricketers Ajit Chandila, S. Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and others, including underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakeel, to July 25.
Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna, who was scheduled to pass the order today, said that the order sheet is not yet prepared.
Sreesanth today expressed hope that he would be free of all the charges levelled against when this case is next heard.
The revolutionary Solar Impulse 2 aircraft took off early today for a flight over the Pacific Ocean, a spokeswoman said, on the most ambitious leg of its quest to circumnavigate the globe powered only by the sun.
The two inmates who managed the daring escape were identified as Faizan and Javed both of whom were lodged in jail for burglaries.
In a major security breach at Tihar Jail, two undertrials scaled the wall of the ward they were lodged in and then dug a tunnel through the boundary wall to escape from one of the most high-security prisons in the country.
While one of them was later caught, the other one is still on the run and a mega manhunt has been launched to nab him.