New Delhi, August 07: Spinner Harbhajan Singh has said India’s cricketers are not opposed to drug tests but the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) clause to reveal one’s round-the-year location, which he felt was illogical.
New Delhi, August 07: Allaying apprehensions of a food crisis in view of poor monsoon, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Kamal Nath today said the country has enough foodgrain reserves to tackle even the worst monsoon situation.
“There is no panic. We have enough foodstocks to counter even the worst monsoon scenario,” he said.
Mumbai, August 07: After her marriage, actress Jyothika didn’t grace over any special occasions. But in recent times, she has been spotted vividly in several events. One such juncture was “cultural day celebration’ at Holy Angels School at Thyagaraja Nagar.
She was present along with director K.S. Ravikumar (who directed her in “Thenali’ and “Saravana’) for this function.
New Delhi, August 07: The Centre is mulling to restart the practice of holding consultations with the representatives of banks along with Chief Ministers to discuss issues related to availability of credit for rural areas.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said he was planning to revive the practice of meeting representatives of banks along with chief ministers and finance ministers of states at least once a year to discuss related issues.
He expressed concern over credit-deposit ratio in some states which was not at par with the national level.
Ingredients:
Potato Chips -1 packet(Pringles)
Tomato Sauce
Onions-2
Tomatoes-2
Corriander Potatoes-2
Shev Pepper Salt
Yogurt-1 cup
Method to make this recipe:
Boil Popatoes and mash them finely.
Add Pepper and salt for taste and keep aside.
Chop the Onions,Tomatoes and Corriander finely and keep it aside.
Place a few Potato chips on a plate.Put a bit of tomato sauce on each chip.
Later place the chopped tomatoes and onions.later place the mashed potato mixture on top of it.
Then pour some yogurt on each chips.
Mumbai, August 07: Parvathy Omanakuttan, the first runner-up at last year’s Miss World Pageant is now planning to enter Bollywood. After a brief spell as a model, the Kerala beauty is planning her Bollywood debut with United-6, which is to be directed by Aryan Singh.
Parvathy will be one among the five newcomers and the film will be shot within 50 days in Bangkok. The shooting is scheduled to start by August end. The music is by Pritam and C.G.Patel and the film is the producer under the banner of White House Productions.
New Delhi, August 07: India and South Korea on Friday signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement that would enable duty free trade in goods and services between the two countries and help double bilateral trade to USD 20 billion.
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma and South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon signed the agreement in Seoul. This is India’s second comprehensive deal with any country after Singapore.
Mumbai August 07: British-born actress Katrina Kaif had a whale of time in exotic Marbella city in Andalusia, Spain along with her sisters. The six Kaif sisters let their hair down with their only brother Michael being the lone man in tow.
New Delhi, August 07: Economy has started moving upward due to two stimulus packages in the last fiscal, but scanty rainfall this year may play a spoilsport, government told the Lok Sabha on Friday.
“The economy has started moving slightly, but still I am not quite sure because other problems may come from adverse impact of scanty rainfall,” Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said during the Question Hour.
Sydney, August 07: Quantum computing, the latest advance on the technology front that is still hedged with many ifs and buts, may be more stable than previously thought, according to the latest research.
Tom Stace, a University of Queensland (UQ) physicist, found that with even 50 percent loss of components, they could still work, unlike conventional computers, which would have broken down.
‘Our results demonstrate that relatively large errors and losses can be tolerated, and so may confirm that quantum computers are genuinely feasible,’ Stace said.
Mumbai, August 07: Teen Patti is an edge-of-the-seat thriller starring legendary actors Amitabh Bachchan and Ben Kingsley.
The film being produced by Ambika Hinduja’s Serendipity Film Productions, stars Bachchan in an unconventional role of a genius, reclusive mathematics professor.
Teen Patti with card gambling as the backdrop has Big B playing tutor to R. Madhavan and four newcomers Dhruv Ganesh, Siddharth Kher, Vaibhav Talwar and Shakti Kapoor’s daughter Shraddha Kapoor.
New Delhi, August 07: The Indian Cricket Board`s all-powerful Working Committee will meet on August 13 in Mumbai.
The Working Committee`s meeting would be preceded by a meeting of the BCCI`s finance committee on August 12. The Finance Committee will discuss the expenditure incurred on organising the Indian Premier League this year.
The Working Committee is expected to clear the spending sheets.
“The Working Committee of the BCCI will meet at 11:00 am on August 13 at the Cricket Centre,” the BCCI said in a statement.
Sydney, August 07: An Australian scientist of Indian origin has developed a new method to send nanocells to cancerous tumours so that tumours that are resistant to other drugs can be destroyed.
After five years of research, Himanshu Brahmbhatt and his partner Jennifer MacDiarmid of EnGeneIcs, the cancer therapeutics company they founded, are set to commence human clinical trials of their process, which involves sending bacterially derived nanocells or EDVs (EnGeneIC Delivery Vehicles) into rogue cancer cells in two separate waves.
Mumbai, August 07: Brother-Sister duo Ameesha Patel and her brother Ashmit who had a cold war going on between them seemed to have melted the ice. The siblings are back together and talking to each other now.
Surprisingly, the separated siblings were seen together watching Love Aaj Kal at PVR Juhu on the eve of Raksha Bandhan. It seems that Ameesha even tied Ashmit rakhi after five years.
Mumbai, August 07: Ram Gopal Varma As his Agyaat gears up for a release, Ram Gopal Varma was in full candid mood revealing to us all about his film and much more.
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Karachi, August 07: The resignation spree in the Pakistan Cricket Board continues with long serving marketing manager Khurrum Malik becoming the latest to step down from his post.
After resignations of chief selector Abdul Qadir and Aamer Sohail, sources in the board confirmed that Malik has also submitted his resignation with a 30-day notice as he was not happy with the PCB functioning under Ejaz Butt.
The development came on the same day, the chairman of the
National Assembly Standing Committee on sports Jamshed Khan
Dasti urged the President and Prime Minister to sack Butt as
Washington, August 07: The US government has begun an investigation into whether Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who is said to be responsible for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a drone attack on Wednesday, senior officials have said in Washington.
DNA tests will be carried out to determine if indeed Mehsud has been killed.
Earlier reports had indicated that one of the wives of Mehsud had been killed in the drone strike in northwestern Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal agency.
Bhubaneswar, August 07: The bill passed by parliament on Tuesday to ensure free and compulsory education is unacceptable in its present form, child rights activists said on Thursday.
“It is unacceptable because by no means it guarantees the quality of education,” Prabir Basu, national convenor of Campaign against Child Labour (CACL), told sources.
CACL is an umbrella organization of over 6,500 groups working to eradicate child labour in the country.
Mumbai, August 07: Actor Anupam Kher could have opted for a conventional subject and a known star cast for the first film of his new production house. But he chose to make “Teree Sang”, a film on teen pregnancy starring newcomers, as he didn’t wish to play safe.
New Delhi, August 07: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the revision of pay scales of more than 50 institutions of faculty, design and scientific and other academic staff of the centrally funded institutions including the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) with retrospective effect from January 1, 2006.
The Government had set up a committee under the chairmanship of Prof. Govardhan Mehta to recommend revised pay scales for faculty of centrally funded technical institutions.
New Delhi, August 07: Two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militants, who were arrested in New Delhi on Thursday night, had undergone training in terror camps in Pakistan and had been told to carry out strikes in the national capital, police sources said on Friday.
They also said that the alleged terrorists hailed from Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir.
Javed Ahmed and Ashiq Ali, who were in their early thirties, were nabbed by a team of Delhi Police’ elite anti-terror wing, the Special Cell, from Central Delhi’s Daryaganj locality on Thursday night.
Raipur, August 07: Nearly 40 students of a Chhattisgarh government school fell ill on Thursday after they ate a mid-day meal into which a lizard had fallen, an official said.
The incident took place at Abhanpur block in Raipur district, some 30 km from here.
The official said some 38 of the 156 students up to Class 5 of the Singarbhata village government primary school started vomiting after eating the lunch.
Washington, August 07: An American professor has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship for a project in Kerala focusing on helping women discover the power of their voices in all aspects of their lives.
Kathleen Mulligan, assistant professor of voice and speech in Department of Theatre Arts at Ithaca College, New York will work closely with the women’s centre at the Rajagiri College of Social Sciences in Kochi as well as with adolescent girls in the community.
Mumbai, August 07: Katrina Kaif has just had herself the most memorable vacation in exotic Marbella in Spain.
With her only brother Michael to look after the girls, the 6 Kaif sisters let their hair down and whooped it up to their heart’s content.
And she can’t get over the fact that her sisters who accompanied her, have all blossomed into lovely women.
Mumbai, August 07: Bollywood actor Shahid Kapur, who is essaying a double-role, with speech disorders, in Vishal Bharadwaj’s upcoming film ‘Kaminey’ is thrilled to play ‘bad’ on screen for the first time.
“Good can get boring after a period of time. I have tried to achieve what director Vishal Bharadwaj has envisaged.
It is the best double role that I have come across in recent times,” Shahid, who has spinned success with his typical choclate boy image in earlier films, told reporters here.
The actor’s character ‘Guddu’ stammers while ‘Charlie’ has a lisp.