Month: July 2010

Jagan leaves for yatra, Cong not worried

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Hyderabad, July 08: Defying the Congress party leadership, member of parliament Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy Wednesday left for Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district to resume his ‘Odarpu’ yatra amid speculation that he plans to float a new political party.

Unfazed by the warning by the leadership, Jagan left for Srikakulam to visit families of those who died of shock or committed suicide following the death of his father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash Sep 2 last year.

Plot to kill Zardari Foiled

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Islamabad, July 08: Six suspects arrested for alleged links to several major terror attacks in Pakistan were planning to assassinate President Asif Ali Zardari and Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, a media report claimed on Wednesday.

During interrogation, the suspects told investigators that they were planning to attack Zardari at the Governor House during his upcoming visit to Lahore, an unnamed security official was quoted as saying by the Daily Times newspaper.

Boycott Jagan’s yatra: Rosaiah

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Hyderabad, July 07: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah Wednesday asked Congress legislators to boycott the yatra of party MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, saying participation would amount to indiscipline.

Rosaiah told reporters that some legislators sought his advice on their participation in the yatra beginning in Srikakulam district Thursday. “I told them that they should not participate as the party high command has not given permission.”

Muslim leaders in India rootless: Salman Khursheed

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New Delhi, July 07: Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said most of the Muslim leaders in the country are “rootless” and many of them are handpicked by political parties for their capacity to garner Muslim votes.

Realtor tricked, robbed of 22 tola gold jewels

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Hyderabad, July 07: Motorcycle-borne youngsters tricked a realtor and made off with 22 tola gold ornaments from his car at the Nizampet Andhra Bank branch here on Tuesday morning. The tricksters raised a false alarm that oil was leaking from his car and as the realtor got down from the vehicle to check it, they fled with a bag containing the gold ornaments, police said.

Public hearing nukes civil liability bill

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Hyderabad, July 07: Speakers at a public consultation on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 held here today pilloried the Union government for learning nothing from the Bhopal gas tregady. They described as a sellout the Bill’s provision to impose a ceiling on the compensation payable by foreign nuclear suppliers in the eventuality of a nuclear accident.

The programme was jointly organised by NGOs National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) and Greenpeace India to elicit contrarian views on the controversial Bill.

3 criminal gangs nabbed

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Hyderabad, July 07: Eight persons of three gangs who were involved in several property offences were arrested by the police and stolen property worth several lakhs including nearly 35 tola of gold ornaments and Rs 3 lakh cash were recovered from them. The arrested include a three-member family who are involved in attentiondiversion cases.

Double murder mystery cracked

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Hyderabad, July 07: Police today solved the double murder at Nallakunta recently.

G Gopal (60) and A Manga (35) were found murdered in an under- construction building while another woman, Balamma (70), was found with injuries on July 3. All the three were employed to guard the building. Police nabbed Y Narsimhulu, the watchman, for the murders.

Narsimhulu developed intimacy with Manga, a live-in partner of Gopal. Later, Manga started distancing from him. Infuriated by this, he killed Gopal and later raped and killed Manga on the night of July 2. He also injured Balamma.

–Agencies

Lok Satta chief criticises saara parties

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Hyderabad, July 07: Lok Satta Party president Jayaprakash Narayan today appealed to all political parties — whom he described as saara parties — and civil society organizations to join hands and save the state from the scourge of liquor.

Successive governments have already succeeded in ruining the health and financial security of 75 lakh families or nearly 3.5 crore people. The excise year which began on July 1, 2010 threatens to unveil a still darker chapter in the state’s history, he warned, quoting facts and figures.

TRS to field dummies to defeat EVMs

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Hyderabad, July 07: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has come up with a Gandhigiri tactic to defeat the resolve of the Election Commission to use electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the July 27 byelections in Telangana. It will field at least 70 dummy candidates as Independents, far too many for a single EVM control unit to hold. Each EVM control unit can accommodate a maximum of 64 candidates.

SCR GM holds video-conference

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Hyderabad, July 07: South Central Railway (SCR) general manager MS Jayanth held a video- conference with all principal heads of departments and divisional railway managers of six divisions of SCR on Linen Management.

For supply of decent bedrolls to passenger on AC coaches the general manager outlined measures such as replacement of wornout bedrolls and induction of new stocks in a big way, strengthening the inspection mechanism to enforce quality processing and use of proper consumables at the laundries.

Jagan set to resume yatra

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Hyderabad, July 07: A defiant Y S Jaganmohan Reddy left for Srikakulam this evening to resume his ‘Odarpu yatra’ from tomorrow even as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah asked his Cabinet colleagues and party legislators to stay away from the Kadapa MP’s campaign.

Jagan boarded the Falaknuma Express at 4 pm at the Secunderabad railway station as scores of his cheering followers saw him off. None of the Congress MLAs, considered close to the rebellious MP, came to the railway station to see Jagan off following his “instructions”.

Private agents to collect water charges

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Hyderabad, July 07: Consumers should get prepared to shell out a few extra bucks as the metro water board has decided to outsource issuance and collection of monthly bills.

After experimenting with the system, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has decided to extend it to all the divisions. Private agencies would be allowed to collect Rs 10 from each consumer for their services.

Water board officials told Expresso that tenders inviting bids for the contract would be called by July-end. It might take two-three months to finalise the service providers.

Cops can’t cope with plastic money fraud: CP

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Hyderabad, July 07: Despite the rate of financial frauds increasing exponentially, the city police, including senior officers, lack the competency to crack these cases, said Hyderabad police commissioner AK Khan here on Tuesday.

Participating in a workshop on Bank Frauds – Prevention and Investigation, jointly organised by the ICICI Bank and Hyderabad city police, AK Khan said there was an urgent need to train the manpower to face the upcoming challenges in financial frauds.

Doctor suffers gunshot wounds

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Hyderabad, July 07: A retired government doctor suffered bullet injuries under mysterious circumstances at Padmarao Nagar on Tuesday. Though police did not rule out suicide attempt, they suspect it might be a case of accidental firing.

The injured, 60-year-old K R Manohar Reddy, a retired ESI doctor, is said to be out of danger. His condition is likely to stabilise once the bullet is removed, according to doctors.

Journalists protest against comrade’s killing

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Hyderabad, July 07: There was mild tension at Basheerbagh as media personnel made a vain bid to take out a procession with the body of Hemchandra Pandey, the journalist gunned down by the police in the company of Maoist leader Azad in the forests of Adilabad district last week.

Police prevented them from marching to the Basheerbagh crossroads, sparking off heated argument. Miffed, journalists hunkered down on the road and shouted slogans against the encounter killing.

Woman home guard dies in fire at home

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Hyderabad, July 07: A woman home guard attached to Bollarum police station died on Tuesday of burns she suffered in a mishap in Alwal on Monday night. A Central Crime Station (CCS) sub-inspector and the home guard’s mother also suffered injuries in the incident.

The SI, Kameshwar with 70 percent burns and Rukmini with 20 percent injuries are undergoing treatment at Gandhi General Hospital.

Cyberabad police said 30-year-old P Shruthi alias Sarala, her mother Rukmini and sub-inspector P Kameshwar were there in her house in Sai Nagar when the incident took place.

Maoist shutdown evokes partial response in AP

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Hyderabad, July 07: The 48-hour shutdown called by the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) to protest the killing of their spokesperson Azad evoked partial response in parts of Andhra Pradesh Wednesday.

The shutdown affected normal life in Maoist-infested tribal areas in the districts bordering Orissa and Chhattisgarh as authorities suspended bus services and cancelled few trains as a precautionary measure.

HC allows HCA revision plea

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Hyderabad, July 07: Justice L. Narasimha Reddy of the High Court on Tuesday allowed the civil revision petition filed by the Hyderabad Cricket Association against a civil court injunction barring it from conducting its Annual General Body Meeting or using funds without the prior permission of the court or the general body.

AP Monsoon session begins today

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Hyderabad, July 07: The monsoon session of the State Assembly beginning tomorrow will be for seven working days (till July 15).

Though the ruling party wanted it restricted to five days, on the Opposition parties insistence that the Assembly meet for at least 10 working days, it settled for seven.

Naidu has a Gali in store for government

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Hyderabad, July 07: The deeds of the `mining mafia’ headed by Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and AP Congress leaders’ `collusion’ with him are the main weapons in the TDP’s arsenal for the monsoon session of the Assembly beginning tomorrow.

That apart, the main opposition party also wants to harp on the Babhali project issue since byelections are round the corner in Telangana.

It wants to argue that it was the government’s inaction that emboldened the Maharashtra government to go ahead with the illegal construction.

Dhoni, wife arrive in Ranchi for birthday bash

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Ranchi, July 07: Newly-married Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni arrived here with his wife Sakshi to celebrate his 29th birthday Wednesday.

Dhoni arrived at the Ranchi airport by an Air India flight at 1.20 p.m.

Hundreds of fans and mediapersons were disappointed when he came out from the VIP gate and directly drove in a district administration vehicle to his home situated at Harmu housing colony of Ranchi. His vehicle was escorted by three vehicles of security forces.

Video: Ishrat encounter was intelligence slip-up

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An independent journalist and documentary film-maker from Delhi has refuted Pakistani American terrorist David Headley’s claims that Ishrat Jahan was a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative.

Shubradeep Chakravorty, who has made a short film titled, Encountered on Saffron Agenda, told DNA that four encounters in Gujarat, including Ishrat’s, were fake.

Jagan leaves for ‘yatra’, Cong not worried

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Hyderabad, July 07: Defying the Congress party leadership, member of parliament Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy Wednesday left for Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district to resume his ‘Odarpu’ yatra amid speculation that he plans to float a new political party.

Unfazed by the warning by the leadership, Jagan left for Srikakulam to visit families of those who died of shock or committed suicide following the death of his father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash Sep 2 last year.

Iran says atom plant set for launch after final test

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Tehran, July 07: Iran’s first nuclear power plant is set to be launched by late September now that an important final test has been carried out at the reactor, the head of the Islamic state’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Wednesday.

Ali Akbar Salehi’s statement, at the site near the Gulf port city of Bushehr, suggested that a row that erupted between Moscow and Tehran in May over new UN sanctions against Iran had caused no further delays to the project.

—Agencies