Jangareddygudem, September 02: At least three people were killed when a Liquefied Petroleum Gas cylinder exploded at Yarlagudem in Bhuttaiahgudem mandal in West Godavari district on Thursday.
According to sources, Bora Satyavathi, a housewife along with her daughter and son were killed when the gas cylinder exploded while she was cooking.
The explosion also partially damaged the house.
The police have registered a case.
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Hyderabad, September 02: Following doctors’ advice, Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Thursday cancelled all his official engagements.
According to Chief Minister’s Office sources, Mr Rosaiah underwent a series of medical tests on Thursday morning.
The sources say that the doctors from the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences attending on the Chief Minister advised him complete bed rest for two days.
Meanwhile, the doctors said that Mr Rosaiah was responding to treatment rather well for his viral fever and his condition is stable.
Hyderabad, September 02: Hyderabad is famous for the Charminar, Salarjung Museum, Biryani and IT companies — and the Hyderabadi Haleem is now all set to join the vaunted list.
The famous and nutritious dish available here during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan will soon get the Hyderabadi tag akin to Darjeeling Tea, Banarasi Silk and Tirupati Laddu.
Once the Geographical Indicator (GI) tag is granted, Haleem makers outside Hyderabad will not be able to sell their product as Hyderabadi Haleem and even those within the city can claim the GI tag only if they meet the quality standards.
Ayodhya, Sep 2 (UNI) As the vexed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid verdict on the title suit approaches, another trouble is brewing in make-shift temple in Ayodhya where ‘purohits’ have started demanding more money to carry out puja of Ram Lalla.
The chief priest of the make-shift temple on the Ram Janmabhoomi complex, Satyendra Das has written a letter to the Commissioner,
Faizabad to increase the maintenance amount for the temple and to hike the priests’ salaries.
New Delhi, September 02: The Supreme Court has ruled that a tenant of a Waqf property can be evicted only by a Civil Court and not by the
Wakf Tribunal.
A bench comprising Justice Markandey Katju and Tirath Singh Thakur disagreed with the views of High Courts of Andhra Pradesh,Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Punjab and Haryana and also with the Waqf Tribunal, who have held that only Wakf Tribunal can order the eviction of a tenant as the jurisdiction of the Civil Courts is barred as per sections 6 and 7 of the Wakf Act.
Hyderabad, September 02: Andhra Pradesh Thursday remembered one of its greatest leaders, late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who had died in a helicopter crash a year ago, leaving the state in shock.
Rich tributes were paid to YSR – as he was popularly called – and, at various programmes held across the state, he was recalled as a man especially concerned about the welfare of the poor.
Jaipur, September 02: In a major administrative reshuffle, 48 IAS officers and two state administrative service RAS officers have been transferred in Rajasthan effecting change of Divisional Commissioner in four divisions and District Collector in 16 of the 33 districts.
As per the transfer orders issued late last night, P K Dev
has been made Additional Chief Secretary(Home) whereas Asha Singh, an officer of the same grade, has been posted as Development Commissioner.
Both the Divisional Commissioner and the District Collector
Bhopal, September 02: RSS would prefer framing a law for the construction of Ram Temple at Ayodhya even if the judgement on the issue of the disputed structure goes in their favour, former RSS spokesman Ram Madhav said here today.
“I am convinced that the judgement would come in our favour, but even then we would like to go for framing of a law by the Parliament for the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya as there is no guarantee that it will be constructed after the verdict as other party will challenge it in higher court,” Madhav told reporters here.
Mumbai, September 02:Aishwarya Rai has finally given the nod to veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal. The film to be shotnext year would be an out-and-out female-oriented subject to be shot atone stretch. Says Aishwarya, “I’ve been working so hardthis year thatI haven’t had achance to look at scripts. Butyes, the one that Shyam Benegal hasgiven meisveryvery special. We’ve beenmeaning to work with one another for years.”
London, September 02: If you want to tell whether your baby is in pain, looking at its face may not be enough, researchers have found.
Generations of mothers have depended on their baby’s facial expressions to tell them what they are feeling. But a study has found that giving a baby a spoonful of sugar before an injection or blood test may alter its expression without lessening its pain.
The finding casts doubt on whether we can really know what a baby is feeling from observing its responses – and on the decade-old practice of using sugar as a pain reliever for infants.
Taunton, September 02: Pakistan’s one-day cricket captain Shahid Afridi vowed to put aside a raging betting scandal allegedly involving three of his key players and lead his side from the front in the series against England in Cardiff from Sunday.
Afridi said Thursday that his team was going through a tough time because of ‘spot-fixing’ allegations against some fellow team-mates but was quick to add that his players would overcome all odds and give their best in the series.
Visakhapatnam, September 02: People and their movements are looking up to small media in the state, Telugu daily ‘Andhra Jyothi’ editor K Srinivas said here.
Speaking at a press meet yesterday organised by Vizag Journalists forum(VJF), he said, ”during the colonial era media played a pivotal role in the national movement.” He said undeniably the media was also a ‘business’ and it had its own limitations.
In the era of globalisation people were hopeful in the local papers and blogs than the mainstream big media, he reiterated.
Washington, September 02: An armed man shot and killed by police after a tense four-hour standoff at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters told a TV channel he had several bombs strapped to his body “ready to go off.”
The gunman who had taken three hostages Wednesday in the Discovery building in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring in neighbouring Maryland spoke to an NBC producer for about 10 minutes during the siege.
Islamabad, September 02: Pakistan’s displaced flood victims say a lack of clean water and high temperatures are causing illnesses sweeping through relief camps with children most at risk.
Almost five million people are currently without shelter following devastating flooding sparked more than a month ago by heavy monsoon rains.
”They are scared, traumatised,” said Bibi Luqmania, 30, whose four children live with her in a tent donated by the charity Islamic Relief.
Gaza, September 02: The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility today for a shooting attack in which two Israelis
were wounded in the occupied West Bank.
Yesterday’s roadside attack, near the Jewish settlement of Kochav Hashachar, occurred on the eve of face-to-face peace negotiations between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
Kuppam, September 02: The Telugu Desam President N Chandrababu Naidu fault with the AICC decision to announce compensation to the family members of those who committed suicide or died due to heart attack following sudden death of former Chief Minister YSR in the state.
Talking to reporters at Shantipuram near here yesterday, Mr Naidu said that it was a bad precedent and the congress leaders will take advantage in listing of the victims in their favour.
The state administration has completely failed in all sectors, he alleged and said that the Rosaiah government avoided developmental
Amethi, Sep 2 (UNI) The high-level security personnel of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi went into a tizzy when two sisters from Lucknow stopped the cavalcade of the leader to inform him about the atrocities heaped on them by their family members.
Shivani and Sonia, residents of Alambagh in Lucknow, apprised Rahul of how their elder brothers and other relatives were trying to grab their house after the death of their parents.
England, September 02: Pakistan test captain Salman Butt and pace bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif will meet their country’s High Commissioner later today to discuss corruption allegations levelled against the team.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt will also attend the meeting which follows British newspaper allegations Amir and Asif were bribed to bowl deliberate no-balls in the fourth test against England at Lord’s which finished on Sunday.
Kuala Lumpur, September 02: Malaysia’s Muslim religious leaders Wednesday supported the government’s proposal to get converts to Islam to publicly announce their religious status, saying this would avoid future family disputes.
They said the move, which would require converts to update their religious status in an automatic system, was necessary as Islam required them to declare their new religious status openly upon conversion.
Moga, September 02: In yet another case of honour killing, a man strangled his 14-year-old sister to death in Landke village of this Punjab district Wednesday, police said.
According to the police, the accused, identified as Lakhwinder Singh, murdered his sister Preeti because she was going around with a village boy for the last few weeks.
“Lakhwinder was not happy with his sister as she was in a relation with a village boy. He was trying to counsel his sister but suddenly lost his temper and killed her,” a police officer said.
Washington, September 02: US President Barack Obama said Wednesday after meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas here that parties were making progress on the Middle East peace process.
“We are making progress,” said Obama after his bilateral meeting with Abbas in the White House. He also said the talks were productive, but gave no specific details, Xinhua reported.
United Nations, September 02: The UN Wednesday said the number of civilians who had been brutally gang raped recently in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo now exceeds 240.
The UN alleged July 30 that Congolese militants of the Mai-Mai group and Rwandan rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) descended upon villages in Kibua and the Walikale areas of the North Kivu province and engaged in the violent assault of at least 154 civilians.
Hyderabad, September 02: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah missed the official functions attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Tirupati today due to viral fever.
78-year-old Rosaiah was supposed to fly to Tirupati along with Governor E S L Narasimhan, but could not do so as he was down with viral fever and the doctors advised him to take rest for the day.
Washington, September 02: The World Bank said Wednesday it was raising its support for flood relief in Pakistan to $1 billion, from $900 million.
The announcement came after a meeting in Washington between World Bank president Robert Zoellick and Pakistani Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh.
“As the surging Indus river devastates Pakistan, the country needs the world’s support to meet urgent humanitarian needs: Food, clean water, sanitation facilities, medical and nutritional supplies, and vaccines,” said Zoellick.
Mumbai, September 02: Movie buffs will get to see fresh pairs like Salman Khan-Sonakshi Sinha and Aishwarya Rai-Rajnikant in the films lined up to hit the big screen this month.
The first hitherto unseen pairing will be Karan Johar’s home production “We Are Family”, releasing Friday. For the first time Arjun Rampal will be seen with Kajol and Kareena Kapoor in this family drama. A Hindi adaptation of the Hollywood hit “Stepmom”, it will show how Arjun’s character juggles between his ailing ex-wife and his girlfriend.