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Robert Vadra makes sensational claims against Govt

  Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra who recently received notice by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for his alleged involvement in a land scam in Bikaner, Rajasthan, has posted on Facebook saying that the government can prove nothing against him and that all allegations being levelled against him are baseless. He said, “Almost a decade of government’s false and baseless accusations on me! They cannot prove anything without proof n there is nothing there to prove,” and added, "I will always be used for political gains, I know … But I will walk with my head held high as in time and with the truth, which will conquer incorrect perceptions, created! about me”.   Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law, Robert Vadra's post comes a day after the Justice S N Dhingra Commission, set up to look into land deals in Haryana - including one between realty major DLF and Vadra's Skylight Hospitality - said on Wednesday that it had completed its investigation.

World bank promises India $1 billion for solar projects

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim met Prime Minister Narendra Modi today as part of the Bank’s efforts to explore ways to support government initiatives on nutrition and renewable energy. Stating that he was very impressed with Modi’s reforms, he said his visit would explore how the World Bank could provide knowledge and financing to advance his government’s priorities. India is the largest client of the World Bank Group. World Bank today announced funding support of $1 billion for expansion of solar power capacity in India. The World Bank Group signed an agreement with the International Solar Alliance (ISA), consisting of 121 countries led by India, and committed to support Indian solar energy projects. The pact, which was signed in the presence of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Power Minister Piyush Goyal and visiting World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, establishes the multilateral lending agency as the financial partner for ISA.

Surface-to-air missile successfully test fired by India

  A new surface-to-air missile developed jointly by India and Israel was successfully test fired from a defence base off Odisha coast. The surface-to-air missile also includes a multi-functional surveillance system and threat alert radar (MF STAR) for detection, tracking and guidance of the missile, sources from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) were quoted.   The medium range missile (MR-SAM), a product of joint venture between India and Israel, was successfully test launched from a mobile launcher in the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur at around 08.15 hours, a DRDO official statement said. Indian Defence Research Development Laboratory (DRDL), a laboratory of DRDO based at Hyderabad, has jointly developed this missile in collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).

Boy kills his girlfriend & himself on a romantic date

  In a shocking incident in Delhi, bodies of two aspiring dancers Sachin and Yogita was found at their dance academy. The academy room in which they were found dead had rose petals, scented candles and dim lighting, all indicating to a romantic date. Police said that it appeared like the youth had first strangled the woman with an electrical wire and then hanged himself from the ceiling using her stole.   It was love at first sight for Yogita (23) who came to the ABC Dance Academy run by Sachin(24) a year ago. But things took a drastic turn when she told him that her parents are looking to get her married off to someone else soon. This led to quarrels between them and friends say that Sachin had even put restrictions on Yogita speaking to any other guy. Police say that this was a planned murder by Sachin, who had changed the dance class timings on that day fateful day and also made flower and candle arrangements at the dance class. There was no suicide note at the place where the incident took place.

Son of Murderer,studies from jail & clears JEE

  Real heros are those who do not give up when faced with adversities, but fight them out to come out in flying colours. Piyush Goyal, just did that. Piyush, a convict's son has scripted an extraordinary success story by preparing for IIT entrance exams while staying with his father in an 8x8 feet cell in an open jail in Kota for almost two years, because he did not have money for the hostel fee. With his grit and handwork he has secured 453 rank (ST Category) in JEE-Advanced results.   He recounted his journey towards this achievement saying, "Initially, it wasn't easy to study as an open jail has strict rules.For instance, lights were turned off in the cells at 11pm. I used to study in the dim light coming through the window. The room was so small that my father would spend time outside the cell until I completed my target for the day. He could never enter the cell before 4am". He also adds that his sole aim is to give his father a better life once he completes his jail term, which ends in 2 years.

Hyd:4yrs old dies of suffocation by polythene

  Playing with a plastic cover proved to be fatal for little Sriyaan. All of 4 years, the boy was left gasping for breath as he wrapped a polythene cover tightly around his head and face fully. He later died due to suffocation. This unfortunate incident took place at Nizampet under Kukatpally police limits on Wednesday. Sriyaan was playing in his house with the plastic cover when he wrapped the cover tightly around his head blocking the nose and mouth completely.   As his mother did not observe, in the effort to get rid of it, the cover got tight which caused the boy slip into unconsciousness due to suffocation. Though the parents immediately rushed him to a nearby hospital after finding the boy falling on the floor in unconscious state, he died while undergoing treatment.

Happiness Ministry soon in this State

  In a first of its kind announcement, the Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan plans to announce the creation of a "happiness ministry" when he expands his cabinet shortly. On 17 June, the chief minister had said at the state BJP executive meeting that there would be a cabinet expansion and he also announced proposal to form 'Happiness Ministry', inspired by Bhutan which has the concept of 'gross national happiness index'.   Chouhan, keen to become the country's first minister for happiness, will supervise 70 social programmes that include the Lok Sewa Guarantee (for hassle-free services), Ladli Laxmi (for girl child), Kanyadan Yojana (for weddings) and Teerth Darshan (free pilgrimages for senior citizens). The Madhya Pradesh government, which is lead by Chouhan for the past three years, has 18 cabinet ministers and four ministers of state since 2013. Expansion was expected in 2014 and 2015, but it did not happen. As per the Constitutional provision, 11 more ministers can be appointed. An official statement no the same is awaited.

Nobel prize winner Malala is now a Millionaire

  The 18-year-old Pakistani teenager, Malala Yousafzai, who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, has now along with her family become millionaires in under four years due to sales of a book about her life and appearances on the global speaker circuit. The youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, shot to international fame after emerging defiant from the assassination attempt on a school bus in Pakistan’s Swat valley in October 2012 to continue her fight for girls’ rights. She later co-wrote a book with journalist Christina Lamb about her experience called “I am Malala” which was published in October 2013.   The deal was worth about 2 million pounds, and the book sold at least 1.8 million copies around the world with an approximate profit of US$3 million. According to reports, a company set up to protect the rights to her life story had 2.2 million pounds in the bank by August 2015 and made a pre-tax profit of 1.1 million pounds. Malala, her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, and her mother Toor Pekai are joint shareholders of the company, Salarzai Ltd.

ED attaches Rs.749 Cr assets of Jagan

  Moveable and immovable assets valued at over Rs 749 crore belonging to YSR Congress Party chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and his wife Y S Bharathi were attached by the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act(PMLA). The agency launched the investigations on the basis of a charge sheet filed by the CBI accusing Jagan of entering into a criminal conspiracy with others to get a mining lease allotted to M/s Bharathi Cement Corporation Private Ltd of which Bharathi is the chairman.   Jagan’s attached properties include real estate and fixed assets of various companies worth Rs 344 crore and movable properties, including shares and FDs. Properties including Jagan’s palatial Lotus Pond residence in Jubilee Hills, Sakshi Towers in Banjara Hills having offices of Sakshi newspaper and TV channel, Bharathi Cements, Sandur Power Project, 903-acre land in Guntur, and land in Hakimpet on the outskirts of Hyderabad were also attached. The ED had earlier attached his assets worth Rs 1,775 crore. With Wednesday’s attachment order, the ED has attached Rs 2,524 crore worth of property owned by Jagan.

US man marries his smart phone!

  In the beautiful city of Las Vegas in US, a church was being decked up to witness a wedding. That of a man and his smart phone! yes, you read it right. Taking his cellphone love to a whole new different level he professed his love for it and married it in a church ceremony. Aaron Chervenak,drove 365 kilometres from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to take part in a typical Las Vegas wedding.   The man after saying I do to the vows, placed his wife (his smart phone) on his left ring finger, and also the wife had a little ring attached to her plastic cover. The owner of the church said, Aaron's symbolic gesture to marry his smartphone was because he wanted to make a point about how dependent people are on their phones. People are so connected to their phones and they live with them all the time. They go to sleep with their cell phone. They wake up with their cell phone, sometimes it's the first thing they check. While they say is very similar to being married.

VVS Laxman in conflict of interest controversy

  Ever since the selection of Anil Kumble as the Indian Cricket coach took place, there seems to be no end to the controversies cropping up every second day. After the public spat between the former cricketers Sourav Ganguly and Ravi Shastri about the unfair way in which the coach was selected, there seems to be a new issue of conflict of interest surrounding VVS Laxman who is one of the members who selected Kumble for the post. It has now emerged that   VVS Laxman, who was one of the three Cricket Advisory Committee members, is the second biggest shareholder in Kumble’s company Tenvic Sports Education Private Ltd.   These revelations raise serious questions on the selection of Kumble and Laxman’s role in the rejection of other candidates who had applied to be Team India’s coach, as there is a clear case of conflict of interest. As a shareholder he holds, 33,332 shares in Tenvic Sports. Laxman was also entitled to a substantial amount of money in the form of incentives, bonus and other benefits from Kumble’s firm. Deepika Padukone's father and Badminton legend Prakash Padukone is also a shareholder in the firm.

బ్రిటన్ నుంచి వచ్చిన జగన్‌కు ఈడీ మార్క్ స్వాగతం..

ఫ్యామిలీతో నాలుగు రోజులు బ్రిటన్‌లో ఎంజాయ్ చేసి వద్దామని వెళ్లి వచ్చిన వైసీపి అధినేత వైఎస్ జగన్మోహనరెడ్డికి ఎన్‌ఫోర్స్‌మెంట్ డైరెక్టరేట్ గ్రాండ్ వెల్‌కమ్ చెప్పింది. అక్రమాస్తుల కేసులో జగన్‌కు చెందిన రూ.749 కోట్ల ఆస్తులను ఈడీ జప్తు చేసింది . వీటిలో హైదరాబాద్ బంజారాహిల్స్‌లోని జగన్ నివాసం మరియు పార్టీ కార్యాలయమున్న లోటస్‌పాండ్‌లోని భవంతి, ఆయన సొంత మీడియా సంస్థ సాక్షి కేంద్ర కార్యాలయం అయిన సాక్షి టవర్స్, బెంగుళూరులోని వాణిజ్య సముదాయంతో సహా పలు కంపెనీల్లో జగన్, భారతీల షేర్లను ఈడీ అటాచ్ చేసింది. భారతీ సిమెంట్స్‌ ఛార్జిషీటు ఆధారంగా దర్యాప్తు చేసిన ఎన్‌ఫోర్స్‌మెంట్ ఈ నిర్ణయం తీసుకుంది. 

Kejriwal targets BJP for his cancelled Gujarat tour

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has yet again targeted BJP. This timefor not letting him visit Gujarat. Kejriwal's next week trip toGujarat has been cancelled after a trade body which had invited him to Surat withdrew the invitation. The party alleges this is because of the pressure from the state government. One of the AAP leaders said that Surat Vehapari Mahamandal had invited Arvind Kejriwal for felicitation and speech on July 10 and that Kejriwal was to start his 2017 election campaign for Gujarat by visiting Somnath temple on July 9 and Surat the next day. But when the state government came to know about it, it exerted pressure on the trade body and hence they had to withdraw the invitation. But the party said they are planning to hold mega rallies in the state in a couple of months when they start their campaign tour.

Ganguly says Shastri is Living in Fool's World

It seems like the banter between the two Indian Cricketing legends, Sourav Ganguly and Ravi Shastri is far from over. Shastri recently revealed that Ganguly was not present at the interview which he gave for the Indian coach's position. And said Sourav should let him know what Ganguly said Shastri was living in a "fool's world" if he thought he was the one who reduced the former coach's chances and that he was surprised and saddened at the personal attack. In a statement Ganguly said, "If Ravi thinks because of me that he is not the coach of Team India, then he is living in a fool's world. Ravi has made a personal attack which was not expected and is very saddening. It was already previously decided that I will attend the CAB working committee meeting on the day of these coach elections. I say this with anger that my counter piece of advise to Shastri is that he should have been present physically and not holidaying in Bangkok for such an important event". He said this as Shastri has given his interview via a video link as he was on a holiday in Bangkok.

Marriage of films and politics yet again in TN

The marriage between films and politics is one of long standing affairs in Tamil Nadu. This time it is between the families of Hero Vikram and M Karunanidhi. Akshita, the daughter of actor Vikram, and Manu Ranjith, the great-grandson of DMK chief M Karunanidhi will soon be tying the knot, which will be yet another of a film-political marriage. Manu Ranjith is the son of CK Ranganathan, who owns the CavinKare group and his mother is the daughter of Muthu, the first son of M. Karunanidhi. Vikram, who is busy shooting for his latest film Iru Mugan will be taking a quick break to attend the engagement of his daughter Akshitha. The event is set to take place on July 10 in a private function at a star hotel in Chennai. Reportedly only close family members and friends will be attending the engagement function. The wedding will be taking place in 2017 and Vikram is planning to invite all his industry friends for the grand wedding.

Govt employees to strike on July 11,unhappy with hike

Earlier in the day the Union Government has approved the 7th Pay Commission recommendations, where they have approved a 23.6 per cent increase in government employees' overall pay - basic pay plus allowances as recommended. But this did not seem to please the employees, according to reports they have announced they will be going on a strike starting July 11, protesting against the salary hike approved by the Cabinet. A total of 98 lakh employees of which 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners were to benefit from the decision to hike the salaries. Nearly 32 lakh central government employees will be going on the proposed strike said reports. An official statement is awaited from the employees.

Shocking:74 tigers killed in this year

  Madhya Pradesh stood first in a horrific tale of tiger deaths in the country. It has registered 19 deaths so far since January this year. At least 74 tigers died between January 1 and June 26 this year in India. Poaching still seems to be haunting the forest authorities with them failing to save tigers from death. 14 tigers were electrocuted, poisoned or simply killed by poachers.   According to the statistics 12 were victims of infighting, 2 tiger-human conflict, 3 road or train accidents, 1 fights with other animals. The other 26 tigers were "found dead", a category that includes mortality due to disease, old age or unexplained circumstances. Maharashtra and Uttarakhand take the second spot with nine fatalities each. Madhya Pradesh also has the highest number of recorded deaths on account of poaching which accounted to 6 deaths.

Is Mud therapy harming the Symbol of Love?

  Experts are of the opinion that Taj Mahal is loosing its sheen by the every passing day. And one of the many reasons for it may be the frequent mud therapy being done. The mud pack therapy on the Taj Mahal is being done to fight the problems posed by pollution and insects. The therapy is currently being applied for the third time in the last 14 months on the monument's north wall.   This experts say is taking the colour off the walls of this symbolic monument. A professor at the Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT-Kanpur, has stated that with regular cleaning, the original colour, texture and shine from the marble surfaces will be gone forever. Contradicting this theory, an official from ASI said that this is the safest and most-used method to clean monuments across the world and also the problem of pollution needs to be tackled by the state government.

Case against fake mountaineering couple

  Recently a couple who are constables in the Police department rose to fame for becoming the first couple to reach the Everest summit. But there seems to be twist in the tale. Eight fellow mountaineers from Maharashtra have filed a complaint stating that the couple, who are police constables, was never at the summit and had, in fact, morphed pictures of themselves at the top of the Everest.   Various doubts were raised by the complainants about how Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod managed to get to the peak. One of it is the date and time stamp on the photos. Dinesh Rathod had stated that he reached the Everest summit at 6.25 am on May 23, 2016, but the direction of the shadows indicates that the time the photo was taken was between 11 am and noon, the complaint states. But ironically these are the very photographs that the Nepal Tourism Board 'verified' before awarding the couple their summit certificate. No officials from the Nepal Tourism Board were available for a clarification.