HYDERABAD: A resident of Srinagar colony on Sunday complained to police that he received a threatening call from the residence of Home Minister P Sabita Indra Reddy on Saturday.
The complainant, A Pullaiah, who owns surgical instrument shops in Bollaram and Miyapur told Banjara Hills police that he received the call on his mobile from one Pradeep Reddy.
Hyderabad, September 27: The fight between the TDP and the TRS is hotting up. TRS activists are disrupting the meetings of the TDP leaders. This is apparently intended to hit back at the TDP for calling Chandrasekhar Rao as the only stumbling block for formation of Telangana state and digging into Rao’s past to attack him personally.
In Hyderabad and Karimnagar, TRS activists disrupted the meetings to be addressed by T Devender Goud and N Janardhan Reddy.
Anantapur, September 27: Telugu Desam Chief N Chandrababu Naidu commenced his three-day visit to Anantapur district today from the Kodikonda checkpost.
Huge crowds greeted him at every village on the way so much so that it took his convoy about five hours to cover a 30-km distance.
All along the route, at the request of people in different villages, Naidu conducted road shows.
At Chilamatthur he unveiled a statue of NTR and addressed public meetings in Lepakshi, Hindupur, Somandapalle, Penukonda and Dharmavaram mandals of the district.
Hyderabad, September 27: The BJP state unit has demanded that the state government request the CBI for a de- novo investigation into the Volkswagen scam to establish minister B Satyanarayana’s role in it.
The BJP alleged that by letting Satyanarayana off the hook, the CBI has shown its bias to Congress.
Speaking to reporters here today, BJP state general secretary N Ramachandar Rao said Satyanarayana had visited Germany along with his brother and asked why that was not being considered. He demanded a fresh investigation into the multi-crore scandal.
Hyderabad, September 27: In order to clear the extra rush of passengers during the Dasara festival and holiday season, South Central Railway will run 129 special trains between various destinations from October 1 to 29.
Secunderabad-Bikaner special train will depart on October 6,13,20,27 and November 3,10,17, 24 and will leave Bikaner on October 10,17,24,31, November 7,14, 21 and 28 Hyderabad-Ajmer weekly special train will depart on October 1,8,15,22,29, November 5,12,19, 26 and will leave Ajmer on October 3,10,17,24,31 November 7,14,21 and 28.
Hyderabad, September 27: The government seems to have finally woken up to the prayers of citizens who have been suffering from traffic jams and bad roads due to heavy rains in the past two months.
In a review meeting at his residence on Sunday, Chief minister K Rosaiah directed the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and traffic police to take steps for improving the road conditions on a war-footing.
Hyderabad, September 27: Log onto http://pwdvhyd.ap.nic.in to register your complaint and track the case status online.
Three to five cases of violence against women are being registered in the Hyderabad district every day, according to complaints received on a website launched by the Women Development and Child Welfare Agency (WDCWA).
Hyderabad, September 27: Chief minister K Rosaiah and governor ESL Narasimhan greeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his birthday today.
Hyderabad, September 27: Investigations into the killing of a woman who was stuffed in a suitcase and abandoned at the Mehdipatnam bus stand about two months ago suffered yet another stumbling block. Police, who were suspecting the body might be of a missing woman from Halia in Nalgonda district got a shock when the woman walked into Humayunnagar police station on Saturday.
Hyderabad, September 27: A first-hand view of the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) and Rajiv Awaas Yojana (RAY) projects was given to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) corporators.
To understand the nature of the projects, a Powerpoint presentation was given by the HMR Ltd managing director NVS Reddy and additional commissioner for Urban Community Development (UCD), Priyadarshini.
Hyderabad, September 27: Noted Telugu writer Acharya SV Rama Rao has dedicated his research work titled ‘Palamuru Sahithi Vaibhavam’ to TRS chief and MP K Chandrasekhar Rao at a programme at the Telangana Bhavan here on Sunday. The TRS leader released the book and handed over the first copy to Prof Krishna Rao, head, department of Telugu, Osmania University.
“Though Telangana is known for literary movements, unfortunately it was not recognised by Andhra and Rayalaseema regions,” he observed and complimented SV Rama Rao for coming out with the book at the right time.
Hyderabad, September 27: From Monday, traffic police would be cracking the whip on auto drivers, particularly those who refuse to carry passengers and demand extra fare above the meter charge. Traffic police have decided to take up the special drive after many citizens complained about problems faced by them.
Lahore, September 27: In a startling confession made by ‘tainted’ Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir, the 19-year old gave out a statement to the Pakistan team management that he was ‘lured’ into the spot-fixing scandal by former skipper Salman Butt.
Amir also confessed that he never wanted to be a part of the fixing-scandal that rocked Pakistan’s Test tour of England, and that he was forced into the scam by Butt, who is also under the fixing scanner.
New Delhi, September 27: More than 200 Sports Specific Volunteers (SSV) for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games’ showpiece event athletics are running from pillar to post to get accredited as their police verification is yet to be completed.
The volunteers could not attend a two-day training camp that started Monday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium as they had no accreditation.
New Delhi, September 27: After being stranded at the airport for hours, there was more misery in store for the Indian shooters Monday as they found the quality of pellets supplied to them by the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) not up to the mark.
A top rifle shooter told IANS they wanted Eley Tenex pellets but the organisers had supplied them some low quality ones.
New Delhi, September 27: International Tennis Federation (ITF) delegate Tom Boyle Monday described as ‘world class’ the Commonwealth Games venue R.K. Khanna Tennis Stadium.
Boyle said there had been rapid improvement in every area since the test event took place in May.
‘The stadium has some excellent facilities for players, especially the locker rooms and the lounge. It has improved a lot since it held the test event in May when some work was still to be done. The venue is ready and it definitely looks a truly international venue,’ Boyle told IANS.
New Delhi, September 27: The Sunni Central Wakf Board Monday said the petition by retired bureaucrat Ramesh Chandra Tripathi seeking the deferment of the Allahabad High Court’s verdict in the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi title case was ‘untenable, misconceived and frivolous’ and needed to be dismissed.
The board’s affidavit, filed in the apex court registry, also said the petitioner’s ‘assumption of so-called repercussions or apprehensions was totally unfounded’.
Vienna, September 27: Pakistan, which refuses to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and was home to a notorious nuclear smuggling ring, was named head of the UN nuclear watchdog’s governing board here today.
At a special one-day meeting, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-member board of governors appointed “by acclamation” the head of Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission, Ansar Parvez, as its chairman for the next 12 months, taking over from Malaysia.
Lucknow, September 27: Opposition Samajwadi Party today demanded a CBI inquiry into alleged large scale corruption in the Uttar Pradesh cooperative rural development Bank.
“The BSP government on coming to power cut short the tenure of the elected members of the Bank and appointed an MD under whom there had been several cases of massive corruption and irregularities,” Leader of Opposition and senior SP leader Shivpal Singh Yadav told reporters here.
“A CBI inquiry should be ordered into it,” he added.
Chennai, September 27: Stepping up pressure on the Tamil Nadu government over the issue of death threats to party chief Jayalalithaa, AIADMK today sought a CBI probe into the matter, claiming that no action has been taken on its complaints.
“We have already written twice seeking action on the threat letters received by JAYA TV and demanding a CBI probe.
But, no action has been taken so far,” top party functionaries said in a letter to the Chief Secretary.
Hyderabad, September 27: TRS today said the decision of TDP leaders from Telangana to give a memorandum or hold a sit-in at the residence of Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi to press her to accede to separate Telangana demand was nothing but a “drama”.
“The TDP leaders from Telangana are enacting a drama. They say they will hold a sit-in in front of Sonia Gandhi. What will happen if they do so? Police will take them into custody and release later,” TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao said.
Agra, September 27: The water level in Yamuna River in Agra has crossed the medium flood level of 152.09 metres on Sunday evening. Most of the Taj Heritage Corridor and the waterworks have submerged, cutting off supplies to half of this Taj city.
The river level is feared to touch 152.4 metres on Monday morning, according to officials.
More colonies and ghats were under water and the district authorities continued to persuade people to shift to safer areas.
New Delhi, September 27: The national capital on Monday witnessed a bright sunny day with the weather office predicting clear skies and no rains over the next few days.
“It will be a clear sky today (Monday) and no rains are in store for the next few days,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The minimum temperature was 23.1 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the season, while the maximum temperature was expected to hover around 33 degrees.
The humidity levels continued to remain high with the maxim um at 91 percent.
Kolkata, September 27: The indefinite strike by junior doctors at the state-run premier SSKM hospital enters third day on Monday.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday warned of action, after strike spread to other hospitals.
“If this continues then the government will have to take action,” Bhattacharjee told doctors on indefinite ceasework demanding security after the assault on a colleague following the death of a patient in the emergency ward of the SSKM Hospital.
The ceasework has spread to the National Medical College and Hospital, another state-run hospital.
Jharkhand, September 27: The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has released a list of its 15 candidates for the first phase of Bihar assembly elections.
In the first phase due Oct 21, polls will be held in 47 of 243 assembly constituencies.
“We have released a list of 15 candidates for the first phase of assembly elections,” senior JMM leader Mathura Mahto told reporters on Monday.
He said: “We have received applications of probable candidates for 85 assembly seats. The second list will be released later.”