New Delhi, August 13: Producer-director Prakash Jha has moved the Supreme Court challenging the ban on the release of his film Aarakshan in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab and suspension of its exhibition in Andhra Pradesh
Though a mention was made before a Bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir for urgent hearing of the petition on Friday itself, the Registry, after the completion of formalities, has listed it for August 16.
Mekkah, August 13: Sheikh Osama Khayyat, imam and khatib at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, stressed the importance of learning the Holy Qur’an and regulating one’s deeds on the basis of the teachings of the holy book, while addressing the hundreds and thousands of worshippers attending congregational prayer at the mosque on Friday.
Mumbai,August 13 :THERE were big names involved.But the Enforcement Directorate ( ED) seems to have managed to dilute the Hasan Ali case, making him get away almost scot- free.
On Friday, the Pune stud farm owner was released on bail by the Bombay High Court against a surety of ` 5 lakh after it found no case of “ money laundering” against Ali.
The court lashed out at the ED for having failed to establish the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, on which the chargesheet stands.
New Delhi,August 13 :In the last three months Rahul baba is going around UP claiming that many rapes have taken place in UP by mayawati police specially in troubled ares of greater Noida.
THE Congress party on Friday faced an embarrassing situation in Parliament as the government informed the Rajya Sabha that an inquiry committee constituted by the National Commission for Women ( NCW) to probe allegations of rape in Bhatta- Parsaul villages in Uttar Pradesh has ruled out any such incident.
Malappuram, August 13: In an incident that may shock the proponents of AMU regional centres, about a dozen North Indian students were brutally beaten up by local students at the Malappuram (Kerala) study centre of Aligarh Muslim University on Wednesday (10th August). As the attack was allegedly led by son of a Muslim League leader, neither AMU nor district authorities have taken any action in the case. Student bodies have condemned the incident and demanded swift action from the authorities of AMU.
To opt for a dry throat and a crooning gut when a mere phone call can get you a decent feast is nothing short of foolhardy. Yet millions of Muslims around the globe choose to do just that when they fast in Ramadan.
Those with purchasing power must surely see this enforced austerity in a world of plenty as something akin to a warped practice: Why live like paupers when you can afford more?
Gandhinagar, August 12 : The Gujarat government said Friday that IPS officer Rahul Sharma has neither been suspended nor any chargesheet served on him as yet.
State government spokespersons Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas and Minister of State for Energy Saurabh Patel termed the news of chargesheet and suspension as “false and baseless propaganda”.
Earlier, media reports had stated that the state government was planning to serve a charge-sheet to the officer.
Hyderabad, August 12: The TDP has demanded an investigation into the properties of Congress MP Mr. Lagadapati Rajagopal also alongside the investigation into the properties of another MP and YSR Congress Chief Mr. YS Jaganmohan Reddy.
Talking to newsmen here on Friday, party leader Mr. Revanth Reddy has said that Mr. Rajagopal should himself write to the Prime Minister, requesting him to institute CBI enquiry. He said if he failed to do so, it would be construed that he has invested money in Jagan’s companies as he received kickbacks.
Mumbai, August 12: The police firing on Pune farmers continued to rock the Maharashtra assembly for the fourth consecutive day as the opposition targeted the Congress-led government, saying its version was contradictory to what police had to say about the incident.
On the last day of the 15-day monsoon session, the house had to be adjourned thrice as opposition members attacked the government again and accused it of killing innocent people.
Hobart, August 12: A 58-year-old Australian girls’ school teacher has been jailed for two years and 10 months for having sex with a 16-year-old student up to 30 times.
According to News.com.au, Nicolaas Ockert Bester, a former science teacher at St. Michael’s Collegiate School in Hobart, pleaded guilty in the Tasmanian Supreme Court to maintaining a sexual relationship with a person under the age of 17 and possessing child exploitation material.
He will be eligible for parole in December 2012.
New Delhi, August 12: All hurdles for the conduct of written examination for recruitment of police sub-inspectors in the State were removed with the President, Ms Pratibha K Patil, passing orders for deletion of the controversial 14(F) clause from the Presidential Order of 1975.
Srinagar, August 12 : Moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq Friday said if parliament attack convict Afzal Guru is hanged, the peace process between India and Pakistan would be derailed and it would also affect Kashmir.
“If Afzal Guru is hanged, not only would the peace process between India and Pakistan be derailed, but the situation in Kashmir would take a serious turn.
Lucknow, August 12: “I do not wish to go back to my mother,” 12-year-old Akbar says, looking up with love at his foster father Aiku Lal who has brought him up like his own since he found him sobbing and abandoned in a park eight years ago. The boy’s mother is fighting a custody battle in the Supreme Court.
Reacting to the petition moved by his mother Shahnaz in the apex court, Akbar told IANS: “I just do not wish to go back to my mother who is not in a position to even continue my studies.”
Hyderabad, August 12: A day ahead of the conduct of the controversial examination for recruitment of Sub-Inspectors of Police on Saturday, the President of India ordered deletion of Clause (f) of Para 14 of the A. P. Public Employment (Organisation of Local Cadres and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Order, 1975, that will facilitate treating Hyderabad as a “non-free zone.”
Hyderabad, August 12: People like Prof. Kodhandaram who were unconcerned of people’s opinions and their problems keep giving bandh calls on every other day for Telangana cause, making people’s lives miserable. (This ‘JAC’ epidemic is now gradually spreading to Andhra region also.)
Hyderabad, August 12: Machilipatnam MLA Perni Nani on Friday stated that he would resign to his post if the government did not take any decision on setting up of Machilipatnam Port.
Talking to media persons, Perni Nani stated that he was committed to the establishment of port in the district. However, the government delaying the file in connection with establishing port, he stated.
In 2007, Nani with help of YSR tried to start Port work which was dragged for more than 4 years.
Nani said that he would not reverse his decision on his resignation.
New Delhi, August 12: Anna Hazare who declared to go on indefinite hunger strike at New Delhi in protest against the Lok Pal Bill (Anti corruption bill) tabled in the Parliament, has got only 3 days permission for his strike from the Government. The officials also finalized the location -Jai Prakash Narayan Park located near Firoz Kotla Grounds in New Delhi. He was also told not to continue his hunger strike beyond 72 hours otherwise action will be taken against him.
New Delhi, August 12: It is wrong to say that madrassas teach students to hate other religions and are hubs of terrorism, says Arshad Alam, author of the book “Inside a Madrassa: knowledge, power and Islamic identity in India”.
“The data of terror activities and terrorists don’t support the hypothesis that madrassas make terrorists. Also the kind of technology that terrorists have access to, a madrassa student doesn’t have,” Alam said in a lecture in the capital Thursday.
Alam also teaches at the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies in the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI).
Gandhinagar, August 12 : After becoming the longest serving chief minister in Gujarat’s history, Narendra Modi has hit upon a unique idea to mobilise his supporters: the lunch box.
Although the next assembly elections are scheduled only in December 2012, Modi has put a well-crafted strategy in place to win handsomely.
In a warm up exercise for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, more than 1,800 ‘tiffin box meetings’ have been planned across the state.
This amounts to 10 gatherings by the party’s nine cells in each of the 182 constituencies in Gujarat.
New Delhi, August 12: A letter from the Union Home Ministry rejecting the mercy petition of Mohammed Afzal Guru — who was given the death sentence by the Supreme Court in 2004 for his role in the attack on Parliament in 2001 — to the President’s secretariat for a final decision has been received cautiously by the Congress.
Puducherry, August 12: Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Secretary and former legislator Manohar today said Mr A V Subramanian should continue as the PCC president here. Addressing a press conference here, he said yesterday a report had appeared in a section of press that Congress party was defeated in the last assembly election as Mr Subramanian was not an efficient chief and the party high command was going to shift him from the post.
New Delhi, August 112: The Gujarat government has decided to chargesheet a state cadre IPS officer, Rahul Sharma, for passing on records of calls made during the 2002 riots in the state, to the Nanavati Commission, without any official clearance.
Sharma, incidentally, was the deputy superintendent of police of Bhavnagar during the post-Godhra riots, and had led from the front to prevent the town from being engulfed into the communal frenzy. His prompt action against the rioting elements is believed to have left Bhavnagar unscathed.
Washington, August 12: The number of people killed during massive unrests across England has climbed as a 68-year-old retired man died in hospital on Thursday night.
Richard Mannington Bowes, who went in a coma after being attacked by an angry crowd in Ealing during Monday’s violence, died late Thursday night, prompting detectives to launch a murder inquiry.
Detective Chief Inspector John McFarlane of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command said, “This was a brutal incident that resulted in the senseless killing of an innocent man.
Hyderabad, August 12: The Telangana Political Joint Action Committee (JAC) Chairman Prof M Kodandaram today said the “Sarva Janula Samme” (general strike) would commence from August 17 as planned earlier.
Talking to mediapersons after a steering committee meeting of the JAC held at the Film Chambers office in Secunderabad here, he said the agitation would be organised in three stages as against two as decided earlier.
The strike would commence with “Maha Dharna” here on August 17, he said and it would be intensified from September 6.
Bahrain, August 12: Saudi-backed forces have stepped up their attacks on anti-regime demonstrators that have once again taken to the streets of Bahrain, calling for the downfall of the Al Khalifa regime.
The rallies on Friday were held in the capital Manama and the town of Sitra, Press TV reported.
Reports also indicate that regime forces have responded by firing tear gas at protesters as well as by cutting off electricity in Sitra.
The protesters, however, have refused to give in until a new democratic government is formed.