Month: July 2011

Lucknow, July 06: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is at loggerheads with the Congress-led UPA government. The board made it public by announcing to launch an agitation against some of the government’s most publicized legislation and proposed measures.

The Board is upset by several clauses in the Right to Education Act, 2009, Waqf Amendment Bill 2011, Communal Violence Bill and Direct Taxes Code Bill, 2011.This has come at a time when Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a march in western UP to win over farmers and Muslims.

Bijnore, July 06: The body of a 14-year-old Dalit girl, who was allegedly kidnapped on June 29, was found in a decomposed state in a canal, police said today.

Kavita was kidnapped on the way to nearby fields in Amman Nagar and was raped and murdered, they said.

Her body was found two days ago with relatives identifying her from the clothes she was wearing on the day she went missing, they said.

Station Officer Navratna Gotam and Sub-Inspector N K Varma have been suspended by SP Mahesh Mishra following complaints of negligence in the case.

Jammu, July 06: The BJP today lashed out at A G Noorani’s statement in his yet-to-be-released book that Shyama Prasad Mukherjee had endorsed Article 370 for Jammu and Kashmir.

It said the statement is an attempt to distort history at the behest of separatist friendly pseudo-secularists and pseudo-intellectuals.

“The late leader had suggested to first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to put a time-bound rider on ‘Article 370’ and specify for how long it was being envisaged,” BJP J&K chief spokesperson and National Executive Member Dr Jitendra Singh said in a statement here.

Mumbai, July 06: The law enforcers are back to moral policing. The Bangur Nagar police raided a lounge, Oro, in Mumbai’s Malad for playing DJ music without permission and rounded up 31 youngsters on the charge that they were dancing ‘indecently’ late on Saturday night.

The police fined them Rs 1,200 each for “indecent behaviour” under the Bombay Police Act before releasing them on early Sunday. The police justified their action against the youngsters on “moral grounds”. This is perhaps the first time the police have rounded up revellers for “indecent dancing”.

Chennai, July 06: Three days after the death of 13-year-old Dilshan in a shooting incident in Chennai, no breakthrough was in sight today even as chief minister J Jayalalithaa pressed the army to handover the person responsible for it to the police.

On his part, Army Chief General V K Singh promised strong action against anybody found guilty, but said the force should not be defamed if any individual is suspected.

A Lt Colonel and a jawan were quizzed in Chennai for the third day today by CB-CID, the agency entrusted with the probe.

Mumbai, July 06: Just like her predecessors, i.e., Isha Deol, Bipasha Basu and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, gorgeous Katrina Kaif will too stunned the audience with her new ‘sexy’ avatar in upcoming movie of Dhoom series.

Yash Raj’s highly action oriented film, ‘Dhoom 3’ will have triple dose of action, thrill and sex. The movie will have extra does of style which ‘Dhoom’ and ‘Dhoom 2’ lacked.

New Delhi, July 06: Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma says he might not believe in god, but might soon start believing in actor-producer Aamir Khan! RGV is quite in in awe of the star after the success of “Delhi Belly” and the variety that he manages to serve up in his films.
“Never believed in Ram, Jesus or Allah bt cing the variation cmng frm js 1 man frm lagaan 2 Tzp 2 DB I am seriously cnsdrng believing in Aamir,” Varma posted on micro-blogging site Twitter.

Bangalore, July 06: He used film women using the bathrooms and threaten them that he’ll upload their pictures on the Internet if the victim did not pay a ransom

Parameshwaran, a habitual thief and native of Madurai added some new hobbies to his list after buying a phone with a camera, which included photographing nude women and blackmailing them.

New Delhi, July 06: With Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran coming under the CBI scanner in 2G scam, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today demanded that he should be dropped from the Union Cabinet immediately.

Jayalalithaa also said the CBI action of accusing him of forcing a Chennai-based telecom promoter to sell stakes to a Malaysian firm has been “long overdue” and the agency has just done what the nation has been expecting from it.

Hyderabad, July 06: Tension prevailed at Osmania University (OU) here on the second day of the 48-hour bandh called by Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC), after pro-Telangana students again clashed with police.

Trouble started after police stopped the students from undertaking a protest-march from the OU campus to Gun Park (Martyrs’ Memorial) around noon in support of Telangana. There were similar clashes yesterday too.

Students hurled stones at police near the NCC gate on the campus, and the latter responded by firing teargas shells, a senior police officer said.

Hyderabad, July 6: On one side where people of Telangana region are struggling for separate Telangana region and calling for bandh, hoarders on the other side are trying to fill their pockets exploiting the situation. With the announcement of 48 hours bandh, people swarm petrol pumps to fill their vehicle tanks. But during the bandh petrol was sold at Rs. 120 per litre and diesel at Rs. 80 per litre.

Mumbai, July 06: A surgeon has been punished for medical negligence nearly 24 years after he committed the mistake.

A metropolitan magistrate condemned the 80-year-old Dr. Prafulla Desai, head surgeon and a Padma Vibhushan receiver, of medical carelessness while treating a female with terminal stomach cancer.

The magistrate sentenced Desai to go through simple custody till the rising of the court and asked him to make a payment of Rs 50,000 as fine to her hubby and complainant, retired IAS officer Dr. PC Singhi.

Desai is attached to Bombay Hospital and Breach Candy.

Hyderabad, July 06: All examinations scheduled to be held from tomorrow in Osmania University have been postponed after violence rocked the varsity when pro-Telangana students clashed with police in support of the separate statehood demand.

“All the OU exams to be held from July 7-11 are postponed. There will be no change in the exams schedule beginning from July 12. The revised dates of the postponed exams will be announced later,” the Registrar of the University said.

Chennai, July 06: A Jeddah-bound Saudi Airlines plane with about 200 passengers on board today made an emergency landing here after pilots noticed smoke emanating from the cockpit.

Airport sources here said the pilots noticed smoke mid-air when the aircraft SV-841 was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Jeddah and it was allowed emergency landing.

The passengers were evacuated to safety, sources said.

Fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the aircraft was taken to an isolation bay, they said.

—–PTI—–

Mumbai, July 06: “Salman Khan is not a role model,” says his father. In a candid interview, Salim Khan talks about why Salman cannot be a role model and why he’s not married. “Salman is definitely not a role model for his brothers or anyone,” says father Salim about the oldest son, who is a role model for millions.

Mumbai, July 06: Mughda Godse had been doing the rounds of the registrar’s office often recently. Now that the paperwork has been done, the model-turned-actress can talk about her latest acquisition a new flat.

The Fashion star has splurged on her new abode at a high-rise on Link Road in Andheri. She had been planning for a long time to buy a bigger home.

After months of hunting, she finally settled for a flat on the 22nd floor for the panoramic view of the city the place offers.

Previously, she was staying at Versova in a flat that was also bought by her.

Mumbai, July 06: Aamir Khan’s `Delhi Belly` is no doubt garnering moolah at the Box Office and has appealed to the youth of the nation, but the expletives used in the film’s dialogue have offended many.

An automobile company that had Shah Rukh Khan as its brand ambassador to promote its car is now contemplating legal action against Aamir Khan for making derogatory remarks about their car in his controversial flick.

The dialogue that has scandalised the company goes like this- “This car is so bad that it looks like something that would result if a donkey f***ed a rickshaw.”

London, July 06: Women from minority and indigenous communities are targeted for rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture and killings because of their ethnic, religious or indigenous identity, Minority Rights Group International says in its 2011 annual report released on Wednesday.

Shanghai, July 06: A 23 cm long tapeworm has been surgically removed from a Chinese woman’s brain.

Doctors in a Nanjing hospital removed the worm from the brain of 24-year-old Li Fang a week ago, the Shanghai Daily quoted the Yangtze Evening News as reporting.

Li said she was disgusted at the thought of the tapeworm living in her brain.

Li’s husband Yang said she suffered her first seizure last December and she was taken to hospital where it was detected that there was something in her brain but doctors could not determine what it was.

Mumbai, July 06: Shias in the city are gearing up to celebrate the birth anniversary of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Muammad, on third Shaban of the Arabic calendar, which falls on Wednesday.

Lectures, seminars and devotional poetry recitals have been planned to commemorate the event, the third imam of the Shias. who was martyred in 7{+t}{+h} century at Karbala ( Iraq) by the army of Yazid, the debauched Ummayid king. Imam Hussein’s martyrdom is marked with mourning and huge processions on Ashura, the 10{+t}{+h} day of Islamic month of Muharram.

Bangalore, July 06: SBI and Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) today launched SBI debit-cum-transit card, designed to facilitate hassle-free travel in the upcoming mass transport system.

Besides acting as a transit card, the SBI debit-cum-transit card can be used for ATM transactions, at shops and malls and also at the bank”s green channel counters, SBI officials said.

The card, which consists of an e-purse that facilitates storing rupee value for travel in ”Namma Metro”, was launched at a function attended by SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri, among others.

New Delhi, July 06: Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday said he would consult the chief ministers of Maoist-affected states to examine how the Supreme Court order on disarming special police officers (SPOs) would impact operations against the guerrillas.

I will have to discuss it (the Supreme Court order) with the chief ministers on the impact it will have on the anti-Maoist operations, the home minister told reporters, a day after the apex court asked the governments at the centre and in the states not to arm civilians in the name of SPOs.

Ahmedabad, July 06: The monsoon might have given most parts of the state a miss, but it’s raining black money disclosures for income tax (I-T) department in Gujarat.

Picture used for representational purpose only (Pic: Reuters)

New Delhi, July 06: The CPI(M) on Wednesday blamed Congress and the Centre for the “deepening political crisis” over the formation of a separate Telangana and demanded an immediate decision on the issue by the government.

The inaction of the Central Government and the Congress leadership in resolving the issue is the main cause for the present impasse, party politburo said in a statement here.

Hyderabad, July 6: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation employees’ Joint action Committee continued their support to 48 hours Telangana bandh called by Telangana political Joint action committee and participated in bandh. Workers of 18 circles of Municipal Corporation participated in the bandh led by Mr. K Shankar president (BMEU). Officials belonging to Andhra also extended their support towards Telangana workers by participating in the bandh.