Month: January 2011

US seeks to scan travellers at Pakistani airports

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Washinghton, January 04: The US has sought data of all passengers flying out from Pakistan and proposed to deploy American security officials at Pakistan’s airports to thwart terror attacks on its soil, a Pakistani Foreign Office official has revealed.

According to the official, Washington had been pushing Pakistan for months to give it access to the Passenger Name Record (PNR) – a manifest of passengers used by airlines and travel agency databases, the Express Tribune reported Monday.

The proposed plan also includes the deployment of US homeland security

I will release phone talk with Karkare: Digvijay

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New Delhi,January 04 : After questions were raised over his claim, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh could be having the last laugh on the issue of his telephonic conversation between him and slain Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare.
Singh has called a press conference here tomorrow saying he would release the call record of the phone call he made to Karkare hours before he was killed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

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Ranjitha was in Swami’s sex video: CID

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Bangalore, January 04: Forensic reports state that the Sandalwood actress was indeed part of the footage, even as she has claimed all along that it was not her

The CID has thwarted the claims by Sandalwood actress Ranjitha that she was not part of the Swami Nithyananda sex video. The investigators have now said forensic reports show that she was indeed in the video.

AP Cong Names Representatives for Jan 6 Meet

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Hyderabad, January 04: Congress MLA N Uttam Kumar Reddy and MP K Sambasiva Rao would represent the party at the meeting of eight political parties convened by the Centre on January 6 to discuss the Srikrishna Committee report.

State Congress President D Srinivas told reporters that Reddy and Rao would attend the meeting in Delhi.

While Reddy is a legislator from Telangana, Sambasiva Rao is a senior MP from the coastal Andhra region. The two leaders met Srinivas earlier.

Reddy and Rao had represented the ruling party at a similar meeting convened by the Centre in January last year.

SC Issues Contempt Notices to KCR, Others

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New Delhi, January 04: The Supreme Court issued a contempt notice to TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, actress- turned-party MP from Vijayawada Vijayashanti and 10 others for allegedly vandalising the Andhra Pradesh High Court and hurling slippers at two judges in September last over Telananga row.

One of the judges C V Nagaarjun Reddy had at that time resigned in protest but subsequently withdrew it.

PC Will Distribute Copies Of Report To Parties On Jan 6: DS

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Hyderabad, January 03: The PCC Chief, Mr D Srinivas, has opined that the Union Home Minister, Mr P Chidambaram, would distribute copies of the Justice B N Srikrishna Committee report to the all recognized political parties and nothing more would happen on January 6. He said that the Centre has to study the Committee report first. However, the Centre would spare no efforts to find a lasting solution to the knotty Telangana issue, he added.

Ministers Question Jagan’s Calculations

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Hyderabad, January 03: Three ministers today felt that the statement of the former Kadapa MP, Mr Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, that the Congress party would drop to third place in 2014 elections, would create insecurity feeling among the poor people.

Juhi Chawla attends Swami Nithyananda’s birthday

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Mumbai, January 04: Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla attended the 34th birthday of controversial godman Swami Nithyananda on Saturday (January 1). She came to his Bidadi ashram on December 28 and stayed in ashram for four days.

According to reports, Juhi is said to be a big devotee of Nithyananda. It is also said that her brother is in coma for over six months and she visited him to seek his blessings. Kannada actress Malavika Avinash and Ranjitha were also present at the event.

Jagan to Hold One-Day Fast in Delhi on Jan 11

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Visakhapatnam, January 04: Former Congress MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy today said he would undertake a one-day fast in Delhi on January 11 to highlight the sufferings of farmers of Andhra Pradesh.

Jagan, who resumed his ‘Odarpu yatra’ in Visakhapatnam district today, announced that he would hold the fast in Delhi along with the MLAs and MPs who are ready to support him.

He demanded that the Centre come to the rescue of farmers who suffered heavy losses due to frequent heavy rains and cyclones.

Israel eyes Korean jet trainer

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Jerusalem, January 04: The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has reportedly issued a request for information on a Korean warplane, which Tel Aviv might rent for training its pilots.

The request for the aircraft, T-50 Golden Eagle fighter jet trainer, coincides with an underway examination by the military branch of M-346, an Italian transonic trainer aircraft, The Media Line, an outlet reporting on the Middle East, reported on Monday.

Engineer says, wife left him for a ‘better match’

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New Delhi, January 04: It is a love story gone sour less than two years after it started. Twenty-seven year old Ajay Sharma, an engineer with an MNC, met 25-year-old Deepti Nauni in Pune, fell in love and married her on August 19, 2009 without the consent of their families.

Their married life was going on smoothly till Ajay met with an accident. On October 21, Ajay was travelling in Goa Express which collided with Mewar Express in Mathura leaving 22 people dead and hundreds injured. Ajay suffered hip injuries.

Telangana Will Have a Dalit CM, Muslim Deputy CM: TRS

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Hyderabad, January 04: TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao said his party would make a Dalit leader as Chief Minister and a Muslim Deputy CM and implement the “Naxal agenda” of providing food and shelter to the poor after the formation of separate Telangana state.

“I have said earlier too that we will implement the Naxal agenda after separate Telangana is formed. After all, Naxals are also human beings. They are fighting for providing food, shelter and other basic needs of the people,” he said.

‘US liable for DU birth defects in Iraq’

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Baghdad, January 04: The US must be accountable for the rising number of cancer rates and birth defects reportedly linked with America’s use of depleted uranium in the Iraq war, analysts say.

“I think the Iraqi government should take the responsibility and go to an international court against the American forces to take the responsibility in this case. This is the best solution for the Iraqi victims,” Ali al-Nashmi, an Iraqi political analyst, told Media in an interview on Monday.

Teacher’s strip search causes 13yr old girl to commit suicide

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Bargarh, January 04: A girl student committed suicide after being allegedly stripped by her teacher over stolen money, in front of her classmates in Bargarh district of Orissa.

Official sources said today the class eight student of Khundeigola High School under Riamal block was “thoroughly searched” for cash, before 25 other students of her class by a lady teacher on December 28, after another classmate complained that Rs. 110, kept inside her bag, was missing.

Her body was found at her home next day, the sources said.

Bofors kickbacks scandal: Will Quattrocchi be let off?

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New Delhi, January 04: After an Income Tax tribunal tracked down the money trail in the Bofors scandal, a court in Delhi will decide today on a plea of the CBI seeking to drop criminal proceedings against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, accused in the kickbacks case.

The CBI has said in its plea that continued prosecution of Quattrocchi was “unjustified” in the light of lack of evidence, and hence the failed attempts to extradite him.

Paes, Bhupathi script fairytale win

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Chennai, January 04: Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi rolled back the years as they rallied brilliantly to overcome the Canadian-Swiss combo of Frank Dancevic and Stanislas Wawrinka 3-6, 7-6 (8), 10-4 to enter the doubles second round in the Aircel ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament here in the wee hours of Tuesday.Coming together on the pro tour for the first time in nine years, Paes, 37 and Bhupathi, 36, winners here four times, the last being in 2002, held their nerves while displaying some of their old magic to turn around a match that nearly got out of hand and win the one hour,

Telangana’s struggle for statehood

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Hyderabad, January 04: All of Andhra Pradesh, and the Telangana region in particular, waits for January 6, when the contents of the Srikrishna committee will be made public. But within the region, nothing short of statehood would satisfy the people. We travelled to both regions to get a sense of the divide, the alienation and the issues that confront the government, when it sits down to find a solution.

PM Netanyahu says U.S. rejected Israel’s freeze proposal

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Jerusalem, January 04: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said that the U.S. government rejected Israel’s proposal over the settlement freeze, local media reported.

Netanyahu said that he agreed to the U.S. plan to extend by three months the West Bank settlement freeze moratorium but the Obama administration was the one that rejected the offer, according to the Haaretz newspaper.

US regrets Russia’s arrest of protesters

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Washington, January 04: The US has criticised Russia for arresting dozens of political protesters and urged Moscow to do more to embrace freedom of expression.

“We regret that these arrests have taken place both in Moscow and St Petersburg,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Monday.

Russian authorities arrested more than 120 people who were calling for political reforms during protests in the two cities Friday, including former prominent officials.

Delhi people don’t stop to watch film shooting: Vidya Balan

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New Delhi, January 04: Vidya Balan has discovered a new side to Delhi. During her extensive shoot in the capital for “No One Killed Jessica”, the Bollywood star walked through crowded streets and markets, even in old Delhi, and was quite surprised to find that people did not stop to watch the shooting. Delhiwallahs are as busy as Mumbaikars, the actress said.”I always thought Delhi was a bit more relaxed than Mumbai where nobody walks aaram se (in a relaxed way).

I-cards for unorganised workers

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Hyderabad, January 03: Appanna , a 25-year-old daily wage labourer, fell to death from the seventh floor of a building under construction at Adarshnagar in Uppal a few days ago. Another labourer, Ch Sulochana was critically injured when she slipped from the third floor of an underconstruction apartment at Madhapur recently.

These are just a few examples of accidents that are rampant in construction sites that more than often lack basic safety measures.

And such accidents, oftentimes fatal, leave the families of the victims in the lurch with no help from any agency or their employers.

‘Varsity staffs retirement age may be raised’

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Hyderabad, January 03: The state government is contemplating raising the retirement age of university employees from 60 to 62 years and of the teaching faculty of aided colleges from 58 to 60 years, minister for higher and technical education C Damodar Rajanarasimha has said.

All-party meeting could be a two-party dialogue

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Hyderabad, January 03: The all party meeting to be convened by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Jan 6 to elicit views on Telangana issue could very likely turn out to be a damp squib with only two parties – the ruling Congress and the Praja Rajyam party (PRP) deciding to attend it.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the BJP – have decided to boycott the meeting, the second being convened by Chidambaram on the T-issue.

Focus on fence-sitters as yatra goes to Vizag

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Hyderabad, January 03: The week-long Odarpu Yatra by former Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will begin in Visakhapatnam district tomorrow amidst fears in the Congress circles that some cadres might defect to the Jagan’s camp.

Karnataka seeks national grid for oilseeds

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Bangalore, January 03:Karnataka Agriculture Mission Chairman S A Patil today urged the Centre to set up a national grid for oilseeds at Bagalkot following the availability of vast potential land in the backwaters of Almatti dam.

Addressing a southern regional workshop on oil seeds here, he said more than 50,000 hectares of land was available in the backwaters of Bagalkot district for production of oilseeds like groundnut and sunflower.