Monday, 31 March 2014

AAP fields Jaaved Jaaferi from Lucknow; Kejriwal says AAP gaining in Varanasi

"AAP fields Jaaved Jaaferi from Lucknow; Kejriwal says AAP gaining in Varanasi":

Actor Jaaved Jaaferi will contest from Lucknow Lok Sabha seat on AAP ticket against BJP president Rajnath Singh.

NEW DELHI/GHAZIABAD: Film actor Jaaved Jaaferi will be the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) candidate in Lucknow against BJP chief Rajnath Singh as the party on Monday announced its 13th list of candidates for 22 Lok Sabha constituencies.

The party named seven candidates for Bihar, three each for Jharkhand and Gujarat, five in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and one each in Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

Riturajbhai Maheta will be the party's candidate against BJP's senior leader LK Advani from Gandhinagar seat in Gujarat.

In Bihar, Anwar Alam will contest from Madhepura constituency, a seat represented by Janata Dal (United) Chief Sharad Yadav. The Congress-RJD combine has fielded local warhorse Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav from the constituency.

With this list, the total number of candidates declared by AAP so has gone up to 407.

Narendra Modi asks Sonia Gandhi to come clean on Italian marines

By Pavani at 08:39 No comments

Narendra Modi asks Sonia Gandhi to come clean on Italian marines:
ITANAGAR: Hitting back at Sonia Gandhi over her patriotism jibe, Narendra Modi said on Monday that people of the country did not need a certificate from her and attacked her over the Italian marines issue, questioning at whose behest they were given a chance to leave the country.

Taking potshots at the Congress president, he referred to her remarks on Sunday that "some people were beating drums of patriotism" and said she should not raise a question mark on people's love for their country.

Claiming that Gandhi had raised a question mark on the patriotism of the people, Modi asked her at whose whose direction the two Italian marines accused of shooting Indian fishermen off Kerala coast were allowed to leave the country.

"Who was it at whose behest the government in Delhi gave the marines a chance to go back to Italy," Modi asked.

Had the Supreme Court not taken a strong stand on the matter, the marines would not have come back, he said.

The Italian marines had been permitted by the Supreme Court to leave the country to participate in Italy's elections. However, when Italy refused to send the marines back, the Supreme Court restrained the Italian ambassador from leaving the country. Italy later relented and sent the marines back.

Gandhi had on Sunday attacked the BJP, saying that "some people are beating the drum of patriotism" and added that these people who did not believe in secular values only wanted to "grab power" by misleading the people.

Video of Ghost Throwing Glass in Gilford Store

By Pavani at 08:36 No comments

Video of Ghost Throwing Glass in Gilford Store:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIOIel-AjmM#t=68

Don't believe in ghosts? A spooky surveillance video from a store in Gilford, New Hampshire has even skeptics reconsidering their opinion of the supernatural.

Narendra modi speech in assam rally

By Pavani at 08:22 No comments

Narendra modi speech in assam rally:

Guwahati, March 31: After Itanagar, Narendra Modi reached Assam continuing his poll campaign on Monday, March 31. Congress and its President Sonia Gandhi were the two targets who faced criticism from the BJP's prime ministerial candidate. Highlights of Modi speech: I heard people were killed in surrounding area but did your CM or any Minister or leader of Congress go there? Your Congress leaders have all the time to go to meet Soniaji but not to meet people. Our leaders went to wipe people's tears For Congress the life and death of people does not matter. What matters for them is their survival Why should people of Assam remember those who have forgotten the state and their people What kind of a government is this that cannot give you water despite their being lot of water. We can't tolerate this Govt Madam Sonia says Congress fulfils its promises but what happened to Congress promise of reducing prices in 100 days Parties are getting together and their aim is one - Modi should not come. But why are they so scared?

Read more at: http://news.oneindia.in/india/narendra-modi-assam-rally-updates-highlights-march-31-lse-1421811.html#infinite-scroll-1

Top 10 Best Airports in the World

By Pavani at 08:12 No comments

Top 10 Best Airports in the World:

1. Singapore Changi Airport, Singapore

Singapore Changi Airport claimed top prize for the fourth time since the Skytrax awards were initiated, having last won the title in 2010. In addition to winning the top overall award, Singapore Changi Airport, which served more than fifty million passengers in 2012, was named Best Airport in Asia and Best Airport for Leisure Amenities.

2. Incheon International Airport, Seoul, South Korea

Last year’s winner Incheon International Airport slipped to the second place. Still, the main airport serving the South Korean capital is no slouch. In addition to its overall second place finish Incheon received the Best Airport Staff Service – Asia and Best International Transfer Airport awards for 2013.

http://travel.amerikanki.com/best-airports-in-the-world/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral

Facebook cracking down on fake 'likes' in poll season

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Facebook cracking down on fake 'likes' in poll season

With politicians boosting their social media presence in the poll season using fake online followers,Facebook has started cracking down on fraudulent accounts showing suspicious high number of 'likes'.

Data from the Facebook team show that close to 52,000 pages exist for politicians and political parties in India. Of them 60 are verified pages.

"We're always focused on maintaining the integrity of our site, but we've placed an increased focus on abuse from fake accounts recently," a Facebook spokesperson said in an emailed response.

The social networking site, which has around 93 million monthly active users in India alone, has built up a combination of automated and manual systems to block accounts used for fraudulent purposes and 'Likes'.

Company officials say action is being taken against sellers of fake clicks and are helping to shut them down.

With the growing power of social media, politicians across parties have taken to the digital medium to interact with the youth through Facebook and Twitter this election season.

It is suspected that many 'Likes' and 'followers' on these platforms are from fake account holders.

Among the pages for politicians on Facebook, BJP prime minist

Modi's hi-tech poll chariots await EC nod

By Pavani at 00:27 No comments

Modi's hi-tech poll chariots await EC nAGRA: Around five dozen hi-tech Modi 'raths', which are Wi-Fi and GPS-enabled and equipped with huge TV screens, to be used for election campaigning are gathering dust as Election Commission is yet to give the BJP permission to use them.

The 'raths' carrying teleimages of Narendra Modi are equipped to show a 20-minute documentary of the BJP prime ministerial candidate, followed by brief speeches of party leaders.

The delay in EC's permission is making the BJP nervous as the vehicles sit around mills and outskirts of villages gathering dust. "We are trying for permission and hope that the EC will not ruin our biggest mass-contact programme," BJP leader Purushottam Khandelwal said.

The EC, meanwhile, is not ready to give permission before it checks the contents of the 'Modi show'. "The raths will be allowed to run in the city only after the examination of the content. If the content is not as per the standards, we will not allow them to run," ADM (city) Prem Prakash Pal said.

Khandelwal, however, pointed out that the raths were already operating in other districts. Some 450 'Modi raths' were sent to Lucknow in the second week of March. od

Man attacks girl, her mother with acid in Andhra Pradesh

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Man attacks girl, her mother with acid in Andhra Pradesh

GUNTUR: A person attacked a woman and her mother with a deadly acid at Machilipatnam town. The victims were rushed to district government hospital where their condition was stated to be critical.

Police said the offender Shaik Subhani threw acid on the victim and her mother for rejecting his marriage proposal. Subhani has also received burn injuries while running away from the scene after spilling the acid on the victims.

Subhani was arrested by the local police.

Subhani is a daily wager and resided in part of the house owned by the victims. He is reported to have deserted his wife and children two years ago and had been insisting Shaik Hazeeda to accept his marriage proposal. Both Hazeeda and her mother Jareena turned down his request.

IIT-Delhi student invents device to test haemoglobin

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IIT-Delhi student invents device to test haemoglobin

IIT student has developed a mobile phone-size haemoglobin metre.

NEW DELHI: A student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, Ambar Srivastava, has developed a mobile phone-size haemoglobin metre dubbed the TrueHb Hemometer - the first case of an innovation from the institute's biomedical engineering department actually getting "productized".

The device, which has been validated by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for its efficacy, is expected to help identify and tackle anaemia effectively. India with very high prevalence of anaemia also sees a large number of maternal deaths from the condition.

The CBC counter is the gold standard for haemogram tests in labs. It could cost Rs 2-10 lakh, is at least twice the size of a personal computer and needs regular power supply.

While the price of the TrueHb meter has not been fixed as of now, it is expected to be cheaper than most other similar devices in the market, which cost well over Rs 25,000.

Paper-based colour cards that use a colour scale to provide a rough estimate of haemoglobin values are also used. Such cards give a range and not an exact value of the haemoglobin level.

TrueHb, on the other hand, works like a conventional glucometer and works with just a tiny drop of blood from a pinprick on the disposable strip. It not only reads the accurate level within 45 seconds, but also stores up to 1,000 such readings. It can be charged like a mobile phone and allows up to 300 tests per charge.

"It will be very useful on the field for health workers, blood banks, primary health centres, the school health scheme of the government, and all point of care use, including for use at home," explained Srivastava.

"Currently, we don't have the correct estimate of the true prevalence of anaemia in India. Once you have an accurate measure of the haemoglobin level, anaemia diagnosis can be made effectively and treatment can be decided accordingly. There are several analysers in the market but, to the best of my knowledge, none as portable as this. In AIIMS, we have checked the efficacy of the TrueHb in a limited number of blood samples in standardized lab condition and found very good accuracy," said Dr Renu Saxena, head of the department of Haematology in AIIMS.

The device was developed with funding from the Technology Development Board of the Department of Science and Technology at IIT's Centre for Biomedical Engineering, established in 1971 as a joint venture between IIT and AIIMS to develop healthcare technologies.