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Teachers’ obligation to constitute a cultured society-Prof Sunaina Singh’s Teachers’ Day lecture in Urdu University

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In good olden days, people used to search for good teachers. Now the time has changed. People, these days, search for good schools or institutions. In such a case, the ability or the competence of the teachers is not at all considered whereas a good teacher can only lay the foundation for a fearless cultured and sophisticated Society.
Prof. Sunaina Singh, Vice Chancellor of English and Foreign Languages University expressed these thoughts. She was delivering Teachers’ Day lecture on “Teacher and Society” at Maulana Azad National Urdu University yesterday.

Anti-Muslim officials & Politicians are irritated on Nirodapatya judgment’

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Mr. Mohammed Amanullah Khan and Mr. Mujahid Hashmi leaders of Awami Majlis-e-Amal in a press statement issued yesterday told that the law of the land and the constitution is to protect the life and property of the people and for achieving the goals of justice and welfare. They are exploiting law according to their whims and fancies and for the activities hostile to Muslim Community.

Potential habitable exoplanet found around a red dwarf

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Astronomers have discovered a new super-earth in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163.

The exoplanet ‘Gliese 163c’ has a mass of 6.9 times that of Earth and an orbital period of 26 days.

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory HARPS telescope (or High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) found it orbitting a red dwarf star 49 light years away in the Dorado constellation, the Daily Mail reported.

“Gliese 163c could have a size between 1.8 to 2.4 Earth radii, depending if it is composed mostly of rock or water, respectively,” researchers said.

T.V.Cables to be removed-GHMC starts campaign for international conference

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GHMC invited the attention of the cable operators in the city to remove TV cables hanging on electric poles but they didn’t pay heed to it. Thanks to the International Bio-Diversity Conference, GHMC has started to remove all such TV cables at least from two major roads, namely; Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital to International Convention Center, Madhapur which covers road No.1, to road No.36, Banjara Hills and the main road from Afzal Gunj to Sanatnagar which covers Assembly, Khairtabad, Punjagutta, Ameerpet, Sanjeeva Redy nagar & Erragadda.

Jagan’s strategy to grab power

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Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy, President of YSR Congress Party is in prison in connection with disproportionate assets case but he is concerned about stabilization of his party. He is formulating strategies. He has been issuing instructions to party cadre from jail.

In this way, Mr. Jagonmohan Reddy is being treated as the busiest person in jail. Party sources indicated that during his meeting with his mother and wife in jail, he talked to them about strengthening the party’s cadre in the districts. He devised strategies & finalized policies to attract people towards his party.

For success in this world & in Hereafter, follow the Quran-Amer Ali Khan’s speech in Karimnagar

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Muslims have a complete code of life in the form of the Quran. It will be preserved till the Dooms Day. It is the duty of the Muslim Ummah to study the Quran in translation in order to understand its meaning and message and also to act upon its teachings. Only by following the Quran, the Muslims could be successful and prosperous in their lives.

Maoists numbers, military potential increasing: Shinde

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Stating that Maoist cadres in the country were gaining in strength, union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde warned Thursday that they were displaying the military potential to form new battalions.

“Naxalism continues to pose a significant challenge. There are indicators about increase in the number of trained and armed cadres, reorganisation of military potential for formation of new battalions,” Shinde said.

They were displaying potential for “the creation of well-developed indigenous capacity for accretions to their arsenal”, he added.

Couple shot dead just after marriage in Pak

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A young man and a woman were gunned down while leaving a court in Pakistan’s Punjab province after getting married against the wishes of their families, officials said on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Wednesday at the district court complex in Sargodha district, 80 km from Lahore, the provincial capital.

Police said Yasmin, 19, had eloped with a relative, 21-year-old Nasir Awan, and appeared before a civil judge to get married.

They told the judge that their lives were in danger as their families were unhappy with their decision to get married.

Uddhav says Digvijay is mad, never mind what granddad wrote

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Stung by Congress leader Digvijay Singh’s statement that Maharashtra’s Thackeray family originally hailed from Bihar, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray hit back Thursday, saying Digvijay was “mad”.

“That man (Digvijay Singh) is mad,” an irritated Thackeray burst out to reporters who questioned him on the issue.

The Congress leader, however, was only quoting from a book penned by Uddhav’s grandfather, Prabodhankar Thackeray, father of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray.

Chinese Defence Minister gives Rs 1 lakh as ‘gift’ to IAF pilots

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It was an unusual gift from Chinese Defence Minister Gen Liang Guang Lie to two Indian Air Force pilots — Rs one lakh in cash.

The pilots were given cash in two envelopes after they flew the visiting minister by special IAF aircraft from Mumbai to Delhi on Monday, sources told PTI here on Wednesday.

They said after seeing off Liang, the pilots checked their ‘unusual gift’ in sealed envelopes and then realised it was Rs one lakh cash in Indian currency.

Cyber crime targets 5.4 mn Australians

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About 5.4 million Australians were targeted by cyber crimes, which cost the country 1.65 billion Australian dollars ($1.68 billion) in the past 12 months, according to Norton’s Cybercrime report 2012 released Thursday.

Hackers and cyber criminals were diverting their attention to new platforms such as smart phones and social networking, the report by the anti-virus company revealed.

Globally, there were more than 556 million victims and the cost were $110 billion, reported Xinhua.

Bill Clinton nominates Obama who ‘burns for America’

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Former US president Bill Clinton has formally nominated Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, making a passionate plea to his countrymen to vote in his favour saying the incumbent was cool on the outside but “burns for America” inside.

Obama strode onstage as Clinton wound up his impassioned speech, and the former president bowed. Obama pulled him into an embrace as thousands of delegates jammed into the convention hall roared their approval.

Siasat organises seminar, guidance lecture and spot assessment on “Educational opportunities in Canada’

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Siasat in collaboration with Optimum Group is organizing a Seminar, Guidance lecture and spot assessment on Sunday, September 9, 11 am at Mahboob Husain Jigar hall, Siasat premises.

Chairman Optimum Group, Mr. Tahseen Hasan will deliver lecture on ‘Educational Opportunities in Canada’. M A Hameed will guide the candidates. Students are advised to bring educational certificates for spot assessment.

Details can also be had from Optimum Group on phone nos. 040-24416005 and 9701208095.

Siasat news

Sourav Ganguly wants to coach Team India

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If given a chance former India captain Sourav Ganguly is ready to take up the coaching job of Indian cricket team in the near future.

“Obviously, I have interest in coaching but only time will tell what can happen in future. If the BCCI feels that I can be a good coach, I will be ready. I feel I can create a difference in terms of the ability, form and development of the players. That will be the way for me to repay the game,” Ganguly was quoted as saying by a news channel.

Ganguly, once a strong advocate of foreign coaches, feels that it is time an Indian take over the top job.

Costa Rica hit by 7.6 magnitude earthquake three killed

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A powerful earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale has has struck off in Costa Rican capital San Jose, the US Geological Survey said on Wednesday.

According to USGS, the major quake struck near the Pacific Coast at 8:42 am and the epicenter is reported to be in western Costa Rica about 141 kms from San Jose and 80kms from the south of the town of Liberia.

Two teenagers killed in Sri Lanka explosion

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At least two teenagers were killed and three children injured today due to an accidental explosion in Sri Lanka’s North West town of Kalpitiya, police said.

The victims in the beach in Kandakuliya had played with an object which was washed ashore around 3 pm local time.

One of them was said to have slammed the object against a turtle shell when it exploded, they said.

–PTI

US is absolutely better off now: Barack Obama

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Under a barrage of attack from the opposition over his record as President, Barack Obama has asserted that the US economy was definitely better off now than it was four years ago when thousands of jobs were being lost.

Obama, who took over the government when the American economy was struggling with recession, pointed out that as many as 800,000 jobs were being lost in a month at the time, suggesting that things have but improved.

‘Pakistan’s counter-terror betrays utter lack of strategy’

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Pakistan’s fresh effort to tackle domestic counter-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 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”.

Govt will try to push quota bill in Parliament today

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With the BJP in no mood to end its Coalgate protest, the government, though determined, will find it difficult to push through the bill providing reservation in promotions for SC/ST government employees in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

Parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said that the government will bring the bill in Rajya Sabha today even as his cabinet colleague Home Minister SushilKumar Shinde expressed reservations about the possibility of getting the bill cleared in the current session of Parliament, scheduled to end tomorrow.

Indian Mujahideen in focus at top police meet

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Amid government’s concern on the issue of home-grown terror, the annual meet of country’s top police officers will for the first time have a special session on banned terrorist group Indian Mujahideen (IM), most of whose members are Indians.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will also have separate interactive session with DGPs and IGPs of all state at the three-day conference beginning tomorrow during which they will brief him on key policing and internal security issues.

Telangana issue will be decided this month: KCR

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TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday expressed confidence that the separate Telangana issue will be decided this month.

“Telangana issue will be decided this month. There need not be any doubts over this,” Rao, a Lok Sabha member, told reporters here before leaving for New Delhi to attend Parliament session.

He indicated that there are chances of talks over the contentious issue during his stay in Delhi.

The TRS president had been saying for long that he has got “signals” and “assurance” over formation of the separate state from the Central leaders in Delhi.

Income Tax Refunds scam unearthed

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Central Crime Station of the police unearthed income tax refunds scam and arrested six tax consultants and an outsourcing employee of income tax department.

Dy. Commissioner of Police, Detective Department, Mr. P. John Victor told that Mr. Shaik Mohammed Jehangir had. contacts for five years with the outsourced income tax employee Ms. Anji Rani. Taking advantage of these contacts, Mr. Jehangir filed fake returns of income tax and got them attested by Ms. Anji Rani for the period from 2010 to 2012 by entering fake data.

Ms. Vani Prasad gets award

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Ms. Vani Prasad IAS, Collector Ranga Reddy District has been selected for “Skills Champions of India” award sponsored by Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and industry. This award is given to individuals and Institutions in recognisation of their services rendered in the field of skills development.