Hyderabad, June 04: In the ensuing academic year, an additional 6,000 MBA seats will be on offer for the students in Andhra Pradesh that already has 78,000 seats in 971 MBA colleges. The All India Council for Technical Education has decided to permit 10 new MBA colleges in the state this year and to enhance the intake in another 200 existing colleges.
Madina, June 04: Saudi retailers have raised some vegetable prices by 33 percent this month, which now means that the difference in wholesale and retail prices is as high as 160 percent in some cases.
Cartons of tomatoes jumped to SR199 over the past few months from a low of SR60. One kilogram of tomatoes is now sold for SR4.
The price of pepper is also up to SR60 from SR35; this means that the difference between the wholesale and retail price is now a whopping 140 percent.
Second on the list is lettuce which is sold at SR40 a carton, up from SR30.
Hyderabad, June 04: The Chief Minister Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy will use the “Telugu connection” to realise his target of attracting Rs 1 lakh crore worth of investment in the current financial year. At a high-level meeting held recently it was decided to explore the possibilities of attracting public sector undertakings to the state using the good offices of ministers and bureaucrats hailing from the state.
Karanchi, June 04: At least 20 people were injured today after unidentified miscreants lobbed hand grenades at a hotel in this southern port city, police said.
At least four men came to the hotel on the busy Napier road and threw grenades causing explosions and damage to the building, leaving around 20 people injured who were rushed to different hospitals for treatment, they said.
“The condition of three of the injured is precarious,” a police official said.
Hyderabad, June 4: All India Markazi Majlis Ahlesunnat wa Jamaat is organizing a Sunni youth conference for the first time in India at Hyderabad to create religious, educational, moral, and welfare awareness among youth.
The conference will be held on Sunday, June 5 at 10 am at Jamia masjid Afzalgunj. The conference will be patronized by Maulana Syed Shujat Ali Siraj Quadri.
Washington, June 04: A Republican politician, who lost a re-election bid for the US senate seat in 2006 after he called a Democratic Indian American campaign tracker “macaca”, or a monkey, has finally apologised.
“You don’t brood over mistakes. You learn from ’em and you improve,” George Allen the former Virginia senator, running to reclaim the seat, told hundreds of social conservatives at a conference in Washington Friday.
Hyderabad, June 04: The Telugu Desam chief, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Friday insisted his party will move a No-Confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government on Saturday and the Speaker has no option but to take it up.
Sanaa, June 04: President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when rebellious tribesmen struck his palace with rockets Friday, targeting him for the first time in a dramatic escalation of fighting that has turned parts of the capital into a battleground and pushed Yemen toward civil war.
Hyderabad, June 04: The Director General of Police Mr. K.Aravivda Rao transferred 36 Deputy Superintendents of Police across the state. The first ever Assistant Commissioner of Police Cyber Crime Police Station of Hyderabad City Mr. Mohammed Iqbal Sidiqui was transferred and appointed as the Assistant Commissioner of Police Malakpet Division.
Hyderabad, June 04: As Challa Babu pleaded with doctors to save him, the medical staff and his parents watched helplessly. The 16-year-old lost the battle to rabies, a disease that has claimed at least 13 lives in one month in Andhra Pradesh.
These were among more than 13,000 cases of dog bite reported in hospitals across the state, where people are blaming lack of vaccines for the crisis.
People across the state were shocked as news channels beamed the horrific visuals of the boy’s last moments at a government-run hospital in Khammam town recently.
Los Angeles, June 04: Jennifer Lopez seductively danced around husband Marc Anthony on the American Idol stage last season, but never-before-seen home footage of her and ex-husband Ojani Noa reportedly shows Lopez doing seductive things in her birthday suit — and it could soon hit the Internet.
E! reports that Noa and his people have been talking with some porn distributors, and he’s pretty close to signing a deal.
Noa’s manager Ed Meyer told E!, “I’ve gotten emails from Pornhub, YouPorn, Pulse Distribution, Red Light District and Kevin Blatt, who brokered Paris Hilton’s sex tape.”
Mumbai, June 09: ITEM girl Liza Malik, who made headlines recently after claiming that she had been getting calls to fix IPL matches, now finds herself in the midst of another controversy.
The Nari Samman Sangathan, a Mumbai-based NGO fighting for women’s rights, has taken strong objection to Malik posing nude for the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA’s) campaign against the use of leather balls in cricket. It has called her participation in the campaign obscene and a means of garnering cheap publicity.
London, June 04: One-time supermodel Heidi Klum is stripping down to promote Lifetime’s Project Runway.
While she has yet to sign off on a final image from a shoot held earlier this week, the show’s host opted to bare all as part of the network’s promotional campaign for the fashion competition series’ ninth season, which will kick off this summer.
New Delhi, June 04: Baba Ramdev launched his indefinite fast against corruption and blackmoney here this morning after the government failed to persuade him to call off his protest.
The yoga guru began the protest along with thousands of his followers at the Ramlila maidan here as he was joined by Swami Sadhavi Ritambhara and other religious leaders from the Sikh, Jain and Muslim communities.
Hyderabad, June 04: Inmates at the Central Prison, Cherlapally, will soon be able to call their loved ones, as a new facility is inaugurated this month, but will have to pay a very high price for the privilege.
The state’s largest prison is set to be the first to implement a move announced by home minister Sabita Indra Reddy earlier and approved by the state government to provide a telephone facility in jails.
The story of Maryam Jameelah is an extraordinary but painfully confused true tale of a young American woman whose search for moral absolutes and emotional security led her to abandon a middle-class Jewish upbringing in suburban New York in the 1960s for a vastly different existence as an exile and convert to Islam in Pakistan, where she experienced both great intellectual productivity and deep personal conflict.
Mumbai, June 04: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Salman Khan More PicsThere’s a big Bollywood drama ‘ready’ to unfold right here in Hyderabad. The big fat Reddy wedding is the most talked about, not only in mana party circles, but also around the country for all the opulence and star presence it promises. But along with the glitz, we can also expect a whole lot of masaledaar Bollywood tamasha, complete with big stars, bigger egos and controversial pasts.
London, June 04: Sachin Tendulkar has almost every batting record that is there to be made under his belt but the iconic Indian cricketer says he is still not satisfied with his career as he considers satisfaction the beginning of stagnation.
“When you win something or score a century you say you are happy, but not satisfied. Satisfaction is like engaging the handbrake and hoping a car moves forward,” Tendulkar told the latest issue of ‘Sky Sports Magazine’.
Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s largest economy, has the highest number of super-rich households worth more than $100 million in the world.
The Boston Consulting Group said that other Gulf countries such as Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates also ranked among the 10 nations with the highest density of ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNW).
The BCG study said that it measured Saudi Arabia UHNW per 100,000 households, at 18, while Kuwait had 8, Qatar had 6 and the UAE had 5.
Washington, June 04: The United States may provide access to Pakistani American David Headley after the ongoing trial of his long time friend, Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Rana, for helping in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Rana is under trial in a Chicago Federal court for allegedly providing support to Pakistan based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for the attacks by giving Headley cover of his immigration business to scout targets in Mumbai.
Mumbai, June 04: Sanjay DuttMore PicsActor Sanjay Dutt is producing the movie ‘Rascals’ which is being directed by David Dhawan.
The Ajay Devgn-Sanjay Dutt starrer, it is being touted, is a rip off of the Hollywood blockbuster ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ in which Micahel Cain and Steve Martin play thugs and eventually choose to come together to make some more money.
New Delhi, June 04: Deciding to go ahead with his fast against corruption and black money, Baba Ramdev held bhajans and yoga sessions in New Delhi early on Saturday amid thousands of his supporters.
With the talks between him and the government failing to reach any breakthrough on Friday, the yoga guru held bhajans in the wee hours followed by yoga sessions, even as his associates kept announcing the participation of various religious leaders in the stir.
New Delhi, June 04: The rate of new Human Immunodeficiency Virus infections fell by more than 50 per cent in India between 2001 and 2009. This is double of the average decline in the world, according to a new report released on Friday by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, which said the global response to Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is showing results.
Mumbai, June 04: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is under attack from the Shiv Sena again, this time for his criticism of yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s proposed hunger strike against corruption.
“These days it has become a trend for people to poke their nose into issues which are not related to them,” Sena MP Sanjay Raut told mediapersons while reacting to Shah Rukh’s comments on Ramdev’s proposed fast to fight corruption and for repatriation of black money stashed in off-shore tax havens.
Mumbai, June 04: Five persons, including four teenagers, were arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl for over a month.
According to police, the minor victim told them that she was tortured on at least four occasions, after which, she told it to her family.
The Dadar police station in the suburban Mumbai arrested Mahesh Mane, Hitesh Kalokh and Ashwin Murudkar (all 19-year-old), 18-year-old Pawan Angre and 44-year-old taxi driver Anand Landge on the charges of rape after the victim filed a case against them.