Current Issues

A man was slashed in the face with a kirpan — a ceremonial religious knife — after an altercation at a gurdwara in New Zealand, media reported.

Police were called to the Otahuhu gurdwara in Auckland and confirmed that they had taken a man to the Manukau station after the incident Friday, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Vicky Singh, 24, who was praying in the gurdwara, said he heard two men shouting and he rushed to the back of the temple building.

Mohd Nayeemuddin President of Minority cell Telnagana Rashtra Samithi, appealed CM KC.Rao to lay special arrangement to recover the Wakf land intruded lans across the state.

Government has introduced a House committee to enquire about the Govt assigned and endowment lands encroached by the Lands grabber. Appreciating the Govt initiative, Mohammed Nayeemuddin said that the house committee should thoroughly investigate all such occupation and recover the lands.This step will take a long away in protection of wakf lands. He added.

The jobs bowl of Northern Telangana, Singareni Collieries, is rapidly drying up with employment tumbling.

Singareni colleries are spread over the four districts of Telangana. These mines have provided the gainful employement to youths of backward regions.

In 1991, these coal mines are owned by Central and State used to accommodate 1.71lakh employees, but now this has decline to only 60,000.

Government is in talks with the private sector on the issue of reservations for Scheduled tribes and scheduled castes.This “inclusive” agenda is proposed by the Congress ahead of the general elections.

National Industries bodies such as CII (confederation of Indian Industry) and Assocham have been consistently opposing the Govt suggestion of extending the job reservation policy for SCs, STs in the private sector.

The corporate houses gave an assurance that the government would not resort to legislative action to impose a statutory obligation of reservation on the Pvt Sector.

The common perception that Sunanda Pushkar ,52 years-old, whose body was found in a suite in Hotel Leela between 4 and 6 pm on Friday died of a‘drug overdose’ has been denied as the experts believed that intake of huge quantity of alprazolam tablets, found inside her room, alone cannot result in her death.

Sources in the police said they have found three empty strips of Alprax ( 0.5mg) from her hotel room after the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of union minister Shashi Tharoor. The investigation revealed or indicates that 52- year- old Sunanda may have committed suicide by consuming sleeping pills in large numbers.

Alprax, a kind of sedative that induces sleep and is used to treat moderate to severe nervousness disorders and panic attacks.

New Delhi, June 14: The longest and darkest total lunar eclipse of the century will occur tomorrow, giving sky enthusiasts all over the country an opportunity to witness the event. An unusually long lunar eclipse with the Moon immersed deeply inside the umbral (darker) shadow of the Earth will occur tomorrow, Nehru Planetarium Director N Rathnasree said.
“The total phase of this lunar eclipse will last 100 minutes. The last eclipse to exceed this duration was in July 2000,” she said. The next such eclipse will only take place in 2141.

Kochi,June 13: Expressing concern over the strike by the workers of the contractors, the Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) on Friday said the stir was affecting the normal operations, including strategic naval projects, shipbuilding and ship repair work at the yard.
The CSL also expressed fears that the strike may even affect the security of the nation.

Bhubaneswar, November 18: Two Maoist guerrillas surrendered in Gajapati district of Orissa Thursday, police said.

Nahu Majhi (alias Ranjit), 21, and Maja Majhi (alias Terena), 25, laid down arms in the district headquarters of Paralakhemundi, about 350 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, superintendent of police Sanjeev Arora told IANS.

A pistol and five bullets were recovered from them, he added.

They said both of them surrendered because the ultras had distanced themselves from their ideology, Arora said.

Patna, August 06: A senior official of the Bihar industry department was today arrested by state Vigilance sleuths while allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 10,000 at Madhepura town, about 180 km from here, today.

Madhepura district industry extension officer Diwakar Prasad was caught red-handed in a raid after state vigilance received complaints from a person that Prasad had sought bribe for granting loan to set up a factory, vigilance sources said.

The officer would be produced before a judge here tomorrow after interrogation, they added.

–Agencies

New Delhi, June 02: We have heard of many out- of- the- box modi operandi. But this one takes the cake.

Two burglars ‘ hired’ a 12- year- old boy to steal money from an ATM in North Delhi’s Timarpur area on May 23.

Reason: to escape identification through the CCTV camera installed in the kiosk.

Unfortunately for the thieves, the juvenile didn’t know the tricks of the trade and could not lay his hands on any money after trying to dismantle the machine for three hours.

Srinagar, MaY 24: The Pakistani army on Sunday violated the border ceasefire and fired indiscriminately on eight Indian forward posts at Krishna Ghati sector on the line of control (LoC) in Poonch, Jammu region.

Jawan SP Chakaranaryan was injured, while Pakistan claimed a soldier was killed, in the firing that continued for several hours.
The incident occurred at 9am when troops in the Krishna Ghati sector came under heavy fire from across the LoC. Small arms firing was followed by rockets and mortar bombs.

New Delhi, May 20: A case about two brothers being murdered over mangoes has reached its finality after 37 years. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the conviction of six persons for killing Shambhu Nath Singh and Prabhu Nath Singh in front of their father Baijnath Singh and several other people.

The two were killed in their mango orchard near Saran in Bihar on July 5, 1973, for objecting to plucking of the fruits.

Baghdad, May 01: The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq rose sharply in April from the month before, a sign that insurgents may be trying to exploit political tensions after an election that produced no outright winner.

A total of 274 civilians were killed by bomb blasts or other attacks last month, compared with 216 in March and 211 in February, government figures showed on Saturday. April’s toll was a far cry from the dark days of all-out sectarian war in 2006-07 but remained high.

Ghaziabad, March 25: The Ghaziabad police on Wednesday said it had cracked the mystery behind the death of Deepak Teotia, an executive with HDFC Standard Life Insurance, who was found dead on January 14.

They alleged that Vineet Suman, a second- year BBA student of a private college in Noida, had killed Teotia.

Suman, the police said, had an affair with Teotia’s wife Megha.

SSP Raghubir Lal said Megha and Suman were classmates at Dehradun Public School, Ghaziabad.