Month: June 2011

Hyderabad, June 28: Superb Federation of Private Schools arranged a function on 26th June at Gandhi Bhavan to felicitate the top rankers of S.S.C. students.

Addressing the students, Dr. Mohammed Ilyas Rizvi, M.D. of A.P. State Minorities Finance Corporation told the students that the cause of backwardness of the Muslims is that they take no interest in education but the situation is changing these days. Muslim students are participating in competitive examinations which is a welcome gesture. He said that there are opportunities for the educated persons.

Hyderabad, June 28: Government has made it mandatory for all institutions working for welfare and care of women and children to obtain licence under the Women and Children’s Institutions (Licensing) Act, 1956.

It has formulated a new set of State Rules under the Act and a website for ‘Missing and Found persons’ which were released by Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy here on Monday.

Rules necessary

Hyderabad, June 28: M.P. Urdu Academy is organizing an evening on 29th June devoted to “Humour in Urdu” at Bhopal. Padmashree Mujtaba Hussain and Dr. Syed Mustafa Kamal Editor “Shugoofa” an Urdu monthly magazine devoted to humorous writing in Urdu have specially been invited for this function.

—Agencies

Las Vegas, June 28: Two years after tying the knot, Mike Tyson and wife Lakiha Spicer have said their “I Do’s” once again. The former Heavyweight boxing champion and the mother of his two children renewed their wedding vows in a traditional Muslim ceremony at the M Resort in Las Vegas over the weekend, TMZ reported.

Cairo, June 28: The Hague: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son could also face rape charges, International Prosecuter said.

The International Criminal Court is still trying to link Gaddafi, his son and his brother-in-law to rapes but it does not yet have enough evidence to do so, prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Tuesday.

It has evidence that rapes have taken place in Libya’s civil war, he said, but he cannot prove Gaddafi ordered them, he said.

Bhopal, June 28 (Pervez Bari): A number of Muslims representing social and political organizations have demanded the resignation of Union Minister for Minorities Affairs Salman Khurshid from the UPA Government and the Congress party for his reported statement committing blasphemy against the Holy Qur’an and rejecting the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee, (JPC), on Waqfs and the Sachar Committee.

Mumbai, June 27: Ek baar jo commitment kar liya phir main apni bhi nahin sunta…This may be Salman Khan’s line. But it was Shah Rukh who proved the words true when on Saturday night at an international awards event in Toronto, he danced on his injured knees against all medical advice and his wife’s disapproval.

It was a performance straight out of a dramatic Karan Kohar-Sanjay Leela Bhansali film. Shah Rukh Khan risked losing the power to walk just so that he could dance. After the performance Shah Rukh limped out of stage with his bloodied knees.

Mumbai, June 28: It’s time for Katrina Kaif. It looks like she has decided to discard her habitually solemn demeanour to have some serious fun. And if ‘serious fun’ sounds like a contradiction in terms it nonetheless describes her state of mind to perfection.

And if she has decided to be in the fun zone at the moment a lot of that zest to be happy comes from the company that she’s been keeping lately. Imran Khan her co-star in Mere Brother Ki Dulhan has been “really cool company” for Katrina.

London, June 28: A German vampire killer, who drank the blood and ate the flesh of two teenagers before killing them, has been sentenced to life imprisonment

Identified only as a petty thief called Jan O, 26, the murderer admitted the killing of a girl called Nina, 14, and her friend Tobias, 13, outside the town of Bodenfeld in November last year.

His murders shocked Germany and the judge described the crimes as “excessively violent” and “a just about unimaginable dimension of injustice”.

Hyderabad, June 28: Government has made it mandatory for all institutions working for welfare and care of women and children to obtain licence under the Women and Children’s Institutions (Licensing) Act, 1956.

It has formulated a new set of State Rules under the Act and a website for ‘Missing and Found persons’ which were released by Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy here on Monday.

Rules necessary

Erode, June 28: In a tragic incident, a six-year-old girl died here after consuming poison mistaking it to be cough syrup, police said today.

The girl was playing with her elder brother yesterday when she had a bout of coughing. She went inside and consumed the contents of a bottle, presuming it to be cough syrup, police said.

She swooned and fell down, police said, adding, though she was rushed to hospital, she died.

The girl’s parents said they had kept pesticides inside an empty bottle of cough syrup.

Police are investigating the incident.

–Agencies

Bangkok, June 28: The recent uprisings in the West Asia have been an “inspiration” to the people of military-dominated Myanmar, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said.

“We in Burma envy Egypt’s quick and easy revolution,” the Nobel peace prize winner said in a BBC radio lecture due to be broadcast today, using the country’s alternative name.

“Why is the Arab Spring an inspiration to the Burmese? Because we have lived it ourselves,” the dissident added, according to a transcript published in The Times of London newspaper.

Mumbai, June 28: After Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s ‘good news’, everything was going right for the Bachchans, till Madhur Bhandarkar and UTV’s Siddharth Roy Kapoor chose to play villains by allegedly making some bizarre demands from leading lady Ash.

Much to the horror of the Bachchans, Bhandarkar has suddenly decided that his film needs two item songs. Naturally, given that Ash is pregnant, this is a difficult feat.

New Delhi, June 28: The Dey murder was cracked in a joint operation by the Mumbai crime branch’s property and unit 6 cells, which began rounding up seven accused on Saturday. “Three were arrested from Mumbai, three from Rameshwaram in TN, and one from Solapur ,” Roy said, adding major leads came from informants.

Mumbai, June 28: Bigg Boss season 5 gets bigger. Sanjay Dutt has taken over from his good friend Sallu as the host of the show. This time around the show will have the original macho man of Bollywood hosting it. With special appearances by Salman.

In fact, it was Salman Khan who suggested Sanjubaba’s name. A source revealed, “After Amitabh, it was Salman Khan who was arguably the most popular host of the show so far. However Salman, who was supposed to host the fifth season as well is tied up with too many film commitments.

Lucknow, June 28: Lucknow Scores of Congress leaders and workers led by Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi were detained on Monday for defying prohibitory orders as they tried to march towards the assembly building protesting the ‘spurt’ in crimes in UP, a day after the party was denied permission for the demonstration by the Mayawati government.

“This is a coward government which itself has violated law. We will continue to struggle on the issue of atrocities against women and deteriorating law and order situation,” Joshi told reporters.

New Delhi, June 28: A former Youth Congress leader on Monday created a flutter by accusing Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi of depending too much on his trusted men whom he charged with turning the student and youth wings of the party into a mess.

However, Congress’ youth wing dismissed the charges as “baseless and politically motivated.”

Hyderabad, June 28: The Hyderabad Police on Tuesday exposed contract marriages racket by arresting two Sudan Nationals along with Qazis and brokers.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police South Zone Mr.Vineet Brijlal told media persons at a press conference that one girl by name Nousheen Begum resident of Bela Colony, Sultan Shahi rushed to the Moghalpura Police station and complained that without obtaining her consent on 9 June her Nikah was performed with a Sudan National Mohammed Ansari.

Hyderabad, June 28: The former BJP MLA Prem Singh Rathore on Monday resigned from the primary membership of the party. He stated this in a resignation letter addressed to BJP state president G Kishan Reddy.

When he was contacted he said that he is not satisfied with party’s performance at state level.

Rathore was elected as member of legislature assembly from Maharajgunj in 2004 he had also been city unit president of the party.

Siasat news

Bhopal, June 28 (Pervez Bari): A number of Muslims representing social and political organizations have demanded the resignation of Union Minister for Minorities Affairs Salman Khurshid from the UPA Government and the Congress party for his reported statement committing blasphemy against the Holy Qur’an and rejecting the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee, (JPC), on Waqfs and the Sachar Committee.

Bhopal, June 28 (Pervez Bari): Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, (MANIT), Bhopal is the first NIT in India to have conducted an Academic Audit which is unique in itself as none other among the more than two dozen NITs in the country have taken this extra-ordinary step.

Hyderabad, June 28: College of Air Warfare, Secunderabad on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding with Osmania University. This was signed for conduct of M Phil course in Defence and Strategic Studies for the officers Equivalent to Group Captain from all the three services.

Siasat news

Lucknow, June 28: Five engineering students were arrested here for allegedly killing their classmate due to differences over a girl student, police said Tuesday.

Pradeep Kashyap, Obaisuddin, Samarjeet Srivastava, Arbaz Khan and Sunny Singh were arrested Monday.

They had poisoned Apoorva Gupta during a party last year, police inspector R.B. Pandey told reporters in Lucknow. They were civil engineering syudents of a private college here.

“The five were arrested after the victim’s viscera report confirmed that he died of poisoning,” he said.

Tokyo, June 28: Women around the world feel stressed and pressed for time, but women in emerging markets are more stressed than their sisters in developed nations — and Indian women say they are the most stressed of all, according to a survey published on Tuesday.

But while women in emerging markets may be under more pressure, they are also far more hopeful, with most seeing more financial stability and better chances for education for their daughters, according to the survey of 21 developed and emerging nations by global information and analytics firm Nielsen.

London, June 28: Gina Rinehart, an Australian business woman who inherited a debt-ridden mining company from her father 20 years ago, is predicted to become the world’s richest person, a media report said Tuesday.

Rinehart, 57, is the richest Australian and her fortune has more than doubled in the past year because of a commodities boom, the Telegraph report said.

She is on course to overtake Carlos Slim, the Mexican magnate worth $73 billion, and the Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who is worth $55 billion, Citigroup has estimated.