Qayam Ali

Hyderabad metro: Bandaru hopes more employment opportunities for locals

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Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya on Saturday said he wished for more employment opportunities for the local youth in the Hyderabad Metro project.

He also asked the Telangana government to speed up the completion of metro works by clearing hurdles for the land acquisition.

The Minister for Labour and Employment (independent charge) also inspected Nagole Metro station and Metro Depot and expressed happiness over the progress of the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) works.

Indian woman shot dead by an unidentified gunman in South Carolina

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An Indian-origin Gujarati woman working at a gas station in the US state of South Carolina was shot in the face in an attempted armed robbery and succumbed to her injuries on Saturday.

Mradulaben Patel was the co-owner of a store at a gas station in Powdersville. An unidentified man is believed to have shot Patel in the face Thursday night. Police has asked for help to identify the assailant.

She died today, succumbing to her injuries, sources said.

Patel holds American and British citizenship. It appeared to be an attempted robbery and not a racial attack, they said.

First Pictures: Kate Middleton, Prince William introduce royal baby to world

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The newborn British princess on Saturday evening made her first public appearance, along with her parents, the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge, outside St. Mary`s Hospital where she was born.

The baby girl, born at 8.34 a.m., was presented by her parents to the world at 6.10 p.m., Xinhua reported. She weighs about 3.7 kg.Her parents — Duchess Catherine and Prince William — looked relaxed, with smiles on their faces.
The Duchess was holding her baby in her arms, while the princess was asleep. The couple did not say anything to the media.

India seeks UN intervention over Lakhvi’s release

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India has sought United Nation’s intervention on the release of Mumbai terror attack mastermind and LeT commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi and also requested that it should raise the matter with Pakistan.

India has said that Lakhvi’s release was in violation of the norms of the global body.

In a letter to the current Chair of the UN Sanctions Committee Jim McLay, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Asoke Mukherjee said Lakhvi’s release by a Pakistan i court was in violation of the 1267 UN resolution dealing with designated entities and individuals.

Case against bus owners not possible: Moga DC

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The Moga district administration today said that no case can be registered against the proprietors of the company which owned the bus from which a teenaged girl was pushed to her death even as her family members refused to perform her last rites unless such a step was taken.

However, the administration said it was ready to pay Rs 20 lakh compensation to the girl’s family and provide a government job to the girl’s mother who, too, was pushed off the bus along with her daughter after the teenager was molested by the bus’s staff.

Moga victim’s family says no to last rites, Badal orders his buses off roads

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Three days after a teenage girl was molested and pushed to her death from a moving bus in Punjab’s Moga district, her relatives have refused to perform her final rites till the time the proprietors of the company that owned the vehicle are booked.

Her father sought security for the family apprehending threat to their lives and claimed they were under political pressure to “hush up” the matter and go for a compromise.

Meanwhile, under fire over the incident, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal this evening ordered all buses of Orbit Aviation, which he co-owns, off the road.

5 members of Muslim community trashed by unknown, protest turned voilent

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Sixteen policemen and about 20 members of Tablighi Jamaat community were injured on Saturday when a protest by members of a particular community at Kandhla district turned violent following which a case has been registered naming, among others, a former nagar panchayat chairman.

According to police, members of the Tablighi Jamaat were protesting against the incident in which five members of their community were thrashed on Friday by some youths on board a Delhi-Kandhla train.

30-year-old married woman goes missing in Faridabad

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A 30-year-old married woman has reportedly gone missing from here, police said today.

According to the complaint filed by the woman’s husband Sarvesh Kumar, a resident of Dheeraj Nagar, the woman left their home for some work on April 10 but did not return, they said.

The family alleged that the woman has been kidnapped, police said.

A case was registered under section 346 (wrongful confinement in secret) of IPC at Sector-31 police station in Faridabad yesterday, they said.

Police have started investigation in the case, ASI Mukesh Kumar said.

–PTI

Gold skids below Rs 27k mark on heavy stockists selling

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Gold prices plunged sharply and closed below the psychological Rs 27,000 benchmark on the bullion market here following frantic unwinding by stockists and speculative traders marred by heightened global volatility.

Silver also endured heavy selling pressure to settle below the Rs 38,000 level amid sluggish industrial demand.

Domestic sentiment turned extremely bearish and volatile after the yellow-metal tanked to six-weeks low in worldwide trade as a slew of stronger than expected US macro data fueled speculation that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates sooner than expected.

Pakistan should not interfere in India’s internal matters, says Rajnath Singh

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Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said Pakistan should stop interfering in India’s internal matters and rather worry about their own selves.

“Pakistan should worry about themselves and should not interfere in the internal matters of India. We cannot accept any other nation’s interference in India’s internal matters,” Singh told ANI.

ISIS militants open first five-star hotel for fighters in Iraq

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Islamic State (IS) militants have opened its first five-star hotel for fighters in need of rest and recreation in war-ravaged Iraq.

According to the Daily Star, the hotel apparently does not cater to booze, dancing, music, smoking or gambling, and women must dress head-to-toe in black including gloves.

The Ninawa Hotel’s 262 rooms have been reserved for visiting commanders but it will be opened for weddings so that jihadi brides can marry fighters.

IS had earlier closed down all hotels in its captured regions of Syria and Iraq

PTI

IPL matches in Hyderabad: She Team Deployed to keep watch on eve-teasers

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Ahead of the 8th edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) matches to be held on May 2, 11, 15 and 17 May at the Rajiv Gandhi Inetrnational Cricket Stadium at Uppal, the Cyberabad police today said about 1,200 police personnel will be deployed for checking the movements of anti-social elements.

‘SHE teams’ will also be deployed to keep watch on eve-teasers and extra security has been arranged in and around the stadium round the clock.

BJP-PDP hit back at Syed Ali Shah Geelani for waving Pakistan flag at Jammu and Kashmir rally

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Leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party-People’s Democratic Party (BJP-PDP) coalition on Saturday hit back at Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who hoisted Pakistani flags at a rally organised in Tral and called for legal action against the latter. BJP leader Hina Bhat said that such demonstrations would not have any effect and should not be paid heed to. “This has been happening since 20 years and it is not going to have any effect. It will definitely have repercussions but this matter should not be given so much weightage,” Bhat said.

Indian-origin UKIP candidate suspended over anti-Jewish remark

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An Indian-origin candidate for the far-right UK Independence Party (UKIP) has been suspended over alleged anti-Jewish remarks ahead of the May 7 General Elections.

Jack Sen, whose grandfather was Indian and served as a doctor in the British Indian Army during the Raj era, was to contest the seat from West Lancashire.

Sen, who describes himself on Twitter as “unapologetically politically incorrect pro-British”, directed abuse on the social networking site at Luciana Berger, the Labour party’s candidate who is Jewish.

May 9 is the last date for Payment of Haj first installment

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The Haj Committee of India has extended the date for the payment of the first installment of the Haj expenses from April 30 to May 9.

Prof SA Shukoor special officer, Telangana State Haj Committee has asked those of the provisionally selected Haj pilgrims who failed to deposit the first instalment and the pilgrims selected under Waiting List to avail of the opportunity and deposit the first instalment on or before May 9.

AAP leaders protest, burn effigies of Badal over Moga bus case

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AAP activists today took out a march and burnt effigies of Punjab Chief Minister Badal protesting against the death of a teenage girl who was molested and thrown off a moving bus belonging to his family.

AAP leader Jasraj Jassi, who contested the last Lok Sabha elections from Bathinda against Union Minister and ruling SAD leader Harsimrat Badal, led the protest march along with Moga District AAP Convener Ajay Sharma.

‘ISRO should become economically viable, earn more revenue’

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Claiming that commercial wings of space research organisations around the world were growing at a rapid speed, ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar on Friday said ISRO should become more economically viable and earn more revenue by exploiting its space programmes commercially.

He was addressing a national level seminar on “Space Organisations and Research programmes” at the Liquid Propulsion Systems centre at Mahendragiri near Tirunelveli.

Shocking! Dawood wanted to surrender, CBI did not go-ahead: Ex-CBI DIG

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In an absolute shocker, India’s most wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim, the main accused in the 1993 blasts in Mumbai that killed 257 people and more than 700 injured wanted to surrender fifteen months after serial blast, former CBI DIG Neeraj Kumar has revealed.

According to reports, the gangster talked to the then CBI DIG Neeraj Kumar thrice about his willingness to surrender. However, the CBI had not accepted his offer for some reason.

Kumar was leading the CBI probe into the 13 blasts that rocked India’s financial capital on March 12, 1993.

Congress sides with Shourie, calls BJP Govt. ‘unilateral, autocratic’

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The Congress Party on Saturday sided with former NDA minister Arun Shourie over his remarks about the functioning of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government and said the present government was furthering ‘unilateralism, autocracy and subjugation of institutional mechanism of governance at the hands of a chosen few’.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala suggested an alternative career of an ‘event manager’ for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Kabul-backed peace council to hold conference with Afghan Taliban in Qatar

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Members of the Kabul-backed peace council is set to hold a conference with an eight member team of the Afghan Taliban discuss a possible solution to the Afghan conflict.

According to the Express Tribune, a Taliban spokesperson said that they will not participate in any peace talks.

Taliban’s leaders Sher Muhamamd Abbas Stanekzai, Maulvi Jan Muhammad Hanafi, Maulvi Syed Rasool Halim, Maulvi Shahbuddin Dilawar, Qari Din Muhamamd Hanif, Maulvi Abdul Salam Hanafi, Muhamamd Suhail Shaheen and Hafiz Azizur Rehman are most likely to attend the meeting.

5.1-magnitude quake again hits Nepal

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A 5.1-magnitude earthquake on Saturday struck Nepal at 11.30 a.m. with its epicentre at Barpark in Gorkha district, seismologist Mukunda Bhattarai from the National Seismology Centre (NSC) said.

This is the third quake with its epicenter in Gorkha after the deadly tremor on April 25.

A series of tremors and aftershocks have struck the Himalayan nation in the last one week and has made it difficult for the people to return to thier houses.

According to the data provided by the home ministry, the temblor has so far claimed over 6,500 lives. The details are awaited.

–IANS

Arranged marriage film uses new distribution model in US

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What makes well-travelled urban Indians, who have freedom and privilege, choose arranged marriages over love?

“What’s Love Got To Do With It?” an unscripted micro-budget feature documentary exploring the evolving arranged marriage scenario with humour will have a novel US theatrical on demand release in May through Gathr.

Gathr Films new distribution model allows a film’s audience to take action and directly participate in bringing the film to their community, according to a media release.

AIMIM lodges police complaint against Telugu daily

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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) lodged a complaint with the Hyderabad police against the alleged “pictorial depiction” of Prophet Mohammed in a Telugu daily and sought registration of a criminal case, the party officially announced in Hyderabad on Friday.

According to a press release issued here by the AIMIM, in a complaint addressed to Hyderabad Police Commissioner, the party alleged that the Telangana edition of the Telugu daily dated May 1, published from Hyderabad, prominently carried an article on page 12 entitled ‘Mahopakari Mohammed Pravakta’.

Families of eloping couple ostracised by panchayat in Muzaffarnagar

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A community panchayat has decided to socially boycott families of a couple who had eloped recently in neighbouring Shamli district, police said on Saturday.

The panchayat was called yesterday after a girl and a boy belonging to different communities eloped about 15 days ago, which led to tension in Banat town, they said.

The panchayat had decided to ostracise the two families, Circle officer Nishank Sharma said.

He said that they are keeping an eye on the development.

“We are taking all precautionary measures to check any disruption of law and order in the district,” Sharma said.