KISHANGANJ ( BIHAR): Police today recovered 30 bombs from a village pond in Kishanganj district after local residents informed about them. The recovered bombs were kept in a sack and dumped in a pond at Matiari village under Pothia police station of the district, police said. The bombs somehow became loose and surfaced on the water. “The recovered bombs were country-made but powerful ones. They had become inactive after being in water for a long time. It seems crimina .. Read more at:

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Delhi will be developed into a “global city” and the country’s first ‘smart city’ will be set up here to decongest the national capital and facilitate it with all modern amenities, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said here today.

“We want to make Delhi a truly global city, having all latest and modern amenities and facilities that any other global city like London or San Francisco has. We want to have world-class entertainment venues like Disneyland or Universal Studios here,” Naidu said.

The Narendra Modi-led NDA government has planned to set up 100 ‘smart cities’ and Naidu said that the first such city will come up in the national capital.

“Delhi is the heart of India and the first smart city would come up here. The city of Barcelona in Spain has also promised technological support to us in our effort in this direction,” he said.

“I saw the city of Barcelona, and apart from modern buildings, they have also preserved their old architecture. We also want to preserve our traditional architecture, that India is so richly endowed with, even as we embrace modernity,” he added.

The Minister was speaking at a function organised by DDA at its headquarters here to officially kick-start the allotment process of its ‘Housing Scheme 2014’

Naidu handed over allotment letters to the first few successful applicants.

Talking about the ‘smart city’ initiative further, he said the focus would be to build global educational and health institutes and entertainment facilities.

“We also want to liberalise the industrial estate policy.

An industrial space may not necessarily contain factories, but showrooms also. A committee will be formed to look into this issue as well,” the Minister said.

DDA’s Vice-Chairman Balvinder Kumar in a media briefing yesterday had outlined the plans for the ‘smart city’ in the capital.

The ‘smart city’ will be a complete sub-city, which would be located in an area of 20-24 hectares, zoned out of Dwarka, Rohini and Narela, and will be equipped with latest technologies and waste-management techniques.

“The smart city will have a world-class infrastructure, 24-hour power supply, complete wi-fi connectivity, and will employ green technology and latest water conservation techniques like rain-harvesting and waste management techniques, among other facilities,” Kumar said.

Outlining the achievements of the government in the financial sector, Naidu said, “As per the PM’s vision of ending financial untouchability, we have opened 10 crore new bank accounts in the last nine weeks under the Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana.”

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PUNE: Committing to bold reforms that would professionalise public sector banks, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today assured bankers that government was ready to protect their commercial decisions as “risks have to be taken” by them.

Speaking at the Gyan Sangam here, he said the government was willing to “reconsider the rules” to help banks reduce the non-performing assets (NPAs), which have become a major challenge for the banking industry.

“Government is open to bold decisions for professionalisation of the management and autonomy in decision making, rewarding merit, and relooking at the recruitment process at the top management level of PSBs,” Jaitley said.

He further said the government was ready to protect commercial decisions so as to avoid the delay in good decisions.

“Risks have to be taken. The positives are that there is an element of decisiveness in the new government and there is large popular support for that,” the Finance Minister added.

In order to improve the economic situation, Jaitley said the government has taken a number of “bold steps” on pushing the Goods and services Tax and amendment to the Land Acquisition Act with a view to reviving infrastructure growth.

In addition, he said, steps have been taken to increase FDI and domestic investment to give big push to the manufacturing sector.

“Banks have a major role to play in the financing of infrastructure. Growth in power and other infrastructure sectors needs to be revived,” Jaitley said.

Referring to the Prime Minister’s Jan Dhan Yojna (PMJDY), he said most of the inactive accounts will become operational with the introduction of Direct Benefit Transfer. “These account holders will become symbol of the identity of the cashless system.”

Till date, over 10 crore bank accounts have been opened under the scheme, one month ahead of the deadline.

At the invitation of Hindu Association , Bandra West Mumbai, Arunachal Vikas Parishad a group 50 students along with their teachers are now presently in Mumbai for an educational tour. Real News of India has captured all their activities in camera. The three day trip included a visit to the Governor of Maharashtra. Arunchal Vikas Parishad organized the trip for the youth with the intention of an exposure of a metro city to the North Eastern people. These young students were all excited after meeting the Governor. The visit was intended as an initiative of business transactions between Arunachal Pradesh and Mumbai, cooperation for Arunachal Pradesh and women empowerment. This was their first trip to Mumbai. The group is on a tour from Kanyakumari to Bangalore to Mumbai and then would return back to Arunachal Pradesh. The students commented on the pollution around in Mumbai due to the heavy traffic. They were trying to compare their clean green environment with the polluted state of Mumbai. Ashish Shelar BJP MLA along with Home Minister met the delegates and inspired them. Mr Jackie Shroff also had a ball of a time with the chinky eyed students.Arunachal Vikas Parishad also organized a dance and song program at Carter Road. Ajit Maniyar Secretary Hindu Association arranged and managed the trip with Archana Sharma who has acted as the main host of the delegation for their entire trip to Mumbai. Real News of India will upload a video of their activities on youtube on RNI show.

In an uncertain world, there are some things you can always count on with a Burberry campaign. Think iconic and of-the-moment models; the coolest new musicians; a dose of Brit whimsy and Christopher Bailey’s take on the house’s classics.
For SS’15, they hit all the right notes. Last season’s campaign saw a cheeky response to Britain’s obsession with tabloids— forever young phoenix Kate Moss shared a trench coat under the rain with Britain’s whimsical Cara Delevingne (who somehow managed to keep a straight face). This time around, Mario Testino brought a fresh, crisp balance of colours to echo Bailey’s nostalgic summer mood, setting the tone for an English summer romance.
Sticking with their success formula, the label chose another model duo for its campaign version 2.0: veteran Naomi Campbell with the very fiery Jourdan Dunn. Musicians George Barnett (who plays the drums for These New Puritans, and the face of Burberry Brit Rhythm for men), and George Le Page, the drummer for Of Empires, join the models in the campaign.
The SS’15 collection entitled ‘Birds and the Bees’ also included cover text from Bruce Chatwin’s novels. James Bay’s ‘Scars’ was the soundtrack for the show and the campaign. Softly pleated pastel tulle dresses; iridescent sequins and watercolor botanics dominated the runway. Moulded denim jackets and pristine white sneakers kept us in check from getting lost in daydreams.
And of course, the iconic trench gets prime focus. It wouldn’t be a Burberry campaign without it.

India is checking whether thousands of newly built toilets are being used.
Half a million latrines have been built in homes under a cleanliness drive begun by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October. But many people still prefer to defecate outside.
Sanitation inspectors will go door-to-door to survey household lavatory use, noting the results on mobile phones and tablets, a government statement said.
Earlier surveys merely monitored the construction of toilets, it adds.
In its news release, the ministry of drinking water and sanitation said it “will launch a nationwide real time monitoring of use of toilets.
“Earlier, the monitoring was done only about the construction of toilets, but now the actual use of toilets will be ascertained on a sustained basis.”
Launching the Clean India Campaign (Swachh Bharat Abhiyan) on 2 October, Mr Modi promised to build half a million toilets within 100 days.
The government says it has built 503,142 household latrines since then.
However, studies in the past have suggested that many people in rural India, despite having working toilets at home, continue to go out into the open believing it is more sanitary to defecate far from home.
Hundreds of millions of people defecating outside leads to large numbers of hygiene-related diseases and premature deaths.
Reports say some of the new toilets are being used as storerooms by people who consider toilets at home unhygienic.
Campaigners say that building toilets is not enough and that motivating people to use them is equally important.
The government has pledged to make India “100% free” of open defecation by 2019.