saleem A petition was today filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the government for handing over Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s body to his family and for laying down guidelines on the issue of relatives’ claims over bodies of executed prisoners.
The PIL also sought judicial interpretation of the right to claim bodies of convicts after their execution.
–Agencies
Andhra Pradesh government Monday said it is in favour of conducting local body polls in the state as early as possible in the wake of Supreme Court order that the elections be held on the basis of existing 60.5 per cent quota.
“We will be ready to conduct the elections soon,” State Panchayat Raj Minister K Jana Reddy told reporters here.
Meanwhile, state Election Commissioner P Ramakant Reddy said the Commission would be ready to conduct the elections within 90 days once the government decides on the issues of reservation and delimitation.
BJP state president G. Kishan Reddy, demanded government to immediately release notification to conduct local body elections, basing on the interim-orders issued by supreme court. He also demanded YSRCP leaders Sharmila and Anil to prove their sincerity with regard to allegations made by his party’s spokesperson NVVS Prabhakar.
Speaking to the media persons at the state secretariat on Monday, he recalled that court has given a verdict in his party’s favor when it has filed case three times earlier, opposing religious reservations granted to Muslims.
Dubbing the response the YSRCP Chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Sharmila’s padayatra was getting as a flop cinema, Panchayatraj Minister K Jana Reddy has said that some times the people will watcb even flop films also.
Speaking to the media here on Monday, Jana Reddy said that he will not accept the Chief Minister post without achieving Telangana. He made it clear that he has no objection in case the party high command offers Chief Minister post after creating separate Telangana State.
Condemning the CPI State secretary Dr K Narayana’s criticism that the Telangana issue will not be cleared with the votes and seats, TRC Chief K Chandrashekar Rao has said that he was leaving it to the wisdom of Narayana.
Speaking to the media here on Monday, KCR said that one could be in a position to dictate the Parliament in case he wins 15 MP seats and nobody will stop the resolution on Telangana in the Assembly if a party committed to Telangana won 100 MLA seats.
The AP high court has rejected the petition filed by Umesh Kumar in connection with the charge of forging the signature of Rajyasaba, member M A Khan.
The court has denied his request for transferring the case from the CID court to another court.
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State IT minister Ponnala Laxmaiah, announced that ‘Aadhar’ services would be available at all the ‘Mee Seva’ centres henceforth.
Speaking after inaugurating the services at the RTA office premises in Khairathabad, the minister said that people who need to enroll afresh or those who lost their cards or the ones who registered but had not received their cards could get all these services at the Mee Seva centres.
The Chief Minister Mr. N Kiran Kumar Reddy will arrive at Kagaznagar, Adilabad District at 10 am on February 19, by helicopter from Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad and reach Andevelly village. He will visit the affected/deceased families and interact with them.
Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir today said a major problem being faced in delivery of criminal justice was delay “where the entire process takes almost 15-16 years”.
Delivering Justice P D Desai memorial lecture here on ‘Administration of Criminal Justice’, Justice Kabir said, “Today a major problem is delay where the entire process, from the time when an offence is registered to the stage of final conviction, takes almost 15 to 16 years.
“I hope everyone involved in the process would perform their duty to expedite the wheels of justice,” he added.
Over 50 youths have been arrested for allegedly being involved in stone-pelting during protests that rocked parts of the Kashmir following execution of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru.
“Police have arrested 53 persons from different districts of the Valley on the
charges of stone-pelting and creating trouble after Guru’s hanging,” a police spokesman said.
Protests were held at many places across Kashmir even after authorities imposed curfew in the Valley after Guru was hanged in Tihar Jail in Delhi on February 9.
Declaring that he would mobilize six crore people over next one and a half years for his anti-graft campaign, Anna Hazare on Sunday said Jan Lokpal alone cannot root out corruption and called for comprehensive electoral reforms and empowering of village-level bodies.
Addressing a public meeting here, he said his fight was for changing the entire system and called upon youths to join hands with him. The 75-year-old said Jan Lokpal can control 50 to 55 percent corruption.
Just 95 minutes before his hanging, Afzal Guru wrote to his family requesting not to bemoan his death but respect the stature he has attained.
Putting all speculations to rest, Guru’s family released the letter, written in Urdu, on Sunday, eight days after he was hanged in Tihar jail.
In his letter addressed to his family and the “faithfuls”, Guru wrote: “Thanks to Almighty Allah who has chosen me for this stature. I congratulate all the faithfuls who sided with truth and righteousness. Let the afterlife be the end for our means to truth and righteousness.”
TDP has on Sunday announced a six-point programme the first point of which was to control the corruption of Congress, to contain and challenge the ruling party.
In a statement here on Sunday, party senior leader Yanamala Ramakrishnudu announced this
programme, which includes, stopping all the irregularities, recovering the polundered money
and distribute it to the farmers and the poor, equitable distribution of the government’s
revenue, containing extravagant expenditure and using the natural resources for the
development of the society.
The chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has directed Ministers J. Geeta Reddy and Sridhar Babu to immediately undertake personal supervision of relief works in Medak and Karimnagar districts which were ravaged by untimely rains yesterday and the day before.
The chief minister also directed ministers and senior officials to immediately get reports from collectors of all rain-affected districts and organize relief work.
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Telangana TDP convener Errabelli Dayakar Rao has lashed out at TRS Chief K Chandrasekhara Rao saying that the latter lacked interest in formation of Telangana State.
Speaking to the media here on Sunday, Errabelli said the Congress abandoned its word on Telangana. He advised all political parties to fight unitedly to achieve separate Telangana keeping their flags aside. Alleging that KCR wanted 100 Assembly seats to achieve separate State, Errabelli said the former would sell his party to the Congress after winning 100 seats.
On the evening of 10th Feb, 2013 at Salt & Pepper Restaurant, Bazme Shagoofa held a literary session dedicated to Mr. Manzoorul Ameen, Ex-director General of Door Darshan. His Excellency Faiz Ahmed Qidwai, The Consul General of Embassy of India graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.
He hailed the services of Mr. Manzoorul Ameen as an inspiring personality who worked not only for the development of Indian TV media but also has rendered countless services in literature, teaching, journalism and poetry.
Will APCC President Botcha Satyanarayana, who is also the Minister for Transport in the Kiran Kumar Reddy cabinet, lose his ministerial berth in tune with Rahul Gandhi’s “one man, one post” policy ?.
Soon after taking over the reins as second-in-command of the Congress Party by becoming its Vice-President, Rahul Gandhi had made amply clear that he was against one leader holding more than one post either in the organization or in the government. Though this policy of one man-one post was in vogue in the past, it was given a go by later.
All India Muslim Minority Organization (AIMMO) has demanded that the government take immediate steps to implement Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission report, Justice Sachar Committee recommendation and implementation of 15-point program of Dr Manmohan Singh.
It also demanded protection of the Sate Wakf properties by setting up a Wakf Commissionerate and early appointment of a new chairman for the Wakf Board as the post remained vacant.
The CBI court has expressed its impatience towards CBI keeping on extending the remand of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
The remand of Jagan expired on Thursday. The court examined him through video conferencing to extend it.
The court directed the CBI’s counsel to explain specific reasons for extending the remand of the Kadapa MP. The court also directed the agency to keep it posted of the progress of the investigation to it every 15 days.
It was not just VHP and Bajrang Dal volunteers but even the police and GHMC had played spoilsport with young couples on the occasion of Valentines Day today.
The VHP and Bajrang Dal volunteers had warned the youth, both boys and girls, not to copy the western culture, by celebrating the Valentines Day. Besides issuing a warning to the parents to prevent their children in participating in Valentine Day gaiety, the political moral police also threatened to forcibly perform the marriage of the couples if found in parks, pubs, malls etc.
Bajrang Dal has asked city youths to refrain from celebrating the Valentines Day on Thursday, saying it was against the values of Indian culture.
“We have asked city police commissioner not to grant any special permission for Valentines Day celebrations. We also appeal to managements of resorts and pubs not to organise special programmes to celebrate the occasion,” Bajrang Dal’s city president Vinod Kumar said.
Bajrang Dal activists would counsel young men and women, spotted in public places like parks if they are minors, he said.
AP Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan seem to be playing a pivotal role in guiding the central leadership in its task of finding a solution to the crucial issue of separate Telangana State.
The Governor who was in New Delhi to attend a two-day conference of Governors was scheduled to return to Hyderabad on Tuesday. However, the Ministry of Home Affairs had advised him to be available in the national capital for crucial discussions and hence the Governor extended his stay by one more day and is expected to return on Wednesday evening.
TRS Chief K Chandrashekar Rao has inaugurated the shooting of a film called ‘Udyamam’ here on Wednesday. The film was being made based on the Telangana movement. Participating as a chief guest, KCR has clapped the film and inaugurated the shooting of the film.
Speaking on this occasion, KCR hoped that the ‘Udyamam’ film will work as a catalyst to the Telangana movement. He said that the film will tell to the Telangana protagonists as to what they have to do in the movement. He said that the film will send a good message to the Telangana people and to the Telangana movement.
PCC official spokespersons have lodged a complaint with the City Crime Station located at Control Room premises here on Wednesday asking the police to initiate action against the persons who were posting the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s image by morphing his photo and posting abusive messages along with them.
The complainants, PCC official spokesperson Maddineni Ajay and others, have alleged that the photo had been uploaded from ‘Telangana Muddubidda’ website and the up-loaders have themselves described that they were TRSV leader Balka Suman’s fans.
–Agencies
Vijayawada Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal has demanded that a sedition case be registered against TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao for whipping up regional hatred.