Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson and 20-Points Programme chairman N Tulasi Reddy on Thursday came down heavily on the Telugu Desam Party for staging dharnas and rallies suspecting the commitment of State Government on the Fee Reimbursement issue.
Congress and BJP today sharpened their attack on each other on the coal block allocation giving a clear indication that the controversy over the issue is going to further escalate in coming days even after the Monsoon session of Parliament concludes tomorrow.
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Maulana Azad National Urdu University today celebrated Teacher’s Day with thought provoking lecture by Prof. Sunaina Singh, Vice-Chancellor, EFLU on “Teacher & the Society”.
While addressing at a 3-day police chiefs’ conference in New Delhi, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the communal colour given to the recent ethnic violence in Assam was “unfortunate” and asserted that the “motivated” online rumours were evidence of terrorists resorting to cyber space. He stressed the need for security chiefs to become cyber savvy to locate malicious content and indentify the perpetrators.
A workshop for teaching faculty entitled ‘Professional code of conduct in engineering education and human values’ was conducted on September 3, at Nawab Shah Aalam Khan Engineering College.
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who underwent a successful hernia repair laparoscopic procedure at a private hospital here, was discharged on Thursday.
“He is doing well,” Dr N Sathyabhama, Director Medical Services, Chennai Region, Apollo Hospitals, said in a statement here.
66-year-old Chidambaram, who underwent the procedure yesterday, was discharged this afternoon.
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Strongly criticizing chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, school education minister Partasarthi and director of school education Mr. Shiv Shankar, Mohammed Mahmood Ali president minority cell TRS and politburo member told that on the occasion of Teachers’ Day, the birth anniversary of former president of India Mr. Radhakrishnan, 14 national awards and 100 state awards have been conferred upon the teachers but sadly Urdu medium teachers were completely ignored during it.
Hajj aspirants going to Hajj pilgrimage through Andhra Pradesh state Hajj Committee will be provided accommodation at an under construction function hall near hajj House. According to Andhra Pradesh Hajj Committee sources, keeping in view the difficulties faced by the Hajj aspirants due to the shortage of space, it has been decided to arrange accommodation for Hajj aspirants by taking a function hall on rent. There are reports that the permission of the owner has already been sought in this connection.
A 36-year-old depressed woman ‘fed herself’ to crocodiles at a popular tourist attraction in Thailand.
The hard pressed woman had told her husband that she was going to see a doctor and after that she would visit a popular crocodile Farm in Samut Prakarn just outside Bangkok.
She reportedly never returned home but was caught on CCTV cameras entering the tourist attraction around 32 kilometres south of the capital.
The mystery has deepened after the crocodile Farm reportedly denied the incident had taken place, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported.
Accusing the Congress of playing a “double game”, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati Thursday said the UPA government should extend the monsoon session of parliament if it was serious about passing the promotion quota bill.
“(The) government is playing a double game. They introduced the bill when parliament is being disrupted, so that no one is displeased,” Mayawati said.
“If the central government is so serious, they should increase the time of the monsoon session by 10-12 days, so that this bill is passed,” she said.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Thursday gave the green signal to airing of the show “Sur Kshetra” featuring Pakistani artists after the officials and producers of the channels met him here, party officials said.
Earlier this week, Thackeray had reiterated the party’s threat to disrupt shooting of “Sur Kshetra” stating that he does not favour the same.
Accusing the Congress of playing a “double game”, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati Thursday said the UPA government should extend the monsoon session of parliament if it was serious about passing the promotion quota bill.
“(The) government is playing a double game. They introduced the bill when parliament is being disrupted, so that no one is displeased,” Mayawati said.
“If the central government is so serious, they should increase the time of the monsoon session by 10-12 days, so that this bill is passed,” she said.
Crimes of “serious” nature against women have increased in the last few years and appropriate measures need to be adopted for salutary punishment to those who commit them, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Thursday.
He also asked the country’s police brass to take stern steps to check child trafficking.
Uproar over coal blocks allocation issue paralysed proceedings of Parliament for the 12th consecutive day on Thursday, drowning most of the Monsoon Session which ends tomorrow.
As soon as Parliament met for the day, BJP members were on their feet in both Houses and raised slogans demanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation over the coal block allocation issue.
China does not want the US to perish nor does it want to dominate Asia, said a state-run Chinese daily, warning that if America launched a bid for strategic containment of China it would be strategic choice that it “could not bear”.
As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concluded her visit to China on Wednesday, an editorial in the Global Times said: “Having a solid understanding of the two powers is critical for the future of regional politics in the Asia-Pacific region.”
Notwithstanding the charges being levelled by the Obama Campaign against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of outsourcing jobs overseas, a top Obama aide has said that both outsourcing and insourcing are here to stay in this highly-globalised world.
The slew of ministerial groups set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to assist in consensus-building and decision-making, once headed by Pranab Mukherjee, who was then the finance minister and is now India’s president, are currently chaired by just three ministers: P. Chidambaram, A.K. Antony and Sharad Pawar.
Here is the list of such committees with brief terms of reference and their chairs – a listing that also, perhaps, gives an insight into how authority is shared in New Delhi’s corridors of power along Raisina Hill that houses top ministries.
Kingfisher Airline’s ATR operation from Delhi was crippled following a section of its engineers going on strike since Wednesday night demanding payment of salary.
“As of now four Kingfisher flights have been cancelled due to engineers not joining duty demanding March salary, which has still not been paid to them along with a majority of airline’s employees,” sources said in Mumbai.
This is the fourth strike by engineers since May.
Kingfisher Airline operates short haul destinations such as Chandigarh, Dharamshala, Dehradun, among others with ATR.
Designating the Haqqani network a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the US would undercut its financial capability, an American think-tank has said.
Under a Congressional legislation, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has to make a determination in this regard by September 10.
Travelling in Asia, Hillary Clinton told reporters that she would meet the deadline.
Pakistan’s fresh effort to tackle domestic terrorism “betrays an utter lack of strategy”, said a Pakistani daily that called for a wholesome zero-tolerance approach towards terrorism itself.
An editorial in the News International on Thursday said it was about time the country’s security tsar decided to sit down and put together a “sell-able, do-able and believable domestic counterterrorism strategy”.
Pakistani authorities have deployed large contingents of soldiers and policemen at one of the country’s largest nuclear facilities in Dera Ghazi Khan following “serious” threats from the local Taliban, a media report said on Thursday.
Besides the deployment inside and around the nuclear installation, three Army divisions in the southern part of Punjab have been asked to launch a crackdown against banned groups, The Express Tribune reported, quoting its sources.
Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda has dedicated his silver medal winning feat at the London Paralympic to the disabled community in the country and asserted that their hard work and sacrifice was no less than the medal winners at the Olympics.
Girisha, who has an impairment in his left leg, sailed over a height of 1.74m in the Men`s High Jump F42 event in London finishing second.
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on CBI’s plea for cancellation of former Gujarat minister Amit Shah’s bail in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case and for shifting the trial of the case outside the state.
“We are going to pass a very brief order,” said a bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai.
It added it would also consider Mr. Shah’s plea for permission to enter the state in view of the upcoming Assembly elections there.
Tomas Berdych knocked world number one Roger Federer out of the US Open on Thursday to set up a semi-final clash against Olympic Gold medalist Andy Murray.
The sixth seed handed Federer a 7-6 (7/1) 6-4 3-6 6-3 defeat, his earliest exit at Flushing Meadows since 2003.
Berdych had beaten Federer in their last grand slam meeting at Wimbledon two years ago.
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Maulana Shabbeer Nakhshbandi in a message congratulated Dr. Jyotsana Yagnik for pronouncing the fearless and frank judgment against the culprits of Nirodapatya Killings case. The history of this great country would stand witness that a lady decorating the chair of justice pronounced a fair judgment against a woman culprit for her brutal killings in Nirodapatya, whereas the most tragic aspect of Indian judiciary is that it pronounced an impracticable judgment in Babri Masjid-Ram Mandir case of Ayodhya.