Beijing, June 07: China’s official news service says rain-triggered floods have killed 14 people and left 35 missing in the country’s southwest.
News Agency said on Tuesday that the floods destroyed roads and bridges, toppled 100 homes and washed away more than 500 vehicles.
Xinhua quotes authorities in Guizhou province as saying the flooding has forced 45,000 residents to evacuate and left 3,000 others stranded.
Hyderabad, June 07: With last-minute problems like errors in names, damaged passports and other seeing reported frequently, police have listed out a few tips to avoid problems in acquiring a new passport.
Police have listed out several people who can be approached for speedy verification of passport applications.
In majority of cases, police verification is completed within 20 days after receipt of the personal particular forms (PPF) from the Regional Passport Office.
Hyderabad, June 07: The worst fears of Telangana activists have come true. At a time when they were expecting a favourable announcement, AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday poured cold water on their hopes, saying “it is not an easy issue to solve.”
Azad’s comments gave the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) fresh ammunition. Its leader Etela Rajender said a new action plan would be announced Tuesday at a meeting of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC).
Haridwar, June 07: Baba Ramdev has decided to continue his fast but asked his workers to break their fast and work on ground to fight against corruption. Baba Ramdev on Tuesday revealed his action plan to the media at his ashram in Haridwar.
Talking on his ongoing stride against corruption, he said, “Anna Hazare is a social activist and our leader. He was with us earlier and will remain with us. The nature of the campaign has changed. I continue my fast. I have asked my people to fight without fasting.”
New Delhi, June 07: Two shoes flung at then US President George Bush by an Iraqi journalist seems to have literally kickstarted a global trend. The attacks on famous personalities by sullen people armed with nothing more than their footwear is becoming increasingly common with Congress spokesman Janardan Dwivedi the latest to be targeted.
Other famous shoe attacks:
Dec 14, 2008 – Iraqi journalist Muntazar al Zaidi, upset with the American presence in his country, threw his shoes at then US President George Bush who was visiting Iraq.
Washington, June 07: The United States has said that it supports the right to peaceful assembly, but it considers New Delhi’s action against yoga guru Baba Ramdev as “an internal Indian issue at this point.”
“We’ve seen the various media reports about the incident. We consider it an internal Indian issue at this point,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters when asked to comment about Ramdev’s forcible removal from an anti-graft mass agitation.
Srinagar, June 07: TRUST Ram Jethmalani to stir a hornet’s nest with his comments. The veteran lawyer and Rajya Sabha MP from the BJP has compared the alleged atrocities committed in Kashmir by the state government and the police with those committed in Nazi Germany.
New Delhi, June 07: DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran could be dropped from Cabinet in the next reshuffle for his alleged involvement in the 2G scam, according to sources. Dayanidhi Maran is likely to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi on Tuesday.
Sources also say Maran is likely to be named in the FIR in the Aircel-Maxis deal.
With allegations against Maran being in the 2G scam, a political realignment in the UPA seems imminent. After A Raja and Kanimozhi, Maran is the third DMK leader to be named in the telecom row.
After evicting Baba Ramdev from Delhi, the government today asserted itself against Anna Hazare and his colleagues, sternly telling them that it would go ahead with the drafting of the Lokpal Bill “even in their absence” if civil society representatives continued with their boycott of the joint committee meetings.
Hyderabad, June 07: The Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, fighting for statehood for several decades now, has a newspaper it can call its own. Namaste Telangana, the new Telugu daily with seven editions, hit the stands all over the region on Saturday with a promise to become the “heartbeat of Telangana”.
New Delhi, June 07: Who authorised the midnight swoop on Baba Ramdev? Sonia Gandhi sought to distance herself from the midnight operation against Baba Ramdev. Sources say she was upset with the government decision. But, is it possible she was not in the know?
Sources say that at a 3-hour meeting at 10 Janpath on Sunday, Sonia questioned the need for the midnight operation.
The meeting was attended by party leaders and senior ministers Pranab Mukherjee, P Chidambaram, AK Antony and Kapil Sibal.
Bhopal, June 07: Congress General Secretary, Digvijay Singh, said today that he never had the intention of courting the controversies that he has found himself in so far.
The former Chief Minister was in the news yesterday, amid the drama of police action against Baba Ramdev’s agitation in Delhi, when he said that Ramdev was “a fraud”.
However, talking to PTI this morning, Singh said, “It is not my intention to enter into any controversy. I only speak about facts, and the truth.”
He said if this was landing him in controversies, he would continue to speak the truth.
Muzaffarpur, June 07: A local court today accepted a petition seeking to register a case of sedition against Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh for allegedly describing yoga guru Ramdev as a ‘fraud’.
Chief Judicial Magistrate R C Malviya accepted the complaint filed by advocate Sudhir Ojha who sought to book Singh under sections 154(A) (sedition), 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the IPC.
Mumbai, June 07: A week after Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar attacked Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena chief Monday urged his activists to observe restraint and not to clashes with the NCP.
On Tuesday, Pawar stirred up a row by demanding to know Thackeray’s contribution to Maharashtra. The Sena chief retaliated, while workers from both parties clashed in different parts of the state.
“The conflict with the NCP (Nationalist Congress Party) must be stopped,” Thackeray said in a statement here.
Baghdad, June 07: Five American troops serving as advisers to Iraqi security police in eastern Baghdad were killed on Monday when rockets slammed into the compound where they lived. The deaths were the largest single-day loss of life for American forces in two years.
Raipur, June 07: A probe was launched Monday into a suicide by a man said to be a follower of Baba Ramdev. Police said he took the extreme step due to land-related problems, but the local media speculated he might have done so due to the police evicting the yoga guru from Delhi’s Ramlila Ground where he was protesting against graft.
Sukhuram, 60, consumed pesticide Sunday afternoon in Durg town, headquarters of Durg district, some 40 km from here. He died on way to hospital.
Mumbai, June 07: Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, who has been writing his autobiography since many years now, has revealed that his book is almost near completion and he would be releasing it very soon.
The book that has been christened “Twenty Years In A Decade” will focus on the life of the 45-year-old actor from the year 1991 to 2001.
New Delhi, June 07: A 22-year-old woman was thrown out of a moving Mercedes in Gurgaon in the National Capital Region, on Monday, when she resisted an attempt to rape. The incident occurred in the posh DLF phase 2 area, where the girl works as a manager with a property dealing firm.
Hardwar, June 07: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Monday criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying he had failed to discharge his duty. He also justified wearing woman’s clothes to escape during the police crackdown in Delhi’s Ramlila Ground, saying like warrior king Shivaji he too had adopted survival tactics.
Beirut, June 07: Armed men attacked Syrian security forces in a tense northern city on Monday, state television said, and 120 policemen and security forces were killed in a region where the army has carried out days of deadly assaults on protesters calling for the end of President Bashar Assad’s rule.
Communications were cut to the area around Jisr al-Shughour on Monday and the details of the attack were impossible to verify, but there have been unconfirmed reports in the past by residents and activists of Syrians fighting back against security forces.
Islamabad, June 07: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday indirectly acknowledged that the US had provided a list of five top terrorists it wanted Pakistan to take action against and said Pakistani soil should not be used for terrorism directed against any country.
“As far as the list is concerned, they (the US) have always had concerns about the (militant) leadership and commanders affiliated with al Qaeda.
“We also have concerns that Pakistani soil should not be used for terrorism,” Gilani told a news conference in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.
Chicago, June 07: LeT operative David Headley approached ISI to help another co-accused in Mumbai attacks Tahawwur Rana to get back to Pakistan, according to a video recording produced by FBI before a court here on Monday.
Headley used his personal links to favour Rana, FBI agent Jeffrey Parsons said while deposing before the US District Court during the 26/11 trial which resumed after a five day break.
New Delhi, June 07: French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, tipped to head the International Monetary Fund , will meet finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and other government officials on Tuesday to garner support for her candidature.
Developing countries have argued that it is time the IMF is headed by someone from the emerging countries .
The IMF has been without a head after the ignominio US exit of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Washington, June 07: Welcoming India”s decision to buy 10 Boeing C-17 heavy-lift aircraft for its Air Force, US-India business body today said it is a testament to New Delhi”s confidence in having the US as its long-term defence partner.”This is testament to India”s appreciation of US technology and confidence in the US as a long-term defence sales partner.
Tripoli, June 07: A series of NATO airstrikes have hit sites in and around the Libyan capital, targeting the military installations of the Muammar Gaddafi regime.
NATO has recently stepped up its aerial assaults on Libya and begun using French and British attack helicopters.
Fighting is also continuing on the ground between forces loyal to Gaddafi and revolutionary fighters.
On Monday, Libyan officials took a group of journalists to view the remains of a government building in Tripoli that they say was damaged in a NATO bombing run earlier in the day.