Month: June 2015

The Delhi High Court has asked the railway ministry to provide a job to a man whose mother died in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast.

The court also imposed costs of Rs.1 lakh on the ministry for the enormous delay in providing employment to him.

The then railway minister had announced Rs.10 lakh compensation to the family of the deceased and job in the railways for a dependent member of the victim.

Faryaz, who moved the high court, had received the compensation but had been running from pillar to post for securing the promised job.

The YSR Congress Party has demanded that the Anti-Corruption Bureau widen its net to investigate the cash-for-vote case.

“The TDP’s top leader seems to be the kingpin of the ‘cash for vote’ deal while Revanth Reddy is only a puppet. It is apparent that the strings are being pulled by the TDP Boss N Chandrababu Naidu to distribute the ill-gotten wealth while Revanth Reddy is only the front man. There is every need to get to the root of the money trail,” party spokesperson Ambati Rambabu told reporters on Monday.

Telangana Energy Minister Jagadish Reddy on Monday demanded that the Anti-Corruption Bureau should also question Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in the ‘Cash for Vote’ case in which TDP MLA A Revanth Reddy was arrested for trying to bribe one MLA.

Accusing Telangana Rashtra Samithi of spending more than Rs 200 crore on the MLC elections, the Telugu Desam Party on Monday demanded probe by Central Bureau of Investigation into all the transactions.

Telangana State Public Service Commission chairman Ganta Chakrapani on Monday informed that notifications for filling up thousands of vacancies in various departments of Telangana Government would be issued within a week.

Keen to ensure success of the first International Yoga Day on June 21, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today pitched for making Yoga a mass movement, connecting people and strengthening the bonds of humanity.

In a post on ‘Facebook’, he said the entire global community has come together in support of celebrating the first-ever International Day of Yoga on June 21.

If scuttlebutts are to be believed, the three high-soaring Khans of Bollywood, Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir will be soon seen together on the silver screen.

While it’s not a child’s play to get the three Khans together, filmmaker Sajid Nadiadwala is mulling getting them together for one of his most ambitious project, according to a report published in DNA.

As per the report, the film might be similar to Manmohan Desai’s 1977 blockbuster ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ which featured Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna and Rishi Kapoor in lead roles.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi has sought the disqualification of A Revanth Reddy as the Member of Legislative Assembly for his alleged involvement in ‘Cash for Vote’ case.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said investment for the integrated textile development project in the state has soared to Rs.37,000 crore.

“The investment figure for the integrated textile project has gone up to Rs. 37,000 crore from Rs.26,100 crore,” she said here at an interactive seminar, Business Made Easy – The Next Level.

On May 29, she had pegged the investment amount at Rs. 26,100 crore.

A flat buyer will get Rs.52 lakh as cost from a builder in Kochi, Kerala, for not handing over on schedule the possession of a flat that the man had booked and had paid Rs.71 lakh as its price.

The decks were cleared for Jayan to get Rs.52 lakh as the Supreme Court’s vacation bench of Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Justice Amitava Roy dismissed the builder’s plea against the National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission’s order directing him to pay a punitive cost of Rs.52 lakh at the rate of 12 percent per annum from March 2009.

An elated Israel today warmly welcomed the announcement of Narendra Modi’s visit to the Jewish nation, the first ever by an Indian Prime Minister, saying it would lead to “tightening” of the bilateral ties.

A day after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced Modi’s plans to visit that country, Israeli Ambassador to India Daniel Carmon told PTI that high level visits “are a natural ingredient of the tightening relationship” between Israel and India.

A group of people staged a protest near the Myanmar embassy in New Delhi on Monday demanding restoration of citizenship rights to minority community in the country.

The protesters demanded that Muslims be rehabilitated and accommodated as citizens of Myanmar.

“Our demand is that Muslims should be accommodated soon. Myanmar has revoked their citizenship and it should be restored and they should be recalled,” said protester, Abdul Nashir, protestor.

The police prevented the protesters from advancing towards the embassy by blocking the roads with barricades and standing before it.

He is still not clear about his role in the BCCI’s newly-constituted advisory committee, but former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly today said he is happy to be clubbed with Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman in the panel.

“I have just come to know about the committee, rest I don’t know. I don’t even know what is the role of the advisory committee. (But) I am happy to work with Sachin and Laxman,” Ganguly told reporters here.

Bangladesh authorities have confirmed that they will be filing murder charges against those involved in the 2013 garment factory, Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1100 people.

The charges will be filed against the building’s owner Sohel Rana and 40 others, including Rana’s parents and more than a dozen government officials for their role behind the deaths of 1137 people, said the lead investigator, Bijoy Krishna Kar, reported Stuff.co.nz.

Observing that public functionaries should not make “hollow promises” as they would be bound “morally, ethically and legally” by such announcements, Delhi High Court has slapped a cost of Rs one lakh on Railways for the eight-year delay in giving a job to the son of a victim of the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing.

Then Railway Minister, Lalu Prasad Yadav, apart from offering Rs 10 lakh compensation to the kin of people who died in the blast, had also said that one member of each affected family would also be given a job in the Railways, the court noted.

Australian pace legend Glenn McGrath sees Twenty20 cricket as the gateway to open cricket’s sojourn to the shores of the US and European countries beyond the British Isles.

“Test cricket is still the ultimate to me. Initially I had a few concerns when T20 first came about. (But) I think T20 is a type of cricket that can bring a different type of person to the game that does not watch cricket and take it to places like US, Europe and has the potential to make it a truly worldwide game,” said the 45-year-old New South Welshman during an interaction with PTI here today.

The Kaspersky Lab statistics has shown that a total of 23,095 DDoS attacks were carried out on web resources located in 76 countries in the first quarter of 2015.

Servers in the USA, Canada and China were most frequently targeted, while the top 10 victims also included resources in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

The study also finds that the greatest number of attacks on a single web resource in Q1 2015 was 21, compared to 16 in Q4 2014, and the most prolonged botnet attack occurred for almost six days.

PM Modi is likely to pay a visit to the India’s centuries-old Cheraman Juma Masjid.

But do you know why the oldest Muslim shrine, Cheraman Juma Masjid was constructed by a group of Arabs led by Malik Bin Dinar in the year 628 AD and it is named after Chera King, Cheraman Perumal?

Cheraman Perumal, the reigning King of Kerala, with Kodungallur as its capital, once experienced an unusual dream of the new moon being split into two halves at the horizon.

Doctors in India has successfully treated a 12 year old swine flu patient using the artificial heart lung machine.

Apollo Children’s Hospitals, Chennai’s leading pediatric hospital and the only hospital in Chennai to house an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) machine exclusively for children with successful outcomes, has helped a critical H1N1 12 year old Soubhashree survive.

The entire treatment regime could cost about Rs 10-45 lakhs in India and could cost Rs 1 crore or more abroad. (ANI)

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard has urged Myanmar to give citizenship to Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution there, saying that resettling them in a third country was not an answer to the “swelling tide” of boat people in South East Asia.

While wrapping up a three-day visit to Malaysia, Richard said the solution to the migrant crisis was “peace and stability” and added that resettling refugees in the U.S. will entice others to leave their homeland, The New York Times reports.

Almost 2,600 people have been killed in Egypt in the 18-month-long period after the deposition of former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013, a state-sanctioned rights body has said.

The Guardian quoted Mohammed Fayeq, head of the National Council for Human Rights, as saying that about 700 police officers and 550 civilians were among those killed in the period between 30 June, 2013 and 31 December, 2014. He added that Morsi’s supporters constituted half the total number.

Bangladesh police has reportedly charged 42 people, including the owner of Rana Plaza, Sohel Rana, in two cases filed over the building’s collapse in 2013, which killed 1,135 people, mostly garment workers.

Bijoy Krishna Kar, assistant superintendent of Criminal Investigation Department, submitted two charge-sheets before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Dhaka: one for murder and another for violating building code, reported The Daily Star.

The newly developed Zero Energy Furniture (ZEF) table could be a new way cut down on energy costs.

The table contains a special phase-changing material that absorbs and releases heat to keep room temperature around 71 degree F, CNN News reported.

The science behind the climate control table wasn’t new, according to the Parisian duo behind the invention, designer Jean-Sebastien Lagrange and engineer Raphael Menard.

Lagrange said that the application to everyday objects could possibly address climate and energy issues on a furniture scale.

Scores of students on Monday staged a protest outside the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry here against de-recognition of a students group by the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras).

The students, gathered under the aegis of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union, raised slogans against IIT-Madras and the HRD ministry at Shashtri Bhawan, which houses the ministry.

The Jamia Millia Islamia and Delhi University units of All India Student Association (AISA) also participated in the demonstration.

Actress Vidya Balan will be conferred with a Doctor of Arts Honoris Causa degree by an Ahmedabad-based institute Rai University to appreciate her contribution to Indian cinema and for her endeavour to bring out the strong side of a woman via the silver screen. Overwhelmed by the honour, the actress hopes to live up to the honour.

“It is truly humbling and overwhelming to receive this honour. What makes this even more special is that I complete ten years in the film industry this year.