Friday, 11 September 2015

10 Things to Remember for Eid Day


A piece of making Eid exceptional incorporates evacuating those deterrents that prompt anxiety and dissatisfaction. This can run from getting lost while in transit to supplications to God to finding an unattractive stain on new garments ultimately.
Setting up a day and all the more ahead of time helps fight off potential issues and helps everybody appreciate the occasion in style and cool. Here are 18 things you can do to help make Eid cheerful and agreeable for all.
1. Iron Clothes a Night Before
When the garments have been selected, squander no time pressing and hanging them up. Doing this the prior night helps you get everything prepared while despite everything you're smooth, along these lines less inclined to blaze the garments in a spur of the moment pressing surge.

2. Set  Breakfast Table a Night
BeforeSetting bowls, plates, and utensils, alongside some pleasant inflatables and an Eid pennant over the table is a decent approach to set the tone for the morning of Eid. Doing it the prior night decreases the morning surge as you're scrambling to get everything else prepared.
3. Split Up The Kids For Eid Prayer
Choose which children will run with which parent the day preceding Eid petitions to God. Time after time, fathers dump the whole obligation of dealing with the kids on moms' shoulders. The circumstance frequently gets to be unmanageable as mothers will most likely be unable to watch the majority of the children.
Restricted of doing this is by isolating the kin who battle the most. Another is by keeping the young ladies with mother and the young men with father. Then again infants (conception to three years) with mother and children (four to seven-years of age) with father. Each family is one of a kind so folks can choose how to part up the children. Despite how its done, the fact is to diminish interruption for folks and for others and to keep the children close by.

4. Teach Children Proper Behavior
Disclose to them before going that while Eid is a period of joy, fun, and festivity, it is not suitable to run, hop, yell and play find the stowaway with different children at the request to God place. Tossing in an alluring prize (i.e. a guarantee to go out for frozen yogurt or the recreation center soon thereafter on the off chance that they carry on) may additionally urge children to spare the silly buffoonery for after supplications to God.
Additionally clarify that they must sit still and be peaceful amid the clarification of the petition to God, amid the request to God (on the off chance that they are not begging) and the Khutba that takes after. Encourage them to whisper in Mommy or Daddy's ear on the off chance that they need anything and must converse with them.
5.  Carry Comfortable Shoes With You
Wear the most comfortable shoes to straighten up your line in prayer, since you won't be worrying about where you've put your shoes. Everyone should put their initials on the bag and remember to carry it with them at all times.
6. Take Your Own Rugs With You To Pray
It is recommended to take a sheet or paper to prey on, encourage everyone in your family to bring their own.
7. Take extras for Kids
Clothes, dry snacks, juice boxes, and quiet toys for small kids.
These will prove invaluable should the baby leak through her brand new Eid clothes in the car or the toddler starts complaining about hunger or thirst right before prayer begins. A book or quiet toy per child will also prove invaluable if the kids start becoming antsy during the Khutba.
8. Visit Bathroom before leaving
This is a must especially for kids under 10. While Eid prayer places do have bathrooms, getting to them in the midst of a huge crowd can mean an “accident” or missing Eid prayer altogether.
9. Greet those whom you know and those you don't
Say Salam and embrace the individual beside you once the Khutbah is over. Is it true that it isn't humorous that we stand so physically near to somebody in request to God (shoulder to bear) yet totally overlooking them once it’s over? Embrace your request to God neighbor and at any rate wish them Eid Mubarak.
On the off chance that they are distant from everyone else, welcome them over or get their telephone number and illuminate them of any Eid exercises that are coming up in your group. They may be new to the group and know no one, so be as transparent as could be expected under the circumstances.
A man once asked Prophet Muhammad, peace and endowments be upon him, what part of Islam was the best, and he said: "You ought to give sustenance, and welcome both those you know and those you don't" Bukhari, Muslim.
10.  Do Some Good Deeds
Do some charity work? Put money you can easily afford on a  bag seeking donations to cover the cost of renting the Eid prayer place. Give bigheartedly, since it normally costs thousands of dollars to book the space.

Thursday, 30 July 2015

Nepal's national mountain bike team turn rescuers

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In the aftermath of the disaster, which killed more than 7,500 people and injured more than 14,500, the cyclists found their riding skills invaluable.
They are still working to access remote mountain communities vehicles cannot.
Nepali national mountain bike champion, Ajay Pandit Chhetri, told BBC Radio 5 Live Daily he and his team mates were training on a single track in Chobar, about 10km north of the capital Kathmandu and close to the epicentre when the quake struck on 25 April.
We were scared. We were nervous and thought about our families and friends around Nepal. The communication was disconnected," he said.
The riders soon heard screams and dug out a woman and child who were buried alive.
They had been preparing for a national championship race scheduled for 2 May, but it was cancelled as the full extent of the humanitarian disaster in the country unfolded.
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Pakistan asks UK over claims India funded MQM party

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MQM officials told UK investigators they had received money from the Indian government, the BBC has learned.
A Pakistani official also told the BBC that India has trained hundreds of MQM militants over the past 10 years.
Indian authorities say the claims made to the BBC are "completely baseless". The MQM also denies them.
Party spokesman Saif Muhammad Ali told BBC Urdu that the MQM had never received any funding or training from India. He said authorities in Pakistan were running a campaign against the party.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Pakistan's interior minister, said on Thursday he would write to the British government on Friday.
He said they had a duty to "extend as much help as possible" to Pakistan on the investigation.
With 24 members in the National Assembly, the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has long been a dominant force in the politics of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.
They told investigators the party was receiving Indian funding, the BBC was told. UK authorities also found a list of weapons in an MQM property.
A Pakistani official told the BBC that India has trained hundreds of MQM militants in explosives, weapons and sabotage over the past 10 years in camps in north and north-east India.
Before 2005-2006, the training was given to a small number of mid-ranking members of the MQM, the official said.
More recently, greater numbers of more junior party members have been trained, the BBC was told.
The claims follow the statement of a senior Karachi police officer in April that two arrested MQM militants said they had been trained in India.
Asked about the claims of Indian funding and training of the MQM, the Indian High Commission in London said: "Shortcomings of governance cannot be rationalised by blaming neighbours."
The UK authorities started investigating the MQM in 2010 when a senior party leader, Imran Farooq, was stabbed to death outside his home in north London.
In the course of those inquiries, the police found around £500,000 ($787,350) in the MQM's London offices and in the home of Mr Hussain.
That prompted a second investigation into possible money laundering.

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Wanted Sudan leader Bashir flies out of South Africa

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The Pretoria High Court was due to decide whether he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court which charged him with the crimes.
Mr Bashir was in Johannesburg for an African Union (AU) summit.
A news conference will be held in Sudan's capital upon his arrival.
On Sunday, a judge barred Mr Bashir from leaving until the arrest application had been considered.
Mr Bashir is accused of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide during the Darfur conflict.
The UN says that about 300,000 people in Sudan have died and more than two million have fled their homes since fighting began in 2003.
Government forces and allied Arab militias are accused of targeting black African civilians in the fight against rebels.
At the hearing at the Pretoria High Court, the lawyer representing the South African government said Mr Bashir's name was not on the list of passengers who took off earlier.
But the Sudanese state minister for information has told Reuters news agency that Mr Bashir's plane was expected to land in Khartoum at about 18:30 local time (1530 GMT).
It is unlikely that South Africa will face sanctions for allowing Mr Bashir to leave the country even after a court order barred him from doing so, says the BBC's Nomsa Maseko in Pretoria.
A number of African countries have in the past decided not to co-operate with the ICC. The court has been accused of racism and bias against African leaders.
So as things stand, Mr Bashir appears to have left South Africa with the blessing of the African Union, our correspondent says.
The South African press has been considering the repercussions of the attempt to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who had been attending an AU summit.
IOL News said Mr Bashir's departure would leave "a major constitutional and diplomatic crisis and a big question mark over South Africa's continued membership of the ICC".
The Cape Times said the decision to invite the Sudanese president, despite his indictment by the ICC, had "exposed the fact that the AU considers the ICC largely irrelevant".
"This has the potential to sound the death knell of the ICC," the newspaper said, adding that the arrest "would set a precedent for other leaders on the continent who could be subject to the criminal jurisdiction of the ICC for their actions

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Photo of the day: Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma make their first red carpet appearance together and they look fabulous

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Last night, the world got to see Anushka and Virat for the very first time together on the red carpet. And the power couple was dressed to impress at the Vogue Beauty Awards 2015. While Anushka Sharma blew her style quotient sky high in a Gauri and Nainika dress, her beau Virat looked absolutely dapper in a tux. They slayed it with their fashion picks at the Style Awards and were the showstealers of the night as everybody just talked about them.

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Amazon Prime Day deals 2015 - our pick of the best Prime Day deals

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Pick up a bargain on Amazon's new Prime deals day

Amazon is 20 years old on Wednesday and to celebrate, it's launching Amazon Prime Day - a day of big deals on tech, games and more for Amazon customers worldwide.
Amazon promises "more deals than Black Friday for one day only" which means bargain prices - some of which will last all day, and some only for a few hours. For more information about how Prime Day is going to work, read our guide below.
But first, here are some confirmed pre-Prime Day lightning deals that will be going live on Amazon UK throughout Monday and Tuesday...
Beware - you need to be an Amazon Prime member to get Prime Day deals. But if you don't want to pay for that, you can be sneaky and just sign up for a one-month free trial!

Pre-Prime Day lightning deals:

The following are Amazon lightning deals that will go live for a limited time on Monday and Tuesday. Unfortunately Amazon hasn't told us what time these deals will beome active but it looks like they'll go in the order we've put them in, top to bottom. Sorry we can't be more accurate - we'll be more specific with the actual Prime Day deals on Wednesday.
Android tablet: Lenovo S5000 7" Tablet (Quad Core 1.2GHz, 1GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, WLAN, BT, 3G, 2x Camera, Android 4.2) - save 40%
Laptop: Lenovo G50 15.6-Inch Notebook - save 24%
Laptop: Lenovo Z50 15.6-Inch Notebook (AMD A10-7300, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD, WLAN, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8.1) - save 27%
Laptop: Lenovo FLEX 2 15.6-inch Full-HD 1080p Convertible Touchscreen Laptop - save 23%
Laptop: Lenovo FLEX 2 14-Inch Convertible Touchscreen Notebook (Red) - save 25%
Laptop: Lenovo FLEX 2 14-Inch Convertible Touchscreen Notebook (Black) - save 25%
Laptop: Asus X200MA 11.6-Inch Touchscreen Notebook (Black) - save 25%
Laptop: Asus X200MA 11.6-Inch Touchscreen Notebook (White) - save 25%
Monitor: ViewSonic VX2263SMHL-W 22 inch FHD SuperClear IPS LED Monitor (2ms, HDMI/VGA, MHL, White) - save 28%
Printer: Canon MAXIFY MB2050 All-in-One Home Office Printer - save 39%
Printer: Canon MAXIFY MB2350 Wifi All-in-One Home Office Printer - save 24%
Printer: Canon MAXIFY MB5350 Inkjet Printer - save 22%
Monitor: Samsung S24D390HL PLS 23.6 inch LED HDMI Monitor - save 25%
Hard drive: WD 1 TB My Passport Ultra Anniversary Premium Hard Drive - save 20%
Range extender: TP-LINK TL-WA860RE 300Mbps Universal Plug-in Wi-Fi Range Extender/ Booster - save 24%
Powerline: TP-LINK TL-PA4020 KIT AV500 Two-port Powerline Starter Kit - Twin Pack - save 22%
Network switch: TP-Link TL-SG1008D 8-Port Unmanaged Gigabit Desktop Switch - save 21%
Range extender/WiFi USB: Belkin N300 Universal Dual Band Wi-Fi Range Extender/Wireless Signal Booster USB Adapter - save 35%
Switch: Netgear GS108UK 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch - save 38%
SD card: SanDisk 32 GB Ultra Micro SDHC UHS-I Class 10 Memory Card up to 30 MB/s Read - save 30%
SD card: SanDisk 64 GB Ultra Micro SDXC UHS-I Class 10 Memory Card up to 30 MB/s Read - save 30%
SD card: SanDisk 32 GB Ultra SDHC UHS-I Class 10 Memory Card up to 40 MB/s read - save 25%

Confirmed Prime Day deals (Wednesday 15th July):

OPPO R5 (UK Version, Silver)
  • Link to this deal
  • Time: 12.10 – 14.10
  • Price: £199.99
OPPO Find 7 (UK Version, White)
  • Link to this deal
  • Time: 13.10 – 15.10
  • Price: £249.99
Here's everything you need to know about Amazon Prime Day:

When is Amazon Prime Day?

Amazon Prime day 2015 takes place next Wednesday - that's July 15. Amazon will start offering deals on its websites from midnight (that is, 00:00 on the 15th) in each participating territory. There will be seven main deals available throughout the day, with lightning deals going live every 10 minutes.

Which countries will Prime Day be happening in?

The US, of course, but also the UK, Spain, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, Austria and Greece. We're lying about Greece.

Can anybody take part in Prime Day?

No, you need to be an Amazon Prime member. If you aren't already signed up, Prime is $99 / £79 per year.
For that you get access to Prime Day plus access to the Amazon Prime Instant Video streaming service, free ebook borrowing, unlimited photo storage and free delivery on Prime-eligible items (within 1 hour if you live in one of a handful of London postcodes or some US cities). If you're a parent, your Prime membership also enables you to join Amazon Family to get 20% off the price of nappies.

Can't I just sign up for a 30-day trial, order loads of stuff and then cancel the membership?

Yes, you could. Amazon thinks you should: "try Prime today and get immediate access on 15th July", the Prime homepage says. Amazon clearly hopes that you'll sign up for Prime and either be blown away by the service or so disorganised that you'll forget to cancel. Either way, it's clearly going to get some new Prime members out of it.

What sort of deals will there be on Prime Day?

That's an excellent question, and Amazon hasn't really answered it. It says there will be "thousands of Lightning Deals and seven popular Deals of the Day".
If you haven't seen Amazon's lightning deals before, they're limited-time or limited-amount offers that can offer huge discounts on a fairly random selection of things: in recent weeks the list has included whiskies, watches and fitness monitors; at the time of writing there's 60% off a garden hose and 81% off a fancy watch on Amazon UK.
Amazon offered loads of lightning deals during Black Friday 2014 and there were definite bargains to be had, but as you'd expect the best ones sold out very quickly.
Here's what Amazon has to say about its Prime Day deals. "Members will enjoy deals on items perfect for summer adventures, their to-do list, family road trips, back to school supplies, and everyday essentials." That's not really narrowing it down, is it?

What should I do in the run-up to Prime day?

Assuming that Prime Day is going to be as exciting as Amazon says it is - and if it's going to have more deals than Amazon's Black Friday selection, then it might just be - then it's a good idea to do two things:
1. Set a budget for whatever bargains you want to blag, and
2. Have an idea of what you actually want to buy before you go in.
Hoping for a good deal on an HDTV? Look at what's out there, read our reviews and be prepared to be flexible: while we're sure Amazon will discount all kinds of electronic and electrical items, the likelihood of it slashing the price of a specific model you've had your eye on for ages is close to zero.
Think in terms of specifications, not specific models: that way you'll be able to tell instantly whether a bargain is the right bargain for you, or just money off something you don't really want.

What else should I watch out for?

In retail, bargains aren't always what they seem. We've seen Black Friday deals that looked like massive discounts but which were based on sky-high prices that nobody was expected to pay - the electronic equivalent of supermarket wine promotions and the sofa firms who always seem to be having massive sales - and high-profile sales are a great way of getting shot of end-of-line stock or of selling products bought in specifically to sell at low prices.
Back in 2013, the Wall Street Journal described retailers' sales practices, including Amazon's listing of a $1,799 Samsung HDTV with 45% off the sticker price: a month previously, the same set was $997.99.
Retailers are also known to raise prices in the run-up to big sales events, so for example in the weeks before Black Friday prices of all kinds of goods just happen to go up. Funny, that.
Will Amazon do any of those things? We don't know, but even if it does, we're here to help...

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Salman Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan Steamrolls Through Aamir's Week One Record


  • IMAGE LOADING.... Salman Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan is shattering box office records into smithereens with each passing day. The actor's eighth-in-a-row blockbuster has posted the highest ever week one collection of any Bollywood film, steamrolling through the benchmarks previously set by his fellow Khans - Aamir's PK and Shah Rukh's Happy New Year. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted: #BajrangiBhaijaan Fri 27.25 cr, Sat 36.60 cr, Sun 38.75 cr, Mon 27.05 cr, Tue 21.40 cr, Wed 18.02 cr, Thu 15.55 cr. Total: RS 184.62 cr. WOW!— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) July 24, 2015Records are meant to be shattered. And #BajrangiBhaijaan is doing just that. Crosses *Week 1* biz of #PK [RS 183.09 cr] & #HNY [RS 157.57 cr].— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) July 24, 2015Bajrangi Bhaijaan also made the quickest 100 crores ever, in its first weekend. Despite having been in theatres for just a week, it's already Salman's third biggest film after 2014's Kick and 2013's Ek Tha Tiger: #BajrangiBhaijaan is now 3rd HIGHEST grosser of Salman, after #ETT and #Kick... Will emerge HIGHEST grosser in Week 2. India biz. AWESOME!— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) July 24, 2015Bajrangi Bhaijaan, which released last Friday, reunites Salman with three previous collaborators who have delivered blockbusters with him before: director Kabir Khan who also made Ek Tha Tiger, Kareena Kapoor who was his heroine in Bodyguard, and Nawazuddin SSiddiqui who appeared in Kick.


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