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In a 'costly' mistake, a valet of a five-star city hotel in Delhi wrecked a multi-crore Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder car last week. As per reports, the car suffered extensive damage on the front after the valet apparently lost control while parking it.
The Lamborghini first rammed into a stationary car before crashing into the concrete railing of the rampart.
The accident happened at New Delhi's five-star Le Meridian hotel on July 3.
According to a hotel spokesperson, the valet also suffered injuries in the incident.
The Lamborghini car belonged to a businessman who is in the construction business.
The Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder sports car is custom built for customers and costs over Rs 3 crore.
According to the owners, the repairs of the car's front would alone cost around Rs 2 crore.
The hotel has refused to foot the bill, after initially agreeing to do so, they claimed.
A case has been filed with the Delhi Police against the valet as well as the hotel.
None of the files destroyed between June 5 and July 8 related to important historical events such as Mahatma Gandhi's assassination or Lord Mountbatten's return journey to England, as claimed by a section of the media.
In fact, around 52 files and 67 sets of exhibits, containing 11,186 pages, relating to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi's murder are in safe custody of National Archives of India, Union home minister Rajnath Singh informed the Elders. Read more
HMO India @HMOIndia tweets: All files relating to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination are in safe custody of National Archives.
Gavaskar, it was reported, had written to the Supreme Court, asking it to clarify the status of his position in the BCCI at present. The court had put Gavaskar in charge of the IPL this March, after asking BCCI president N Srinivasan to step down till the investigation into the IPL spot-fixing case was completed. It had also directed that Gavaskar should be released from his contractual obligations with the BCCI as a commentator but said he should be compensated for his new role, reports ESPN Cricinfo.
Reports on Friday had suggested that Gavaskar had written to the court regarding this compensation, but he denied this.
This is what Rana Ayyub wrote. Read
"The government is ready to face drought. There is no dearth of money. The government will give money to solve all problems relating to drought including drinking water problem," he said. However, not satisfied with Siddaramaiah's reply, the BJP staged a walkout raising slogans against the government. Leader of Opposition Jagadish Shettar said the government had failed to address the drought situation and had "not prepared" any contingency plan.
Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, Mohit Shantilal Shah will administer the oath of office to the Governor at Durbar hall of the Raj Bhavan at 6 pm on Saturday, according to a statement issued by the state government.Alva, was given the additional charge of Goa after Wanchoo resigned on July 4, a day after CBI quizzed him in VVIP chopper deal case.
He was appointed in Goa on May 4, 2012.A lawyer and former parliamentarian, Alva is credited with steering several landmark legislations through the Parliament to improve the position of women in society and polity.Beginning her political career as the only woman Block President in Karnataka after the split of 1969, she went on to head the Congress party's women's wing in Karnataka in 1972.
She soon moved on to become the General Secretary of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.
The sports ministry has cleared the 224 athletes from 14 sporting disciplines, including seven para-athletes, at government cost, along with a contingent of 90 officials, coaches and support staff. The Glasgow Games will have 17 sports and 261 medal events and India will not be fielding athletes only in three disciplines -- netball, rugby sevens and triathlon.
This is the second time that Saeed, who is the founder of banned terror organisation Laskar-e-Taiba, has addressed lawyers and others within the court premises this year.
In May, Saeed, who roams around freely in Pakistan despite being a designated terrorist, was invited as chief guest at the Lahore High Court Bar Association, one of the premier bar associations in Pakistan. At that time, the decision was opposed by a section of the lawyers.
In September, PM Narendra Modi is off to Washington. US president Barack Obama sent him a written invite today.
"Necessary action will be initiated in the serious matter after taking up the issue with the Prime Minister," Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thawarchand Gehlot said as the entire House condemned the incident and demanded an action taken report on the issue.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Prabhat Jha (BJP) said heads should hang in shame over the incident, alleging that the head of a panchayat issued a diktat for raping the 10-year-old in broad day-light, with the entire village remaining a mute spectator.
He said the girl was dragged to the forest and raped but none could come to her rescue while the hapless father and mother of the victim had to face much difficulty in lodging the complaint with the local police station as the police said there was no witness.
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the US with concrete outcome that imparts new momentum to
strategic partnership. A letter was delivered to Modi by Deputy Secretary
of State William Burns today.
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The US Department of Justice informed this to a Washington court yesterday in response to a petition filed by the New York-based Sikh for Justice (SFJ) in which it argued that since Singh is no longer the prime minister of India, the clause of immunity does not apply on him.
Last September, when Singh visited the US to meet President Barack Obama at the White House, SFJ had filed a case of alleged human rights violations against him. The court had later issued summons to the Prime Minister.
Vivek Kukreja tweets: Bad traffic from Dadar Circle to Lalbaug flyover... avoid the route.
Mahim junction, Kurla (west) and Churchgate flooded. This is one of the few times that south Mumbai is water logged. If you recollect, during the floods of July 26, 2005, when Mumbai went under with 944 mm of rain, south Mumbai was remarkably dry.
Pic: That's a picture of Worli tweeted by Pooja Bedi @poojabeditweets, writes: Despite a century of trying to get drainage issues sorted... Just 2 hours of rain & Worli , Mumbai is flooding!!!
Faridahtakia tweets: cheers !!! For the Mumbai Traffic Police, for being relentlessly out there in the rain controlling the maddening traffic.
Many arterial roads faced waterlogging with commuters facing a tough time in areas like King Circle, Hindmata, Colaba and Kurla.
As per the Met dept, Colaba has recorded 101 mm rains while the figure stood at 47.8 mm in Sanatcruz.
The Met dept has predicted heavy rainfall over the next 48 hours for the city.
Pic: Bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link
"Typhoon Neoguri that was active in the Pacific region over the last few days crossed Japan yesterday. The typhoon was pulling away moisture which decreased the intensity of rainfall here. The outshore trough now developed here has activated monsoon in Maharashtra and parts of Konkan region," said V K Rajeev, Director General, Regional Meteorological Centre, Mumbai.
A Supreme Court panel led by the Chief Justice of India has recommended Lalit's name, along with three others, for the top court. The list will go to the Law Ministry, the PM and finally, President Pranab Mukherjee.
Lalit represented Amit Shah - who was named BJP president this week - in cases involving the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati in Gujarat. Shah faces charges of murder and conspiracy in both cases.
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As journalist Sonia Faleiro tweets: "I guess the next statue Modi will build will be of Amit Shah."
Many thought Jaitley's maiden budget would produce a major vision for five years, major reforms and some bitter medicine.
Sorry, there was no great fiscal vision, only minor reform, and sugar-coated pills rather than bitter ones.
Instead of being long on vision, the budget speech was long in duration (almost two and a half hours).
Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar dissects the budget. Read
An IED planted on a stolen motorbike exploded in front of the Faraskhana Police Station, located in the sensitive zone which houses the famous Dagadusheth Halwai Ganesh temple, bringing back memories of earlier bomb explosions in the city for which terror outfit Indian Mujahideen was blamed.
Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil, who visited the blast spot last night, announced handing over the probe to Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) while describing the explosion as "suspicious".
Purushothaman said that he had decided to resign in the light of his transfer from Mizoram to Nagaland with additional charge of Tripura without consulting him, reports The Hindu.
"They have transferred me without consulting me. I will resign tomorrow. I will remain active in the party, but there will be no more electoral politics," Purushothaman said.
He was transferred last week.
The child was raped on the orders of a self-appointed headman of a remote village in Jharkhand's Bokaro district. He decreed that she be raped as revenge for her older brother's alleged attempt at molesting her assaulter's sister.
The move comes after two allegations emerged of Germans spying for the United States over the last week, claims prompting an investigation by German prosecutors of a suspect accused of passing secrets.
The German government said Thursday it is expelling a person it describes as the representative of U.S. foreign intelligence services based at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin.
The move comes after two allegations emerged of Germans spying for the United States over the last week, claims prompting an investigation by German prosecutors of a suspect accused of passing secrets.
The latest mini-war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas began with the Gaza-based militants eager to strike a blow, but the escalation that followed has left them physically and diplomatically exposed, with no ready way out.
Hamas has sent its rockets streaking into Israel after a month of army raids in the occupied West Bank - in search of three missing Israeli teenagers - that landed more than 900 Palestinians in jail, many of them Hamas members.
The self-styled Islamic Resistance Movement was further prompted to action by widespread anger at the burning alive of a Palestinian youth by suspected Jewish extremists last week, an apparent revenge attack after the missing teens were found shot dead in the West Bank - murders Israel blames on Hamas.
Coastal flooding along the densely populated Eastern Seaboard of the United States has surged in recent years, a Reuters analysis has found.
During the past four decades, the number of days a year that tidal waters reached or exceeded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration flood thresholds more than tripled in many places, the analysis found. At flood threshold, water can begin to pool on streets.
As it rises farther, it can close roads, damage property and overwhelm drainage systems. Since 2001, water has reached flood levels an average of 20 days or more a year in Annapolis, Maryland; Wilmington, North Carolina; Washington, D.C.; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Sandy Hook, New Jersey; and Charleston, South Carolina. Before 1971, none of those locations averaged more than five days a year. Annapolis had the highest average number of days a year above flood thresholds since 2001, at 34.
His black robes and turban may harken back to Arab rulers from 1,500 years ago, but Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's taste in wrist-wear is decidedly more 21st century. Days after the mysterious leader of the Sunni terror group ISIS was purportedly filmed at a mosque in northern Iraq calling on believers to wage "jihad" against God's enemies, social media is ablaze with speculation on the make of al-Baghdadi's watch.
But while critics claimed that the flashy silver timepiece dangling from the Arab warlord's wrist was a luxury Western watch worth thousands, his supporters say he was actually wearing a relatively more modest $560 "Islamic watch" from Al-Fajr, a Saudi Arabia-based watchmaker.
The deluxe stainless steel WA-10S watch -- the preferred choice of "true Muslims," according to some commentators on social media -- can be programmed with the correct prayer times for hundreds of cities around the world.
The German government has ordered the expulsion of a CIA official in Berlin in response to two cases of alleged spying by the US. The official is said to have acted as a CIA contact at the US embassy, reports say, in a scandal that has infuriated German politicians.
A German intelligence official was arrested last week on suspicion of spying. An inquiry has also begun into a German defence ministry worker, reports said. "The representative of the US intelligence services at the embassy of the United States of America has been told to leave Germany," government spokesman Steffen Seibert said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron today said that he congratulated Narendra Modi for winning more votes than any other politician in the universe during his phone call after the "extraordinary" Indian election.
"I won't forget my conversation with Prime Minister Modi congratulating him on his victory. I picked up the phone and said, 'It's great to be talking to someone who just got more votes than any other politician anywhere in the universe'," he said.
Cameron disclosed his private conversation with India's newly-elected leader during an address to Britain's Indian community at an annual event hosted by the Conservative Friends of India here.
"Britain and India now both have bold reforming governments that believe in free enterprise and progress," he said.
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