There are a number of abandoned and helpless women in Hyderabad. Some are victims of domestic violence while others are abandoned by their own children. There is no dearth of women who are living alone after the death of their husbands. For such abandoned and helpless women some Muslim women of the city have formed a rescue home named ‘Sukoonat’. We can call it as the first Asra Ghar established by Muslim women in Hyderabad.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday rejected suggestions that India is imposing restrictions on investments and said the country’s economy is opening up in a gradual manner.
“I think the right way to look at it is we are not restricting. We are opening up in a gradual manner. Where were we in 1991. What are we today, in 2013? In the space of 22 years we have opened practically 90 per cent of India’s economy,” Chidambaram told the popular Charlie Rose Show in an interview.
IT major Wipro Ltd on Friday reported 16.73 percent increase in net profit to Rs 1,728.7 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2013.
The country’s third largest software services firm’s net profit stood at Rs 1,480.9 crore in the year-ago period.
The consolidated total income of the company rose by 13 percent to Rs 9,613.1 crore for the January-March quarter in 2013-13 fiscal as against Rs 8,506.1 crore in the same period of 2011-12 fiscal, it said in a filing to the BSE.
Notorious Internet hacking collective Anonymous has launched a citizen journalism site that aims to collect breaking reports and blogs.
The site, Your Anon News, will include feeds for livestream events “as they are taking place instead of the 10-second sound bites provided by the corporate media”.
The group has raised 54,798 dollars to get the site up and running, the BBC reports.
According to the report, the aim of the site is to bring together and expand its Your Anon news (YAN) service that currently runs on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.
Texting just got a lot easier!
Researchers claim to have developed a new keyboard for touchscreens that allows superfast thumb-typing, enabling you to type 34 per cent faster than on a QWERTY layout.
The research team used computational optimisation techniques in conjunction with a model of thumb movement to search among millions of potential layouts before identifying one that yields superior performance.
Actor Saif Ali Khan, who plays the role of a zombie slayer named Boris in his forthcoming co-production “Go Goa Gone”, says his part is more than just a guest appearance.
“I wouldn’t say it’s just something like a guest appearance, there is a role there,” the 42-year-old said here Thursday at the film’s music launch.
“I am happy that if people have liked what they have seen in the trailer. I am confident that they’ll enjoy the role in the movie,” he added.
Saif sports a blonde look in the film and reveals it took them a lot of time to get it right.
Scientists have discovered two Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a Sun-like star.
Using observations gathered by NASA’s Kepler Mission , the team, led by William Borucki of the NASA Ames Research Center, found five planets orbiting a Sun-like star called Kepler-62.
Super slow-motion footage of a moth in flight has revealed how insects use their bodies to hover.
The moth moves its body by pivoting its abdomen up and down to fine-tune the forces that keep the insect airborne, the BBC reported.
The researchers are studying insect flight in order to “distil the biological principles of flight control “.
This, they say, will help them to accurately engineer flying robots that use these same principles.
As an insect’s wings move through the air, they are held at a slight angle, which deflects the air downward.
Wipro Ltd. has met its revenue forecast for its global IT services in the fourth quarter (January-March) of the 2012-13 fiscal, but projected flat growth for the first quarter (April-June) of this fiscal (2013-14) in dollar terms, as the global environment continues to be challenging.
Though IT services revenue grew 13 percent year-on-year (YoY) in rupee terms to Rs.8,554 crore (Rs.85.54 billion) in the quarter under review (Q4), growth in dollar terms was 3.2 percent YoY and 0.5 percent sequentially to $1.59 billion as projected in mid-January.
Riya Vij, who is making her acting debut with Karan Johar’s ‘Gippi’, says she never dreamt of acting in movies but wanted to be like Kareena Kapoor.
“When I was very small, I wanted to become an actress. Whenever I used to watch movies I was fascinated with glamour and the whole feel of being a heroine. I wanted to become like Kareena Kapoor,” Riya told PTI in an interview.
“But when I grew a bit older I felt it was all stupid. Then I wanted to become a teacher, I was fascinated with school life… but now I am just enjoying my school life and will see what happens next,” she said.
Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit Friday underwent a surgery for sinusitis in a city hospital, doctors said.
Dikshit, 75, was operated for functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute.
“Dikshit was operated Friday under the care of her personal cardiologist Ashok Seth at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute by her personal ENT consultant Devinder Rai from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,” said an official statement from the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
According to doctors, Dikshit was suffering from sinusitis since one year.
The draft report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G spectrum allocation appeared to be a Congress document, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Friday while labelling its leakage to the media a “gross breach of parliamentary propriety”.
“The draft report of the JPC on 2G issues has been widely reported in the media. This is a gross breach of well settled parliamentary propriety where any report/draft is debated, discussed, amendments are moved in the formal meeting and thereafter a view is taken,” said BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was today arrested from his farmhouse in a case relating to sacking of judges, a day after he dramatically fled the court to avoid detention, and remanded to two days in custody, becoming the first ex-army chief to face such action.
Police officials arrested the 69-year-old former military strongman this morning and took him to the court of judicial magistrate Muhammad Abbas Shah.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said that the names of 40 players have been recommended by the selection committee for this years` central contract list, according to an official. This comes in the heels of players` annoyance over PCB`s delay in announcing the new central contract list despite the passage of almost four months since the former contracts expired at the end of 2012, the Express Tribune reports. The official further said that the new list will be finalised by the panel for central contracts headed by PCB`s Director General Javed Miandad.
Carbon dating of a wooden beam from a Guatemalan temple has confirmed the end date of the Mayan Long Count calendar.
It validated that the calendar did end on December 2012, leaving no room for further doomsday prophecies and miscalculations claims, the Fox News reported.
The Long Count is a complex system of bars and dots that consists of five time units: Bak’tun (144,000 days); K’atun (7,200 days), Tun (360 days), Winal (20 days) and K’in (one day).
Slamming the leakage of the draft JPC report on the 2G scam as a “gross breach of Parliamentary propriety”, the BJP today said its contents appeared like Congress documents where attempts have been made to save its leaders, including the Prime Minister.
“The media showed the JPC draft report on 2G scam extensively. This is a gross breach of Parliamentary propriety where any report draft is debated, discussed, amendments are moved in the formal meeting and thereafter views are taken,” BJP spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad told presspersons here.
Actor-producer Saif Ali Khan, who was seen using abusive language in `Go Goa Gone`, quips that he is hoping that the film gets `A` certificate and doesn`t get banned.
“The dialogues in the film have Russian and Hindi galis (abuses)… I just hope the film gets an `A` certificate and doesn`t get banned at the censors,” a smiling Saif told reporters during the film`s music launch.
Bollywood luminaries Sridevi, Rani Mukherjee, Zeenat Aman won top laurels at the T. Subbarami Reddy-TV9 film awards for the year 2011-12 announced here Thursday.
The awards ceremony will be held on Saturday at Shilpa Kala Vedika.
While artists from Telugu industry were honored in different categories, members from Tamil, and Malayalam industries along with Bollywood have been chosen for special jury awards.
Bollywood diva Sridevi was awarded the empress of Indian cinema award, while her husband-cum-producer Boney Kapoor won the star producer of millennium award.
Southern actress Sharmiela Mandre, who has featured in remakes such as ‘Sajni’ and ‘Mirattal’, supports the idea of revisiting old classics because she feels such films are tested and proven.
“I don`t see the need to oppose remakes. Most films are being remade because the original has been tested and proven. Today, most big-budget films in Bollywood are southern remakes,” Sharmiela told IANS.
However, she clarifies that she would do remakes only if it would offer her a substantial role to play.
Children ate more apples when they were provided with fruit slicers in school cafeterias, according to a new research.
The finding confirmed that increasing the convenience of fruit increases consumption.
Previous studies and surveys have shown that kids love to eat fruit in ready-to-eat bite-sized pieces, yet in most school settings, the fruit is served whole, which could be the cause that children are taking fruits but not eating them.
Most people believe that children avoid fruit because of the taste and allure of alternative packaged snacks.
Virender Sehwag making a comeback from injury has not helped Delhi Daredevils one bit in their disastrous IPL campaign and skipper Mahela Jayawardene feels that having the senior opener back in the side does not put an end to all their problems.
“It’s not just about Viru. Just having Viru does not really solve our problem. As a batting unit, we need to score runs and be more consistent.
–PTI
Scientists have identified a specific gene that regulates the heart`s ability to regenerate after injuries.
Researchers at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center identified the previously unknown function of the gene, called Meis1, in the heart.
“We found that the activity of the Meis1 gene increases significantly in heart cells soon after birth, right around the time heart muscle cells stop dividing,” said Dr Hesham Sadek, assistant professor of internal medicine in the division of cardiology, and senior author of the study.
The cost of immunising millions of the world`s most vulnerable children against five deadly and debilitating diseases is set to fall due to a supply agreement of GAVI with India based Biological E Ltd for five-in-one injections.
“A supply agreement with Biological E Ltd of India makes the five-in-one shot available to GAVI for just USD 1.19 per dose, compared to the 2012 weighted average price of USD 2.17,” GAVI Alliance web site today said.
Scientists have been trying to understand the mechanisms that control the action of leptin, the appetite-regulation hormone that was discovered in 1994.
It was known that leptin was made by fat cells, reduced appetite and interacted with insulin, but the precise molecular details of its function -details that might enable the creation of a new treatment for obesity – remained elusive.
Rs. 10 lakhs stolen
(Siasat News): The robbers robbed off the house of a watchman in Banjara Hills police station limits and surprisingly made their escape good with Rs. 10 lakh.
As per the details, watchman Ramulu has been working as a watchman in an apartment in Srinagar colony. He had sold a plot owned by him in Hafizpet for Rs. 10 lakh.
However, he did not adopt any precaution in keeping the cash in his house. Late last night, some unidentified robbers entered his house and robbed the money.