Hyderabad, June 10: Congratulating chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on coming back to power in the state, opposition leader and TDP president N
Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday suggested that the state government implement the cash transfer scheme (CTS), which was the his party’s main electoral plank in the 2009 election.
Mumbai, June 10: After a night in the Byculla Women’s Prison, socialite and businesswoman Sheetal Mafatlal went home to her plush Altamount Road home on Tuesday. Additional metropolitan magistrate M J Mirza took over an hour to dictate the order before pronouncing her release on a bail of Rs 5 lakh.
Peshawar, June 10: A huge suicide truck bomb ripped through a luxury hotel Tuesday killing 11 people and wounding 52 in Pakistan’s Peshawar city, capital of a northwest province plagued by Taliban violence.
Two foreigners were among the dead in the devastating blast at the five-star Pearl Continental hotel, provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said, but would not reveal the nationalities.
Ahmedabad, June 09: Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief R K Raghavan is in town to assess the progress made in the probe on the
role of chief minister Narendra Modi and 62 others in post-Godhra riots, officials sources said on Tuesday.
The SC had last month ordered SIT to probe within three months a complaint that Modi, his cabinet colleagues, police officials and senior bureaucrats aided and abetted post-Godhra riots of 2002.
Shillong, June 09: A transport plane of Indian Air Force carrying six IAF personnel went missing on Tuesday over the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh and is feared to have crashed, an IAF spokesman said here.
The AN-32 plane had flown from Dibrugarh in Assam to Mechuka in Arunachal from where it took off again with the civilians for Jorhat at around 2 pm, after which the aircraft went missing, said IAF spokesman Wing Commander P Sahu.
He said the plane was feared to have crashed. The six civilians were being ferried as part of the IAF plane’s regular sortie.
Hyderabad, June 09: Vexed with the Maoists philosophy and unhappy with the leadership, a senior leader of the CPI (Maoist) gave himself up to the police in Vizianagaram district today.
Kondagorri Kurma Rao alias Kurranna was a member of the Maoist Nagavali area committee and was allegedly involved in several offences, including blasting of Gummada railway station, a mandal development office, and attack on Udayagiri police station.
Vizianagaram district Superintendent of Police Y Gangadhar said the latter was vexed with the Maoist philosophy and wanted to lead a normal life.
Hyderabad, June 09: A 12-year-old boy, Syed Usman Mohd Quadri, who was kidnapped from the Old City more than two weeks ago was allegedly killed by his abductors in Shadnagar.
Police took three kidnappers into custody and are investigating.
One other man who was earlier taken into custody was let off after police failed to establish his role in the kidnap, sources said.
Hyderabad, June 09: The unabated increase in school fee is taking its toll on helpless parents who seem to have no option but to protest and fight for a rollback.
The Parents Ad-hoc Committee of Princess Esin Girls High School in Purani Haveli held a press meet at the APUWJ office, Basheerbagh in regard to the unjustified fee-enhancement and also about other issues pertaining to school management.
The parents of the school allege that in the last four years, the school has been increasing the fees by 30 per cent each year.
Shahid Afridi carried Pakistan into the Super Eights at the expense of a spirited but outclassed Dutch side at Lord’s, as he ripped his top-spinning legbreaks through a succession of bamboozled defences to deliver his team a thumping 82-run victory with the superb figures of 4 for 11 from four overs. For the Netherlands, the end came with unseemly haste as they lost their last nine wickets for 52 in 10.2 overs, but they still left the tournament with their heads held high after last week’s unforgettable floodlit triumph over England.
Warrangal, June 09: Dande Devender Kumar (22), an MCA second- year student of Vasavi College of Engineering in Hyderabad, committed suicide allegedly due to ragging by his seniors. He put his head under a running train at Dharamaram on Sunday.
Police, who found his body on the railway track, established his identity with the help of an identity card recovered from his pocket.
Hailing from Choppadandi village in Karimnagar, Kumar left for Hyderabad on June 3 stating that he had to attend exams from June 9.
Durban, June 09: Emphasising the need for closing the gap between the rich and the poor in the country, South African President Jacob Zuma warned that if poverty was ignored it would be a risky situation.
“If that happens you are certainly sitting on a situation that will explode one day,” he said.
Mr Zuma said that before the financial crisis began affecting South Africa, the economy was growing but the poverty levels were deepening.
Kakinada, June 09: Four students died and two others suffered serious burns in a fire at their teacher’s house in Mayapatnam village in U Kothapalli mandal in East Godavari district. Electric short circuit is said to be the reason behind the fire.
While two students died on the spot, two others succumbed to burns at the government general hospital on Monday. Sources said the short circuit caused by loose wiring in a TV set spread to the false ceiling of a wedding pandal in the house where the students and the teacher slept late on Sunday night.
Hyderabad, June 09: Ten teams from the district medical and health department visited the residences of 54 passengers, who were seated three rows ahead and three rows behind the 28-year-old passenger who tested positive for H1N1, on the British Airways-277 flight for verification and anti-viral treatment in the city on Monday, in order to prevent the spread of the infection.
London, June 09: Shahid Afridi took 4 wickets as Pakistan bundled out Netherlands for 93 runs to qualify for the Super 8 stage of the Twenty20 World Cup.
Pakistan set their opponents 175-5 in their innings after captain Younis Khan won the toss and elected to bat first.
The Netherlands were only required to score 151 runs in their innings due to Pakistan needing to win by at least 25 runs having started the day bottom of the group after losing to England in their opening match.
Shahid Afridi starred with the ball for Pakistan, finishing his four overs with figures of 4-11.
Hyderabad, June 09: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) Member of Parliament Vijayashanti showed up before the media here on Monday evening as if denying reports that she was missing after getting elected to Parliament from Medak.
Reacting to complaints against her in police stations that she had been absconding since the declaration of election results, she said, the charges were filed with the aim of targeting her and TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao. She counselled media not to be a party to cheap tactics played against Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao and herself.
Hyderabad, June 09: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has cautioned the newly-elected Congress legislators against developing complacency in taking the government schemes to the people.
They would face an acid test during the elections to municipalities next year and to Panchayat Raj bodies subsequently. This is when their performance would matter the most in ensuring the victory of Congress candidates to the maximum number of seats. Their performance would be reviewed from time to time with the help of different agencies and they would be given ratings accordingly.
Hyderabad, June 09: Members of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti booed when Governor N. D. Tiwari mentioned about the initiative taken by the government on the Telangana issue during his address to the joint session of the legislature here on Monday.
Washington, June 09: US President Barack Obama gives Israel a two-year deadline for the finalization of a two-state solution amid sharply opposing positions in Washington and Tel Aviv over the issue of Palestinian statehood.
President Obama raised the issue of an independent Palestinian state with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israeli official’s visit to Washington last month, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
According to the report, the plan envisions a Middle East peace deal by 2011.
New Delhi, June 09:RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday joined SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav in opposing women’s reservation bill in its present form, alleging that it was a “big conspiracy” to prevent the backward sections from coming up and to “finish” the regional parties.
Prasad, who was joined by former Uttar Pradesh CM Kalyan Singh, warned of a major movement if quotas for the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, OBCs and minorities was not included in the legislation.
New Delhi, June 09: India’s opening batsman Virender Sehwag has been ruled out of the ongoing ICC Twenty20 World Cup in England due to a shoulder injury.
Sehwag was advised to undergo a surgery for his shoulder injury, sources said.
The hard-hitting batsman, earlier, had to skip the opening match against Bangladesh including all the practice matches.
Panaji, June 09: A group of Goans who went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem Tuesday accused the Israeli authorities of religious profiling even as the state government sought a full fledged probe into a visa racket run by travel agents based in Goa and Israel.
Edmund Antao, co-ordinator of Crusaders for Jesus with Mary – a Christian faith building group that led a batch of 97 pilgrims to Israel’s holy destinations last month, told reporters here that Israeli officials denied visas to 14 members of the entourage on account of religious profiling.
New Delhi, June 09: After Sharad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav, another Yadav leader, Lalu Prasad, today added his opposition to the women’s reservation bill, terming it as a conspiracy against regional parties to keep their leaders away from power.
Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh too termed the bill, which proposes to reserve 33 percent seats in parliament and the state legislatures for women, as a conspiracy against regional parties.
Mumbai, June 09: In yet another indication of further widening of the rift between Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), senior Congress leader and union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Tuesday retreated that his party should go to polls alone in the state in the upcoming Assembly polls.
Deshmukh’s, who was formerly the CM of the state, remarks came in the wake of a controversy over the arrest of NCP MP Padamsinh Patil accused in the murder of Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar.
Hyderabad, June 09: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president T Chandrasekhar Rao is expected to make efforts to contain persisting dissidence in his party which broke out in the wake of the debacle in recent elections.
The TRS President, against whom a police case has been registered in his Lok Sabha constituency of Mahaboobnagar for tracing his whereabouts, arrived here last night from Delhi.
Rao is expected to hold confabulations with senior party leaders on ways to revive the party in the aftermath of the drubbing it suffered in the elections.
