Hyderabad, June 16: Unrest in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) over the ‘style of functioning’ of party supremo K Chandrasekhara Rao took a violent turn on Monday with party workers roughing up former MP and Rao’s detractor D Ravindra Naik at the Telangana Bhavan.
New Delhi, June 16: Keen on replacing its ageing Russian IL-76 transport aircraft fleet, the Indian Air Force has shortlisted US major Boeing’s C-17 Globemaster III for its heavylift aircraft.
“The C-17s have been shortlisted after IAF carried out a thorough study on its capability to take-off and land on short runways with heavy loads,” IAF sources said here on Tuesday.
IAF would place an initial order for 10 of the C-17s through the US government’s Foreign Military Sales (FMS) route, and may later go in for a follow-on order, sources said.
Mumbai, June 16: The Maharashtra Government does not agree fully with the Ram Pradhan committee report on 26/11 terror attacks, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said here on Tuesday.
“The government does not fully agree with the report.
In the action to be taken report tabled in the Legislature on Tuesday, we have indicated areas where we don’t agree with the panel’s findings,” Mr. Chavan told reporters at Vidhan Bhawan.
New Delhi, June 16I: Amid turmoil in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over its poll debacle, Arun Jaitley has resigned as its general secretary, though the party maintained Tuesday he was only following the one-man-one-post tradition.
But speculation was rife that the party had made his resignation public now in a bid to pre-empt trouble at the meeting of the national executive, slated for June 20-21, with several party seniors insisting that responsibility be fixed for the poll defeat.
Hyderabad, June 16: Film actor Vishal’s mother lost a Rs 30 lakh diamond- studded necklace and cash while shopping at a saree showroom in the city on Monday.
Hyderabad, June 16: Mir Mohtesham Ali Khan, more popular as the Hyderabadi Arnold Schwarzenegger, is all set to fly to Miami to take part in the Mr Universe competition to be held from June 18-22. Mohtesham announced his participation to a gathering of newspersons in presence of Secunderabad MP Anjan Kumar Yadav here on Monday. “I would be representing the country along with five more members from different parts of the country for the competition,” the Bronze medallist of Musclemania World Tour Competition said.
Hyderabad, June 16: A nine-year-old boy who arrived here from the US is infected with swine flu, health authorities confirmed. This takes the number of A(H1N1) flu cases in Hyderabad to 13 and in India to 31.
The boy, who arrived by a British Airways flight from New Jersey two days ago, has been quarantined at the Andhra Pradesh Chest Hospital, the nodal centre to deal with swine flu cases.
Doctors at the hospital said the New Delhi-based National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) Tuesday confirmed that the boy’s samples were infected with the swine flu virus.
New Delhi, June 16: Worried after another fresh case of swine flu cropped up, of a nine-year-old boy who arrived from the US, the Indian government Tuesday said there should be “some kind of screening” in the US for outbound travellers as most of the infection cases in India have come from that country.
The number of confirmed cases stands at 31.
The boy, who arrived in Hyderabad two days ago by a British Airways flight from New Jersey, has been quarantined at the Andhra Pradesh Chest Hospital, the nodal centre to deal with influenza A(H1N1) cases.
Yekaterinburg (Russia), June 16: In the first top-level contact since the Mumbai terror attacks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday met President Asif Ali Zardari here during which he is understood to have made it clear that Pakistan should take concrete action against terrorism directed against India.
Singh, who arrived here on a three-day visit, met Zardari on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.
Washington, June 16: President Barack Obama said Tuesday that a nuclear-armed North Korea poses a “grave threat” to the world and vowed to end a cycle of allowing Pyongyang to create a crisis and then be rewarded with incentives to back down.
“This is a pattern they’ve come to expect,” Obama said. “We are going to break that pattern.”
Ahmedabad, June 16: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has alleged that Gujarat police is tapping the phones of its office-bearers including Dr Pravin Togadia, general secretary of the body.
“The Home Department had threatened our activists that thier phones are being tapped including that of Dr Togadia and other VHP and RSS leaders’ phones,” VHP leaders Dinesh Navadia and Utkarsh Patel said in a statement.
London, June 16:Pakistan skipper Younis Khan called the extra scrutiny of the ball by umpires during their game against Ireland in World Twenty20 as “embarrassing.”
Umpires checked the ball after every over at the Lord’s Monday following the unproven ball-tampering allegations raised by New Zealand against seamer Umar Gul. The Pakistani fast bowler demolised the New Zealanders with his record five for six, getting the new ball to reverse swing, during their first Super Eight game at The Oval.
Gaza Strip, June 16: Former US president Jimmy Carter was visiting the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, after urging Israel to lift a blockade on the Palestinian enclave and stop treating its residents like “savages.”
Carter was due to meet officials from the Islamist Hamas movement that runs the territory and which is considered a terrorist organisation by Israel and the West.
He is expected to pass on a letter from the parents of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier that Gaza militants, including Hamas, seized in a cross-border raid almost three years ago, and who remains in captivity.
Hyderabad, June 16: Adding to the woes of health officials, 13th case of H1N1 influenza has been confirmed in Andhra Pradesh taking the total number of those affected with this deadly disease in India to 31. A nine-year-old child who arrived from New Jersey on a British Airways flight has tested positive for swine flu.
Also, two more suspected cases of swine flu have been detected in Jalandhar and the samples have been sent to Delhi.
Dubai, June 16: Outraged Palestinians have called for legal action against a prominent Israeli comedian after a guest on his talk show launched a scathing tirade against Muslims and compared them to cockroaches.
In an attempt at humor, a guest on Israel’s “Tonight with Lior Shlein” mocked the way Muslims pray and to the audience’s delight likened the way they looked when in prostration to a penis.
The guest continued his jibe to cheers and applause and went on to compare Muslims to cockroaches.
New Delhi, June 16: Worried after another fresh case of swine flu cropped up, of a nine-year-old boy who arrived from the US, the Indian government Tuesday said there should be “some kind of screening” in the US for outbound travellers as most of the infection cases in India have come from that country.
The number of confirmed cases stands at 31.
The boy, who arrived in Hyderabad two days ago by a British Airways flight from New Jersey, has been quarantined at the Andhra Pradesh Chest Hospital, the nodal centre to deal with influenza A(H1N1) cases.
Washington, June 16: Last month’s successful nuclear weapons test by North Korea has raised serious concerns for South Korea, which has repeatedly sought a formal US promise to extend the nuclear umbrella over the nation. The US has done so privately, several times, but the nation would really like something in writing at this point.
Beijing, June 16:China begins lying a gigantic 1,100 km long gas and oil pipeline to Myanmar in September; the official media said a day before the visit of Burmese leaders beginning Wednesday. It will cut transportation costs by shortening the journey for crude from the Middle East and Africa.
New Delhi, June 16: Two years after its historic victory in Uttar Pradesh riding on a rainbow coalition of the low and high castes, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of Chief Minister Mayawati is caught in a dilemma — whether to continue its inclusive agenda or revert to her core Dalit base.
Chandigarh, June 16: ‘‘My mother asked me to forgive him, but I am yet to take a decision.’’ These were the words of Fiza on Monday, keeping the suspense over her love story after the dramatic return of husband Chand Mohammed.
On his part, Chand brushed aside allegations that he was kidnapped by Fiza. ‘‘It is my decision to stay with her and I am trying to seek her forgiveness,’’ he told reporters.
Washington, June 16: US President Barack Obama has welcomed as “positive movement” Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s backing of a demilitarised Palestinian state.
The US leader played down Arab anger over the terms Mr Netanyahu laid out in a major policy speech on Sunday.
But Mr Obama again demanded an end to Israeli settlement activity, over which he and Mr Netanyahu have locked horns.
The Palestinian Authority PM described the speech as “a new blow to efforts to salvage the peace process”.
New York, June 16: Military service is in Capt. Kamaljit Singh Kalsi’s blood. His father and grandfather were part of India’s Air Force. His great-grandfather served in the British Indian army. So when US army recruiters talked to him during his first year of medical school, he readily signed up.
But his plans to go on active duty in July are now on hold. An Army policy from the 1980s that regulates the wearing of religious items would mean he would need to shave his beard and remove the turban he wears in accordance with his religious precepts.
London, June 16: The International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Monday it is yet to decide on the venues of the 2011 World Cup matches that were scheduled to be played in Pakistan, indicating these could be played outside the subcontinent.
ICC had dropped Pakistan as a co-host of the World Cup, to be held in the subcontinent, because of volatile security situation there, following which the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) initiated legal action against cricket’s governing body.
Tehran, June 16: As Iran’s embattled president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrived in Russia Tuesday, Iranian state radio reported that seven people were killed in clashes overnight, ramping up tensions after days of unprecedented demonstrations which have forced a formal review of elections results.
As dawn broke over this tense and divided nation, anticipation grew over what would come next, whether calls for a nationwide general strike and more protests would play out across the country, or if emotions would begin to cool.
Surat, June 16: Though Surtis simmered in outrage stoked after a teenaged schoolgirl was gangraped on Friday, they thwarted the possibility of a communal flare-up by ignoring the call for a bandh on Monday, made by the VHP. The accused belong to the minority community. Shops and commercial establishments across Surat carried on with business, oblivious to the bandh.