Superstar Salman Khan is offering his fans a chance to feature in a remixed version of a song titled “Selfie le le” from his forthcoming film “Bajrangi Bhaijaan”.
The first song of Salman’s highly awaited film features the actor “clicking a lot of selfies”. Now there is a remixed version of the song being made and Salman is giving his fans a chance to star in it.
In a shocking incident, a panchayat (village council) in Haryana’s Faridabad district “sentenced” two youths accused of gang-raping a minor girl in May to be beaten with shoes five times each and a fine of Rs.50,000.
Intervening in the case, the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes has now directed Haryana Police to register a case against the panchayat and arrest the sarpanch and other members.
Yaya Toure has confirmed that he will stay on at Manchester City after chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak told him that the club would not consider selling him amid interest from Inter Milan.
Toure said he would definitely stay at the club and the fans need not worry, the Mirror reported.
The Ivorian also said that his target this year was to try to do everything possible to make this team improve well and he was sure with his experience, with the players coming in a couple of weeks, a couple of months, definitely it would be a strong City next year.
With one in every five person in India suffering from some form of mental disorder, mental health-related cost would account for 20 percent of economic loss from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) between 2012 and 2030, says a new report.
The “Aarogya Bharat” report by the Healthcare Federation of India (NATHEALTH) and leading management consulting firm Bain & Company estimated an economic loss of $6.2 trillion due to NCDs between 2012 and 2030.
An inspired Lucie Safarova pulled off the biggest upset of the French Open tennis tournament so far, taking out women’s No.2 seed and defending champion Maria Sharapova, in straight sets here on Monday.
Safarova gave Sharapova trouble from the very beginning, jumping out to a 3-1 lead and, after getting broken back, sneaking the set out in a tie-break. She won the match 7-6(3), 6-4.
Former India cricketers on Monday hailed the BCCI’s decision to appoint retired legends Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman and Sourav Ganguly in its cricket advisory committee, terming it a “step in the right direction.”
Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman were today inducted into the BCCI’s newly-constituted cricket advisory committee to guide the Board and the national team on various “progressive steps” needed for future challenges.
Ingredients
1/2 cup basmati rice cooked
1/4 cup ghee
3 Tbsp butter
1/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup almonds
1/4 cup cashew nuts
1/4 cup chironji seeds
1/4 cup jaggery
A few saffron strands
1/2 cup milk
Method
Heat a deep, heavy cooking vessel and add the ghee. Once the ghee is hot add the dry fruits and fry them until they are a lovely, rich golden in color.
Now add the cooked rice in the ghee until all of the rice is richly coated with the ghee and dry fruit.
Ingredients
1 whole chicken (with skin)
100gms butter
500ml milk
2 sprigs sage leaves
11 cloves of garlic
1 baguette
Lemon zest
Method
For Chicken:
Heat the butter in a pan.
Meanwhile, season the chicken with salt and pepper.
Add the seasoned chicken into the hot butter and sear until golden brown.
Add sage leaves for aroma, take them out from pan once fried and keep aside.
Add cloves of garlic, milk, lemon zest and fresh sage leaves in the pan.
Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma today alleged that RSS functionaries are “posted” in the office of every Minister and members in the Narendra Modi ministry are not an “independent entity”.
“….It is RSS which commands control. RSS says that it is a social and cultural organisation, they are not the ruling party, but they appoint the BJP President. They decide who will be the Prime ministerial nominee,” Sharma said.
Against the backdrop of the row on ban on beef, Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla today said the sentiments of majority community should also be respected.
Heptulla, a former Congress leader, also accused the previous Congress-led government of talking only about the sentiments of minorities.
Sri Lanka’s former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa was on Monday grilled by police over alleged corruption in an NGO which she ran during her husband Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presidency, the latest in a series of questioning of his family members.
She was questioned by the Financial Crime Investigation Division (FCID) at a location outside the headquarters for over two hours, sources said. She was summoned for an inquiry over alleged corruption in connection with a bank account of the ‘Carlton Siriliya Saviya’ Foundation, a non-governmental organisation.
Volvo Auto India has appointed Tom von Bonsdorff as the Managing Director of the company with immediate effect.
Bonsdorff, who has been with Volvo Cars for 17 years in various operational and managerial positions, will replace Tomas Ernberg who is moving back to Sweden in a new role, Volvo Auto India said in a statement.
During his career at Volvo Cars, Bonsdorff has worked in US, Sweden, Finland and in his current position – as a Market Area Director for Asia.
Government today said Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is testing more Maggi samples collected from different states in the wake of UP FSDA finding monosodium glutamate and lead in excess of the prescribed limit in the instant noodles.
While complete report of the tests are expected in the next two to three days, the government said Maggi brand ambassadors will also be liable for action if advertisements are found to be misleading.
In another case of road rage, two men beat each other black and blue after their cars brushed in northwest Delhi’s Bharat Nagar.
The men with broken teeth and chewed fingers called the police after the scuffle last night.
The incident took place around 8 pm when one Dharmendra who was returning from airport in an Indica car reached near the water tank in Ashok Vihar area.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will on Tuesday inaugurate the party’s year-round celebrations of the 125th birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar with the exercise being seen as an attempt by it to reach out to the Dalit community.
The observances by Congress to mark the 125th birth anniversary of Ambedkar — the architect of the Indian Constitution — will be held across the country after Gandhi flags off the commemoration at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh. Mhow is the birthplace of Ambedkar while June 2 marks the centenary of Ambedkar’s graduation from Columbia University in the USA.
An unidentified youth slashed a minor boy’s face with a blade after the latter refused to bring him a cigarette from a nearby shop in southeast Delhi’s Ambedkar Nagar area.
The incident took place last night when 16-year-old Rajesh, who lives with his family in Madangir area, was returning home from somewhere.
“On his way home, a youth stopped the teenager and asked him to bring him a cigarette from a nearby shop. When Rajesh refused to do so, the youth slashed his cheek with a blade and fled the spot,” a police official said.
Number of online registrations for Delhi University’s undergraduate courses shot up to over 1.3 lakh on sunday.
“The number of registrations till 5.30 PM on sunday were 1,35,549. A total of 68,857 applicants have already made the payment,” a senior varsity official said.
Since the online registrations process opened on May 28 the university has received 46,964 applications in general category, 14,106 OBC, 6,404 SC, 1,290 ST and 145 in Persons With Disability category, he said.
N.K. Kalia, the father of martyred Captain Saurabh Kalia, on Monday expressed the hope that the Supreme Court would direct the central government to take up his son’s case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
“It is sad and unfortunate that the Government of India is not taking concrete steps in this direction. This case is pending with the Supreme Court. I’m optimistic that the honorable court will take appropriate and suitable action and direct the Government of India to take up this matter with Pakistan and the ICJ,” N.K. Kalia told ANI.
You may get a long and healthy life simply by balancing your protein and carbohydrate intake, without drastically cutting down your calorie intake.
A research done in mice shows that low protein, high carbohydrate diets can provide benefits similar to those obtained with calorie restriction.
“We have shown that when compared head-to-head, mice got the same benefits from a low protein, high carbohydrate diet as a 40 percent calorie restriction diet,” said senior author Stephen Simpson, academic director of the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre.
Responding a yawn with a yawn is not restricted to humans and a few other mammals alone as researchers have now found that it also happens with members of a bird species of Australian origin.
Contagious yawning occurs between budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus), also known as parakeets that are often kept in cages as pets.
“To date, this is the first experimental evidence of contagious yawning in a non-mammalian species,” said study leader Andrew Gallup of the State University of New York in the US.
One of the major causes of blindness in remote areas is lack of access to healthcare. Now, a new smartphone app will soon change that.
Developed by British ophthalmologists, the Portable Eye Examination Kit (Peek) app is likely to change the lives of people living with poor eye sight but without access to care in remote areas.
Peek uses a smartphone camera equipped with a 3D printed adaptor and an acuity app to conduct eye examinations.
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Washington, June 1 (IANS) Scientists have perfected mini-cultured 3D structures that grow and function much like the outer tissue (cortex) of the brain of the person from whom they were harvested.
Strikingly, these “organoids” buzz with neuronal network activity where cells talk with each other in circuits much as they do in our brains.
This evolving “disease-in-a-dish” technology is bringing closer the day when patients can ask for personalised medicines, said the study, funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The government is mulling to sell eight loss-making ITDC hotels to strategic investors and will soon work out the modalities of valuation and mode of sale.
Officials from Tourism Ministry and the department of disinvestment in the Finance Ministry are expected to meet soon to decide the way forward, official sources said.
“Timing, valuation, ways of selling and potential investors are the key areas. We would need to figure out first before proceeding with the sale,” a source said.
Gold prices on Monday drifted by Rs 105 to trade at a three-week low of Rs 27,225 per ten grams at the bullion market owing to slackened demand from jewellers amid a weak global trend.
Silver remained under selling pressure and traded lower by Rs 175 to Rs 38,400 per kg.
Marketmen said low demand from jewellers amid a weak global trend mainly kept pressure on gold prices.
Globally, gold traded lower by 0.24 percent to USD 1,187.10 an ounce and silver by 0.39 percent to USD 16.63 an ounce in London in early trade.
Jet fuel price was hiked by a steep 7.5 per cent on Monday and rates of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) by Rs 10.50 per cylinder in step with global firming of rates.
Price of aviation turbine fuel (ATF), or jet fuel, in Delhi was raised by Rs 3,744.08 per kilolitre (kl), or 7.54 per cent, to Rs 53,353.92, oil companies announced today.
On May 1, ATF price was hiked by a marginal Rs 272 per kl or 0.5 per cent to Rs 49,609.84.