Month: July 2011

Hyderabad, July 29: As part of expressing solidarity with the Telangana employees strike, Telangana Students Joint Action Committee chairman P Ravi on Friday announced a series of agitations in the Telangana region.

Talking to media persons after Telangana Students Joint Action Committee State Executive Committee meeting, convened at a private hostel in the city, Ravi said the committee took unanimous decision on expressing solidarity to the employees strike beginning from August 17.

New Delhi, July 29: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Friday raised eyebrows when she “thanked” the late Rajiv Gandhi for attending the opening of a Guru Tegh Bahadur memorial – when she meant to refer to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.

“We are thankful to Rajiv Gandhi who has come here for the inauguration,” Dikshit said at the event on the capital’s outskirts.

The remark startled many in the audience but Dikshit, not realizing her slip, kept speaking.

—-IANs

Hyderabad, July 29: Apart from their weight, what is that one more aspect Indian women are always worried about? Ever-increasing gold prices.
There might not be a single day, when they do not turn to the business page of a newspaper to check the status of the gold rates on that particular day. Due to the global economic instability, more and more investors are investing in a safer haven like gold which fetches more return. Hence, the prices of these commodities have shot up drastically.

Escalating gold prices

Hyderabad, July 29: Following the credo of TED — ideas worth spreading — the essence of the speeches that are going to be delivered revolve around the power of ideas. Speaking at a press meet that was organised on Thursday to introduce TED, Arvind Dutta curator and licensee for TEDx Deccan said, “We have brought TEDx to Hyderabad to help cultivate a dialogue in the city.

Hyderabad, July 29: After bulldozing illegal encroachments from road margins, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is going to launch another demolition drive in early August, against commercial and shopping complexes and multi-storied buildings for violation of parking norms.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday, GHMC commissioner MT Krishna Babu said notices have been slapped against 670 building owners to restore area earmarked for parking purposes within a week.

Hyderabad, July 29: A person from Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh allegedly involved in robbing 75 tola gold from a widow was arrested by police on Thursday and 25 tola gold recovered from him. Police said Amjad, a painter from Uttar Pradesh, had been hired by a 77-year-old widow Jeevakireetam for repainting her house at Innovation Apartments in June. Using the pretext of coming to paint the house, Amjad and his associates entered the house and threatened to kill Jeevakireetam by showing a knife. Later, she was gagged and her hands and legs tied using a saree.

Hyderabad, July 29: The controversy regarding the reason behind the mysterious death of Tollywood music director Anil Reddy continued was further deepened on Wednesday after Osmania General Hospital forensic experts conducted a second postmortem and said Anil had died of a massive brain haemorrhage and ruled out murder. But Anil Reddy’s brother Prakash Reddy continued to raise doubts about the authenticity of the findings of the OGH forensic experts and trained his guns at Anil’s fiancee and model Shalini.

Hyderabad, July 29: A one and a half year old kid died after mysteriously falling from the top of a building. The incident occurred under Kukatpally police station limits. Rama Raju’s son Kartik resident of Madhavaram colony was playing on the terrace of his house when he suddenly fell down.

It is said that Kartik fell down from nearly 50 feet height and got serious injuries. He was rushed to the corporate hospital where he died while undergoing treatment.

Police Kukatpally have registered a case and investigations are underway.

Siasat news

Hyderabad, July 29: A mother and son were seriously injured as the gas cylinder burst at a house. The son died yesterday in a hospital. The accident occurred on July 26 at Dandegal police station limits. 3 year old Varun Tej who was seriously burnt died after 3 days in a hospital.

According to police sources wife of D Krishna of Swararam, sensing the leakage from gas cylinder tried to switch off the regulator when the cylinder burst. However something fishy is suspected in the accident.

Hyderabad, July 29: A drunkard husband burned his wife alive in Tandur area. Police Tandur told this. Police registered a murder case against the cruel husband and have started the manhunt. According to police sources 25 year old Mohammadi Begum died in an attack by her husband. Mohammad Yousuf resident of Yeeropally village Tandur married with Mohammad Begum four years ago and they have two children. Yousuf is a habitual drunkard he used to assault his wife daily in drunkard state.

New Delhi, July 29: The Supreme Court today sought Gujarat government’s response to a plea by IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, who had accused Narendra Modi of misusing state machinery against Muslims during 2002 post-Godhra riots, for transferring a criminal case against him outside the state.

Hyderabad, July 29: The Telugu Desam party chief N Chandrababu Naidu said that his word on Telangana was final his party has already made its stand clear long ago and there was no need to announce it afresh.

Talking to media persons at NTR Trust Bhavan on Friday Naidu said that the Centre has to take a final decision on Telangana, and added, “It is the responsibility of Centre to take early decision on it and put an end to the uncertainty in the state.”

Hyderabad, July 29: This may be the first time in the history of India that prisoners of Cherlapally jail will be allotted Unique Identity Number (UID) under Adhar card project.

Kathmandu, July 29: When Indian crooner Mamta Sharma’s husky voice combined with glamour girl Malaika Arora’s pulse-raising gyrations in Bollywood blockbuster “Dabangg”, no one doubted that the raunchy song “Munni badnaam hui darling tere liye” would become an all-time hit in the sub-continent.

However, few could have guessed that almost a year after the film was released, the “item number” – as a song and dance number is called in the Hindi film parlance – would create a mini storm in a most unlikely place: Nepal’s parliament.

Hyderabad, July 29: We have seen Chiranjeevi launching PRP with big dreams to become CM of the state. But, he was not only defeated in the elections but also failed to run the party for at least a couple of years.

One fine day he has merged his party into Congress party hoping at least a cabinet rank post for himself at the Center. But, he didn’t get any post until now. Then, he planned to celebrate his failure in a big way by conducting a merger meeting at Tirupati or Guntur.

Hyderabad, July 29: The Central Information Commission (CIC) on Wednesday issued a notice to Regional Passport Office, Hyderabad on why a Rs 50,000-penalty should not be imposed on him for allegedly harassing and abusing a Right To Information applicant apart from withholding information from him.

Hyderabad, July 29: After rejection of resignations of Legislators by Speaker Andhra Pradesh assembly N Manohar, the MPs from the Telangana region are waiting for the decision of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar of their resignations. By all likelihood the resignations by the MPs will also be rejected. In case the resignations are rejected then both MPs and MLAs will sit together to finalise the future course of action.

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao has demanded all the MLAs from the region to resign again so pressurize the centre for creating separate state.

New Delhi, July 29: The 80 years old ND Tiwari who was ousted from Governor Post of the state for his involvement in sex scandal inside Raj Bhavan, has been engaged in a legal battle with Rohit Shekar who claims that he is biological son of him. Tiwari, while he was young and working at New Delhi is said to be had extramarital affair with Shekar’s mother Ujwala Sharma, who then used to meet him regularly as a part of her journalist job.

Hyderabad, July 29: Even before, the Tri Valley University case settles down, one more University in US found running in the same track of Tri Valley.

The future of 2000 Andhra students of North Virginia University- Washington, hangs in the air with the US emigration department seizing of its offices and web site. The University which is allowed to issue only 50 I-20 Visas to its students was found given much more than its limit taking advantage of the Andhra students’ eagerness to grab a seat in US universities.

Hyderabad, July 29: Demanding the Telugu Desam Party to make its stand clear on Telangana state issue, Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar stated that it was the responsibility of Congress to carve out a separate state from the United Andhra Pradesh.

Talking to media persons on Friday Ponnam Prabhakar said that the TDP has to first reach out `unanimity’ on Telangana by holding discussions with its Seemandhra TDP leaders before asking the Congress to make its stand clear.

Hyderabad, July 29: The YSR Congress Party on Thursday strongly condemned Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for trying to pin the blame of the losses incurred by the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation on former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy.

Talking to media persons at the party office, YSR Congress Party official spokesman Vasireddy Padma said that Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy’s attempts to pin the blame for the sorry state of affairs in the APSRTC on Dr YSR were condemnable.

new Delhi, July 29: Ajmal Amir Kasab, lone survivor terrorist of 26/11 Mumbai attacks, has appealed in the Supreme Court against the death sentence given to him by a trial court and upheld by the Bombay High Court.

Kasab’s appeal was filed by the authorities at the Arthur road jail in Mumbai where he has been lodged since he was arrested in 2008.

Kasab was convicted by the trial court for murder, conspiracy and waging a war against India and sentenced to death last year. The verdict was upheld by the high court this year.

Hyderabad, July 29: Cocaine could be making headlines, but it’s definitely not the only drug giving the `high-spirited’ Hyderabadi junta a high. Their addiction list includes a range of other `stuff’ that starts from the cheap and easily available weed (ganja) to the more potent and expensive ecstasy and LSD.

Jaipur: A 35-year-old woman has alleged she was branded a witch by villagers, tortured and was being forced to leave her village, in the second such case in two months in Rajasthan’s Dungarpur district.

The woman told police Thursday that her husband Manilal Parmar was also beaten up in Dowada village, about 500 km from state capital Jaipur. A case has been registered against three villagers.

“A group of people came to my house July 4 and started beating me. They said I was a ‘dayan’ (witch). The torture has been going on since then,” the woman said in her complaint.

Hyderabad, July 29: Handlooms and Textiles Minister P Shankar Rao on Thursday stated that all assistance would be provided to the family members of Yadi Reddy, who committed suicide for the cause of Telangana in New Delhi, last week.

Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party Office, Mr Shankar Rao stated that the Rs 1 lakh as ex gratia has been sanctioned on behalf of the state government to the family members Yadi Reddy of Moinabad in Ranga Reddy district.