Month: June 2015

Xolo has uploaded a new video on YouTube, which shows its new device ‘Xolo Black’. Xolo Black is shown as a smudge and stain free device. According to the in.techradar.com, the new video gives a glance of the dual rear cameras as well as the SIM card tray placed on the left hand side of the handset.

It also shows that the device will be launched on Flipkart. Xolo, which drew flak from the social media users for intentionally leaking out some hardware details of its phone, will want to put all that behind and unveil the phone as early as possible.

AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was today headed for a clear victory as she secured an unassailable lead of over 62,000 votes over her CPI rival in the R K Nagar Assembly seat bypoll.

At the end of seven rounds of counting, Jayalalithaa had secured 67,453 votes against CPI candidate C Mahendran’s 4,816. Social activist ‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy had polled 2226 votes.

Old Delhi’s narrow alleys are full of stories, especially the culinary kind that have been passed down over generations dating back to the Mughal period.

Over the recent years many individuals, explorers and tour guides have attempted to navigate the narrow bustling lanes of the Walled City through a series of walks centered around food.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will arrive here on Wednesday on a two-day visit to review the security arrangements for Amarnath Yatra and offer prayers at the Himalayan cave shrine on July 2.

The home minister will review the security arrangements for this year’s Amarnath Yatra along with Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed and senior officials of state and central security forces on Wednesday, official sources here told IANS.

“He will also be part of the first batch of devotees to visit the Holy Amarnath Shrine on July 2,” a senior state government official said.

Republican presidential aspirant Bobby Jindal has asked his fellow Republican leadership in the Congress to reject a nuclear deal with Iran, saying any such deal could start arms race in the Middle East.

“One, they should absolutely reject it (nuclear deal). Congress made a huge mistake in the bill they passed giving away some of their oversight authority,” Jindal told Fox News.

Cats are increasingly earning themselves a reputation as wildlife killers with estimates of animals killed every year by domestic cats numbering into millions, a new UK study has found. According to researchers at the University of Exeter and Queen Mary University of London, cat owners fail to realise the impact of their pets on wildlife.

Meeting of Minorities Development Forum will be held on Thursday, July 2, at 4:30 pm, at MDF office, Siasat. Mr. Abid Siddiqui president MDF will preside over. Proposed 43rd Du Ba Du programme to be held on Sunday, July 5, at Khaja Mansion function will be finalised at the meeting. Date of General Body Meeting and campaign to expedite membership will be finalised. MDF will be reconstituted at General Body Meeting.

Delhi High Court on Monday asked Lt Governor-appointee Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) chief M K Meena to act in accordance with the law, while refusing to issue directions to restrain him from entering office as sought by the Delhi government.

Justice V P Vaish also declined Delhi government’s pleas to stop Meena from removing the FIR book from ACB headquarter, recording new FIRs and seeking immediate removal of paramilitary personnel posted there.

Over 1.5 lakh students taking coaching classes at various centres in the city, known for its numerous engineering and medical entrance exam coaching institutes, are served non-nutritious food cooked in unhygienic conditions in the canteens.

According to Food and Safety Cell of the district, the food served in the 228 registered messes and food centres here, was found to be of poor quality, low in quantity and cooked in unhygienic condition.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed on Monday reviewed the arrangements made for the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims in state’s Baltal area.

Mufti was accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and Subrata Saha, GOC, 15 Corps.

Elaborate security arrangements have been made to ensure a safe and secure yatra for the pilgrims.

This year’s Amarnath Yatra will commence from July 2 and end on August 29.

The registration for this year’s Yatra, via selected bank branches, began in March. (ANI)

Asserting that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was disturbing the discipline associated with uniform, BJP leader Satish Upadhyay on Monday said it has become the latter’s habit to go to court over every issue.

“A discipline is associated with the uniform and he is disturbing that discipline. It has become his habit to go to the court on every issue,” said Upadhyay.

In 2006-07, India approved the construction of 73 strategic roads along the Sino-Indian border, but 82 per cent of these – scheduled to be ready by 2012 – are unfinished. The new deadline: 2018.

The Information Commission of Himachal Pradesh has directed the Public Information Officer (PIO) to reveal the details of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s land in Shimla, sought under the Right to Information Act.

Hearing the appeal of RTI activist Devashish Bhatacharya, the court of the Information Commission directed the Public Information Officer to provide the sought information in 10 days’ time.

‘Career Guidance’ a very informative and helpful book compiled by Mr. Syed Mohammed Iftekhar Musharraf, which guides regarding colleges and employment has been released. Its discounted rate is Rs. 200. Interested persons can obtain it directly from MDF office, Siasat premises Abids. Further details can be had from phone no 9959663334.

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Himself son of an immigrant parents from India, two-term Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal believes that immigrants in the US should learn English and adopt American values.

In a video advertisement, launched by his super PAC, 44-year-old Jindal is first shown stating he is tired of hyphenated Americans, as he referred to labels such as Indian-Americans, African-Americans and Asian-Americans. “I think our immigration system is broken.

Louisiana’s Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal is still not reconciled with the US Supreme Court’s ruling to recognize same-sex marriage, but for now his state agencies will comply with its decree.

Even though the apex court ruled Friday in a 5-4 decision in support of same-sex marriage, the Republican presidential candidate said on Fox News Monday, he will “continue fighting” over his belief that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Aleast 3,500 pilgrims stranded at Gobind Dham in Uttarakhand have been safely evacuated and brought back either at Gobind Ghat or Joshi Math in a joint operation District Administration of Math, ITBP and state team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).

A S Miglani, head of the special team deputed by the Punjab government for the evacuation of pilgrims from Gobind Ghat and Gobind Dham enroute Sri Hemkunt Sahib, said that all the pilgrims struck up at Gobind Dham have been rescued and moved safely to Gobind Ghat and Joshi Math.

Tiny aquatic flatworms known as freshwater planarians could limit the use of rats and mice in labs that test chemicals for neurological toxicity, a research has found.

Planarians, commonly used in high-school biology labs to study regeneration and the primitive nervous system, are actually quite sophisticated when it comes to modelling the response of the developing human nervous system to potentially toxic chemicals, the results showed.

Congress MLC Mr. Mohammed Farooq Husain said that Muslims would not go to Pakistan instead those who advise Muslims to go to Pakistan would be sent to graveyard. He told this while addressing a Congress meeting held at Rajendranagar assembly constituency. Opposition leader Mr. K Jana Reddy, Congress MP Mr. V Hanumanth Rao, ex-Home Minister Mrs. Sabita Indira Reddy and others were present on the occasion.

Following the ban on tight jeans, short tops and leggings by a north Kerala women’s college, Muslim cleric Mufti Shamoon Kazmi on Monday said that youngsters following a bit of fashion is not un-Islamic.

“I would like to say that they are youngsters and can do a little bit of fashion if they like to. It is nothing like un-Islamic that such a big decision, like a ban is required. But they should also know their limits,” Kazmi told ANI

The Congress party on Tuesday criticised the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi after the latter proposed a hike in the value added tax (VAT) in the national capital.

“What is shocking is that before coming to power, the AAP said that the VAT would be lowest in country and now they plan to increase it,” Congress leader Ajay Maken said.

Detailed story to follow. (ANI)

The first ever robot wedding has taken place in Japan in a glittering ceremony, complete with a wedding cake, a band and even a ‘kiss’ shared by the couple.

About 100 people gathered in Tokyo on June 27 to witness the two robots tie the knot.

The groom was Frois, a robotic creation from company Maywa Denki, and the bride was humanoid Yukirin, an android made in the likeness of a Japanese pop idol Yuki Kashiwagi, and developed by Takayuki Todo.

Frois, a boxy red and silver robot, wore a bow tie while the bride donned a traditional white wedding gown.

Former minister of state for coal Dasari Narayan Rao on Tuesday alleged that all the decisions related to coal blocks were taken by the then-prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh who was in-charge of the Coal Ministry.

“Now, the matter is in the court. I should not speak anything. Yes, true, I am minister, but I am an MoS. So all powers, allocating the blocks power is wholly with the coal minister. The then coal minister is Mr. Manmohan Singh,” Rao told ANI.

“All the decisions, these decisions were taken by the Prime Minister,” he added.

Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja on Tuesday accused the government of helping the corporate section and big business houses instead of devising policies to address the issue of farmers.

“Farmers suicide is on the increase. Indian farmers are passing through unprecedented distress. The government should address the issues of the farmers but it is instead helping the corporate houses, big business houses,” said Raja. (ANI)^

Gangster Abu Salem, who is facing charges in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, agreeing to marry a 25-year-old so that she is “not defamed further”,.

Abu Salem, in a two-page reply to the court yesterday, accepted the proposal. He said that appreciated the woman’s strength and her bold stand.

Apologising for the situation he had unintentionally put the woman in, Salem said he would like to marry her “so that the woman can freely move around and be able to meet and answer all the relatives’ friends and well-wishers with her head up in the society.”