New Delhi, August 13: Rajasthan Royals’ Munaf Patel (L) is congratulated during their 2009 Indian Premier League (IPL) T20… Enlarge Photo Rajasthan Royals’ Munaf Patel (L) is congratulated during their 2009 Indian Premier League (IPL) T20…
Indian medium pacer Munaf Patel is heading to Sri Lanka to strengthen the team’s depleted bowling attack for the ongoing tri-series, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Thursday.
Hyderabad, August 13: The row kicked up by the ministers of Andhra and Rayala Seema region, who called agitators demanding a separate Telangana state ‘anti-national and seditious’, intensified on Thursday with pro-Telangana leaders urging the state governor to dismiss these ministers from the cabinet.
A delegation of Telangana Rashtra Samiti and Telangana Joint Action Committee, headed by K Chandrasekhara Rao and Professor Kodanda Ram, met Governor ESL Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan and submitted a memorandum demanding the sacking of the 16 ministers.
Hyderabad, August 13: TDP leader Mr. Revanth Reddy told the TRS that it should not consider the recent victory in the by elections as its real strength.
Talking to the media here on Thursday, he said the TRS leader Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao was indulging in tall talk, mistaking the victory to be his party’s strength.
Anantapur, August 13: Congress MLA Mr. Gurunatha Reddy has lamented that former ministers Mr. J. C. Diwakara Reddy and Mr. D L Ravindra Reddy had passed unsavory remarks against the late Chief Minister Dr. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
Talking to the media here on Thursday, he has alleged that the two were making such remarks against the departed leader only because they were not accommodated in the cabinet.
Mr. Reddy said the late Chief Minister had only implemented the recommendations of the Rosaiah Committee with regard to the MR Properties deal.
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Hyderabad, August 13: Talking to newsmen later, Mr. Chandrasekhara Rao has demanded an apology from the Seemandhra ministers. He said they had hurt the sentiments of the people of Telangana.
He has warned that they would not be allowed to move about in Telangana if they did not apologize.
They would also loose their right to continue as the ministers of the entire state. He said they told the governor that if the ministers did not make amends, they should be dismissed from the cabinet.
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Hyderabad, August 13: Telangana JAC Chairman Prof Kodandaram has said that he was hoping that the governor Mr. Narasimhan would take action against the Seemandhra Ministers for saying that asking for a separate state was treason.
Talking to newsmen here on Thursday, he said the JAC would think of what action should be taken, if the governor failed to take action against the ministers.
Hyderabad, August 13: The Joint Action Committee of Employees, Teachers and Workers, Andhra Pradesh has unanimously resolved to organize a ‘Challo Hyderabad’ programme on September 25 with lakhs of Employees, teachers, workers and pensioners by applying Mass Casual leave. The State Executive meeting held under the Chairmanship of Mr V. Gopal Reddy here today, took this decision.
Hyderabad, August 13: The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) general secretary Mrs Jothi Mani has said that the AICC general secretary Mr Rahul Gandhi was keen on changing the face of the Youth Congress, which was running in a traditional way, in to a radical way.
Washington, August 13: A Sudanese man accused of being Osama bin Laden’s cook and driver and helping the Al Qaeda mastermind avoid capture has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, 50, pleaded guilty in July to two charges for his support to the Al Qaeda and for conspiring to plan terror acts from August 1996 till his capture in December 2001, Xinhua reported.
A military commission at the US Naval station in Guantanamo Bay gave the sentence, according to which Qosi agreed to a prison term that would be kept secret till the Pentagon reviews it.
Hyderabad, August 13: Demanding a comprehensive inquiry into the alleged irregularities in the APIIC regarding Emaar Poperties, the former SAAP chairman and Kadapa MP Mr YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s loyalist, Mr PNV Prasad said that the government has to do justice to the victimized farmers and plot owners of the original land.
Mr Prasad also wondered over the allegations of Congress senior leaders Dr DL Ravindra Reddy, Mr JC Diwakar Reddy and Mr G Veera Shiva Reddy, and demanded the government to expose the fact that why they were making the allegations at this juncture.
Hyderabad, August 13: The capital of the State –Hyderabad- stood in top position in crime including immolation of women, in the first six months of this year. In all 86,874 various types of cases have been registered in the first half of this year.
Hyderabad, August 13: Congress senior leader and former minister Mr. T. Jeevan Reddy has termed TDP as a party of Telangana betrayers. He said if any one could be named for utmost betrayal after Aurangajeb, it was TDP MP Hari Krishna, he added. He has also reminded the MP that he had betrayed his own father.
Hyderabad, August 13: The State Government on Thursday issued orders creating two more law and order zones in Cyberabad Police Commissionrate.
New Delhi, August 13: Hindi may soon become one of the official languages of the United Nations. India is making efforts to push the case of the national language at the appropriate level, external affairs minister SM Krishna told Parliament on Thursday.
Krishna denied that financial constraints were a hindrance in pushing for the issue. India is consistently lobbying with other countries to seek their support for Hindi, he said. He also sought support of the NRI community in pressing the cause.
Hyderabad, August 13: Telangana Rashtra Samiti senior leader T Harish Rao on Thursday stated that Telugu Desam Rajya Sabha member Nandamuri Harikrishna, who betrayed his own father for the sake of power, has no moral right to question TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Mr Harish Rao was speaking at a meeting in Osmania University where he said wondered asked how a person who had betrayed his own father can write a letter to KCR.
He wondered where Harikrishna was when chappals were hurled against his father and founder of TDP N T Rama Rao.
Hyderabad, August 13: The Special Court hearing the multi-crore accounting fraud in Satyam Computers on Thursday postponed hearing on the bail petition of the firm’s founder and former chairman B Ramalinga Raju to August 16.
Ramalinga Raju, who is undergoing treatment for Hepatitis C at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, had applied for bail after the Court had ordered the release of five accused in the case, including his brother Rama Raju, former chief financial officer Vadlamani Srinivas, G Ramakrishna, Venkatapati Raju and Ch Srisailam on July 20 this year.
Hyderabad, August 13: Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Thursday stated that private college managements should focus more on imparting quality education to students than think of earning profits.
Addressing the gathering after formally inaugurating an engineering college at Maheshwaram, Mr Rosaiah said that if the college managements focus on providing quality education, the state as well as the nation would get a good name.
Hyderabad, August 13: Residents living in the surround areas of Nampally Market and Aghapura are involved in a tussle with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board.
The residents refused to pay bills sent by the HMWSSB saying that they have to trudge a long way to bring water since the Board is not supplying them with adequate of the precious liquid.
The residents complain that officials at the Hindinagar division of the HMWSSB, which is responsible for the area, simply are not bothered to address the issue.
New Delhi, August 13: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted three months’ extension to the CBI to complete its investigation into the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case in which Mr Amit Shah, the former Gujarat minister and a close aide of the Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, has been arrested.
Sukkur, August 13: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday sought to fend off a public outcry over his response to Pakistan’s catastrophic floods by visiting a hard-hit area for the first time and handing out relief.
Zardari came under fire from victims, the political opposition and critics for last week failing to cut short a visit to Europe in order to deal personally with what is now the country’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Tamluk, August 13: A court on Thursday remanded the driver of the truck, which had hit a car of the convoy of railway ministerMamata Banerjee on Monday night, to 12 day’s judicial custody.
The Tamluk sub-divisional judicial magistrate sent the driver, Gujjar Singh, to jail custody on the charge of attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy.
Singh’s truck had hit a car of Banerjee’s convoy near Kolaghat bridge when she was on her way back to Kolkata after addressing a rally at Lalgarh.
New Delhi, August 13: Picking holes in the statement of former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh on UCC CEO Warren Anderson’s exit from India after the Bhopal gas tragedy, BJP today asked the government and Congress to come clear on the issue.
“The government is hiding the truth in the Warren Anderson case. Both the houses of Parliament have the right to know the truth. Arjun Singh has said he (Anderson) was allowed to go on home minister’s orders.
Jammu, August 12: Reviving a BJP practice, which has been in abeyance for some years, the party’s youth wing will hoist the national flag at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Independence Day this year.
Announcing this at a press conference here today, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha’s state President Munish Sharma said over 100 BJYM activists will gather at Lal Chawk on August 15, purge the area with the holy water of river Tavishi and hoist the national flag there.
Ahmedabad, August 12: Rejecting the demand for a CBI inquiry, the Gujarat High Court today transferred the Ishrat Jahan encounter case to the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT).
The SIT headed by former CBI director R K Raghvan will now further investigate the encounter case of 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan and three others.
Ahmedabad, August 12: Senior IPS officer Kuldeep Sharma, facing murder charges in a 26-year-old encounter in Kutch district, today approached the Gujarat High Court seeking quashing of the FIR filed against him by the state CID.
Sharma, in his petition, contented that all charges against him were false.
He said the alleged incident had taken place in 1984, following which an FIR was registered then, in which he was not included as an accused.