Gali Nagaraja A chase for two chain snatchers by the police in Rae Bareli turned awry Friday night when a youth was shot dead in a shootout, police said Saturday.
The incident happened when a team of Special Operations Group (SOG) was pursuing two chain snatchers in Lodhipur Uttrawan village. Rae Bareli is 77 km from here.
When the duo abandoned their vehicle on a roadside and escaped in the fields, the police opened fire in which a 22-year-old youth, Dharmendra, was killed.
President Barack Obama has appointed Romesh Wadhwani, an Indian American founder of several software and IT companies, on board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts.
Announcing his intent to appoint Wadhwani and nine other general trustees of the centre, Obama said, “These dedicated men and women bring a wealth of experience and talent to their new roles and I am proud to have them serve in this Administration.”
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Even though two of his recent films have crossed the 100-crore mark, Akshay Kumar says he isn’t at peace yet, as the pressure has been built ever since Aamir Khan’s “Ghajini” first set the box office milestone.
Both ‘Rowdy Rathore’ and ‘Housefull 2’ grossed well but Akshay said the monkey is not off his back as one needs to live up to people’s expectations everyday in this industry.
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Bringing further delay to the passage of the anti-graft Lokpal bill, the term of the select committee of Rajya Sabha, which is looking into the bill was given an extension Friday. The committee will now submit its report in the winter session.
The select committee was formed in May this year, during the budget session, to look into the bill after the opposition raised objections over the format of this legislation as passed by the Lok Sabha.
India is committed to curbing leprosy cases in the coming years and eliminating the stigma associated with the disease, World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Goodwill ambassador for leprosy Yohei Sasakawa said here Friday.
Sasakawa, on a seven-day visit to India, met senior officials from the ministry of health and family welfare to discuss the country’s projects on leprosy.
“I Am Kalam” director Nila Madhab Panda, whose second film “Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid” has released Friday withou too much of publicity, says splurging money on promotion does not promise success. He feels a good story line is a must for a film to do well.
“If a film has a good story line, it is well made and sends across a message then it will work for sure. If it is not, then even if you spend crores (of rupees) on its promotion it won’t be successful. Maybe for a day or two you will be able to fool audience but not in the long run. They are also very smart now,” Panda told IANS.
(Siasat News)Chief Minister N.Kiran Kumar Reddy said that the admission for the management quota would be done only online.
He also added that the admission done till now is not valid, as he said that Govt. will issue notification for management quota also so that student can apply online on the portal which will be maintain by the Andhra Pradesh State Counsel for Higher Education.
(Siasat News)Welcoming the demand made by the Muslim leaders of the Congress for allocating a separate budget provision under Minorities Sub-Plan, Mr. Feroz Khan, spokesman of the Congress told that all the leaders of Minority Community should unite together and impress upon the Govt. the need for allocating a Sub-Plan for Minorities on a par with Special Component Plan for S.C’s and S.T’s.
(Siasat News)Will the garbage vehicles of GHMC vanish from the roads or will there be new vehicles?
Standing Committee of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation rejected the proposal of buying garbage vehicles saying that instead of buying the new garbage vehicles of less capacity, it is better to use new technology for sweeping the city roads.
Standing Committee is of the opinion that instead of extracting works from the sweepers, it is better to deploy automatic machines for sweeping the roads. The employees’ Union opines that it will lead to unemployment of the laborers.
(Siasat News)Govt. is making lofty claims to promote education whereas Urdu Medium education in Adilabad District is counting its last days.
Although Urdu medium schools were established in the district but teachers were not recruited. Education of other languages is being encouraged but Urdu medium education is getting neglected.
Urdu was declared as the 2nd official language for the district ten years back.
Putting up a third front on the coal scam, the Left parties, along with Samajwadi Party and Telugu Desam Party, Friday staged a sit-in protest at the main gate of the Parliament House building Friday morning.
Leaders from these parties sat at the gate from where MPs enter the Parliament House building, raising slogans demanding a fair probe and debate in parliament on the coal scam.
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the record of the longest space flight (195 days) for a woman, has completed her fifth spacewalk lasting a near record eight hours and 17 minutes.
Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide set out from the international space station at 5:46 p.m. Thursday (India time) and returned at 2:03 a.m. Friday, the US space agency NASA announced.
The longest spacewalk of 8 hours and 56 minutes was undertaken by US astronauts Susan Helms and James Voss in 2001.
New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first against India on the first day of the second cricket Test match here at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium Friday.
India lead the series 1-0.
The following are the squads:
India: Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Suresh Raina, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (C), Ravichandran Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Pragyan Ojha, Umesh Yadav.
(Siasat News)DRDO employee and a journalist among 11 men arrested by Karnataka Police for alleged links with global terror outfits.
During investigation they told the group had plans to assassinate MPs and MLAs from the state, a businessman and two journalists from Bangalore.
Police said all had links with international terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkat-ul-Jihadal-Islami.
One of the arrests is Ejaz Mohammed Mirza who works for Airborne Early Warning and Control System, a DRDO division
It’s time for Indians to rise above the biases of caste, creed, colour and religion, says Indian cinema’s icon Amitabh Bachchan who believes firmly that no person is “small or common”.
“One of the things that I have learnt from my father and my mother is that these kinds of things – caste, creed, colour and religion … we must rise above these things,” the superstar told IANS during a group interaction here.
It is a learning he received from his parents – the late poet Harivanshrai Bachchan and Teji.
A woman was killed and 12 injured when lightning struck in Mirzapur district late Thursday, police said.
The incident happened at Veerpur village in Mirzapur district, about 290 km from here, when lightning struck during a torrential downpour, instantly killing 40-year-old Bhanwari Devi.
Over a dozen people, including two teenagers, were also severely burnt.
District officials transported the injured to nearby medical facilities.
Lightning also struck villagers in Kotar and Bhawari villages.
(Siasat News)Chief Minister N.Kiran Kumar Reddy providing clarity on the fee structure and fee reimbursement issue in engineering colleges on Thursday.
The option entry, which was to begin from Thursday, but was put off due to confusion over the fee structure now after fee clarity will start from today.
Dr K.Raghunath, camp officer issued revised schedule for EAMCET admissions, EAMCET rankers from rank 1 to 40,000 will be allowed to exercise their Web options on August 31 and September 1.
Iran has doubled its capacity in an underground uranium enrichment facility, according to a new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report.
According to this report, the number of centrifuges at the Fordow facility, about 130 km from Tehran, had more than doubled to around 2,000 from around 1,000 in May, said Xinhua citing local media Thursday.
It also showed that Iran had produced nearly 190 kg of higher-grade enriched uranium since 2010, up from 145 kg in May.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday cautioned his teammates from taking New Zealand lightly and said the visiting team’s pacers would look to exploit the overcast conditions during the second Test match, starting on Friday.
“New Zealand is a good bowling side and will come up with good bowling plan by exploiting the overcast conditions at Chinnaswamy stadium. The first spell will be really crucial for both sides,” Dhoni said.
“Indian batsmen have to negotiate their pace and they have to get as many wickets as possible,” he added.
The music of Madhur Bhandarkar’s much-awaited film ‘Heroine’ was launched amidst chaos at a popular temple here today.
Flanked by actor Kareena Kapoor, the chief protagonist in the film, Bhandarkar launched the music album at the Siddhivinayak Temple in Central Mumbai this afternoon.
The United States on Thursday slapped sanctions on Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e- Toiba’s top eight commanders, including Mumbai terrorist attack mastermind Sajid Mir and its founder Hafiz Saeed’s son.
Announcing the sanctions, the US said LeT, despite being designated as a foreign terrorist organisation in January 2002, continues to “operate in Pakistan” and throughout the region and engage in terrorist activities worldwide.
Once Santa & Banta were travelling along with their friends Monty & Jaggi. On a road surrounded by forests on both sides, their car was attacked by robbers. Santa & his friends were pulled out of the car. The robbers blasted the car and took Santa, Banta and their friends in the middle of the forest where their boss was residing.
Now, this boss was fond of jokes. So, he put the condition that whoever tells a joke that makes every single person laugh should be left unharmed and alive, but if one single person doesn’t laugh then the joke-teller would be shot to death.
(Siasat News)On Govt’s no assurance on the supply of electricity, TDP MLA’s tried to march once again towards Secretariat yesterday. Police foiled their attempt and arrested many TDP MLA’s and MLC’s.
TDP had organized a Dharna programme at Indira Park yesterday in connection with energy crisis in the State. They were demanding a clear assurance from the Govt. for the supply of electricity continuously for seven hours to farmers. Police acted promptly and stopped them from going to Secretariat. They were shifted to Chikkadpally Police Station.
(Siasat News)YSR Congress told that the Govt. of A.P. is playing with the future of the students of Engineering by taking a wrong decision. It is depriving the poor students of the benefit of fees reimbursement.
YSR Congress Party condemned this decision of the Govt. It emphasized the Govt. to revise its decision otherwise the students organizations, would be forced to launch agitation against the Govt.