saleem Police today arrested 23 people on charge of murder in the violence in Mumbai yesterday in which two persons were killed and 55 people, including 46 policemen, were injured, which appeared to be a “pre-planned” act.
Besides the 23 people, who were booked under section 302 of IPC, the organisers, Raza Academy and Madina Tul Ilm Foundation, also faced similar charges, police said.
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Key 26/11 attack handler Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal today made a confessional statement before a magistrate here in which he is understood to have given a deep insight into Pakistan-based Lashker-e- Taiba terror group’s role in the 2008 Mumbai strikes.
30-year-old Jundal, who has been confronted with Ajmal Kasab — the lone surviving Lashker terrorist in the Mumbai terror attacks, was produced before a metropolitan magistrate in his chamber, official sources said.
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Assam Relief Co-Ordination Committee has demanded that the Union government order a CBI inquiry into Assam riots. Speaking to mediapersons here on Sunday, Committee organizer Mohd Shahnawaz Khan demanded that the Centre arrest culprits behind the riots and dispense justice to the riot victims.
He also urged the Centre to release adequate funds for rehabilitation and set up more medical camps to provide medical assistance to the victims.
Two women were killed when the car in which they were traveling has hit a lorry from behind on the outer ring road at Pedda Amberpet under Hayatnagar mandal of Ranga Reddy district today. Three more were injured.
According to police, they were coming back to Hyderabad after attending a birthday celebration at Mount Opera, when their car lost control and hit the lorry.
The deceased were identified as Bindu and Sravani while the injured were identified as Pratibha, Srinivas and Ramesh. All these youngsters were students of an engineering college of Hyderabad, said sources.
The Amberpet police has arrested a three-member gang, which was making fake currency notes.
East Zone Additional DCP has said that they seized Rs 90,000 worth fake currency notes, a printer and a computer from the gangsters. He said that one Srinivas Reddy from Karimnagar, Rajashekar from Adilabad and Venkat Reddy from Mahbubnagar have formed into a gang, preparing fake currency notes and distributing them in the market.
The crime came to light when the police arrested the accused while they were roaming in Amberpet area in suspicious manner.
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Government Whip in the Assembly and Sangareddy MLA Toorpu Jayaprakash Reddy aka Jagga Reddy has alleged that Union Petroleum Minister S. Jaipal Reddy and Telangana senior Congress leader Dr K Keshav Rao have been hatching a conspiracy along with TRS Chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao to dethrone N. Kiran Kumar Reddy from the chief minister post.
Speaking to the media at the CLP Office here on Sunday, Jagga Reddy said that Jaipal Reddy was eyeing the chief minister’s post. Kiran Kumar Reddy was working for 18 hours a day for welfare of the people, he added.
The Andhra Pradesh Government on Sunday proposed to set up a high-end Research and Development Park in Electronic Manufacturing in Hyderabad in line with Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan.
The proposal was made by Information Technology Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah during his interaction with Union IT and HRD Minister Kapil Sibbal and Dr Kumar Mangalam Birla at the sidelines of the first convocation of BITS Pilani in the city. Ponnala suggested that India was in dire need of high end electronic R&D Park such as ITRI.
There will be power shut down in the areas under Shastripuram and Raghavendra feeders on Monday from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm to facilitate cutting of tree branches which are causing disturbance in the power supply.
According to APCPDCL Assistant Engineering (Katedhan Section) OS Khatare, the areas where there will be power shut down are Shastripuram, King’s Colony, Noor Colony, Rizwan Colony, Shama Colony, Saifi Colony, Akber Colony and B K Puram. The CPDCL has expressed regret over the inconvenience and sought cooperation from the locals.
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The Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Sunday demanded that the State Government hasten the process to conduct elections for the local bodies in the State.
Talking to reporters here, TRS deputy floor leader T Harish Rao said that the State has been Central funds worth several hundred crores due to the absence of elected local bodies in the State. He said despite knowing the fact that the Central funds could not be received unless elections are held, the State Government has been avoiding the elections citing one reason or the other.
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao on Sunday demanded that the State Government continue the Fee Reimbursement scheme without any modifications.
Talking to reporters here, Hanumantha Rao said that it would be wrong on the part of the State Government to say that it would only reimburse only Rs 31,000. Further, the advise being given to the students to take the remaining fee amount as loan from the banks was not practical as the banks does not give loans to the poor students, he said.
Former PCC President P Janardhan Reddy’s daughter Vijaya Reddy on Sunday joined YSR Congress party in the presence of party’s Honorary president Vijaya Lakshmi and announced that she would work hard to bring the party to power in 2014 general elections.
Earlier, Vijaya Reddy reached Lotus Pond in a huge convey of his supporters and met YSR Congress Party Honorary President Vijaya Lakshmi where she was welcomed by the later and presented a party Khandwa.
Mumbai Police exercised maximum restraint in quelling today’s violence and resorted to firing only as the last option, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said tonight.
Two persons were killed and 45 policemen injured in the violence that erupted after a rally organised by city-based Raza Academy this afternoon at Azad Maidan in South Mumbai turned unruly, with the mob damaging buses, hurling stones and setting vehicles on fire.
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TRS senior leader T Harish Rao has said that the people of the Telangana region got separated from the Seemandhra people mentally.
Speaking at Telangana Lab Technicians Association launching meeting at Telangana Bhavan here on Saturday, Harish Rao said that the Telugu people would remain united only after division of the State. He advised the integrationists to think in that direction and support division of the State wholeheartedly. Otherwise, the agitation for separate State would go on, he warned.
TDP Rajya Sabha member T Devender Goud has said that Congress leaders were plundering the exchequer in the name of Jala Yagnam.
Devender Goud, MLA Ramulu and other TDP leaders visited the Elluru (Near Kollapur)lift irrigation works under the Kalwakurti project in the district on Saturday.
Speaking to the media on the occasion, Goud said that right from late chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy to the present incumbent Kiran Kumar Reddy, every one was plundering the State in the name of projects.
Confederation of Voluntary Associations (COVA), a social organization, has strongly and unequivocally condemned the attack on media in Mumbai by a section of people gathered at the Azad Maidan to protest the violence in Assam and Burma. Using violence in a protest against violence is an insult to the suffering victims in whose support the protest was purportedly organized.
Labour Minister Danam Nagender has said that the Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy assured him to order a comprehensive inquiry into the dispute of Laxmi Narasimha Swamy Temple land at Banjara Hills.
Speaking to the media here on Saturday, Danam said that he urged the Chief Minister to cancel the land allotted to Hare Krishna Movement and the latter responded favourably. He said that he was regretting for going to the temple. “I went there as a local MLA on the request of local people”, he said. He also said that he has no differences with the Chief Minister.
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Police, who could not prevent the ABVP activists from gate crashing into the Chief Minister’s camp office on Friday, have imposed restrictions on the media that reported the failure of the security mechanism.
Police on Saturday directed the media, which generally waits at the gate of the camp office to have an eye on those who meet the Chief Minister and interview the visitors was now asked to wait at the Manjeera guest house, next to the camp office where they would have no view of what was happening.
Congress MP Madhu Yashki Goud has created flutters in political circles by stating that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was against creation of separate Telangana State. He said that it was due to Dr Singh’s opposition that bifurcation of the State was getting delayed.
Ridiculing TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu’s campaign against VANCPIC project, the YSR Congress party has demanded the leader of opposition to be categorical on his Party’s industrial policy and apply the same yardstick to every allotment made to industrial houses since 1995.
Communist Party of India State Secretary K Narayana on Saturday asked Labour Minister D Nagender to clarify whether ‘he was a minister or a rowdy?
Talking to reporters at Makhdoom Bhavan, Narayana condemned the behaviour of Nagender over the issue of ISKCON temple at Banjara Hills and said that such an attitude does not suit a cabinet minister. Demanding that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy take action against all the tainted ministers and those facing criminal cases, he demanded that Nagender be removed from the cabinet.
Congress party’s Whip in Legislative Council R Padma Raju assured that government would take all the necessary steps to ensure that the students continue their studies without any apprehensions about fee reimbursement scheme.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Saturday accused the State Government of deliberately ignoring the power projects of Telangana region.
BJP state president Kishan Reddy has alleged that labour minister Danam Nagender was acting like a rowdy and raiding temples.
Talking to the media here on Friday, he said the Governor should take action against the minister for raiding a temple and locking up its gates. He said it was strange that Danam was stating that he had locked the temple to save Congress workers. Questioning how a minister could indulge in rowdyism, he said Danam who said anti-social activities were occurring in the temple should say what they were.
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The last date for receipt of applications for the Journalists’ Medi-Claim policy has been extended to August 14.
This was stated in a press note here today by Khaleel Quadri, President and T Koti Reddy, Secretary, Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ).
Journalists who wants to get their policies renewed and those who want to apply afresh should send their application along with two photographs of each member of the family, and Bank DD for Rs.900 in favour of Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists, and send it to the Union office, Deshoddharaka Bhavan. Bahseerbagh.
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TDP senior leader and former Mayor of Hyderabad Teegala Krishna Reddy has demanded the arrest of labour minister Danam Nagender for locking the Lakshmi Narasimha temple in Banjara Hills, which has a history of 70 years.