Hyderabad, July 05: Security has been stepped up in Andhra Pradesh, specially at the Osmania University campus the nerve centre of separate statehood protests – and prohibitory orders placed in Hyderabad in view of the 48-hour bandh called by Telangana supporters on Tuesday.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy reviewed the situation with some of his Cabinet colleagues and top police officials on Monday night.
New Delhi, July 05: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday termed the Surpreme Court decision to set up a special team to probe Indians’ black money in foreign tax havens as a “slap on the face of the government” while the Congress did not react to the decision.
Kolkata, July 05: Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Monday said it is essential for India to work together with other nations to bring down the cost of space transportation.
“India needs to work together with different nations to bring down the cost of space transportation. The country is working on reducing the cost of space transportation,” said Kalam while delivering the M.P. Birla Memorial Lecture here.
He was also conferred the M.P. Birla Golden Jubilee Award by M.P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research on the occasion.
Manama, July 05: Saudi-backed government forces have launched an attack on a village in northeastern Bahrain where the people had staged an anti-regime protest.
On Monday, the protesters, who had taken to the streets of Nuwaidrat, called for the implementation of reforms and demanded that Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa step down, a Media correspondent reported.
Bahrainis have been holding peaceful demonstrations across the Persian Gulf kingdom since mid-February, calling for an end to the absolute monarchy of the Al Khalifa family.
Jeddah, July 05: Um Abdullah, the mother of a suspect recently arrested in Jeddah in connection with at least 13 kidnappings and brutal rape attacks on little girls, has claimed her son is a scapegoat for crimes he had not committed.
The suspect is a 42-year-old married Saudi schoolteacher with five children. His wife claimed last week that her husband was innocent.
He has since been charged with the attacks that took place since 2008 and is now in the custody of the Public Prosecution and Investigations Commission.
Brazzaville, July 05: A total of 248 women have reported being raped by soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Sud-Kivu province in one night, local medical sources say.
A doctor at Nakiele hospital said on Monday that 121 local women had been raped during the night of June 11-12 in the region the UN has called the world’s “rape capital,” AFP reported.
A nurse from Abala also said that 55 women reported that they were violated in the same night, while another health worker said that 72 women from the village of Kanguli said they were also raped the same night.
Goa, July 05: Every sensational murder in recent history has been fodder for creatively-challenged Bollywood. Not far away from the glare of the national media focused on the Susairaj circus, UK teen Scarlet Keeling’s tragic death in Goa and the controversial trial waits to resurface as a masala flick.
Predictably, neither the Goan authorities -struggling to keep the beaches free of pollution and perverts- nor Keeling’s grieving family, are happy about it.
Hyderabad, July 5: Congress MLA Mrs. Kavitha who resigned demanding Telangana formation, following her resignation, danced with other women as a mark of celebration. Former state minister Mr. Santosh Reddy also joined her. Usually worries grip the MLAs who resigned regarding getting ticket again and winning election but the Congress MLA who resigned for the cause of separate Telangana statehood celebrated her resignation by dancing in public.
New Delhi, July 05: Three more jail officials were suspended by the Tihar jail authorities after the vigilance inquiry established that jail rules were flouted.NEW DELHI: Two days after TOI broke the story about special treatment to high-profile prisoners, the repercussions were still being felt at Tihar jail.
Mumbai, July 05: Passengers held up a Kerala-bound train for more than two hours at Panvel Railway Station on Monday, insisting the pantry staff be booked for serving them stale food. The fracas started as soon as Amritsar-Kochuveli Express pulled into the station around 12.30 pm, when many passengers stormed into the station master’s cabin.
The passengers complained that a few them started feeling uneasy, and many others developed symptoms of dysentery after eating breakfast. Also, the pantry staff said there wasn’t a log book on board to take down the complaints.
Mumbai, July 05: Guess what we just spotted… Yes, it’s the cluster diamond ring that Anushka Sharma is wearing on her ring finger which caught our sinister eyes. So, is she engaged?
With a permanent denial ready about dating her Band Bajaa Baraat co-star Ranveer Singh, we suppose not. Also, the actress who had been linked up with Ranbir Kapoor, time and again, had been denying all such allegations. So where or rather who did this ring on the engagement finger come from?
Yogen Shah
Mumbai, July 05: Every film, these days seem to be banking on an item number for it to catch the audience’s attention. At least for the initial few days. And if that item number has an A-lister gyrating to it, it helps the film to market itself better.
Aamir Khan did it for Delhi Belly. And even Ranbir Kapoor is all over television shaking his hips to the Tain Tain Phissh promotional item number from Chillar Party. Seems like Priyanka Chopra too doesn’t want to be left behind.
New Delhi, July 05: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni broke a million hearts when he married childhood friend Sakshi Singh Rawat a year ago on July 4, 2010 in a private ceremony attended only by family members and close friends.
On Monday, Dhoni celebrates his first wedding anniversary with his wife, a hotel management student.
Hyderabad, July 5: Selling vegetables at Rythu bazaars is relatively an older concept while plan of mobile Rythu bazaars was enacted in 2002 but was abandoned after its failure. But now once again 14 mobile rythu bazars are given permission to sell vegetables at various colonies in the city.
PS Pradyumna, chief executive officer of rythu bazars told “We have given permission to mobile Rythu bazars (MRBs) to supply vegetables at colonies where rythu bazars are not available, at the same time farmers get the opportunity of self employment”.
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.
New Delhi, July 05: The Supreme Court on Monday set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe black money stashed in foreign banks by Indian citizens. The committee will be headed by former apex court judge BP Jeevan Reddy.
An apex court bench of Justice B Sudershan Reddy and Justice SS Nijjar also directed the Central Government to disclose the names of people holding accounts in LGT bank in Liechtenstein – a principality in Europe bordering Switzerland and Austria – as disclosed to it by German authorities.
Mumbai, July 05: The State Sales Tax stumbled upon a Rs 6,500-crore hawala racket in Mumbai while investigating accounts of a firm in Girgaum. Because of the enormity of the scam, Income-Tax officials have joined the probe. Name of the company under the scanner is being withheld.
Sales Tax Commissioner Sanjay Bhatia said Naresh Shah, believed to be the kingpin of the racket, has been arrested. Another officer said, “We have been keeping a watch on this Girgaum-based firm for the past one month. Investigations revealed fake bills which were used top claim refund on VAT.”
Hyderabad, July 05: Normal life in Hyderabad and nine other districts of Telangana is likely to come to a standstill Tuesday and on Wednesday even as the government is gearing up to tackle 48-hour shutdown called by the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) in a bid to intensify its agitation for a separate state.
Mumbai, July 05: Ratan Rajput has finally finds her soul mate on the show, ‘Ratan Ka Rishta’ aired on NDTV Imagine. He is 26 year old Delhi based software engineer named Abhinav Sharma. Before entering into the institution of marriage, the couple wanted to spend time together and know each other more closely and so they have decided to get engaged only.
London, July 05: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn says he plans to sue a French woman who has filed an attempted rape complaint against him.
Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers said in a statement issued on Monday that he is compiling a libel complaint against the French journalist and writer Tristane Banon, AFP reported.
The statement came after Banon’s lawyer David Koubbi announced that she would lodge a complaint against Strauss-Kahn for attempted rape.
The former IMF managing director has denounced the accusation as imaginary, but Banon says the case is fully backed up.
Mumbai, July 05: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was always in the reckoning for scripts with the lady having enough and more to do. However, announcement of her pregnancy has forced filmmakers to look at other options.
We hear, “It’s Priyanka Chopra and Vidya Balan who are the next bets bets!” There was news that Priyanka Chopra would replace Ash in Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Heroine’. PC, however, refuted the news and said that she wasn’t doing this particular movie with Bhandarkar.
Tehran, July 05: Iran is all set to launch the first phase of its national internet in August, a minister said.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Reza Taqipour said the pilot and first phases – titled phases “Zero and One” – would be completed and be operational by late August, Press TV reported.
Taqipour said the national internet will initially offer 8 Mb high-speed broadband for home users. The customers will have 20 Mb of bandwidth when the next phases of the internet network become operational.
Kabul, July 05: An Australian soldier has been killed in an exchange of fire with militants in southern Afghanistan, the chief of the Australian Defense Forces, General David Hurley, has announced.
The 35-year-old Sergeant Todd Langley was serving with a special operations task group at the time he was killed on Monday. A second soldier was wounded in the same incident and is reportedly in serious condition.
Tehran, July 05: A senior Iranian commander says based on information obtained by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), enemies want to create insecurity in the country through terrorist attacks.
“We have obtained information and evidence about these recent moves,” Commander of the IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali Jafari said on Monday.
Jafari added that the disappointment of enemies in reaching their objectives results in their resorting to terrorist acts and creating insecurity.
Tripoli, July 05: The son of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi says Western powers attacking Libya have made themselves “legitimate targets” for retaliation.
“We have to fight for our country and you are going to be legitimate targets for us.” Saif al-Islam told the French TV channel TF1.
On Friday, Gaddafi threatened to attack Europe if NATO refused to stop airstrikes on the country.
Seif al-Islam said Libyan authorities are prepared to make concessions to end the conflict there but will fight on for their homeland.
“We will never surrender. We will fight. It’s our country.”