Month: August 2011

Hyderabad, August 09: The announcement by the Telangana Recognised Private Schools Managements’ Association (TRPSMA) in Warangal on Sunday over the indefinite closure of schools from August 17, came as a shock to the managements of private schools in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts.

Even parents and students in the city were shocked to hear about the move — part of the ‘general strike’announced by various T- employees’ associations.

Surprisingly, the school managements are not aware of the existence of any association called TRPSMA.

New Delhi, August 09: India has received documents on 26/11 conspirator Tahawwur Hussain Rana from the US, said reports on Monday.

According to sources quoted by TV news channels, the documents contain evidence produced in a US court in Chicago during the trial of Rana. The evidence includes phone records, personal diaries etc.

The tapes containing conversations between 26/11 accused David Headley, Rana and fellow 26/11 conspirator Abdur Rehman Pasha have also been given to the Indian authorities by the US, sources said.

London, August 09: Embattled police struggled to contain a third night of riots, looting and arson as David Cameron cut short his holiday to chair a session of Cobra, the emergency co-ordination committee, scheduled for this morning.

Hyderabad, August 09: Andhra Pradesh government employees in Telangana on Monday kicked off protests in support of the separate statehood demand, among others, which will culminate in a general strike from August 17.

The pro-Telangana government employees held protests, including lunch-hour demonstrations and ‘work to rule’, in their offices in Hyderabad and other Telangana districts.

The government employees unions plan to intensify their stir in a phased manner.

Hyderabad, August 09: A computer operator of a private firm was nabbed on Monday, for collecting money in the name of running an AP Online franchise and accepting e-challans issued by traffic police.

On information, Task Force sleuths raided Fame Consultancy, running from Moosarambagh and nabbed its computer operator Mohd Fayaz, a resident of Owaisinagar. Police said the consultancy was run by Mohd Hameed Shareef of Gaddiannaram, who is absconding. Fayaz has been working in the consultancy since the past two years, police said.

Hyderabad, August 09: The Hyderabad Traffic Police has allotted right U-turn from Masab Tank to Lakdikapul, for the convenience of people travelling towards Niloufer Hospital, Bazaarghat and A.C. Guards on the opposite side.

Earlier, people had to travel all the way from Masab Tank, Mahaveer, Ayodhya Junction via Nirankari and Lakdikapul and then take right turn to go towards the Bazaarghat side.

People had requested traffic police to provide a vent between Masab Tank and Lakdikapul which would save fuel and time.

Hyderabad, August 09: Commuters from Masab Tank intended to go towards Bazaar Ghat, Niloufer Hospital or AC Guards can save petrol and time on that extra round trip via Nirankari and Lakdikapul from now on, as the city police has decided to allow a U-turn at Ayodhya junction.

Following repeated representations from commuters regarding the lack of a right or U-turn at Ayodhya junction, traffic police has decided to implement it for the benefit of those who want to take a U-turn or go towards the right side while travelling from Masab Tank to Lakdikapul.

Hyderabad, August 9: Andhra Pradesh State Minority Finance Corporation has extended the last date to apply for pre-matric and post-matric scholarships to August 15. Managing director and vice chairman Andhra Pradesh State Minority Finance Corporation, Dr. Mohammad Ilyas Razvi told that the extension is final and will not be extendable further.

Infant’s body found in Borabanda

Hyderabad, August 9 (Siasat News): Police has recovered the dead body of a female infant who is said to be of four months.

The people of the locality were taken aback after spotting the dead body near a drainage canal situated at site three.

According to police Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar, police recovered the dead body on the information given by a lady Sharmila Jadhav and shifted it to the Gandhi Hospital mortuary for identification. Police S R Nagar is investigating.

Hyderabad, August 09: The Muslim community heads urged all political parties, students and the joint action committees in the state to postpone their agitation, bandhs and other demonstrations that affect the common man till the culmination of the holy month of Ramzan.  

They said that the recent agitation programmes being carried out by the Telangana and Andhra JACs are causing huge discomfort, loss in business and also hindrance to the Muslim community which is celebrating Ramzan.

Hyderabad, August 09: Reportedly when a 19-year-old girl, seven months pregnant, approached a Talakondapalli sub-inspector of Police from Mahbubnagar district and asked him to get her married to the boy she loved, he curtly told her he would do so only if a DNA test proved the boy’s paternity.

The girl from Khanapur in Talakondapalli mandal along with her parents approached the State Human Rights Commission on Monday.

The SHRC acting chairperson, K. Peda Peri Reddy, directed the Mahbubnagar SP to inquire into the incident and submit a detailed report.

Delhi, August 09: In an incident of real life mimicking soap operas, a Delhi-based model-cum-TV actor has alleged her husband’s girlfriend is threatening her of releasing her obscene videos to tarnish her image.

Salina Wali Khan, in a written complaint to the Badarpur police, has alleged that her husband Arjun S Khan, an Afghan national, started an affair Shobha, who works at bar, while still married to her.

Past imperfect

New Delhi, August 09: Police personnel involved in fake encounter killings should be awarded death sentence and hanged, the Supreme Court has said.

A bench of justices Markandeya Katju and CK Prasad said that police personnel as custodians of law are expected to protect people and not eliminate them as contract killers.

Hyderabad, August 9: Mild tension gripped the Attapur area near Rajendarnagar yesterday night when a sub inspector objected on cleaning of mosque. It is said that cleaning of Qutub Shahi mosque was being carried out in Attapur during Ramadan. Fearing rain the mosque authorities laid canvas shade at the mosque on which sub inspector Tirupati objected and misbehaved with the mosque authorities. The mosque authorities and worshipers protested against sub inspector’s misbehaviour. The local people demanded the high officials take strict action against the sub inspector.

Siasat news

London, August 09: England’s Ministry of Defence is investigating claims that a soldier allegedly sliced fingers off a dead Taliban militant to keep as souvenirs.

It is understood the allegations relate to a soldier from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (an infantry battalion) who was serving in Afghanistan, the BBC reported today.

The claims centre on the battalion’s last tour of duty in the war-torn country. The solider was deployed in Helmand province from September 2010 until April this year, tasked with training Afghan police.

Hyderabad, August 09: Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday alleged that Telangana people have suffered a major injustice during recruitments in hospitals.

Expressing solidarity to the doctors and nurses, who observed a one-day Deeksha at Gandhi Hospital demanding introduction of Telangana Bill in the Parliament, KCR alleged Seemandhra people have managed to get a lion share of posts in Telangana hospitals.

The TRS chief alleged that the state government has filled all posts in the Health and Medical Department violating Constitutional norms.

Hyderabad, August 9: Tension prevailed during Taraweeh prayers at Allahbanda area of Mangalhat, on Monday, where 3 Muslim youth suffered injuries in miscreants’ attack of which one person’s condition is said to be critical. Tension generated when a gang of miscreants, the alleged supporter of Raja Singh, surrounded a youth named Moosa and also attacked two youth Esa and Rafeeq who were passing by. According to locals the kirana shop owner Anil, Satyanarayana, Sai, Sridhar, Kumar, Saikumar and others attacked the three youth with iron rods and also beat them.

Dubai, August 09: US officials have convinced Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, convalescing in Saudi Arabia from an assassination attempt, not to return to his country, the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday.

The report came a day after the veteran Arab leader left hospital in Riyadh and was moved to a government residence for further recuperation, as mass protests against his 33-year rule wore into their seventh month.

New York, August 09: Former International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been sued by the New York Hotel maid for trying to rape her and she has also asked for an unspecified compensation.

Her move came as prosecutors deliberated whether to drop sex assault charges against Strauss-Kahn or take him to trial.

The 17-page court filing Monday alleged a “violent and sadistic attack” in the Manhattan Sofitel room where the maid Nafissatou Diallo went to clean Strauss-Kahn’s luxury room on May 14, the New York Post reported

Hyderabad, August 09: Telugu Desam Telangana leader and MLA Revanth Reddy has accused the Union home ministry of taking contradictory stands on Clause 14 (f) of the Presidential Order which gives Hyderabad the status of a free zone in the matter of appointments to the police department.

Pointing out that the ministry gave two mutually contradictory versions, one in Delhi and the other in Hyderabad on August 5,

New Delhi, August 09: The Delhi police will finalise within two days the venue for social activist Anna Hazare’s indefinite fast against the government’s Lokpal Bill.

Team Anna comprising Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Prashant Bhushan and Manish Sisodia met Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta here on Monday. Mr. Gupta is learnt to have assured them that a decision on the venue would be communicated to them in a couple of days.

Dubai, August 09: If you earn less than Dh 80 (Rs 960) a day in the UAE, you would be living below poverty line, according to the Dubai Economic Council.

That income is high compared to the global rate of Dh 4.6 (Rs 55) a day, and over three billion people or almost half the world’s population lives on less than Dh 9.2 (Rs 108) a day, the National newspaper said.

UAE is indeed very rich as they are among the largest producers of oil and Abu Dhabi and Dubai control 83.2 per cent of the UAE’s wealth. But poverty is relative.

New Delhi, August 09: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, an old-timer of the party, is known for speaking his mind unrestrainedly and pushing certain agendas. But what makes him very important in the party is that many of his “controversial statements” eventually turn out to be the party line. For instance, when Union home minister P. Chidambaram articulated a hardline approach to tackling the Maoist insurgency, Digvijay stirred a storm by criticising him.