Srikakulam, September 26: A daily labourer has been arrested on Sunday after his 13-year-old daughter lodged a complaint against him for sexually molesting with her at Ingham village, Kothur mandal in Srikakulam district.
According to police, the incident took place when the girl was alone with her father after her mother who too was a labourer, had gone for work.
The labourer is believed to have claimed that he was unwell and stayed at home.
Hyderabad, September 26: Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Sunday directed officials to evacuate people from low-lying areas to safer places immediately as the Osman Sagar and Himayath Sagar Lakes had reached their brim and water had to be released following heavy rains in the recent past.
Hyderabad, September 26: Lok Satta Party president Jayaprakash Narayan on Sunday said that the Government’s move to extend merchant power status to the Hinduja Power Project at Visakhapatnam is highly detrimental to State’s interests.
Tanjavur, September 26: As the country celebrates the millennium of the Chola-built Brihadeeswara Temple here, Rs 1,000 denomination bank notes featuring the Temple that came into circulation in 1954 are gaining currency among numismatics. The panoramic shot of the Brihadeeswara Temple, also known as the Big Temple, had first appeared on the Rs 1,000 notes on April 1, 1954.
Hyderabad, September 26: All hopes of the mother of a two-year-old to see her girl educated in the best English medium school in town got crushed under the wheels of a private school bus at Rambagh in Attapur today. The girl, S Jahnavi, was run over by a bus when she was playing on the road resulting in her instant death.
Hyderabad, September 26: Inter-collegiate sports, games, cultural and literary meet will be organised jointly by the Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University and College of Home Science at the sports complex in the Angrau premises from September 27 to 30.
Speaking to mediamen here today, Dr. S V Ramakrishna Rao, dean, student affairs, Angrau said nearly 1,000 students from 13 different affiliated colleges of NG Ranga university will participate.
Hyderabad, September 26: PNR Infra, a Hyderabad-based infrastructure and construction firm, has clarified that it had nothing to do with the Commonwealth Games, contrary to a report published in these columns that the foot-overbridge that collapsed near the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi was constructed by it.
In a statement issued here, the company said it was at no point of time involved in the preparations for the Commonwealth Games. It termed as far from the truth the report that the Delhi goverrnment had blacklisted it.
–Agencies
Hyderabad, September 26: If the increasing number of farmers paying water cess on time is any indication, the agriculture sector is booming in the state and one can expect good returns during the current financial year also. Apart from realising the water cess of Rs 120 crore till date for the current financial year, the irrigation officials succeeded in collecting arrears of Rs 370 crore which were pending for the past few years.
Hyderabad, September 26: Panchayat raj minister B Satyanarayana has expressed relief over the deletion of his name from the chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the city courts in the 2-million Euro Volkswagen scandal.
Speaking to reporters here today, the minister claimed that the fact that he had no involvement in the scam had been finally confirmed by the CBI. The minister said that the CBI had held a press conference in the morning at Delhi and stated that the names of the officials and non-officials of the state had been removed from the chargesheet.
Hyderabad, September 26: CPM state general secretary B V Raghavulu created a stir last week when he said the TDP was proving to be a hurder to his party’s efforts to cobble together a secular opposition front coopting the Praja Rajyam and Lok Satta. The statement raised eyebrows in the TDP, the CPM’s agitation partner. In a Q&A with Express, Raghavulu tried to explain what his plan really is.
Since the last general election, the CPM seems to have taken a back seat as far as people’s agitations are concerned.
Hyderabad, September 26: It took 14 agonising hours for RTC bus passengers, who left Vijayawada at 10 last night, to reach Hyderabad.
Their agony can be gauged from the fact that it took them nearly five hours to cover just a 25-km stretch between Chityal and Choutuppal as the bus crawled closer to the city.
This harrowing tale was aptly narrated by a regular commuter, M Srinivas, who was caught in one of the traffic jams on the National Highway-9 last night.
Warangal, September 26: A hoa x call stating that ragging was taking place on Kakatiya University campus kept police on tenterhooks on Friday night. On receiving the call from a coin box phone last night, the Warangal Urban SP alerted university police who visited Pothana hostel on the campus where PG second year students were accommodated.
Police took a student, Raju, who is pursuing PG second year and his brother, a non-boarder, present in a room to police station and enquired about the incident late last night. Early this morning, they called some junior students and enquired about it.
Hyderabad, September 26: Chief minister K Rosaiah today agreed to take up repairs to 47 dilapidated major temples in the state at a cost of Rs 30 crore.
Hyderabdad, September 26: Chief Minister K Rosaiah will flag of f four new trains at Kacheguda railway station here on Monday in the presence of Union miniser of state for railways KH Muniyappa. The new trains include Mathrubhoomi special MMTS ladies service, Kacheguda-Miryalaguda DEMU passenger, Kacheguda-Mahaboobnagar passenger from Kacheguda railway station and Hyderabad- Ajmer bi-weekly superfast express from Hyderabad railway station.
Guwahati, September 26: ‘Bombile’ is the latest phrase terrorizing Assam with reports of mobile phones suddenly exploding, causing the user to become unconscious. The mysterious phenomenon has prompted Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to order a scientific probe to unravel the bizarre occurrences.
New Delhi, September 26: Till two months ago, India’s tourism ministry was confident that 100,000 foreign tourists would visit the national capital during the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games. But now they concede, albeit in hushed tones, that the number will be far, far less.
While some officials say most will be domestic tourists, others say dengue and swine flu cases as well as negative media about the Games are keeping foreign visitors away.
Tehran, September 26: “How dare Obama say these words that he seeks to help the Iranian nation? He should know that he is an international villain who has never supported the Iranian nation,” Larijani told in the southern city of Shiraz on Saturday.
“The US is currently standing against the Iranian nation. Obama should know that we do not need a message, what we need is to be able to trust his words,” he said.
“The Americans are displaying an attitude that deserves an international evilness medal,” the Majlis speaker added.
Tehran, September 26: “The US and the Zionists developed the strategy of the September 11 attacks in an effort to counter the Islamic vigilance and to control energy resources in the Middle East,” Brigadier General Yahya Rahim-Safavi as saying on Saturday to media.
He further added that al-Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden did not possess the essential intelligence capacity anywhere near the level of CIA, Pentagon and the FBI in order to conduct the surprise attacks against sensitive centers in the United States on September 11.
Tehran, September 26: A senior Iranian commander says the Islamic Republic’s armed forces are capable of crushing any act of aggression in case of an enemy military strike.
“The Islamic Republic has gained valuable experiences during the eight-year Iraqi-imposed war on Iran. The war has turned Iran’s Army and Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) into formidable military forces,” IRNA quoted Deputy Head of Iran’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, as saying on Saturday.
Bhopal, September 26: Four more persons succumbed to H1N1 virus, taking the death toll due to swine flu in Madhya Pradesh to 71 since last month, officials said here today. Pankaj Mehto (26), a resident of Sehore, Shiv Lal (46) and Neetu Chouhan (28) – both hailing from Bhopal, died while undergoing treatment here, officials said adding Vimla Bai (42), hailing from Ujjain being treated in Indore also succumbed to the virus.
New Delhi, September 26: Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna is likely to meet with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi Monday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session here, a media report said.
The date and time of the meeting have yet to be agreed upon, but diplomats here told Dawn News the meeting would probably take place Monday.
Krishna had a ‘chance encounter’ with Qureshi at the UN Friday, where they greeted each other warmly and talked about the floods in Pakistan.
Tehran, Setember 26: Two people have been killed and several others wounded in the latest violence in Iraq as the Iraqi police report success in detecting militants in the war-torn country.
Unidentified gunmen shot down a civilian on Saturday in front of his home in the western al-Amil neighborhood of Mosul, the capital of the northern province of Nineveh, Aswat al-Iraq news agency quoted provincial police sources as saying.
According to reports, the man used to drive army and police personnel from their units in Mosul to their residences in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Visakhapatnam, September 26: Suspected Maoists have killed two tribals in remote Kotagunnulu village of the district, police said today. Two tribals, P Srikanth and P Prasad (both in their late 20s), were believed to have been hacked to death by axe and other sharp weapons by a group of Maoists at the village late last night, Visakhapatnam (Rural) District Superintendent of Police Vineet Brijlal told PTI. “Both the tribals died on the spot,” the SP said.
Kabul, September 26: US-led coalition forces targeted a senior Al Qaeda commander with a precision airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, while two NATO soldiers died in the southern region, the military said Sunday.
Acting on intelligence inputs, coalition forces tracked the commander to a remote compound in the Darah-e-Pech district of the eastern province of Kunar Saturday night, NATO said.
Washington, September 26: Noted Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won three medals in the North American sand sculpting competition at Virginia Beach as part of the Neptune Festival 2010 celebrating its 37th anniversary.
Pattnaik, one of 11 professional sculptors to take part in the largest competition of its kind in the US, won medals for Neptune’s Choice, Sculptor’s Choice and fifth place in the solo championship at Virginia Beach, about 200 miles from here, on the east coast.