Jakarta, October 02: Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa has voiced his country’s support for Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
Marty made the remarks on Friday after a meeting between Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and a senior Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi.
The Indonesian official emphasized that any country should enjoy equal rights to develop nuclear technology for civilian use.
Tehran, October 02: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met his Iranian counterpart and staunch ally Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Saturday, with Lebanon, Iraq and Palestinian issues topping the agenda, media reports said.
Assad was greeted by a guard of honour before holding talks with Ahmadinejad behind closed doors “to discuss bilateral and regional issues, including Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine”, a report by ISNA news agency said.
Islamabad, October 02: At least 18 people were killed Saturday in three separate US drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal area bordering Afghanistan, a media report said.
Three drone attacks Saturday within hours of each other killed 18 people in Datta Khel town in North Waziristan tribal region, Geo News said quoting intelligence officials.
New Delhi, October 02: The debate within the BJP on whether Narendra Modi should campaign for Bihar polls is not yet over with the party on Saturday saying it has not given to the Election Commission the names of its Chief Ministers who would canvass in the state.
The name of the Gujarat Chief Minister did not figure in the list of star campaigners for the upcoming Assembly polls submitted by the BJP to the Election Commission on Thursday.
Islamabad, October 02: The Allahabad High Court verdict on the Babri Masjid issue – trifurcating the disputed land into one part for Muslims and two parts for Hindus – is a victory for Hindu fanaticism and not conducive for peace in the long run, a Pakistani paper said Saturday.
Hyderabad, October 02: Magicians Planet will launch a Web Portal on Magic “www.magiciansplanet.com” on the evening of October 4 at Ravindra Bharati, here. The portal is said to be the first Indian portal having multiple features on particular performing art.
The well-known Mind Magician and psychologist, Dr B V Pattabhi Ram, will be the chief guest, while the senior magician, International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Territorial vice-president, Mr Solyl Kumar Kundu, from Kolkatta, the special guest, would inaugurate the Web Portal.
Lucknow, October 02: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Saturday demanded that Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav should seek pardon for his comments that the Allahabad High Court’s verdict on the Ayodhya dispute was based on belief and not legalities and evidences.
“His (Yadav’s) comments are extremely unfortunate…He must seek pardon from the people of this country, particularly the natives of Ayodhya,” said Vinay Katiyar, BJP national vice-president, Saturday while speaking to reporters in Faizabad district, some 150 km from Lucknow.
New Delhi, October 02: Leading Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind Saturday asked people to practise restraint in their reaction to the Ayodhya verdict and said that, given the sensitivity of the issue, it was not appropriate to take hasty decisions.
“According to the teachings of Quran, we should try to seek the positive out of apparently negative things,” an official statement quoted Rajya Sabha MP and Jamiat leader Maulana Mahmood Madani.
Hyderabad, October 02: B Ramalinga Raju, former chairman of Satyam Computers and the prime accused in the Rs 14,000-crore accounting fraud, was on Saturday discharged from the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences where he was undergoing treatment for hepatitis C for the past ten months.
NIMS gastroenterologist Ajit Kumar said Raju requested the hospital authorities to discharge him yesterday.
“He made a request yesterday. He still has to be administered 11 injections as part of the treatment. However, the risk is much less now. His lever is functioning normally,” Ajit Kumar told PTI.
New Delhi, October 02: In a sudden move, the government on Saturday shunted out CRPF chief Vikram Srivastava and brought in K Vijay Kumar, who had shot to fame when he led the operations to eliminate forest brigand Veerappan, as his replacement.
Srivastava, who was made the CRPF Director General in February this year, has been made the chief of Bureau of Police Research and Development in Delhi.
He had come under attack after the Dantewada massacre in which 75 CRPF men lost their lives in a Maoist attack on April 6 in Chhattisgarh.
Washington, October 02: Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography and his teachings on social justice through non-violence have helped US President Barack Obama shape his life, a senior US official has said.
“Barack Obama, first African-American President and a student of those principles, identifies Gandhi’s autobiography and Taylor Branch’s terrific three-part biography of (Martin Luther) King as works that helped shape him,” said Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia.
New Delhi, September 02: The American Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA) chief Leon Panetta has held a series of meetings with Home Minister P.Chidambaram and other senior government officials here.
Official sources said Panetta, who also met with Intelligence Bureau chief Rajiv Mathur and RAW chief A K Verma, discussed various areas of cooperation.
This is the first high-profile visit by any American official after a team of the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) had questioned terrorist David Coleman Headley in May in Chicago.
Hyderabad, October 02: Senior congress leader Mr. P Govardhan Reddy demanded Ms. Konda Surekha’s immediate suspension from the party.
Expressing concern over anti party activities of congress MLA Ms. Konda Surekha, Mr. P Govardhan said ‘it doesn’t seem as if she is in the congress party. She is crossing party limits by giving statements now and then against party high command, Chief Minister and Pradesh congress party president and currying favour with Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Hyderabad, October 02: A meeting of Vigilance Monitoring Committee DRDA was held at revenue meeting hall at Mahboobnagar collector office, headed by committee chairman Dr. M Jagnatham MP Naagar Kurnool.
A resolution was passed in the meeting which guarantees 100 days of work for labourers under Employment Assurance Scheme.
The duration will be extended in Mahboobnagar district as it is a backward district.
Hyderabad, October 02: If government and authorities go on keeping silent on the destruction of historical monuments then the day is not far when not a single heritage of the historical city would remain. Several such buildings were obliterated from the face of the world which were declared as historical heritage.
Recently a unique Spanish type mosque was heavily damaged at Begumpet and now another building faces threat from builders.
Hyderabad, October 02: A week long wild life programme is being organised by National Green Crops Technology Department which began yesterday at Secunderabad base ground.
Talking about the details of the programme, Project officer Mr. Ghouse Pasha said ‘350 NCC girl cadets will participate in a week long programme. NCC cadets between the age group of 12 to 18 years will present various programmes, like ecological pyramids, food chain, etc.
Hyderabad, October 02: A protest was staged yesterday against Allahbad High court verdict on Babri Masjid title case by Masjid Bachao Tehreek subsequently heavy police force came into action to restrain protest.
Police arrested leaders of MBT Dr. Qayam Khan convenor, Amjad ullah Khan Khalid corporater and other activists and sent them to various police stations. During the arrest MBT office had been cordoned off and the whole area had become police cantonment.
Hyderabad, October 02: A day after Babri Masjid title case verdict was pronounced tight security measures had been witnessed in the city on the event of Friday prayers.
Muslim offered prayers amidst tight security and barriers put up by the police as precautionary measures. In view of Friday, police maintained strict vigilance across the city. Important routes of the city were barricaded. Section 144 had been strictly implemented.
New Delhi, October 02: Within days of delivering the much-awaited Ayodhya verdict, one of the judges on the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court has spoken out on the matter.
Justice Sudhir Agrawal told a news channel that he or any of the other judges were under no pressure whatsoever from any quarters.
According to him, it was just like any other case for the Bench.
Agrawal also discounted reports that there was tension between the judges over the verdict.
New Delhi, October 02: A day after a court ruled in favour of a Ram temple at the site of the razed Babri mosque in Ayodhya, many Muslims across India were clearly unhappy. Others felt it was time to move on.
As millions went into the details of the epoch-making three-judge bench verdict from the Allahabad High Court, some Muslims insisted that they had not got justice.
Muslim leaders who had championed the reconstruction of Ayodhya’s 16th century Babri mosque, razed by Hindu mobs in 1992, were a disappointed lot — having spent time and energy on the cause.
Warangal, October 02: Information, public relations and tourism minister J Geeta Reddy today announced that the state government will celebrate Batukamma festival officially in entire Telangana from this year onwards.
For the conduct of this festival, the state government will release Rs 1 lakh each to all districts in the region. Guidelines for organising the festival will also be released soon, she said.
An order to this effect has been issued by the cultural department today.
Hyderabad October 02: Chief minister K Rosaiah today thanked the people of the state, political parties, public representatives, religious organisations, youth, students and police for ensuring peace and harmony after the pronouncement of the verdict on Ayodhya title dispute by the Allahabad High Court.
He expressed happiness that the state in general and the city in particular remained calm after the judgment was pronounced.
New Delhi, October 02: New Delhi, Oct 2 (PTI) Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was today fondly remembered on his 141st birth anniversary with leaders cutting across political lines paying homage to him.
President Pratibha Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, senior BJP leader L K Advani and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj were among the prominent persons who offered floral tributes at Rajghat, the memorial of the Mahatma, here.
Mumbai, October 02: The Shiv Sena has asked Muslims to accept the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya.
“The aggression by Babar cannot be an issue of faith for Muslims. Their commitment should be with Ayodhya. We are telling all intelligent, nationalistic Muslim brothers that enough is enough. Let the perennial disputes and bloodshed end,” an editorial in party organ Saamna said.
Purtageri, October 02: A small village in North Karnataka has showed the way to communal harmony. In Purtageri near Gadag in North Karnataka, it’s Hindus who’ve come forward to help their Muslim brethren restore a mosque that was on the brink of collapse.
It’s a century old mosque that’s been crying for attention since last October. It’s roofs started leaking and a portion of it was badly damaged in the heavy rains that lashed many parts of north Karnataka last year.