Dubai, September 01: The Dubai Metro will be closed at midnight for maintenance reasons but the timings may be changed after the train system is launched and based on passenger feedback, said a Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) official.
Residents had mixed reactions to the timings, with some highlighting that malls closed late. However, mall officials said there will be ample free parking time available.
Islamabad, September 01: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Monday that parliament would decide whether or not former president Pervez Musharraf should be tried for tampering with the constitution and sacking the Supreme Court judges after imposing an emergency in November 2007.
Gilani made the remarks while speaking to reporters during a visit here, Online news agency reported.
Earlier this month, Gilani said “we should do what is doable” on the Musharraf trial. He urged the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to stop playing to the gallery on the issue.
Dubai, September 01: New feeder bus routes will be launched today ahead of the opening of Dubai Metro on September 9, the Roads and Transport Authority announced on Monday.
RTA Public Tranpsort Agency CEO Essa Abdul Rahman Al Dosari said 17 new feeder bus routes will help serve the stations Rashidiya, Financial Center, Mall of the Emirates and Nakheel Harbor & Tower at Dubai Marina.
Accordingly the number of routes of Bus Feeder Service of Dubai Metro Stations rises to 25 in which standard type buses are used.
New Routes
Islamabad, September 01: At least five Islamist militants were killed and 12 arrested Tuesday in a security operation in Pakistan’s north-western tribal area along the Afghan border, officials said.
Hundreds of soldiers from the Frontier Corps paramilitary force launched a raid at daybreak after imposing a curfew in the Khyber district’s Bara area.
“Our troops faced stiff resistance from the terrorists, and during an exchange of fire, five militants, including two commanders, were killed,” corps spokesman Major Fazalur Rehman said.
Dubai, September 01: Hundreds of workers went on strike claiming unpaid salaries, and though the Ministry of Labour found no labour discrepancies, the protests continued till late on Monday.
About 300 workers of Al Habtoor Engineering demonstrated peacefully at a Deira labour accommodation on Sunday night. By Monday morning, the protests spread to the accommodation in Jebel Ali and a worksite in Deira.
Though these sporadic incidents were brought under control by the police and labour ministry officials, amid claims of resolution, it was clearly far from over.
Raipur, September 01: A student of the Government Engineering College here has been arrested for ragging his junior. He had asked the girl to hug him, police said Tuesday.
Praveen Mishra, a seventh semester student of Mechanical Engineering, was held Monday from his college in Shej Bahar area on the outskirts of Raipur after a fifth semester computer science engineering student reported ragging.
‘The student has a history of misbehaving with juniors. he was arrested for ragging the girl student and has been put in jail,’ police station in-charge R.C. Lahri told IANS.
Lucknow, September 01: In a late night move, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Monday offered a job to the grandson of Abdul Hamid, one of the heroes of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war who was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra for gallantry.
Mumbai, September 01: A key index of the Indian equities markets opened on a positive note Tuesday, moving up 0.82 percent within five minutes of start of trade.
The sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) opened at 15,691.27 points. It soon rose to 15,794.39 points, moving up 127.75 points or 0.82 percent from the previous day’s close at 15,666.64 points.
At the National Stock Exchange (NSE) the broader S&P CNX Nifty was ruling at 4,698.8 points, against the previous close at 4,662.1 points, a gain of 0.79 percent.
Sharjah, September 01: Demand for generators has shot up in Sharjah and supplies are running out as hundreds of businesses and residential areas continue to endure power outages. Although power has been restored in most areas, power fluctuations have continued with industrial areas 1, 13, 17, and 12 worst hit during the past four days. At their peak the power problems, which began a fortnight ago, caused a blackout that affected more than 70 per cent of Sharjah.
New Delhi, September 01: Justice Neeraj Kishan Kaul, a sitting judge of the Delhi High Court, has resigned citing personal reasons. Kaul, 46, had taken oath as an Additional Judge of the High Court on April 15.
He said that he sent his resignation letter to the President yesterday. He had on July 24 sent his resignation letter to the Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan.
New Delhi, September 01: In order to make the Haj quota allocation process for private tour operators transparent and fair, government has changed rules under which even operators without any experience would be eligible.
The External Affairs Ministry has decided to allocate the Haj quota among private tour operators (PTOs) in accordance with the principles of openness, transparency, equity and providing equal opportunity to those PTOs which are “eligible and fulfill the prescribed criterion for being a duly registered as tour operator”.
New Delhi, September 01: Australian visiting deputy prime minister Julia Gillard on Monday announced a slew of measures to crack down on fly- by- night teaching shops (‘ shonks’) and their unscrupulous agents luring Indian students Down Under.
The move comes even as the Australian media is rife with reports of plunging student enrolments from India for the 2010 academic session.
Fatehpur, September 01: Armed criminals looted the passengers of a general coach of Howrah bound Toofan Express here last night between Kanpur and Allahabad railway stations under the North Central Railway.
Railway police sources here today said four criminals looted Rs 8,000 and four mobiles from three people near Khaga station and later fled after the train slowed down near Kapedhan station.
A case has been filed at the GRP Allahabad station.
—Agencies
New Delhi, September 01: A Delhi Police Inspector became the latest target of robbers in the Capital when six armed men barged into his residence and decamped with cash and jewellery worth Rs 2.75 lakh at gunpoint, police said on Monday.
The incident took place in the Ashok Vihar residence of Sanjeev Kumar, an Inspector with Traffic Police at around 2130 hrs IST on Sunday, a senior police official said.
The six masked men barged into Kumar’s residence in his absence and asked the women present at gunpoint to hand over jewellery and cash.
New Delhi, September 01: It is a move that promises to revolutionise the school education system in India.
Class 10 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams will now be optional. The CBSE class 10 board exams have been made optional from next year with Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal’s long promised education reforms finally taking off.
“The consensus that we have reached is historic. The states said that they were ready to move ahead together,” said Sibal after meeting the states’ education ministers in New Delhi on Monday.
Kabul, September 01: The United States and its allies must change strategy and boost cooperation to turn around the war in Afghanistan, the top U.S. and NATO commander there said on Monday, wrapping up a much-anticipated review.
U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal said the situation was “serious” but the 8-year-old war could still be won. He gave no indication if he would ask for more troops but is widely expected to do so in the coming weeks.
New Delhi, September 01: Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard is on a damage control mission to India. Gillard is leading a high-level delegation on her five-day visit to New Delhi and Chennai.
Her visit has assumed significance after a spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia which has strained the relations between two countries.
Gillard, who is also the Australian Education Minister, met Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.
New Delhi, September 01: Assembly polls in the three Congress-ruled states of Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh will be held simultaneously on October 13, the Election Commission announced on Monday.
The counting of votes will take place nine days later, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla told reporters here. Nominations will be filed in all three states from September 18 to 25 while the last date of withdrawal of papers is September 29, Chawla said.
New Delhi, September 01: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday said expelled party veteran Jaswant Singh should on moral grounds step down as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of parliament.
Party spokesperson Ravi Shanker Prasad told reporters here that Jaswant Singh, elected to the Lok Sabha from Darjeeling, should quit the parliamentary panel post on the grounds of “morality”, while the party would take a call on what course it would take on it.
Bhubaneswar, September 01: Six people were killed and 18 others injured in a road accident when a truck carrying about 55 labourers overturned and fell into Rengali left canal near Birasal village under Kankadahad block in Dhenkanal district last night.
While five bodies were retrieved from the canal last night, one more body, trapped inside the vehicle, was recovered today during the rescue operation.
Few more bodies were still trapped inside the truck, the sources said.
Tokyo, September 01: Japan’s Democratic Party began talks on Monday on forming a new government, faced with the challenge of reviving the economy and reshaping ties with key allies after its crushing election win.
Yukio Hatoyama’s centre-left Democratic Party of Japan (DPK) is under heavy pressure to get to work quickly on addressing the huge hurdles facing the country and pulling it out of its long economic malaise.
Bhubaneswar, September 01: The Orissa government has linked 40 schools in the state to the Edusat network with an aim to modernising the school education.
‘We have connected 40 schools on an experimental basis. I am sure it will be successful and expanded to many other schools in Orissa,’ Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said Monday.
The network provides two-way video and audio communications between teachers at the studio here and students in the remote schools thus making the class interactive.
Berlin, September 01: France and Germany called Monday for stronger international rules regarding bankers’ bonus payments during talks in Berlin ahead of next month’s G20 summit in Pittsburgh.
The proposal formed part of a joint demands by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy for “tangible achievements” at the summit of the Group of 20 leading nations on September 24-25.
Bhubaneswar, September 01: At least five people were killed and 11 sustained injuries after the truck they were travelling in skidded off the road and plunged into a canal in Orissa’s Dhenkanal district, police said Tuesday.
The incident took place near Rahani village, some 85 km from the district headquarters of Dhenkanal, late Monday night but the bodies were spotted only Tuesday after the police reached the spot.
‘Five people have been killed. Eleven people, who sustained injuries, are undergoing treatment,’ District Superintendent of Police Satish Gajbhiye told.
Kabul, September 01: Bombs killed four NATO troops Monday — two Americans and two Britons ending the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces as the top NATO commander called for a new strategy to confront the Taliban.
The U.S. military said the two Americans were killed in separate explosions in southern Afghanistan but gave no further details. Their deaths brought to 47 the number of U.S. troops who have died in the Afghan war in August — three more than in July which had been the deadliest month.