Month: July 2011

New Delhi, July 27: To speed up rescue and relief operations in the aftermath of accidents, Railways have decided to procure hi-tech equipment worth Rs 500 crore, including high-speed self-propelled accident relief trains, plasma cutters and 175-ton capacity cranes.

Hydraulic cold and hot cutters and tunnel rescue equipment will also be procured to make rescue operations faster and effective.
Estimated to cost about Rs 500 crores, Railways will float global tenders for procuring the high capacity equipment shortly.

Hyderabad, July 27: TCS and Wipro are among three companies vying to bag the prestigious Sri Seva Project of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) to provide IT solutions that will help devotees.

Currently TTD offers four main e-services such as e-seva, e-accommodation, e-sudarshanam and e-hundi to the devotees and the Sri Seva project would help the administration in offering services like providing rooms, ‘laddus’ as well as in tonsuring.

There are as many as 48 departments which need to be automated and brought under one platform for better services to pilgrims, TTD had said.

Mumbai, July 27: The benchmark sensex continued its downslide for the second day in a row and dropped by about 86 points to close at two-week low of 18,432.25 on disappointing results by BHEL and selling in some key heavyweights.

The market that suffered a sharp setback yesterday due to hefty rise in key interest rates by the central bank, resumed better with the Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share barometer touching a high of 18,578.55.

Hyderabad, July 27: Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana on Wednesday appealed to Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee to reconsider its decision of resorting to a mass strike from August 17.

Talking to media persons at Gandhi Bhavan, the PCC chief said that the employees’ decision to go on a mass strike was not right since it was taken at a time when High Command was consulting Telangana and Seemandhra leaders to arrive at a consensus on the controversial separate statehood issue.

Hyderabad, July 27: 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.

New Delhi, July 27: Hina Rabbani Khar said after her meeting with India’s Foreign Minister today, “I am more confident today than I was when I arrived in Delhi yesterday…which is a good sign.”

Hyderabad, July 27: The Abids police, on Wednesday registered a case against a private firm for indulging in illegal commodity trading activities and are questioning the proprietors.

According to the office of Central Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police Akun Sabharwal, Rupiah Investments at Chirag Ali Lane, was booked after the police received information that it was indulging in commodity derivatives market.

New Delhi, July 27: Bodies of 35-year-old Tara Devi and her 14-year-old daughter Kajal were found in south Delhi’s Pushp Vihar on Tuesday. They arrived in Delhi from Ramnagar yesterday to visit a relative’s place. Tara Devi and her daughter were accompanied by her husband Jagdish, who has been absconding since the bodies were found.

Hyderabad, July 27: State government, before the onset of Ramadan, has sanctioned Rs 1 lakh 33 thousand for renovation and painting of Shahi Masjid, Public Garden. Secretary Minority Welfare Mohammad Ali Raffath issued a GO. RT 179 in this connection on Tuesday. District Minority Welfare Officer Hyderabad had proposed the government to release 1 lakh 33 thousand rupees for interior and exterior renovation of Shahi masjid, Public Garden. Accepting the proposal the government sanctioned the amount. The work will be completed before the onset of Holy Ramadan.

Hyderabad, July 27: Capital city Hyderabad is the reason for the Telangana tangle not being resolved. Seemandhra leaders and people are unwilling to loose the capital city. Seemandhra leaders are stating that they have invested money and became partners of development as Hyderabad was the capital of the state. Why would I loose it now? They argue.

Hyderabad, July 27: Minister for social welfare Pitani Satyanarayana has denied that the state government is contemplating closing down welfare hostels which has less than 50 students.
Speaking to reporters at the Secretariat, the minister, however, said that hostels whose student strength is less than 50 would be merged, and some 90 such hostels had already been merged.

–Agencies

Hyderabad, July 27: A division bench of the High Court comprising chief justice Nisar Ahmad Kakru and justice Vilas Afzalpurkar on Tuesday refused to fix any definite date for the hearing of the writ pleas for making public the Chapter VIII of the Srikrishna Committee’s report on Telangana.
The appeal filed by the government against the directions of the single judge was listed before the bench for Tuesday.

Visakhapatnam, July 27: A four-year-old boy and a 50-year-old woman died when they were run over by Visakha Express train near Gopalapatnam area in the city on Tuesday.
Police said the incident occurred when Sunkara Mohan, an LKG student and his grandmother Narasamma were returning home. They were crossing the railway track but did not see the train coming and were run over by the train.

–Agencies

Hyderabad, July 27: Two members of ‘Kali gang’ were arrested by police for allegedly hatching a plan to eliminate a family with whom they had a property dispute, on Tuesday. Police said that the two accused, Mirza Mohammad Abdullah Baig and Mohammed Shareef, were arrested.
A country-made pistol that has been procured by the two for allegedly conspiring to eliminate Mirza’s house owner Mohammadi Shaheen in Tolichowki and her brother Riyaz has been recovered.

Hyderabad, July 27: A 35- year-old woman who was allegedly gang raped at Ghatkesar a couple of days ago, died on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at Gandhi hospital.
Police said that the woman died of bleeding injuries on her private parts. On Saturday night, the victim along with a few relatives, consumed alocohol while on her way to Ramanthapur in an auto. “She fell unconscious. What transcribed subsequently is not known. Later, locals found her with bleeding injuries,” Ghatkesar inspector Ch Srikanth said.

Hyderabad, July 27: A stitch in time saves nine – or in this case, an implant on time improves the quality of life. Among the youth, injuries of the knee joint and wear and tear due to stress often lead to early onset of arthritis. The answer could lie in cartilage cell implantation which prevents further degeneration and restores mobility and agility.
Targeted at patients in 15-45 year age group, the technique of Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI) received FDA approval in 1997 to treat wear and tear of cartilage due to injury, diseases and middle-age degeneration process.

Hyderabad, July 27: A high-power delegation of the Hajj Committee of India visited Saudi Arabia recently and finalized the accommodation in Green category in Makkah al Mukarammah.

AP State Hajj Committee chairman Mr. Syed Khaleeluddin Ahmed, revealed that as the demand for the Green category accommodation exceeded the available accommodation, there is a shortfall of 8,000 units.

Kurnool, July 27: Two persons died when the car in which they were travelling collided with a train near Dupadu on the outskirts of Kurnool town on Tuesday.
Realtors Sivashankar and Rajendra Prasad of Nandyal town were crossing an unmanned level crossing at Dupadu in their car when the accident took place.
The car was hit by a train which dragged them to a distance of 200 metres. Both of them died on the spot.

—Agencies

Hyderabad, July 27: The time of the year around April-May till about July-August is a very crucial and nerve wrecking period for freshly graduated students as it’s placement time. Companies flock to colleges to pick up the best they can lay their hands on during a highly competitive and extremely short time span. While these placements are very systematic and carefully handled, there are still a good number of students who don’t get picked up. A job fair is an extremely vital opening for students like these.

Hyderabad, July 27: Motorists using the heavily congested road over bridge (RoB) at Lakdi-ka-pul will get some much-needed relief from traffic snarls as the South Central Railway (SCR) and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is starting works for a two-lane parallel bridge from July 28. The project, which would make the stretch a four-lane road, is set to be completed in about 90 days.

Hyderabad, July 27: The Secunderabad Cantonment Board area has become dangerous for small children with stray dogs biting and injuring as many as 10 children in the last two days. The most recent victims of the dogs were six-year-old Hena Zabi and four-year-old MD Huzmun, both residents of Rasoolpura.
“A pack of eight dogs which were fighting among themselves on the street, attacked my child when she was relieving herself outside the house. My neighbour’s son Huzmun who was playing near the gate was bitten badly on Monday evening,” said MD Alim, father of Hena Zabi.

Hyderabad, July 27: It has been stated in a press release issued by Board of intermediate education that the last date of applying for Central Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students has been extended from July 30 to August 30, 2011 on the request made by parents and principals. All details regarding this are available at Board of Intermediate website www.bieap.gov.in.

Islamabad, July 27: In a shocking incident, a Pakistani man has gunned down his six daughters on suspicion that two of them were in relationships with boys in the neighbourhood.

Arif Mubashir called his teenage daughters to his room and shot them while the rest of the family, including their mother, watched. His wife Musarrat called the police after the incident, the Express Tribune daily reported today.

Mubashir, a resident of Punjab province, shot the girls after their brother said two of them were in a relationship.

Mumbai, July 27: Sanjay Dutt is still getting plum roles after three decades in Bollywood and a life dotted with controversies. He is happy with his professional graph but says that the film industry is no longer the family it used to be and that the changing attitudes of people upset him.

“A lot of changes have taken place in the industry and I sometimes feel very sad with most of them. When we were introduced to the industry, there used to be competition among actors, but there used to more respect,” Sanjay, who made his acting debut with “Rocky” in 1981, told in an interview.

Mumbai, July 27: Shah Rukh Khan with UK-based henna artist Ash Kumar.

SRK even experimented with it on Ash’s hand!

-Agencies