Hyderabad, September 29 (Siasat News): Central government has nominated congress MP Mr. M A khan as a member of the committee for Hyderabad as well as Nalgonda and Warangal districts set up for the effective implementation of prime minister’s 15 point programme.
Hyderabad, September 29 (Siasat News): Expressing his concern over poor performance of banks for providing credit to minorities in State-Level Bankers Committee meeting, chief minister Mr. K Rosaiah pointed out that the priority sector lending to minorities was (9800 crore) 7.43% till June 2010 against the mandatory 15% share. He said two important affairs under the prime minister’s 15-point programme for the welfare of minorities are regarding banks.
New Delhi, September 29: Both the ruling Congress and Opposition BJP welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision lifting temporary stay on pronouncement of judgement in the Ayodhya land title suit.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court is now free to
deliver judgement in the 60-year-old case.
Congress General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi said yesterday that his party never wanted deferment of the judgement, as alleged by the Opposition.
Hyderabad, September 29 (Siasat News): AP government has decided to set up a massive dairy project in Hyderabad with a cost of Rs. 50 crores, to promote dairy industry and increase milk production in the State.
Talking to media persons after attending a review meeting convened under the chairmanship of Chief Minister K Rosaiah at the Secretariat, Animal Husbandry Minister K Parthasarathy announced this and said that the project would be completed in a 3-year period.
Hyderabad, September 29 (Siasat News): ‘Measures will be taken for the financial and educational development of minorities after the formation of separate Telangana state.
Arrangements will be made for free education from KG to PG for minority students.’ This was announced by TRS president Chandershekar Rao while addressing a programme where TDP leaders and activists from Nirmal and Khanapur joined TRS at Telangana Bhavan. Several minority leaders and activist from Adilabad too joined TRS.
Hyderabad, September 29 (Siasat News): BJP has demanded immediate and effective measures for withdrawal of cases registered against innocent youth in communal incidents occurred during last few months’ in Hyderabad.
Hyderabad, September 29 (Siasat News): In an inhuman incident occurred under Patancheru police station limits two sons ruthlessly killed their father.
The incident took place in Gangaram village where two sons, Yadayya and Shankar killed their father Anjnaya.
Anjnaya had scolded his two sons and had thrashed them with sleepers, according to police sources.
London, September 29: Hollywood actress Kate Winslet believes she could get married to her new boyfriend Louis Dowler.
“As far as Kate is concerned, they could go all the way together – get married, have kids. She’s the happiest we’ve ever seen her. He really brings out a wonderful, carefree side to her that we haven’t seen for years,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted a source as saying.
Kate separated from her filmmaker husband Sam Mendes early this year after almost seven years of marriage.
Beijing, September 29: A high-speed train in China has set a new world speed record during a trial run.
The train hit a maximum speed of 416.6 km per hour on its journey Tuesday between Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, Xinhua reported.
The train is designed to run at a speed of 350 km per hour on the 202-km-long track between the two cities. A one-way journey previously took two hours. But the new train would lessen that to around 40 minutes, officials said.
Islamabad, September 29: Top Al Qaeda leader Sheikh Al-Fateh has been killed in a US drone attack in northwest Pakistan, Xinhua reported Tuesday.
US drones fired nine missiles at three targets in North Waziristan to eliminate him Sunday.
Al-Fateh, 50, had joined the Taliban after coming to Afghanistan from Yemen in 1996. He fled to Pakistan after the US attacked Afghanistan in 2001.
He was appointed as commander of the Al Qaeda for operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan following the death of its leader Mustafa Abu al-Yazid in North Waziristan in May.
New Delhi, September 29: Home Minister P. Chidambaram was Tuesday evening briefed by Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna about the steps being taken to improve the condition at the “filthy” Games Village and also the security measures put in place for the Commonwealth Games.
According to a government official, the overall preparations at the Games Village, constructed by the Delhi Development Authority of which Khanna is a chairman, was discussed during the meeting.
Chidambaram also asked the L-G to visit the Games Village to oversee the preparations there.
New Delhi, September 29: Popular Australian TV channel ABC claimed that the alleged sting operation by another Channel Seven on alleged security lapse at the Commonwealth Games was “ridiculous and dishonest”, but the latter has threatened to sue them.
ABC’s Media Watch Monday night highlighted loopholes in Seven News reporter Mike Duffy’s report, which received worldwide coverage on the lack of security for the Commonwealth Games.
New Delhi, September 29: A 22-year-old student of Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi was on Tuesday beaten to death allegedly by two former students of the university, police said.
The university has been closed for two days from Wednesday following the incident.
“The second-year student Shahrukh was called outside the campus by the duo and was beaten up mercilessly” at around 3.30pm, a senior Delhi Police official said.
Shahrukh had an argument with the former students who allegedly used hockey sticks and iron rods to beat him up, he said.
Toronto, September 29: The unveiling of the PlayBook tablet by the BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) didn’t help its fortunes as its shares took a big dive on the Toronto stock exchange Tuesday.
RIM stock sank as much as 4.4 percent at one time during the day to close at $48.40 – down 2.6 percent.
The PlayBook tablet, unveiled Monday, is a bid by the Waterloo-based Canadian company to stay as the top provider of mobile devices for business people.
Toronto, September 29: Prostitution was effectively decriminalized in Canada Tuesday after a court here struck down main provisions of prostitution laws on a petition by three sex-trade workers.
“These laws, individually and together, force prostitutes to choose between their liberty interest and their right to security of the person as protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” Justice Susan Himel of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice said in her 131-page judgment here.
Mumbai, September 29: Dutch director Anton Corbijn says his film “The American” can help boost tourism in Italy’s Abruzzo region which was hit by a natural calamity that caused multiple casualties last year. Major portions of the George Clooney-starrer were shot there.By Robin Bansal
Toronto, September 29: Two more Canadian athletes Tuesday pulled out of the Commonwealth Games starting in New Delhi Oct 3.
Woman diver Meaghan Benfeito cited a shoulder injury and badminton player Alvin Lau school commitments as the reasons to pull out of the event.
They join archers Kevin Tataryn and Dietmar Trillus who withdrew from the Games last week, citing health and security concerns.
After initial reservations about conditions at the athlete’s village, Canada is sending a contingent of about 400 athletes, trainers and other staff to the Games.
–IANS–
Mexico City, September 29: The recent wave of extortion and kidnappings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s murder capital, has forced hundreds of psychiatrists to cross the border to the US to receive psychological treatment.
The situation in Ciudad Juarez has reached the point where “the doctors and psychiatrists themselves are here trying to get help,” psychologist Carlos Perlasca, who works in El Paso, Texas, told EFE.
“The psychologists themselves are going to get treatment because they have been asked for a payment or have even been kidnapped already,” Perlasca said.
London, September 29: An Al Qaeda-linked plot to launch a Mumbai-style terror attack simultaneously on London and major cities in France and Germany was disrupted by intelligence agencies, a report has said.
The plan for suicidal onslaughts similar to the 2008 atrocity in Mumbai, where 166 people were killed in a series of gun and grenade assaults was uncovered after a combined operation involving US, UK, France and German intelligence agencies, The Guardian reported on Tuesday quoting officials.
Hyderabad, September 28: The city police have decided to ban pillion riding between 9 pm and 6 am with an exemption to women and children below 12 years as pillion riders. This will be in force from September 28 to October 4.
“Those who want an exemption from the pillion riding ban can approach concerned station house officers (SHOs) and get a pass on production of driving license and RC, provided they have a valid reason ,” city police commissiner A K Khan said.
Paris, September 28: Paris’ Eiffel Tower was evacuated Tuesday evening due to a bomb threat, the second one this month targeting the French landmark.
Police said an anonymous call was placed from a phone booth saying that explosives had been planted at the tower, leading officers to evacuate visitors.
No explosives were found during an initial search of the landmark.
The tower had been evacuated two weeks earlier due to an anonymous bomb threat, with more than 2,000 people affected. The call turned out to be a hoax. Its perpetrator has yet to be identified.
Lucknow, September 28: Depressed over her poor financial condition, a woman set herself and her two minor sons on fire in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district Tuesday, police said.
Madhuri, 32, set herself afire along with her two sons – Shubham, 8, and Sumit, 3 – inside her home in the Maghwari village of Jalalpur town, some 200 km from Lucknow.
“Preliminary investigations indicate that poor financial conditions drove the women to take the extreme step,” police inspector Paramhans Tiwari told reporters in Jaunpur.
New Delhi, September 28A 22-year-old fine arts student was today beaten to death allegedly by three former students outside the Jamia Millia Islamia University, police said.
The incident took place outside the university campus in south Delhi at around 3:30pm, a senior police official said.
Shahrukh, a second year student, had an argument with three former students who allegedly used iron rods to beat him up, the official said.
Shahrukh was badly injured and rushed to Holy Family Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.
New Delhi, September 28: Prime Minister Manmohan Tuesday urged the people to maintain peace and harmony after the Allahabad High Court delivers its verdict Thursday in the 61-year-old Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute in Ayodhya.
“Whatever be the nature of judgment, I think everyone should make every effort to maintain peace, harmony and tranquility in the country,” Manmohan Singh told reporters on the sidelines of a book release function here Tuesday.
He recalled that the appeal for peace had been mentioned in the resolution adopted by the union cabinet Sep 16.
New Delhi, September 28: Home Minister P. Chidambaram paid a surprise visit to the Delhi Police headquarters here Tuesday evening to discuss the security arrangements for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games with Police Commissioner Y.S.Dadwal.
“He (Chidambaram) visited the police headquarters around 8 p.m. to discuss the security preparations with senior officials for the Commonwealth Games,” said Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat.
Earlier in the day, Chidambaram reviewed security arrangements with top officials including chiefs of intelligence agencies.