Hyderabad, September 21: Elections to civic bodies have been put off. As the term of the present councils will expire by the end of this month, special officers would take over the administration.
The cabinet which met under the chiarmanship of chief minister K Rosaiah took a decision to this effect. The reasons given for deferring election is delay in determination of reservations for women and backward classes.
Hyderabad, September 21: City police have imposed restrictions on movement of vehicular traffic on the centralised Ganesh idol procession route from Keshavagiri to Tank bund on September 22.
Traffic will be diverted on the procession route which starts from Balapur in the Cyberabad police limits and enters the city limits at Keshavagiri. The procession would pass through the Kandikul Gate, Chatrinaka, Shalibanda, Charminar, Gulzar Houz, Afzalgunj, Moazamjahi Market, Abids and finally the Tank bund. The idols would be immersed from the NTR Marg and Tank bund.
Hyderabad, September 21: Investigation into the brutal murder of engineering student Divya has revealed that “ragging” brought her closer to her eventual killer Sekhar a few years ago when she joined the Vignan Engineering College.
The acquaintance, over a period of time, blossed into “love” and subsequently, crystalised into a triangular love story, which unfortunately for her, ended in a tragedy.
Hyderabad, September 21: Days after the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) recommended dismissal of senior IPS officer Sreeram Tiwari from service, Tiwari today left for New Delhi to challenge the recommendation before the Delhi Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).
Hyderabad, September 21: In order to improve the quality of food served on trains and platforms, the Indian Railways has taken over catering services from the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd (IRCTC), said Derek O’Brien, chairman of the Passenger Services Committee.
The ministry’s Catering Policy 2010, which has come into force recently, strips the IRCTC of the responsibility of serving food on long-distance trains following complaints on its quality.
Hyderabad, September 21: State Bank of India chief general manager, Hyderabad Circle, Shiva Kumar inaugurated new branch of DLF Cyber City at Gachibowli today.
The branch is first corporate salary branch in the city.
Hyderabad, September 21: The division bench of the AP High Court hearing the writ petition related to the right of lawyers to enter the High Court premises and steps to be taken to prevent untoward incidents there, on Monday directed the matter to be placed before the Chief Justice for further hearing.
Hyderabad, September 21: Two more persons died of swine flu today in the twin cities. As many as 25 deaths were reported since the outbreak of swine flu during the monsoon season in the state.
A 40-year-old male, native of Khammam and 24-year-old woman of Shamshabad airport colony, both undergoing treatment at Yashoda and Gandhi Hospital respectively in the city, died today morning.
Dr. Jayakumari, district medical and health officer told Express that the both patients were admitted with swine flu symptoms on Friday. The duo died today while undergoing treatment.
–Agecies
Hyderabad, September 21: A youngster from Hyderabad, Ragidi Sai Venkat Reddy, met with a tragic end while holidaying in the USA.
The teenager, who had finished his Intermediate and was waiting to join in an engineering course, went to the US along with his sister for a visit. A couple of days ago, the car in which Sai Venkat was travelling skidded off the road and plunged into a river in Florida. Venkat drowned while two others in the car, including his sister R Mounika, escaped with injuries. They are undergoing treatment at a hospital.
Hyderabad, September 21: You will now have to pay more to catch the latest flick at the Imax. With the state government allowing for hike in rates, viewing movies in the Imax Multiplex on Necklace Road is going to be a costly affair.
Jaipur, September 21: The Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to concerned government functionaries in connection with cancellation of the second phase of allotment relating to residential scheme for journalists.
The notices were issued yesterday on writ petitions filed by two journalists who alleged the scheme was “abruptly and arbitrarily” terminated despite completion of all formalities.
New Delhi, September 21: The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the central government’s Haj policy for the year 2010 thereby clearing the way for 615 private operators to take pilgrims to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia starting October.
The decks for these private operators to arrange the travel of pilgrims were cleared after an apex court bench of Justice Mukundakam Sharma and Justice Anil R. Dave set aside a Kerala High Court order by which it had set aside the 2010 Haj policy.
Gandhinagar, September 21: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday hoped that the state’s ceramic industry will reinvent itself to provide strong competition to China in the global market.
He was speaking after inaugurating a German multinational company Duravit’s first ceramic sanitaryware manufacturing plant in India near Tarapur in central Gujarat.
The German firm had signed a MoU during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit (VGGIS) in 2007 to set up the plant with an investment of Rs.70 crore, but defied the global recessionary trend to set up the modern plant.
New Delhi, September 21: The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the central government’s Haj policy for the year 2010 thereby clearing the way for 615 private operators to take pilgrims to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia starting October.
The decks for these private operators to arrange the travel of pilgrims were cleared after an apex court bench of Justice Mukundakam Sharma and Justice Anil R. Dave set aside a Kerala High Court order by which it had set aside the 2010 Haj policy.
Mumbai, September 21: Days after the Muslim community urged restraint after the judgment on the Babri Mosque title suit is announced Sep 24, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray Tuesday assured that his party activists would maintain peace and calm.
Thackeray’s announcement came in the wake of a similar appeal by the government urging all political parties to exercise restraint in the wake of the judgment.
Punjab, September 21: The Punjab Government has decided to effect a hike in Punjab Roadways and PRTC bus fare by 10 paise per kilometer.
This was stated by State Transport Minister, Master Mohan Lal in Ludhiana on Tuesday.
He told reporters that passengers would have to pay 66 paise per kilometre instead of the earlier 56 paise.
The minister said the hike in fare would help in making up the loss of Rs 10 crore suffered by the state-owned roadways.
—Agencies
Hyderabad, September 21: With the films of actor-turned-politician K. Chiranjeevi and his family members facing a boycott from Telangana activists, his die-hard fans in the region Tuesday formed a group to protect his interests.
The fans of the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) president met in Hyderabad and formed a “Chiru Force” to counter pro-Telangana groups who have been disrupting the screening of films of Chiranjeevi, his son Ramcharan Teja and brother Pavan Kalyan for their opposition to the demand for a separate state of Telangana.
Uttar Pradesh, September 21: The flood situation may worsen in the next two days in uttar Pradesh as the water level in various rivers of Rampur, Moradabad, Bareilly, Bijnore, Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar rose alarmingly following heavy rains as well as the release of water from various dams.
New Delhi, September 21: Rejecting criticism of his style of functioning, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday said that the main problem confronting the state was “political” and lessons need to be learned from the crisis that has seen strife across the Valley in the past few months.
In an interview with CNN-IBN news channel, Abdullah said that the slogans during protests in Kashmir were not directed at his government and those trying to link the problem to his style of functioning were underplaying the complexity of the issue
New Delhi, September 21: India’s premier private carrier Jet Airways on Tuesday said it has signed a 10-year business transformation and information technology services agreement with global IT major IBM for $62 million.
We plans to leverage IBM’s domain knowledge of the global airline industry and its technology leadership to meet our business transformation objectives, said Jet Chief Executive Nikos Kardassis.
Karnataka, September 21: Ahead of the Cabinet reshuffle of the BJP government, the Karnataka Chief Minister B.S Yeddyurappa on Tuesday dropped three ministers and will induct six on Wednesday.
The axed ministers are Aravind Limbavali (Higher Education), K. Shivanagounda Naik (Mass Education and Public Libraries), and Goolihatti Shekar (Sports and Youth Affairs).
Governor H.R. Bhardwaj has accepted Yeddyurappa’s recommendation to drop the three ministers, a Raj Bhavan statement said.
Mumbai, September 21: Mumbai police on Tuesday arrested a congress leader Mohammad Ali Shaikh in connection with the killing of a private shipping firm owner in Mumbai on September 15, police said.
Sayyed Chand Madar, 55, was shot at in broad daylight by two unidentified motorcyclists near Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station in south Mumbai. He succumbed to his injuries the next day.
“We have arrested Shaikh in connection with the firing at CST and the subsequent death of Madar,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police Nisar Tamboli.
Mumbai, September 21: One of the accused in the Aurangabad arms haul case has moved the Bombay High Court claiming that trial court is giving precedence to Mumbai serial train blasts case, which took place later in point of time.
Both the cases are being heard by special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court, but petitioner Dr Shabbir Ahmed, who is in jail for over four and half years, has said in the petition that Special court is busy with train blasts case.
“This violates his right to equality, and to speedy trial,” Shabbir’s lawyer, Advocate Sushant Kunjuraman said.
Johannesburg, September 21: Highveld Lions v Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) wins the toss and elected to bat first on Tuesday at there Champions League Twenty20 match to be Played at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.
The teams:
Lions team: AN Petersen*, JD Vandiar, R Cameron, ND McKenzie, VB van Jaarsveld, Z de Bruyn, TL Tsolekile†, R Frylinck, AM Phangiso, E O’Reilly, WA Deacon
Royal Challengers Bangalore team:
R Dravid, MK Pandey, RV Uthappa†, LRPL Taylor, CL White, V Kohli, D du Preez, P Kumar, R Vinay Kumar, DW Steyn, A Kumble*
Match details
Gujarat, September 21: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to two absconders in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
Yashpal Chudasama and Ajay Patel, the close aides of former state minister Amit Shah, were declared absconding accused after they failed to appear before the CBI despite several warrants.
The duo office bearers of Ahmedabad District Cooperative (ADC) bank have been absconding after their names appeared in the charge sheet filed by the CBI in the case.