The CBI on Wednesday arrested seven persons, including security guard of influential MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, in connection with the murder case of Kunda DSP Zia ul Haq.
CBI sources said the seven persons allegedly incited the mob to kill the DSP, who had arrived on the scene after getting information about the murder of village head Nanhe Yadav.
The Board of Intermediate on Wednesday appealed to the students not to take hasty decisions like committing suicide if they fail in some subjects.
London, Apr 24 (ANI): Horse racing was also not spared from the scandal of doping which has engulfed other major sports, after a top horse trainer had admitted that he had given banned steroids to 11 thoroughbreds. The horses, winners of more than 1.3 million pounds in prize money , are all from the highly successful British stables of the Godolphin racing empire ownedby Dubai`s wealthy ruler Sheikh Mohammed, the Mirror reports.
Badminton star Saina Nehwal will be given the 22nd Yudhvir Memorial Foundation Award.
Yudhvir Foundation, founded in 1991 to commemorate late Shri Yudhvir, eminent freedom fighter, journalist and founder of Daily Hindi Milap, in a press release on Wednesday, made this announcement. Every year the Foundation honours individuals who excel in some field of human endeavor. This year’s award will be presented to Saina Nehwal on April 30th, the birthday of late Shri Yudhvir.
Goa government has banned drinking liquor on beaches in a bid to curb littering and nuisance caused to women tourists. However, one can continue to enjoy drinks at designated places like beach shacks, Goa Tourism Director Nikhil Desai told reporters.
“The ban has been imposed under Goa Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) Act which gives the right to the state government to ban things which create nuisance in the tourism zones. The act envisages to protect and maintain the tourist places from deterioration and erosion and preserve the tourism potential”, he said.
Tremors were felt in north India, including the national capital and adjoining satellite townships, on Wednesday afternoon, the second such occurrence in nine days.
The quake, measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale at 2:51pm, was epicentred in southern Afghanistan, the MeT Department said. The quake took place 6.6km down the surface.
The tremors were felt in the capital, Gurgaon and Noida. There were no immediate reports of any casualty or injury.
Tremors were also felt in Srinagar and adjoining areas but there was no report of any casualty, officials said.
The wife of deceased Boston Marathon suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had no idea of any plot, her lawyers have said.
Katherine Russell last saw her husband on Thursday night, just hours before he was killed in a police shoot-out, her lawyer told CNN.
According to news.com.au, she was handing over their two-year-old daughter to him before heading to work.
Her lawyer Amato DeLuca told CNN that she learned about her husband”s involvement in news, and is ‘is very distraught’ and ‘cries a lot’.
Taking a specific form of a vitamin E supplement can give ex-smokers an extra booth in their endeavors toward a healthier lifestyle, new research has found.
In the small study, improvement in blood vessel function associated with the added vitamin E potentially translates into an estimated 19 percent greater drop in future risk for cardiovascular disease.
Yemen”s security authorities foiled an al-Qaida terrorist plot in the southeastern province of Hadramout on Wednesday, a government official told Xinhua.
Two al-Qaida members were captured while they were attempting to blow up a police center in Mukalla city, Hadramout”s provincial capital, the local government official said on condition of anonymity.
“Security officers received an intelligence tip that some al- Qaida suspects were planning to detonate an explosive device near a police center in Mukalla,” the source said.
A 23-member business delegation from Andhra Pradesh will visit the Islamic Republic of Iran this month to explore possibilities of expansion of their trade.
The delegation of Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FAPCCI) will visit Iran April 27-30.
It will participate in the first ‘Export Capabilities Exhibition’ of Iran, being organised by the ministry of industry, mines and trade of that country in collaboration with Event and Exhibition Industry Development Company.
Ingredients
Eggs-4 nos
Onions-1/2 cup
Tomato-1/2 cup (optional)
Red Chilli powder-1 tsp
Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
Ground Black Pepper-1/2 tsp
Green Chillies-2 nos (finely chopped)
Coriander leaves-2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Oil-2 tsp
How to make Bread Omelette
Add chopped onions, tomatoes, green chillies coriander leaves in a bowl.
Now add chilli powder, turmeric powder, black pepper powder and salt to the above mixture and blend everything.
Now break the eggs add to the mix.
Heat the oil in a pan put on a medium gas flame.
The estranged wife of a Naval officer, who had filed a police complaint levelling charges of wife-swapping by her husband and his superiors here, has moved the Kerala High Court seeking to implead herself in the anticipatory bail plea moved by him.
The officer, Lt Ravi Kiran had earlier moved the court seeking anticipatory bail after his wife raised “baseless” charges against him following his move to approach a family court for divorce.
The Navy had already started an internal probe based on the complaint she submitted to the Navy Chief recently.
An Indian-origin taxi driver in Malaysia was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while having dinner with his family.
A Siva, 36, was having dinner with his family in a restaurant at Puchong, a town in the Malaysian state of Selangor, when, around 9.30 pm on Tuesday, two masked men got down from a car, walked up to him and one of them fired at him, a media report said.
Siva, who was with his wife and eight-year-old daughter at the time, was rushed to a nearby clinic but died on arrival.
According to police, Siva was shot at least four times.
In remarks that are likely to stoke a controversy, Uttar Pradesh Textile Minister Shiv Kumar Beria has said no policeman can do anything without his orders and if anybody does so, he will be sacked within 24 hours.
“No cop can do anything until I give orders. No cop can even sit till I give orders. I am in government, not in opposition. How can he not listen to me? If a cop does not listen to me, he has no right even for a minute to sit on the chair, he will be sacked within 24 hours,” the minister said on Tuesday.
A Republican state legislator in New Hampshire has claimed that the US Government is responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing.
State Republican Stella Tremblay posted on the Facebook page of conservative talk show host Glenn Beck that the attack and the subsequent search for suspects was playing out how Beck had suggested.
According to the Huffington Post, she said the bombings were a plot by the federal government, and included a link to a video from another conservative talk show host Alex Jones, in which Jones also claims the federal government planned the bombing.
A US Defense Department survey has found that the number of women in the military reporting unwanted sexual contact has increased in the past three years.
The new report shows that more than 20 percent of women in the US military have experienced unwanted sexual contact, reports New York Daily News.
Boko Haram, a Nigerian rebel group which battled the military over the weekend and left 185 people dead, has become a major challenge for the security forces, pushing the army chief to ask soldiers to be alert and confront the guerrillas who use “unconventional weapons and tactics”.
At least 185 people were confirmed dead in the weekend crossfire between the military and Boko Haram sect in Baga, a fishing community located in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State.
The Boston Marathon bombing “is the fifth case”, including the case of David Headley, a key plotter of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, where potential terrorists have survived the American security scrutiny, according to a key US lawmaker.
The Boston Marathon bombing “is the fifth case I’m aware of where a person was brought to the attention of the FBI. … The FBI examined them and felt they were no threat and they went on to carry out terrorist murders,” Republican House member Peter King told MSNBC.
A United Nations nuclear watchdog team has said that Japan may need longer than the projected 40 years to decommission the Fukushima power plant, and urged Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) to improve stability at the facility.
Japan Times quoted the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency team, Juan Carlos Lentijo, as saying, that damage at the nuclear plant is so complex that it is impossible to predict how long the cleanup may last.
A senior civil servant at Syria’s electricity ministry was killed by a magnetic bomb attached to his car on Wednesday in central Damascus, state news agency SANA reported.
“As part of a campaign of assassinations… terrorists fatally wounded Wednesday morning Mohamed Abdel Wahab Hassan, the director of planning at the electricity ministry, with an explosive device attached to his car,” SANA said.
The incident took place in Baramke neighbourhood, the agency said, adding that Hassan “was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital”.
Twenty-one people, including police officers, were killed in violent clashes in China’s restive western province of Xinjiang, a local official said Wednesday.
“Twenty-one persons were killed in all… including social workers and policemen,” an official surnamed Cao from the provincial government’s news office said of the incident, which, he added, occurred on Tuesday.
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Bomb attacks wounded 17 people in Pakistan on Wednesday and targeted an election candidate in the run-up to historic general elections in the nuclear-armed country, police said.
The first attack wounded 13 people near a Shiite Muslim mosque and a private hospital in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, police said.
The bicycle bomb exploded in the Satellite Town area of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich province of Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.
The legal counsel of former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has claimed that the November 3, 2007 emergency was imposed on the basis of a top secret letter written by then prime minister Shaukat Aziz which contained the names of all government functionaries who were taken on board.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBA), which suspended its flights to Pakistan for the last eight months due to Hajj season and shortage of aircraft, is unwilling to resume its operations, despite a lucrative air route.
Industry experts say that the Bangladesh government is not interested in continuing its flight operations to Pakistan due to its bigotry approach against Bangladesh, especially in the wake of recent crackdown against ‘Jamaat-e-Islami’ in Bangladesh on the allegations of supporting Pakistan in 1971 war, reports the Daily Times.
A Jammu and Kashmir court Wednesday gave the West Bengal police a four-day transit remand of Saradha Group chairman and managing director Sudipta Sen and two other accused in the multi-crore-rupee chit fund scam.
Ganderbal district Chief Judicial Magistrate Parvez Ahmed allowed Bengal investigators to take away Sen, Group director Debjani Mukherjee and Arvind Singh Chauhan, a senior functionary handling the Group’s affairs in Jharkhand.