lhi is known for its energy and vibrancy. But a different side of the national capital was unfolded in front of Arjun Kapoor during his shooting schedule for "Ki and Ka" here. The actor says Delhi gets "a little still, a little dreamy and a little melancholy" during night.
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The actor shared his experience of witnessing the serene side of the city on Twitter.
"Night shoot and you get to see a different side of Delhi...a little still, a little dreamy, a little melancholy...and lots of TRUCKS passing by," Arjun tweeted.
Come morning, and the Gunday actor came up with a way to ditch the morning blues as he shared a selfie with India Gate in the background.
"Forget the morning blues...I got the morning PURPLE #Indiagate #sundayselfie #selfietohbantahai #KiandKa," he shared.
R. Balki's Ki and Ka is a romantic film about two people with contrasting ideologies. While Arjun essays a progressive house husband, who lovingly supports his wife's ambitions, Kareena Kapoor Khan portrays a super ambitious career-oriented woman in the movie.
The film is slated to hit the theatres next year
The actor shared his experience of witnessing the serene side of the city on Twitter.
"Night shoot and you get to see a different side of Delhi...a little still, a little dreamy, a little melancholy...and lots of TRUCKS passing by," Arjun tweeted.
Come morning, and the Gunday actor came up with a way to ditch the morning blues as he shared a selfie with India Gate in the background.
"Forget the morning blues...I got the morning PURPLE #Indiagate #sundayselfie #selfietohbantahai #KiandKa," he shared.
R. Balki's Ki and Ka is a romantic film about two people with contrasting ideologies. While Arjun essays a progressive house husband, who lovingly supports his wife's ambitions, Kareena Kapoor Khan portrays a super ambitious career-oriented woman in the movie.
The film is slated to hit the theatres next year
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
रजनी थापा बनिन् मिसेस हेरिटेज इन्टरनेसल–२०१५
मंसिर २९, २०७२-
ईप्लानेटको आयोजनामा भारतको नयाँ दिल्लीमा मंसिर २६ गते सम्पन्न मिस हेरिटेज इन्टरनेसल प्रतियोगिताको मञ्चमा मिसेस हेरिटेज इन्टरनेसल–२०१५ को प्रतिस्पर्धा पनि सम्पन्न भएको छ ।
विवाहित महिलाहरूको प्रतिस्पर्धामार्फत् शान्ति, वातावरण, पर्यटन, संस्कृति र सम्पदाको संरक्षण, संवद्र्धन एवं प्रवद्र्धनलाई सशक्त र प्रभावकारी बनाउने हेतुले यस वर्षदेखि थालनी गरिएको यो प्रतियोगितामा नेपालकी रजनी थापाले मिसेस हेरिटेज इन्टरनेसल–२०१५ घोषित भएकी छिन् । प्रतिस्पर्धामा भारतकी डा. शिवाङ्गिनी मलेटिया फस्र्ट रनर्सअप तथा रूसकी ओल्गा शेभेलेभा सेकेन्ड रनर्सअप चयन भएका थिए ।
ईप्लानेटको आयोजनामा भारतको नयाँ दिल्लीमा मंसिर २६ गते सम्पन्न मिस हेरिटेज इन्टरनेसल प्रतियोगिताको मञ्चमा मिसेस हेरिटेज इन्टरनेसल–२०१५ को प्रतिस्पर्धा पनि सम्पन्न भएको छ ।
विवाहित महिलाहरूको प्रतिस्पर्धामार्फत् शान्ति, वातावरण, पर्यटन, संस्कृति र सम्पदाको संरक्षण, संवद्र्धन एवं प्रवद्र्धनलाई सशक्त र प्रभावकारी बनाउने हेतुले यस वर्षदेखि थालनी गरिएको यो प्रतियोगितामा नेपालकी रजनी थापाले मिसेस हेरिटेज इन्टरनेसल–२०१५ घोषित भएकी छिन् । प्रतिस्पर्धामा भारतकी डा. शिवाङ्गिनी मलेटिया फस्र्ट रनर्सअप तथा रूसकी ओल्गा शेभेलेभा सेकेन्ड रनर्सअप चयन भएका थिए ।
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
BLAST KILLS YEMEN CITY GOVERNOR
Dec 6, 2015- The governor of Yemen's southern port city of Aden has been killed in a large explosion, officials say.
Jaafar Mohammed Saad and several aides died when their convoy was hit. Some sources say the blast was caused by a rocket propelled grenade.
Islamic State militants later claimed the attack. The group has a presence in Yemen, amid an ongoing civil war.
Houthi rebels based in northern Yemen have seized much of the country, including the capital Sanaa.
Earlier this year Aden was recaptured by government troops backed by a Saudi-led coalition.
Maj-Gen Saad was reported by al-Araby to have been appointed Aden governor in October after playing a prominent role in recapturing the city from Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in July.
The latest violence came after the UN envoy to Yemen met President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi in Aden on Saturday, in an effort to bring eight months of civil war to an end.
Air strikes and fighting on the ground in Yemen have killed more than 5,700 people, since the Saudi-led coalition began a campaign to restore the government in March, according to the UN.
The UN hopes to organise talks later this month between the government and the Houthi rebels, who support former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
KNIFE ATTACKER SLASHES MAN IN LONDON METRO 'TERROR INCIDENT' - Reuters, LONDON
Dec 6, 2015- (Note strong language in paragraph 14)
A man wielding a knife slashed a man in an east London metro station on Saturday, reportedly screaming "this is for Syria", before police used a stun gun to detain him in what they described as a terrorist incident.
A pool of blood near the ticket barriers at the Leytonstone Underground station, about 6 miles (10 km) east of central London, was visible in footage posted on Twitter that also showed the suspect confronting officers at just after 1900 GMT.
Police said initial reports indicated the man had also threatened other bystanders. One man had serious knife injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening and two other people had minor injuries, police said.
"We are treating this as a terrorist incident," Richard Walton, who leads the Counter Terrorism Command at London's Metropolitan Police, said in a statement.
An eyewitness quoted by British newspapers such as The Guardian said the knifeman had appeared to claim that he was retaliating for Western attacks on Islamist militants in Syria.
Police declined to comment on those reports and it was not immediately possible to independently verify them.
The Leytonstone incident will draw parallels with the May 2013 murder of British army soldier Lee Rigby, who was hacked to death just south of the Thames River by two Muslim converts.
Britain is on its second-highest alert level of "severe", meaning a militant attack is considered highly likely, mainly due to the threat posed by Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq who are encouraging supporters to attack the West.
After Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attacks on Paris last month that killed 130 people, British Prime Minister David Cameron won approval from lawmakers on Wednesday to bomb the Islamist group in Syria.
British warplanes first bombed oil fields controlled by Islamic State on Thursday.
THREAT TO BRITAIN?
Cameron said strikes would not increase the chances of an attack on Britain as militants already viewed Britain as a top target with seven plots foiled over the past year.
An eyewitness to the knife attack was quoted as saying the attacker had screamed about Syria.
"I just saw a lot of people running but I ignored it and kept walking to get my train, but suddenly what I saw I couldn’t believe my eyes and what I saw was a guy with a knife,” the Guardian quoted an eyewitness as saying.
"As he was coming out this is what he said: 'This is what happens when you f*** with mother Syria, all of your blood will be spilled.'"
Such apparently random attacks are extremely difficult to thwart because they require relatively little planning and very basic equipment.
In 2013, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale ran over Fusilier Rigby near Woolwich Barracks before setting upon him with knives and a meat cleaver in an attempt to behead him.
They asked bystanders to film them with bloodied hands, calmly justifying their actions as a response to Britain's foreign policy. They were jailed for life last year.
British security services say about two thirds of their time is spent countering international militants, much of that connected to Syria.
Britain suffered by far its worst militant Islamist attack in July, 2005, when 52 people were killed by suicide bombs on underground trains and a bus.
A beach attack in Tunisia in June this year that killed 30 British holidaymakers was the biggest loss of British lives in such an incident since the July 2005 London bombings.
Islamic State said on Saturday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in California, which U.S. authorities are investigating as an act of terrorism, were followers of the militant group.
ROCKET CARRIES US SUPPLIES TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION -
Dec 7, 2015- A spacecraft carrying much-needed US supplies blasted off toward the International Space Station for the first time in months on Sunday.
The Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after three days of delays due to poor weather.
The Cygnus capsule, expected to arrive on Wednesday, will be the first US shipment to the station since April.
Supplies at the station are running low due to several failed delivery runs and botched rocket launches.
The capsule carries more than 3,500kg (7,700lb) of food, clothing, computer gear, spacewalk equipment, science experiments and other supplies.
The station currently only has four months' food supply aboard. Nasa aims to keep the supply cushion at six months.
"Santa is on his way!'" Tory Bruno, president of rocket maker United Launch Alliance, announced via Twitter.
The six space station astronauts managed to photograph the rising Cygnus from their windows as both craft made their way over the Atlantic.
"Caught something good on the horizon," commander Scott Kelly reported in a tweet.
Supplies at the station have been running low following several failed supplied runs.
The two private companies - Orbital ATK and SpaceX - contracted by Nasa to deliver supplies to the station, are both stuck with grounded rockets following launch accidents.
An Orbital rocket exploded on a supply run in October 2014, while SpaceX suffered a launch failure in June. Russia also lost a supply ship earlier this year.
Orbital bought another company's rocket, the veteran Atlas 5, for this supply mission.
The Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after three days of delays due to poor weather.
The Cygnus capsule, expected to arrive on Wednesday, will be the first US shipment to the station since April.
Supplies at the station are running low due to several failed delivery runs and botched rocket launches.
The capsule carries more than 3,500kg (7,700lb) of food, clothing, computer gear, spacewalk equipment, science experiments and other supplies.
The station currently only has four months' food supply aboard. Nasa aims to keep the supply cushion at six months.
"Santa is on his way!'" Tory Bruno, president of rocket maker United Launch Alliance, announced via Twitter.
The six space station astronauts managed to photograph the rising Cygnus from their windows as both craft made their way over the Atlantic.
"Caught something good on the horizon," commander Scott Kelly reported in a tweet.
Supplies at the station have been running low following several failed supplied runs.
The two private companies - Orbital ATK and SpaceX - contracted by Nasa to deliver supplies to the station, are both stuck with grounded rockets following launch accidents.
An Orbital rocket exploded on a supply run in October 2014, while SpaceX suffered a launch failure in June. Russia also lost a supply ship earlier this year.
Orbital bought another company's rocket, the veteran Atlas 5, for this supply mission.
NATO says won't send ground troops to fight IS
Dec 7, 2015- NATO has ruled out sending ground troops to fight against Islamic State militants in Syria, NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg told a Swiss newspaper, stressing the need to bolster local forces in the conflict.
"That is not on the agenda of the coalition and the NATO allies," he told the Tages-Anzeiger paper when asked about dispatching ground forces to accompany air strikes.
"The United States has a limited number of special forces. In the foreground, however, is strengthening local forces. This is not easy, but it's the only option," he added
Stoltenberg stressed that the conflict was not a war between the West and the Islamic world, but rather against "extremism and terrorism".
"Muslims are on the front line in this war. Most victims are Muslims, and most of those who fight against the IS are Muslims. We can not carry on this struggle for them," he said.
Stoltenberg pointed out that NATO would help Turkey improve its air defenses after Turkey shot down a Russian military jet last month. The alliance will adopt a package of measures for Turkey before Christmas, he added.
He emphasized the need to calm the standoff with Russia after the plane was shot down.
"Now it is important to de-escalate and to develop mechanisms to prevent similar incidents in the future. We see a significant build-up of the Russian military presence from the far north to the Mediterranean. There, too, we need to avoid similar incidents such as in Turkey," he said.
He called for Russia to "play a more constructive role in the fight against IS. So far, Russia has attacked other groups and focused on supporting the Assad regime."
U.S. President Barack Obama said last week his decision to send more U.S. special forces to combat Islamic State in Iraq was not an indication that the United States was heading for another invasion like the one in 2003.
Obama has said his strategy to fight the militant group in Iraq and Syria does not include U.S. ground combat troops, but the Pentagon announced it would send a new force of special operations troops
Migrant crisis: Germany heads for 1m asylum-seekers in 2015
Dec 7, 2015- Germany has registered 964,574 new asylum-seekers in the first 11 months of the year, putting it on course for more than a million in 2015.
The number of migrants arriving has not slowed despite the winter cold, with a record high of 206,101 in November.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in August that the country expected 800,000 asylum-seekers over the year.
Documents leaked in October suggested the government was privately anticipating the arrival of up to 1.5m.
Germany has registered more asylum-seekers than any other nation in Europe, although at about 1% of its population, less per capita than several smaller nations.
Registered asylum seekers are not always accepted however, and rates of success vary from country to country. Fewer than 10% of applicants last year in Hungary - which has one of the highest shares of asylum-seekers in Europe - resulted in a positive decision.
The rate in Germany was 42%, while in Sweden - which registered the highest number of applications per capita - it was 77%. Across the EU, the success rate about 45%.
The number of arrivals in Germany so far this year is four times the total for all of 2014. The figures for November do not contain a breakdown by nationality, but in previous months Syrians, for whom Germany has adopted an open-door policy, have been the largest group at around a third.
The country looks set to receive less than a top estimate of 1.5m reported in October by German newspaper Bild, citing leaked government documents. A spokesman for the government denied any knowledge of the document.
Germany's interior ministry said on Monday the time taken to process applications had been brought down from an average of around seven months in 2014 to five months this year - in part by speeding applications from Syria and from what it defines as "safe countries of origin" - such as West Balkan states.
Meanwhile, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe fell by more than a third in November, due to poor weather and a Turkish crackdown on people smugglers.
In November, some 140,000 migrants and refugees made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, marking a 36.5% drop from October, when a record 220,535 landed on Europe's shores, the UNHCR said.
It remains unclear how the trend will feed into arrival figures in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to welcome Syrian refugees has won her plaudits in some quarters but sparked a backlash in others, with some senior ministers openly questioning the approach.
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