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A journalist fell severely ill on board Air India One, the President's aircraft, on the way back from Turkey.
The journalist's blood sugar had shot up to 547 and Pranab Mukherjee got wind of it. He went up to the journalist and touched his forehead and told him not to worry and assured him he would be taken care of. The president said his personal doctor would examine him.
All through the five-hour flight from Ankara to Delhi, a medical attendant was seated next to the journalist to monitor his condition. The journalist, we are happy to tell you is doing well and can't get over Pranab Mukherjee's kindness.
Rumors of the flyover "breaking into two" is not true.
Pic: Sahil Salvi
Yesterday, the Nobel Academy could not reach Thomas C Sudhof to inform him that he had won the 2013 Medicine Nobel, for over an hour.
His reaction when he was informed is posted below.
Machinery ... that's exactly how I think about it: James E. Rothman's reactions to the 2013 Medicine Prize.
Are you serious?: Thomas C Sudhof
Oh my God, oh my God!: Randy W Schekman
So who are the two Nobel physicists?
Francois Englert is a Belgian citizen. Born 1932 in Etterbeek, Belgium. Ph.D. 1959 from Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. Professor Emeritus at Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Peter W. Higgs, UK citizen. Born 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Ph.D. 1954 from King's College, University of London, UK. Professor emeritus at University of Edinburgh, UK.
The official Nobel Prize tweets say, the physicists won "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass subatomic particles and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider."
With coastal city Vijayawada as its base, Air Costa would initially operate flights to Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Jaipur and Ahmedabad and subsequently to Madurai, Visakhapatnam, Goa, Thriuvananthapuram and Mysore, Ramesh said.
The other members of the three-member panel are senior advocate Nilay Dutta and Additional Solicitor General L Nageshwar Rao. Mudgal says he has accepted the responsibility given by the court.
The SC however, has said that BCCI president N Srinivasan can take charge of the Board, a departure from its earlier order that Srinivasan could not take charge pending the judgement on the spot fixing scam.
In 2010, Drs. Higgs, Brout, Englert, Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble shared the Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society, another important forerunner, and the first time that prize had been split six ways.
This year, the European Physical Society gave its high energy and particle physics prize to the Atlas and CMS collaborations, naming the founders of those experiments, Michel Della Negra, Peter Jenni and Tejinder Virdee.
-- NYT
47 Physics Prizes have been given to one Laureate only.
2 women have been awarded the Physics Prize so far.
1 person, John Bardeen, has been awarded the Physics Prize twice.
25 years was the age of the youngest Physics Laureate ever, Lawrence Bragg, when he was awarded the 1915 Physics Prize together with his father.
55 is the average age of the Physics Laureates the year they were awarded the prize.
This is the second Nobel Prize of 2013 and the most eagerly awaited prize announcement for some time. The stand-out prediction for this year's Nobel has to be an award for last year's completion of the Standard Model of particle physics, with the disovery at Cern that the Higgs field is indeed real.
Theoretical physicists Franois Englert and Peter Higgs are the clear favourites. Englert was first to publish the idea, in 1964, of a field that interacted with fundamental particles and gave them mass; Higgs was the first to point out, merely a few weeks later, the potential existence of the eponymous boson, reports the Guardian.
On October 1, a part of the Dindoshi flyover caved in and the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation decided to keep the flyover partially closed for a week for repair work.
Drawing an analogy, Rahul Gandhi said the escape velocity needed to escape from Jupiter's atmosphere is much more than that of the Earth.
"The escape velocity for earth is 11.2 km/sec while that of Jupiter is 60 km/sec. In India we have the concept of caste. There is an escape velocity here also. For a Dalit to achieve success the escape velocity required is that of Jupiter. More effort is needed," Gandhi said.
Citing the example of Ambedkar, the Congress Vice President said he is looked up to with pride as he was the first Dalit to reach the escape velocity and go to America.
Seriously, the man needs to get a new speech writer.
The court also took a dig at the government over its ordinance to override a Supreme Court order disqualifying convicted MPs, withdrawn last week in a blaze of controversy.
When the government lawyer admitted that a law on Aadhaar was before the cabinet, the judges sarcastically said, "You have the ordinance route also. If you have a law this case becomes irrelevant."
This comes on a day the Cabinet approved the National Identification Authority of India Bill that will give legal backing to the Aadhaar card.
The Bill may be tabled during the winter session of Parliament, say sources. The authority that issues the 12-digit Aadhaar numbers to citizens currently operates through an executive order. -- NDTV
"Recently, the RSS/BJP prime ministerial candidate, who presided over the 2002 communal carnage in Gujarat, thundered in Delhi -- "Pahale shauchalaya, phir devalaya (build toilets before you build temples)."
He was echoing a similar comment made by Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh weeks earlier.
Such assertions could be considered laudable but for Gujarat's dismal record on sanitation under the BJP government." Read more
"What crime I have committed? When Jaganmohan Reddy was in jail, he took part in a fast against the jail manual. But why should I vacate from Andhra Bhavan as I am under fast for a good cause," he said.
The Residence Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh served a notice to the TDP chief stating that the hunger strike is "unauthorised" as permission was granted only for a press meet at the venue, TDP spokesman Shiva Prasad Rao said.
Asked whether his indefinite fast was a second struggle for Andhra Pradesh, Naidu said he wanted to expose the Congress party which is allegedly "match fixing with YSR Congress and TRS."
"Congress is adamant and playing politics. It is unfortunate," the TDP chief said.
Appearing for Mukesh, advocate V K Anand informed the bench of justices Reva Khetrapal and Pratibha Rani that at the instance of certain people, including advocates, the convict's family members are interfering in his work to file the appeal in the case.
"I wanted to withdraw myself from the case as certain people are trying to interfere into my work and the court should discharge me from the work," he said, adding that he has communicated the decision to the brother of Mukesh.
Accepting his submission, the bench said, "We can't interfere with your decision".
Meanwhile, special public prosecutor Dayan Krishnan told the bench that advocate Vivek Sharma, who represents convict Pawan, has telephonically informed about his intention to withdraw from the case.
After the submissions of the counsel, the bench said, "In these circumstances we will have to appoint amicus curiae for Mukesh and Pawan".
Pic: Lawyer VK Anand
"It is a very valid concern. These kinds of things have happened in our neighbourhood (Pakistan) and in last two years, there have been three such incidents there. We are very conscious of those things and all necessary steps have taken to protect our assets.
"We are extremely vigilant," Browne told reporters at the air base here after the 81st IAF Day parade.
The operation that lasted 15 days, saw eight terrorists dead and six jawans of the Indian army injured.
Army officials say an infiltration of this size could not have been possible without the support of the Pakistan army. -- NDTV
The surface-to-surface missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher in salvo mode from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at about 12.20 pm.
A memorandum was submitted by the BJP local unit to Vishnu Sahai, heading the one-man commission, demanding that the commission comprising a judge of the Supreme Court should probe the Muzaffarnagar violence.
Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Sanjiv Chachra says there has been a desperate infiltration bid in the Keran sector.
A large quantity of ammunition, communication devices, AK 47 rifles have been recovered. Counter infiltration operations will continue, but the operations are over as of now.
He also said the Pakistan army was certainly aware of the incursion. No Army post taken over, they were trying to enter Indian territory, he Lt Gen Chachra clarified.
Mayawati was let off in the Taj Heritage Corridor scam case after UP governor TV Rajeswar had on June 3, 2007 refused to grant the CBI sanction to prosecute the former chief minister and her cabinet colleague Naseemuddin Siddiqui.
In its July 6, 2012 judgment, the court had quashed the FIR after perusing the almost decade-old orders of the court in the Taj Heritage Corridor scam case and coming to the conclusion that there could not have been an occasion for the apex court to direct lodging of DA case FIR against Mayawati.
The Congress Vice President also hit out at BSP chief Mayawati for the plight of the community saying that the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister was not allowing his party to work for the Dalits.
Here's what tweets say:
JUST IN : Stephen Hawking has filed a petition for Voluntary euthanasia after hearing Rahul Gandhi speak about
Jupiter's #EscapeVelocity for Dalits? Let #Paidmedia n #enrega propel it. Rahul is seriously humourous. I bet he just heard the word dayB4.
@S_Mandalia: Rahul gandhi shud campaign more, everytime he speaks BJP gains few thousand votes #EscapeVelocity
@fakingnews: From today onward, the universal gravitational constant, or the Big G, will stand for (Rahul) Gandhi
@sundeepgummadi So wanna meet his speech writers. You're all just jealous that Rahul Gandhi's ideas are out of this world. #EscapeVelocity.
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Some rights activists who received the mails said that steadily, the online discourse in the case was moving away from questions of justice and womens safety to religious profiling of the accused. Read more
At another press briefing yesterday, the Army said a huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered from the Keran sector, even as the operation against militants holed up there entered the 14th day.
"We conducted search operations in the sector and recovered war-like stores of arms and ammunition," Officiating Brigadier General Staff (BGS) Col Sanjay Mitra told reporters.
He said the recoveries include seven AK 47 rifles, four pistols, one sniper rifle, 20 UBGL grenades, two radio-sets and other war-like stores. Some medicines and food items were also recovered, he said.
Army had on Sunday recovered six AK rifles, 10 pistols, five radio-sets and other items after the search operations in the sector, Col Mitra said. "The level of preparedness by the terrorists prior to these attempts and their designs are amply clear with recoveries," he said.
Yesterday, Naidu was denied permission to fast at Andhra Bhavan by the Resident Commissioner of the facility. Authorities in Andhra Pradesh Bhawan here were in a fix over former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu sitting on a fast unto death over division of the state.
The court reserved the order after the accused couple, who are facing trial for allegedly killing their teenaged daughter, pleaded these reports are essential to defend themselves and CBI is opposing their plea saying that it is a tactic on the part of the couple to prolong the trial.
The Talwars had approached the top court challenging the order of the trial court and the Allahabad High Court dismissing their plea for a direction to the agency to produce the reports of tests carried out on Raj Kumar, Vijay Mandal and Krishna in the trial court.
Pleading for scientific records to be taken on record by the trial court, senior advocate UU Lalit, appearing for the Talwars, submitted such tests were conducted on the couple which extinguished any possibility of their involvement in the crime but the tests done on their servants suggested the possibility of their involvement.
On the night of July 2, 1995, Delhi police constable Abdul Nazir Kunju and Home Guard Chanderpal saw smoke emanating from the open-air Bagiya Restaurant in Ashok Yatri Nivas (now called Indraprastha Hotel).
They got suspicious and scaled the hotel's boundary wall to enter the premises.
'Something big' was burning in a tandoor (a clay oven) in the restaurant.That 'something big' turned out to be the body of Naina Sahni (29), who was allegedly killed by her husband and the then Delhi Youth Congress president Sushil Sharma.
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The former Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma had challenged his conviction and death sentence for the murder of his wife Naina Sahani, a crime that the Delhi High Court had described as an "act of extreme depravity that shook the conscience of society.
Former Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma has challenged his conviction and death sentence for the murder of his wife Naina Sahani, a crime that the Delhi High Court had described as an "act of extreme depravity that shook the conscience of society". Read more
"The multiple global crises of the past several years have had a deleterious impact on the ability of developing countries to mobilise finance for their development aspirations," Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said at the United Nations yesterday.
Jaitley is part of a delegation of visiting members of Parliament from India.
The army sources say that the bodies of 15 terrorists killed may have either been dragged across the LoC, dropped in crevasses or buried in the thick jungles.
Read the full report here
Former president Mohammed Nasheed emerged as the winner in the polls.
The court also directed that fresh polls must be held before November 4 and the re-run of the first round should be conducted on the 20th of this month, President Mohammed Waheed's Press Secretary Masood Imad told PTI.
The consensus was brought on these issues during a high level meeting convened here today by the Planning Commission.
"There was a consensus about initiating the process to make India a tourist-friendly country and extending the on-arrival visa facility to around 40 more countries," Planning Minister Rajeev Shukla told PTI.
The countries for which visa on arrival facility would be extended include the US, the UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Italy, Swedan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Norway and Ireland.
Under the visa on arrival system, India has agreement with different countries, including Japan, Finland, Singapore, Indonesia, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos and Myanmar.
During his three-day visit to Brussels, capital of Belgium, Mukherjee discussed various issues of bilateral importance, including increasing of trade between the two countries. During his visit to Istanbul and Ankara, the President sought Turkey's cooperation for India's bid for a permanent membership to nuclear suppliers group.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief KT Rama Rao told CNN-IBN, "I would like to request through you to Abhishek Manu Singhvi to sack the conspirator behind the Seemandhra agitation today, which is the CM himself. Please sack him and restore peace in the state. Also, if need be, impose President's rule and go ahead with the decision."
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Kenyan intelligence knows him simply as Ikrima. But his full name is Mohamed Abdikadir Mohamed, and he is regarded as one of the most dangerous commanders in the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab. U.S. officials say Ikrima was the target of a raid Saturday by U.S. Navy SEALs on an Al-Shabaab compound near the town of Baraawe in Somalia.
It's believed that he escaped after the U.S. troops came under heavy fire. Ikrima, thought to be in his late 20s, is wanted by both the Kenyan government and its Western allies and was a close associate of one of al Qaeda's most important operatives in East Africa.
A recent Kenyan intelligence report that was leaked just after the Westgate mall attack in Nairobi outlined several plots in which he was allegedly involved. All of them involved targets in Kenya, and all the attacks would have involved Kenyan citizens trained by Al-Shabaab.
The oddly hilarious faces of spooked visitors at the Nightmares Fear Factory in Niagara Falls, Canada.
In the United Kingdom, where you can wager on such things, the betting money is on Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. As of Monday morning, the Ladbrokes betting site has the author of the "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' and "1Q84' as a five-to-two favorite to win. Over at the Boston Globe, Chris Wright points out that the British bookies making these odds probably haven't read most of the authors listed along with Murakami as potential favorites.
After Murakami, the Ladbrokes list is topped by Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro, American Joyce Carol Oates and the Hungarian novelist Peter Nadas, whose most recent novel, the 1,100-page "Parallel Stores,' includes a sex scene that's nearly 100 pages long.
Multiple bombs have exploded in quick succession in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 37 and injuring 107, according to officials. The apparently coordinated string of attacks, mostly involving car bombs, struck mainly commercial areas across the Iraqi capital on Monday evening, Associated Press reported.
Police reported casualties from explosions in ten different neighbourhoods in the Iraqi capital, including Meshahda town in the north, Dora, Zafaraniyah, Husseiniyah, Ubaidi neighbourhoods and Elaam and Aidiyah in the south.
The deadliest attack happened when a car bomb and roadside bomb exploded in a market and nearby parking lot in the northern Shia district of Husseiniya, killing five, while another five were killed in Ubaidi.
Meet Atlas, a humanoid robot capable of crossing rough terrain and maintaining its balance on one leg even when hit from the side. And WildCat, the four-legged robot that can gallop untethered at up to 16mph (26km/h).
These are the latest creations of Boston Dynamics, a US robotics company part-funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). The robots are part of Darpa's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation programme.
President Hamid Karzai has criticised Nato for failing to bring stability to Afghanistan in over a decade there. "On the security front the entire Nato exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure," he said.
He said Nato had incorrectly focused the fight on Afghan villages rather than Taliban safe havens in Pakistan. Mr Karzai has just six months remaining in office until a successor is elected.
In a significant decision which may escalate the political turmoil in Maldives, the country's Supreme Court on Monday declared as null and void the first round of presidential polls in which former president Mohammed Nasheed emerged as the winner.
The apex court also directed that fresh polls must be held before November 4 and the re-run of the first round should be conducted on the 20th of this month, President Mohammed Waheed's Press Secretary Masood Imad told PTI.
US President Barack Obama today said that there are enough votes in the US House of Representatives -- or the lower house of the Congress -- to end the government shutdown, which is now into its second week.
"I heard over the weekend was this notion that Congress doesn't have the capacity to end this shutdown. The truth of the matter is, there are enough Republican and Democratic votes in the House of Representatives right now to end the shutdown immediately with no partisan strings attached," he said.
Obama was referring to the statement made by John Boehner, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, that he does not have enough votes to end the government shutdown.
"The House should hold that vote today. If Republicans and Speaker Boehner is saying there are not enough votes, then they should prove it. Let the bill go to the floor, and let's see what happens. Just vote. Let every member of Congress vote their conscience. They can determine whether or not they want to shut the government down," Obama said.
"My suspicion is, my very strong suspicion, is that there are enough votes there. And the reason that Speaker Boehner hasn't called a vote on it is because he's doesn't, apparently, want to see the government shutdown end at the moment unless he's able to extract concessions that don't have anything to do with the budget," he said.
In an exclusive interview to Reuters, Finance Minister P Chidambaram dismissed the dazzling emergence of opposition figurehead and candidate for prime minister Narendra Modi on the national political stage as "largely media created".
He conceded that the Hindu nationalist leader had united the rank and file of the Bharatiya Janata Party and "gained some traction among urban youths", but said his party's challenger was someone with a "very, very chequered track record".
Modi was chief minister of the state of Gujarat when deadly communal riots raged there in 2002. He has always vehemently denied charges that he turned a blind eye to the violence, and a Supreme Court inquiry found no evidence to prosecute him.
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