Mumbai, July 03: In a shocking incident, a 16-year-old girl was gang raped by boys on her way back from Prabhadevi’s Siddhivinayak temple on Wednesday morning.
The rapists were known to the girl, and had accompanied her to the temple. Four of the accused have been arrested, while the police are on the lookout for the fifth.
Mumbai, July 03: In a major breakthrough in investigations into the murder of senior journalist J Dey, the crime branch of Mumbai police has arrested a local builder Vinod Chembur, who allegedly financed the killing of Dey.
Vinod Asrani alias Chembur was produced before a Magistrate this morning and remanded to police custody till July 7.
Crime branch sources said intensive grilling of sharpshooter Kaliya and Underworld don Chhota Rajan’s key aide D K Rao, who was picked up for questioning yesterday, revealed the involvement of Vinod Chembur.
Hyderabad, July 03: Students of the Sri Chaitanya group created history in the Eamcet results announced on Friday by sweeping all the top-10 ranks in the medical category and bagging seven of the top-10 ranks in the engineering stream. The state first rankers, both in engineering and medical streams, were from Sri Chaitanya group. Students from the Narayana group bagged 2nd, 6th and 10th ranks in the engineering category and 11th, 12th ranks in the medical stream. Nalla Pratyush from Sri Chaitanya topped the state in the engineering stream.
Hyderabad, July 03: The number of Eamcet qualifiers slipped to 2,59,753 this year when the ranks were announced on Friday, as 17,478 failed the Intermediate exams despite qualifying in Eamcet. Originally, 2,78,852 students had qualified in Eamcet, when the marks were announced on June 8. Of them, 14,497 students in the engineering stream and 2,981 students in the medical stream have failed the Intermediate exams this year.
Puri, July 03: A police inspector was arrested for allegedly outraging the modesty of a minor girl in a Puri-bound train today, railway police said.
The incident took place in the wee hours when Santosh Mallick, Inspector, CID-Special Branch in Cuttack, was travelling to Puri for Rathyatra duty in Jagannath Express, Railway DSP Pandab Mohanty said.
The nine-year-old girl travelling with her family from Kolkata was asleep when the accused, stated to be in an inebrieted state, allegedly outraged her modesty, he said quoting the FIR lodged by the girl’s mother.
Hyderabad, July 03: Four dissident Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislators from Telangana on Sunday sent their resignations to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker even as both ruling Congress and the main opposition TDP legislators from the region are set to resign on Monday seeking a separate state.
Congress MPs, state ministers and legislators reiterated that they will not go back on their resignations even as the party leadership continued its efforts for the second day to dissuade them.
Kochi, July 03: A Paravoor-like sex racket has come to light at Kothamangalam, a town situated 45 kilometres north east of Kochi, where too a father forced his 15-year-old daughter into prostitution.
The father, a daily labourer, forced his daughter into sex trade after he began to lose steady income owing to illnesses. The incident came to light after police summoned both to the station upon hearing rumours on a sex racket. On being questioned, the girl revealed that she was forced into flesh trade by the father.
New Delhi, July 03: Chopped parts of woman’s body was found in the gitter of capital’s posh Vasant Vihar locality, police said.
The police received an anonymous call at around 1.55 p.m. about body parts in a gutter in the south Delhi locality.
“The parts were being eaten by pigs when we reached the spot,” a police official said.
Further details were not immediately available.
—Agencies
London, July 03: A British woman’s email rant at her future daughter-in-law became an Internet sensation on Thursday after she accused the bride-to-be of “uncouthness and lack of grace.”
In a withering message entitled “your lack of manners”, Carolyn Bourne took Heidi Withers to task over her failures of etiquette and recommended she attend a finishing school “with utmost haste.”
Withers, a 29-year-old personal assistant from London who is engaged to Bourne’s step-son Freddie, also 29, was so shocked by the email that she sent it on to a few friends.
(Mujtaba Hussain) “Qudrathullah- what has happened to you? What relevance have got with books ? you don’t even know how to affix your signature?
London, July 03: A British banker has revealed that he gave up his profession to become a witch doctor in Africa after he got a spiritual calling.
Thomas Heathfield’s training involved going three days without sleep, dancing himself into a trance every night, and drinking goats’ blood, which he then had to throw up.
The consultant, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, also endured other ordeals to prove that he was worthy to be a sangoma, or healer.
Hyderabad, July 3: A protest meeting was organized by Telangana auto drivers’ joint action committee at Press club Basheerbagh in which it was demanded that government immediately hike the minimum auto fare or else indefinite auto strike will be started from 4th July midnight. The meeting observed two minutes silence over the demise of Prof. J Shankar.
Committee president Mohammad Amanullah Khan said that auto drivers’ demand is has rationale as due to repeated hike in petrol and diesel prices poor auto drivers are incurring losses day by day.
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Tripoli, July 03: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has warned to carry out attacks in Europe against “homes, offices, families”, unless NATO halts its airstrikes in Libya.
Gaddafi delivered the warning in a telephone message played to thousands of supporters in the main square of Tripoli, Fox News reports.
“These people (the Libyans) are able to one day take this battle … to Europe, to target your homes, offices, families, which would become legitimate military targets, like you have targeted our homes,” he said.
Gaddafi wants airstrikes in Libya stopped
Hyderabad, July 3: General Secretary, Federation of AP Minority Educational Institutions, Mr. Zafar Jaweed expressed gratitude towards government of Andhra Pradesh for issuing 105 crore rupees for payment of last installment of fee reimbursement of pre-matric and post matric students.
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Kuala Lumpur, July 03: Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim Sunday condemned the arrest of a lawmaker and five activists in Malaysia under a tough security law ahead of a planned rally to demand free and fair elections.
The six members of the Socialist Party of Malaysia are being held under the Emergency Ordinance, which allows indefinite detention without trial. They were arrested by police on June 25.
Their detention is part of a major nationwide crackdown by Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government to stop the rally on July 9 in the capital Kuala Lumpur.
New Delhi, July 03: In the wake of reports that the Gujarat Government has contradicted its senior counsel on destruction of records on 2002 communal riots, Congress today termed it as a “somersault” and accused the Narendra Modi government of “lying” to the people.
“This is a classic slip done slop then again a slip by Gujarat Government which is doing somersault because it has much to hide. A very senior counsel on behalf of the state government said that records are destroyed in usual course,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said.
Hyderabad, July 3: Issuing a circular Collector Hyderabad district has directed all the revenue officers to issue income certificate on parent’s name without mentioning student’s name so the all the family members who are the beneficiaries of the pre-matric and post-matric scholarships can benefit from the same certificate.
Tripoli(Libya), July 03: A defiant Moammar Gaddafi threatened Friday to carry out attacks in Europe against “homes, offices, families,” unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya.
The Libyan leader, sought by the International Criminal Court for a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters, delivered the warning in a telephone message played to thousands of supporters gathered in the main square of the capital Tripoli.
Lucknow, July 03: Sadhvi Uma Bharti has made a re-entry into the Bharatiya Janata Party and is all set to represent the party in Uttar Pradesh. She is determined to bring a sea-change in her area of authority and save the state from tyranny.
In a candid conversation with a TV Channel on her show Kahiye Janab, Uma Bharti shares her views on her second innings in the BJP and her future plan of action.
Swati: How does it feel re-uniting with the BJP?
Washington, July 03: The final bill for U.S. military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan could be as much as $4.4 trillion, according to a comprehensive report Tuesday.
In the 10 years since American troops were sent into Afghanistan, the federal government has already spent $2.3 trillion to $2.7 trillion, say the authors of the study by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies.
The report calculates not only direct spending on the conflicts but also the long-term costs of caring for wounded veterans and projected war spending from 2012-20.
Hyderabad, July 03: The meeting of the government-appointed qazis, convened by the Wakf Board on Saturday to discuss the contract marriage menace in the Old City, could have been an important step in addressing the issue, given the crucial role qazis play in the marriages. However, only 8 of the 14 appointed qazis bothered to turn up for the meeting, while others defying the board`s authority.
Hyderabad, July 3: It is the duty of every citizen to come forward and strive against social evils. These views were expressed by city commissioner of police Mr. Abdul Khayoom Khan. He was addressing a seminar here at Centre for Economic and Studies, Lal Bangla, Begumpet. The seminar was conducted on the topic “war against drugs”. Besides the administrators of the seminar, west zone DCP Mr. Stephen Ravindra and others were also present.
Mumbai, July 03: The Mumbai police on Sunday arrested a key suspect, Vinod Chembur, in connection with senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case, Times Now reported. Chembur is believed to have financed the killing and identified Dey to the shooters.
The Mumbai crime branch on Saturday had also questioned Chhota Rajan aide DK Rao in connection with the murder on June 11. While senior police officials remained tight-lipped, sources said they grilled Rao to find out whether he had prior knowledge of Dey’s murder or not.
New Delhi, July 03: Beauty expert Shahnaz Husain was Mughal empress Noor Jahan to celebrated artist and distant cousin Maqbool Fida Husain, who painted her like the Muslim queen 23 years ago.
“One of my most precious possessions is a portrait by M.F. Husain. I remember sitting for the portrait till late in the night at his home in London – till almost 3 a.m.,” Shahnaz Husain recalled at the Dhoomimal Gallery, one of the oldest art houses in the capital, Saturday.
Srinagar, July 03: Carving their own future in the midst of turmoil, Kashmir Muslim girls are taking new frontiers for a better place in the society armed with their education and Islam tenets.
“Wearing the hijab doesn’t stop you from anything,” student Aasma told the Channel News Asia on Saturday, July 2.
“Being in the society, I don’t see myself as a misfit.”
Challenging the status quo ruling many Indian women, Muslims in the northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir are trying to take up education for non-traditional careers.