New Delhi, August 10: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday termed her recent India visit as extremely successful and said Islamabad was keen on building a new relationship with not just New Delhi but also Kabul. “We believe that peace, security and prosperity in South Asia as a whole is indivisible,” she said while briefing the National Assembly about her India visit in July-end.
Hyderabad, August 10: In the backdrop of the students Joint Action Committee refusing to withdraw its bandh call for Wednesday, Hyderabad Police Commissioner AK Khan on Tuesday announced the imposition of Section 144 in the city from 6 AM of August 10.
Earlier, the city police had imposed Section 144 in the city on July 7 and had extended it for two weeks following a bandh call given by the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee.
It is a tragedy for Kashmiri youths that almost everyday they are targeted by either militants or security forces unmindful of their background. Not only this, many Muslim young girls were abducted and raped.
I am writing this article according to the statistics which shows the Kashmiri conflict has ‘approximately’ claimed 200,000 deaths of Kashmiris. What makes me even more worried is that the government has not kept an accurate record of the deaths and therefore, these numbers are just ‘approximate’.
Hyderabad, August 9: With protests in Telangana looming large, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take immediate steps for deletion of a clause from the 1975 presidential order that treats this state capital as a free zone for police recruitment.
As Telangana is set to observe shutdown Wednesday on a call given by Telangana students’ groups, Reddy spoke to Manmohan Singh over phone and emphasised the need to delete the clause.
Hyderabad, August 9: All the political parties in Telangana more or less agree with Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhara Rao on one count: that they have to wait till 2014, the election year, to know how the Centre will solve the Telangana riddle.
The CPI, which supports the demand for state’s bifurcation, felt that it would be a long-drawn battle for Telangana and had to wait till 2014 to know what the Centre would decide. Party state secretary K Narayana said: “There are no deadlines for Telangana. It is a long fight. We may get clarity in 2014.”
Srikakulam, August 9: After completion of the five-day cycle yatra, launched in protest against proposed Kovvada Nuclear Park in Ranasthalam mandal of the district, members of KNP Vyatirekha Porata Samithi on Monday submitted a memorandum comprising opinions of the sarpanches, Mandal Parishad heads and locals to Ranasthalam mandal special officer during the grievance cell programme on Monday.
Hyderabad, August 9: Congress Rajya Sabha member K Keshava Rao has questioned the state government how would it invoke the provisions of EMSA against the Telangana employees without the approval of Telangana ministers.
Hyderabad, August 9: Senior Congress leader and former minister R Damodar Reddy has demanded an unconditional apology from former chief minister K Rosaiah to the party for his “failure’’ to carry out the party high command’s directive to introduce a resolution in the Assembly urging the Centre to form Telangana state.
Hyderabad, August 9: Labour minister D Nagender on Monday said that the orders for removal of clause 14 (f) from the Presidential Order is likely to be released by the central government within a couple of days. He said that a file in this regard is moving swiftly in Delhi and is at the Prime Minister’s Office awaiting Manmohan Singh’s formal approval.
Hyderabad, August 9: The stage is set for bringing most of the government departments including education, health, civil supplies, transport, municipal, rural water supply, revenue, ministerial and allied services under the Essential Services and Maintenance Act (ESMA) in view of the general strike to be launched by the Telangana Joint Action Committee of Employees, Teachers and Workers.
Hyderabad, August 9: Citizens’ vexation with frequent bandhs finally reached the High Court on Monday with an Anantapur resident filing a public interest litigation questioning the strikes called by various political parties.
A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Nisar Ahmad Kakru and Justice Vilas Afzalpurkar ordered notices to be issued to TRS chief T Chandrasekhar Rao and TJAC convenor Prof Kodandaram.
Hyderabad August 9: TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao on Monday appealed to MLAs of all parties to submit their resignations again. He said this is the only way to achieve Telangana by putting pressure on the Centre.
He was speaking at the dharna camp of Gandhi hospital doctors organised in support of the employees proposed general strike.
Coming down heavily on chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for his adamant attitude to conduct SI examinations, Rao wanted him to shed his arrogance.
Hyderabad, August 9: MLA and suspended TDP leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy staged a dharna before the Assembly speaker’s chamber on Monday with a demand to accept his resignation as an MLA.
Hyderabad, August 9: Seemandhra leaders’ delegation that will meet AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad on August 10 will comprise 16 MPs and MLAs, according to Seemandhra MPs and MLAs Forum convenor S Shailajanath.
Eluru MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao will finalise the names of the members of the delegation, he said.
He alleged that a section of Telangana Congress leaders were making
false propaganda against former chief minister K Rosaiah.
Hyderabad, August 9: The operations of the ailing EMRI (108) services is likely to be handed over to a new organisation if the state government and the GVK Group, which is the current operator of the call-centre service, do not reach an amicable agreement.
On the other hand, the government has decided to hand over the call centre operations of HMRI (104) services to the Rajiv Aarogyasri Trust which recently expressed its interest to run the call-centre.
Hyderabad, August 9: PCC president Botcha Satyanarayana has hit upon a new idea to strengthen the Congress. As sons of ministers and MLAs wield considerable influence, he wants them to take an active part in the party.
This will have two benefits: One, they can be protected from poaching by other parties. Two, the party will get a new vigour.
Hyderabad, August 9: 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.
London, August 09: James Anderson might have dismissed Sachin Tendulkar seven times in Test but the fast bowler insists that the Indian batting maestro is not his bunny and that he has no control over him.
Anderson got Tendulkar for the seventh time in Tests when he dismissed him leg before in the second innings of the second Test at Trent Bridge and for the second time in this series.
Only Muttiah Muralitharan has taken his Test wicket more times (eight) and he had 19 matches in which to try, compared to Anderson’s eight.
London, August 09: A lone woman who stood up to the rioters and told them not to touch the shops in London has become an internet hit.
A Telegraph journalist shot the footage near Clarence Road Tuesday night. The footage has attracted over 800,000 views.
The woman asked rioters to leave local shops alone and instead concentrate on protesting against the death of Mark Duggan, an incident that sparked the violence.
One online post said: “This woman has restored my faith in humanity somewhat today. I want to marry her.”
Chicago, August 09: Middle-aged and older men find their potency comes crashing down when their wives or girlfriends bond with their male buddies.
Researchers from Cornell and Chicago Universities have linked impotence (erectile dysfunction) with social networks shared by heterosexual men and their partners.
They described the situation as “partner betweenness”, wherein a man’s wife has stronger relationships with his buddies than he himself does, American Journal of Sociology reports.
Hyderabad, August 9: According to the District Vocational Education officer’s report institute of vocational education director of intermediate education Hyderabad offers short term vocational certificate courses for SSC and intermediate failed students. The computer courses include advanced certificate course in computer application, advance certificate course in information technology, multi media, graphics and animation, hardware technology, MS office, DTP, C++, visual basics and relational data basics management systems. The duration of the course is 3 months.
Hyderabad, August 9: In two different dowry harassment incidents occurred at Kachiguda and Dandegal areas two women committed suicide by hanging themselves.
26 year old Sandhya hanged herself to death yesterday night at Kachiguda. Sandhya got married to Ramakrishna in the year 2000. Ramakrishna who swallowed up the money and sold the gold given as dowry was harassing her wife for more dowry. Furthermore he was given 1 lakh rupees a month ago however he was still harassing his wife for more money. Unable to bear the harassment Sandhya hanged herself to death.
Mumbai, August 09: Salman Khan works according to his rules. And if one tries to impose upon the Salman Khan rulebook, they better be prepared for a shock.
That’s exactly what happened to YRF head Aditya Chopra when he insisted that the actor have a script reading for his upcoming Kabir Khan project Ek Tha Tiger.
Hyderabad, August 09: Veteran actress and present TRS leader Vijaya Shanthi who has been side tracked by her own party leaders since last one year, is desperately trying to grab the public attention these days.
Hyderabad, August 09: Amidst increasingly strident calls to the employees to withdraw their threat of a general strike from August 17, TNGOs president Swamy Goud on Tuesday said that the employees would do so only if they get an time-bound assurance of the bifurcation of the state.
Mr Swamy Goud told media persons here that the employees would roll back their agitation for separate statehood if the elected representatives from Telangana announce a time frame for achieving the separate state.