Anantapur, August 26: The Anantapur district court on Thursday sentenced eight people for life for the brutal murder of TDP MLA Paritala Ravi. The court has also acquitted four persons in the case.
Paritala Ravi was shot dead by his rivals at the district Telugu Desam Party office on January 24, 2005. There were a total of 16 accused in the case. Of them, three have been brutally killed and one has turned approver.
Mumbai, August 26: Over the last few years, the Khans have each taken up a particular festive weekend, and made it their own.
Aamir Khan, for example, has cornered the market on Christmas — after hits like Taare Zameen Par, Ghajini and Three Idiots — while Shah Rukh Khan likes coming to our screens every Diwali.
And while Diwali was always a big weekend for Bollywood films, Salman Khan has actually made Eid releases important, largely starting with Wanted in 2009.
Hyderabad, August 26: On the occasion of Jummat-Ul-Vida (last Friday of Ramzan month), the traffic police have decided to impose traffic restrictions at various locations of the twin cities on August 26.
Officials said that the main roads between Charminar and Madina, Charminar and Murgi Chowk besides Charminar and Moghalpura Kaman will be closed for traffic from 9 am to 3 pm.
Hyderabad, August 26: Three bodies, which were brought for cremation at the Punjagutta graveyard, were kept waiting for over two hours outside as the managing committee locked the main gate on Thursday morning in protest against CPDCL snapping power to the graveyard.
The Punjagutta graveyard committee members also staged a dharna after locking the main gate and reopened the premises only after CPDCL officials restored power to the graveyard.
Gaza City, August 26: A days-old truce announced by Gaza militants appeared to be fast unraveling on Thursday after 24 hours of airstrikes left six Gazans dead and 30 injured, medics said.
But an airstrike on Rafah early on Wednesday which killed Islamic Jihad militant Ismail Al-Ismar sparked a flurry of retaliatory rocket attacks, followed by further Israeli raids, rendering the truce agreement practically meaningless.
Agartala, August 26: In a horrifying incident, a tutor chopped off his girl’s student’s hand and also injured her mother, police said here today.
“Sanjoy Das, 40, had attacked a middle aged woman and her daughter Susmita Das, 19, with a ‘Dao’ (a sharp weapon), severing one of Susmita’s hands and the fingers of other,” a police spokesman said.
The incident occured Wednesday evening in Kamalpur, 130 km north of here, when Susmita was returning home along with her mother.
Mumbai, August 26: Fed up of being tortured by her father, an 18-year-old girl left her home to seek shelter with a classmate. But the latter connived with her husband who then raped her.
The couple blackmailed her with a sordid video of the act, convinced her to go to Delhi for a job, where two men raped her again. That is when Zubeida (name changed) realised she was being forced into prostitution.
Washington, August 26: NASA’s discovery mission programme – GRAIL – is making final launch preparations for its Sept 8 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the space agency announced Thursday.
The Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory twin spacecraft are tasked for a nine-month mission to explore Earth’s nearest neighbour in unprecedented detail.
They will determine the structure of the lunar interior from crust to core and advance our understanding of the thermal evolution of the moon, Xinhua reported.
Mumbai, August 26: Niloufer Shaikh had the GRP to thank for her baby girl’s delivery at a platform on Ghatkopar station early on Wednesday.
Mumbai, August 26:An unknown man on Thursday entered the first floor flat of a 57-year-old homemaker at Gurukripa building near Swami Vivekanand School in Chembur, where she stays as a tenant, on pretext of renovating the flat, locked the victim in the toilet and robbed cash and gold ornaments worth Rs 1.47 lakh.
The accused told the victim, Lata Bhatia, that the house owner had sent him to examine the flat before carrying out the renovation work, the Chunnabatti police said. Police said that the accused’s age is suspected to be 30.
Hyderabad, August 26: With two holidays falling in the middle of next week, denizens are gearing up for quick getaways from the city, planning five-day breaks from their desk jobs. With Eid and Ganesh Chaturthi falling on two consecutive days (Wednesday and Thursday), vacation-starved Hyderabadis are making the best of the festivities and have already made their bookings to various destinations. Airfares during this extended weekend have already shot up and so have the fares of private buses.
Hyderabad, August 26: Imams and muezzins in mosques are revered and respected but are poorly paid, not enough remuneration for a decent, dignified living. A majority of them are paid so little that they find it tough to meet the bare minimum daily expenses, leave alone spending necessary amounts on healthcare or education for their children.
There are nearly 5,000 mosques in the GHMC limits. Each employs a muezzin, the person who gives call five-times a day for prayer, and an imam, the one who leads the mandatory daily prayers.
Riyadh, August 26: Despite the enhanced spiritual mood in Ramzan, the hot topic among Hyderabadis, like other Indians and expatriates in the Kingdom, during iftar or sahr continue to be Nitaqat, Saudi Arabia’s ambitious jobs-for-locals drive.
New Delhi, August 26: With the arrest of four persons, the police have solved the mystery behind the murder of a 55-year-old woman in the Okhla area on August 11. Shockingly, one of the accused is the victim’s daughter-in-law. The accused have been identified as Sumitra, 30, Azad Singh, 28, Perminder Singh, 29 and Pradeep, 22.
Police sources said Kala Devi was smothered to death after which the accused removed the jewellery she was wearing to create the impression that robbery was the motive behind the murder.
New Delhi, August 26 : Saudi Arabia has announced an additional quota of 10,000 Haj devotees for India.
“The entire lot of these 10,000 seats have been transferred to Haj Committee of India, Mumbai,” the external affairs ministry said here Thursday.
“The seats will be distributed to the states/Union Territories that have received applications in excess of the originally allotted quota on the basis of the proportionate Muslim population of the state/Union Territories concerned,” the ministry said.
–Agencies
Mumbai, August 26: He was picked by Mumbai Police to make a witness against some people. When he refused to do so as he didn’t know them, he was tortured and threatened to be killed and to implicate his brothers in a blast case. When he didn’t break, he was taken on remand in various theft cases – one after another – and tortured and again threatened for over a month. When he survived and again refused to witness against unknown persons, he was made an accused in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case. He is Afzal Usmani.
London, August 26: How much time does your child spend on Facebook? Teenagers who regularly use social networking sites are much more likely to drink, smoke and use marijuana, a new study has claimed. The Columbia University study of 1,000 American teenagers aged between 12 and 17 years found that those who used such sites daily were five times more likely to smoke tobacco than those who did not.
Similarly, they are three times more likely to drink alcohol and twice as likely to use marijuana.
New Delhi, August 25: Kareena lights up the ramp in a flowing off-white dress with silver detailing….Kareena Kapoor has finally landed in the telly world, albeit for her upcoming film Bodyguard. The actor would be seen in Pavitra Rishta to promote the movie. It would not be a blink and miss appearance for sure as the show’s track would be modified to incorporate her related stories
Katrina, Kareena bury the hatchet
Kareena doesn’t want to keep a bodyguard
Kareena on her wax statue and Shammi Kapoor
presence.
Hyderabad, August 26: A general strike planned by Telangana supporters in September promises more violence. Is there a solution in sight?
New Delhi, August 25: The all-party meet held in view of the Anna crisis on Wednesday took a hard look at the media and suggested that the media should also be brought under the ambit of the Lokpal Bill. The meet also discussed the contentious issue of “paid news”, and felt that the media should also be held accountable.
Riyadh, August 25: Saudi authorities have arrested a female activist for defying the ban on women driving in the Wahhabi kingdom.
Najla Hariri was shortly arrested on Wednesday while she was driving to her daughter’s office.
Hariri is among a group of activists who launched an Internet campaign in June 2011 urging Saudi women to defy the driving ban in the country.
“I have not signed any commitment that forbids me from driving,” AFP quoted Hariri as saying after her release.
Bengaluru, August 25: Once known as the `City of gardens`, now an IT hub, Bangalore is making the most of it gardens for sure. The beautiful open lands have turned hot spots that are under the constant vigilance of cops, who are in the lookout for couples making out in public!
Bengaluru is the city’s new name and it seems with its rechristening, the city’s attitude too has changed drastically. But ironically, the city is heading towards extreme modernization even as it’s named sounds exceedingly desi.
Lucknow, August 25: Slamming UP Chief Minister Mayawati for using public money to erect statues, All India Mahila Congress chief Anita Verma on Thursday, accused her of turning Lucknow into a “city of stones”.
Addressing presidents of district and city units of Congress’ women wing here, Verma said, that the massive stone structures installed by the Chief Minister in the name of beautification have made Lucknow “a city of Nawabs into a city of stones”.
She exhorted partymen to work not for getting posts but for strengthening the organisation.
Washington, August 25: China has deployed more advanced and survivable solid-fuel nuclear capable CSS-5 MRBM missiles against India as a ‘deterrent posture’, Pentagon has said warning that a high degree of mistrust continues to strain their bilateral ties.
The PLA has replaced liquid-fuelled, nuclear-capable CSS-2 IRBMs with more advanced and survivable solid-fuelled CSS-5 MRBM systems to strengthen its deterrent posture relative to India, the Pentagon has said in its annual report on Chinese military build up to the Congress.
Mumbai, August 25: A three-year-old-girl was burnt alive allegedly by her drunk father in Kherwadi village of suburban Malwani, police said on Thursday.
The accused Veerappan Kaunder (37), who works as a conservation worker with the city’s civic body on a contract basis, allegedly poured kerosene on his daughter Shiv Shankari and five-year-old son Shabari last night after which he set the girl on fire, they said adding that the boy managed to run out of the house.
The victim was admitted to the civic-run KEM hospital on Wednesday night but died while undergoing treatment, they said.