Ghaziabad, July 28: Two girls, hailing from different parts of the district, were allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped for several days and one of them was left in an unconscious state in front of National Commission for Women’s office in Delhi, police said on Wednesday.
An 18-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped on July 19 from Vijaynagar area by a group of youths when she had gone to purchase books, police said.
New Delhi, July 28: A pair of wings on the back, a butterfly on the ankle or simply a pair of initials on the hand – beautifully designed tattoos are a craze these days. But getting yourself inked can expose you to the dangerous hepatitis B or C virus and even HIV, warn doctors.
Getting a permanent tattoo involves piercing the skin with a needle and injecting coloured ink in different designs. If the needle or the surroundings is infected, then the chances of transmission of the hepatitis virus goes up manifold.
New Delhi, July 28: Consultation process on the Telangana statehood issue gained momentum with Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday meeting a delegation of leaders from the region amid his intention to complete discussions within the party in the next two months.
The delegation consisting of Ministers, MP and MLAs from Telangana met Azad here for the second time in three days and gave a powerpoint presentation on certain issues related to the statehood demand.
New Delhi, July 28: Congress leaders from Telangana on Wednesday did their best to impress party In-Charge of Andhra Pradesh Affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad that their demand of separate Telangana state is legitimate, by giving a PowerPoint presentation during their meeting here.
Minister for Information Technology Ponnala Lakshmaiah made a presentation on the state of irrigation and agriculture in the region, to prove that the two areas lagged behind the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions in terms of development.
Hyderabad, July 28: Reiterating that Seemandhra leaders are committed to integrated state, Health Minister DL Ravindra Reddy on Wednesday stated that the Seemandhra delegation would prevail upon the Centre and Congress Core Committee over the issue.
Talking to media persons after emerging out of a meeting with Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana at Gandhi Bhavan, Dr Ravindra Reddy expressed confidence that the Centre would decide to maintain the geographical status quo in the state.
Hyderabad, July 28: The Telangana Drivers’ Association on Wednesday cautioned the state government that its members would go on strike from August 1 if its demands are not met.
Speaking to media persons at the Secretariat after submitting a memorandum to Chief Secretary S V Prasad at the Secretariat on Wednesday, Drivers Union president S Harinath Babu, honorary president M A Rasheed and others stated that despite repeated reminders being made, the government has not heeded to their requests for settling their issues amicably.
London, July 28: When the last Labour government introduced a requirement that immigrants who wished to marry a British citizen must learn English before coming to live here, it struck most people as a perfectly reasonable expectation. But that requirement is now being challenged in the High Court on two grounds. First, it is said to be racially discriminatory, because it impacts disproportionately on certain ethnic groups; and second, under the European Convention on Human Rights, it is said to obstruct the right to family life.
Hyderabad, July 28: Former member of AP Backward Class Commission Vakula Bharanam Krishnamohan Rao on Wednesday appealed to Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana to use his office for clearing doubts among students by issuing a clarification from the government on the fee reimbursement scheme.
In a statement issued to the media, Mr Krishnamohan Rao said the government has mentioned that students from SC/ST/BC/EBC/handicapped/minority with income below Rs 1 lakh are eligible to get scholarship.
London, July 28: A Ukranian man has decided to spend five weeks in lions’ enclosure to watch the cubs being born.
Alexander Pylyshenko, 40, decided to move into the cage and live as the lions do after spending years working alongside the beasts.
His moving into the lions’ enclosure means that when the lions are fed, he will also be fed through the cage, and will sleep on the floorboards and playing with the big cats for five weeks, Daily Express reported.
New Delhi, July 28: The Cabinet is likely to take up the Jan Lokpal bill for consideration on Thursday. However as government gets ready to table the bill in parliament during the monsoon session, those who forced the government to quicken their pace remain dissatisfied.
In a statement Anna Hazare expressed his displeasure. He said, “We sincerely appeal to the Union Cabinet to present a strong Lokpal Bill in Parliament. There is nothing for a common man in the present version of Government’s Lokpal Bill.”
New Delhi, July 28: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said reservation in educational institutions and jobs for the backward class is hard reality and students of general category should understand it.
“We know what students (of general category) feel. We understand their blood boils when they see students (of reserved class) having less marks are getting admission but they should know that reservation is the hard reality. They should understand it. We cannot treat unequals as equal,” a bench of justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik said.
Lahore, July 28: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to finalise the Punjab Quran Board’s rules within a day or two.
“The disposal of old- and -tornout pages of Holy Quran is an important issue. Dialogues should be held with factories already engaged in recycling in this regard,” the Chief Minister said while presiding over a PQB meeting. The CM said: “This is a short-term measure and in the second phase, the government should consider installation of its own recycling plant.”
Hyderabad, July 28: Chairman, 20-Point Programme N Tulasi Reddy on Wednesday quoted Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani’s words made in 2000 that people had supported, with one voice, the declaration of Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal and Jharkhand states and said that this is not the case in Andhra Pradesh presently.
Speaking to media persons at the Secretariat on Wednesday, Mr Tulasi Reddy ridiculed the current BJP leaders’ assurance that separate Telangana state would be possible when their party came to power.
Haryana, July 28: At least four people were burnt alive in an accident involving three trucks, including an oil tanker, Wednesday near this Haryana town, police said.
A police official said that while four people were burnt to death at the spot, two others were critically injured and were brought to a hospital here.
The accident took place near Jaidipur village, 40 km from Hisar on the Hisar-Chandigarh highway, when a truck collided with an empty oil tanker head-on. A truck coming from behind also rammed into them and all three trucks caught fire.
United Nation: July 28: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all member states to integrate the right to water and sanitation into their body of laws, Xinhua reported Thursday.
Ban’s statement came as he addressed the UN General Assembly during a plenary meeting on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation.
“Many of your governments have already included the rights to water and sanitation in your constitutions and your domestic legislation,” Ban said. “Those governments that have yet to do so should follow suit without delay.”
London, July 28: It seems model Katie Price does not expect to finish her run of husbands at just two and expects to have 10 more in future.
The 33-year-old TV star has been married twice – first to Peter Andre, with whom she has two children, Junior, six, and Princess Tiaamii, four, with and secondly to Alex Reid, who she divorced after a year of marriage in February 2011, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
“I will also have more kids, more horses and probably more husbands, about 12, I expect!,” she said.
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Washington, July 28: US senator Peter King has said over 40 Americans recruited by Somali terror group Al Shabab, have gone to fight in Somalia, and could return to attack US homeland, Xinhua reported.
King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, made the statement at a hearing he conducted on radicalisation.
The lawmaker said Al Shabab is linked with Al Qaeda, and “they’re training together, working together and the threat is that they would be coming back to attack the United States,” said King.
Tripoli, July 28: Libyan defiant ruler Muammar Gaddafi has said he is prepared to “sacrifice” in order to defeat the NATO as well as the revolutionary forces trying to topple his regime.
“We are not afraid. We will defeat them,” Gaddafi said in an audio message to his loyalists in the town of Zaltan near the Tunisian border, AFP reported on Wednesday.
“We will pay the price with our lives, our women and our children. We are ready to sacrifice (ourselves) to defeat the enemy,” the embattled added.
Hyderabad, July 28: Seemandhra MPs Forum convener Kavuri Sambhasiva Rao on Wednesday stated that the Seemandhra leaders are not ready to accept the proposal of Hyderabad as a ‘Common Capital,’ propounded by the some Telangana leaders.
Talking to media persons at Gandhi Bhavan, Mr Sambhasiva Rao said that Seemandhra leaders will never accept the proposal made by Rajya Sabha Member V Hanumantha Rao for making Hyderabad as Common Capital for 10 years in the event of division of the state.
Hyderabad, July 28: Chairman, 20-point programme N Tulasi Reddy on Wednesday made light of YSR Congress Party president Ys Jaganmohan Reddy’s comments that the ruling and opposition parties colluded to sling mud at the latter.
Reacting to the allegation of Mr Jaganmohan Reddy, Mr Tulasi Reddy stated that the former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy had in 2005 also favoured a CBI probe when the main opposition party, the Telugu Desam Party had alleged that his son Ys Jaganmohan Reddy was involved in the murder of TDP MLA Paritala Ravi in Kadapa district.
Hyderabad, July 28: As part of the ongoing efforts by the Group of Ministers, a government representative will meet the Telangana leaders on Thursday for talks.
Meanwhile, the Group of Ministers’ meeting will be held again on July 28 and 29, most probably to hammer out a solution to ensure the proposed strike next month by the Telangana Joint Action Committee is put off.
Events were also moving in the same direction with Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy taking the initiative as a result of which a Committee has been formed with the Group of Ministers.
Hyderabad, July 28: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday directed the Censor Board’s legal counsel to look into the possibility of a change in title of the forthcoming film `Bejawada Rowdilu’ after an advocate filed a petition that the title portrayed the city of Vijayawada in bad light.
The Court issued the directions following a petition submitted by Gowtham Reddy, an advocate from Vijayawada, seeking the Court to intervene in the issue and direct filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma to change the title of the movie.
Hyderabad, July 28: The Lok Satta Party on Wednesday launched a signature campaign in Hyderabad city seeking creation of a three-tier, strong anti corruption mechanism at the national, State and district levels.
The party had begun the campaign all over the State on July 25 as part of an Anti Corruption Week.
Party General Secretary Katari Srinivasa Rao started the campaign under the Yuva Satta auspices at Prakashnagar in Begumpet.
Hyderabad, July 28: A Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday put off taking a decision on whether to order a thorough probe into the assets of YSR Congress Party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s assets till August 1, even as it ordered the Central Bureau of Investigations to give copies of its preliminary probe to the concerned parties.