Hyderabad, August 23: Congress MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy appears to be heading for showdown with the party leadership by launching his ‘Odarpu (consolation) yatra’ in his native Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh Monday.
A day after the leadership warned Jagan to drop his proposed yatra in Prakasam district from September 3, the son of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy threw a challenge by deciding to undertake the yatra in Kadapa district.
Mogadishu, August 22: An explosion at a house used by insurgents in the Somali capital killed at least 10 al-Shabab militants, including two Indians and three Pakistani fighters, the Somali Information Ministry has said.
The statement said on Saturday that the overnight blast, in a southern Mogadishu neighbourhood, may have been caused by a premature car bomb explosion. Three Pakistanis, two Indians, an Afghan and an Algerian were among the dead, it said.
The government cited “security sources” as the basis for its information.
Melbourne, August 23: Greg Chappell Former captain Greg Chappell on Monday became Australia’s the first full-time selector after being appointed as National Talent Manager by the Cricket Board.
Andrew Hilditch will continue to chair the National Selection Panel (NSP) and Chappell will join as one of its four members.
The former all-rounder, who played 87 Tests and 74 ODIs, will vacate his current role as CA Centre of Excellence (COE) Head Coach in Brisbane to take the new role, according to Cricket Australia.
Dambulla, August 23: Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara was on Sunday in no mood to implicate the umpires for the dodgy decisions they handed to Indian batsmen in the tri-series match in Dambulla and said India should have agreed to the use Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) to have a level playing field.
India were at the receiving end of at least four dodgy decisions with Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh being the unlucky batsmen though they lost comprehensively by eight wickets.
Tehran, August 23: “The conditions of the talks with the Untied States will be only decided by the leader of the Islamic Revolution and not by any other individual in the country’s other branches of power,” Iran Labor News Agency quoted Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani as saying on Sunday.
The Iranian judiciary chief downplayed recent foreign threats made against the Islamic Republic, saying such threats are not nothing new and have been posed on the country for more than 30 years.
Mumbai, August 23: The buzz around Deepika and Ranbir that had filled in the Bollywood air following the shooting of Bachna E Haseeno, disappeared right after the duo parted their ways. Why they broke up is a secret till date. For the first time in an interview, the leggy actress reveals that she broke loose from Ranbir for his straying habits.
What Deepika stated is quite contrary to the rumors that she parted from him because he had begun to like Katrina. Why was Deepika tight-lipped about the cause of their sudden estrangement? That too is a mystery.
Tehran, August 23: Iran began injecting the first supply of nuclear fuel into the Bushehr nuclear power plant on Saturday. The facility was completed with Russian assistance following a three-decade delay.
“Completion of the Bushehr project will create appropriate political effects in the international scene based on which Iran will proceed with its nuclear efforts in line with international agreements,” Mohammad Hossein Aboutorabi-Fard said on Sunday.
Tehran, August 23: “The sanctions are aimed at putting pressure on the Iranian nation”, said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a joint meeting of government and parliament.
“If they say they have no intention of pressurizing the (Iranian) nation, they are lying. They want to exert pressure on the government by pressuring the nation”, added the president.
He added the Iranian nation is very experienced and will not capitulate to such pressures.
“The enemies will take to the grave the longing to put the slightest pressure on the Iranian nation”, President Ahmadinejad underscored.
Patna, August 23: The coming electoral battle for the ‘hot (political) seat’ in Bihar found a mildly acrimonious curtain raiser in an Air India New Delhi-Patna flight shared on Saturday by two estranged ‘brothers’ – Bade Bhai Lalu Prasad and Chhote Bhai Nitish Kumar.
It was just about the No 1 seat in the Business Class (1A) on Flight IC 415. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, arriving earlier, got the seat but Lalu Prasad, who arrived later, threw a tantrum when he realised he had lost it.
Mumbai, August 23: Amitabh Bachchan is know to have introduced punctuality in Bollywood. In the era when hero of the film would call the shots, Big B made it a point to be on time given by the production person.
This has not only inspired the actors of the generations but also his son Abhishek Bachchan about which he said in one of the brand launch event that his father (Amitabh Bachchan) has taught him to value time as he believed that if you don’t respect time, time will not respect you.
Ahmedabad, August 23: Next time you are fearful of running the near mortal gauntlet of city traffic, remember Vidyadhar Date is rooting for you.
In a country where road accidents kill over 100,000 people every year, the rights of the pedestrians have been routinely run over. As Indian cities increasingly become intensely automobile-centric urbanscape, there is very little being done for those who may not be able to afford cars and other means of private transport.
Baghdad, August 23: The plant produces 50 tons of dairy products per day, said Mohammad Mehdi Farshchi, the head of Hamedan provincial commerce organization, Mehr news agency reported.
The factory, funded and built by Iran’s private sector, is planned to distribute its products to the Iraqi cities of Najaf, Karbala, Sulaimaniya, Erbil and Baghdad.
Farshchi added that 12 Iranian technicians along with 33 Iraqi workers are working in the factory.
The report did not give further details about the location of the plant.
Sana’a, August 23: Yemeni security forces killed seven Al Qaeda militants Sunday in a fresh clash in the country’s southern province of Abyan, authorities said.
Yemeni defence ministry said seven Al Qaeda men were killed Sunday in a raid carried out in the militant’s hideout in Lodar city, increasing the death toll of the militants to 12 since Friday, Xinhua reported.
The security forces laid siege to the terrorists who were holed up in some houses in Lodar, the ministry’s website quoted security director of Abyan, Brigadier Abdulrazaq al-Marwani, as saying.
New Delhi, August 23: ‘Brick Lane’ fame actress Tannishtha Chatterjee, who stars in ‘Bhopal – A Prayer for Rain’, based on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, says the drama will rewind memories of the world’s worst industrial accident.
‘What ‘Bhopal – A Prayer for Rain’ does is that it raises questions. It raises those memories again in the minds of people who probably have forgotten about it, and the story does it very beautifully,’ Tannishtha, who won acclaim for her role in British film ‘Brick Lane’, told IANS in a telephonic interview from Mumbai.
Mahendergarh, August 23: A youth who claimed he was frustrated over government”s failure to give him a job and compensation for an injury allegedly threw a shoe towards Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during a rally today.
However, the footwear hurled by 21-year-old Shakti Singh, who was seated behind the press photographers gallery, fell short by about 70 feet from where Hooda was addressing the public gathering at ITI grounds, about 150 km from Delhi.
New Delhi, August 23: Anil Kapoor is going great guns. After the international acclaim following ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, the evergreen star is making his debut on international television with the final season of American series ’24’. He describes the action drama as ‘bigger than the biggest’ he has done in India.
London, August 23: Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston has reportedly rekindled romance with ex-lover and singer John Mayer. Despite claims earlier this week the 41-year-old actress is dating a wealthy European banker, it now seems she has hooked back up with her former flame, Mirror reported online.
“John invited Jen to come out and meet him while he was in Manhattan. He told her he really wanted to see her and even paid for a private jet to fly her from LA. They spent hours in his hotel suite at the Four Seasons, ordering room service and drinking wine,” a source said.
New York, August 23: Indian beauty Freida Pinto”s international career is shining post ”Slumdog Millionaire” but she won”t be seen in any Bollywood film anytime soon because she does not think she fits the bill. “I have done no film in India so it is very hard for people to accept me as an actress.
They don”t really know who I am or they probably don”t take me too seriously,” Pinto told New York Times in an interview. While offers from Hollywood started pouring in for her post ”Slumdog”, the dusky beauty did not receive any direct offers from Mumbai.
Ramallah, August 23: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday expressed his hope that Israeli will choose the peace option and not the settlement one.
The Palestinian president’s remarks came in a letter the chief Palestinian negotiator sent to US President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton.
Mumbai, August 23: Multiplex owners will now have to reduce ticket rates for Marathi movies or else face protests by the Shiv Sena. “The multiplex owners should take a decision at the earliest or else we will handle the issue in Sena style,” said party executive president Uddhav Thackeray. Thackeray told the media on
Sunday that the ticket rates should be affordable for Marathi movie viewers.
Mumbai, August 23: Actor Eesha Kopphikar will soon be seen in a movie that stars two other leading ladies Gul Panag and Celina Jaitly. It’s not out of the ordinary to hear of sets on which there is more than one heroine be a volatile one.
And we hear that during the shooting of this movie, Eesha didn’t take an instant liking to Celina. In fact Eesha had worked with Gul previously in Hello and was weary of Celina as she had heard a few unpleasant rumours about her.
New Delhi, August 23: Ask two lesbian lovers as they go in hiding to escape their families’ wrath
RAJNI and Sunitha are not just names. They are in the process of becoming exemplary figures for those seeking same sex unions.
The two Delhi girls aged 20 and 21 years respectively chose to go ahead with their decision to join each other in matrimony despite stiff opposition from their respective families and friends. The couple got married in a civil court on August 11 and got their certificate on August 16.
Dambulla, August 23: India were handed the worst ODI defeat in terms of balls remaining by Sri Lanka here and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni conceded nothing worked right for his side in the tri-series match today except for the fact that Yuvraj Singh returned among runs. “Nothing worked today.
Greensboro, August 23: Arjun Atwal became the first Indian-born player to win on the USPGA Tour by shooting a final round three-under par 67 to capture the Wyndham Championship on Sunday.
The 37-year-old Atwal finished at 20-under-par 260 to beat American David Toms (64) by one stroke.
“It feels great. I have no words. I grinded it today,” Atwal said.
Atwal also became the first Monday qualifier to win the ensuing tournament in 24 years, following Fred Wadsworth at the 1986 Southern Open.
Kolkata, August 23: A major railway accident was averted in West Bengal Sunday when two trains moving in opposite directions came within 150-200 metres of each other on the same track after one of them overshot a signal, a railway official said.
The incident occurred around 3.20 p.m. near Sankrail station, some 20 km from here, in the Howrah-Kharagpur section when the Howrah-bound East Coast Express and a Panskura-bound local train came on the same track from the opposite direction, a spokesperson of the South Eastern Railway (SER) told IANS over phone.