Khel Ratna, Highest Sport Award in India for Saina Nehwal.

Ace Indian badminton player and World No. 2 Saina Nehwal will receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the country's highest sporting honour, from President Pratibha Patil on National Sports Day on August 29 at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here.

The 15-member panel on Friday took a unanimous decision to confer her with the award.

This award is due to hat-trick of wins clinching the Indonesian Open in 2009, the Singapore Open title in June, 2010, and the Indonesian Open a week later, which made her the World No. 2 after demolishing the China supremacy.

Khel Ratna, Highest Sport Award in India for Saina Nehwal.

India agrees to buy 57 Hawk jets worth about $800 million

British Aerospace has won a Rs 3,640 crore ($800 million) order to provide the Indian Air Force and Navy with 57 additional Hawk Advanced Jet Trainers.

The final terms and conditions for the contract were signed in the presence of British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is in India on an official visit.

India has already contracted BAE to supply 66 Hawks for the Indian Air Force. The jets are being assembled by Hindustan Aeronautics in Bangalore (HAL).

India agrees to buy 57 Hawk jets worth about $800 million

Approx 200 Women in India are killed every year in suspect of being Witches.

(PTI) Nearly 200 to 150 women are killed every year in India after being tagged as 'witches', a Dehra Dun based NGO has said citing National Crime Bureau statistics.

Jharkhand tops the list with 50-60 witchcraft-related murders every year followed by Andhra Pradesh where the number is around 30, Haryana 25-30 and Orissa 24-28, Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK) Chairman Avdhash Kaushal claimed.

Jharkhand is not the only state where women are facing barbaric attacks in the name of witchcraft, such incidents are common in Orissa, Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Haryana, Kaushal said. In past 15 years, more than 2,500 women were killed after being accused of practicing witchcraft, according to a study conducted by RLEK.

Approx 200 Women in India are killed every year in suspect of being Witches.

One Third of India's food resevers are lef to Rot : CNN IBN

According to recent estimates, millions of people are dying because of malnourished food and hunger related issues. It was even alarming two years ago when BBC has estimated that "India has more people suffering hunger - a figure above 200 million - than any other country in the world".

Here is the story exposed by Indian Media Network CNN IBN show Food Corporation of India (FCI) which take cares of India Food Storage now doesn't have any storage area to protect 168 Metric tonnes of food grain which is almost 1/3 of Indian Food grain reserves, which is estimated to be worth Rs. 28,000 Crores is left open to rot in open environment.

This amount of food amount can be able to feed 2 crores  people for over one year.

One Third of India's food resevers are lef to Rot : CNN IBN

Medical Help Refusal=Death=Just Fine? What the hell is happening in the world.

A consumer court has asked a Delhi doctor to pay compensation of Rs 3 lakh to the family of a seriously injured soldier who died outside his clinic two years ago and reminded him of the Hippocratic Oath he had taken to "render help to a dying man".

The Delhi State Consumer Redressal Commission in its recent ruling also asked the Medical Council of India to take appropriate action against Dr A.K. Minocha, who has a clinic in west Delhi's Janakpuri locality.

The commission, headed by Justice Barkat Ali Zaidi, said in its scathing indictment, "It is not only a government doctor who is bound to render help to a dying man. Every doctor is bound by the Hippocratic Oath and must render help to a seriously injured person."

Medical Help Refusal=Death=Just Fine? What the hell is happening in the world.

Kapil to fulfill Indian migrant's last wish .

Legendary all-rounder Kapil Dev is all set to fulfill the last wish of an Indian migrant to Australia who died more than six decades ago.

Kapil will land in Australia this weekend to collect the ashes of Pooran Singh and take them to India for immersion.

Kapil will also attend a ceremony organised by the Victorian Sikh Community this Sunday to collect the ashes. Pooran, who migrated to Australia 111 years ago, had wished that his ashes be immersed in River Ganges.

Kapil to fulfill Indian migrant's last wish .

UN assigns Mukesh Ambani to key group on development goals

Reliance Industries chief, Mr Mukesh Ambani, has been named by the United Nations to a key advocacy group on Millennium Development Goals, whose mandate includes finding ways to fight socio-economic evils such as poverty.

Mr Ambani is the only Indian to be a part of the MDG Advocacy Group that comprises eminent international personalities including Microsoft Chairman, Mr Bill Gates, philanthropist, Mr Ted Turner and Nobel laureate, Mr Muhammad Yunus, among others.

Ambani is expected to focus on a global partnership for development, that will include development of an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.

UN assigns Mukesh Ambani to key group on development goals

Here Come the World No. 2, Saina Nehwal

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal is just a step away from realising her goal of becoming the world's number one player as she jumped one place to a career-best second in the latest international rankings.

"I am very happy to achieve the world number two so soon in my career. The last three wins have really helped me. It is a great feeling but I feel my priority still will be to win more tournaments for India rather than focussing on ranking," Saina said.

"It will be difficult to hold on to the ranking but I hope to continue my hard work and win more titles and become the number one player soon," said the Hyderabadi shuttler, who is down with fever and cold.

Here Come the World No. 2, Saina Nehwal

Indian criminals prefer Dubai prisons to at-home jails

As India and UAE work out an agreement for prisoner exchange, Indians serving sentences in Dubai jails appear wary of the prospect of completing their terms in prisons at home, with some describing the detention centres in India as "hell".

Many Indian prisoners here in fact dread the prospect and are not keen to return home for the remaining period of incarceration, a media report said.

Several Indian prisoners in Dubai, who may be given a chance to serve their remaining prison terms back in India, say they are wary of going home because prisons back home are like "hell," it said.

Vinayak, a 76-year-old prisoner in jail on drug charges, told Gulf News he does not want to go to India to serve his remaining term.

Indian criminals prefer Dubai prisons to at-home jails

Indian Prodigy is youngest professor at IIT-B

Patna-born child prodigy Dr Tathagat Tulsi has taken up a job as professor at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay at the age of 22. Tulsi is possibly the youngest Assistant Professor at IIT. He will join the IIT faculty at Powai in Mumbai next week and teach Physics.

IIT Bombay sent his appointment letter sent on June 30 in which IIT Bombay Director Professor Devang V Khakar informed Tulsi that the institute's Board of Governors had offered him assistant professorship on contract at the Department of Physics.

He had finished high school at the age of nine, earned his BSc degree at 10, and MSc degree at 12 and then received his Doctorate in Quantum Computing from the Indian Institute of Science at the age of 21.

The Bihar boy has already turned down an offer from Waterloo University in Canada despite a lucrative pay package.

Indian Prodigy is youngest professor at IIT-B

Shocking Truth Behind the so called Developing India.

Acute poverty prevails in eight Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, together accounting for more poor people than in the 26 poorest African nations combined, a new ‘multidimensional’ measure of global poverty has said.

The new measure, called the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), was developed and applied by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative(OPHI) with Undp support. It will be featured in the forthcoming 20th anniversary edition of the Undp Human Development Report.

An analysis by the MPI creators reveals that there are more ‘MPI poor’ people in eight Indian states (421 million in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal) than in the 26 poorest African countries combined (410 million).

Shocking Truth Behind the so called Developing India.

Hindu Drinking water from Mosque is a crime?

Several Hindus were attacked and forced out of their homes in Pakistan's southern Sindh province after a boy of the community drank water from a cooler outside a mosque.

About 60 Hindu men, women and children were recently forced to abandon their homes at Memon Goth in Karachi, the capital of Sindh, after influential tribesmen of the area objected to the boy drinking water.

"All hell broke loose when my son, Dinesh drank water from a cooler outside a mosque. Upon seeing him do that, the people of the area started beating him up," a Hindu man named Meerumal told The News daily.

"Later, around 150 tribesmen attacked us, injuring seven of our people who were taken to the Jinnah Hospital," he said.

Hindu Drinking water from Mosque is a crime?

India's PM Security personal responsible for 8 year old Death?

Is this incident show that all are unequal before law? The family of a child who died in Kanpur earlier this month has blamed the Prime Minister's security for causing delays that they believed were fatal.

Eight-year-old Aman Khan was in a car with his parents on July 3. He had serious head injuries from an accident at home. In a letter to Sonia Gandhi, Aman's mother states that roads had been blocked for the PM's visit to IIT. She claims the diversion turned what should have been a five-minute journey to a hospital a kilometer away into a one-hour drive.

In her letter, Aman's mother has requested Sonia Gandhi to ensure that this does not happen again.

India's PM Security personal responsible for 8 year old Death?

Petrol prices may change every fortnight in India, similar to West Countries.

State-owned oil firms may opt to revise petrol prices every fortnight to reflect changes in the global oil market in the free pricing regime that kicks in from next week.

Petrol prices were freed from government control last month resulting in a Rs 3.50 per litre hike in rates in Delhi, but modalities of subsequent retail price adjustments were left to the industry to deliberate and decide.

Sources said Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum on Thursday began consultations on modalities like the frequency or interval at which prices will be revised and if the PSUs should have uniform rate that would change on same date.

Petrol prices may change every fortnight in India, similar to West Countries.

Bangalore Mono Rail work to begin in January‎.

The Karnataka government said on Tuesday that work on the monorail project for Bangalore is slated to begin in January next and expected to be completed in three years.

"The detailed project report on the monorail would be ready by this month-end. Tender will be invited in September ...The work is slated to begin in January and is expected to be completed in three years," said Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.

Yeddyurappa was responding to separate questions on the metro and monorail projects raised by Congress MLAs Ramalinga Reddy and K J George during the question hour in the Assembly.

"A sum of Rs 2,700 crore has been spent on the Rs 11,609 crore phase-I (42.3 km) Bangalore metro project so far. The Baiyappanahalli-Cricket Stadium stretch of the project is slated to be thrown open for traffic in December this year," said Yeddyurappa.

He added that 25 per cent of the work on the first phase of the metro project has been completed.

The Central Government has till May end this year sanctioned Rs 539 crore for the metro project, the first phase of which would be ready by 2013.

Bangalore Mono Rail work to begin in January‎.

India's first indigenous Naval Light Combat Aircraft unveiled .

India's first Indigenous Naval Light Combat Aircraft LCA (Navy) NP1 rolled out on Tuesday from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facility in Bangalore. Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma was the chief guest at the event. Defence Minister A K Antony, and other senior officials were also present on the occasion.

An important milestone for the naval programme of Bangalore-based Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the aircraft was brought out of the build hangar where it was assembled part-by-part during.

The aircraft is being readied for induction into the Navy and for deployment on board the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), currently under construction at the Cochin Shipyard, by 2015.

India's first indigenous Naval Light Combat Aircraft unveiled .

Rs 13,000 crore Economic loss was Estimated dur to Bharath Bandh.

Bharat Bandh on Monday partially disrupted economic activities with commodity markets and the transport sector taking a hit in many parts of the country, and the industry pegged losses at up to Rs 13,000 crore.

While Mumbai, the financial capital of the country, and several industrialised states including Maharashtra, Gujarat, were affected, the impact was partial in many other states like Tamil Nadu and in the national capital Delhi.

The 12-hour strike was called by the Opposition parties to protest the fuel price hike and rising inflation.

"The bandh is estimated to have cost the nation close to Rs 13,000 crore in terms of GDP loss," industry chamber FICCI said in a statement. Another industry body Assocham put the losses at Rs 10,000 crore, while CII pegged it at Rs 3,000 crore.

Rs 13,000 crore Economic loss was Estimated dur to Bharath Bandh.

Bharath Bandh leads in Twitter Trending Topic at no. 1 place

Bharath(India's other name and firstly named by Hindu King) Bandh(Closed) was called by the Opposition party of India against the protest of Rise in fuel and Ration price.

Gasoline prices in the United States, which have recently hit record highs, are actually much lower than in many countries. Drivers in some European cities, like Amsterdam and Oslo, are paying nearly 3 times more than those in the U.S. -cnn

Here are the Gasoline price across some Countries (Note:Price in USD Regular/Gallon).

Turkey(Istanbul): $8.78
Netherlands: 7.91
UK: $6.59
Germany: $6.51
Japan: $5.19
Australia: $4.32
Canada: $3.82
China: $3.58
USA: $2.83

Venezuela: $0.09

1 gallon = 3.78541178 liters

which means in

India: $4.79 (here i am taking price of 1 liter of gasoline =Rs.~57(varies across cities) and 1 INR = ~ $45 USD )

This topic now is now widely discussed through out the world, Even the Twitter's Trending topic section shows it in no. 1 position.

Though i cant argue whether it is called for good reason or bad reason but the only person suffering is the common man 'Aam Aadmi'

Bharath Bandh leads in Twitter Trending Topic at no. 1 place

Anil Ambani to create World's Largest Telecom Infrastructure.

Anil Ambani-backed Reliance Communications and GTL Infrastructure have agreed on a Rs 50,000 crore deal to create the world’s largest independent telecom infrastructure company, which would not be controlled by any telecom operator.

Under the deal, the telecom towers of Reliance Infratel, in which Reliance Communications holds a 95 per cent stake, would be merged with GTL Infrastructure, which offers infrastructure services to wireless telecom operators.

The deal is expected to close within six months. The combined entity would have 80,000 towers and over 1.25 lakh tenancies.

Anil Ambani to create World's Largest Telecom Infrastructure.

Ace Indian Shuttler Saina Nehwal is now World No 3.

Saina Nehwal does what she says. Thats why Hyderbadi loves Saina rather then the Glam seeking Tennis girls Sania I mean to say Sania Mirza whos is now not an indian any more.

This latest rankings comes after the Saina winning the India Open Grand Prix and the Singapore Open Super Series respectively.

It is now her career best ranking, i will be like her dream come true. According to me, saina believes in aim small small goals and achieves it and then targets her next. Firstly she expressed her desire to be reach World's Top 25 Ranking, then 10 then 5, then top 3, reaching her goal :).

I hope are Indian are keen to Saina Nehwal in First Position.

Saina, with 64791.2637 points, made a significant upward movement in the chart and is just behind Chinese duo of Yihan Wang and Xin Wang.

Ace Indian Shuttler Saina Nehwal is now World No 3.