New Delhi, July 29: On Thursday, a metropolitan magistrate convicted Shamsuddin Fakruddin of theft, making it the happiest day of his life. As his lawyer explained to him that the court had just declared him guilty, Shamsuddin’s boyish face broke into a smile. He was finally free.
Dubai, July 29: The Ministry of Labour in the UAE said that reduced work hours during Ramadan are for all regardless of their religion and warned companies not to violate the law by forcing non-Muslim employees to work normal eight hours, media report said on Friday.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Labour issued a circular reducing working hours for private sector to six from eight during the holy month of Ramadan – which is expected to begin on August 1.
To become Muslims has nearly doubled in the past decade, according to one of the most comprehensive attempts to estimate how many people have embraced Islam.
Mumbai, July 29: Is it true you weren’t keen on working with Ranbir Kapoor in Ayaan Mukherji’s film?
As far as I know, Ayaan is still writing the script. Of course, I’m keen to do a film with Ranbir. And he’s just as keen to work with me.
I know that as a pair, people liked us together. But we haven’t got a suitable script after Bachna Ae Haseeno. We’d love to work together again.
Wouldn’t Siddhartha Mallya object?
Why? My decisions are totally mine.
Mumbai, July 29: Anushka Sharma feels Ranveer Singh and she are two very different people.
“I like him, he’s attractive but we two are very different people.
We have a very volatile relationship, we can actually kill each other and I am serious. I can bite his head off, he can take mine off, ” reveals the actress on Simi Selects India’s Most Desirables.
“So for me, if I need to be with another man, he needs to calm me down otherwise it would not be a good relationship..
I’m serious, ” says the actress, who features on Simi Garewal’s chat show, this week.
-Agencies
Hyderabad, July 29: In the backdrop of current affairs, a public meeting for ladies and girls in favour of separate Telangana will be held by Telangana Elders’ Forum (women wing) on July 30 at 3 pm, at Madina Education Centre, Nampally. Prof. Rehana Sultana, Mrs. Jyoti Kiran advocate (high court), will preside over, respectively.
New Delhi, July 29: Gandhian activist Anna Hazare on Friday called on the people of the nation to join the struggle for a strong Lokpal Bill. Speaking exclusively to Zee News, Hazare said he was ready to go jail and eve face bullets for the cause.
Hazare had yesterday announced that he would again sit on fast from August 16 as the government has betrayed the nation on the issue of drafting a strong Lokpal Bill. It should be noted that the Union Cabinet had yesterday approved the draft Lokpal Bill but decided to keep the serving Prime Minister and the judiciary out of its ambit.
Hyderabad, July 29: A woman who was seriously injured while escaping her sponsor in Saudi Arabia has managed to return to India with great difficulty.
Ms Shabana Begum from Hyderabad, who suffered injuries to her spinal cord, complained that she was not provided any help from the Indian Embassy authorities.
Ms Shabana, who could not sit properly due to her recent operation in Saudi Arabia, also had to spend an agonising 12 hours at the Dubai Airport.
Hyderabad, July 29: This may be the first time in the history of India that prisoners of Cherlapally jail will be allotted Unique Identity Number (UID) under Adhar card project. Jail sources said that Adhar enrollment centres would be set up in all jails of the state so that prisoners are provided UID facility. Deputy Director General and Joint Secretary Planning of UID authority of India, Mr. V S Bhaskar told that Andhra Pradesh would be the first state to provide Adhar card to the prisoners besides physically challenged persons and persons suffering from leprosy.
Hyderabad, July 29: A person from Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh allegedly involved in robbing 75 tola gold from a widow was arrested by police on Thursday and 25 tola gold recovered from him.
Police said Amjad, a painter from Uttar Pradesh, had been hired by a 77-year-old widow Jeevakireetam for repainting her house at Innovation Apartments in June.
Hyderabad, July 29: The state will be plunged into darkness from the first week of ensuing month since as part of the agitation for separate Telangana, Telangana Political Joint Action committee has announced to block water and coal supply to National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). This comes as a rude shock to the people of the city who have already been suffering the worst electric supply situation for over a month.
Hyderabad, July 29: The Central Information Commission (CIC) on Wednesday issued a notice to Regional Passport Office, Hyderabad on why a Rs 50,000-penalty should not be imposed on him for allegedly harassing and abusing a Right To Information applicant apart from withholding information from him.
Hyderabad, July 29: Cocaine could be making headlines, but it’s definitely not the only drug giving the `high-spirited’ Hyderabadi junta a high. Their addiction list includes a range of other `stuff’ that starts from the cheap and easily available weed (ganja) to the more potent and expensive ecstasy and LSD.
Hyderabad, July 29: After bulldozing illegal encroachments from road margins, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is going to launch another demolition drive in early August, against commercial and shopping complexes and multi-storied buildings for violation of parking norms.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday, GHMC commissioner MT Krishna Babu said notices have been slapped against 670 building owners to restore area earmarked for parking purposes within a week.
Kuala Lampur, July 29: Two teenage Muslim girls have been arrested by Malaysian Islamic officials for hugging and kissing each other publicly in Tawau town, Sabah.
The girls aged 16 and 17 were detained during an integrated operation by the Sabah Islamic Religious Affairs Department together with the Tawau Municipal Council on Tuesday.
The department’s officer Abdul Imam Basiron said the two girls faced charges under the Islamic Shariah Criminal Offences Enactment that carries a maximum fine of 15,000 rupees or jail of up to six months or both upon conviction.
Hyderabad, July 29: Diploma in Computer Application course sponsored by National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, New Delhi which consists of Software and Hardware is being offered at Kadapa, Kurnool, Chittoor, Tirupathi, Warangal, Nirmal and Hyderabad.
All the students who have completed Matriculation Examination and who have completed 16 years of age are eligible for admission. This Diploma is recognized throughout India. Every center has 40 seats.
Banglore, July 29: Over 12 hours after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) directed him to quit immediately, Karnataka chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa announced that he would resign on July 31 and work for the party on late Thursday evening.
In a statement, the 68-year-old first BJP chief minister in south India said: “I am a disciplined worker of Bharatiya Janata Party. I have decided to tender my resignation to the post of chief minister as per the direction of the party.
Hyderabad, July 29: A.P. State Wakf Board met under the chairmanship of Mr. Syed Ghulam Afzal Biyabani and decided to develop ten properties to raise income.
The Wakf properties identified for development include Hakeem Basheer Ahmed Wakf, Khairiatabad, (450 sq yards) for comer\cial complex, the property of Anjuman-e-Islamia Kurnaool at B.K.Guda, Sanjeevareddy Nagar Colony, Hyderabad (two acres) for commercial / residential educational.
Hyderabad, July 29: The website of A.P. State Minorities Finance Corporation www.apsmfc.com is overloaded due to rush of applications that are being submitted and often it fails.
Now that there are only three days remaining for the online submission of applications for getting scholarships, extension of last date seems to be inevitable as a lot of students have to register their applications.
Parents have requested the Minister for Minorities Welfare and the other authorities concerned to extend the last date at least by days.
—SiasatNews
Hyderabad, July 29: Govt. of A.P. will grant scholarships to the students belonging to Minorities under B.C.(E) category. Govt. released Rs 20 crore for this purpose. College managements have been asked to submit the particulars of fees by October.
“I saw people being shot. I tried to sit as quietly as possible. I was hiding behind some stones. I saw him once, just 20, 30 meters away from me. I thought ‘I’m terrified for my life,'” the young survivor said to a Reuters reporter. “I thought of all the people I love.”
And there’s the moment, in all its politics and horror: no more than this. Young adults – teenagers – being stalked and methodically murdered at their bucolic summer camp on Utoya Island in Norway. In God’s name, why?
New Delhi, July 29: The CBI sources have said that there is a possibility that Sadiq Batch’s suicide note has been forged adding that it has been sent for forensic examination.
Mr Batcha, who was being interrogated by the CBI in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, was found hanging in his home in Chennai two months ago. He was a close aide of former telecom minister A Raja who is in Tihar Jail in connection with the scam.
In his note, Mr Batcha wrote that he blamed nobody for his death, but that he was embarrassed by “raids and media limelight over the 2G spectrum scam.”
Jaipur, July 29: Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar wrapped up her three-day visit to India by paying obeisance at the historic Dargah of Sufi mystic Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer on Thursday. She offered a ‘chadar’ at the shrine and prayed for friendly relations between the two countries and peace in the sub-continent.
Bhopal, July 29 (Pervez Bari): The students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes who visit abroad to imbibe education under the Madhya Pradesh Government’s scheme will be exempted from the condition of returning to India after studies. The state Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that students of Madhya Pradesh should go abroad, get lucrative employment there, earn money and brighten the state’s name.