New Delhi, October 19: Commenting for the first time on the recent cycle of violence in Pakistan, Indian government on Monday expressed concern over the ‘serious situation’ in that country and vowed to protect the country at any cost.
“The situation in Pakistan is very serious and terrorism is spreading,” Defence Minister told reporters on the sidelines of the Territorial Army Day parade here.
Mumbai, October 19: She is 43 now and Priya Dutt can’t recall a single year when she celebrated bhai dooj at home!
New Delhi, October 19: Compared to last year, the national capital suffered from lower air pollution this Diwali on all counts except sulphur dioxide, but experts have warned against increasing use of coloured fireworks.
Vancouver, October 19: Canadian authorities have thwarted a major attempt at human smuggling, seizing a ship-load of refugees possibly from Sri Lanka near Vancouver Saturday.
The ship bearing the name of Ocean Lady was carrying 76 males. The passengers were brought to Vancouver Sunday and sent to correctional facilities (jail) for questioning.
The ship was spotted in the sea near the Canadian coast and escorted by the authorities into Victoria which is the capital of British Columbia province.
Hyderabad, October 19: Trinidad and Tobago compiled the biggest total of the tournament enroute a 24-run victory over Diamond Eagles to move into the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20 here Sunday.
Electing to bat, the West Indian side smashed 213 for four with the top-order putting together a powerful batting performance.
Faced with the enormous chase, Eagles kept pace with the run rate for the first 10 overs before their challenge fizzled out and they finished at 189 for five.
Patiala, October 19: The Punjab police have arrested seven people here and recovered stolen gold and diamond jewellery worth Rs.7.3 million from their possession, an official said here Sunday.
“Police have arrested seven accused and recovered more than three kilograms gold, diamond jewellery and weapons from them. With this arrest, we have solved a day-light robbery committed at MR Jewellers at Ambala town in Haryana in August this year,” R.S. Khatra, senior superintendent of police, Patiala, told reporters.
Tehran, October 19: The death toll rose to 42 after an apparent suicide bomb attack against Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, Press TV reported Monday.
The dead included seven senior provincial commanders.
The attack Sunday took place in Sistan-Baluchistan province, near Pakistan as the guards were reportedly on their way to a meeting of tribal leaders in Pishin.
State television reported a group named Jundollah (Soldiers of God) had claimed responsibility for the attack.
New Delhi, October 19: With bhaiya duj being celebrated across the country, the special occasion, which is dedicated to the bond of auspicious relationship between brothers and sisters, have filled them with joy.
Pattani, October 19: An explosion Monday at a crowded morning market in Yala City of southern Thailand injured 28 people, two of them critically, army officials said.
The bomb, planted inside a motorcycle that was parked near a pork meat vendor at Yala’s open-air market, exploded at 7.30 a.m., injuring the civilians and three soldiers, First Army Region chief Lieutenant General Phichit Wisaijorn said.
He blamed Muslim separatists for the latest act of violence.
“We had received a tipoff to prepare for a car bomb, but they used a motorcycle instead,” Phichit said.
Washington, October 19: Migraine sufferers may be more vulnerable to an alcohol-induced headache after a night of drinking, according to researchers.
Until now, studying the mechanism behind migraine and other forms of recurrent headaches has not been possible in an animal model, says Michael Oshinsky, assistant Neurology professor at Jefferson Medical College (JMC).
New York, October 19: Efforts by the US and its allies to cripple the Taliban’s sophisticated financial network in Afghanistan have barely made a dent, the New York Times reported Monday citing unnamed American officials. The Taliban in Afghanistan are running a sophisticated financial network to pay for their insurgent operations, raising hundreds of millions of dollars from the illicit drug trade, kidnappings, extortion and foreign donations that American officials say they are struggling to cut off, the influential US daily said.
Virbhadra, Anand Sharma to campaign for Himachal by pollVirbhadra, Anand Sharma to campaign for Himachal by pollShimla, October 19: Union ministers Virbhadra Singh and Anand Sharma will campaign for the Himachal Pradesh by-elections slated for Nov 7, a Congress leader said Monday.
“Virbhadra Singh and Anand Sharma are members of the state campaign committee for by-elections to the Rohru and Jawali constituencies. They will campaign extensively in both the constituencies,” state Congress president Kaul Singh Thakur told IANS.
Ranchi, October 19: Five women were stripped and paraded naked in Deoghar district of Jharkhand after being charged of witchcraft, police said Monday.
Five women, including three widows, were forcibly brought to a field Sunday in Patharghatia village in Deoghar, about 350 km from state capital Ranchi. They were stripped and paraded naked and two of them were forced to eat excreta, police said.
New Delhi, October 19: IGNOU will start a series of programmes early next year to educate and train youths from below poverty line families in tribal areas of six states.
After clearing the certificate or diploma courses, mostly on Information Technology, successful candidates will be given employment. While the certificate programmes are for six months each, the diploma courses will be for one year, IGNOU spokesman Surojit Mahalanobis said here.
London, October 19: Hate preacher Anjem Choudary sparked fury yesterday after calling for the Queen to become Muslim. He demanded an Islamic revolution across Britain.
Choudary, 42, said Her Majesty – head of the Church of England – should convert to ensure her place in paradise.
He also wants to see senior members of the Government switching faiths. Choudary, a key henchman of rabble rousing cleric Omar Bakri, said: “We invite everyone from the Queen, to the ministers, to the Parliament, to the aristocracy, to the ordinary person in Britain to embrace Islam.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was a legend in his life time; a rebel with a cause; a social reformer with a transparent and clear vision; a leader who changed the destiny of his community. He was born in Delhi on 17 October 1817. He was brought up in the finest of ’Elite Indian Muslim Traditions’.
Gaza Strip, October 19: Holding the photo of his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Salah Samouni’s eyes are filled with tears. “My daughter Azza, my only daughter…was injured in the first hit on the house,” Salah told.
“She managed to say, ‘Daddy, it hurts.’ And then, in the second hit, she died.”
Salah’s child was among 21 of his family members killed in a deadly Israeli attack on his house in Gaza City neighborhood of Zaytoun earlier this year.
The bereaved Gazan recalls the moment when three Israeli shells hit his house on January 5.
Hyderabad, October 19: The Power Generation Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (AP Genco) is in talks with the NPCIL for setting up a mega nuclear power plant in the state, a senior official said today.
A team of officials from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd visited the Pulivendula area in Kadapa district to inspect the site for the proposed nuclear power plant.
“It is proposed to set up either two or four units of 700 MW each at a cost of Rs 8-10 crore per MW,” according to Managing Director of AP Genco K Vijayanand.
Hyderabad, October 19: The much awaited P.V. Elevated Expressway would finally be thrown open to airport-bound traffic from Monday after inauguration by Chief Minister K. Rosaiah.
The project, which faced long delays that resulted from shifting of utilities to the financial crunch faced by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), would formally be declared open with a function at the Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital, Mehdipatnam point, by the Chief Minister at 4.30 p.m.
New Delhi, October 19: Four years ago, in a dank police interview room in south-central New Delhi, a nondescript, scraggly bearded former commerce student told a group of sceptical police officers of his journey through the international jihadist movement, a tale almost as dramatic as the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor.
New Delhi, October 19: The 56th Senior National Men’s Boxing Championship will be held at Saroornagar Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad from October 26 to November 1.
Around 350 boxers representing 38 states and board teams are expected to participate in the Championship.
The tournament assumes significance as IABF’s Selection Committee will pick boxers for the Commonwealth Core Group as well as for the Commonwealth Boxing Championships to be held here in March next year.
Hyderabad, October 19: An agriculture officer, who attempted suicide by immolating herself four days ago, succumbed to her burns in a hospital here on Sunday.
Rajeswari, posted as the mandal agriculture officer at Devarakadra in Mahbubnagar district, attempted suicide after she was allegedly humiliated by local MLA Seeta Dayakar Reddy of the Telugu Desam Party over distribution of relief to flood victims in a meeting.
She sustained over 60 per cent burns and was rushed to the DRDO-Apollo hospital here for treatment. She succumbed while undergoing treatment today.
Tehran, October 18: A suicide bomber killed six senior Revolutionary Guards commanders, including two of its top officers, and 25 other people on Sunday in one of the boldest attacks against Iran’s most powerful military institution.
The attack highlighted deepening instability in the Islamic Republic’s southeast bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, where many of Iran’s minority Sunnis live and which has seen a spate of deadly bombings and other violence in the last few years.
Tehran, October 18: Iran summoned Islamabad’s envoy to Tehran over Sunday’s deadly bombing against the nation’s Revolutionary Guards, claiming those behind the attack had used Pakistani soil as a springboard, the ISNA news agency said.
It said the foreign ministry had called Pakistan’s charge d’affairs and “expressed Tehran’s regret to Pakistan’s envoy (that) members of the terrorist group involved in the incident entered Iran through Pakistan.”
Gurgaon, October 18: A worker was critically injured and a vehicle was torched when two sections of the employees of Rico auto clashed with each other outside the premises of the auto component making company here this evening.
The clash erupted at around 7 pm when a group of company workers, who have been on strike for about a month demanding higher pay among other things, allegedly picked up a scuffle with another group of workers who have stayed away from the agitation, Gurgaon police Commissioner Surjit Singh Deswal said.