Objecting to an Iranian film Muhammad: Messenger of God, a Muslim group here has issued a fatwa against all those involved in the project, including renowned Iranian director Majid Majidi and music composer A.R. Rahman. “We are against the title. People may use it in a bad manner if they don’t like the film, which will mean an insult to […]
» Read moreAt least 40 people were killed and 35 others injured when explosives kept inside a building went off at Petlwad town in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, police said. Earlier, police had said that the explosion was caused by a cooking gas cylinder kept in the adjacent three-storeyed building housing a hotel. Both the buildings were extensively damaged […]
» Read moreHyderabad: For 18 months, a 21-year-old engineering student from upscale Banjara Hills befriended 200 schoolgirls on Facebook and coaxed or blackmailed nearly half of them to share their nude photographs, before he was finally arrested on Friday. Abdul Majid, 21, had opened eight different FB accounts with pseudo names of women and befriended school-going girls from Hyderabad. “From these accounts, […]
» Read moreBhubaneswar: IIT Bhubaneswar has introduced Odissi dance as a BTech subject becoming the first IIT in the country to introduce any dance form in its curriculum, director RV Rajakumar said here on Friday. The classical dance would be one of the ‘breadth’ course of maximum 12 credits during the four years BTech studies, he said. Each credit means, weekly five […]
» Read moreAndhra Bank, an institution with presence across 26 States and three Union Territories, on Friday opened its 2600th branch and 3000th ATM. Announcing this, the bank said 43 per cent of the branches are in semi-uban/rural areas and 231 of the branches are in unbanked rural centres. During the current fiscal, the bank added 100 branches and plans to add […]
» Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Thursday asked ten entities connected to the Satyam scam case including the ex-chairman of the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Ltd., B. Ramalinga Raju and other family members to disgorge over Rs.1,800 crore, which are ‘ill-gotten gains’ made by them. The SEBI order said that pursuant to the SEBI order on July […]
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