Reddit, a popular social news and entertainment website, has apologised for posts on the site that had led to speculation that a missing Indian origin student could be one of the Boston bombing suspects.
“The crowdsourced, more criminal investigation was very volatile and fraught with problems, and, obviously, wrong,” Reddit general manager Erik Martin told CNN. “That was something we all wished hadn’t happened.”
At least 13 people were injured when a bomb went off outside a hospital in Pakistan’s southwest Quetta city Wednesday, a media report said.
Geo TV said that the incident happened around 8.10 a.m. in Satellite town area located in the suburbs of Quetta, the capital city of the country’s Balochistan province.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Fayyaz Sumbul said that the bomb was detonated by a remote controlled device and an estimated 2 to 3 kg of explosive materials were fixed on a bicycle parked near the hospital.
Minced beef and chicken cause more hospitalisations than any other meat, an analysis of more than 33,000 cases of foodborne illness has shown.
The report by the US Centre for Science in Public Interest says chicken nuggets, ham and sausage pose the lowest risk of foodborne illness, News.com.au reported.
The group used US government data on 1700 outbreaks over 12 years to analyse salmonella, E. coli, listeria and other pathogens that were definitively linked to a certain meat.
Burma has freed at least 56 political prisoners after the EU decision to lift the last of its sanctions.
Bo Kyi of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), however, pointed out that still over 200 political prisoners are in prison.
According to BBC, one of the freed activists, Zaw Moe, said that Burmese service that the releases were linked to the EU move.
The report pointed out that the latest amnesty could also be linked to the onset of the Burmese new year.
Tension prevailed during Hyderabad water works and sewerage board elections when state minister Mukesh Goud’s son Vikram Goud had an argument with JAC water works and MBT corporator Mr. Amjadullah Khan Khalid at polling booth.
Union elections began at 9 am and Mr. Khalid reached Misrigunj filter polling booth located under Kamatipura police station limits to review the situation when Vikram Goud entered into the polling booth along with 50 supporters and allegedly distributed chits among the voters persuading them to vote for a particular union.
The Boston Marathon bombing suspects were motivated by hatred of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has emerged.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, made the revelation under questioning by interrogators looking for insight into last weeks attack that killed three spectators and injured over 100.
A report by the Washington Post said that hospitalized Dzhokhar scribbled notes to indicate that he and his slain brother Tamerlan were acting on their own when they left two shrapnel-laden bombs near the finish line.
The first Du Ba Du programme in Karimnagar will be held on Sunday, April 28, 10 am at Nawabs International School in collaboration with Siasat daily and Minorities Development Forum. Parents of prospective brides and grooms will settle alliance of their children with mutual consultation.
Jalsa-e- Islah-e-Mashera is also being organised in Karimnagar on April 27. Prof. Syed Jahangir HoD department of Arabic EFLU, Mr. Abid Siddiqui president MDF and other scholars, Muslim leaders and intellectuals will address the meeting.
Bollywood actress Vidya Balan joins the jury panel of 66th edition of Cannes Internationl Film Festival, which has names like Hollywood star Nicole Kidman, director Ang Lee and jury president Steven Spielberg.
The film fest will start May 15.
The jury will select films in competition section for the awards, which will be announced during the closing ceremony May 26, reads a statement on the official website of the film fest.
Eight international movie personalities will help Spielberg award the prizes.
An eight storied building collapsed in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Wednesday, killing more than 70 and trapping many more, reports said.
Health Minister AFM Ruhal Huq pegged the death toll at more than 70.
The death toll could rise further as many more lay trapped under the debris.
The commercial building at the Rana Plaza building in Savar that caved in today morning, houses many garment factories, a bank and other shops.
Upcoming Pakistan fast bowler Ehsan Adil has expressed his happiness at getting an opportunity to participate in the ongoing training camp under pace legend Wasim Akram, saying that Akram’s presence is an inspiration to him and the other participants of the camp. The camp is underway at the National Stadium in Karachi and moved into its fourth day yesterday where national pacers, along with emerging talents, trained for at least four hours under the legendary fast-bowler, the Express Tribune reports.
At least 50 people were killed after an eight-storeyed building on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka collapsed Wednesday morning, an official said.
“At least 50 bodies have so far been recovered,” Israfil Alam, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of labor and employment, told Xinhua.
Niilufar Yasmin, a fire service official, said that the building which houses a ready-made garments factory, a bank’s branch and shops, collapsed around 9 a.m.
With many people believed to be still trapped inside, rescuers fear the toll may rise.
With the support of Siasat daily Salwa Fatima got 3 pilot licences. Salwa Fatima informed editor Siasat Mr. Zahed Ali Khan about this. She has got commercial, private and pilot radio telephone operator licences.
The young lady pilot further informed that Air Asia has invited applications for recruitment on pilot posts, she has also applied for the post and she is hopeful that she will get the job.
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Woman kills husband’s sister
(Siasat News): In Shamshabad’s Qazi Galli a heart-wrenching incident took place where a woman killed her husband’s sister by pouring kerosene on her body and set her ablaze.
According to RGI police, Mallika Begum, 30, wife of Imran, resident of Lalapet, Secunderabad, had come to her mother’s place at Qazi Galli along with her children to attend a function.
These findings are the result of a single study and more research is needed on the effects of mango consumption on human health.
Consumption of mangoes may potentially have a positive effect on blood sugar in obese individuals and help to limit inflammation, according to a new research.
The study led by Edralin Lucas, Ph.D., associate professor of nutritional sciences at Oklahoma State University, examined the effects of daily mango consumption on clinical parameters and body composition in obese subjects (body mass index, BMI = 30kg/m2).
Google lost its latest attempt to convince US trade authorities that Apple has infringed its intellectual property.
The case centred on a claim the iPhone maker should have licensed a feature that lets its handsets ignore touches when held close to users” heads.
Google had acquired the contested patent as part of its 12.5 billion dollars takeover of Motorola Mobility.
Motorola accused Apple of infringing six of its inventions when it launched the case in October 2010 the BBC reports.
The policeman, who had offered Rs 2,000 to the father of the five-year-old girl who was held captive and raped by her neighbour in Delhi, has been identified.
The Vigilance Department, which was doing an internal enquiry into the matter that has once again put the Delhi police’s repute at stake, has reportedly made the girl’s father identify the cop.
The universe will continue expanding and the objects which it is composed of will move apart faster, causing stars, such as the Sun, to become fainter, although in the case of the Sun this will not happen for “more than 5 billion years”, Nobel laureate in physics Brian Schmidt said.
The US-born astrophysicist, who lives in Australia, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 along with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter for discovering that the universe is accelerating.
Consumption of white potatoes is linked to increased intake of potassium, a new study has revealed.
For each additional kilocalorie of white potatoes consumed, there was a 1.6 mg increase in potassium intake among adults 19-years-old and older, and a 1.7 mg increase among children and teens from 2 to 18 years of age.
Gender, age, race/ethnicity and educational attainment, but not income or body mass index, were also highly predictive of potassium intake.
Three people have been arrested in Bihar for abducting and raping the mother and sister of a youth as a revenge for his eloping with the sister of one of the accused, police said Wednesday.
The attack took place in Sariswa village under Majhaulia police station of West Champaran district April 19, but came to light after a case was lodged with the police.
“Three people were arrested after an FIR (first information report) was lodged on the basis of the statement of gang-raped victims,” Superintendent of Police Sunil Nayak told IANS.
According to the document, this allegation has come up before, for example in a State Department document and in major news stories but this is the first time the CIA has released some of its own information.
China might have provided its close ally Pakistan a fairly comprehensive package of proven nuclear weapons design in late 1970s and the CIA knew about it, according to a recently declassified document.
Musharraf, 69, was accused of providing inadequate security to Bhutto after she returned to Pakistan from self-exile in late 2007.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Tuesday ordered the Federal Investigation Agency to include former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, a “proclaimed offender”, in the probe into the assassination of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.
Musharraf appeared before Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman for the first time since the Rawalpindi-based court began hearing the case in 2008.
The Netherlands-based nonprofit project Mars One, which opened its astronaut-selection process on April 22, plans to land four people on the Red Planet in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent human colony on the Red Planet.
New crews will arrive every two years thereafter, Fox News reported.
Human explorers and their trillions of microbes will doubtless contaminate whatever site is chosen for the settlement, Mars One officials said, so the organization will try to pick a place unlikely to host indigenous life.
Trying to disrupt peace just before Hanuman Jayanthi some miscreants attacked 4 Muslim youth and injured them. According to details Mohammed Mubeen, Mohammed Jabbar, Saif Faisal and Mohammed Salman reached Uppuguda railway station through train after giving interview at Hyderabad metro rail where miscreants already present there attacked the Muslim youth after arguing with them on petty issue later they attacked the youth with sticks. Tension prevailed in the area for some time.
Seven persons were killed and over 60 others injured in five bomb attacks in the Pakistani cities of Quetta and Karachi Tuesday, including one that was carried out by a suicide bomber who was trying to target the minority Shia Hazara community.
The suicide attacker detonated his explosives-laden truck when he was stopped by Frontier Corps personnel at a check post near Alamdar Road, an area in Quetta with a large Shia Hazara population.
The incident occurred at around 9.15 pm.
94-year-old Begum, who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry and voice behind hit songs like Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon and Kajra Mohabbat Wala, died in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Condoling the death of Shamshad Begum as an “irreparable loss” to the world of music, Information and Broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said her singing style had set new benchmarks.