uzma Lucknow, October 05:A man, along with his daughter, opened fire at five people in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnore district Monday killing two on the spot and critically injuring the rest, police said.
The incident was reported in the Kambhour village of Bijnore district early Monday.
The accused, Akhtar and Fatima, are absconding after the incident. The injured were sent to Meerut for treatment.
New Delhi, October 05:Bahrain has endorsed India’s bid for a UN Security Council seat in 2011-12, Minister of State for External
Affairs Shashi Tharoor said in a tweet posted on the social networking site from the Gulf country Monday.
Tharoor, who narrowly lost his bid for the top UN job over two years ago, is India’s chief pointsperson to push New Delhi’s case for a Security Council seat as a non-permanent member. Tharoor managed to get Liberia’s support for India’s UN candidature during his visit to the African country last month.
New Delhi, October 05:Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Monday said a bill to streamline the functioning of Wakf boards across the country is in its final stage and will be introduced in the winter session of parliament.
“The ministry of law has given its final shape to it (the draft bill for amending the Wakf Act, 1999). We will introduce it in the next session of parliament,” Khurshid told reporters after a meeting of the Central Wakf Council where many issues related to welfare of minorities were discussed.
Shimla, October 05:Three more people in Himachal Pradesh have tested positive for Influenza A (H1N1) virus, officials said Monday. Now the total number of swine flu cases in the state has reached seven.
“Two students and a teacher of Alpine Residential School at Pinjore have tested positive,” the state’s nodal officer for swine flu Vinod Mehta told IANS.
Pinjore is located in Haryana on the border of Himachal Pradesh.
Mehta said the patients belonged to the hill state.
Bangalore, October 05:External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said Monday he would prevail upon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi to grant more relief to flood-hit Karnataka from the National Calamity Contingency Fund.
“I will meet the prime minister in New Delhi Wednesday and apprise him of the colossal damage caused by heavy rains and flash floods in north Karnataka for speedy release of funds from NCCF to the state,” Krishna, a former chief minister of the state, told reporters here.
New Delhi, October 05:The Election Commission Monday announced that bye-elections to Firozabad Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh and 31 assembly seats in seven states will be held Nov 7.
The assembly bypolls will be held for 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in West Bengal, three seats in Kerala, two each in Rajasthan, Assam, and Himachal Pradesh and one seat in Chhattisgarh.
Counting of votes would be held on Nov 10, the poll panel said.
New Delhi, October 05:The Congress party Monday said that all possible steps are being taken to deal with the flood situation in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
“Every possible effort is being undertaken at the centre and the state level to deal with the flood situation,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singvi told reporters here.
Earlier in the day, Congress president Sonia Gandhi surveyed the flood affected areas and assured all possible help from the central government.
Mumbai, October 05:Living up to its image as the country’s commercial capital, Mumbai and its surrounding will see a whopping 122 crorepati candidates across the political spectrum contesting the forthcoming state assembly elections, a public watchdog revealed here Monday.
The city will also have the largest number of candidates whose educational qualifications are below Class 10 pass, according to a survey by the NGO, Maharashtra Election Watch (MEW).
Shimla, October 05:Bodies of seven Indian Army personnel who were killed in a road accident in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla district have been sent to their native places, an official said Monday.
“All the seven bodies of Army personnel were sent to their native places this (Monday) evening after completing legal formalities,” Col Mukesh Bansal, a spokesperson for the Shimla-based Army Training Command (ARTRAC), told IANS.
Earlier, the police said that eight soldiers were killed in the accident near Tattapani, 55 km from here.
New Delhi, October 05:The Supreme Court Monday moved the Delhi High Court against its ruling that the office of the chief justice of India (CJI) came within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, and said that all its judges are declaring their assets before the CJI.
The ruling of the single-judge bench of the high court had also made it mandatory for apex court judges to disclose their assets.
The apex court in its appeal said that the declaration of the assets by the judges is a voluntarily step and is not under the RTI act.
New Delhi, October 05:Undertaking one of the biggest relief and rescue operations in the flood-ravaged states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, the armed forces have rescued hundreds of marooned people so far.
“1,336 people have been rescued so far by the armed forces in the flood-ravaged states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The army, air force and the navy are working round-the-clock to rescue the marooned people and provide much needed food in the flood affected areas,” a defence ministry spokesperson said Monday.
Bangalore/Hyderabad, October 05:Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh Monday sought immediate central assistance of Rs.16,000 crore for rehabilitation work as large parts of the states were hit by torrential rain and flash floods that killed over 240 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
The demand came as Congress president and United Progressive Chairperson Sonia Gandhi made an aerial survey of the havoc wrought by the rain that started Wednesday as a result of deep depression in the Bay of Bengal.
Hyderabad, October 03:The regular students and private candidates without school study who are going to appear for the first time for the SSC Public Examinations to be held in March 2010 with Tamil, Hindi and Urdu as first language shall write the examinations in the changed question paper pattern i.e. Part – A for 30 marks of descriptive and Part – B for 20 marks of objective type questions both in Paper I and Paper II, according to Ms Pronoti Suhasini Kavoori, Director of Government Examinations, Hyderabad.
Karachi, October 03:Pakistan’s cricket community reacted sharply Saturday after the country’s players were “snubbed” at the International Cricket Council (ICC) Awards ceremony in Johannesburg earlier this week.
Fans back home were confident that at least one Pakistani cricketer – all-rounder Shahid Afridi – would win the ICC award for the best Twenty20 performance of the year. But they were stunned when Afridi was overlooked for the award despite of the fact that he helped Pakistan win the 2009 World Twenty20 title in England in June.
New Delhi, October 03: India have been clubbed with defending champions Maldives in the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championships to be held in Dhaka from Dec 4.
India, Maldives, Nepal and Afghanistan are in Group A while hosts Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bhutan are in Group B. The two top teams from each group will qualify for the semis and the final will be played Dec 14.
All matches will be played at the Bangabandhu Stadium and the winner will take home prize money of $50,000.
New Delhi, October 03: India have been clubbed with defending champions Maldives in the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championships to be held in Dhaka from Dec 4.
India, Maldives, Nepal and Afghanistan are in Group A while hosts Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bhutan are in Group B. The two top teams from each group will qualify for the semis and the final will be played Dec 14.
All matches will be played at the Bangabandhu Stadium and the winner will take home prize money of $50,000.
Shimla, October 03:Two more patients in Himachal Pradesh have tested positive for influenza A (H1N1), taking the number of swine flu cases in the state to four, a health official said Saturday.
“Medical reports of two sisters in the age group of 18 to 20 of Kasauli have tested positive,” swine flu nodal officer Vinod Mehta told IANS.
He said the sisters had shown mild systems of the communicable disease.
Kasauli is about 25 kms from the district headquarters town of Solan.
New Delhi, October 03:A 25-year-old man was arrested for kidnapping and molesting a 15-year-old girl while his younger brother was arrested for raping her when she refused to marry him, police said Saturday.
Rinku, who is married, was insisting the victim get married to his brother Deepak, police said.
When she refused do so, they kept her hostage for 10 days in their Model Town house in northwest Delhi, “where the elder brother molested her and the younger one raped her. They also threatened her with dire consequences,” said a police officer.
Wellington, September 30:The Pacific island death toll from Tuesday’s tsunami, which was triggered by a 8.0-magnitude undersea earthquake, continued to rise as more bodies were recovered from the debris of villages and tourist resorts and was set to reach at least 120, reports from the region said.
A total of 63 people were confirmed dead in Samoa as officials hampered by power and communications outages struggled to assess the casualties and damage. The disaster management office said many were still missing and the final toll was likely to top 100.
Bhubaneswar, September 30:Actress Nandita Das, the newly appointed chairperson of the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI), promises to bring maximum number of kids to the children film festival, starting Nov 14, despite the fact that kids are hooked to reality shows.
“My top priority at this moment is to attract large number of children from different regions and classes to the children’s film festival,” Nandita Das told reporters here while speaking on the sidelines of the programme “Joy of Giving”.
Lucknow, September 30: The Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh police Wednesday recovered fake Indian currency notes of more than Rs.20 lakh (two million) from a hideout in the Mainpuri district, police informed.
The recovery was made following the interrogation of one Girijesh Yadav, who was arrested with fake currency worth Rs.5 lakh from Manaknagar locality of Lucknow Tuesday.
Yadav was arrested on a tip-off by one of his accomplices, Arif, arrested earlier last week. The intelligence about Arif was provided by the Mumbai police.
New Delhi, September 30:The Congress Wednesday hailed party general secretary Rahul Gandhi for his efforts to introduce internal democracy in the student and youth wing of the party.
“The efforts of Rahul Gandhi to introduce internal democracy by holding organisational election in the Youth Congress and National Students Union of India (NSUI) can be called as revolutionary from political point of view,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi told reporters.
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government was Wednesday accused of defying the Supreme Court by continuing work at Dalit leaders’ memorial sites in Lucknow.
The accusation was made by Lucknow resident Mithilesh Kumar Singh, whose lawsuit against Dalit memorials has left the Mayawati regime face contempt proceedings for allegedly violating the Supreme Court Sep 8 order stopping all construction work.
In his rejoinder, Singh said “the state government was trying to camouflage its violation of the court’s order in the garb of confusion over the order though there was none”.
Jeddah, September 28: Four Saudi Arabian men have gone on trial in Jeddah for boasting about their sexual conquests on a TV talk show, a media report said Monday.
The charges against the men are believed to be connected to a July edition of the Bold Red Line show on the LBC satellite channel, in which Mazen Abdel-Jawad, 32, along with three unnamed others, told the show about his premarital sexual adventures.
New Delhi,September 28:A convention planned by Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) to mark the one year anniversary of Batla House encounter has invited representative of major political parties except Congress and BJP.