Month: June 2015

The Shiv Sena showered its ‘blessings’ on Zeeshan Ali Khan, a Muslim MBA who was recently refused a job in a well-known diamond export company but now absorbed by the Adani Group in Mumbai.

“If something like this had happened, it is condemnable in the strongest terms… The boy was refused a job on grounds of religion, but now he has got an even bigger offer from Adani Group, and he is happy…” the party said in an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana on Tuesday.
“Go ahead, Zeeshan…!” it added.

Microsoft is set to acquire 6Wunderkinder GmbH, the Germany-based startup that created and develops Wunderlist for an amount between USD 100 million and USD 200 million.

According to the Verge, the deal has not been finalised as yet.

The deal represents Microsoft’s latest move to boost its mobile presence and cover all bases around productivity software.

Wunderlist has earned favourable reviews among Android, iOS, and Windows Phone users.

However, Wunderlist has declined to comment on the deal with Microsoft. (ANI)

It is being rumored that Pakistani actress Urwa Hocane desires to do meaty roles in Bollywood and she is getting offers for the same as well.

The 23-year-old actress claimed that she refused to play the lead role in Ekta Kapoor’s latest production ‘Azhar’, which is a film based on the former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin and will see Emraan Hashmi as the lead male, reported the Express Tribune.

Issuing a clarification, she said doing bold scenes were not the only reason to refuse the offer, as she was also busy working on a local production titled ‘Jhol.’

Spotify has provided a list of 20 songs that people listen to the most when getting high.

Cypress Hill’s ‘Hits From The Bong’ tops the list with ‘Legalise it’ by Peter Tosh sitting at the second place, the Independent reported.

Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe’ is the sixth most-listened to 420 track, while Notorious B.I.G’s ‘Juicy’ and Snoop Dogg’s ‘Gin And Juice’ are in there too.

Extending its decline, the BSE Sensex tanked over 640 points on IMD’s lowering monsoon forecast for this year and RBI taking a cautious stance on the economic recovery even as it cut policy rates by 25 basis points.

In its second bi-monthly policy review, the RBI cut interest rate by 0.25 per cent for the third time this year.
The 30-share index — which fell by over 347 points soon after RBI announced monetary policy — was down sharply by 642.11 points or 2.31 per cent to 27,206.88.

All the sectoral indices led by banking and realty, were trading in negative terrain.

If you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, it’s better to lay off Western diet, which includes red and processed meat, high-fat dairy foods, and refined grains.

According to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the consuming Western diet can significantly increase risk of both prostate cancer-related mortality and overall mortality compared with eating a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, fish, whole grains, and healthy oils.

Eddie Redmayne will be taking on the role of Newt Scamander in the ‘ Harry Potter’ prequel ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’.

Warner Bros. has confirmed the that ‘The Theory Of Everything’ Oscar winning star will be gracing the next fantasy film, that will release in 3D and Imax in November 2016, Deadline.com has reported.

J.K. Rowling will be debuting as a screenwriter in this flick, which will be directed by David Yates and produced by David Heyman. (ANI)

A district court here directed police on Tuesday to register an FIR against two Nestle officials and film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Preity Zinta, who have featured in the Maggi advertisements and arrest them if required.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ramchandra Prasad directed Kazi Mohammadpur Police Station to register the FIR against the five and investigate the complaint.

The court also directed the police to go for arrest if required in the course of investigation.

The order came during the hearing of a case filed by lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha on Monday.

Seismologist Lucy Jones is busy separating fact from fiction after the blockbuster ‘San Andreas’ topped the box office in the United States and in New Zealand.

The film, which is based on cataclysmic events following a rupture in the San Andreas Fault, envisions a series of huge earthquakes that wipe out much of California, CBS News reported.

When real earthquakes hit the Californian state, reporters turned to seismologist Lucy Jones of the United States Geological Survey for all the facts.

Iraq’s prime minister said today that the majority of Islamic State fighters were foreign, as he visited Paris to drum up international support for the fight against the jihadist group.

“What I can see for Iraq, the flow of foreign fighters is more than before,” Haider al-Abadi told reporters, hours before a meeting of around 20 foreign ministers from the US-led anti-IS coalition in the French capital.

“There is an international problem, it has to be solved.”

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday paid his tribute to Dr B.R. Ambedkar by garlanding his statue at his birthplace Mhow in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday.

The Congress vice president will also be interacting with Dalits later in the day.

He will also meet activists to discuss the path forward to addressing their issues. (ANI)

A day after a 21-year-old woman accused the driver of Uber taxi services of attempting to kiss her after she got off at her destination in Gurgaon, Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi on Tuesday assured prompt action and said that a few taxis have already been confiscated.

“We will look into it and whatever action is required, we will definitely take. We have impounded a number of such taxis and we have also take action under the Motor Vehicles Act. Whatever else is required we will be doing,” said Bassi.

A report released by the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has called for an end on imposition of death penalty by majority view of the judges of the high courts and the Supreme Court of India.

The ACHR report titled “India: Death despite dissenting judgments” was released on Tuesday.

Coordinator of the National Campaign for Abolition of Death Penalty in India, Suhas Chakma, said that a varied opinion exists among Judges when it comes to death penalty.

Countering immediate threats to outspoken writer and human rights activist Taslima Nasrin, a New York-based non-profit educational, advocacy and research organisation has relocated her to the United States.

The step to relocate Nasrin has been taken in the wake of the murder of three secular bloggers, Avijit Roy, Washiqur Rahman, and Ananta Bijoy Das in Bangladesh.

Vince Vaughn thinks he has the answer to deter mass shootings, that is, by allowing guns in schools.

The 45-year-old actor said in an interview that it’s well known that the greatest defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back, Fox News reported.

The ‘True Detective’ star added that he supports people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home, noting that people don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars, they have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

‘Heaven Knows What’ famed star Arielle Holmes has joined the cast of ‘ American Honey’ alongwith Shia LaBeouf , it has been revealed.

The flick which recently began its shooting in Oklahorma center’s around a runaway teenager who gets caught up in partying, breaking law and love, Deadline.com has reported.

According to reports, filmmakers Joshua and Ben Safdie met Holmes in New York while doing research for another project.

Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has said that the US nuclear deal with India has “affected strategic stability which existed before that” in South Asia.

The Dawn quoted Choudhry, as saying that maintaining strategic balance in South Asia was necessary for peace.

The foreign secretary was speaking ahead of leading a Pakistan team for strategic talks with the Americans in Washington on Tuesday.

He said that Pakistan’s nuclear program will only be a weapon of deterrence considering the perception of threat from India.

If you love to trot around in stilettos, you might want to change your habit as a new study has claimed that women who wear 10 cm high heels over 3 times per week developed an imbalance of 4 functional ankle muscles.

While wearing high-heeled shoes appeared to strengthen ankle muscles at first, prolonged use eventually caused an imbalance, which is a crucial predictor of ankle injury.

The Confederation of India Industries (CII) on Tuesday welcomed the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to cut the Repo Rate by 25 basis points, saying that the move reinforces the perception that the Central bank and the government are working to take the economy to a higher pedestal of growth.

CII Director General Chandrajit Banerjee, however, said that expectations were to reduce the rates by at least 50 bps.

A new study has revealed that climate change could be blamed for extreme and slow weather pattern changes in places like Texas and India.

Scientists predicted that more of these extreme weather fluctuations like the flooding that killed at least 30 people recently in the southern plains, while damaging or destroying thousands of homes and on the other side of the world, the extraordinary heat wave that killed more than 2,000 in India, could be seen in future, CBS News reported.

Nicki Minaj, who broke up with her fiance Meek Mill, used Instagram to spread the word of her separation.

The 33-year-old rapper posted images from her Cosmopolitan July cover shoot, along with the caption, “Thank God ya blew it!!! Thank God I dodged the bullet!!!!,” reported the Mirror.

The words in her caption are taken from Beyonce’s hit single ‘Best Thing I Never Had,’ which is about splitting up.

A massive fire broke out inside the Goenka College of Commerce in Kolkata’s Bowbazar area on Tuesday.

Eight fire tenders have been rushed to the spot to douse the flames.

Further details are awaited. (ANI)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed his shock at the sinking of a cruise ship in the Yangtze River in China’s Hubei Province.

“Shocked to learn of the sinking of a cruise ship in the Yangtze River. I pray for the safety and wellbeing of those on board,” he said.

As per reports, five people have died and hundreds are missing after the cruise ship capsized on the Yangtze River. (ANI)

Accompanied by a high-level delegation, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will arrive in Visakhapatnam today on a three-day visit to India.

This would be Carter’s first visit to India as Defense Secretary.

He had earlier visited India in September 2013 and July 2012 as Deputy Defense Secretary.

An Indian-origin student and his two other classmates in Australia have won scholarships to attend Apple’s upcoming annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June, media reported.

Class 10 students Deepan Kumar, Ben Maliel and Christopher Seidl from Canberra Boys Grammar School won the scholarship by submitting their own coded iOS application, reported Canberra Times.

According to Kumar, programming helped students develop creative ideas that could solve many challenges the society faces and should be implemented in more schools.