Month: July 2010

AP bypolls: TRS wins five seats, leading in six

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Hyderabad, July 30: Riding on the Telangana sentiment, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) swept the assembly by-elections in the region, winning five seats and leading in six other constituencies Friday. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ahead in the remaining one seat.

Proving that the Telangana sentiment is still strong, TRS retained Siddipet, Sirpur, Dharmapuri and Chennur seats with huge majority and wrested Vemulawada seat from Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

My patience is running out, warns Jagan

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Kakinada, July 30: Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy remains as defiant as ever. If anything, his 18-day Odarpu Yatra in East Godavari district, which ended on Thursday, seems to have emboldened him.

Buoyed by an impressive gathering, including over 20 MLAs, five MLCs and Social Welfare Minister P Subhash Chandra Bose, at a public meeting here at the Netaji Park this evening, the young MP took potshots at Chief Minister K Rosaiah and the party high command indirectly and warned them that his patience was running out.

World’s tallest tower project in trouble

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Mumbai, July 30: The ambitious project by real estate firm Lodha Developers to construct the world’s tallest residential building in Mumbai rising to 117 floors seems to running into roadblocks.

First, it was the negative remarks by the Indian Meteorological Departments (IMD) and now the Shiv Sena has planned to launch a campaign against the project.

Cine Blitz August Uncovered!!!

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Mumbai, July 30: Ajay Devgan and Kangana Ranut grace’s the cover of Cine Blitz magazine. With his latest film Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai releasing today, the actor and his co-star Kangana Ranaut have posed for the August issue of the film magazine Cine Blitz as a way to promote the movie.

Sporting a moustache and wearing a white formal shirt with collars pulled up, Ajay exudes an unaffected charm as he stares into the camera. Standing behind him, Kangana strikes a sassy pose.

–Agencies

Salman Khan in trouble again!!!

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Mumbai, July 30: Bollywood macho hunk and the man with a heart bigger than his biceps is in news again for a wrong reason. But this time it wasn’t his fault. Yes! We are talking about none other that Salman Khan. He has earned the ire of the Shiv Sena.

The reason: Salman appeared in a TV ad for a chewing gum. In the same ad, a cow was ill represented. Shiv sena took umbrage at this, as the Cow is considered sacred by orthodox Hindus.

The activists burnt the actor’s posters and effigies in Amritsar as a mark of protest.

Andhra Pradesh Congress chief loses by-election

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Hyderabad, July 30: The ruling Congress party in Andhra Pradesh Friday suffered a major setback with its state unit chief D. Srinivas losing the assembly by-election.

In a repeat of the 2009 result, Srinivas was defeated by BJP’s A. Lakshminarayana by a margin of 12,200 votes in Nizamabad Urban constituency.

The result has come as a big jolt to Srinivas, who was planning to join the state cabinet and was even emerging as a possible successor to Chief Minister K. Rosaiah.

The state Congress president lost in the 2009 elections by 11,015 votes.

Hari Masjid firing case: SC directs CBI to go ahead with probe

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New Delhi, July 30: The Supreme Court today directed the CBI to go ahead with its investigation into the Hari Masjid firing in Mumbai in which six persons were killed in 1992.A bench comprising Justices P Sathasivam and A R Dave upheld the Bombay High Court order entrusting CBI with the probe of the incident.

The bench dismissed the appeal filed by the Maharashtra government against the 2008 direction of the High Court.

Haji’s daughter threatens Balaji

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Mum bai, July 30: Mafia don Haji Mastan’s daughter Shamshad Supariwala filed an additional affidavit in a Mumbai court against Balaji Telefilms for making a movie on her father and showing him in an objectionable way.

The movie based on the underworld saga is set to release on July 30, 2010. You may recall that the movie has earlier faced legal trouble from Haji Mastan’s adopted son who filed a suit for an injunction order against the movie’s release.

TRS wins five seats, leading in six

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Hyderabad, July 30: Riding on the Telangana sentiment, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) swept the assembly by-elections in the region, winning five seats and leading in six other constituencies Friday. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ahead in the remaining one seat.

Proving that the Telangana sentiment is still strong, TRS retained Siddipet, Sirpur, Dharmapuri and Chennur seats with huge majority and wrested Vemulawada seat from Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

Is Vidya eyeing Salman Khan?

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Mumbai, July 30: Hardly any actress is there who haven’t ever dream of working with stylish actor Salman Khan and Vidya Balan is no different. Vidya, who has delivered hits like Paa and Ishqiya is desperate to keen to romance the hunky dude Salman Khan before lens.

Rumour has it that Vidya is going around declaring that Salman is very much a archetypal lover and she wants to do a romantic role with him.

Vidya, who is complementing Salman like anything hardly, knows that her act is being considered by many as a hard effort to attract the attention of Khan.

Copter crash victims back to Israel

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Jerusalem, July 30: The bodies of six Israeli soldiers killed during a joint military exercise in central Romania have been flown back to Israel for burial.

The dead bodies of the soldiers arrived at the Tel Nof base on Friday morning, Haaretz reported.

The six soldiers along with one Romanian liaison officer were killed after their CH-53 helicopter crashed on Monday.

The wreckage was found a few hours later in the Fundata-Zarnesti area, near Brasov in central Romania.

Muslim wonders

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For Muslims, the mosque is a place of worship, law and assembly and also serves as an area for nurturing learning and fostering the community spirit.

7 Wonders of the Muslim World reveals the history and splendour of Islam’s most iconic mosques on Sun, Aug 1 at 9pm on TrueVisions D20.
Each mosque is unique in architecture and design, inspired by the various teachings of the Quran and the people of the land who have embraced the religion.

Google services blocked in China except for Gmail

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Washington, July 30: Google’s services in China were fully or partially blocked on Thursday with the exception of its email service, Gmail.

A Web page maintained by Google on the accessibility to its products in mainland China listed Web search and Google Ads and Google Mobile as “fully blocked” for the first time in weeks.

Other services which normally are fully or mostly accessible such as Google Images and Google News were listed as “partially blocked” on the dashboard page at google.com/prc/report.html.

Haven”t got any request from PCB on attack report: Ministry

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Karachi, July 30: The Sports Ministry today said it has not received any report from the Pakistan Cricket Board on the terrorist attack on Sri Lankan team in Lahore last year.

The PCB had recently said that it was awaiting clearance from the government before sending the report to the ICC after allegations that the Board was dragging its feet on the issue. Former ICC President Ehsan Mani had said that PCB was not doing any good to the game by delaying the submission of the report.

Former players call for Akmal”s head

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Karachi, July 30: Fromer Pakistan players have demanded ouster of Kamran Akmal from the national team as the stumper batsman continue to struggle behind the wicket. Akmal yesterday brought back memories of his horrible show against Australia early this year when he dropped Andrew Strauss and fumbled many times on the first day of first Test against England. “We have good replacement wicketkeepers and it is time to try them out.

Most Pakistanis view US as an enemy: Poll

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Islamabad, July 30: Despite billions in aid from Washington and a shared threat from extremists, Pakistanis have an overwhelmingly negative view of the United States, according to results of a Pew Research Center poll released on Friday.

The survey also found that Pakistanis have grown less fearful of extremists seizing control of their country, perhaps reflecting gains that government troops have made against militants since early 2009.

Jewish wants their women covered head to toe

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Jerusalem, July 30: Jewish ultra-Orthodox groups in Jerusalem issued a religious edict calling upon women to cover their bodies and hair in order to be cleared of their sins.

Posters promoting the new dress code were spotted in the areas of Jerusalem pre-dominantly inhabited by the Haredim community, ultra-conservative Jews known for their extremist views, the Israeli daily Maariv reported.

Muslim clerics star on TV reality show

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Kuala Lampur, July 30: It may look like “American Idol” or “The X Factor”, but the contestants aren’t vying for money or a record deal.

This is “Imam Muda” or “Young Imam”, Malaysia’s TV talent show where contestants compete to become a Muslim Cleric.

The slick TV promotion promises: “The show that will change your life, the eternal quest of our very being.”

But aside from the overblown claims, the producers are serious about ripping up the rule book of religious programming.

ATM guard assaulted over veil

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Bangalore, July 30: A woman wearing a black veil walked into an ATM kiosk located at JP Nagar at 9.15 pm. She was asked to take off the veil, by a security guard Kumar before stepping inside the kiosk.

An altercation ensued between the two and the woman started hurling abuses at Kumar.

BP Mallesh, owner of a shop located next to the ATM kiosk, said, “Kumar doesn’t speak much Kannada because he is a Malayali but he can somehow manage to communicate in Kannada. The woman was a north Indian.

Cops tore my clothes

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Delhi, July 30: A 25-year-old woman was allegedly beaten, molested and her clothes torn off, while her mother was kicked in the stomach by drunken traffic cops and police constables attached to the Bhalswa Dairy police station on Wednesday night.

Rekha (name changed), along with her mother and father, had gone to inquire about her elder brother who was detained by the police reportedly for violating a traffic rule.

She claimed that apart from assaulting her family, the errant cops did not provide any medical help to her injured brother for more than four hours.

Haven’t got any request from PCB on attack report: Ministry

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Karachi, July 30: The Sports Ministry today said it has not received any report from the Pakistan Cricket Board on the terrorist attack on Sri Lankan team in Lahore last year.

The PCB had recently said that it was awaiting clearance from the government before sending the report to the ICC after allegations that the Board was dragging its feet on the issue.

Former ICC President Ehsan Mani had said that PCB was not doing any good to the game by delaying the submission of the report.

TRS leader Harish Rao wins by record margin

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Hyderabad, July 30: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader T. Harish Rao Friday set a record in Andhra Pradesh’s electoral politics by retaining his Siddipet assembly seat in the by-elections by a margin of over 95,000 votes.

He was elected with a margin of 95,858 votes, breaking the record of late former chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who was re-elected from Pulivendula constituency in Kadapa district last year with a margin of 68,681.

Harish Rao came second in last year’s elections in terms of victory margin with 64,677 votes.

Preity Zinta digs her past

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Mumbai, July 30: Preity Zinta is all geared up to dig her past lives with Imagine’s Raaz Pichle Janam Ka. Dimple-cheeked pretty actress will get to know what she was in her past lives.

Considering the present life, Preity either should have been a defence person for her present defence background or a cricketer for her connection with Indian Premiere League. Nevertheless, all these secrets will be revealed on the sets of Raaz Pichle…when Preity will go in past life regression.

‘Crime, drugs up US soldiers’ suicide’

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Washington, July 30: A new United States Army report reveals that substance abuse and criminal activity are two central reasons why US soldiers are committing suicide in the Army.

The report, released Thursday at the Pentagon and titled Health Promotion, Risk Reduction, and Suicide Prevention, is the result of a 15-month effort to better understand the alarming increase in suicides, AFP reported.

Priyanka boldly makes love to Naseeruddin

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Mumbai, July 30: Naseeruddin seem to have mastered the art of romancing young girls so much so that he made Priyanka Chopra nervous while doing an intimate scene in the film Saat Khoon Maaf. He plays the oldest husband of Priyanka in the film where she has killed seven husbands.

They have previously worked together seven years ago in Asambhav and the newbie then was in the awe of the man so much that she could never look in to his eyes and now when she had to make love to him who is also 33years older than her she was cautious.