Melbourne, Apr. 20 (ANI): Businesses lose 11.4 billion dollars every year due to employees taking coffee breaks, a new study has claimed.
According to the research, 63 percent of Australia’s workers consume an average of 1.02 cups of takeaway coffee every day, taking about 15 minutes per break, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Washington, Apr 20 (ANI): The father of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing has described his son as a smart and accomplished ‘angel’, adding that brothers were set up.
Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the suspects, spoke with Beth Knobel, an expert in Russian politics, she said he remains “absolutely in shock and denial” and insistent that his sons are “very good boys.”
According to CBS News, he said his son was “an intelligent boy” who was studying medicine.
Islamabad, Apr 20 (ANI); The United States has said the issue of former president Pervez Musharraf needs to be resolved “solely in accordance with Pakistan’s constitution and laws”.
The statement came from A spokesperson of the US embassy.
According to the Daily Times, the remarks underscored that “the US takes no position on the return of Musharraf or the legal proceedings against him”.
The spokesperson further said in the statement that the US reaffirms that it is backing democracy in Pakistan.
London, Apr 20 (ANI): Three London residents have been found guilty of physically and sexually abusing an Indian woman employed in their households as a nanny and a domestic worker, and also for treating her like a ‘slave’. Shamina Yousuf and Shashi Obhrai were found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and making a threat to kill, while Enkarta Balapovi was convicted for raping the mother of four, who belongs to the Indian city of Hyderabad, the BBC reports.
Washington, Apr 20 (ANI): Following the revelation that the suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings is a Muslim, an extra layer of fear that rides along with the news of a possible terror attack has been created among the country’s Sikh community that they will be blamed for the attacks. Although blaming an entire ethnic group for the actions of two young men has no rational basis, however, Amardeep Singh, the program director of the Sikh Coalition, said that he has seen worse, adding that Sikhs have often been targeted after terrorist attacks, the Huffington Post reports.
A 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by eight men, four of whom were known to her, police said Saturday. The incident comes even as the capital is witnessing outrage over the horrific rape of a five-year-old girl.
Three of the eight men have been arrested.
The victim and her 12-year-old brother were abducted by two men known to her on March 15 from outside her house at Farsh Bazar area in east Delhi and taken to Loni in the city outskirts, where she was gang-raped by the eight, a police officer said.
Four of the eight accused were known to the girl, the officer added.
The brutal sexual assault on a five-year-old girl here has again brought protestors out on the streets, with crowds assembling at various places, including Police Headquarters, AIIMS and residences of Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
The protests started in the morning at Police Headquarters near ITO with members of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Students Federation of India (SFI) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) demanding resignation of Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. They were also joined by members of several women groups.
A five-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by a 35-year-old man in Ghansour town, is being shifted to Nagpur in neighbouring Maharashtra in an air ambulance as her condition remains serious. “After taking the consent of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, we are shifting the survivor from Jabalpur to Nagpur tonight by air ambulance as she continues to be in serious condition,” Minister of State for School Education and in-charge of Seoni district, Nanabhai Mahod said.
Describing Gujarat CM Narendra Modi as being “impeccably secular, honest and fully qualified” to become the Prime Minister, senior lawyer and Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani today said the BJP should announce his candidature for the top post before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
“Modi is honest, possesses administrative ability and is fully qualified to become the Prime Minister. He is BJP’s best bet for the top post,” Jethmalani told reporters here today.
The TRS on Saturday voiced opposition to the allotment of iron ore mines at Bayyaram in Khammam district to Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, a Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) enterprise.
Mineral resources of Telangana region were being unjustifiably given to the RINL enterprise in coastal Andhra region, TRS MLA T Harish Rao alleged.
Assembly Deputy Speaker M Bhatti Vikramarka and Congress legislator P Sudhakar Reddy, however, dismissed the protest.
Rubabuddin Shaikh, brother of alleged slain gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikh, has demanded that CBI should investigate phone call records of the office of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and senior IPS officers in connection with the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case.
“Rubabuddin Shaikh has sought probe of telephone calls between the office of Chief Minister and senior IPS officers under Sec 173 (8) of the CrPC,” his lawyer Mukul Sinha said. The section allows further investigation after charge sheet is filed.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Saturday met the five-year-old rape victim undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, informed sources said.
According to the sources, Gandhi also met the parents of the minor girl and inquired about her condition from the medical team.
A 13-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by eight men, four of whom were known to her, police said on Saturday. The incident comes even as the capital is witnessing outrage over the horrific rape of a five-year-old girl.
Three of the eight men have been arrested.
The victim and her 12-year-old brother were abducted by two men known to her on March 15 from outside her house at Farsh Bazar area in east Delhi and taken to Loni in the city outskirts, where she was gangraped by the eight, a police officer said.
A 15-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by three people in Odisha’s Kendrapada district sparking protests across the region, police said Saturday.
Three people, including a vehicle driver allegedly kidnapped the student Friday when she was on her way back home after witnessing a religious festival near her village Kantia, about 100 from here.
The incident came to light after the girl lodged a complaint with the police Saturday, police officer Tapas Pradhan said.
Expressing shock over the rape of a five-year-old girl, former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and activist Kiran Bedi on Saturday called for a change in the mindset of the people, and asked the parents to inculcate the right values in their son.
“Today, we are saying that we are shocked and sad, but did any of the lawmakers talk about the law against the rape in their constituency. Did they make the people aware or did they educate them. Did they conduct any corner meetings? In the corner meetings, did they explain the people that there is a new anti-rape law?” asked Bedi.
Disapproving the findings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee”s (JPC) draft report on the 2G spectrum scam, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran Lal Krishna Advani on Saturday questioned how it had given a clean chit to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
Hours after an anti-terrorism court remanded Pervez Musharraf to judicial custody, authorities on Saturday declared his sprawling farmhouse a “sub-jail” so that the former military ruler could be detained there.
The administration of Islamabad issued a formal notification declaring Mr. Musharraf’s farmhouse in the suburb of Chak Shahzad a sub-jail on Saturday afternoon.
An assistant jail superintendent and some policemen will be posted at the residence so that they can keep an eye on Mr. Musharraf and monitor his visitors, sources said.
The Delhi Police Saturday imposed prohibitory orders in the India Gate area to forestall protests after the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl.
“Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) has been imposed near the India Gate and no gathering would be allowed there,” a senior police officer told IANS.
Following the imposition of prohibitory orders, the India Gate was got vacated in the afternoon and vendors were asked to leave the area.
The Aam Aadmi Party and several NGOs had called the people to gather at the India Gate for a candlelight march in the evening.
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The five-year-old girl undergoing treatment here after she was brutally raped for two days is in stable condition, doctors said Saturday, adding she will need reconstructive surgery as she suffered severe injuries in her private parts.
Actor Govinda is set to judge a reality show titled “Indian Model Hunt 2013”. He says despite being in filmdom for close to three decades, he has never been famous for his fashion and style.
“It has been 27 years as an actor. I became famous as an actor, then star and then became an MP (member of parliament). But in these 27 years, it never happened that people said ‘Govinda is famous for fashion’,” the 50-year-old said here at the press conference of “Indian Model Hunt 2013”.
The five-year Delhi girl, brutalised by a neighbour earlier this week, is the fifth minor to have fallen prey to rapists this month. In many of the 393 rapes since Jan 1, the accused were known to the victims, police records show.
The five-year girl was abducted April 15 and kept hostage by her neighbour for two days without food and water and repeatedly raped in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar, police said.
Accused Manoj Kumar, 25, was arrested from a village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district early Saturday, police said.
A woman suicide bomber blew herself up outside a hospital in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region Saturday, killing five people and injuring four others, a media report said.
The bomber detonated her explosives-laden jacket around 2.30 p.m. at the main entrance of the District Hospital in Khaar town of Bajaur agency along the border with Afghanistan, Xinhua reported.
The blast damaged many vehicles in the area.
Witnesses said the woman wearing a veil tried to enter the hospital but security personnel at the gate asked her for checking, and then she blew herself up.
A US report on human rights has documented severe repression and marked deterioration of human rights in Tibet, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said here Saturday.
The Chinese government’s respect for and protection of human rights in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan areas deteriorated markedly, a CTA spokesperson said, quoting the US State Department’s 2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
Street protests erupted in the national capital Saturday against the barbaric rape of a five-year-old girl who doctors said would need major reconstructive surgery as her private parts had been badly damaged, even as police nabbed the accused from his in-law’s house in Bihar in an early morning raid.
At least 124 people were killed and more than 3,000 others injured Saturday when a devastating earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck southwest China’s Sichuan province, adjacent to a region where an 8.0-magnitude quake in 2008 left 69,000 people dead while 18,000 are still missing.
The earthquake hit Lushan county of Ya’an city at 8.02 a.m., Xinhua cited the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) as saying.
More than 3,000 people were injured in the earthquake, the Lushan county publicity department said.