Month: July 2011

Bhopal, July 28: Madhya Pradesh government has resolved to establish Agriculture Cabinet and present a separate Agriculture Budget in the next budget session 2011-12. Madhya Pradesh will become the first state in the country to do so.

The share of agriculture sector in Madhya Pradesh’s State Gross Domestic Product (SGDP) was 22.47 percent in year 2009-10. The State’s economy is agriculture-based and economic activities are connected with industries and service sector. The report of Agriculture Economic Survey will turn out to be a milestone in this connection.

Lucknow, July 28: Terming the Right to Education Act as an “attack” on the sovereignty of madarsas and other minority institutions, Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband today said it will oppose it.

“The seminary will strongly protest the move to snatch rights of madarsas through RTE and it is with the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which is already opposing it,” newly-appointed vice-chancellor Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani said.

He said the Act poses a threat to the independence of madarsas and their education system.

Dubai, July 28: A Dubai-bound Emirates flight with 202 passengers and crew on board made an emergency landing in Mumbai on Wednesday after fuel leaked from one of its engines, the Press Trust of India reported.

The Airbus A330 aircraft was carrying 187 passengers, including an infant, and 15 crew members, the Dubai-based airline told the news agency.

“The Mumbai-Dubai Emirates flight EK507 returned to the Mumbai airport shortly after takeoff due to a technical issue,” an airline spokesman said.

The airline did not disclose the nature of the problem.

Hyderabad, July 28: A meeting of the Haj Committee was told under the chairmanship of Mr. Syed Khaleeluddin. It was noted that 4th, 5th & 6th floors of the Haj House have been occupied by office of Minorities Finance Corporation, Mass Marriages Section etc. The committee agreed to form a separate section for passports. On representation made by Mr. Mohammed Ahmadullah, Minister of Minorities Affairs, airport authorities have agreed to charge only Rs. 500 instead of Rs. 1000 towards user charges.

——Siasat News

Hyderabad, July 28: Prompted by the staff of computer sections of the Seema-Andhra region, a dharna was staged at the Haj House, Nampally today demanding pay hike. Police arrested them for violating section 144 and released them after advising them to go back to their native districts. The agitating employees apprised of their problems to TRS leader Mr. E. Rajinder.

Telangana employees of Urdu Academy felt annoyed on this dharna programme and threatened to resort to non-corporation movement if regional bias is observed in Urdu Academy.

——Siasat News

Riyadh, July 28: A wife put an end to her husband’s romantic conduct when she filed for divorce after he kissed her in front of their children, a Riyadh daily has reported.

According to the wife, for years she had suffered from her husband’s over-romance. She said that she had warned him many times not to be over-romantic with her in front of the kids, Arab News said.

For five years, she said, she had condoned his behavior, until he kissed her recently in front of the children again. She then filed for divorce.

Courtesy: Emirates 24/7

Hyderabad, July 28: Andhra Pradesh state Hajj committee in a meeting on Wednesday reviewed arrangements for Hajj 2011 and discussed various important matters. The meeting of state Hajj committee was held at hajj House Nampally on Wednesday presided over by Hajj committee chairman Mr. Syed Khaleeluddin Ahmed. The meeting dwell upon the matter that this year due to setting up of various new departments there will be shortage of accommodation for Hajj aspirants. As a result accommodation for only 400 to 500 Hajj aspirants can be arranged.

London, July 28: Traders in London have noticed a surge in tourists from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in recent months.

With the French Government making it clear that foreigners will not be exempted from prosecution, there is mounting evidence that wealthy visitors from the Middle East have voted with their wallets. According to the West End Company, a body representing 600 retailers on Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street, Arab tourists are spending up to £2,000 each.

Riyadh, July 28: With the emergency of sophisticated technology, Saudi Arabia has seen growing cases of wives spying on their husbands suspicious of their fidelity.

Using spy cams and other miracles of information technology like Facebook, Many Saudi wives keep a tap on husband’s activities, Arab News reported.

Incidents like wives intercepting husbands’ mobile phones and emails and adding their spouses on their Facebook accounts using pseudonyms are common.

Mumbai, July 28: Investigations are still on into the July 13 serial blasts which rocked India’s business hub Mumbai – but more important than that is the post-traumatic care for the victims at this point.

However, a report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) reveals that the government agencies have not maintained a follow-up with victims post the major terror attack.

Hyderabad, July 28: Employees working in the computer training centres of Andhra Pradesh state Urdu academy, tried to stage dharna at Hajj House premises on Wednesday demanding hike in salaries and regularization of jobs. Police took the agitating employees into custody for a while and later they were instructed to go back to their places.

It is said that workers of various districts of Andhra Pradesh state staged dharna and demanded settlement of their long pending issues. Police arrested the agitating workers warning them against violation of section 144.

Mumbai, July 28: When Ghulam Mohammad Hamid Khan (47), decided to abandon Mumbai and board a train for his UP hometown from the Mankhurd railway station, he decided to travel light.

The first baggage that he decided to get rid of was none other than his 9-year-old daughter Roshni. He didn’t have to look far along came Irfan Sheikh (21), a drug addict.

Not only did the desperate father give the addict permission to have his way with her, he also paid the man to buy himself some drugs.

Hyderabad, July 28: Islam is the perfect religion which is based on nature. This religion has elevated humanity. It not only prescribed the duties of men but it also described the duties of women. Before the advent of Islam there was no sanctity for women. Girls used to be buried alive. A man used to keep as many wives on as he could. After the death of father, the son used to marry his step- mother. Islam prescribed rules which are applauded by everyone in the world.

Hyderabad, July 28: For the first time since a murderous attack nearly three months ago, MIM floor leader in the legislative assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi moved out of his home in the police-provided bulletproof vehicle on Wednesday.

Hyderabad, July 28: For the first time in the country, an all-India Central Call Centre has been inaugurated in Hyderabad on Wednesday by Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) to render round-the-clock services to bus passengers from anywhere in the country.

Customers can call the CCC on 3377 3377 from across the country without dialling Andhra Pradesh’s code, that is, 040. The CCC will attend to passengers’ grievances via calls, mails, SMSes and also issue bus tickets through Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS).

Washington, July 28: The United States said on Wednesday it was reviewing a request by Libya’s rebels to open an embassy in Washington, following Britain which expelled diplomats from Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the rebel National Transitional Council on Tuesday submitted a formal request to open what the United States would consider Libya’s embassy to the United States.

Hyderabad, July 28: Mr. Mohammed Ali Rafath, IAS, Secretary, Dept. of Minorities Welfare has started taking steps for the improvement of the functioning of the Dept. In doing so, mass transfers of dome of the functionaries of subsidiary institutions are likely to be affected.

Cairo, July 28: Egypt’s former ruler Hosni Mubarak has reportedly become very weak after refusing to eat any solid food over the past five days.

Mubarak “is completely refusing to eat food but consumes some liquids and juice only. He lost a lot of weight and suffers weakness and severe infirmity,” said Mohamed Fathallah, head of the hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where Mubarak has been under arrest since April.

Hyderabad, July 28: Members of Telugu Nadu Students Federation on Wednesday lodged a complaint against Telangana Congress MPs K Kesava Rao, Ponnam Prabhakar, G Vivek, Madhu Yaskhi and Manda Jagannatham with the Banjara Hills police, stating that the leaders had disrespected the National Flag.

The complainants said that the Congress MPs from Telangana had disrespected the National Flag when they hoisted the Telangana flag higher than the National Tricolour at Andhra Pradesh Bhavan in New Delhi on Tuesday, as part of the ‘flag festival.’

Hyderabad, July 28: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Commissioner MT Krishna Babu on Wednesday visited the RDF Power Project site which is proposed to commence its operations by the end of October, 2011.

The GHMC Commissioner’s visit came about on the request of RDF Power Projects Ltd. The company is working power project which would use 700 MT of Municipal Solid Waste per day of GHMC and produce 11 MW of Power.

The plant to produce 11 MW power is being constructed near Chinnarevulapally, Bibinagar, Nalgonda District. This is at a distance of 44.5 KM from Hyderabad.

Karachi, July 28: Pakistan’s government on Wednesday launched a campaign to end bloody clashes in the city of Karachi after at least 200 people were killed since the beginning of the month.

Many parts of the port city have turned into battlegrounds in recent weeks with national authorities unable to prevent spiralling violence blamed on activists from political parties representing competing ethnic groups.

Hyderabad, July 28: Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday alleged that Speaker Nadendla Manohar had conspired with Seemandhra leaders in order to sow seeds of disunity among the Telangana elected representatives by rejecting the resignations submitted by the Legislators for the cause of separate statehood.

Talking to media persons at Telangana Bhavan, KCR appealed to elected members not to bow down to pressure tactics and stand united and fight for separate Telangana statehood until it is formed.

Oslo, July 28: On an island strewn with the corpses of his victims, Anders Behring Breivik ended his killing spree the moment police approached him, authorities said, handing himself over with his hands raised high above his head.

“If he had come closer or taken longer, he would have been shot,” said Anders Snortheimsmoen, the head of the anti-terror unit that arrested him.

Police gave a detailed account of the arrest for the first time on Wednesday, five days after the 32-year-old Norwegian unleashed his massacre on the annual summer camp of the left-wing Labor Party’s youth wing.

New Delhi, July 28: Beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.Yeddyurappa, indicted by the state Lokayukta for involvement in illegal mining, arrived in New Delhi Wednesday night to meet senior leaders of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) but asserted he would not resign.

“The question of resigning does not arise,” Yeddyurappa, the BJP’s first chief minister in south India, told media persons after his arrival.

Yeddyurappa, who is accompanied by several ministers and state party chief K. S. Eshwarappa, said: “I will explain everything to my party seniors.”

New Delhi, July 28: BJP top brass today discussed the political fallout of the Lokayukta report in Karnataka with Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and has convened a meeting of its Parliamentary Board- the party’s highest decision making body- to take a decision on his continuance in office.

BJP sources said in the wake of Yeddyurappa’s indictment by Lokayukta Santosh Hegde in his report, his continuance has become untenable. It appears certain that the Parliamentary Board will decide that Yeddyurappa has to go, sources said.