Bulanshair, August 08: A 75-year-old widow alleged that she was raped by her teenaged neighbour in village Bhansoli.
The woman filed a complaint alleging that her 19-year-old neighbour Saddam had raped her after which she was sent for a medical examination, SHO Alok Singh said.
A case will be registered after receipt of the medical report, he said.
–Agencies
Kolkata, August 08: Congress general secretary K. Keshava Rao, along with party workers from West Bengal, will go to Tamluk in East Midnapore district Monday to pay their respects to the martyrs of the Quit India movement, a party leader said.
“Keshav Rao (in charge of West Bengal elections) told me that he will be coming to Kolkata and will be going to Tamluk,” senior congress leader Pradip Bhattacharjee told IANS Sunday.
New Delhi, August 08: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday sought a white paper on foodgrain storage in Food Corporation of India (FCI) warehouses, saying there was a strategy to sell rotten wheat at cheaper rates to the liquor industry.
BJP national secretary Kirit Somaiya said that he visited a warehouse in Sirsa district of Haryana along with state party leaders and saw that huge stocks of foodgrains had been kept in the open despite the rainy season.
Sharjah, August 08: Air Arabia Sunday announced a net profit of 50 million dirhams (about $30 million) for the second quarter of 2010 ended June 30.
This is a 44 percent decline compared to 90 million dirhams in the corresponding period last year.
This decline was in line with global industry performance, which continues to be impacted by changing market dynamics, characterized by increase in fuel costs and pressure on yield margins, the airline said.
Hyderabad, August 08: Andhra Pradesh government has alerted district administration of Khammam and West Godavari following sharp rise in water level in Godavari river.
The revenue officials have issued third flood warning this evening following heavy rains.
Chief Minister K Rosaiah held a telephonic discussion with Revenue Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao on the situation before leaving for Chennai today.
Ranchi, August 08: Maoists blew up a school building while two of their hardcore members were arrested with arms in Jharkhand, police said today.
Armed Maoists went to Kanda village in Palamau and raged the school building with explosives around 11:30 pm last night, police said.
Meanwhile, police succeeded in nabbing top Maoist leader of Andhra Pradesh Narsimha Reddy from Bokaro’s Upper Ghat, SP S K Singh said, adding a 9mm pistol, a laptop and naxal literature were recovered from him.
Chennai, August 08: Customs officials today seized over 46 kg of dead dried seahorses worth more than Rs four lakh at the international airport here and arrested a Sri Lankan national in this connection.
The officials checked one Haja Mohideen Mohamed Rafeek (51), who was about to proceed towards security check and detected the contraband, sealed in two nylon gunny bags, an official press release here said.
The passenger and the seized goods were immediately handed over to the State Forest Department for further investigation, it said.
–Agencies
Hyderabad, August 08: Heated exchanges were witnessed between the Congress and TDP corporators over installation of the statue of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy on the GHMC head office premises.
While Congress members said the statue would be a fitting gesture to the departed soul ahead of his first death anniversary next month as he was instrumental in creating the GHMC, the TDP members supported by BJP corporators demanded that in that case the statues of other national leaders should also be installed in the office.
Patna, August 08: US President Barack Obama’s visit to India later this year will take bilateral relationship between the two countries to a new level and demonstrate how both were working together to find solutions to pressing global challenges, US special envoy Rashad Hussain said here today.
Hussain said that the Indo-US relationship will be further strengthened with the return visit of the US president to India in November.
Hyderabad, August 08: At least 26 fresh swine flu cases were reported in the twin cities today besides three from Mahaboobnagar district. Two more deaths were reported taking the toll this monsoon to 24.
Dr K Subhakar, state nodal officer for swine flu, confirmed six fresh cases from Gandhi hospital, three from Osmania General hospital, four from Rainbow hospital, five from area hospital of Malakpet and eight from various private hospitals in the city today.
Hubli (Ktk), August 09: Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik today criticized the JDS for opposing the Anti-Cow Slaughter Bill, alleging it was a move to please minorities and part of its “vote-bank politics” in Karnataka.
His comments come in the wake of JD(S) leader and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda calling on President Pratibha Patil to appeal to her not to give assent to the Bill
Patna, August 08: Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari today accused the successive Congress, RJD and NDA governments in Bihar of “cheating the Muslims” and said he will launch a third front tomorrow to effectively take on the RJD-LJP combine and the ruling regime led by Nitish Kumar.
“The successive governments of Congress, RJD and now NDA have badly hoodwinked and cheated the muslims…they have used the community to the hilt for the sake of politics of votes,” Bukhari, who arrived here this afternoon, told a group of reporters at Jayaprakash Narayan International airport here.
Tirupati, August 08: In the very presence of their chief N Chandrababu Naidu, some TDP leaders described the death of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash as a punishment meted out to him by Lord Venkateswara for indulging in sins against Him.
Addressing the public at the Maha Dharna organised by the party against irregularities in the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) here on Saturday, Byreddy Rajasekhara Reddy, Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu and others attributed YSR’s death in a chopper crash to the wrath of God.
Hyderabad, August 08: CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Saturday flayed the UPA government on its poor food management policies. He said the Centre was ensuring “food security for rats” even as the country presented a “shameful spectacle”of having the world’s largest number of hungry people.
“FCI has 60 million tonnes of food grains rotting in its warehouses as the public distribution system has been curtailed through a targeted system which excludes most of the poor,” he said.
–Agencies
Gujrat, August 08: Former Gujarat minister Amit Shah continued to be quizzed by CBI officials here Sunday, a day after he was grilled for nine hours in connection with the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a staged shootout.
The former minister of state for home was at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office here in the morning for the final day of questioning. His two-day period of CBI remand ends Sunday night.
New Delhi, August 08: Notwithstanding the recent controversies engulfing the Commonwealth Games, over Rs 18 crore worth of tickets for the sporting event have been sold so far, an official said.
“We have so far sold tickets worth USD four million,” IRCTC’s General Manager-Operations, Sanjay Aggarwal, told news agency here.
IRCTC had in March this year bagged the contract to be the official online ticketing agency for the games to be held between October 3-14 in New Delhi.
Nepal, August 08: Nepal’s former king Gyanendra’s son-in-law Raj Bahadur Singh was arrested by police from a Kathmandu nightclub for drunken and disorderly behaviour.
Raj Bahadur Singh married Gyanendra’s daughter, Princess Prerana, in 2003, was arrested along with over a dozen companions, including six women, for carousing in Club Platinum, the exclusive night club at the five-star Yak and Yeti hotel, after closing hours.
The former princess, however, was not present in the nightclub.
Srinagar, August 08: Jammu and Kashmir Government has re-started SMS services in Leh, that had been banned in the state a few months due to security reasons, to help in relief and rescue operations in the region devastated by cloudburst and flash floods that have left 145 people dead.
State government sources said that the step was taken as a goodwill gesture as it will not only help rescue personnel but also locals and tourists to communicate with
their families. The Short Message Service (SMS) was banned in the state few months ago due to security reasons.
—Agencies
Lucknow, August 08: The Samajwadi Party on Sunday decided not to field its candidates in the forthcoming panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh.
“During the meeting of the state parliamentary board, which was chaired by state president Akhilesh Yadav, it was decided that the party will neither announce its official candidates nor will it field SP nominees in the panchayat elections,” party Spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said.
Lucknow, August 08: The Samajwadi Party on Sunday decided not to field its candidates in the forthcoming panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh.
“During the meeting of the state parliamentary board, which was chaired by state president Akhilesh Yadav, it was decided that the party will neither announce its official candidates nor will it field SP nominees in the panchayat elections,” party Spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said.
Jerusalem, August 08: Accusing Israel of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Shi’ite militant faction Hezbullah has said that they will present evidence implicating the Jewish state in the 2005 murder, a media report said.
Speaking to Palestinian news agency Maan, Hezbullah spokesman Ibrahim Mousawi on Sunday said that his group’s leader, Hasan Nasrallah, would reveal “thunderous news” at a press conference scheduled for tomorrow, presenting what he called “comprehensive, revealing conclusive information” linking Israel to Hariri’s 2005 assassination.
Washington, August 08: India’s Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan’s Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi’s run ended in the Legg Mason Tennis Classic with a 5-7, 5-7 loss to American Mardy Fish and Mark Knowles of Bahamas in the doubles semifinals.
Bopanna and Qureshi had on Friday taken out multiple Grand Slam winners Bob and Mike Bryan in the quarterfinals.
Fish and Knowles, who are teaming permanently for the first time this season, will take on Czechs Radek Stepanek and Tomas Berdych in the final.
—Agencies
Hyderabad, August 08: TRS activists today held road blockades across Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh in protest against the reported comments of state ministers from non-Telangana regions that the separate statehood demand is anti-national, an allegation denied by the ministers.
Slamming the alleged comments of the ministers, TRS leaders and workers organised ‘rasta roko’ in Medak, Warangal, Karimnagar and other districts in the region.
Gandhinagar, August 08: The Gujarat high court extended the judicial custody of former Gujarat minister Amir Shah till August 21 in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has been questioning Shah for two days.
Shah, who was kept in a lock-up at CBI office on Saturday night in Gandhinagar, was brought for interrogation at the agency’s camp office in block 11 of old secretariat campus.
Shah was grilled by the CBI for over nine hours on Saturday, but the minister gave evasive answers, according to sources.
New Delhi, August 08: Terming the situation in Kashmir as one “of total anarchy”, with the government “clueless” about dealing with it, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said Sunday that the presence of security forces in the Valley should not be diluted.
“In the Kashmir Valley, the situation today is of total anarchy. And the government seems clueless how to deal with it,” Advani said in the latest post on his blog.