The Kashmir valley Tuesday received the season’s heaviest snowfall throwing life out of gear and severing the valley’s road and air links with rest of the country. The snowfall began early Tuesday, bringing an end to the dry spell, and the locals woke up to a white blanket of snow. The valley had received mild […]
Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan Justice Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan Monday administered the oath of office to Justice Ashraf Jehan, the first woman judge to be appointed to the Federal Shariat Court in the country. The ceremony was held at the Sindh High Court in Karachi, the Associated Press of Pakistan […]
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf Tuesday filed an appeal against the special court constituted to try him for treason. The petition was filed in the Islamabad High Court against Justice Riaz Ahmad Khan’s decision rejected all three pleas of Musharraf against the special court formed to try him for treason, Geo News reported. Musharraf is […]
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari Tuesday denied reports of that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would announce at a press conference scheduled for Friday that he was resigning. Television channels, quoting sources, said the prime minister is likely to resign in the press conference, paving way for Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. “This report is […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will not attend office Tuesday too as he is still unwell. “Arvind still has fever and his diarrhoea continues. Now his blood pressure has also gone down,” said Vipin Mittal, Kejriwal’s family doctor. “So I have advised him to take rest at home today (Tuesday),” added Mittal. It is the […]
Actress Keira Knightley has purchased a house for 4 million pounds for herself and her new husband, musician James Righton. Knightley and Right got married in a low-key ceremony earlier this year. She bought the house after putting her East London townhouse up for sale for 3 million pounds, reports dailystar.co.uk. The five-bedroom property is […]
Actress Julia Roberts, 46, says once a fussy director had asked her to remove her freckles for a movie role. “One director wanted me to have two freckles taken off because he said it made my face look dirty,” dailymail.co.uk quoted the “August: Osage County” star as saying. However, the actress doesn’t believe in fake […]
Police have decided to close all flyovers and some key roads around Hussain Sagar in Hyderabad from Tuesday night till the early hours of Wednesday to prevent any untoward incident during the New Year’s Eve celebrations. All flyovers in Hyderabad and Cyberabad police commissionerates will be shut while the roads around Hussain Sagar lake in […]
The truth behind the unique sex-determination system in honeybees – where males develop from unfertilised eggs and females develop from fertilised eggs – is out. Five amino acid separate males from females in honeybee colonies, say scientists who added that the molecular switch for haplodiploidy – genetic sex-determination – was gradual and adaptively evolved in […]
The Indian consulate in Melbourne is in touch with police and kin of an Indian student who was attacked and is in coma in a hospital. One suspect has been arrested. The Indian ministry of external affairs said Tuesday in New Delhi that its consulate is in touch with the hospital, the police and the […]