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Gujarat government has promoted IPS officer Chittaranjan Singh to the post of a regular Director General of Police.

Mr Singh had been holding the charge of DGP till yesterday.

In a late last night order, the state government also promoted Additional DGP Dipak Swaroop to the post of DGP (Homeguard), whereas Additional DG Amitabh Pathak is now DGP Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Ahmedabad Commissioner of Police S K Saikia had been promoted to the post of DGP but no change of assignment has been made in his case.

He remains the city police commissioner.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy Tuesday hoped that the Centre would soon take an appropriate decision on the Telangana issue in the best interests of the state and country.

“There is separate state demand from Telangana region, while there is united Andhra Pradesh demand from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. This is a difficult situation. I hope the Centre and Congress would take an appropriate decision in the best interests of the state and the country, which benefits the highest number of people,” Reddy said.

Amid indications that a decision on Telangana issue could be taken by the Congress soon, TRS Chief K Chandrasekhar Rao had a meeting with Union minister Vayalar Ravi today.

Ravi is an old hand in Andhra Pradesh affairs and has been informally looking after the Congress in the state for the last few months.

–Agencies

In the backdrop of an anti-Islam movie, the prominent cleric of Muslim’s Shia sect, Kalbe Jawad, today said United Nation should frame a law for a stringent punishment to those insulting any religion in the world.

The US-made low budget movie evoked sharp reactions from various parts world. Protests were also held in parts of Uttar Pradesh.

Talking to the reporters here Jawad said such acts should not be tolerated.

–Agencies

President Barack Obama today invoked the words of Mahatma Gandhi in his address to the UN General Assembly here as he remembered US envoy to Libya who was killed in violent protests that erupted in the aftermath of an anti-Islam film, saying the “crude and disgusting” video was no excuse for an “attack on America”.

Obama took the stage at the UN General Assembly hall to address world leaders in what is his last international speech before the November 6 presidential elections.

Questioning the sanctity of the proposed padayatra of TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu, YSRCP spokesperson Ambati Rambabu has said that the exercise will be rejected by the people who are well aware of the his antics during his nine year term as Chief Minister.

Speaking to media here on Tuesday he said, “Trying to emulate YSR, Chandrababu Naidu has chalked out the Padayatra with the slogan- I am coming for you- which has a heavy political accent. He has no moral right to undertake the mass contact programme as all sections of people underwent serious hardships during his tenure.”

Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao on Tuesday appeared before the CBI Special Court in connection with the Rs 17,000 crore VANPIC port case.

The court while adjourning the hearing on the case to October 9 granted anticipatory bail to Dharmana Prasada Rao following his petition. While sanctioning the anticipatory bail, the court asked him to produce a surety of two persons along with a personal bond of Rs 25,000. Venkatrami Reddy and Satya Sai gave surety for Dharmana Prasad rao.

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday granted conditional bail to suspended judges T Pattibhirama Rao and K Lakshminarasimha Rao and Karnataka MLA G Somasekhara Reddy in the cash-for-bail case involving former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy.

The high court granted bail to the main accused when Janardhana Reddy was produced before the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court here. Justice Samudrala Govindarajulu did not agree with the ACB’s contention that Pattabhirama Rao might tamper with the evidence if released on bail and pronounced the verdict.

Rajya Sabha member Palwai Govardhan Reddy on Tuesday said that he would appeal to the Congress High Command to direct the State Government to provide proper security to the upcoming Telangana March on September 30.

The Haj Committee of India has confirmed 191 more seats for Andhra Pradesh from Waiting List Number 2138 to 2328 for Haj 2012.

GHMC Commissioner MT Krishna Babu on Tuesday expressed confidence that the beautification works of twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad would be completed before the beginning of global biodiversity conference.

The Telugu Desam Party on Tuesday asked Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to direct the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to take immediate measures to control the outbreak of viral and seasonal diseases in the city.

The United Muslim Forum, a representative body of 21 prominent religious organisations, on Monday appreciated the measures taken by Government of India in imposing a ban on anti-Islam movie “The Innocence of Muslims”.

The CBI Special Court, Nampally on Monday granted unconditional bail to G V Vijay Raghav, an accused in the Emaar properties scam.

While granting bail, the court asked Vijay Raghav to produce two sureties and deposit Rs 1 lakh. Earlier, Vijay Raghav’s counsel said his client was ready to abide by any condition imposed by the court to grant the bail. However, the CBI counsel opposed the bail petition stating that he might influence the witnesses if granted bail.

Former Rajya Sabha member K Kesava Rao on Monday said that the Congress party leaders from the region would extend full support to the Telangana March scheduled to be held on September 30.

Congress MP from Nizamabad Madhu Yashki Goud has made it clear that the September 30 Telangana March was not against the proposed Biodiversity meet COP-11.

Speaking to the media at former CWC member Dr Keshav Rao’s residence here on Monday after Telangana Congress MPs meeting, Goud asked the government not to provoke the Telangana protagonists by resorting to arrests.

The Telangana March will go on as scheduled, he said and requested that Centre to begin the process for creation of Telangana.

Tension prevailed for some time on Monday when the police arrested Telangana United Front leader Vimalakka at her Banjara Hills residence. Telangana activists vainly tried to prevent her arrest and raised slogans against the government saying that they would not allow her arrest. However, the police arrested Vimalakka in the morning in connection with vandalizing former chief minister late Kasu Brahmananda Reddi’s statue at KBR Park.

A group of eminent personalities including former judges on Monday appealed to President of India Pranab Mukherjee to issue appropriate directions for the peaceful conduct of Telangana March on September 30.

Justifying the hike in bus fares, Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana on Monday asked the parties not to politicise the issue to get mileage on it.

Minor Irrigation Minister T G Venkatesh on Monday said that the Centre was likely take a decision on Telangana statehood issue six months before the 2014 general elections.

Talking to media persons at Secretariat, Venkatesh reminded that the subsequent governments at the Centre have announced crucial decisions only before the elections. He said that the Seemandhra leaders would go to New Delhi in the first week of October pressing for special financial package for backward areas development apart from discussing the Telangana issue.

Telangana Political Joint Action Committee chairman Prof M Kodandaram on Monday announced that the Telangana March would be held at Tank Bund and Necklace Road on September 30.

Talking to media persons after emerging from TPJAC Steering Committee meeting at TNGO Bhavan at Nampally, Kodandaram said that there would be no compromise on organising the Telangana March. He assured that the March would be peaceful and the government would have to give permission for the same. He said that the JAC has coined another name ‘Sagara Haram’ for the March.

Hamas’s leader in exile, Khaled Meshaal, is tired of policy challenges from the Islamist group’s Gaza-based leadership and is not seeking re-election in a vote now underway, political and diplomatic sources said on Sunday. Over the past five months, Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip

since 2007, has been quietly holding a leadership ballot among activists in the territory, the occupied West Bank, Israeli prisons and in Arab and other foreign countries.

The TDP leaders of Telangana region, who had repeatedly asserted that party chief N Chandrababu Naidu would send a letter to the Centre on the vexatious Telangana issue by September 17—Hyderabad Liberation Day—are a dispirited and disenchanted lot now.

Governor ESL Narasimhan has said that he would visit Sonia Gandhi’s house whenever he went to New Delhi just as any one visiting Tirupati would visit the nearby temples also after having a darshan of Lord Venkateswara. In a similar manner, he met Union ministers Narayanaswamy, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Chidambaram besides Sonia Gandhi during his visits to Delhi, he added.

Taking a dig at Prime Minister Mahmohan Singh using the adage ‘money does not grow on trees’ in his recent televised speech, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat said the central government policies “have indeed made it true for corporate houses”.

“Corporate houses are plucking money from trees of favourable central policies,” said Karat, while she referred to Singh’s address to the nation on Friday night, following withdrawal of support to the government by the Trinamool Congress.