Month: July 2011

Hyderabad, July 01: The Telugu Desam Party on Thursday alleged that the state government’s Industrial Policy was skewed in favour of YSR Congress Party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy to the extent that other entrepreneurs were preferring to establish their units in other states.

TDP state general secretary Varla Ramaiah told media persons at the NTR Trust Bhavan that the “state government’s Industrial Policy is not encouraging entrepreneurs to establish their units in the state, since it is targeting at encouraging Mr Jaganmohan Reddy’s businesses.”

Hyderabad, July 01: Describing Panchayat Raj Minister Jana Reddy as a ‘power hungry’ leader, Telugu Desam Party politburo member Kadiam Srihari on Thursday launched a vitriolic attack on Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao for ‘appeasing’ Congress leaders by seeking their cooperation in the fight for Telangana.

Hyderabad, July 1: A youngster died and his lover suffered injuries after they allegedly tried to end their lives by throwing themselves before a speeding vehicle near Shamirpet on Wednesday night. They took the extreme step while being chased by their parents, who were against their affair.
The duo, Naresh (18), a degree student and Anita Jyoti (14), a class IX student, were neighbours in Shivarampally.
On knowing about the affair, their parents objected to it as they belonged to different communities.

Hyderabad, July 1: The state government is taking all steps for smooth and peaceful conduct of the Bonalu festival in the twin cities and provide all facilities to devotees, minister for Major Industries and Hyderabad district in-charge J Geeta Reddy said.

Hyderabad, July 1: The age-old tradition of taking out Bonalu procession on an elephant might soon become a part of history.

New Delhi, July 01: Actress-turned-politician Hema Malini today joined animal lovers in demanding a ban on ”jallikattu”, a bull-taming sport played in Tamil Nadu during Pongal celebrations, saying it violates the spirit of the law against torturing animals.

The Rajya Sabha MP wrote to Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh in this regard and urged him to make a “hugely positive impact for bulls by taking steps” to put an end to the sport.

Hyderabad, July 1: The new director-general of police V Dinesh Reddy said regionalism was becoming a problem in the state, joining other ‘isms’ like extremism, communalism and factionism.
Addressing a press conference after taking charge, Reddy said, ‘’Regionalism is a problem but we will tackle the issue. We will cross the bridge when it comes.’’ Describing policing as a noble profession second only to medicine, the new state police chief said he would provide a definite direction to his force.

Kolkata, July 01: Doctors were on Friday keeping a close watch on the condition of children at a premier state-run hospital where 18 babies died in the last two days triggering large-scale protests and demonstrations.

“We are keeping a tab on the situation. Generally, one to four babies die at the hospital regularly as many of them are brought in very serious condition,” hospital sources said.

“There has been no death since last night”, they said.

Hyderabad, July 1: When she was 15, Deepti Vallapuri met a man online who claimed to be a business tycoon from Malaysia. After a brief courtship, they married. She soon realised he was a fraudster.
She being a teenager, the marriage was declared null and void. She then fell to the wiles of another man and married him. After two children, he abandoned her.

New Delhi, July 01: On a day when Anna Hazare met the BJP top brass to solicit their support for the civil society’s version of the Lokpal Bill, the Congress attacked the saffron party for being ambivalent, childish and hypocritical on the issue.

Addressing a press conference in the national capital, party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, “Why has the BJP not made their stand clear on the Lokpal Bill? Why has the BJP not given any input on the Lokpal Bill?”

Hydearabad, July 1: Overlooking five senior IPS officers, the state government on Thursday appointed V Dinesh Reddy as the next directorgeneral of police. The new appointee took over from his 1977 batchmate K Aravinda Rao, who retired on Thursday.
Dinesh Reddy, previously director-general of Vigilance & Enforcement, will be in service till Sept. 30, 2013.
He is an alumnus of Hyderabad Public School, the same school where chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy studied.

New Delhi, July 01: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday questioned BJP leader Sudhanshu Mittal in connection with the commonwealth Games scam.

This was the second time that Mittal was questioned by the premier investigating agency in last three days. Mittal was put through rigorous interrogation for close to nine hours today, reports claimed.

Mittal is under the scanner in connection with the alleged irregularities in overlays supplies for the Commonwealth Games held in Delhi last year.

Hyderabad, July 1 (INN): The increase in White Collar and cyber crime rate may come under check if new Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy’s assurance on the issue is anything to go by.

Mr Dinesh Reddy, who took charge as the new DGP met Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy at the Secretariat on Friday and asserted that checking crime tops his agenda.

He was speaking to INN while reaching his car from the Chief Minister’s Office in C Block.

Washington, July 01: The US Attorney General’s latest decree for a criminal investigation into the death in detention of only two CIA captives has spared the US spy agency from further torture and abuse probes.

The US Justice Department announced on Thursday Attorney General Eric Holder’s order for a probe into the deaths of two detainees interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which effectively terminates any future investigations into the agency’s other state-sponsored torture deaths and abuses.

Bahraini, July 01: As anti-regime demonstrations continue in Bahrain, one protestor has died of injuries on his head sustained by a stun-bomb thrown by the regime’s security forces.

Thousands of protesters marched in streets across the country on Friday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Protesters renewed their call for an end to the Al Khalifa regime. They also demanded the release of all detained protesters, activists and opposition leaders.

Security forces of the Saudi-backed regime responded with tear gas and stun grenades, according to some activists.

Hyderabad, July 1: When she was 15, Deepti Vallapuri met a man online who claimed to be a business tycoon from Malaysia. After a brief courtship, they married. She soon realised that he was a fraudster. Being a teenager, Deepti’s marriage was declared null and void. She then fell into the wiles of another man and married him. After two children, he abandoned her.

Hyderabad, July 1: Mafia money, casting couch and drug abuse, the not-so-glamorous aspects of the glamour world, are such open secrets they no longer raise any eyebrows. Except perhaps when the address changes from the fast-paced tracks of Bollywood to Tollywood. The arrest of film producers Singanamala Ramesh Babu and C Kalyan in connection with the murder of a gangster has begun to unravel the industry’s underworld links. It has revealed how some producers use their underworld friends to threaten genuine financiers in a bid not to repay money after a film is released.

Hyderabad, July 1: ITC, in association with Ramky Group has launched a month-long waste recycling campaign in the twin cities involving school children, corporates and commercial establishments to propagate their Wealth out of Waste (WOW) initiative. Meanwhile, National Recycling Day will be observed on Friday, July 1 and as part of the occasion, for every kilo of recyclable material donated, ITC would provide Rs 5 and the funds thus generated would be used for providing stationary kits to 25,000 underprivileged children studying in government-aided schools.

Hyderabad, July 1: Doctors at the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology have successfully performed a critical surgery and removed almost 12 kgs of tumour from the liver of Vincencia, an young female student from Nairobi, Kenya.

Islamabad, July 01: Terrorist outfits in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province are recruiting jobless youth by paying them up to Rs.40,000 a month, a Pakistani lawmaker has said.

“Terrorists are luring these youth in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the Tribal Areas with ‘salaries’ of Rs.40,000 a month,” said Senator Zahid Ali Khan of the Awami National Party (ANP), according to a report in the Urdu daily Jang Friday.

Khan, the chairman of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Health, made the statement at a meeting of the panel Thursday.

London, July 01: A giant sea turtle starved to death as its gut was choked with over 300 bits of plastic, it was reported here

Experts were horrified to find 317 pieces of rubbish, including bags, tape, lids and fishing line, reported the Sun.

The turtle was found dead on a beach in Australia.

“It just shows how much plastic there is out there in the ocean. The turtle’s digestive system just shut down,” marine biologist Rochelle Ferris was quoted as saying.

Sea turtle populations are increasingly in danger from pollution, and illegal fishing.

–Agencies

Hyderabad, July 01: The Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, on Thursday exuded confidence that any decision taken by the party high command on the controversial Telangana statehood issue would be accepted by one and all.

Tehran, July 01: Iran’s Police Chief Esmail Ahmadi Moqaddam has underlined Tehran’s resolve to tighten control over the country’s borders, and said the Iranian authorities will block the country’s eastern borders completely within the next three years.

“The Eastern borders of Iran have already been closed to the passage of animals and motor vehicles, yet there are certain areas in Saravan which should be blocked,” Ahmadi Moghaddam told reporters on Wednesday.

Madrid, July 01: Sophisticated Libyan Army weapons are being trafficked and possibly sold to al Qaeda’s affiliate in North Africa, giving the group the potential to increase instability in a key part of the continent, Spain’s interior minister said on Thursday.

Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, is a growing menace that could conceivably spread outside its home base in Africa’s Sahel region unless Western countries step up efforts to counter it.

New Dehli, July 01: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today gave a patient hearing to the newspapers and news agency employees’ representatives who urged the government for early implementation of the Wage Boards recommendations.

“I will do my duty,” Dr. Singh told the representatives of the Confederation of Newspaper and News Agency Employees’ Organisations (CNNAEO) when the delegation requested that a decision on the recommendations pending before his government is not delayed any further, a member of the delegation said after meeting the Prime Minister.