Hyderabad, October 05: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday questioned B. Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused in the multi-crore Satyam fraud case, for over two hours.
The disgraced founder and former chairman of the Satyam Computer Services Limited, who was discharged Saturday from a hospital, arrived at the CBI’s regional office before 10 a.m. and left around noon. He refused to answer any query from waiting journalists.
Hyderabad, October 05: Employees of Mahindra Satyam, the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services, say they are not worried about the financials of the company. Last week, Mahindra Satyam reported an aggregate loss of Rs 8,300 crore for 2008-09 and 2009-10.
“The results were a very honest statement that the company has given. And keeping in view the liabilities they had, I feel it was a very good exercise that they had done, considering the complexities involved. It was a fruitful projection of the status of the company,” said Varun Kumar (name changed), an employee for over 10 years.
Hyderabad, October 05 (Siasat News): “Hundreds of poor students of the community are bestowed with higher education as a result of community services rendered by Siasat daily. Siasat daily has always encouraged poor students to obtain higher education by way of guidance and financial aid which has brought fruitful results.”
Ayodhya, October 05: With the entire country looking for an amicable
solution to the Ayodhya issue after the September 30 Allahabad High
Court’s verdict, the religious heads in the temple town has advocated for peaceful co-existence of temple and mosque at the Ram Janmabhoomi complex.
Pramod Kumar Tiwari, assistant pujari at the Ram Lalla makeshift temple, said there should be no reason to object the construction of a mosque on the land allotted to the Muslims by the High Court.
Hyderabad, October 05 (Siasat News): State government has agreed to provide 16 percent bonus to the workers of Singareni Colleries Company, incharge president Sangareni Collieries Company Ltd INTUC Union Mr. Venkat Rao MLC told this.
Leaders of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd INTUC Union met chief minister K Rosaiah and informed him about their problems and the bonus to be paid to the workers of Singareni Collieries.
Since the Singareni Collieries has been gaining profits for the last few years as a result of excellent
Hyderabad, October 05 (Siasat News): Two traffic officials had altercations over the post of Assistant Commissioner of Police (traffic) Charminar and the matter was brought to top officials after heated discussion. Top officials in a vain attempt tried to prevent police department from falling into disrepute and the tug of war should not be made public.
Hyderabad, October 05: A notorious criminal was killed in a shootout with police in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district Tuesday, but his family alleges he was murdered in cold blood and claims it had earlier complained of a threat to his life from a top cop.
According to police, Adapa Venkanna was killed when a police team returned fire in self-defence near Pedapulipaka in Penamaluru mandal near Vijayawada in the coastal district.
Hyderabad, October 05 (Siasat News): TDP president Mr. N Chandrababu Naidu presented a 7 page proposal to Election Commission in a meeting called by Election Commission of India.
Participating in the discussion on the issue of performance of electronic voting machine TDP president said that electronic media had clearly shown the public that EVM was not devoid of flaw instead it was vulnerable to fraud.
Cairo, October 05: The US’ special envoy to the Middle East sounded a cautious discord Sunday after he met with Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak, saying that he has faced ‘difficulties and obstacles’ in his bid to sustain peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
‘We knew when we began these efforts that there would be a lot of difficulties and obstacles, and there have been,’ George Mitchell told journalists just after his meeting with the Egyptian president in Cairo.
Islamabad, October 05: Pakistanis are still visiting the site in the Margalla Hills, located near this Pakistani capital, where an aircraft crashed with over 150 people onboard on July 28.
On July 28, the aircraft carrying 152 people crashed amid heavy rain in the lush green Margalla Hills that ring this city. The plane, flying from Karachi to Islamabad, suddenly lost contact with the airport here and crashed near the popular Damanekoh resort.
Islamabad, October 05: Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf should not only be tried for violating the constitution, but also for getting Baloch leader Akbar Bugti killed and for staging the Lal Masjid massacre, Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly has demanded.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Javed Abbasi accused Musharraf of conspiring against democracy in Pakistan while being based in a foreign country.
He said Musharraf has trampled the constitution twice, got Baloch leader Akbar Bugti killed and staged the Lal Masjid massacre.
New Delhi, October 05: Indian shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gangan Narang fired in unison and shot a Games record 1193 in men”s 10m air rifle event to give the country its first gold medal in the 19th Commonwealth Games here today. The pair together scored 1193 to break their own record, which they had set four years ago in Melbourne, by notching up 1189.
New Delhi, October 05: Was legendary poet Tulsidas, who wrote ‘Ram Charit Manas’ in the 16th century, so scared of Mughal emperor Akbar that he did not mention the demolition of a Ram temple in Ayodhya and the construction of the Babri mosque thereupon in his work?
Beit Fajjar, October 05: Jewish settlers opposed to a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians were accused of setting fire to a mosque in the West Bank on Monday, burning the Quran and scrawling threats in Hebrew on its walls.
“Mosques, we burn,” said a warning scribbled at the door of the smoke-smudged mosque of Beit Fajjar south of Bethlehem on the day Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed for cool heads to avert the collapse of US-brokered peace talks.
Hyderabad, October 05 (Siasat News): AP State Minority Financial Corporation has asked all colleges’ authorities to record complete details of their colleges online by implementing the guidelines of GO ms no 66 so that students will not face any difficulty receiving scholarships.
In a press statement yesterday Dr. Mohammad Ilyas Razvi vice chairman and Managing director APMFC told that corporation had started receiving the details of all colleges as per orders.
Hyderabad, October 05 (Siasat News): AP state Hajj committee will conduct a special counseling session on October 5 with concerned departments regarding arrangements for Hajj 2010.
The session to be convened under the supervision of Minister for Minority development Mr Ahmed Ullah will also be participated by Mr. Syed Khaleel Uddin Ahmed and authorities of concerned departments as well.
New Delhi, October 05: The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine whether a live-in partner , concubine or a girlfriend is entitled to maintenance even though under existing Indian laws she is not eligible.
The apex court passed the direction while chiding a man who was in a intimate relationship with a woman for 14 years but refused to pay her maintenance on the ground that she was not legally entitled to it.
New Delhi, October 05: India should open interest free banking windows in conventional banks as a pilot project, Muddassir Siddqui, a leading authority on Interest Free banking, today said.
Making a strong plea for launching Islamic Banking in India, Siddqui, Partner and Head of Islamic Finance, Middle East, SNR Denton and Company, told reporters here that there were lots of ‘misunderstandings’ regarding Islamic Banking in India. “We are just asking for level playing field. We want it in conventional system. We do not want any favours,” he said.
Bethlehem, October 05: A Palestinian mosque on Sunday night was burned down by West Bank settlers in protest against Israel’s policies, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Monday.
The mosque was located in the village of Bayt Fjar near Bethlehem. Haaretz reported that a group of settlers entered the community and burned down the mosque before residents were able to intervene. The attackers and local residents then engaged in a fight as the flames burned down the mosque.
Patna, October 05: The Congress Monday declared its third list of 42 candidates for the Bihar assembly polls.
The party has changed its candidates in the constituencies of Manihari and Mahnar.
The party had announced 77 candidates in the first list and 45 in the second.
The polling for six-phased Bihar polls will start Oct 21. The Congress is contesting all 243 seats in the state on its own.
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Brussels, October 05: NATO Monday expressed regrets for the death of three Pakistani soldiers killed in its cross-border helicopter raid against Taliban militants and asked Pakistan to open the border for supplies as soon as possible.
The Pakistani government Thursday shut down one of the most heavily used supply routes for NATO convoys in retaliation for the increasing number of attacks by US-led NATO forces on targets in the border region with Pakistan that serve as a base for militant groups in Afghanistan.
Islamabad, October 05: An ‘Emirates Village’ for the flood victims was inaugurated Monday in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Addressing an opening ceremony, Chairman of the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent Authority (RCA) Ahmed Humaid Al Mazruoie said that the UAE would offer more relief assistance to the flood victims in Pakistan to alleviate their suffering.
Paris, October 05: Japan issued a travel alert for Europe on Monday, joining the United States and Britain in warning of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida or other groups, but tourists appeared to be taking the mounting warnings in stride.
The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo urged Japanese citizens to be cautious when using public transport or visiting popular tourist sites — issuing another blow to Europe’s tourism industry, which is just starting to recover from the global financial crisis.
Kuala Lumpur, October 05: A Malaysian organisation would help Pakistan build 1,000 low-cost houses for homeless people in the flood-affected areas, a media report said.
The Malaysia Relief Agency (MRA), which had earlier sent three relief teams to Pakistan, would build the houses at an estimated cost of Rs.83 million, the Online news agency reported.
Abdul Razak Bin Kechik, MRA president, while announcing this during the launch of a charity market in Kuala Lumpur, said the market was aimed at raising fund to finance the project in Pakistan.
Jakarta, October 05: Flash floods in Indonesia have left at least 26 people dead, while many people were missing, officials said.
As many as 61 people were injured and 31 houses were damaged in the floods in West Papua province during the weekend, Priyadi Kardono, spokesman of the Disaster Management Agency, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
Kardono said rescue operations for the missing people were hampered by fallen trees.
Muhammad Arifin, head of operations of the Search and Rescue Office for West Papua, said dozens of rescuers have departed for the region.
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