Mumbai, August 03: Siddharth Roy Kapoor, UTV’s head honcho has slammed reports of his wedding with Bollywood actress Vidya Balan.
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Buzz has it that the talented actress had secretly tied the nuptial with Kapoor last week and had also flown for her honeymoon with the biggie!
Social networking sites were flooded with Vidya Balan’s marriage messages and this led the false news to spread like wild fire.
New Delhi, August 03: An Indian Air Force (IAF) combat pilot was killed in a MiG fighter jet crash near Bikaner in Rajasthan on Tuesday.
“The MiG-21 Type-96 crashed today. The pilot has died,” an IAF officer said here.
The pilot’s identity will not be released till his family is informed.
The crash is under investigation, the officer said, adding a court of inquiry will be ordered.
MiG-21 jets of IAF have earned the sobriquet ‘flying coffin’ following a string of crashes.
–IANS
Ahmedabad, August 03: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray will begin his 9-day Gujarat trip on Wednesday. Thackeray, who is a self professed admirer of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, wants to learn firsthand the Gujarat model of development.
However, political circles are abuzz – especially Shiv Sena- about the motive of his visit. For the record, Raj told reporters today, prior to leaving for Gujarat, that he is going to only see the development of Gujarat and nothing more should be read into it.
Mumbai, August 03: The social networking site Facebook is one of the platforms where millions of people living in different parts of the world from different groups of faiths share and discuss their ideas, experiences, activities and even sorrow and happiness of their lives. People use the site for multiple purposes, for instance, to spread their religious views and ideologies, to promote their business and to campaign against and in favor of people and issues.
Hyderabad, August 03: All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi has written a letter to Praja Rajyam Party president K Chiranjeevi inviting him to come to New Delhi to complete the long pending merger process.
Talking to media persons at Assembly Media Point on Tuesday, senior party leader and MLC C Ramachandraiah disclosed that the party had received a letter from Ms Sonia Gandhi inviting party chief K Chiranjeevi to come New Delhi between August 7-10.
Hyderabad, August 03: Minister for Marketing M Mukesh Goud requested Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Commissioner MT Krishna Babu to take up developmental works worth Rs 2.38 crore for the benefit of the people.
The Marketing Minister, one of the three Ministers from Telangana who had not submitted their resignations and are attending to their duties, chaired a review meeting on Monday evening with Mr Krishna Babu on various development works.
Riyadh, August 03: Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior Prince Naif, Riyadh Gov. Prince Salman, and a large number of royal family members and senior officials attended the funeral prayer for Princess Sultana bint Turki Al-Sudairy at Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh.
Other prominent personalities who attended the funeral were Prince Sattam, deputy governor of Riyadh, Prince Muqrin, chief of general intelligence, and Prince Muhammad bin Fahd, governor of the Eastern Province. Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, the grand mufti, led the prayer.
Hyderabad, August 03: Even as the city police were widening the dragnet for him, Chiranjeevi’s estranged son-in-law Sirish Bharadwaj managed to evade them and hid in an ashram at Medchal on the city outskirts before his surrender. He was also reported to have taken shelter earlier in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Shirdi and Visakhapatnam. After dodging the police for long, he finally surrendered before the Nampally Criminal Court last week.
Cairo, August 03: A plane set to transfer Egypt’s former ruler Hosni Mubarak to the capital Cairo to stand trial has arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh where he has been under arrest in a hospital since April.
“The aircraft that will take Mubarak to the police academy has landed in Sharm el-Sheikh,” Egypt’s public television said on Wednesday.
The trial of Mubarak who was forced to resign in February has been a key demand of protesters, AFP reported.
Mubarak is charged with corruption and ordering the killing of protesters — a charge that carries the death penalty.
New York, August 03: The developer of an Islamic community center and mosque near the site of the September 11 attacks in New York says it may take years to determine what kind of project Muslims and non-Muslims want.
Sharif El-Gamal tells The New York Times that decisions will be made after consultation with lower Manhattan residents and New York City-area Muslims.
El-Gamal says that in the past year he’s built relationships with neighborhood groups. He’s recruited a September 11 victim’s relative to his advisory board and sought donors from around the country.
Hyderabad, August 03: Condemning the statement of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram that a fresh resolution was needed to be passed by the state Assembly for the deletion of Clause 14 F from the Presidential Orders, Telangana Rashtra Samithi Floor Leader Etela Rajender on Tuesday said that the ‘irresponsible and irrelevant statement’ were insulting the Telangana people.
Talking to media persons at Telangana Bhavan, Mr Rajender said that, “Mr Chidambaram has lost his mental balance and that is why he was making such irresponsible and irrelevant comments.”
New Delhi, August 03: A seven-year-old boy was recently crippled after the corporal punishment inflicted on him by his headmaster. Following a bout of mischief, Naveen was punished and made to do 130 sit-ups by his headmaster, Mr Venkatramulu.
Hyderabad, August 03: Andhra Pradesh government will launch an ambitious scheme ‘Indira Jala Prabha’ on Gandhi Jayanthi day to bring 10 lakh acres of land belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) under irrigation.
A sum of Rs 1,600 crore will be spent under the new scheme that would benefit five lakh SC and ST families, the State government said today.
Jeddah, August 03: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal unveiled plans on Tuesday to build the world’s tallest tower in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, signing a 4.6 billion riyal ($1.23 billion) contract with Bin Laden Group.
The proposed tower, which will rise more than 1,000 metres and take just over five years to complete, is the centrepiece of the planned Kingdom City development being built outside Jeddah by Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Holding.
Hyderabad, August 03: A few computers and valuable documents were stolen by unidentified persons from the finance department located in the D-Block of the Secretariat here on Monday.
“Around 10.30 am, finance department staff reached their office and before they got into work they found that some computers and PCs, which were installed on their tables, went missing. They alerted initially local security personal. Later, they lodged a complaint with the Saifabad police,’’ K Shanker, detective inspector, said.
Lucknow, August 03: Two youths allegedly set ablaze a teenage dalit girl when she resisted their rape attempt in Sitapur district, 90 km from Lucknow, on Tuesday morning. With 50% burns, the girl, a class XII student, is battling for life in the district hospital. The incident took place in Johri village of Ramkopt police circle in Sitapur district.
The victim’s father has alleged that the five youths — Tillu, Billu, Ajay, Dharmendra and Tuiyan — all local residents, had been passing obscene remarks at the victim for the past few days. But, the girl usually overlooked their comments.
Hyderabad, August 03: There is eloquence in the silence that surrounds Rini Roy Chaudhary. The bride to be spreads her hand out to get the mehndi applied, but is unaware of the chatter and laughter that fills a home all set to celebrate a wedding. Rini is hearing-impaired. She will be marrying 25-year-old K Ravi Babu from Hyderabad who, incidentally, too is deaf and mute.
Hyderabad, August 03: Telugu Desam Party leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy blamed the N Kiran Kumar Reddy government for its inaction in so far as the deletion of Clause 14 F is concerned.
“In spite of a unanimous resolution having been passed on the Floor of the House in 2010 during the Rosaiah government, the Centre was now opposed to the said deletion of the Clause,” Mr Janardhan Reddy said.
“If the Centre demanded another resolution on the said Clause, it is only because of the inaction of the current government,” he told media persons at the Secretariat.
Hyderabad, August 03: An obsessed youngster stabbed the brother of a 25-year-old girl and attempted suicide at Dayanandnagar in Malkajgiri here on Monday.
According to the police, E Murali (30), a resident of Sanjeevareddy Nagar, descended on the house of Bharani Soujanya (25) late in the evening with his oft-rejected marriage proposal. Soujanya’s brother Satish Chandra and his wife Lavanya were at home at the time and they did not let Murali inside.
Lucknow, August 03: Every day 10,000 patients are treated and 323 surgeries conducted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Aiims), the biggest hospital in the country.
Yet, it’s not enough to clear the backlog of the many thousands who wait patiently for their turn to get treated and cured. They come with their families and friends, taking up the daily footfall to 50,000.
With the wait for elective (non-emergency) surgery ranging from a few days to two years, those with money rent rooms or go back home, if the wait for surgery is too long.
Lucknow, August 03: Three students of a government school were hospitalised allegedly after being brutally beaten by their principal for not bringing textbooks, police said Tuesday.
Ashish Shukla, the principal of Govindpur Primary School (GPS), allegedly assaulted three class 5 students of the school while carrying out a surprise inspection Monday.
New Delhi, August 03: Arguing that India has “no place in the world order” currently, former national security advisor (NSA) Brajesh Mishra Tuesday said the country has to step up economic reforms and strengthen military capabilities if it wants to overcome the situation.
“I am a blunt man… Sorry to say we have no place in the world order” now, Mishra said while delivering the inaugural K. Subrahmanyam memorial annual lecture here.
Gurgaon, August 03: In an apparent attack on the first family of the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday alleged that rules were bent to acquire 1,400 acres in Gurgaon’s Ullawas village by the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust and asked the ruling party if its stand was the same on farmers’ land everywhere.
“A case is pending in the Punjab-Haryana high court and what the documents show is a matter of grave concern. In Ullawas village of Gurgaon more than 1,400 acres of the
Mumbai, August 03: In a tragic incident, a thirty-year-old man committed suicide on Tuesday morning by setting himself on fire in front of the municipal office in Ulhasnagar in Thane district, Maharashtra.
The man identified as Prashant Lahane allegedly did so to protest the alleged injustice meted out to his sister Sangita who is employed by the education department on a contract basis.
Hyderabad, August 03: Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy directed the officials to chalk out an action plan to release the 2011-12 Post Matric scholarships on time.
He said funds, if need be, will be generated specially towards the scheme but the state government will fulfil the commitments given to the students and parents towards the PMS.
The state government now requires Rs 3805 crore only for 2011-12 towards the PMS after clearing all the backlog arrears.