Hyderabad, August 10: If you pay income tax or own a scooter, car or a house, you will soon be limited to four subsidised gas cylinders a year, if a proposal informally approved by an empowered Group of Ministers on Monday night is finally implemented.
Seeking to address a ballooning subsidy bill, the Manmohan Singh government has decided to bite the bullet and put into action this proposal to limit the supply of subsidised LPG cylinders.
Gandhinagar, August 10: Congress on Tuesday demanded that all riot-related cases of 2002 in Gujarat be immediately transferred out of the State, in the wake of fresh reports of “collusion between the government of Gujarat and the lawyers for the riot accused.”
Hyderabad, August 10: The High Court giving his verdict over the case filed against Kadapa MP YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy’s has ordered the CBI to conduct a full fledged inquiry into his properties. It also asked the CBI to file a criminal case against Emaar properties, because the court is satisfied that there are enough primary evidences to prove it guilty. Besides, the court has appreciated the CBI officials for unearthing the sufficient proofs in this whole affair.
In this month of Ramadan, those who listen to the huffaz reciting the Quran during Taraweeh prayers and those who read the Quran on their own will come across some of the verses that perhaps might be the most relevant ones for us in the times we are living.
Beijing, August 10: China will launch a communications satellite for Pakistan at an “appropriate time”, an official said Wednesday.
A spokesman for the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan province said the satellite, the PAKSAT-1R, will be carried by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.
Both the satellite and rocket are currently in good condition, Xinhua quoted the spokesperson as saying.
Hyderabad, August 10: Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday wrote to the Prime Minister for the deletion of Clause 14 (F) of Presidential Order of 1975 that makes Hyderabad a free zone for employment.
Telangana leaders are demanding that Hyderabad should not be a free zone where candidates from all over the state can compete for recruitment for government posts.
They have been asking for the deletion of the clause so that only candidates from Telangana can apply.
Hyderabad, August 10: Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha on Wednesday released the list of selected candidates for counselling leading to admission to the six year integrated B Tech course under Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technology.
Releasing the list at the Secretariat, Mr Rajanarasimha said that counselling will held for 2807 seats out of 3000 seats. The remaining 193 seats are allotted to the special category like sports, NCC, physically handicapped.
Bogota, August 10: A contestant was barred from the Miss Colombia beauty pageant because of her alleged ties with a Mexican drug trafficker, a media report said.
Laura Marcela Cantillo, 19, who would have represented the Caribbean resort city of Cartagena, is not registered for the contest.
Colombian media said the beauty was kept out of the pageant because a drug trafficker sponsored the 2008 Maja Colombia competition which she won.
The disappointed candidate’s family accused “malicious people” of sullying her name with no proof of any wrongdoing.
Hyderabad, August 10: Normal life was affected in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh as the bandh called by the Telangana Students Joint Action Committee (TSJAC) began on Wednesday morning.
The shut down has been called by the students groups in support of their demand for deletion of Clause 14 (F) of 1975 Presidential Order that makes Hyderabad a free zone for employment.
Hyderabad, August 10: The Andhra Pradesh government Tuesday extended for another year the ban on the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and six of its frontal organisations, officials said.
The government issued orders extending the ban on CPI (Maoist) and its frontal organizations under the Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act. The ban was to lapse Aug 16.
The frontal organizations of CPI (Maoist) are Radical Youth League, Rythu Coolie Sangham, Radical Students Union, Singareni Karmika Samakhya, Viplava Karmika Samakhya and All India Revolutionary Students Federation.
New Delhi, August 10: A 32-year-old mentally disturbed woman allegedly strangled her six-year-old daughter and then committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling in the Surajmal Vihar area of east Delhi on Tuesday.
A police official said the deceased were identified as Sangeeta Pokhriyal and her daughter Vrinda. He said Sangeeta’s husband Hemant works as a junior engineer in a private company. He had gone to Rajasthan on a business trip when the incident took place.
Dallas, August 10: Authorities in Texas have charged a Dallas woman with forcing her 6-year-old daughter to repeatedly videotape her having group sex.
According to police records, the 24-year-old woman is charged with indecency with a child by exposure, a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The woman, who was arrested on Saturday, was in jail on Tuesday on a $50,000 bond.
The name of the woman will not be disclosed because it might lead to the identification of her daughter.
(Kuldip Nayar) I have always held that relations between India and Pakistan will evolve. It will be a gradual development, steady and sure. This is what has been called a step-by-step approach. Pakistan adopted it at one time but gave it up because it wanted all problems to be solved at one go. Then India took up the step-by-step stand. Thus, both wasted six decades in going back and forth. What was at the back of their minds was that the history of thousands of years could not be wiped out in a jiffy. There was mistrust and prejudice. Sometimes this took the shape of hostilities.
Mumbai, August 10: Couple once split never sees eye to eye in lifetime. But in this case Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif stand out. They separated from each other but still in touch. Now they will be coming together for an item number in ‘Bodyguard’. It is heard that Kat has not demanded a single penny for the song. She is ready to do anything for Salman.
Hyderabad, August 10: The PCC Chief, Mr Botcha Satyanarayana, has said that the PRP leaders would formally take Congress membership at the Gandhi Bhavan on August 22.
The PRP leaders met Mr Botcha at the Gandhi Bhavan and discussed about the formalities of the merger.
Talking to the media later, Mr Botcha said that he would invite the party State in-charge, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, for the merger meeting.
—-Agencies
Visakhapatnam, August 10: A Seemandhra JAC has called for a bandh on Thursday demanding the retention of Clause 14(F) in the Presidential Order to ensure that Hyderabad remained free zone for recruitment purposes.
It might be mentioned here that this controversial clause has been the bone of contention of the Telangana separatists, who have been agitating for its deletion. Despite the Centre yielding to the mounting pressure from the Telangana protagonists and recommended to the President of India to delete the clause, a bandh is being observed in the region.
Bangalore, August 10: The high court on Tuesday observed that banks recovering penal charges from customers not maintaining minimum balance in their accounts might have to pay back the amount with penal interest once the RBI comes out with its decision.
New Delhi, August 10: The Centre on Wednesday said intelligence inputs have suggested that Al Qaeda and one of its dreaded terrorists Ilyas Kashmiri were planning to target India.
“There are some intelligence inputs, though not specifically, regarding plan to target India by Al Qaeda and Ilyas Kashmiri, an Al Qaeda-HUJI operative and his group,” minister of state for home Jitendra Singh informed Rajya Sabha.
Mumbai, August 10: Kareena Kapoor might have played saviour to director Madhur Bhandarkar and UTV by stepping into the shoes left empty by Aishwarya Rai in the film Heroine. But the actress is surely being recompensed for it.
Recompensed a bit too extravagantly if one may say so. The actress who had reportedly demanded Rs 10 crore for the project has now settled for Rs 8 crore, the highest sum paid to a leading lady in Bollywood ever.
A source close to the project revealed, “After Aishwarya left the film midway due to her pregnancy, Madhur was left with very few options.
London, August 10: Meanwhile in Hackney, thugs torched four cars outside a block of flats then hurled petrol bombs at police.
Boys as young as eight ran in between broken glass and the lit cars, holding bottles in their hands ready to hurl at officers.
They acted as lookouts for the older thugs.
Police said 450 people were arrested over three nights, and 69, including an 11-year-old boy, were charged with offences.
At least 100 of those arrested were aged 21 or younger. About 35 officers were injured.
Ahmedabad, August 10: Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was suspended from service late on Monday night.
Sanjiv Bhatt was suspended on Monday for omission of duty
Bhatt has been in the eye of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi after he filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court stating that he was present at a meeting held in Modi’s house on February 27, 2002.
In the meeting, Modi had allegedly hinted to his officers to allow Hindus to vent their anger on the Muslims in the aftermath of the train carnage at Godhra which left 59 passengers burnt to cinders.
Mumbai, August 10: A senior professor of a college in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district has been accused of sexually harassing 23 girl students.
Most of the victims are not pursuing charges against him because of pressure from the family and the college, but two students have refused to cower down and have demanded his removal.
Ramakant Gavde, 40, teaches accounts at Gogate Walke College in Banda, a village in Sindhudurg. Allegations of sexual harassment were levelled against him earlier this year.
Mumbai, August 10: For nearly a month, the Oshiwara police station was receiving complaints from Axis Bank customers about money mysteriously disappearing from their accounts after they used the ATM which is close to a popular restaurant, and barely a shout away from the police station.
While cops were initially dismissive about the cases, things came to a head when one of their own assistant inspector Sanjay More – withdrew Rs 10,000 from the ATM and immediately received an SMS alert saying Rs 40,000 had been debited from his account.
New Delhi, August 10: The Delhi Police said Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta met union Home minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday but it denied reports that the two discussed Tuesday’s crackdown on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers.
“Delhi Police commissioner met home minister but it was only a routine meeting about parliament questions,” Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said.
“No law and order issues were discussed… all reports are wrong,” Bhagat said.
Hyderabad, August 10: The holy month of Ramadan is a month in which drunkards leave drinking, persons involved in unsocial activities, respecting the blessed month, keep away from such activities. But it is unfortunate that a shocking incident of murder occurred in the holy month of Ramadan in which relatives along with their friends killed a youth. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon under Shah Ali Banda police station limits where 26 year old Habeeb Abubakar, resident of Chandulalbaradari was mercilessly killed.