Month: July 2011

Hyderabad, July 05: State Institute of Vocational Education, Govt. of A.P. offers one-year certificate course in Information Technology, Multimedia, Graphics & Animation, Hotel Management. Fashion Designing & Pre-Primary Teacher Training for the Intermediate failed candidates.

These courses are being offered at Froebel’s Institutes of Vocational Education, Red Hills, Mehdipatnam, Tolichowki, Charminar, Santhosh Nagar, Sayeedabad & Hbshiguda. For further information. Interested candidates can contact phone number 9392931042.

——–Siasat News

London, July 05: “Sex And The City” actress Kim Cattrall says it is very hard for women to age in modern society especially in the US because of the cruel attitude they are subjected to.

Cattrall – better known for playing Samantha Jones in the “Sex and the City” films and television series – feels bad by the apparent attitude in America which punishes women for getting older and also punishes them if they have cosmetic surgery.

Hyderabad, July 05: According to a statement made by Mr. Vijay Singh, Secretary General, International Achievers Summit, Bangkok, Thailand, renowned dental surgeon, Dr. Sirajur Rahman has been selected for the international Healthcare Excellence Award 2011.

Governor Sardar Iqbal Singh will present this award on the occasion of International Achievers Conference during a lecture on world peace Globalisation of Indian industries.

——Siasat News

Hyderabad, July 05: Last date of Examinations for Distance Education courses run by Maulana Azad National Urdu University is 31st July 2011. Students appearing for Certificate & Diploma courses and also U.G. and P.G.
examination Forms certified by the coordinators of their respective centers should be submitted before the due date. Students who have registered for various courses during 2010-11 need not pay any examination fees. Backlog students will have to pay the fees.

——Siasat News

Hyderabad, July 05: Normal life in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh was disrupted on Tuesday due to the two-day bandh called by the Telangana political Joint action Committee (JAC) in support of their demand for a separate state.

Schools, colleges, shops and other commercial establishments were closed and public transport services were hit due to the bandh in all Telangana districts.

The JAC, which has announced a series of protests in support of the separate statehood call, has also called for a rail blockade on July 8 and 9.

Hyderabad, July 05: Al-Abubakar Trust of old Malakpet is offering welfare services such as help to poor & orphan students & pensions to widows, financial assistance for marriages, installation of water tanks in slum areas etc. More than 50 school bags were distributed to poor school children at a function held yesterday.

Mr. Mohammed Ilyas Khan, President and Mr. Syed Mahmood Ali, Secretary were present at the function.

——Siasat News

Hyderabad, July 05: Govt. has earn marked 540 persons for Hyderabad for providing financial assistance to unemployed SSC passed candidates in the age-group of 18-35 years whose annual family income is less than 50 thousand rupees for starting their own business.

Financial assistance will be provided to the extent of Re One lakh which includes 20% subsidy, 10% applicant’s share and the remaining 70% bank loan. Application forms can be obtained from the District Youth Welfare Officer, Collectorate Complex, Nampally, Hyderabad. before 11th July 2011.

——Siasat News

Hyderabad, July 05: An introductory session of the associates and well wishers of Safa Baithulmal was held under the stewardship of Maulana Ghiyas Ahmed Rishadi at Shah Function Plaza, Red Hills. Before the meeting, Maulana Syed Salman Hasani Nadvi inspected various sections of Safa Baithulmal.

He advised the Islamic Scholars to keep themselves engaged in welfare activites Mr. Azam Ali presented the accounts from January to June 2011.

——Siasat News

Mumbai, July 05: Actress Celina Jaitley is quite a traveller and loves going to places. In fact, she says it’s a childhood habit. She spent most of her childhood in different locations due to her dad’s army job where he was transferred in cities and towns all over India. No wonder the actor is now an ambassador for tourism in Egypt.

New Delhi, July 05: The semifinal appearance in the women’s doubles event at the just concluded Wimbledon championships today catapulted Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina to number two slot in the WTA Race to year-end Championships.

Sania-Elena pair have 4506 points in the list, headed by Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik, who have 6865 points. The top-four pairs compete in the prestigious year-end championship.

Mumbai, July 05: While there are reports that Sonakshi Sinha walked out of Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam because the makers took too long to start the project, South producers are speaking in hushed whispers about how Sonakshi was actually asked to leave the project because she couldn’t lose enough weight for the role.,

The character has to take part in a lot of action scenes and hence is required to have a lean physique. The curvy actress has weight problems and tends to pile on kilos if she doesn’t stick to her diet and workouts.

New Delhi, July 05: What has been suspected for quite some time has finally been confirmed – VIPs do get VIP treatment even if they are in jail.

After holding an inquiry, Tihar Jail officials have confirmed that several inmates were flouting jail regulations like moving around freely inside jail premises and having tea with the jail officials.

Three officials have been suspended following the inquiry. The Ministry of Home Affairs will now decide what action to take against them.

New Delhi, July 05: A day after tendering their resignations, Congress ministers, MPs and MLAs from Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday met senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and are understood to have demanded an early decision by the Centre on the separate state issue.

Three senior ministers — K Jana Reddy, Ponnala Laxmaiah and Basavaraj Saraiah — reached here from Hyderabad on Monday night to hold consultations with the Congress High Command on the issue after being summoned.

Hyderabad, July 05: With the resignation of TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao and party MP Vijay Shanthi from Lok Sabha, the demand for separate Telangana state gained more strength as more resignations are in store.

Intensifying the movement for a separate state of Telangana, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao and his colleague Vijayshanti faxed their resignations to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. KCR, as the TRS chief is popularly known, and Vijayshanti said they would soon visit Delhi to personally meet and request her to accept their resignations.

Italy, July 05: Around two hundred people, mainly police officers, were injured as officers clashed with masked protesters at a rally against a high-speed rail link in northern Italy Sunday, police said.

Clashes between protesters and police left at least 188 officers and about a dozen demonstrators hurt, said officials, after a small group stormed a tunnel which was part of the work site at Chiomonte, west of Turin.

Scuffles between protesters and a heavy police presence continued throughout the day, with a steady exchange of tear gas, stones and molotov cocktails.

Riyadh: Nearly 250 workers are working to finish the construction of what will soon be the tallest golden minaret in the world which is targeted for completion within three weeks before Ramadan.

Work on the minaret, which will be topped by what will also be touted to become the world’s largest crescent, is progressing well, sources said.

The minaret is being constructed on top of the Makkah Royal Clock Tower.

Hyderabad, July 05: P.C.M. Company of Siligudi in West Bengal bagged an important railway contract in UAE for laying sleepers on the railway lines running over 266 km which will connect Saudi Arabia through Amman and Abu Dhabi. The company got this contract from Ittehad Railway of Abu Dhabi.

Earlier, Sagar Infra Rail of Hyderabad had obtained railway contract in Dubai. The contractor of this company is Mr. K. Dayanand Reddy.

——Siasat News

Hyderabad, July 05: Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad is engaged in imparting information technology education for the part three decades in Ghaziabad. It is establishing its regional center in Hyderabad.

One such center is already functioning in Dubai. According to details furnished, the institute will offer a two-year (regular) course for P.G. Diploma in Management and a one-year Executive P.G. Diploma at its Hyderabad campus at Cherlaguda near Shamsabad Airport.

Dubai, July 05: Muslims who fast during Ramadan this year will experience the longest day of the fasting month in 26 years, according to a calendar expert here.

“The first day of Ramadan will be the longest day as Muslims will have to fast for 14 hours and 50 minutes,” said Ashraf Nourul Haq Ashraf, head of the Calendar Department at Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities in Dubai.

Ashraf said Muslims will fast for the longest duration during this Ramadan, after 26 years.

Washington, July 05: Hackers took over a politics Twitter feed belonging to US broadcaster Fox News announcing that President Barack Obama had been shot dead on America’s national day.

The @foxnewspolitics feed stated: “@BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead.”

Just an hour before the message, there was a post “Just regained full access to our Twitter and email. Happy 4th”. July 4 is America’s national day.

London, July 05: The only time Saima Ahmed breaks down while recounting her forced marriage is when she retells the moment a family friend tracked her down and plunged a knife into her stomach for running away from home.

The 20-year-old is calm and collected as she recalls being flown to Pakistan as a teenager, married against her will to a man she had never met before and raped every night until she became pregnant. But when she thinks back to the stabbing – in which her unborn son died in her womb – the tears come.

London, July 05: A man was found innocent of raping a teenage girl yesterday after a jury was told that he suffered from “sexsomnia”.

A sleep consultant confirmed to Swansea Crown Court that Stephen Lee Davies, a 43-year-old from Pembroke Dock in west Wales, was most likely telling the truth when he said that he was unable to prevent himself having sex during his sleep before waking up oblivious to what had happened.

Toronto, July 05: Friday namaz at a school in the Toronto suburb of North York has angered Hindu advocacy groups here, who want it stopped.

The noon-time prayers for 400 Muslim students of the Valley Park Middle School were introduced three years ago.

Angry Hindu advocacy groups want the 40-minute prayers, which are conducted by an imam specially brought from a mosque, to be stopped immediately.

The local Canadian Hindu Advocacy, led by Ron Banerjee, is roping in various Hindu organisations to hold protests outside the school to pressure management to stop the Friday prayers.

Hyderabad, July 05: Apprehending trouble in Osmania University campus in the wake of Telangana movement gathering steam,? the police department has rushed forces even as the students have threatened Congress Telangana MPs that they would not allow them to return to Hyderabad if they fail to extract a promise on? separate Telangana state from the Congress high command.

Hyderabad, July 05: Around 450 poor families living at the Mudfort Basti in the Secunderabad Cantonment area might become homeless, after being asked to vacate the land.

The Mudfort Basti houses people who generally work as labourers at construction sites in the city. The area which is home to a population of 1,900, came up after some families migrated from surrounding districts of Hyderabad around 15 years back, set up huts and settled down.