Hyderabad, April 30: MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi was shot by unidentified miscreants on Saturday in Hyderabad. He was participating in padyatra at Chandrayanagutta in old city. Injured Akbaruddin was admitted to hospital.
As per TV reports there where gun shots and then he was attacked by knifes in chandrayangutta.
New York, April 30: American Muslims have urged public to ignore an inciting rally planned today at Dearborn City Hall by controversial Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones who revealed new plans to rally for constitutional rights and against Islamic law.
“The best response is no response,” Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, told The Detroit Free Press on Friday, April 29.
“He wants to incite hostility and is looking for someone to respond to him.”
Mumbai, April 30: After Prince William and Kate Middleton royal wedding in the West, B-Town is now eagerly awaiting the wedding of it’s own Bollywood royalty that of actress Kareena Kapoor and actor Saif Ali Khan.
Kadapa, April 30: Actor-turned politician Chiranjeevi on Friday came down heavily on YSR party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy while campaigning for Congress candidates in by-elections to Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh.
Addressing meetings in road show at various villages from Chintakommadinne to Pulivendula mandals, Chiranjeevi alleged that Jagan, the son of late chief minister Y S Rajsekhara Reddy, is very keen to became the chief minister.
He asked the people to defeat Jagan by casting their votes in favour of Congress.
Hyderabad, April 30: The Central Teacher Eligibility Test CTET for the candidates pursuing for B.Ed and D.Ed will be conducted on June 26.
The exam paper will be in English and Hindi. The language papers also include Urdu/Telugu. Forms can be obtained till May 10.
Guidance and information can be obtained from Mahboob Husain Jigar Hall, Siasat premises, Abids between 9 to 1 pm.
Siasat news
Hyderabad, April 30: Marriages are said to be made in heaven. It is supposed to be the best moment in a girl’s life. However, for poor girls from the Old City areas, being married off to old Arabs, it is nothing but a nightmare.
“Baba Nagar, Barkas, Idi Bazaar, Sultan Shahi are some of the areas notorious for such fixed-term matrimonial alliances. We found that in these Old City areas, 33 girls had been given away to old Arabs in muttah marriages,” said Jameela Nishat, who counsels and sensitises young women.
Ayodhya, April 30: Parties looking for an out-of-court settlement for Ayodhya dispute have come out with a formula that has provision for both a temple and a mosque on the disputed 70-acre land. But, the two structures would be separated by a 100-foot wall.
New Delhi, April 30: Senior BJP leader and Public Accounts Committee member Yashwant Sinha on Friday said the PAC report on the 2G scam should be submitted to the Lok Sabha Speaker. For, it was the product of several months of the committee’s proceedings and was not authored by Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi.
Hyderabad, April 30: Today all roads will lead to Omer Gulshan Function Hall Chandrayangutta where Bazm-e-Gulshan-e-Adam is hosting “Jashn-e-Jauhar Kanpuri”.
President Bazm Mr. Syed Najeeb Ali will supervise, and Syed Jaleel Azhar will convene the mushaira. Ali bin Saleh Lahmadi will make arrangements for the Mushaira.
The poets have started arriving to the city. The bazm has the patronage of two great personalities of the city, Mr. Zahid Ali Khan editor Siasat daily, and Allama Aijaz Farrukh.
Distinguished poets from across the country are invited for the mushaira.
Bangalore, April 30: Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Daniel Vettori was as pleased as punch after his ploy to bring Zaheer Khan back into the attack worked in their 26-run win over Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League.
Zaheer took the vital wicket of Yuvraj Singh at a time when the dashing left-hander threatened to take the match away from the home side.
IT’S A rivetting story of love and Islam set in New York and Lahore. But it’s not a work of fiction.
Margaret Marcus, a Jewish American girl, came of age in the New York suburb of Larchmont in the 1950s, studied at New York University, and sailed away to Lahore as Maryam Jameelah at age 28, after years of corresponding with the Jama’at- i- Islami founder ( and the ideological forbear of Pakistan), Maulana Abul A’la Maududi.
Hyderabad, April 30: L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Ltd (L&TMRHL) is expected to create direct and indirect employment to over two lakh workers in the state. Once operational, the project is also expected to attract investments of about Rs 40,000 crore to Rs 50,000 crore.
L&TMRHL is a special purpose vehicle floated jointly by infrastructure company Larsen & Toubro Ltd and government of Andhra Pradesh to execute the Rs 16,375-crore metro project.
New Delhi, April 30: Karnataka Government told the Supreme Court that PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani, a key accused in the Bangalore bomb blast case, could pose a major threat to national security if released on bail.
Appearing before a bench of justices Markandeya Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra, senior counsel T R Andhiarujina disputed the claim of Madani that he was suffering from a host of ailments necessitating his release on bail.
Mumbai, April 30: A former scientist with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) allegedly committed suicide at her residence in southcentral Mumbai, police said Friday.
Uma Rao, 63, was in ill health which is believed to have driven her to commit suicide.
“Rao was found dead in her room this (Friday) morning. We have found a suicide note from her room that said she was depressed and was taking the extreme step,” a police official said.
Rao worked in the Food Technology and Cell Biology division at BARC and was also the President of Indian Women Scientists’ Association (IWSA).
Washington, April 30: ‘A slippery character’: President Obama’s father was a serial womaniser who had to be warned to stop his ‘playboy ways’
With a father like this, it is little wonder President Obama did not want to release his full birth certificate.
Though the proof that he was actually born in Hawaii may silence some critics, a new, rather more interesting side of his life has emerged – that his father Barack Obama senior was a serial womaniser and polygamist who government and university officials were trying to force out of the country.
Lucknow, April 30: Several BJP workers, including State president Surya Pratap Shahi, were injured here on Friday when the police used force to foil an attempt by them to stage a protest against the “tie-up” among the Congress, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party at Thursday’s meeting of the Public Accounts Committee on the 2G spectrum scam.
Mumbai, April 30: Superstar Rajinikanth who was admitted to Isabel hospital in Chennai on Friday afternoon for dehydration and exhaustion was discharged by night.
The star is back to his home in Poes Garden and has been advised complete rest for a week.
Earlier his son-in-law Dhanush tweeted: “For all Rajini fans , he is perfectly ok. Just dehydration, nothing to worry at all 🙂 he will be home tonight itself! Love u Rajini. God bless”
Varanasi, April 30: In the eight decades of its existence, over 100,000 people have opened accounts here. Ram Ramapati Bank in this popular pilgrim city is a bank all right, but it doesn’t deal in money.
All that an account holder has to do is scribble Lord Ram’s name 125,000 times on paper and keep it as a ‘deposit’ with the bank in the hope that his or her prayers will be answered. Its ‘clientele’ is spread over the US, Canada, the West Indies and, of course, across India.
London, April 30: Before his wedding ceremony began, Prince William told his bride Kate, “You look absolutely beautiful”, according to professional lip readers.
The groom mouthed the words while the hymn “Great Redeemer” was being sung, The Sun’s lip-reader John Cassidy reported.
Another professional forensic lip reader, Tina Lannin, who also reads CCTV footage, said William cracked a joke to his father-in-law at the altar, saying: “We’re supposed to have just a small family affair”.
Ahmedabad, April 30: Guj govt duty-bound to give security to Sanjiv Bhatt: PC New Delhi: Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday said the Gujarat government was duty bound to provide security to police officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who has filed an affidavit implicating Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots.
“I think it is the duty of the state government to ensure his security and that no harm comes to him,” Chidambaram told reporters at his monthly press conference.
He was reacting to reports that security cover of Bhatt has been removed.
Aligarh, April 30: The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been adjourned sine die after violence erupted in the campus on Friday night as students of two rival groups clashed with each other.
Reports said the two warring groups of students opened fire with about 100 rounds fired in all. They pelted stones at each other and ransacked university property. At least 12 students were injured in the clashes.
Anil Kumar, District Magistrate of Aligarh, has confirmed the firing in the campus.
Washington, April 30: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would travel to Rome next week to participate in a meeting to discuss ways to protect civilians caught in cross-fire between Libyan rebels and Qadhafi forces.
Scheduled from May 4 to May 6, the meeting of the Libya Contact Group in Rome will build on the last Contact Group meeting held in Doha and will allow the US to discuss with its international partners the ongoing implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973, the State Department spokesman, Mark Toner, said.
Washington, April 30: Continued presence of terrorist safe havens and role of certain “actors” in Pakistan remains a challenge in the war against terror, a US defence official has said.
“The concern about the role of safe havens in Pakistan and the role of actors in Pakistan, including the Haqqani Network, the Afghan Taliban who are located primarily, the leadership is located either in the south or in the north around Peshawar, that remains a significant challenge,” a senior defense official said at a Pentagon briefing.
German, April 30: German police have arrested three al-Qaeda suspects who will be put on trial on Saturday, when a news conference has been scheduled.
German prosecutor’s office in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe announced that the three suspects were arrested early Friday, but did not give further details,
According to security sources, the suspects are originally Moroccans but were living in Germany’s western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, when they were detained.
Tripoli, April 30: Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi’s regime has threatened to attack any cargo ship attempting to bring humanitarian assistance into the besieged port city of Misratah.
According to Libyan state TV, the Gaddafi regime insists that the humanitarian assistance should be sent via road and under the supervision of the Libyan army,
The Gaddafi regime warned that any ship “attempting to enter the port, for whatever reason, will be hit with force.”