Month: June 2015

In a shocking news, the Director of a Delhi Public School (DPS) branch Devendra Prasad was killed by a flash mob after the recovery of the bodies of two students from a ditch in Bihar’s Nalanda district.

Prasad succumbed during treatment at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), Nalanda’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Sidharth Mohan Jain told PTI.

A post-mortem was being carried out on the body to ascertain exact cause of the DPS official’s death, he said.

Over 1,500 pilgrims stranded on way to the Himalayan shrines in Uttarakhand have been evacuated as the pilgrimage to Badrinath and the Sikh shrine of Hemkund Sahib in Chamoli district remained disrupted for the fourth consecutive day.

Pilgrimage to Hemkund Sahib has been suspended after a bridge near Bhyundar village along the trek route was washed away in rains and a substitute for it is under construction.

Stranded pilgrims were being ferried in vehicles from Badrinath to Benakuli and Lambagad to Joshimath, Chamoli’s Disaster Management Officer Nand Kishor Joshi said.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to raise more girls in India, hashtag ‘selfiewithdaughter’ trended on Twitter.

Several tweets and social media posts were seen in which parents posed in front of the camera with their daughters.

In his 9th edition of ‘Mann Ki Baat’, PM voiced concern over the declining sex ratio in 100 districts of the country, with situation being “more serious” in Haryana, and pitched for a campaign to save girls through the social media.

In a new twist in the FTII controversy, now the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has called the striking students to discuss the demand for removal of TV actor Gajendra Chauhan from the post of chairman.

Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Director D J Narain told PTI today that the tentative date suggested for a dialogue with the agitating students is July 3, which has been conveyed to the the FTII Students’ Association, spearheading the strike, which has entered the 17th day.

A benchmark index for Indian equities, the sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), on Monday opened lower and was trading at 27,321.66 points, some 30 minutes after the opening bell.

The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading lower, at 8,230.85 points, with a loss of 150.25 points or -1.79 percent.

The 30-share Sensex opened at 27,278.37 points, against the previous close at 27,451.07 points. At 9.45 a.m., it was ruling at 27,310.98 points, with a loss of 509.18 points, or -1.83 percent.

Four terrorists, including a suicide bomber, were killed and nine injured in a raid carried out in Pakistan’s Lahore city on Monday.

During the raid in Lahore’s Rachna Town and Khan Colony area, a suicide bomber blew himself up, injuring nine people including a policeman, Geo News reported.

One terrorist was shot by police on the spot while two more who sustained bullet wounds succumbed to their injuries later.

The world’s tallest cow ever who stood at over 6 feet 2 inches has died in the US after sustaining an irreparable leg injury, Guinness World Records has said.

Blosom stood at a staggering 74.8 inches and was first recognised as the tallest cow living after Guinness World Records visited Blosom and her owner in Orangeville, Illinois, earlier this year.

The 13-year-old female Holstein passed away last month after sustaining an irreparable leg injury.

India’s defence caved in under pressure as a rampaging Australia crushed them 6-2 in the last league fixture of the FIH World League Semifinals, here today.

Penalty corner shooter Chris Ciriello’s three conversions set World champions Australia on course for a runaway victory that duly placed them atop Group A standings with four straight wins, while India finished in second spot with seven points from four matches.

Birender Lakra (34th minute) and Ramandeep Singh (51st) reduced the defeat margin for India in the match, which dominated by the world number one side.

Dhanushkodi, an holy destination for pilgrims and tourists at the south-eastern tip of Pamban Island in Tamil Nadu, will get a good road before the end of this year.

The road which was devoured by the cyclonic storm in 1964, was being freshly paved by the Highways Authorities from Mukundharayar Chattiram to Dhanushkodi, which is considered the “Athi Sethu” (the ancient Sethu Samuthiram).

Presently the pilgrims were visiting the holy place by taking four-wheel driven vehicles, as they had to drive through sand dunes.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today ordered a CID probe into the alleged question paper leak in the Industrial Training Institutes Entrance Examination, which was cancelled for the day and deferred to July 5.

“The CM has ordered a CID probe into the ITI question paper leak case. The CID has already taken over it,” state Home Secretary Basudeb Banerjee told PTI over phone.

Twenty six people died today of high temperatures in Pakistan’s Karachi, taking the death toll to around 1,300 as residents grappled with the week-long heatwave that has crippled life and overwhelmed the healthcare system.

Weather experts forecast the temperatures, which have been as high as 45 degrees Celsius in the past week, are again likely to soar in the next few days in Karachi, the country’s biggest city and the financial capital.

Congress today held a protest against the AAP-led Delhi government accusing it of “total failure” in controlling price rise of essential commodities including fruits and vegetables.

The protest, held at Mahipalpur of South Delhi, was led by DPCC chief Ajay Maken who also slammed the AAP government for presenting a “lackluster budget” which he said will cause “inflationary pressures”.

A Youth Akali Dal leader allegedly committed suicide here following which police today booked seven persons, including two senior leaders of the ruling Akali Dal for abetment of suicide.

Santokh Singh Sukhana, National General Secretary of the Youth Akali Dal, was today found hanging in a bathroom of a hotel, SHO Kotwali Inspector Dharm Pal said. Said.

Seven persons, including two Akali leaders namely Pritam Singh Bhairowal and Gurdip Singh Gosha a Youth Akali leader, have been booked by the police on basis of the suicide note recovered, he said.

Two minor girls from Odisha were allegedly sold by their parents to two persons in Madhya Pradesh, following which a police team has been sent to the state to trace the girls.

A four-member police team has been sent to Madhya Pradesh to investigate into the allegation made by the elder sister and brother of the two girls, aged 12 and 13, sub- divisional police officer (SDPO) Utakala Keshari Dash said.

Indian women produced their best performance of the ongoing World Hockey League Semifinals even though they suffered a 2-4 loss to World Cup silver medallists Australia after a gritty fight in their last preliminary league outing here.

Australia were served well by their penalty corner shooter Jodie Kenny, who completed a hat-trick of three penalty corner strikes and then added a goal through a penalty stroke conversion at the KHC Dragons Stadium.

India twice rallied to draw parity through goals from Vandana Katariya and Poonam Rani.

Six archers, all aged below 12, entered the Indian Book of Records and Asia Book of Records by pulling off spectacular performance at a mixed team event held at Cherukuri Volga Archery Academy here today.

While archers Dolly Shivani and Nischal jointly scored 110 points, Shivani and Virat Sai scored 85 and the duo of Shivani and Datta Sai 90.

The event was held in varying ranges at 10 metres, 9 metres, 8 metres, 7 metres and 6 metres.

Chief Editor of the India Book of Records Viswaroop Roy Chowdary attended the event as observer.

A Delhi court is likely to pronounce its order on framing of charges in IPL-6 spot fixing case in which suspended cricketers S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan and others, including underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakeel, are accused.

Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna had on May 23 reserved for today the order on framing of charges in the case and had asked the counsel appearing for the accused to file their written arguments, if any, by June 6.

Indian shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa won the Canada Open women’s doubles title after upstaging the top-seeded Dutch pair of Eefje Muskens and Selena Piek in the summit clash.

The third-seeded Indian pair triumphed 21-19 21-16 in the contest which lasted 35 minutes.

In a closely-contested opening game, Jwala and Ashwini broke away from the 19-19 and converted the lone game point opportunity to grab the initiative.

Scientists are developing new adaptive mobile technology that could enable visually-impaired people to ‘see’ through their smartphone or tablet.

Specialists in computer vision and machine learning based at the University of Lincoln, UK, funded by a Google Faculty Research Award, are aiming to embed a smart vision system in mobile devices to help people with sight problems navigate unfamiliar indoor environments.

Light Emitting Diodes made from nanowires would use less energy and provide better light, scientists have found.

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark studied nanowires using X-ray microscopy and were able to pinpoint exactly how the nanowire should be designed to give the best properties.

Nanowires are very small – about 2 micrometres high (1 micrometer is a thousandth of a millimetre) and 10-500 nanometres in diameter (1 nanometre is a thousandth of a micrometre).

The head of Burundi’s parliament today said he had left the nation due to the violence raging there and urged the president not to seek an “illegal” third term.

“For the moment, I am forced to stay in Brussels… I stayed here given the difficulties in my country, difficulties which are due to the illegal third mandate of the President of the Republic,” Pie Ntavyohanyuma told France 24 news channel in an interview from Brussels.

Google’s smart contact lens that will measure glucose levels in diabetics by analysing their tears may be on the market before 2019.

In a recent patent application, Google showed off potential designs for how it could package a smart contact lens, suggesting the project could be further along than thought.

Last year, the company announced that it was working on a lens that would be able to measure a wearer’s glucose levels by analysing their tears.

The lens could potentially remove the need for diabetics to prick their fingers and draw blood to check their blood-sugar levels.

A tantrik who allegedly took the blood of his brother to use in his rituals was detained from his house in Burdwan district, police said.

Police raided their Kanchan Nagar village house falling under Burdwan police station after neighbours lodged a complaint in this regard following which the tantrik, identified as Shubhajit Chanda, 40, was detained.

They also rescued his brother Shamik and admitted him to hospital, police said.

According to villagers, Chanda has been drawing the blood of his brother Shamik for the past one and a half months.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called upon every state to select at least one district to take up apiculture, which has a ‘demand in the world market’.

“Every state can select at least one district to produce honey, which has demand in the world market. Some farmers are earning lakhs of rupees,” Modi said after laying stone for Indian Agriculture Research institution (IARI) at Barhi block in Hazaribagh district.

Nine people, who had sneaked into an abandoned coal mine in an attempted theft in eastern China’s Fujian Province, have died after inhaling toxic gasses.

Tweleve people had entered the closed mine in Yongding District yesterday to dig coal.

Three of them returned after they smelled a strong odour.

They called up the police after the nine persons who had descended into the mine first did not show up, rescuers said.

Rescuers were sent into the mine but a high-concentration of carbon-monoxide slowed the process.

The nine bodies were recovered today.