Kakdwip (west Bengal), January 29:Taking a potshot at Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday said there were advertisements in newspapers every day that new railway factories were being set up while the railway ministry said there was no money for projects.
Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), January 29:Six people, including army soldiers and paramilitary personnel, were arrested here Saturday for molesting a woman passenger in a train, officials said.
Two soldiers, a trooper each of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Border Security Force (BSF), an employee of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and a civilian, molested a young woman in the general coach of the Vaishali Express.
New Delhi, January 29:Delhi Police Saturday released the photographs of the driver of a cash van and a gunman who fled with Rs.67.5 lakh a day earlier. The duo have a bounty of Rs.50,000 each on their head. The cash van was recovered in Faridabad Saturday.
“We have released the photographs of the two men,” a senior police officer said.
The accused are identified as Ram Kumar, the driver, and Sanjeev, the gunman.
Kolkata, January 29:Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president Jagmohan Dalmiya Saturday called on Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and discussed with him the Eden Gardens fiasco.
Dalmiya held a closed-door meeting with Mukherjee for about 25 minutes.
Nalgonda, January 29: Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy cut short his Rachabanda appearance at Kondamallepalli in Nalgonda district down to two minutes of going through the motions as Telangana activists went on the rampage with a hail of stones on policemen.
Hyderabad, January 29: A woman’s body was found charred beyond recognition at Tallagadda while another woman was found dead at Nagole today.In the first case, the charred body of a woman was found near Kabaddi grounds at Tallagadda under the Tappachabutra police station limits this morning.
Hyderabad, January 29: About 93 per cent Indians are sleep deprived, getting less than eight hours sleep every day, according to a survey conducted in 25 cities last year by the American Phillips Sleep Medicine Institute.
The survey also revealed 11 per cent Indians took leave from work because of lack of sleep. Sleep Care Solutions (SCS), a city- based sleep solutions company launched their first state-of-the-art sleep care facility on Friday. This will be the first independent sleep disorder testing facility in the state.
Kolkata, January 29:Bollywood actress Chitrangada Singh Saturday made a candid confession about wanting to share screen space with superstar Aamir Khan.
“If you ask me to name one actor with whom I want to work, then its Aamir Khan. If Sudhir (Mishra) makes a film with him then I would stand in line with a hope that I will get a chance,” she giggled.
Chitrangada, along with director Sudhir Mishra and actor Arunoday Singh, was in the city to promote their upcoming film “Yeh Saali Zindagi”.
Hyderabad, January 29: The talk of the town today is – will there be a trust motion in the Assembly and will there be mid-term elections. The heated debate follows the challenges and counter challenges by ministers and YS Jagan Mohan Reddy loyalists daring one another to be the first to take the initiative. But neither is coming off the high horse and implementing their threat and as a result there is high voltage talk and very little action.
TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu:
Cairo/London, January 29:Hosni Mubarak directed his cabinet to resign Saturday and appointed intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as deputy president, as US President Barack Obama told his Egyptian counterpart to avoid a violent response to the growing nationwide protests to end his 30-year rule.
Mubarak also appointed Ahmed Shafik, the former aviation minister, as prime minister Saturday evening, Xinhua reported.
“Omar Suleiman has been sworn in as deputy to President Hosni Mubarak,” the government-owned Middle East News Agency (MENA) confirmed.
Hyderabad, January 29: Members of All-India Students Federation today demanded the authorities in the United States of America to ban bogus universities and provide admissions into other universities to the students who were duped by the Tri-Vally University.
The Federation students staged a Rasta Roko on Begumpet road halting the traffic movement on the Panjagutta- Begumpet stretch.
Srikakulam, January 29: Tribal beat up assistant director of mines N KoteswaraRao when he, along with additional joint collector P Babu Rao Naidu, was surveying the Kannedhara hillock in the district this morning for the presence of white granite mines.
Hyderabad, January 29: Reiterating that the state government would abide by the Centre’s decision on the state’s bifurcation issue, chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy said his government would not be cowed down by the T activists’ attempt to disrupt Rachabanda.
He was addressing a public meeting after launching the Aadhar-based smart cards at Maheswaram in Ranga Reddy district here today.
Hyderabad, January 29: “They are going to deport us all within a few hours,” Tri-Valley University student Hari (name changed on request) told Express on the telephone on Friday, the horror in his voice unmistakable.
With the university at Pleasanton in the suburbs of San Francisco declared a sham university for immigration fraud, hundreds of Indian students, many from Andhra Pradesh, braced up to be put on the plane back home in the next 48 hours.
Hyderabad, January 29: The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has increased the price of special prasadams at the Tirumala temple.
As they are not sold across the counter and are given only to VIPs and Arjita Seva ticket-holders, the burden would not be felt by the general devotees.
Laddu, the main prasadam, which is sold across the counter, has, however, been exempted from the price hike. Its price will remain at Rs 25 only.
Hyderabad, January 29: More trouble seems to be in store for senior IPS officer Tejdeep Kaur Menon, with the Crime Investigation Department (CID) categorically stating that it has prime facie evidence that she and her gunman did barge into the house of a couple, Harita and Kadeer, to thrash them.
Hyderabad, January 29: Leader of the opposition N Chandrababu Naidu has disapproved of obstructing the Rachabanda programme, saying that though people have every right to register their protest over their problems they should not obstruct the programme.
Speaking with reporters here today, Naidu said that the protests during the Rachabanda programme were organised in accordance with the feelings of the local people.
Hyderabad, January 29: The Public Accounts Committee, headed by senior Telugu Desam member N Janardhan Reddy, today directed senior officials concerned (of finance and social welfare departments) to take disciplinary action against erring officials for failure to submit vouchers relating to AC (Abstract Contingent) and DC (Detailed Contingent) bills to the tune of about Rs 102 crore.
All the officials responsible for the lapse should be identified within 15 days and disciplinary action initiated against the guilty, it said.
Hyderabad, January 29: As usual, the Rachabanda programme was disrupted in several districts in Telangana region by T protagonists demanding that Telangana be delivered immediately and not sops and freebies.
At some places, the protests became violent, necessitating the police to intervene. They lathicharged the crowds. They did not spare chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy either, creating trouble in Nalgonda and Maheswaram in Ranga Reddy district.
Hyderabad, January 29: As expected, director-general of police K Aravinda Rao today asked his colleague Kode Durga Prasad to enquire into sleaze allegations against controversial IPS officer PSR Anjaneyulu. The move comes several days after chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy directed the DGP to conduct an enquiry and submit a report.
Anjaneyulu, who is presently IGP, Greyhounds, allegedly sent indecent SMSes to a few women while he was Vijayawada police commissioner.
Hyderabad, January 29: Denying a slow down in the Telangana movement, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao said today that he preferred a sustained agitation rather than something that rose like a high tide one day and ebbed the next, as happened in 1969.
Hyderabad, January 29: Protests rocked the Kakatiya, Osmania and Telangana universities on Friday with students taking out rallies demanding that their semester examinations be deferred till a bill for the creation of a separate Telangana State was introduced in Parliament.
Hyderabad, January 29: Two associates of Bhanu Kiran, the prime suspect in the killing of faction leader G Suryanarayana Reddy alias Maddelacheruvu Suri, are likely to be ‘arrested’ tomorrow.
Hyderabad, January 29: Two persons, who stole the ATM of a person and withdrew more than Rs 6 lakh, were arrested on Friday. Police said the accused could easily withdraw the amount as the card holder had written his PIN number on the card.
Hyderabad, January 29: A munsif magistrate’s court in Kanigiri in Prakasam district has directed the police to register a case against information technology principal secretary K Ratna Prabha following a complaint by a woman that the IAS officer had been threatening her.
According to sources, the woman, Vatsala, complained that Ratna Prabha had been sending her threatening SMSes.