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A woman died on the spot and another person received severe injuries when an unidentified vehicle hit the two
wheeler on which they were travelling here on Monday morning hours at Lotus Hospital at Lakdikapool.

The woman, who died in the accident, was a pillion rider and the person received severe injuries was driving the two wheeler. Police shifted the person who received severe injuries to the nearby hospital. The traffic halted for hours due to the accident on the Lakdikapool and Khairathabad road.

–Agencies

Congress MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao has said that the plan of the separatists was to plunder the rich in a big way if
separate state was created.

Addressing the Samaikyandhra Samara Bheri in the SV University here on Monday, he said if backwardness was to be the basis for division, there would be need for innumerable divisions. He has alleged that students and people were being unnecessarily provoked for political gain of leaders.

He said if separate state was created,they would extort money from the rich. He said it was the plan of some

The chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy seeking postponement of the all-party meeting on the long-pending Telangana issue, slated for December 28, has come under fire from different sections including a section of the Congress leaders from Telangana region.

A courier staff was today arrested for allegedly raping a 61-year-old woman at her flat at Powai in suburban Mumbai, police said.

Ashok Kumar (42) had gone to the victim’s apartment at around 12:30 pm yesterday and allegedly raped her before fleeing, they said.

The accused was known to the woman and used to frequent her residence at Military Road, police said.

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Workers of Singareni collieries limited here have expressed their solidarity with the TDP chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu.

The TDP President is on his fifth day padayatra in this district. He stayed at Arli K village of Kuntala mandal last night. This morning, singareni workers called on Chandrababu, expressed their support to him, by rendering songs wishing for his rule in the State again.

Rebutting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s charge that minorities were feeling “insecure” in BJP-ruled Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi today accused him of playing votebank politics with the minority community.

“The Prime Minister, who visited Gujarat today, is playing votebank politics in the name of minority and majority (communities). It is sad that the Prime Minister of the country cannot rise above votebank politics,” Modi said addressing a poll rally in this town in South Gujarat.

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A police constable allegedly killed his wife and daughter here over dowry demand, police said on Sunday.

Constable T Venkatesh, attached to Tadwai police station under Kamareddy sub-division, hit his 28-year-old wife Vanaja and seven-year-old daughter with a blunt weapon at their house late last night causing multiple head-injuries following which both of them died on the spot.

A suspected illegal arms supplier and a buyer were arrested from Chirang district of lower Assam today.

The two were held by the district police and army personnel on a tip off.

The arms supplier hailed from Bihar and had come to Assam to sell a 9 mm pistol. The men were apprehended from Dhalgaon town while finalising the deal, police said.

–Agencies

Protests in all three regions of Andhra Pradesh Sunday marked the third anniversary of the central government’s announcement to initiate the process of forming a separate state of Telangana.

While parties fighting for a Telangana state took out rallies in Hyderabad and nine other districts of the region, demanding the central government fulfill its word, some groups in parts of Seemandhra (Rayalaseema and Andhra regions) observed a black day, opposing any move to bifurcate the state.

Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha on Sunday condemned Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s request to the Centre to postpone the all-party meeting on Telangana scheduled on December 28.

Ninety percent of Indians are “idiots” who can easily be misled by mischievous elements in the name of religion, Press Council of India (PCI) chairperson Justice Markandey Katju claimed today.

“I say ninety percent of Indians are idiots. You people don’t have brains in your heads….It is so easy to take you for a ride,” he said at a seminar here.

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Telugu Desam MP Y Sujana Choudary on Saturday apologised to the party workers even as he admitted that abstaining from voting in Rajya Sabha on FDI on Friday was a “mistake”.

“It was an unexpected mistake but a costly mistake. It should not have happened,” Choudary told newsmen after meeting TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu at Adilabad on Saturday evening.

The MP said he handed over a letter to Chandrababu explaining the reason for his absence from the House at the crucial time of voting.

Unknown burglars broke into the store room of Archaeological department and decamped with the Qutub Shahi era’s cannonballs (Top Ka Golas).

According to the sources one of the staff member of Archaeological Department went to store room located in BadaBazaar in Golconda Fort,to his surprise he found the door broken and the Iron made antique Cannonballs belonging to the Qutub Shahi rule went missing.

When the news of the burglary spread,locals gathered and informed the matter to the Golconda Police station.

Stating that the ruling Congress would play an opposition party role if the people encouraged corruption, APCC Chief Botcha Satyanarayana has lamented that the people were not taking care of ‘corrupt’ people.

In an informal chat with the media at Gandhi Bhavan on Saturday, Botcha said there was nothing wrong if the party loses election and sit in the Opposition benches for five years.

The SR Nagar police nabbed two high-profile drug consumers in the early hours of Saturday near Food World, Dharam Karam Road and recovered ten pouches of one gram each of cocaine, Skoda Car AP 35 K 5555 and three cell phones. The police stated that Abhishiek Kumar was involved in two cases of Gaming Act under SR Nagar PS in 2005 and Panjagutta in 2006.

The Hyderabad Metro Rail project has been selected as one of the top 100 strategic global infrastructure projects to be showcased at the forthcoming Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum being held in New York in Feb-March, 2013.

Apart from the Rs 14,132 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail project, two other Indian projects have also figured in this prestigious list. They are GIFT City (Gujarat International Financial Tech city) costing Rs 72,600 crore and Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail project costing Rs 60,000 crore.

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to scrutinise the appointment of an Andhra Pradesh High Court judge, Justice NV Ramana, despite pendency of a criminal case against him during his appointment, and sought from the Attorney General all documents pertaining to his elevation.

A bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai also expressed surprise that he was appointed on the advice of erstwhile Union Law Minister Ram Jethmalani, who, appearing as an advocate for the petitioner, was now seeking quashing of his elevation.

A DMK member on Friday expressed concern in the Lok Sabha over construction of a temple within the premises of the famous Charminar in Hyderabad through alleged encroachment and asked the Centre to take appropriate action to prevent any communal tension.

M Abdul Rahman (DMK) drew attention of the House during Zero Hour to how the temple had come up within the precincts of the Charminar over the years and is encroaching further on the land belonging to the heritage building.

“Vimalakka Vidudala Committee”, formed to fight for the release of Telangana crusader Vimalakka, has demanded that the State government withdraw all criminal cases foisted against her and release her from the jail unconditionally. It also appealed to all sections of the people to raise their voice against the government’s ‘zulum’ against Vimalakka, who has been fighting for separate Telangana State since 1996.

Asserting that his party government had alone brought about monumental development in the Telangana region, TDP supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu today said that his party representative would “say what the party wants to say” during the all-party meeting being convened in New Delhi on December 28 on separate Telangana issue.

The government on Thursday said the Enforcement Directorate is probing alleged violation of FDI regulations by cash and carry chain Walmart.

“Directorate of Enforcement has taken appropriate action to examine alleged contravention of provisions of Foreign Exchange

Management Act, 1999, (FEMA) by Walmart, on the basis of reference received from RBI,” Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

The City Police on Wednesday arrested two more persons who were allegedly involved in an arson case of Jamia Masjid at Chintal Bazar in Bollaram.

According to police, on December 2, a complaint was lodged by Jamia Masjid Committee’s president Nazeer Khan stating that some unknown persons set fire to the main door of the Chintal Bazar mosque by pouring diesel. The police began investigation after registering a case.

Former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao, often held responsible through his “inaction” for the Babri Masjid demolition, had said in his book that the act was a “conspiracy” that had been “pre-planned”. He called it a “betrayal” by the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government of then chief minister Kalyan
Singh who gave repeated assurances to the central government only to break it.

The sprawling Parliament House complex will soon boast of a full-size statue of legendary Telugu politician N T Rama Rao in the latest addition to the installations of the galaxy of leaders.

The statue to be made of copper, lead, tin and zinc will be installed in the complex, courtesy the late matinee idol’s daughter D Purandeswari.

–Agencies

On a day of hectic political activity, Telangana Congress MPs could tilt the balance with an assurance from the Centre on the separate State issue.