Month: August 2011

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh government employees in Telangana region will undertake a relay hunger strike in Hyderabad on Thursday in support of the demand for separate statehood to the region.

The relay hunger strike will be held at Indira Park from 10 am to 5 pm, the Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers association and other unions said on Wednesday.

The Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee has already served a notice to the government that it would launch an indefinite general strike from August 17 primarily in support of the demand for creation of a separate state.

Cowboys back-rower Cory Paterson will complete the premiership rounds on a demanding Islamic fast after recently becoming a Muslim.

Paterson yesterday emulated Bulldogs great Hazem El Masri as just the second player in NRL history to tackle the holy month of Ramadan, which forbids Muslims from eating or drinking during daylight hours.

Given the physical demands of full-time training in tropical Townsville, it’s a huge challenge that yesterday prompted discussions with North Queensland officials.

Hyderabad, August 04: A 40-year-old housewife, was found dead at her residence in Jamikunta in Tolichowki under suspicious circumstances. Two tolas of gold and two cellphones are believed to be missing from the house as well.

Golconda inspector of police, Syed Jahangir told that both the victim Rita Devi and her husband, Gowri Shankar Shukla hailing from Bihar had been living in the city for the last 20 years. The couple ran a dairy business, and supplied milk to areas around them.

Hyderabad, August 04: Denizens can now post their traffic problems through Facebook. To know motorists’ and pedestrians problems like traffic snarls, bad roads and other issues, the city traffic police launched their Facebook page on Wednesday.

Pune, August 04:  A taxi driver’s urge to eat non-vegetarian food before the start of ‘Shravan’ (a holy month during which Hindus do not eat meat), led to the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Satara on July 29.

The Satara city police on Monday arrested 31-year-old Kishore alias Krishnanath Gaikwad, who strangulated Ankita Desai, 12, for not handing over her gold ornaments.

Hyderabad, August 04 (Siasat News): After a prolonged illness, the founder of Darsgah-e-Shahadath, Mr. Shaik Mahboob Ali died yesterday. He was 83. He is survived by widow, three sons Shaik Khalid Saifullah, Advocate, Shaik Abdullah, Shaik Kaleemullah and three daughters.

Mr. Mahboob Ali hails from Bacharam Village of Medak District. He was a former employee of Govt. Printing press. He had taken voluntary retirement after 1984 communal riots and formed Dargah-e-Shahadath on 4th December 1984.

Chennai, August 04: Sixty is the age that most women in Palani become grandmothers, admits Saraswathi. “It is fate that I should become a mother at this age,” she says with a smile. After remaining childless through four decades of being married to her husband Lingeshwaran (66), she delivered a boy, Sabaraivelan, on July 28, after treatment at the Balaji Fertility Clinic at Palani. “All these years, everywhere we went, people would ask us ‘how many children’ and we would always hang our heads. Finally, our turn has come,” she says with pride.

Hyderabad, August 04: Most students dont see research as a career A sea of curious faces thronged the Indian Institute Institute of Chemical Technology at Tarnaka during the Open Day organised by the research institute on Wednesday.

Sydney, August 04: An ambulance arrives outside a house where bomb squad officers were working to protect an 18-year-old girl in the exclusive Sydney suburb of Mosman August 3, 2011.Photograph by: Tim Wimborne, ReutersA teenage girl was recovering on Wednesday night after spending 10 hours with a suspected bomb strapped around her neck.

Police believe 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver was attacked in a bid to extort money from her father, the Sydney businessman Bill Pulver.

Jakarta, August 04: At least nine people have been killed and a survivor found after a helicopter flying to a mine crashed in Indonesia.

“There were 10 people on board the helicopter, which was transporting eight employees and contractors to the mine and there were two crew,” Newcrest company in charge of the mine said in a statement on Thursday.

The chopper went missing on Wednesday and its debris was discovered near Manado on Sulawesi island a day later in an air and sea search, AFP reported.

Dushanbe, August 04: Tajikistan on Wednesday banned all children and teenagers from worshipping in mosques as the volatile Central Asian republic pressed ahead with its battle against rising Islamic fundamentalism.

President Emomali Rakhmon signed the measure into law after it was unanimously adopted by the upper house of parliament last month, local news reports said.

The law bans those under the age of 18 from praying in churches or mosques and requires them to study in secular schools, Aziya-Plus news agency said.

Bangalore, August 04: D Sadananda Gowda will be sworn in as the new chief minister of Karnataka on Thursday at 4.30 pm, according to a communication from the Raj Bhavan.

After much political turmoil, the warring factions within Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday elected Gowda as the next CM, in the wake of Yeddyurappa quitting his post after he was indicted in the Lokayukta report on illegal mining.

Mumbai, August 04: No salary for the last three months for over 33,000 Air India employees. Air India’s financial crisis has hit home. Families at the Air India housing colony are angry and worried.

Wife of Air India ground staffer Varsha Bhalerao siad, “Now they are saying they can’t keep him in Nanavati. Where will we get the money from.”

The airline is facing a daily loss of over Rs 28 crore rupees and it is paying Rs 9.1 crore per day in interest alone on various loans.

Mumbai, August 04: Three banks — HSBC, United Bank and Dena Bank — hiked their lending and base rates today by up to 50 basis points, following the recent tightening by the Reserve Bank to tame inflation hovering around 10 percent.

On the other hand state-run Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) upped its term-deposit rates by up to 75 basis points.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation India (HSBC) said it has revised upwards its base rate, the minimum lending rate, by 50 basis points to 9.75 percent, with effect from yesterday.

Mumbai, August 04: Parents of TV executive Neeraj Grover, who was murdered by a defence personnel three years ago, on Wednesday said actress Maria Susairaj was equally guilty of the killing and the trial court should have convicted her for murder and conspiracy rather than giving a lighter sentence.

Grover’s parents, Amarnath (60) and Neelam (54), who were in the city to meet high police officials, told reporters that Maria, who was awarded a light sentence of three years for destroying evidence, should be re-arrested and tried for murder and conspiracy.

New Delhi, August 04: In a shocking incident in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, a government hospital – Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital – dumped two of its patients because they could not afford to pay for their treatment.

A jaundice patient and an epilepsy patient were dumped in a field near Jhunsi after the hospital showed them the door.

A case has been registered against a doctor and three other hospital employees for neglecting the seriously ill patients.
Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital dumped two of its patients because they could not afford to pay for their treatment.

Chennai, August 04: A top Indian scientist on Wednesday said “America is not at all good for education”, even as more Indian students are taking wings to the US for higher studies.

“Everything in (the) US is no good. They are (Indian students) going to some second rate institutions. Just because you go abroad, doesn’t mean that you get good education. Now, there are excellent institutions in India doing research,” C N R Rao, Chairman of Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, said here after delivering a oration.

New Delhi, August 04: The Lokpal Bill is set to be introduced in Parliament on Thursday. Anna Hazare has stepped on the pedal, writing to all MPs calling the draft anti-poor and structurally flawed. Another confrontation between Anna and the political spectrum seems inevitable.

Anna Hazare has stepped up the pressure on the government as the Lokpal bill is set to be tabled in Parliament.

He has written to all members of Parliament not to support the draft approved by the Cabinet as it is anti-poor.

New Delhi, August 04: Sex workers from the city’s redlight district, GB Road, are mostly from outside, illiterate, belong to SC, ST or OBC community, have no voter identity cards or ration cards and want to be rehabilitated, the Delhi government informed the Supreme Court.

Hyderabad, July 04: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet sub-committee on employees has decided to invite the Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee (JAC) for talks on August 5 to resolve their pending grievances and avert a strike.

The Telangana Employees JAC already served a notice to the government that it would launch an indefinite general strike from August 17 primarily in support of the demand for creation of a separate state.

Kabul, August 04: Three members of the US-led military coalition were killed on Wednesday in Afghanistan, NATO said.

The coalition said two died in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan where foreign forces are trying to hold the ground they seized from Taliban insurgents in major offensives over the past year.

Another died in a noncombat-related incident in eastern Afghanistan, the volatile second front of the nearly decade-long war.

No other details were disclosed, pending notification of their relatives.

New Delhi, August 04: Congress on Wednesday termed as “height of fertile imagination” the controversy surrounding land-lease in Gurgaon to Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust and accused the Opposition of putting public interest behind political gains in making an issue out of nothing.

“There are political parties as well as persons who are tilting the windmills at non-existent facts. These are heights of fertile imagination. This is a campaign based on misinformation and disinformation.

Hyderabad, August 04: The nine Telangana Congress MPs from Lok Sabha who had resigned to their posts for T cause and stayed away from Parliament session which began on Monday, were now in dilemma whether to attend the session on Friday, the day when Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will take up discussion on Telangana issue under call Attention motion moved by Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj. The MPs will meet in New Delhi on Thursday to take a final decision on the issue.

London, August 04: Jennifer Charles, a 22-year-old woman who was on the run after posing as the partner of a French national and mother of his twins before immigration authorities, was arrested by the Azad Maidan police on Tuesday.

Jennifer had posed as French national Frederic Morin’s partner to help him secure an NOC before he could take his babies, born to a surrogate mother at Hiranandani Hospital, back home to France. But she ran out of luck as one of the immigration officers recognised her, having seen three months before posing as mother of kids of another foreign national.

Mumbai, August 04: No salary for the last three months for over 33,000 Air India employees. Air India’s financial crisis has hit home. Families at the Air India housing colony are angry and worried.

Wife of Air India ground staffer Varsha Bhalerao siad, “Now they are saying they can’t keep him in Nanavati. Where will we get the money from.”

The airline is facing a daily loss of over Rs 28 crore rupees and it is paying Rs 9.1 crore per day in interest alone on various loans.