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This October 27, 2014 NASA satellite photo shows Cyclone Nilofar in the Arabian Sea (AFP photo/NASA) AHMEDABAD :   Cyclone Nilofar, building in the Arabian Sea, will hit Gujarat and Pakistan's southern coastal areas before noon on Saturday, a day later than originally expected. Cyclone Nilofar: 30,000 People to be Evacuated in Gujarat From Today - NDTV Here are the latest updates Around 30,000 people living along the coastal areas in Kutch district of Gujarat will be evacuated to safer areas from today. The cyclone, still a very severe one, is currently 900 km from Naliya in Gujarat and about 910 km away from Karachi in Pakistan. The storm is gusting up to a maximum speed of 210 km/hour and is expected to make landfall in Gujarat before noon on Saturday. On Friday, the coastal areas Saurashtra and Kutch will see heavy rains and gales and the sea will turn extremely rough, warned the Met Department, which says all fishermen must return to the coast urgently. "We are preparing f

Supreme Court pulls up Centre over black money, asks it to submit full list of names today The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the government to submit to it the names of all foreign bank account holders by Wednesday, saying it need not provide a “protective umbrella” to such persons. The government's first list of black money account holders has named Pankaj Chimanlal Lodhya (L), Radha Timblo (C) and Pradip Burman. (PTI and ANI photos) Sternly rejecting the Centre’s argument that revealing the identity of legal account holders would amount to breach of privacy, a special bench headed by Chief Justice of India HL Dattu said, “Don’t give us your list... but the names given to you by France and Germany. If it breaches confidentiality, let it be.” The court also turned down the government’s request that it modify its order seeking the names of all such account holders. The Centre had contended that the names should be revealed only after investigations proved the accounts indeed hel

Black Money: List of 627 Foreign Account Holders Given to Supreme Court - NDTV NEW DELHI :   A list of 627 Indians who hold foreign bank accounts in countries like Switzerland has been given in a sealed envelope to the Supreme Court, which yesterday sharply rebuked the government for its handling of attempts to recover untaxed or black money stashed abroad.  "We can't leave the issue of bringing back black money to the government. It will never happen during our time," the judges said. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, the government's top lawyer, told NDTV yesterday that he believes the judges will not publicly disclose the names. The previous government headed by Dr Manmohan Singh and the new one have both argued in court that tax treaties with other countries prohibit the disclosure of names till charges are framed against the alleged offenders. Critics of that stand, including noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani, have dismissed that as a cop-out. It is on the basis of Mr Je

India robbers dig 125-ft tunnel to loot bank Police say the tunnel originated in an empty house nearby Police in northern India are searching for thieves who robbed a bank by digging a 125-foot (40-metre) tunnel straight into the vault late at night. They stole cash, jewellery and other valuables worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from a branch of the Punjab National Bank in Haryana. The tunnel started in an empty house nearby, police said. Correspondents say the thieves appeared inspired by popular Bollywood film Dhoom which depicts a similar robbery. Bank officials at the government-owned bank in Gohana town were stupefied when they discovered the huge hole in the ground on Monday morning. Police say they believed the robbery took place on Saturday night. The robbers emptied 77 of more than 350 lockers, the Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted Superintendent of Police in Sonepat district Arun Nehra as saying. A special team has been set up to investigate the robbery but no arrests h

Lloyds Bank confirms 9,000 job losses and branch closures Lloyds Banking Group's 9,000 extra job cuts will bring the total to 52,000 since 2008 Continue reading the main story Related Stories Co-op Bank appoints new chairman Vulnerable European banks identified The emergence of the counter-free bank branch Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed 9,000 job losses and the net closure of 150 branches over the next three years. The latest job losses - representing about 10% of its workforce - come on top of 43,000 cuts made since 2008. The bank said it would concentrate on urban branch closures first and has abandoned its pledge to keep open "the last branch in town". The group is also setting aside another £900m to cover possible payouts for the PPI mis-selling scandal. That has cost Lloyds £11.3bn so far, including £2.5bn in administration costs. Other fines have topped £200m. Lloyds, which owns the Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands, reported pre-tax profits of £1.61bn for the

India Chooses Israel over US for $525 Million Missile Deal Spike anti-tank missile launcher Rafael Systems India has chosen to buy anti-tank guided missiles from Israel, rejecting a rival US offer, in the latest sign of  burgeoning ties between the two states . The latest arms deal comes as India's right-wing government clears projects worth $13.1 billion to modernize its ageing military, official sources said Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government will buy 8,356 Spike missiles and 321  launchers  from Israel in a deal worth 32 billion  rupees  ($525 million), defense ministry sources told  AFP . The government  is  moving to  speed up long-delayed defense  orders  and bolster its military. The Israeli deal comes after recent firing along India's border with nuclear-armed rival Pakistan and tensions with giant neighbor China. The procurement deals, worth 800 billion rupees ($13.1 billion) in total, were cleared at a meeting of India's Defense Acquisition Coun

"I will never let my daughter suffer the way I do when I have my period. My family treats me like an untouchable. "I'm not allowed into the kitchen, I can't enter the temple, I can't sit with others." There's a sense of determination in 32-year-old Manju Baluni's voice. I met her in a remote village in Uttarakhand, a hilly state in the north of India. In India, there is generally a silence around the issue of women's health - especially around menstruation. A deep-rooted taboo feeds into the risible myth-making around menstruation: women are impure, filthy, sick and even cursed during their period. 'Tense and worried' People believe that menstruating women should not take baths and are anaemic. A recent study by a sanitary towel manufacturer found that 75% of women living in cities still buy their pads wrapped in a brown bag or newspaper because of the shame associated with menstruation. They also almost never ask a male family member to b

Delhi's Trilokpuri on boil, curfew imposed Rioters threw stones and used swords; gunshots  NEW DELHI : Curfew was imposed in east Delhi's Trilokpuri on Saturday after rioters from two communities clashed with police through the day, leaving more than 45 people injured, 20 of them cops. Five people sustained gunshot injuries. Police arrested 85 people on charges of rioting and a senior police officer said the situation was "tense but under control".  Mobs took over the streets from Friday night after a petty fight at a religious gathering on Diwali led to clashes between the two communities. Both groups hurled bricks, acid bulbs and bottles at each other and set several shops and vehicles on fire. Some of them also carried swords. Stone-pelting and violence was reported from several parts; blocks 15, 23, 27 and 32 were the worst hit. 

  S Africa football captain Senzo Meyiwa shot dead South Africa's football coach Ephraim Mashaba paid a tearful tribute to captain Senzo Meyiwa Continue reading the main story Related Stories 'Utter devastation' at Meyiwa death SA coach's tearful tribute Watch Pirates win SA league title South Africa's football captain Senzo Meyiwa has died after being shot during a burglary, police say. He was reportedly attacked after men entered his girlfriend's house in Vosloorus, south of Johannesburg. His agent described him as a humble man from a tough background who had become a "hero in everyone's eyes". The 27-year-old was the goalkeeper for Orlando Pirates and had played in South Africa's last four Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. On Saturday, he was in action for his club, when they progressed to the semi-finals of the South African League Cup, beating Ajax Cape Town 4-1. Reward offered In a statement, the South African Police Service said two men

I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS ALL COMMUNAL VIOLENCE WHAT WE GONNA ACHIEVE FROM ALL THIS. Rioting: Delhi’s Trilokpuri still tense, cops warn rumour mongers - timesofindia NEW DELHI: Prohibitory orders will remain clamped for next few days in communal violence-hit Trilokpuri area, Delhi Police commissioner BS Bassi said on Monday and warned of strict action against those spreading rumours.  Tension prevailed in the east Delhi area even as a large contingent of police personnel along with Rapid Action Force (RAF) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was keeping a tight vigil in all the 36 blocks after clashes on Diwali night.  As the residents have been facing shortage of essential items, police are now making arrangements for eatables like milk.  "Situation is under control in Trilokpuri. We are keeping a strict watch on those who are trying to spread rumours and making false PCR calls for riots. Section 144 will be imposed for next few days and we are focusing on the situation and

Assembly polls: Modi magic pushes BJP up in Maharashtra, Haryana  -indiatoday sources The  Narendra Modi  juggernaut is expected to knock the Congress out of power in Maharashtra and Haryana and overcome its own estranged allies, the exit polls have predicted. The India Today Group-Cicero exit poll predicted that BJP may win 124 of the 288 seats in Maharashtra, coming close to forming the government on its own. The poll shows massive gains for the BJP, which had won only 46 seats in 2009. According to the India Today-Cicero poll, while the BJP is expected to get 26.8 per cent vote share, Shiv Sena is predicted to be second largest party with 71 seats and a vote share of 20.6 per cent. The Congress and the NCP are expected to be reduced to 35 and 29 seats, respectively. The Congress is expected to get a vote share of 15.6 per cent and the NCP predicted to garner 14.7 per cent of the popular vote. Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) is expected to get only 7 seats. All o

Ebola Nurse Amber Vinson Checked with CDC Before Flight :nbcnews sources The second Ebola-infected nurse from a Dallas hospital contacted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials on Monday to check if she could get on a plane with an elevated temperature, and was not barred from taking the flight, NBC News has learned. At the time, the CDC was still considering health care workers who treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan but wore protective gear to be at lower risk, and based on those guidelines Amber Vinson wasn’t warned to stay off the commercial jet, a government spokesperson told NBC News late Wednesday. "Vinson was not told that she could not fly," said the spokesperson. Vinson was diagnosed with Ebola on Wednesday. She had treated Dallas patient Thomas Eric Duncan a week earlier. She then flew to Ohio on Oct. 8 — the day Duncan died — and then back to Texas on Monday. Before the Monday flight, Vinson, who had been self-monitoring and was reporting her te

BREAKING NEWS: Pilot dies after plane crashes into Melbourne homes Light plane crashed into a home  in Chelsea, 30km south-east of Melbourne Police have confirmed that a male pilot died at the scene A woman in a house at the time has escaped with minor injuries Police believe the single engine aircraft could have been 'homemade'  Plane struck a house and damaged two vehicles and caught fire on impact  A witness said pilot may have been trying to make an emergency landing  Police urged people not to touch any of the scattered debris  A male pilot has died after a light plane he was flying crashed into a home in Melbourne's south-east. Police believe the single-engine light aircraft could have been 'homemade' as pieces of debris have been found along the foreshore - south of the crash near The Strand in Chelsea at about 1.30pm on Tuesday.   Witnesses told police they heard the plane's engine 'stall' just before it began to plummeted out of the sky from wha