Sohar, March 01: Demonstrators blocked roads to a main port in northern Oman and looted a nearby supermarket Monday, part of protests to demand more jobs and political reform that have spread to the sultanate’s capital.
A doctor said six people had been killed in clashes between stone-throwing protesters and police Sunday in the northern industrial town of Sohar. Oman’s health minister said one person had been killed and 20 wounded.
In the first era of Islam marriage was a simple affair, without pomp or ceremony. Any expenditure incurred in its performance was quite minimal, and not a burden on either family. Indeed, the Prophet stated: ‘the most blessed marriage is one in which the marriage partners place the least burden on each other.’ (al-Haythami, Kitab ab-Nikah, 4:255).
Mumbai, March 01: Actor Boman Irani has been injured on the sets of his upcoming Bollywood film FALTU. The incident happened, when the actor knocked his head into a glass door on Saturday.
Boman Irani tweeted, “Lots of people inquiring as to what happened on Saturday. Walked into a glass door, hurt my head /knee. Swelled up and dazed. Fine now!” Though, it is a minor injury, the actor will be in rest for a few days, says report.
Dhaka, March 01: Islami Bank Bangladesh is spending eight percent of its profit to fund militants in the country, State Minister for Home Shamsul Huq Tuku has said.
The bank is spending the money through the Islami Bank Foundation, he said at a meeting at the secretariat yesterday.
According to the statement on its website, the bank had a net profit of Tk 352.8 crore in the nine months to September 2010.
Dhaka, March 01: Dismissing criticism that Shakib Al Hasan should not have opted to field first in the World Cup match against India, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the decision was right.
“Who can say for sure we would have done well batting first?” she asked while presiding over the weekly cabinet meeting at the secretariat.
“They [Bangladesh cricket team] could have been bowled out for 170 to 180 runs. So, Shakib’s decision in my view was right,” a minister quoted the prime minister as saying.
Dhaka, March 01: Three people were killed and at least 75 injured in a train-truck collision at an ‘unauthorised’ level crossing at Nandalalpur in Pagla yesterday morning.
Two of the injured Md Shahid, 40, and Md Jasim Uddin, 45, succumbed to their wounds at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in the morning while another unidentified 40-year-old woman died in the afternoon.
Of the rest, 11 were admitted to DMCH while the others were sent to different clinics and hospitals in Dhaka and Narayanganj.
Tripoli, March 01: Libya’s beleaguered strongman Muammar Gaddafi insists “all my people love me” in an interview with ABC television.
“All my people love me. They would die to protect me,” the veteran Libyan leader said, according to ABC’s Christiane Amanpour in a message sent on her Twitter account.
Gaddafi, who has ruled his north African country for more than 41 years, also refused to acknowledge there were any demonstrations on the streets of Tripoli, Amanpour added.
New Delhi, March 01: Overview of the Economy
Sanaa, March 01: A Yemeni alleges he was arrested by the CIA in Tanzania in 2003, flown to Djibouti to be tortured for a fortnight, and left languishing for years in secret prisons in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Mohammed al-Asad, 51, had been living with his family in Tanzania since 1985, when he was arrested and put on a plane to an unidentified country later found to be Djibouti, the complaint says.
The suit was lodged with the Gambia-based African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in December 2009 but only made public today by US rights groups.
Trivananthapuram, March 01: A double-decker bus of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation will start plying in the capital from Tuesday after a gap of six years. Along with this, a 16-metre vestibule bus will also start service in the city.
The double-decker and the vestibule bus purchased by the KSRTC for over Rs.31 lakh each will be flagged off by Transport Minister Jose Thettayil at East Fort. Public Works Minister M. Vijayakumar and Ports and Youth Welfare Minister V. Surendran Pillai will attend the function.
Hyderabad, March 01: Justice Raja Elango of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday permitted the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to register and investigate in a case wherein former Chief Minister K. Rosaiah is one of the accused. However, the Judge said the accused may not be arrested.
It may be recalled that Mohanlal, a practicing advocate, filed a complaint before the Special Court for ACB cases stating that the former Chief Minister and some officials illegally got issued a GO regularising occupation of a prime land in Ameerpet, Hyderabad.
Hyderabad, March 01: 2HYDERABAD: Adding to the woes of the ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh, party legislators from Telangana on Monday decided to boycott both the houses of the state legislature to demand a bill in parliament for formation of a separate Telangana state.
Members of the legislative assembly boycotted the house on Monday while members of the legislative council would follow suit from Tuesday.
New Delhi, March 01: Claiming that black money to the tune of Rs. 500 lakh crore was stashed by Indians in foreign banks, yoga guru Baba Ramdev advocated for bringing those money back.
Continuing his tirade against corruption, he said if brought back, the huge amount of black money could change the economy of the country.
“The finance minister in his budget speech was categorical in admitting that black money and corruption were the two major concerns for the country. But the steps he pledged to take are not sufficient,” he told a gathering here.
Hyderabad, March 01: The rail roko being planned by the TJAC on March 1 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. is likely to paralyse transportation in the entire Telangana region.
A lot of ground work has been done with the TJAC leaders holding talks with leaders at the mandal level in all the districts of Telangana. It has already given a call to the people in villages to spill out and sit on the railway tracks and ensure that no train moves that day. The Telangana cultural troupes would also be performing dances and singing songs on the railway tracks.
Hyderabad, March 01: With 3.95 lakh students all set to appear for the forthcoming Intermediate examinations, the State government junior college lecturers from Telangana region said that the going will not be smooth for the government to conduct examinations from March 7 at the 1,118 centres spread over 10 districts of Telangana, given the current situation prevailing in the region.
Exams disrupted
Hyderabad, March 01: A software company from the city allegedly duped nearly 2,000 persons in Andhra Pradesh and the neighbouring States of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra with false promises of regular monthly income by working at home with computers.
The company owners reportedly based in Nellore had set up an office in Chikkadpally and began luring persons stating that they would help secure thousands of rupees of monthly income by working for a few hours online. The company had created a website and asked the members to click on the advertisements displayed on the website.
Hyderabad, March 01: The already expensive medical bills at private hospitals are set to get costlier. The imposition of 5 per cent service tax on all medical services including diagnostic tests offered by air-conditioned hospitals with more than 25 beds in the Union Budget 2011-12 will force hospitals to pass on the burden to patients.
Additional burden
Vijayawada, March 01: The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has prohibited the sale of meat and fish in the city on Wednesday on account of Mahasivaratri.
The corporation officials have stated that stringent action will be taken against the shopkeepers who sell the meat and fish on Mahasivaratri day.
–Agencies–
Hyderabad, March 01: Leader of the Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Monday demanded inquiry by Joint House Committee of the Assembly and the Council and the CBI into “irregular” investments in Jagathi Publications Private Ltd (JPPL) that publishes ‘Sakshi’ and is owned by former MP Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy.
Releasing copies of the Income Tax Department’s assessment of JPPL’s income for 2007-08 and demand notices of Rs. 122 crore served on the firm recently, the TDP leader told mediapersons that the department’s findings had vindicated the party’s stand.
Hyderabad, March 01:: Vital life-saving medical services for patients at Emergency Medical Department (EMD) of Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) continues to remain in a mess. Patients needing emergency care are frequently denied admissions on a host of grounds, most glaring of them being lack of beds.
London, March 01: French food has become the fastest growing cuisine in Britain, new figures show.In the past year, sales of French ready meals and desserts have grown by 16 percent, according to independent retail analysts Kantar Worldpanel, reports express.co.uk.
There has been 27 percent growth in sales of French food year-on-year.
Chicken chasseur is up in popularity by a whopping 226 percent, steak au poivre is up 37 percent and salmon en croute up 73 percent.
Hyderabad, March 01: Yet another attempt made by the government to resolve the non-cooperation agitation of its Telangana employees ended in failure as it achieved no understanding with the Joint Action Committee leaders at the fresh round of talks held through the Cabinet sub-committee here on Monday.
Three hours
Copenhagen, March 01: A Danish ship with seven crew members on board has been captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia, Denmark’s foreign ministry said Monday evening.The captured ship is said to be carrying a family of five, including three children aged 12 to 16, their parents, and two other adult helpers, Xinhua reported Tuesday.
The Danish Navy’s Operational Command received a distress signal from the sailing ship Thursday. It is now confirmed that the vessel has been captured by pirates, the foreign ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
Hyderabad, March 01: Staff of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will be getting their monthly pay tomorrow unlike other government employees.
The ongoing non-cooperation movement by employees had led to doubts about salary payments elsewhere but those spearheading the agitation in the municipal corporation have been smarter. Staff dealing with the pay and accounts were allowed to do their work even as others busied themselves in the protest camp at the parking lot, playing cricket, tenni-koit and so on.
Hyderabad, March 01: Office-bearers of the State unit of the Confederation of Indian Industry on Monday gave Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s budget a rating of 6.5 on a scale of 10, but regretted that it had disappointed some sections of people and the industry on several fronts.