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08:14 President Pranab in Shimla for summer retreat:
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday begins his five-day summer retreat in Shimla.
The President, to be accompanied by his daughter Sharmistha, would preside over the golden jubilee convocation of Indira Gandhi Medical College at Peterhoff on June 3 and attend a banquet to be hosted in his honour at Raj Bhawan.
Mukherjee, who will stay at Chhrabra, 14 km from Shimla, would host "At Home" on June 5 and return to Delhi on June 6.
08:13 Telangana Formation Day today; PM Modi wishes for progress:
Telangana is gearing up to celebrate its second foundation day on Thursday.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Governor ESL Narasimhan will join in the celebrations at the Parade Ground in Secunderabad.
Public spaces and government buildings have been illuminated here. Tank Bund, banks of Hussain Sagar Lake, Lumbini Park, state secretariat, the international airport at Shamshabad and places of worship are sparkling bright as India's 29th state readies itself for the celebrations.
Telangana came into existence on June 2, 2014, under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of Parliament.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to convey his greetings: "On the Statehood Day of Telangana, my greetings to the people of Telangana. I hope the state progresses to new heights in the years to come."
08:09 Gulbarg Society massacre: Court to pronounce verdict today:
An Ahmedabad special trial court is likely to pronounce its verdict on Thursday in the Gulbarg Society attack case of 2002 Gujarat riots in which 69 people, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed.
Special Court Judge PB Desai will deliver the judgement over eight months after the trial concluded on September 22, 2015.
The Supreme Court, which is monitoring the case, had directed the SIT court to give its verdict by May 31.
The Gulbarg Society was attacked a day after Coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express train was torched in Godhra on February 27, 2002 leaving 59 people dead.
03:58 First aid for Syria's Darayya since 2012:
The besieged Damascus suburb of Darayya has received its first aid convoy since November 2012, according to the Red Cross.
UN aid officials had said the town was suffering dire shortages of food, clean water and medicine.
A 48-hour ceasefire for the town, which lies south of the Syrian capital, came into force early on Wednesday.
Vaccines, baby milk, medicine and nutritional goods were being delivered, the UN's humanitarian arm said.
Read more
03:45 'Gorilla boy' doing well, says family :
A three-year-old boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure at Cincinnati Zoo, leading to the animal being shot, is said to be "doing well".
Harambe, a 17-year-old endangered western lowland gorilla, was shot dead after he started dragging the boy.
Police said they were investigating the actions of the boy's parents leading up to his fall.
On Wednesday, they also released a recording of the call the boy's mother made to police.
In it, she is heard crying: "He's dragging my son...I can't watch this." She repeatedly shouts "be calm" at the boy.
In a statement on Wednesday, the boy's family thanked zoo staff "for their actions taken to protect our child".
They also asked that any donations be made to the zoo in Harambe's name. The zoo has suggested donations would go towards a gorilla conservation project in the Congo.
02:29 Googling yourself now leads to personal privacy controls:
Soon, all you'll need to do is Google yourself if you're wondering how deeply Google has been digging into your digital life.
In coming weeks, a shortcut to personal account information will appear at the top of Google's search results whenever logged-in users enter their own names in the query box.
The feature is part of an update to the "My Account" hub that Google introduced a year ago to make it easier for people to manage the privacy and security controls on the internet company's services. While Google isn't making any additional information available, it is making it easier to find.
The link to personal accounts will appear at the top right of the listings for searches done on personal computers and at the top of requests entered on smartphones.
Google is making the change because it learned that many users doing a "vanity search" under their name wanted a quicker way to find out what the company knew about them, as well as to see how they are depicted on various sites across the internet, said Guemmy Kim, a Google product manager.
A new feature on Google's mobile app will also quickly take users to their account information with a spoken request. All that will be required are the words: "OK Google, show me my Google account." This option initially will only be available in English.
01:58 Islamic State under heavy assault in both Iraq and Syria: Islamic State insurgents faced major assaults on two fronts in both Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in what could prove to be some of the biggest operations to roll back their caliphate since they proclaimed it in 2014.
In Syria, U.S.-backed militia with thousands of Arab and Kurdish fighters were reported to have captured villages near the strategically-important Turkish border after launching a major operation to cut off Islamic State's last access route to the outside world.
In Iraq, Prime Minister Haider Abadi ordered his troops to slow an advance at the gates of Falluja, Islamic State's closest redoubt to the capital Baghdad, to limit harm to civilians, two days after the army poured into rural areas on the city's outskirts.
Read more
01:06
Los Angeles police say UCLA shooting appears to be murder-suicide; no outstanding suspects, no threat to campus
00:52 Indo-US relations not about one person: Senator:
Underscoring that relationship between India and US is "not about one person", key American Senator Ben Cardin on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been invited to Washington because of the country he represents and not his name.
"The prime minister was not invited to address the joint session of the Congress because of his name but because of his country," he said here at a seminar after which he responded to some questions.
The relationship between the two countries is "not about one person", Cardin said in his response when it was pointed out that Modi was a pariah in the US until recently but now he has been invited to address the joint session of the Congress.
This is "representation of the importance of that relationship" between the two countries, he said.
Modi will travel to Washington on June 7 for a visit during which he will address a joint session of the US Congress.
Earlier, the US had refused to grant visa to Modi post Gujarat riots.
Cardin, who has been vocal about the "religious intolerance" in India, said the relationship between India and the US will continue to go strong beyond the election of the next administration in the United States.
"It underscores by the fact that here we are in an election year in a Republican controlled Congress and PM is to speak before the joint session of the Congress," Cardin said.
00:21 Rahul's elevation will speed up 'Cong-mukt Bharat' drive: BJP:
Amidst renewed speculation about elevation of Rahul Gandhi as the Congress president, Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said any such development will only strengthen BJP's resolve for a 'Congress-mukt Bharat'.
"That only strengthens our case for a 'Congress-mukt Bharat'," Goyal told reporters when asked about reports about possible elevation of Rahul as the Congress president which have been playing through the day.
There was high speculation surrounding elevation of the 45-year-old Gandhi family scion as the Congress president, but the party dismissed any such immediate possibility even as Sonia Gandhi remained tightlipped on the issue.
Sonia, who is on a visit to her constituency Rae Bareli, was asked to comment on media reports about Congressmen wanting Rahul to take over as the president, parried a questions from the media earlier in the day.
"We are a national party. There are certain procedures... When it comes to Sonia and Rahul we all wholeheartedly accept (their leadership)... We all want Rahul to take over, as and when (it will happen), we will make a proper statement," party spokesperson Sushmita Dev told reporters.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday begins his five-day summer retreat in Shimla.
The President, to be accompanied by his daughter Sharmistha, would preside over the golden jubilee convocation of Indira Gandhi Medical College at Peterhoff on June 3 and attend a banquet to be hosted in his honour at Raj Bhawan.
Mukherjee, who will stay at Chhrabra, 14 km from Shimla, would host "At Home" on June 5 and return to Delhi on June 6.
08:13 Telangana Formation Day today; PM Modi wishes for progress:
Telangana is gearing up to celebrate its second foundation day on Thursday.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Governor ESL Narasimhan will join in the celebrations at the Parade Ground in Secunderabad.
Public spaces and government buildings have been illuminated here. Tank Bund, banks of Hussain Sagar Lake, Lumbini Park, state secretariat, the international airport at Shamshabad and places of worship are sparkling bright as India's 29th state readies itself for the celebrations.
Telangana came into existence on June 2, 2014, under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of Parliament.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to convey his greetings: "On the Statehood Day of Telangana, my greetings to the people of Telangana. I hope the state progresses to new heights in the years to come."
08:09 Gulbarg Society massacre: Court to pronounce verdict today:
An Ahmedabad special trial court is likely to pronounce its verdict on Thursday in the Gulbarg Society attack case of 2002 Gujarat riots in which 69 people, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed.
Special Court Judge PB Desai will deliver the judgement over eight months after the trial concluded on September 22, 2015.
The Supreme Court, which is monitoring the case, had directed the SIT court to give its verdict by May 31.
The Gulbarg Society was attacked a day after Coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express train was torched in Godhra on February 27, 2002 leaving 59 people dead.
03:58 First aid for Syria's Darayya since 2012:
The besieged Damascus suburb of Darayya has received its first aid convoy since November 2012, according to the Red Cross.
UN aid officials had said the town was suffering dire shortages of food, clean water and medicine.
A 48-hour ceasefire for the town, which lies south of the Syrian capital, came into force early on Wednesday.
Vaccines, baby milk, medicine and nutritional goods were being delivered, the UN's humanitarian arm said.
Read more
03:45 'Gorilla boy' doing well, says family :
A three-year-old boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure at Cincinnati Zoo, leading to the animal being shot, is said to be "doing well".
Harambe, a 17-year-old endangered western lowland gorilla, was shot dead after he started dragging the boy.
Police said they were investigating the actions of the boy's parents leading up to his fall.
On Wednesday, they also released a recording of the call the boy's mother made to police.
In it, she is heard crying: "He's dragging my son...I can't watch this." She repeatedly shouts "be calm" at the boy.
In a statement on Wednesday, the boy's family thanked zoo staff "for their actions taken to protect our child".
They also asked that any donations be made to the zoo in Harambe's name. The zoo has suggested donations would go towards a gorilla conservation project in the Congo.
02:29 Googling yourself now leads to personal privacy controls:
Soon, all you'll need to do is Google yourself if you're wondering how deeply Google has been digging into your digital life.
In coming weeks, a shortcut to personal account information will appear at the top of Google's search results whenever logged-in users enter their own names in the query box.
The feature is part of an update to the "My Account" hub that Google introduced a year ago to make it easier for people to manage the privacy and security controls on the internet company's services. While Google isn't making any additional information available, it is making it easier to find.
The link to personal accounts will appear at the top right of the listings for searches done on personal computers and at the top of requests entered on smartphones.
Google is making the change because it learned that many users doing a "vanity search" under their name wanted a quicker way to find out what the company knew about them, as well as to see how they are depicted on various sites across the internet, said Guemmy Kim, a Google product manager.
A new feature on Google's mobile app will also quickly take users to their account information with a spoken request. All that will be required are the words: "OK Google, show me my Google account." This option initially will only be available in English.
01:58 Islamic State under heavy assault in both Iraq and Syria: Islamic State insurgents faced major assaults on two fronts in both Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in what could prove to be some of the biggest operations to roll back their caliphate since they proclaimed it in 2014.
In Syria, U.S.-backed militia with thousands of Arab and Kurdish fighters were reported to have captured villages near the strategically-important Turkish border after launching a major operation to cut off Islamic State's last access route to the outside world.
In Iraq, Prime Minister Haider Abadi ordered his troops to slow an advance at the gates of Falluja, Islamic State's closest redoubt to the capital Baghdad, to limit harm to civilians, two days after the army poured into rural areas on the city's outskirts.
Read more
01:06
Los Angeles police say UCLA shooting appears to be murder-suicide; no outstanding suspects, no threat to campus
00:52 Indo-US relations not about one person: Senator:
Underscoring that relationship between India and US is "not about one person", key American Senator Ben Cardin on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been invited to Washington because of the country he represents and not his name.
"The prime minister was not invited to address the joint session of the Congress because of his name but because of his country," he said here at a seminar after which he responded to some questions.
The relationship between the two countries is "not about one person", Cardin said in his response when it was pointed out that Modi was a pariah in the US until recently but now he has been invited to address the joint session of the Congress.
This is "representation of the importance of that relationship" between the two countries, he said.
Modi will travel to Washington on June 7 for a visit during which he will address a joint session of the US Congress.
Earlier, the US had refused to grant visa to Modi post Gujarat riots.
Cardin, who has been vocal about the "religious intolerance" in India, said the relationship between India and the US will continue to go strong beyond the election of the next administration in the United States.
"It underscores by the fact that here we are in an election year in a Republican controlled Congress and PM is to speak before the joint session of the Congress," Cardin said.
00:21 Rahul's elevation will speed up 'Cong-mukt Bharat' drive: BJP:
Amidst renewed speculation about elevation of Rahul Gandhi as the Congress president, Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said any such development will only strengthen BJP's resolve for a 'Congress-mukt Bharat'.
"That only strengthens our case for a 'Congress-mukt Bharat'," Goyal told reporters when asked about reports about possible elevation of Rahul as the Congress president which have been playing through the day.
There was high speculation surrounding elevation of the 45-year-old Gandhi family scion as the Congress president, but the party dismissed any such immediate possibility even as Sonia Gandhi remained tightlipped on the issue.
Sonia, who is on a visit to her constituency Rae Bareli, was asked to comment on media reports about Congressmen wanting Rahul to take over as the president, parried a questions from the media earlier in the day.
"We are a national party. There are certain procedures... When it comes to Sonia and Rahul we all wholeheartedly accept (their leadership)... We all want Rahul to take over, as and when (it will happen), we will make a proper statement," party spokesperson Sushmita Dev told reporters.
