October 29, 2010 in India News by R Biswas

Strong explosion occurs in Kanpur, 3 dead

3 persons were killed and dozens wounded in strong explosion in Kanpur near a two storey government community health centre 30 Km away from the main city on Thursday.

It has been reported that the explosion was made near a government health centre in Kalyanpuri area of the district on Thursday evening. After the explosion 3 people were reportedly killed and 12 wounded, including eight children and four women, who were buried under rubbles of the collapsed building. Two men and a woman are among the dead.

Speaking to media persons District Magistrate Mukesh Meshram said that the blast occurred in the staff quarter which collapsed due to impact. He confirmed that a country-made bomb was placed in a room of ward boy Rajesh. He further added that the building was residential quarter for worker of health care centre and Rajesh’s brother, sister and uncle were in the room when explosion occurred.

On the other hand, Mr Brijlal, Uttar Pradesh ADGP, said that blast was triggered because of fire crackers, which was manufactured nearby the community health centre building.

However, the police confirmed that the blast was not a terrorist attack.

Reportedly, rescue squad team and ATC reached the site soon after the blast. Bodies of the dead people were recovered and wounded persons were rushed to hospitals.

District Magistrate and the Deputy Inspector General of Police visited the blast site

More people are feared to be trapped under the rubbles. The rescue work is still going on and absolute reason is not known till now.

October 27, 2010 in Career by R Biswas

TNTEU B.ED Results: Tamilnadu Teachers Education university revaluation result out

The Tamilnadu Teachers Education university has published the B.Ed and M.Ed revaluation results 2010 for the examinations conducted by the TNTEU. The results can be checked by visiting the official website of the university, a link to which is given below.

To check the TNTEU B.ED Revaluation Results 2010, please click here.

The revaluation results published by the Tamilnadu Teachers Education university is for the examination conducted in May and June 2010. Candidates can find a notification regarding the result annoucement on the homepage of the official website, available at http://www.tnteu.in.

October 27, 2010 in India News by R Biswas

Kerala Panchayat Election 2010 Results: Poll results favoring UDF

Kerala Panchayat Election 2010 Results are being released right now as the poll counting is underway since Wednesday morning. In the latest news on the Kerala Election results, the Congress led UDF is leading in many regions.

Earlier today, there seemed to be a close race between the rulling Left Democratic
Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) but now, the race seems to be changing the course in favour of the UDF.

The poll counting for 13 of the 14 districts in Kerala is underway today and results are slowly coming out. The result for many of the municipal corporations have been declared so far.

The Congress led United Democratic Front is also showing good hold over the municipalities by leading in several areas.

October 26, 2010 in Miscellaneous by R Biswas

Moon rise time today in India: The significance

Today is Karva Chauth and the moon rise time today is of great significance to many women in India as well as Indian women aboard. On this day, married women across the country observe fasting to show their devotion to deity Gauri and pray for the safety, happiness and longevity of their husbands.

Married women of Hindi and Sikh religions observe this day with great enthusiasm with a one day long fasting, from sun rise to moon rise. At moon rise, they will conclude the fasting and celebrate the evening with their husbands.

The women, usually try to look the best on this day by putting on heavy make-up, with lot of beautiful jewellery and hands and legs decorated with mehndi and henna. They eagerly wait for the moon to rise and for the big celebration ahead.

According to Timeanddate.com, the moon rise time today (New Delhi) is 19:56 from the East-northeast direction. We wish everyone a very happy Karva Chauth.

October 26, 2010 in Entertainment by R Biswas

Rooney, Coleen celebrate 60 million pounds contract in Dubai

Well, after long controversial days Rooney is back into Manchester United team but the new contract of 60 million pounds has created havoc for the star player. To repair his marriage after the claims of hooker, Rooney along with his wife Coleen celebrated his birthday in grandeur style in Dubai.

Manchester United manager Ferguson thinks this as a perfect break for the star before the start of the season.
Wayne and Coleen had planned to host a lavish birthday party at their £3million Cheshire mansion, but are thought to have cancelled on Sir Alex Ferguson’s advice.

As per report of the Daily star, the Manchester United Boss wanted Rooney to put all the drama of the past few weeks behind him and after returning back show the world his importance and greatness.
Ferguson packed Rooney’s tour to Dubai with two first-class flights from Manchester with Emirates are £7032.72, four nights in a deluxe suite at the seven star Burj Al Arab cost £9992.96 and one glass of wine is £40.

However, England coach Fabio Capello emphasized on the performance of the players in the coming season saying: “”If he’s (in form) I’ll play him, otherwise no. For anything else, you’ve got to ask (Manchester United manager Alex) Ferguson.”

Earlier, Rooney seemed ready to leave United when he questioned the club’s ability to sign leading players last week, but then turned around and signed a new five-year contract under which he will be paid £ 2, 50,000 per week.

England plays France next month and will have another friendly in February.

October 25, 2010 in Career by R Biswas

Kurukshetra University B.ED results 2010 at KUK online

The Kurukshetra University or KUK has declared the results for the B.ED exam 2010 on the official KUK website. The results have been declared at the official Kurukshetra University whose link is given below:

To check Kurukshetra University B.ED results 2010: Click Here.

The above website is from the official website where the results are declared. Candidates can check their results by entering their roll number. PLease visit again for more exam updates. Feel free to leave any comments and queries below.

October 25, 2010 in Miscellaneous by AK Dubey

7 jawans killed in a landmine blast

On Friday (October 22), 7 jawans were killed in a bloody landmine blast triggered by naxal militant. The landmine blast was triggered near Sheohar, Bihar when a police patrolling jeep was passing by. The landmine blast blew up the jeep killing 1 inspector and 6 jawans in the attack. The landmine blast was made 35km away from the sheohar town.

Director General of Police Neelmani Singh reported to PTI that the ultras detonated a landmine blast targeting a police patrol passing over a small culvert at Jhitkahi in which five policemen, including the SHO of Shyampur Bhatha police station Pravin Kumar Singh, were killed.

Mr. Neelami further apprised the media that four Special Auxiliary Police (SAP) personnel and the driver of jeep were among those who got killed in the blast. He also said that the Special Task Force (STF) of Bihar and CRPF jawans had been deployed and combat against naxal had been intensified.

“The landmine blast was made when the patrolling police team was returning after a visit to a nearby CRPF camp.” said the Additional Director General of Police P. K. Thakur in his statement. Mr. Thakur further reported that the Maoists did not loot the weapons of the dead policemen.

As per report of the sources, the landmine blast is being taken as a sign from moist to boycott the election in Bihar, after the first phase of election had peacefully passed off on Thursday.

The state government made an announcement to pay Rs 10 lakh to bereaved families. Moreover, the government has also promised to ensure Rs 13.75 lakh of insurance cover to the dependent of the victim within tenure of three days.

October 22, 2010 in Entertainment by AK Dubey

Rakta Charita Reviews: Rakta Charita movie is a must watch

RGV production Rakta Charita hit the screen all over country in three languages (Telugu, Hindi and Tamil) today amidst controversies which has almost become trademark for all the movies produced by Ram Gopal Verma. The film brings the viewer into the world of the goondas and their immoral ethics and practices and is apt for strong hearted people who could see lots of bloodsheds.

The movie with a star cast of Vivek Oberoi, Subrata Dutta, Suriya and Shatrughan Sinha has been slated as one of the biggest release of this year.

As the story moves around the basic political turmoil, and how the protagonist, Vivek Oberoi, over comes each situation with a revengeful act. All this due to his bitter life experiences in the past.

The film picks up steam upon the entry of the actor-politician Sivaji Rao (Shatrughan Sinha who asks Pratap to enter politics. The scenes between Sivaji and Pratap are interesting and engrossing to watch. These are the highlights of the film.

Other stars in the movie, Shatrughan Sinha is equally good as the politician actor and pulls off the role with ease. Abhimanyu Singh puts in a power-packed performance in a negative role.

So, the film is sort of a very realistic take on the political dealings, with some amazing performances actors, who all have the ultimate passion for acting it real.

As a whole the movie is stylish and has certain scenes which depict typical Verma style. The movie is good but consider this warning seriously ‘Faint Hearted- Don’t watch this movie’ as this could be a blood curdling experience to watch it.

October 22, 2010 in India News by AK Dubey

First phase voting in Bihar kick start

The first phase of Bihar Assembly elections kicked off to a moderate start on Thursday for 47 out of 243 seats in the Kosi-Seemachal and Mithilanchal belts. The voting began today at 0700 hrs morning amidst unprecedented security measures.

As per report of the sources, nearly 10 percent of the voters exercised their vote till 0900 hrs on Thursday out of an estimated 1.07 crore voters, including 50.2 lakh women and 3829 service voters, who are eligible to cast their vote in their franchise at 10,454 polling centres in the state.

In order to prevent any kind of untoward incident, security has been beefed up in naxalite prone region. The borders with Madhubani, Supaul, Kishanganj and Araria districts have been sealed and checking is introduced to prevent entry of trouble-makers.

The eight districts going to the polls are Kishanganj, Araria, Purnia, Madhepura, Saharsa, Katihar, Supaul and Mithilanchal.

Prominent among the 631 contestants are senior Janata Dal (United) ministers Vijendra Prasad Yadav, Narendra Narain Yadav, Renu Kumari, Hari Prasad Sah, Congress nominee Ranjeet Ranjan (wife of former MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav), state Congress chief Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser and Lovely Anand (wife of former MP Anand Mohan).

Sources have also reported that in order to ensure unbiased polling, government has appointed ‘Observers’ and ‘Micro observers’ at the polling booths. Moreover, Election Commission has also introduced live webcast at 20 percent of the booths and the entire process will be videographed.

Special ramps and braille-EVMs have been arranged for the physically and visually challenged voters.

Interestingly, voters were seen brimming with enthusiasm for exercising their vote in most of the booths of Madhubani, Madhepura, Supaul, Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Araria and Saharsa districts where many elderly women queued up in large numbers even before voting began at 7 am.

The second phase of election will take place on October 24.

October 20, 2010 in India News by R Biswas

Kashmir under curfew after Masarat Alam arrest

After a series of curfew, the Kashmir valley once again is hit by curfew after the pro-independence leader Masarat Alam Bhat, who is the general secretary of the hard line All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, was arrested on Monday evening.

As per report of a police officer in Srinagar, Curfew has been imposed in Srinagar city,  Ganderbal, Baramulla, Sopore, Handwara, Kupwara, Pattan, Palhalan, Delina and some other towns as a precautionary step to curb any separatists demonstrations and protest to show resent against the arrest of separatist leader.

Well, close sources have reported that Police is satisfied after the arrest of Alam and called it a ‘major success’ as he was evading his arrest since June, the month from which the ‘Cycle of Violence’ hit Kashmir. Immediately after the arrest, Bhat was taken to an undisclosed location in Srinagar for interrogation.

Another police official confirmed it by saying: “We have arrested him on Monday evening from the house of his maternal uncle in Wagund area in Srinagar district.

The hard-line separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, reacting to Bhat’s arrest said, “Arrests and detentions are part and parcel of the freedom movement. The arrest is painful but the struggle will continue.”

Curfew once again affected the normal life of people in state as shops, educational institutions; public and private transport, banks, post offices and other businesses remained closed.

The accompanying clashes between pro-independence protesters and Indian security forces have left 108 dead and hundreds others wounded since last four months.

Measures taken by Delhi so far have proved ineffective in bringing normalized life into the area.

October 18, 2010 in India News by M Chakraborty

US says ‘India was informed about 26-11 threat’

After the revelation of two out of three wives of Headley that US was aware of the 26/11 attack on India, US responded strongly by making a new twist into the incident. It says that it had made India aware of the threat, though generally, that it was going to be hit soon by terrorist act.

Spokesperson of the National Security Council, White House, Mike Hammer said that had they knew about the timing and other specification about the Mumbai attacks, they would have immediately shared those details with the government of India.

Hammer said the US “regularly provided threat information” to Indian officials in 2008 before the attacks in Mumbai.

He further said that it was US government solemn responsibility to make the other nations aware of the possible terrorist attack on their soil.

However, another US official denied the fact that any information on ‘threat’ was not shared to India before the attack on Mumbai.

Meanwhile a separate Indian source, who was involved in the investigations of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, said on the condition of anonymity that India did receive threat information from US which was general but not specific in nature.

Earlier, the second wife of Headley revealed that US law enforcement authorities were warned twice that the Pakistani-American was working for the Lashkar-e-Taiba, and planning a major terrorist attack.

Despite those warnings, Headley roamed far and wide on Lashkar’s behalf between 2002 and 2009, receiving small arms and counter-surveillance training, scouting targets for attack, and building a network of connections that extended from Chicago to Pakistan.

October 17, 2010 in Technology by Kumar

Mobile users may get freed from roaming charges soon

Well, this is good news for all those mobile consumers who keep moving from one place to another and lose lot of their mobile balance because of roaming tariffs as the Department of Telecom (DoT) panel has come up with the strategy for all the communications industry to consider the whole country as one region and free customers from paying roaming charges when they are travelling within the country.

Presently, the country is divided into 22 circles and the consumers pay roaming charges when they are outside their home circle.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has been asked to work out the modalities for this. However, no time frame has been specified for the merger of all the circles into single entity from the licensing perspective.

However, this move of the panel is likely to get criticism from the telecom companies as this fee constitutes up to 10% of the industry’s revenues. All telcos combined garner about Rs 12,000 crore annually from roaming charges.

The panel has also sought that cellular operators be allowed to offer services on mobile phones which would speed up the government’s efforts to ensure that the weaker sections of the society have access to the facilities at affordable costs.

The panel has also called for the national policy which will be framed by TRAI that will to cell sites or telecom towers in all cities and will address issues such as the minimum distance these units must maintain from schools, hospitals and tourist attractions.

With this step, India’s first attempt to regulate the telecoms towers space in the country will be marked.

October 17, 2010 in India News by R Biswas

CWG a great success after much hype and series of criticism

India has surpassed every expectation by delivering a successful Mega event in New Delhi and shut the mouth of everyone who had criticized the Games for being organized in India. Not only in organization of the Games but also in the medal tally where India secured second position with 101 medals total in its kitty.

The Games was officially called over after very mesmerizing performances at the closing ceremony in the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium on Thursday. The show like the opening ceremony began with the depiction of the multicultural India with people of different culture rocking the floor of the main venue. Amidst large number of firecrackers, there was a rhythm of music in the air from Sufi songs to the sounds of bagpiper.

The show was attended by top brass officials like Games boss Mike fennel, Organizing Committee President Suresh Kalmadi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA President Sonia Gandhi, Vice President of India and chief Guest Mahindra Rajapaksa.

Finally, the show came to an end with the handing of CWG baton to Glasgow representative which will host the next CWG 2014 and shera will be replaced by Nessie in four years.

The most special part of the mega event is the success of the host team as the Indian contingent broke all their previous records and clinched 38 golds to stay ahead of England and finish second after Australia. At this success at CWG, the athletes who brought this glory for the country got thumbs up from many celebs, sports star and politician as well.

October 17, 2010 in Entertainment by M Chakraborty

Bigg Boss turns Confession floor for love for Sara

It seems that the fourth season of ‘Bigg Boss’ is apparently becoming more controversial with the passage of day as after the show being hindered by the Shiv Sena the show looks to have confession time.

The show’s eye-candy Sara Khan, who was making her closeness to co-inmate Ashmit Patel pretty evident for quite some time now, has finally confessed her love for Ashmit.

The show is taking new twist and turn everyday as the Sara-Ashmit chemistry can’t go unnoticed on the camera. Their intimacy from long chats by the pool, to washes dishes in the kitchen and teaching dance steps is drawing attention of viewers and has become a matter of gossip for their fans .Their closeness in the show is evident of the fact that duos are having something for each other.

Instead of having steady relationship with Ali Merchant, Sara tore the picture of her boyfriend and cried on the shoulder of Ashmit Patel.

However, this action of Sara has become matter of worry for her boy friend Ali Merchant. However, Ali Merchant taking it lightly said that her footage with Ashmit is specially being highlighted in a bid to create extra masala to spice up the show to increase the TRPs.

He further told that he was 200 percent sure that nothing was going to happen between the duos and further told that Sara is taking Ashmit as a friend  but the situation is being portrayed as something else together.

He also told that he was hoping to enter the show through a wild card entry and take care of anything that was going against his favour.