Hyderabad, June 16: The crisis in TRS has further deepened and the party appears to be heading for a split. Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters
witnessed high drama on Monday. On one hand, TRS president KCR made a sensational statement that the rebellion in the party was the handiwork of those who were opposed to separate state. He also alleged that this was the first step to eliminate him by anti-Telangana forces.
Hyderabad, June 16: Two persons in their twenties attempted to rob a housewife when she was alone at her house in Vengalrao Nagar on Monday afternoon, but fled after she raised an alarm.
At around 12.45 pm, two persons forced open the main door of the house of a software company employee, Srinivas Reddy. His wife Sujatha was alone when the miscreants forcibly entered the house.
The assailants threatened Sujata with a knife and asked her to hand over all her valuables.
New Delhi, June 16: The Indian players might have heaved a collective sigh of relief when they crashed out of the T20 World Cup on Sunday night: they can finally go home now and actually crash without worrying about a bat or ball for some time.
You could, of course, see the fatigue in Gambhir’s sluggish limbs, in Dhoni’s glazed eyes and Harbhajan’s half-hearted smiles; you could sense the resignation in the team’s body-language too: it was neither anywhere near its peak form, nor burning with intensity or raging for victory.
New Delhi, June 16: `Kunwar’, `Raja’, `Rani’, `Begum’, `Srimant’ will soon stand deleted from the AICC’s listings and records some 40 years after Indira Gandhi did away with privy purses in what was then meant to signal the arrival of a post-colonial egalitarian age.
While the titles of maharajas and ranis were abolished, habits did not die out and rather showed a capacity to not only survive but flourish in the Congress’s own lexicon. Not only did the royal references linger in conversations but the royal and feudal honorifics remained prefixed to names of leaders in party records.
New Delhi, June 16: Baldev Singh was never known to move without his firearm. On Monday, the 54-year-old Rajputana Rifles veteran who worked as the security in-charge at a petrol pump, was shot dead by three robbers who made away with Rs 8.5 lakh that he was to deposit at a nearby bank.
New Delhi, June 16: Twenty-year-old Sunny Bajaj has made up his mind. He will leave Australia for good. The Shalimar Bagh boy, who studied at Sachdeva Public School in west Delhi and is pursuing accounting at Deakins University for the past one-and-a-half years now, has been left badly shaken by the attack on him at Melbourne on Friday night when he was racially abused and bashed up, leaving him with bruises and a fractured finger.
London, June 15: Scoreboard of the World Twenty20 Group F Super Eights match between Pakistan and Ireland at The Kennington Oval here Monday.
Pakistan:
Kamran Akmal b Johnston 57 (51)
Shahzaib Hasan c McCallan b Cusack 23 (19)
Shahid Afridi c Mooney b McCallan 24 (13)
Younis Khan b West 10 (8)
Misbah-ul-Haq c Niall b McCallan 20 (14)
Abdul Razzaq not out 15 (9)
Shoaib Malik not out 4 (7)
Extras: (lb 3, w 2, nb 1) 6
Total: (for five wickets in 20 overs) 159
Nashik (Maharashtra), June 15: The Maharashtra government Monday bowed before citizens’ protests and revoked the transfer orders of Nashik Police Commissioner V.D. Mishra.
Home Minister Jayant Patil announced in the state Legislative Council in Mumbai Monday evening that the popular city police chief would continue in his post.
Mishra was among the 17 high-ranking Indian Police Service (IPS) officers across the state, including former Mumbai police commissioner Hasan Gafoor, who were abruptly transferred on Saturday.
Tehran, June 15: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has urged defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi to follow up the alleged irregularities in the June 12 presidential elections through legal channels, IRNA reported Monday.
“Thank god almighty, the elections were held with high degree of reliability, soundness and tranquility. You too should follow up the relevant issues through legal channels,” Khamenei told Moussavi in a meeting here Sunday.
Khamenei has praised the high turnout in the June 12 presidential elections.
Yekaterinburg (Russia), June 15: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began his visit to Russia with bilateral talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao here Monday night. The meeting comes weeks before the special representatives of the two countries hold their next round of negotiations on their decades-old boundary dispute Aug 7-8 in New Delhi.
Ranchi, June 15: Around 600,000 traders in Jharkhand Monday protested in front of the governor’s house demanding an immediate roll-back of the 4 percent value-added tax (VAT) imposed on foodgrains from June 1.
The traders, who launched a phased agitation earlier this month, have also stopped buying foodgrains and vegetables as part of their effort to intensify the agitation.
London, June 15: Inspiring performances from Kamran Akmal and Saeed Ajmal carried Pakistan into the semifinals of the World Twenty20 after they defeated Ireland by 39 runs in a Group F Super Eights match at The Oval here Monday.
Opening batsman and wicketkeeper Akmal hit a flamboyant 57 as Pakistan made 159 for five in 20 overs after skipper Younis Khan won the toss and elected to bat.
Jalandhar (Punjab), June 15: The seven students from Punjab who have tested positive for influenza A (H1N1) have been kept in isolation wards and are under constant observation while the test reports of two other students who had exhibited flu symptoms are awaited, officials said here Monday evening.
Deepak Bhatia, nodal officer to tackle swine flu, said four other people who had travelled on the same flight along with the students from the US have exhibited swine flu symptoms and are being monitored.
Washington, June 15: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an interview on NBC “Today” on Monday, said he believes he and President Barack Obama can find “common ground” on the issue of Israeli settlement expansion.
In a speech on Sunday, Netanyahu said he made it clear that Israel would not build new settlements, “and that I would not expropriate land for additional building in existing settlements.” The prime minister said he has been discussing this issue with U.S. special Mideast envoy George Mitchell, and that he would continue those talks with Mitchell soon in Europe.
New Delhi, June 15: A 24-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter were crushed to death Monday when a speeding truck hit from behind the motorcycle they were riding pillion on, police said. The husband, who was driving the bike, escaped unhurt.
Hari Singh was taking his wife Rekha and their daughter Sapna to their relatives’ home when their motorcycle was hit by the truck in the Badarpur area in the afternoon.
Hari Singh, who runs a catering business, lost balance of the motorcycle and fell while his wife and daughter fell on the other side of the road, according to police.
London, June 15: Pakistan beat Ireland by 39 runs at the Oval to increase their chances of reaching the semi-finals.
Ireland’s target of 160 always seemed out-of-reach for the Irish against an ever-improving bowling attack, with Saeed Ajmal (4-19) and Umar Gul (2-19) to the fore on this occasion.
Niall O’Brien (7) top-edged an attempted pull straight back to Mohammad Aamer, who took a steepling catch off his own bowling.
Ireland reached 37-1 at the end of their Powerplay, with just three boundaries, as they struggled to make the most of the period before spin entered the equation.
Washington, June 15: A man serving a 17-year prison sentence for terrorist activities has been given the green light to sue a former US government lawyer who wrote memos that allegedly led to his torture, US media reports said Sunday.
Jose Padilla, a US citizen arrested in 2002 for an alleged “dirty bomb” plot only to have the charges dropped three years later, was jailed in January 2008 for separate charges of providing support to the Al-Qaeda terror network.
Lucknow, June 15: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Maywati has come under severe criticism from opposition leaders for having made derogatory remarks about
Mahatma Gandhi.
While addressing a meeting of MPs and legislators of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) here Saturday, Mayawati called the Father of the Nation a “natakbaaz” (fake). She also distributed pamphlets condemning both Mahatma Gandhi and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi for being insincere about the improvement in socio-economic status of Dalits.
London, June 15: Hollywood’s action legend Arnold Schwarzenegger could become the President of his home country Austria after his term as the Governor of California ends next year, a British newspaper has claimed.
Even Schwarzenegger has told his home country: “I’ll be back… as President.”
As he is prevented from running for American President because he wasn’t born in the US, senior Austrian politicians have asked him to stand in the 2010 presidential elections if incumbent Heinz Fischer stands down,the Daily Star reported.
Patna, June 15: Two of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s close confidantes Shyam Razak and Ram Nihora Yadav, who had quit the party recently, on Monday
joined JD(U), led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Welcoming them into the party fold, Kumar said his party has received a shot in the arm as “committed and efficient politicians like Razak and Yadav have come together to join us”.
New Delhi, June 15: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has charged a divisional manager of the United India Insurance Company with fraud, the agency said Monday.
The charge against Babu Lal Kohli, who currently heads the company’s divisional office at Sikar in Rajasthan, was that while working in a similar capacity in Delhi, he had collected premiums from several people and had issued them cover notes but had neither deposited their copies nor the money with the company, a CBI statement said.
Lucknow, June 15: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday held a meeting to review its poor Lok Sabha poll performance in Uttar Pradesh but top leaders like party president Rajnath Singh, Murli Manohar Joshi, Maneka Gandhi, her son Varun were conspicuous by their absence.
Nearly 50 party members attended the meeting chaired by state BJP president Ramapati Ram Tripathi and senior leader Kalraj Mishra.
Hyderabad, June 15: Dissidence in the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) gathered momentum Monday with a group of rebels making a vain attempt to seize Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters, while party chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao made a sensational allegation that the ruling Congress party had hatched a conspiracy to kill him.
A group of dissidents, led by former MP Ravindra Naik, tried to enter party headquarters but were prevented by the loyalists of Chandrasekhara Rao. The dissidents claimed that Naik was attacked by supporters of the party president.
Kabul, June 15: President Hamid Karzai told the incoming commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday that the most important part of his new mission was to protect Afghan civilians.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal takes up his command on Monday. The four-star U.S. general, a former special forces commander, is expected to bring a fresh approach to an increasingly violent eight-year war.
President Barack Obama has increased the U.S. focus on Afghanistan this year, ordering 21,000 additional troops to the country as the U.S. military begins to pull out of Iraq.
Bangalore, June 15 : In professional sport the toughest miles are rarely recorded. Never applauded. Over a period of time, they become personal milestones, the place where the will scored over a whim.
On Saturday, Sania Mirza lost both her semi-final matches in the AEGON Classic in Birmingham. In the singles, the 22-year-old went down to the 13th seed Magdalena Rybarikova in a tough three-setter. A few hours later, Sania and Chia-Jung Chuang of Taipei took the exit in the doubles competition too.