Month: August 2011

Hyderabad, August 03: A Rice Farmers’ met was organized at Hyderabad on Tuesday by Directorate of Rice Research (DRR), a wing of Indian Council of Agricultural Research, to spur the innovative spirit of rice farmers.

Dr Swapan Kumar Datta Deputy Director General ICAR inaugurated the meet while V Sobhanandreswara Rao former state agriculture minister was the guest of honour, who appreciated the initiative by DRR and expressed the shock that in spite of development the cases of farmers’ suicides are on increase.

Hyderabad, August 03: Health and Medical Education Minister D L Ravindra Reddy on Tuesday came out openly against his own department stating that the top officials were squarely responsible for the current ‘mess’ and malfunctioning of the entire health sector in the state which were compelling him to quit.

He said he was no longer in a position to continue with ‘chaos’ within.

Hyderabad, August 03: Senior Congress leader and former minister JC Diwakar Reddy on Tuesday stated that former chief minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy would be held responsible for decisions taken by his Cabinet during his tenure.

Talking to media persons at the Assembly premises, Mr Diwakar Reddy stated that the Cabinet Ministers would not be held responsible for the decisions taken by the Chief Minister.

Hyderabad, August 03: N Tulasi Reddy, 20-Point Programme Chairman, on Tuesday ridiculed the views expressed by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao that Seemandhra people would not allow Telangana people to live there.

Picking up the thread, Dr Tulasi Reddy chided KCR for raking up regional feelings and hatred in spite of the fact that people from all the three regions married one another and lived happily.

Mumbai, August 02: Zarine Khan, the look alike of Katrina Kaif, who made her debut with Veer movie starring Salman Khan is now a busy bee in Bollywood cinema. Her recent release Ready in which she did an item song has set box office on fire. Despite doing only one song in the movie, Zarine managed to steal the show.

New Delhi, August 03: A day after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that a fresh resolution was needed for deletion of the controversial Clause 14 F from the Presidential Order of 1975, Congress MPs from Telangana region on Tuesday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take an early decision on the earlier resolution on the issue passed by the state Assembly in 2010.

New Delhi, August 03: DELHI: Delhi Police have claimed that they have not found evidence to establish the complicity of any politician in one of the country’s biggest political scandals: the allegation that bribes were paid in the July 2008 trust vote over the Indo-US nuclear deal. The Manmohan Singh government had won because of defections from the Opposition.

Mumbai, August 03: Director Nagesh Kuknoor, who was sure not to make a love story ever, proved himself wrong by making “Mod”. He says it was the story of the film that compelled him to venture into it.

“‘Mod’ is my first love story. I had always said I would never make a love story but here I did find something worth telling,” Kukunoor told reporters at the launch of the first look of the film here Tuesday.

“Mod” identifies with his critically acclaimed film “Dor”, Kukunoor revealed.

Hyderabad, August 03: The staunch follower and one of the most trusted lieutenants of former Telugu Desam Party MLA from Penukonda, Paritala Ravindra, Chaman on Tuesday surrendered before the Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy at his office.

Fearing for his life, the slain TDP MLA’s trusted lieutenant had gone into a self imposed exile following Paritala Ravindra’s assassination in 2005 and his whereabouts were unknown till now.

According to reports, Chaman had gone underground in Belgaum in Karnataka state immediately after the assassination of Paritala Ravindra.

Hyderabad, August 03: The Met Office on Tuesday said that isolated heavy rain may occur in the districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam of Coastal Andhra Pradesh during the next 48 hours while Telangana region receive isolated rain during the same period.

The Met office added that moderate to rather heavy rain or thundershowers may occur at many places in the districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari and West Godavari of Coastal Andhra Pradesh.

Khammam, August 03: Expressing confidence that the Centre will take a decision on the separate Telangana statehood demand as per the Constitutional norms and end the uncertainty in the state, Assembly Deputy Speaker Mallu Batti Vikramarka on Tuesday called upon political parties not to use the Telangana state issue to obtain mileage.

Talking to reporters at Gokinepalle in Mudikonda mandal in Khammam district, the Deputy Speaker appealed to political party leaders not to make inflammatory statements, thereby provoking the people and disturbing the law and order situation.

Vijayawada, August 03: Communist Party of India (Marxist) state secretary BV Raghavulu on Tuesday told Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao not to further vitiate the already surcharged atmosphere in the state by making statements that he would end life by consuming poison if the Centre fails to take a decision on Telangana state.

Talking to media persons here, Mr Raghavulu said that KCR’s remarks may possibly lead to the creation of a law and order situation in the state.

Hyderabad, August 03: Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday directed Rural Development Department Commissioner Jayalakshmi to visit the Godavari districts to oversee the works to provide employment under MGNREGS to the agricultural labourers in case of non-cultivation of Kharif in some areas in those districts.

It may be recalled that the officials of East Godavari district have already identified Rs 50 crore worth works under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in 13 Mandals.

Hyderabad, August 03: The historic Golconda fort and Charminar have recorded a healthy stream of foreign tourists in 2010-11, belying the current political uncertainty in the state. In fact, foreign tourists to these destinations have more than doubled in the past one year, as per the figures released by the government of India’s department of culture on Monday.

Lucknow, AUgust 03: The Samajwadi Party is trying to win over its Muslim leaders who had left the party, particularly after Mulayam Singh Yadav’s handshake with former BJP chief minister Kalyan Singh in the run-up to the last Lok Sabha elections in 2009.
The party is also making efforts to win over grassroots political leaders such as members of block development committees and district panchayats.

New Delhi, August 03: A 37-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old step daughter on Monday night in southwest Delhi. The incident was reported from Dwarka Sector 1. The accused was arrested from his residence after his wife lodged a complaint against him at the Dwarka South police station.

Mumbai, August 03: Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who along with his nine accomplices killed scores of people in the name of ‘jihad’, is not observing Roza during Ramzan.

The Pakistani gunman has been eating bananas, apples and taking medicines, while fasting is compulsory for every adult Muslim during this period.

Ramesh Dhamane, superintendent of the Arthur Road jail, said, “Kasab does not know that the month of Ramzan began from Tuesday. He is eating in jail.”

Vijaywada, August 03: The Hyderabadi Haleem is world famous. Now, Muslims and people of other faiths can relish the delicacy in Vijayawada in the? holy month of Ramadan. Some hoteliers in the city have specially brought Haleem Masters from Hyderabad by paying a whopping monthly salary of `1 lakh.

Haleem stalls have already come up at several places in the city, particularly in areas where the Muslim population is high. At Panja Centre in One Town, more than a dozen Haleem stalls have been set up.

New York, August 03: Maria Sharapova may not have won a grand slam title since 2008, but the Russian tennis player remains unchallenged as the world’s highest paid woman in professional sports.

For the seventh straight year, Sharapova topped the annual list provided by Forbes magazine, despite failing to add to her three grand slam titles, although she did make the Wimbledon final in July.

Hyderabad, August 03: The PIL bench of the AP High Court on Monday heard at length arguments in the Emaar properties case. The bench of Chief Justice Nisar Ahmad Kakru and Justice Vilas Afzalpurkar heard amicus curiae N Subba Reddy who justified the ongoing process and said the case was fit for prosecution and criminal investigation.

Mumbai, August 03: The controversies surrounding filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar’s ambitious project `Heroine` might have been put to rest but the film is garnering incredible amount of attention even before it goes on floor with its new lead actress – Kareena Kapoor.

The Kapoor girl, who had publicly stated that `Heroine` was always her project, following Aishwarya Rai`s pregnancy news and the hullabaloo surrounding it.

Hyderabad, August 03: Despite the Central government clearing the air on keeping madrasas out of the purview of the Right to Education Act, representatives of madrasas are skeptical. Citing the threat posed to the autonomy of these centres of learning, the demand is to categorise madrasas as minority institutions under the Act instead of being grouped under private institutions.

Hyderabad, August 03: Hyderabad City and Ranga Reddy district have now become the bone of contention. The Seemandhra real estate lobby, which drives the Congress Party, has reconciled itself to Telangana statehood. But their investment in and around Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy district is what is worrying them.

So what is the position with regard to Hyderabad and what did the Sri Krishna Committee (SKC) say about it?

Ahmedabad, August 02: Social activist Teesta Setalvad of the Citizens for Justice and Peace was Tuesday granted anticipatory bail by a court here in a criminal case filed against her by a former aide Rais Khan, a lawyer said.

Additional Sessions Judge S.B. Gajera granted her plea for anticipatory bail with the condition that in the eventuality of facing arrest she may deposit Rs.25,000 and avail the bail, said S.M. Vohra, her lawyer.

Setalvad filed the application over Khan’s allegation that she had fabricated evidence in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Lahore, August 03: The treatment of all the pains and sufferings of Pakistan lies in the holy Quran and Sunnah rather than in Washington. This is a must for the Muslims to understand and follow the Quran and to implement complete Islam in Pakistan is also a must. The country, Pakistan, came into being on the ideology of Islam in the holy month of Ramazan.
Renowned Islamic scholar and chief of the Siraat-i- Mustaqeem Institute Dr Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jallali expressed these view while addressing The Nation forum “Ramazan and Duties of Muslims” here at Hameed Nizami Hall on Monday.