Hyderabad, August 14: Senior BJP leader Mr. M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance was gaining popularity across the country and would soon return to power.
Hyderabad, August 14: Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy, a senior leader of Telugu Desam party had alleged that KVP Ramachandra Rao, the former advisor to the government has played an important role into the irregularities during YSR regime
Speaking to media persons in NTR Trust Bhavan on Saturday, he said that if the CBI enquiry is ordered against KVP along with Jagan, then all the facts and irregularities would come out. He said that both of them are still hand in glove. The party would welcome CBI enquiry against KVP as well.
Hyderabad, August 14: The deletion of Clause 14F seems to have drawn new battle lines across Telangana and Seemandhra regions.
The Seemandhra leaders are now preparing to move to the Supreme Court against the deletion, which changed the status of Hyderabad to a ‘No free zone’. They are apparently upset that this would deprive the non-Telangana people of claiming any job or education rights in the State’s capital.
Hyderabad, August 14: In order to clear extra rush of passengers due to festival season, the South Central Railway has decided to extend trains on certain major routes.
According to SCR, Train no. 08465 Bubhaneswar- Sainagar Shirdi weekly special Train (on Fridays), running via Viskhapatnam, Vijayawada, Kazipet, Secunderabad, Nizamabad and Aurangabad, is extended to run up to Manmad till 28th October, 2011. Similarly, in the return direction, Train no. 08466 Manmad-Bubhaneswar weekly special train (on Sundays) is extended to run till 30th October, 2011.
Hyderabad, Aug 14: Pending files, deteriorating law and order situation, second round of Rachabanda and implementation of welfare schemes are among a few items in the long agenda that the Chief Minister Mr. N.Kiran Kumar Reddy wants to discuss and finalise with his council of ministers. However, most of his team-mates are not serious about this.
Hyderabad, August 14: The Telangana Congress Steering Committee on Saturday asked Vijayawada Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal to resign from the Lok Sabha for being ignorant of the processes of how laws are enacted and implemented in the country. Rajagopal had earlier described the Presidential assent to Clause 14F deletion as unconstitutional.
Hyderabad, August 14: Making a major policy announcement that might change the face of public hospitals, the Chief Minister Mr. N.Kiran Kumar Reddy said the government would bring back about 40 per cent operations under ‘Arogyasri’ to the government hospitals by providing them modern infrastructure and facilities on par with corporate hospitals.
Hyderabad, August 14: Showing a rare display of alertness and bravery, a home guard of the Hyderabad City Police saved the life of a woman who jumped into the Hussainsgar lake to commit suicide.
The incident occurred on Saturday at around 4 pm. When the Lake Mobile jeep was patrolling the Necklace road, the driver B.Sailu found a young lady who had just jumped into the Hussain Sagar Lake from the bridge near the PV Ghat. As there was no time to get the divers who were present at Lumbini Park area, Sailu, jumped after the lady.
Hyderabad, August 13: Agri-horticultural society, public garden Hyderabad, will conduct training classes on ‘Medicinal plants and their uses’ on 18 to 20 August, from 11 am to 2 pm at Public Garden Hyderabad.
Siasat news
Hyderabad, August 13: Youth having religious passion had taken over the 400 year old Qutub Shahi mosque on March 25which had been deserted since long time. Since then prayer is offered regularly in that mosque. Taraveeh prayer is also performed. The mosque is 90 percent dilapidated and only the pulpit (minbar) remains. Neither there is flooring in the mosque nor does it have roof. Though the waqf board and Municipal Corporation have given permission for construction but the Rajendarnagar police is creating obstruction.
New Delhi, August 13: Why Congress finds itself in political doldrums The Congress seems to be sinking deeper into a quagmire of scams. If the party thought it had survived the first onslaught of the swindles tarnishing its name by jailing some of the suspects, the appearance of a second round of accusations has pushed it back into the swamp.
Mangalore, August 13: A row over wearing hijab (headscarf) has surfaced yet again in an educational institution in Dakshina Kannada. After Aysha Ashmin (19), who had quit Sri Venkatramana Swamy (SVS) College, Bantwal in August 2009 for not allowing her to wear a headscarf inside the classroom. It is now the turn of Hadiya, 2ndPUcommerce student of Jain PU College in Moodbidri.
Riyadh, August 13: Saudi Arabia’s religious police arrested a Pakistani man after catching him raping a screaming 13-year-old Nigerian girl inside his car under the cover of night.
Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice were on a routine night patrol in the western town of Makkah when they heard a girl screaming inside a car at a deserted area.
“When they came close to the car, they found a 33-year-old Pakistani man raping the Nigerian girl…they caught him red-handed,” Sabq newspaper said.
Hyderabad, August 13: Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Centre for Urdu Language, Literature & Culture & Dept. of Urdu is organizing a valedictory function of Tahseen-e-Ghazal programme. Prof. Mohd. Zafaruddin, Dean School of Languages, Linguistics and Indology will preside over. Prof. H.Y. Siddiqui will be the Guest of Honor.
Siasat news
Hyderabad, August 13 : Actor-turned-politician K. Chiranjeevi, who has merged his Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) with the Congress, will take the membership of the ruling party Aug 20.
He told reporters here Saturday that he would formally take the membership of the Congress in New Delhi Aug 20, the birth anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will give him the membership.
The formality of PRP’s merger with the Congress would be completed Aug 22, the 56th birthday of Chiranjeevi.
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Hyderabad, August 13: The Telangana Congress Steering Committee on Saturday asked Vijayawada Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal to resign from the Lok Sabha for being ignorant of the processes of how laws are enacted and implemented in the country. Rajagopal had earlier described the Presidential assent to Clause 14F deletion as unconstitutional.
Riyadh, August 13: An Asian housemaid was molested by an airport cleaner just after she arrived to work in Saudi Arabia, the largest base for Asian domestic workers in the Middle East, a newspaper in the Gulf kingdom said on Saturday.
The unidentified maid went to buy a pre-paid mobile phone SIM card from a shop at the airport in the western port of Yanbu when the Bangladeshi worker started to molest her, Okaz Arabic language daily said.
“The maid screamed, prompting the airport security to arrest the worker… he was then handed over to the police,” it said.
–Agencies
Hyderabad, August 13: Muslim prisoners who observe fasting during Ramazan do not get adequate facilities. In order to join them, Siasat organized Iftaar Party in Chanchalguda Jail yesterday.
Johannesburg, August 13: A sexy dose of jazz and the refined strains of Western opera and traditional Xhosa song drive a new opera about South Africa’s former president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.
The range of musical styles in “Mandela Trilogy” reflects South Africa’s mix of cultures, the production’s writer and director Michael Williams said in an interview before a dress rehearsal on Friday.
London, August 13: It wasn’t long ago that David Cameron launched what became known as his “Hug a Hoodie” campaign — an initiative born of a public outcry over Britain’s ill-behaved youths, and one that ended in ridicule when hooded youths mocked the then opposition leader during a photo opportunity.
Now as prime minister, Cameron is opting for tough love in the wake of Britain’s riots.
New York, August 13: US consumers’ confidence in the progress of the nation’s economy and of their own financial situation plunged in August to its lowest point since May 1980 over worries about the faltering recovery, according to survey results released Friday.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s preliminary August reading on overall consumer sentiment stands at 54.9 points, considerably lower than the 63.7 in July and also far from the expectations of analysts, who believed the index would be around 63.
London, August 13: A man who killed 11 women and dumped their remains around his house in the US state of Ohio was Friday sentenced to death, BBC reported.
Anthony Sowell, 51, was found guilty last month of aggravated murder, kidnapping and other charges in the 11 deaths.
In a court in Cleveland, US, Friday Judge Dick Ambrose read aloud the details of each murder before passing the sentence, BBC said.
Colombo, August 13: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has called out the armed forces to maintain public order using the powers vested in him by Chapter 40 of the Public Security Ordinance (PSO).
Gazette No. 1717/41 of August 6 reads: “By virtue of the powers vested in me by Section 12 of the Public Sector Ordinance (Chap 40), I, Mahinda Rajapaksa, do by this order, call out all the members of the armed forces specified in the First Schedule hereto, for the maintenance of public order in the areas specified in the Second Schedule.”
Washington, August 13: US President Barack Obama embarks on a three-day bus trip Monday to “connect with ordinary Americans” as he talks job creation at small towns across the Midwest.
While Republicans have accused Obama of mixing policy with politics by barnstorming in the battleground region ahead of the 2012 elections, White House say it was a chance for the president to hit the reset button and connect with ordinary Americans after the political logjam over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.