Hyderabad, August 04: The TDP chief Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu has alleged that the Chief Minister Mr. K. Rosaiah has compromised with the state’s interests on the Babli project, for his own position.
Hyderabad, August 04: The Chief Minister, Mr K Rosaiah on Tuesday informed that the State Government would try for a solution to the Babli project controversy in the court and outside the court.
He also said that the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has asked Mahatrshra Chief Minister Mr Chavan to abide by the Supreme Court interim order and directed the Water Resources Minister, Mr Bansal to furnish the details of 13 projects taken up by Maharashtra on Govadari, to Andhra Pradesh. He also expressed satisfaction over the attitude of the Prime Minister on the issue.
Hyderabad, August 04: She also said that the high command suspended the PCC general secretary Mr Ambati Rambabu just because he was a strong loyalist of Mr Jagan. She urged the high command to re-consider the suspension of Mr Rambabu and asked whether it was a mistake in being a loyalist of Mr Jagan. It was not proper to the party to suspend Mr Ambati with out taking his explanation.
Hyderabad, August 04: Strongly criticizing the removal of Prof Kusuma Kumari from Srikrishna Devaraya University vice-chancellor post, the Kadapa MP Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy’s loyalist and Parakala MLA Ms Konda Surekha demanded the government to extend the scope of retired High Court Judge Justice Hanmanthu Commission, which probed in to the allegations against Prof Kusuma Kumari, to all the universities in the state.
Mumbai, August 04: Panic hit the sets of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara in Spain when Katrina Kaif went missing for almost a day.
It so happened that, last Sunday, the entire unit took a day off from shooting as they were in a mood to relax and laze around, but Katrina, fascinated by the verdant landscape of Spanish Andalusia, along with her sister Isabelle, sneaked out for a mini excursion in and around the mountains and did not return till the evening.
Mumbai, August 04: The buzz doing the rounds in tinsel town is that Sonam Kapoor has refused to kiss her co-star Shahid Kapoor in the latter’s dad Pankaj Kapur’s film Mausum.
Sonam along with Shahid Kapoor have been shooting the film in Scotland.
As the shooting was about to end, Pankaj kapoor came up with the idea of a steamy kissing scene between Shahid and Sonam. There are rumours that it was Shahid who proposed this idea to his dad. However, Sonam point-blank refused to do the scene, as it wasn’t a part of the original script.
Washington, August 04: Possible revival of the A.Q. Khan run nuclear-smuggling network is an area of ongoing concern for Washington even as Islamabad claims the notorious Pakistani scientist is out of business.
“Obviously, the A.Q. Khan network has – or is responsible for some of the most serious cases of proliferation in recent decades,” State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters Tuesday when asked to comment on an article in the Washington Times.
“We have worked intensively with Pakistan and other countries to shut down that network,” he said.
Mumbai, August 04: Who has not yet come of age, but in reality Sonam Kapoor is far from it and many things more.
In town to promote her latest film, the actor is her usual bubbly, chirpy self, outrightly proving to be the jaan of the show.
First things first. Aisha is based on Jane Austen’s Emma and the voracious reader that Sonam is, she has read the novel “five to six times” for Aisha.
Lucknow, August 04: A fire broke out in the engine of a Rajdhani Express on the outskirts of this Uttar Pradesh capital Wednesday, disrupting the busy Sultanpur-Lucknow rail route, officials said. No injury or casualty was reported.
The engine of the New Delhi-bound Guwahati Rajdhani Express caught fire near the Rehmatnagar railway station, about 40 km from here.
Ahmedabad, August 04: Fresh details likely to further embarrass the BJP government in Gujarat on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter show that even four months after he was killed, the Narendra Modi government maintained that he was a petty criminal.
In reply to a question asked in the state assembly on 20 March, 2006, the Gujarat government made no mention of Sheikh’s alleged terror links. He was killed in November 2005.
Mumbai, August 04: Salman Khan and Vivek Oberoi may not get along with each other at all, but that hasn’t stopped the latter from being inspired by the Bollywood superstar.
During the recent IIFA ceremony in Sri Lanka, the macho Khan had clearly mentioned that he would not promote his movies through charity work. The actor said doing charity work would be a great way to do some good to society and if his movies also get promoted along the way, then of course, he would welcome it.
London, August 04: A London psychiatrist had sex with a female patient and then told her it had to happen to “defuse” the tension between them, the General Medical Council has heard.
The woman said her mental health deteriorated after the alleged encounter with Dr Theodore Soutzos while a hospital in-patient. She attempted suicide a number of times and felt stressed by his warnings that she must not tell anyone, a fitness to practise panel was told.
Mumbai, August 04: Speculations are rife after US President’s special envoy visits dargah. He’s the second official from the American President’s office to visit the Mahim dargah in less than six months.
President Barack Obama’s special envoy, Rashad Hussain, visited the Peer Makdoom Mahimi dargah, popularly known as Mahim dargah, yesterday, raising hopes that the President may be visiting the dargah when he comes to India in November.
New Delhi, August 04: The decision by Yoga guru, Baba Ramdev to jump into politics has created restlessness among different political parties who are opposed to his idea. Baba Ramdev wants to cleanse politics by inclusion of honest and brave people in it. This would eradicate corruption prevalent in today’s politics and also give it a moral standing.
Entrance of Baba Ramdev into politics in the near future would be welcomed by the people who desire that moral values should also guide the politicians.
Abu Dhabi, August 04: In a humanitarian gesture ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has ordered the release of 724 prisoners.
Sheikh Khalifa also pledged Monday to incur all the prisoners’ debts and financial commitments that ensued from the cases against them in the courts.
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Beirut, August 04: Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah described Tuesday the lethal border clash between the Lebanese army and the Israeli troops earlier as “heroic”, and warned his militia would retaliate if there were further incidents.
At least two Lebanese soldiers, and an Israeli soldier, and a Lebanese journalist were killed in the exchange of fire. It was the most serious clash since Israel and Hezbollah guerillas fought a bitter war in 2006.
Mumbai, August 04: Actor Ajay Devgn, who took Bollywood by storm with his jaw-dropping stunts in the 1991 film “Phool Aur Kaante”, believes shooting action sequences has become far easier and less bruising in today’s films. He, however, admits that he is out of practice.
“Now action has become easier. Earlier, we used to get injured, break legs and hands. Now so much of security and protection is given that it has become much easier,” Ajay told IANS in an interview.
Beijing, August 04: Micky Mouse, AristoCats and other cartoon charecters have now got a new job to teach kindergarten tiny tots in China how to speak English.
English learning centres run by the US-based cartoon movie maker Walt Disney Company are open for children between the age group of five and seven years.
A large number of children attend classes where they imitate American accent shown by characters such as the AristoCats, Mickey Mouse and Snow White, according to China Daily.
Srinagar, August 04: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram is expected to announce some soft measures for Jammu and Kashmir when he makes a statement in parliament Wednesday, an informed source said.
The discussions were held Monday and Tuesday and more would be held Wednesday before Chidambaram’s statement in parliament. Some of the discussions included central government’s actions to restore peace and order in the state, said the source, who is in know of what may form the core of the statement.
Washington, August 04 The United States says Pakistan started to take more direct action against terrorist safe havens in its territory after extremists tried to move on to its capital, but unquestionably Pakistan needs to do more.
“If you look at the progress that we have made with Pakistan on safe havens, on confronting terrorists, I think that is a record that they and we can be proud of,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday.
Toronto, August 04: A Canadian yoga teacher Tuesday claimed to have created a Guinness record by performing yoga non-stop for 32 hours.
The current Guinness Record of marathon yoga is 29 hours and four minutes.
But yoga instructor Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow, 28, Tuesday claimed that she has completed her 32-hour yoga marathon at her Om West yoga studio in Pointe Claire Village on the Island of Montreal.
Mumbai, August 04: Is there a connection between the Mumbai police’s guns falling silent and the spurt in underworld activity? N Ganesh reports
There have been very few police encounters in 2010, and the last one was on April 7, of Dilip Yadav, a dacoit who was gunned down in a joint operation by the Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai police and the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh at Malad in north Mumbai.
The police appears to have drawn a curtain on encounters following judicial intervention that put the encounter specialists in the dock.
Mumbai, August 04: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday faced more flak across the political spectrum for blaming ‘migrants’ for malaria outbreak in Mumbai with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar saying the remarks were uncalled for and deplorable.
Senior Congress leader and Union Minister of State for Communications and IT Gurudas Kamat condemned as unfortunate the remarks by the president of MNS and said his attempts to malign a particular section of people and create tensions should be nipped in the bud.
Mumbai, August 04: A Sacramento-based woman, Tara Fitzgerald, is threatening to sue Dell as she says that a tech support engineer in Mumbai, Riyaz Shaikh, downloaded naked pictures of her during a tech-help call when she gave the Indian techie permission to access her Dell laptop remotely.
Barely a month after the call, Fitzgerald said 16 nude photographs of her pinched from her laptop appeared on a lurid website christened Bitchtara.
“I’ve been violated. My life’s been violated,” Fitzgerald, a mother of a 14-year-old girl, told.
Mumbai, August 04: The politician-police-bureaucrat nexus is thwarting Mumbai’s image makeover plan, chief minister Ashok Chavan said.
Directing the civic authorities to launch a demolition drive against illegal encroachments across Mumbai, he asked them to expose the nexus.
“You immediately start the demolition drive and I will ensure government support. There will be no compromise on law enforcement,” Chavan said at an hour-long meeting on Tuesday with top bureaucrats of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).