Gali Nagaraja

New Hajj House Foundation in 10 days-Minister

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A.P. Wakf Board has earmarked the land for new State Hajj House. The foundation stone laying ceremony will be held within 10 days. The construction work of the new Hajj house would be taken up on war footings. Keeping in view the convenience of the Hajj pilgrims, the office of the State Hajj Committee will be retained in the old Hajj house only.

Mr. Syed Mohammed Ahmedullah, Minister of Minorities Welfare disclosed it in a press conference after the meeting of the Hajj Coordination Committee held here two days back.

Dr. Javeed Kamal retired

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Noted Urdu playwright and Director Dr. Mirza Mustafa Ali Baig, popularly known in academic circles by his pen name Javeed Kamal retired from Govt. service as lecturer in Urdu, from Govt. Girls’ Degree College, Husaini Alam.

He has started his career as junior lecturer in Urdu at Maulana Azad Girls’ Junior College, Nampally, Hyderabad, where he served as in charge Principal also.

He is associated with many Urdu literary and cultural associations of Hyderabd. He presented very successful Urdu cultural programmes.

—-Siasat News

Sewing Machine distribution to Minority women-Minister

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Mr. Syed Mohammed Ahmedullah made a surprise visit to the departments functioning under his ministry and issued suitable instructions to the officials.

After attending the meeting of Hajj Committee in Hajj House, he visited A.P. Wakf Board, A.P. State Minorities Finance Corporation and Urdu Academy. He elicited information about the functioning of these offices. He inspected the record room of Wakf Board.

Sex education is an important subject, says Riteish

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Riteish Deshmukh has turned producer with Marathi movie “Balak Palak”, which deals with curiosity about sex among adolescents. The actor says it is high time people should talk about it openly.

” ‘BP’ (‘Balak Palak’) as a subject deals with such curiosity that leads them (children) to seeking answers in an absolutely adventurous and comical way. At the end of it, of course, there is a message – it’s about parents and teachers knowing the right time and the right way to handle the subject,” Riteish said.

Photos of suspects in Odisha violence released

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Odisha Police have released photographs of 36 suspects involved in violence during Sep 6 Congress rally here in which a policewoman was thrashed and molested in the state capital, an official said Thursday.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Nitinjit Singh said the pictures were extracted from 12-hour footage from closed-circuit television cameras. The footages are being examined to identify people involved in vandalism. The photographs are being circulated to nab the offenders.

“We are still examining the footage. We may release photographs of some more people soon,” Singh told IANS.

Information panels should be manned by judicial people: SC

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The Supreme Court Thursday held that the Central Information Commission and state information commissions are forums performing quasi-judicial functions and thus these should be manned by people with judicial background.

The court said that one of the two members hearing a plea challenging the denial of information has to be from judicial background.

Indian bank opens branch in South Africa

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State-owned Bank of India (BoI) has opened its first branch here in a move to enhance the relationship between South Africa and India while contributing to the overall development of the BRICS grouping.

BoI Managing Director Shri Alok K. Misra said increasing business interaction and trade between the two emerging economic power houses means that banking demand of doing business is rising, Xinhua reported.

“BoI believes that the growing trade between India and South Africa has the capacity to accept another bank from India,” Misra said.

Karachi factory had several emergency exits, all locked

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The factory in this Pakistani port city where as many as 289 people were killed in a major fire had several emergency exits, but all of them were locked, said an official.

The blaze started Tuesday from the basement and gutted three other floors of the building, said the official.

He said the building had several emergency exits but all of them were locked permanently, reported Dawn.

The Karachi blaze was one of the worst infernos the country has ever seen. It broke out a few hours after another fire at a factory in Lahore left 25 people dead.

Anurag Kashyap turns script doctor for ‘Queen’

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After producing and directing critically acclaimed and commercially successful movies, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has turned script doctor for Vikas Bahl’s “Queen”.

“It’s great to have a script doctor working on your film. Someone like the sheer brilliance that Anurag Kashyap is works best for a film. We are very thankful to him that he came on board as the script doctor for the film,” Bahl, who has written the film’s script, said in a statement.

Assam’s most celebrated voice to come alive on screen

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The voice of Assam’s most celebrated singer and balladeer Bhupen Hazarika will come alive on screen on Friday with the release of the feature film “Akhon Nedekha Nodir Sipare”.

Millions of fans across the globe will be able to hear the voice of the legendary singer in the film “Akhon Nedekha Nodir Sipare”, titled “As River Flows” in English. The Hindi version, which will also be released soon, will have the same title.

Bodies were iron hot, say Karachi rescuers

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“The bodies were iron hot,” said a rescuer who himself got burnt while carrying the victims of a factory fire that left at least 289 people dead.

Ameen Memon, a rescuer, said that most of the rescue team members burnt their hands while trying to carry the smouldering bodies from the garments factory in Baldia Town.

The fire at the factory here was one of worst infernos the country has seen. The blaze broke out just a few hours after another fire at a factory in Lahore that left 25 people dead.

Outrage in Pakistan over factory fire deaths

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Describing industrial buildings as “death traps” and “concentration camps”, Pakistani dailies Thursday sought regular inspections of factories as well as rigorous application of the law following the deaths of over 300 workers at two factories in the country.

Dawn said the horrific tragedy had taken the entire country in an asphyxiating grip of grief mixed with rage, while the News International noted that industrial accidents were becoming increasingly common across the country.

As many as 289 people were killed in the Karachi blaze while 25 people died in the Lahore inferno.

Karachi woman hunts for trapped husband, finds his mobile

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A woman desperately looking for her husband found his mobile phone next to a charred body at a mortuary here – but she was still not sure whether he was amongst the 289 who died in the devastating fire that gutted a Karachi factory.

Waheeda had refused to leave the mortuary at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) here as she kept looking through the pile of bodies for her husband, Shafi Mohammad, reported Geo News.

She later recognised her husband from the mobile phone found beside his body.

“I still don’t know whether it’s him,” she wailed to a rescue worker.

BJP youth wing to lodge police complaints against PM

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The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) youth wing has decided to file complaints against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, for his alleged involvement in irregularities in coal block allocations, in police stations across Uttar Pradesh.

Slamming the prime minister for his “direct role” in the faulty allocation of coal blocks, the coal block allocation, the Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Wednesday decided “formally lodge named FIRs against Manmohan Singh”.

Mob in Guatemala kills man who murdered two kids

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A man who walked into a school in the northern Guatemalan village of Tactic and murdered two children was killed by teachers and locals, media reports said Wednesday.

“The children died with their throats slit, while the alleged aggressor died of a lynching after being beaten by the mob and burned alive,” fire rescue spokesman Sergio Vasquez told reporters.

Witnesses said that Julio Saquil, 40, entered the school without saying a word and attacked two students with a machete.

Authorities identified the slain students as Evelyn Yanisa Saquij Bin, 8, and Juan Armando Coy Cal, 13.

Mob in Guatemala kills man who murdered two kids

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A man who walked into a school in the northern Guatemalan village of Tactic and murdered two children was killed by teachers and locals, media reports said Wednesday.

“The children died with their throats slit, while the alleged aggressor died of a lynching after being beaten by the mob and burned alive,” fire rescue spokesman Sergio Vasquez told reporters.

Witnesses said that Julio Saquil, 40, entered the school without saying a word and attacked two students with a machete.

Authorities identified the slain students as Evelyn Yanisa Saquij Bin, 8, and Juan Armando Coy Cal, 13.

Terrorist wanted for Kandahar hijacking arrested

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Mehraj-ud-din Dand, a terrorist wanted for his involvement in the hijacking of flight IC-814 flight to Kandahar and other terror attacks, has been arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police, a senior police official said Thursday.

The terrorist, suspected to be involved in many militancy related ncidents in India and abroad, was arrested from an undisclosed location on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway Wednesday night, the official said.

Former lawmaker’s body found in Mexico

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The body of a former state legislator was found in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon four days after he was kidnapped by gunmen, authorities said Wednesday.

Hernan Belden Elizondo’s body was discovered Tuesday at La Huasteca park in the city of Santa Catarina, the Nuevo Leon Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.

The 45-year-old Belden Elizondo was a member of the conservative National Action Party, or PAN.

Belden Elizondo was kidnapped last Friday, but “no money was ever demanded” for his release, the AG’s office said, adding that he was killed the same day.

We have a very good team: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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The Indian cricket team arrived here for the Twenty20 World Cup with captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni saying that he has a “very good team” which is capable of regaining the coveted trophy.

“We are a team which relies strongly on batting. But some of the top batsmen also play the role of part-timers. In T20 cricket, part-timers are very important. Our part-timers have been doing well.

—PTI

‘Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal’ soundtrack lacks fizz

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Film: “Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal”; Music Director: Sajid-Wajid; Lyricist: Jalees Shewani; Singers: Shadaab Faridi, Monali Thakur, Mamta Sharma, Sarosh Sami, Keerthi Sagathia, Sugandha Mishra, Babul Supriyo, Bela Shende, Ujjaini, Uvie, Wajid; Rating: **

Filmmaker Priyadarshan is back with another comic-caper “Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal” to tickle your funny bones. The film’s fate will be decided when it releases, but its soundtrack tries hard to make you smile.

There are five original tracks composed by Sajid-Wajid and penned by Jalees Shewani. The album also has four remixes.

Twin fires in factories claim 314 lives in Pakistan

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A pair of devastating fires engulfed a garment factory in Karachi and a shoe unit in Lahore killing at least 314 people, including women and children, in one of the worst industrial accidents in Pakistan.

The fire in the multi-storey garment factory in Baldia Town area of Karachi broke out at 6 pm local time yesterday, hours after 25 people were killed in a blaze in a shoe factory in Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, officials said on Wednesday.

Chandrababu’s son gearing up for major role in TDP

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Nara Lokesh, son of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu, appears to be gearing up to take up a key responsibility in the party.

An indication to this effect was available Wednesday when he briefly interacted with the media in the temple town of Tirupati.

The only son of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister predicted that TDP would return to power in the 2014 elections.

“TDP alone has the strength to take on the Congress and it is the only party fighting for the people’s cause,” he said.

Conspiracy to deprive Muslims from getting higher education

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Opposing the fees reimbursement policy of Govt. of A.P., Mr. Mushtaq Malik and President of Muslim Shibban Movement told that the Congress Govt. is hatching a conspiracy to deprive the Muslim students from acquiring higher professional education.

He extended his full support to the campaigned launched by Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Editor Siasat on the issue of fees reimbursement to the poor and deserving Muslim students pursuing engineering courses in the state. He was forced to resort to protest for getting the rights of the Minorities.

Deccan Studies in Urdu University

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Deccan Region was neglected in the history of India to a larger extent. If there are one hundred books on the Moghal Emperors, there is only one book written on the history of the Deccan. In this context, Deccan studies Center is a ray of hope and it is expected that under this Center, serious research work on the Deccan and the history of Deccan will be carried out in the future under Urdu University.