Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) not only totally ignored the subject of decoration and ornamentation while he was building and while he was overseeing others who were building during his lifetime, but he also, at a first glance, denounced the matter in several of his hadiths (traditions). In one of them, he is reported to have said that whenever a people’s performance (‘amal) weakens, they then start decorating their mosques.
Mumbai, June 13: Nandana Sen is in love The object of her affection isn’t a man. But a soft toy, a cat A friend revealed, “Nandana had purchased the soft toy from London. She was shopping when this cat caught her eye.
Nandana bought it then and there and immediately named it Lucifer.” So impressive are the looks of the cat that it looks real. “People confuse Lucifer to be a real cat and often tell Nandana to shoo it away before he comes closer to them.
Mumbai, June 13: If someone posed you a question like ‘What are you made up of?’ you are bound to say ‘Flesh and bones’.
But if you were to ask the same to the ever-so-affable Shahrukh Khan, then, he, with all his childish like charm bundled together, will bounce off saying ‘Tag Heur’. ‘What are you made up of?’ incidentally happens to be the catch line of the TAG Heur brand of watches, of which he is the Brand Ambassador!
Surat, June 13: An enraged mob severely beat up three men accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl here as a police team brought them for medical examination to a hospital in this Gujarat city Saturday.
The accused – Shahid Saiyad, Tariq Qutubuddhin Saiyad and Abu Bakr Sheikh – allegedly raped the girl in a moving car Friday. They also recorded the act on a video, according to police.
The three were brought for medical examination at the civil hospital here in the morning when patients and other visitors, on learning about the gang rape, beat them up severely, according to police.
Chennai, June 13: A mysterious death eventually turned out to be murder. Basing their investigation on the postmortem report, suburban police arrested six persons for the killing of P Sakthivel (29), whose body was found on the roadside near Kudrathur on December 24 last year. Sakthivel was murdered for eloping with the daughter of his employer. Police arrested the girl’s uncle Thyagarajan (30), his friend Poyyamozhi (40), and Senthi (22), Murugan (28), Velu (30) and Ramesh (22) who were hired for the deed.
Islamabad, June 13: Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari today said his country was fighting for its “survival” and promised that the ongoing offensive against the Taliban would continue “until the end”.
“We are fighting a war for our sovereignty,” Zardari said in a late-night television address to the nation. “We will continue this war until the end, and we will win it at any cost.”
Bangalore, June 13 : A 74-year-old retired defence officer murdered his wife by assaulting her with a crow bar, even as she was playing with their 10-month-old grandchild and their seven-year-old granddaughter was crying.
Soon after assaulting Rosylin, 58, K V Benny drank phenyl and tried to commit suicide. He is now recovering in hospital.
Mumbai, June 13: Sanjay Gupta’s “Pankh” is a story of a young boy who was forced by her mother to act as a girl in the film industry. It’s a very touching story and it’s a break away from a normal commercial film. All the actors have put in a lot of effort for the movie.
Mumbai, June 13: Former nun Sister Jesme talks to Aastha Atray Banan about her controversial autobiography Amen, in which she speaks out about sexual abuse in a convent
Sister Jesme, the author of Amen: The Autobiography of a Nun, insists the Church asked for trouble through their repeated efforts to have her declared insane.
Jesme, who started her religious training in June 1974 taught at two Catholic colleges in Thrissur she was vice-principal at one and principal at another, for three years each.
The traditional nan khatai is actually very simple to make. A popular cookie of the sub-continent, it can be made easily at home.
Ingredients:
• 50 gms Fine Sooji
• 85 gms Powdered Sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 150 gms Maida
• 120 gms Butter
• Few almonds and cashew nuts
Procedure:
• Cream the butter and sugar till the mixture turns fluffy.
• Add vanilla followed by maida and sooji.
• Make smooth dough of this mixture.
• Roll out medium sized balls and put a cashew nut on the top of each piece.
Hyderabad, June 13, (By S.M.Bilal): “I Thought that Sameera would die after falling from Charminar, but her statement before the police had landed me in trouble” the arrested financer Arshad reportedly told his interrogators. The financer who pushed off 18 year old girl Sameera of Talalbkatta from Historic Charminar had yesterday surrendered before the Charminar police.
New Delhi, June 13: Intra-gang rivalry in the Dawood Ibrahim group reportedly intensified so much that there are reports of one of the faction leaders Chhota Shakeel fleeing Pakistan.
Reports said he feared for his life and thus fled Pakistan. The factions, led by Anees Ibrahim, Dawood’s younger brother, and Shakeel have been at loggerheads for several months now. Sources indicate that Dawood has silently been backing his brothers over Shakeel, who is an outsider for the number 2 position in the D-company.
Hyderabad, June 13: With the increase in the number of commuters taking MMTS trains and demand from passengers, six more trains will be added to the MMTS fleet.
These trains will have more commuter-friendly features when compared to the existing ones, including an increase in seating capacity.
The MMTS project wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) ordered for the six trains recently from the Integral Railway Coach Factory, Chennai.
Hyderabad, June 13: Andhra Pradesh is lucky for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, feels chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. Firmly believing that the PM’s
visit to AP, first to any state after assuming office in 2004, augured well for the party and the country, the chief minister has written to Manmohan Singh urging him to visit Andhra Pradesh first again in his second stint.
Tehran, June 13: A brave people went in their millions yesterday to vote for the next president of Iran.
They went for the right reasons and they went for the wrong reasons but they wanted a say in how their country is governed. In their tens of thousands, they waited in Tehran amid the sword-like heat of summer to insist that they had duties and obligations towards their society. Alas, the clerical blanket which smothers Iran will ensure that mullahs – not people – ultimately get their way. Thank you, Ayatollah Khomeini.
New Delhi, June 13: India has appreciated the steps Australia has taken for the safety of Indian students, some of whom have faced allegedly racist attacks, even as it released a list of do’s and don’ts for Indians studying in that country. “We hope that the Australian government will succeed to stop the attacks. It is a terrible thing that the attacks are continuing,” Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters here on Friday.
He signaled appreciation for the efforts of the Australian government and said that New Delhi and Canberra were in touch during the crisis.
Surat, June 13: A 17-Year-old schoolgirl was kidnapped from the Majura Gate area and gangraped by three youths in a moving car in broad daylight on Friday.
The police arrested all the accused later in the day and seized the Opel Corsa car used in the crime. Two of the accused are sons of policemen.
Chandigarh, June 13: Eighty-year-old Balbir Kaur, a chronic heart patient, returned home from hospital to an unpleasant surprise on Friday evening—she had been booked by the UT Police for disobeying the orders of the Deputy Commissioner by not informing the police regarding her tenants. Kaur has been living alone at her Sector-16 house after her husband passed away a year ago.
Mumbai, June 13: Will she, won’t she? Shatrughan and Punam Sinha’s daughter Sonakshi was offered a role by Salman in a film to be produced by Arbaaz Khan.
But Sonakshi, apparently in two minds about a film career, decided not to do it. She had studied fashion designing and that’s what she wanted to pursue as a career.
The girl hadn’t bargained for Salman’s persuasive powers. Apparently he kept asking Sonakshi and her parents (who are very fond of Salman) until they finally relented.
Washington, June 13: Now it’s storm in a coffee cup. Though a cup of coffee might help you beat drowsiness, a new research suggests that caffeine might hinder your short-term recall of certain words.
Caffeine made it harder for people to find a word that they already knew — the “tip-of-the-tongue” phenomenon, BBC News portal reported on Friday.
Valerie Lesk, of the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy, believes caffeine improves alertness by shutting down other brain pathways. This makes it harder to recall words, she says in Behavioural Psychology.
Mumbai, June 13: Walking in hand-in-hand, Hrithik Roshan (sporting a small ponytail) and wife Sussanne came to talk about marriage while launching ‘Country Vivah’ — Hrithik Roshan and Sussanne Roshan launch Country Vivah at an event with Y Rajeev Reddy India’s first one-stop shop for weddings.
Mumbai, June 13: It’s been almost two years since her last Bollywood release, yet actress Preeti Jhangiani claims that she’s never been busier.
Mumbai, June 13: Aamir Khan has turned down the state government’s offer to campaign against child labour. The state labour ministry had been pursuing the actor for over four months.
Kavita Gupta, state labour secretary, said, “We felt Aamir was ideal for the campaign. It took us a while before we could meet and discuss the idea with him. We were told that he was busy with the election campaign, after which he was going abroad. We could only meet him after he returned. But unfortunately, he won’t be doing the campaign.”
Kolkata, June 13: The Trinamool Congress and the West Bengal administration were Friday seemingly headed for a standoff, with the state home secretary threatening to use force to lift the opposition party’s siege of a police station and a road in East Midnapore’s troublespot Khejuri and Trinamool MP Subhendu Adhikari daring him to do so.
The Trinamool, which blockaded the police station protesting against the arrest of 14 of its members onthe charge of rioting, announced it would organise a public boycott of policemen if their members were not given bail.
Mexico City, June 13:A nine-month-old baby suffocated to death inside a car in the Mexican city of Saltillo, after his father forgot him there for seven hours, the Mexican daily La Vanguardia reported Friday.
The incident happened Thursday in Saltillo, about 850 km north of Mexico City.
The man realised what had happened when – at the end of his working day – he went to the day care centre to pick up his son and was told that he had never got there in the morning.
“I had him in my car, I forgot to bring him!” the man reportedly said.