Hyderabad, August 28: Shab-e-Qadr was observed with religious fervour across twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. Largest congregations were seen in old city areas. Markazi Jalsa Shab-e-Qadr was conducted by Milad committee at Khilwat ground while a grand jalsa Shab-e-Qadr was held at Jamia masjid Chowk by Amarat millat-e-Islamia.
Day before yesterday just at the time of Iftaar (breaking fast) a friend came to me. I felt happy that despite deadly distances of Delhi, at least some friend of mine thought that he could break fast in our house. You are aware that I live in Delhi almost lonely. The area I live is very far from the places where the real gatherings of pomp and show of Ramazan could be seen. People continue eating something or the other after Iftaar. I mean the areas of Old Delhi and Jamia Milliah Islamia. When one visits these places, his faith becomes refreshed.
Tripoli, August 28: Libyan opposition fighters have found a network of tunnels and bunkers underneath the capital of Tripoli, belonging to the fugitive Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
The tunnels stretch from Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound all the way to the city’s international airport as well as the Rixos hotel, where some 30 journalists had been held hostage for five days by regime forces, CNN reported on Friday.
Some 700 meters of the network has so far been cleared by the opposition fighters.
Melbourne, August 28: Australian scientists say they have found an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.
“The evolutionary history and amazing density of the planet all suggest it is comprised of carbon — i.e. a massive diamond orbiting a neutron star every two hours in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun,” said Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
Tokyo, August 28: The Japanese government has warned that areas near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant could remain uninhabitable for decades due to high radiation leaked into the environment.
In a meeting with local officials on Saturday, the Tokyo government estimated that it could take more than 20 years before residents could safely return to areas with current radiation readings of 200 millisieverts per year, and a decade for areas at 100 millisieverts per year, Reuters reported.
New Delhi, August 28: “I am not the biggest hero, Anna (Hazare) is the real hero,” said superstar Aamir Khan on Saturday as he pledged support to the activist’s fight for a strong anti-corruption law.
Khan’s remarks at Ramlila Maidan came as a key Hazare aide Kumar Viswas described the actor as the biggest hero of the country who has lent his support to the movement.
Regaling Hazare’s supporters by singing “Mitwaa…” from his superhit movie ‘Lagaan’, Khan requested the 74-year-old activist to call off his fast as they needed him for leading the countrymen in further struggle.
Hyderabad, August 28: A 20-year-old youth died of a head injury that he suffered after being hit by an iron rod by his friend in Bahadurpua on Friday night.
According to Bahadurpura inspector G Bhiksham Reddy, the deceased Shaik Saddam, used to work as welder along with three other workers – Rahmat, Mohammad and Umair in a shop owned by Quddu in Bahadurpura. On Friday night, Rahmat and Umair started quarrelling on some petty issue. Saddam and Mohammad tried to intervene and pacify them. But in a fit of rage, Rahmat hit Saddam with an iron rod on head causing serious wound.
Hyderabad, August 28: A 40-year-old woman died on the spot after she was brutally beaten up her husband. The incident occurred in Christian Colony in the limits of Ghatkesar Police Station late on Friday night.
Hyderabad, August 28: The Central Crime Station of Hyderabad City Police on Saturday busted a first of its kind online multi-level marketing racket and arrested seven people.
According to police, three persons – Tata Pramod, Nama Ajay Raj and Pinreddy Ravinder Reddy floated a company Vishwajyothi Realtor and started an online MLM website. Initial members became active and started promoting multilevel marketing in their areas and further bringing up more and more promoters.
Hyderabad, August 28: Continuing its investigation into the case of disproportionate assets against Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Central Bureau of Investigation continued searched at several locations across the country on Saturday.
New Delhi, August 28: It is all happenning at the Ramlila Maidan: children lost and found; purses returned and found empty; and cell phones blinking unattended in the dark.
In the blaring noise of patriotic songs and sloganeering crowds, 40-year-old Harish Yadav from Bihar breaks into tears when he narrates how he lost his eight-year-old son at the spawling yet crowded ground, venue of Anna Hazare’s hunger strike for the last 12 days.
Yadav found his son with the help of volunteers after an hour of frenetic search.
Hyderabad, August 28: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday claimed that he never amassed wealth through illegal means or corrupt practices.
Hyderabad, August 28: With the Eid-ul-Fitr and Ganesh Chaturthi likely to fall on the same day, the Hyderabad City Police will be making elaborate security arrangements to ensure that the celebrations passes off peacefully.
Hyderabad, August 28: Normal life came to a standstill in several parts of Andhra Pradesh due to the incessant heavy rains during the last three days.
Several of low-lying areas in Telangana and coastal Andhra districts are facing the threat of inundation due to continuous rains. At least 10 rain-related deaths have been reported from different parts of the state in the last one week. Heavy rains have also inundated thousands of acres of agricultural fields.
New Delhi, August 28: After 12 days of fasting for an anti-corruption law that galvanized tens of thousands across India, Anna Hazare announced Saturday night that he will call off his protest at 10 a.m. Sunday.
Looking weak but sounding jubilant, Hazare, 74, told the cheering crowds at Ramlila ground that he would end his hunger strike now that parliament had taken the first step to frame a strong Lokpal bill.
But the soldier-turned-activist warned that only half the battle had been won in the fight for a corruption free India.
Hyderabad, August 28: The ruling party managers have carved out a new strategy to buy time and scare the MLAs siding with YS Jaganmohan Reddy.
The Congress party has decided to seek disqualification of its 26 legislators, who recently submitted their resignation letters to the Legislature Secretary S Raja Sadaram, according to sources. Disqualification is considered as the time consuming process as the Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar would have to first serve notices to them and then seek their reply to begin a long chain of interactions.
Hyderabad, August 28: At least four cabinet ministers and 15 IAS officials are likely to fall in the net of Central Bureau of Investigation, in the case relating to disproportionate assets of Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy.
London, August 28: Singer Rihanna has slammed reports that she featured in a sex tape.
The “Umbrella” hitmaker was alleged to have appeared in a steamy video alongside rapper J. Cole, and an adult company Hustler had claimed that it had obtained the video, reports dailystar.co.uk.
But Rihanna has denied the gossip and posted on her Twitter page: “We don’t believe U, U need more people… AND of course an actual sex tape!”
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Hyderabad, August 28: Following increasing pressure from all the political parties, the State Government has intensified its efforts to address the problems being faced by the farmers across the state, especially in the East Godavari district.
Hyderabad, August 28: Suspended TDP MLA Nagam Janardhan Reddy on Saturday indirectly accused the Speaker Nadendla Manohar of trying to suppress the voice of Telangana.
Hyderabad, August 28: Saying goodbye to his long career in active politics, K Rosaiah visited the party headquarters Gandhi Bhavan and the Congress Legislature Party, probably for the last time, as a politician.
Islamabad, August 28: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan Saturday ordered confiscation of property of former president Pervez Musharraf for his failure to appear before the court in the 2007 murder case of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto, court officials said.
The court has already declared Pervez Musharraf as an “absconder” in the assassination case of Benazir Bhutto as he has not agreed to clarify his position in court despite several notices, Xinhua reported.
Hyderabad, August 28: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday accused the State Government of converting the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam board as the rehabilitation centre for Congress leaders.
Hyderabad, August 28: Describing the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram as the biggest hurdle in the creation of separation state for Telangana, senior TDP leader T Devender Goud on Saturday accused him of not being eligible to continue on him post.
London, August 28: Prison guards loyal to Muammar Gaddafi raped child detainees, human rights group Amnesty International has said.
Amnesty also accused some Libyan rebels of attacking children and imprisoning migrant workers, says the Daily Express.
The group has compiled a dossier of reported abuse from interviews with prisoners and survivors of the civil war.
It said it found evidence of child rape in Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison while under Gaddafi’s control.
Two boys told their prison mates they had been raped on numerous occasions by a guard.