Month: August 2011

Hyderabad, August 08: Bharatiya Janata Party state unit president G Kishen Reddy on Sunday appealed to President Pratibha Patil to direct the United Progressive Alliance Government to conduct a people’s poll (referendum) on the Telangana issue in the region.

Talking to media persons at party office at Nampally, Mr Kishen Reddy appealed to President Prathibha Patil to take the initiative on holding a referendum on the issue of bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh as the various political parties have failed to come up with a unanimous stand.

Hyderabad, August 08: Employees in Telangana will undertake demonstrations during lunch hour in their offices each day, besides adopting a ‘work to rule’ policy from Monday, as a buildup to the general strike called from August 17 across the region.

Vijayawada, August 08: Three persons were arrested and others chased away with the help of batons by the police after pro-Integrated Andhra Pradesh activists disrupted a conference organized to seek support for the creation of Telangana in Vijayawada on Sunday.

The conference, organized by the Andhra Telangana Saadhana Samithi to enlist support for the creation of Telangana and Andhra states, was disrupted by Samaikhya Andhra activists.

Hyderabad, August 08: Angry relatives staged a dharna in front of the Kamineni Hospital at LB Nagar on Sunday after the doctors there declared a living man dead and even issued a ‘death certificate.’

The man died ‘again’ soon, leaving his relatives in a tizzy with extreme emotions of anguish, then happiness and then more anguish.

The man, identified as Hari, was declared dead by the doctors at the hospital after he was rushed there following a fall from an electricity pole at Bonala.

Hyderabad, August 08: Maintaining that it was for the Congress party to clear its stand in unambiguous terms over the separate Telangana statehood demand, senior TDP leader and Telangana Forum convenor Errabelli Dayakar Rao maintained that his party’s stand has been acknowledge by leaders like K Kesava Rao and Ponnam Prabhakar.

Hyderabad, August 08: The Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd (HMR) on Sunday invited design competition from practicing architects for it’s Rs 7 crore commercial complex to be built at Putlibowli for rehabilitating the traders and hawkers affected by road widening in Badichowdi-Sultan Bazar areas.

Metro Rail MD NVS Reddy, in a statement, said that main intention of the design competition is to encourage design innovation with a view to reflecting the character and features of the nearby Sultan Bazar area and providing special facilities for hawkers in the new complex.

Hyderabad, August 08: Stating that it aims to balance the energy supply and demand with maximum resource efficiency, the Energy Conservation Committee (ECC) of the Energy Department on Sunday fervently appealed to the general public to help in making the energy conservative measures more effective.

The ECC’s appeal to the people to join hands with it in energy conservation came at its first meeting held under the Chairmanship of Ahmed Nadeem.

Toulouse, August 08: A Muslim man died on Sunday after setting himself on fire inside a mosque in the French city of Toulouse, local officials said, saying the man was psychologically disturbed.

The man, in his fifties, suffered burns over 90 percent of his body and died in hospital, the local prefect’s office said.

He had doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire inside the mosque after earlier yelling at the local imam, officials said.

Mumbai, August 08: A 21-year-old man from Mumbai Central has been arrested for raping a minor inside a train coach. On July 28, Sonu Gautam saw a 16-year-old girl outside Mumbai Central Railway Station. He spoke to her, and found that she had run away from her house in Patna. He promised her job, and took her around the city, the complaint said.

Within a day, Gautam and the victim grew close, and on July 29, he took her to Mumbai Central Station, where they had sex
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Hyderabad, August 08: The Telangana Students Joint Action Committee has demanded the state government to postpone the SI examination scheduled to be held on August 13 and 14 and take up the issue with the Centre for deletion of Clause 14 (f) from the Presidential Order.

They warned that chief minister N Kiran Reddy would? be held responsible for the consequences arising out of conducting the examin without deleting the controversial clause.

Mumbai, August 08: TV and film producer Ekta Kapoor was detained at the Mumbai airport for suspected duty evasion on late Sunday night. She was intercepted at the airport and booked for ‘’misdeclaration’’ of branded clothes and accessories worth reportedly worth a lakh.

She was diverted from Green Channel at about 10.45 pm having landed from Bangkok and was a let off late in the night, after a case was booked. She was intercepted by a team led by assistant commissioner Sameer Wankhede.Airport officials and Ekta’s representatives haven’t made any statements so far.

There is no let-off to the mindless and incessant attacks on innocent citizens by Boko Haram, a faceless group of blood-thirsty sadists marauding as new day Jihadists. Distressing images of gory deaths, lost limbs, arms and eyes as well as wanton destruction of properties mostly churches in the North-eastern part of the country notably in Maiduguri, the Bornu State capital is what Nigerians are being forced to endure. The sect has made incursions into Bauchi, Kaduna and Niger States. They are getting more daring by the day.

Mumbai, August 08:Agony of nine Muslim youths, arrested in the 2006 Malegaon blast that killed 38 people, is likely to end soon as the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has decided not to oppose their bail plea when the case comes up for hearing next week in a special MCOCA court of Mumbai.

The Mumbai ATS had charged 13 Muslim youth in December 2006 of which nine – Mohammed Ali, Asif Khan, Javed Sheikh, Salman Farsi, Shabbir Ahmed, Noorulhuda Doha, Rais Ahmed, Dr. Faroogue Ansari and Abrar Ahmed – are in jail and four are absconding.

London, August 08:A majority of the US soldiers who perished in the shooting down of an American chopper in Afghanistan were part of the elite forces that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a media report said.

Thirty-eight people, including 30 US special forces troops and seven Afghan soldiers, were killed when their Chinook helicopter was brought down Saturday by Afghan insurgents in Wardak province.

Seven members of the Afghan National Army, one dog handler, an interpreter and an unknown number of crew were also on board the downed helicopter.

Although the judges appear sympathetic, they are concerned about the rights of the father, as Islamic law says he is still responsible for his children’s education. “For the sake of the children, you must keep up the façade of cordial relations,” says Dr Naseem. “The worst thing that can happen to a child is to see the father and mother quarrelling.”

Hyderabad: The Telangana Students Joint Action Committee on Sunday warned the state government that the state may witness another `Million March’ if it goes ahead with conduction recruitment examinations for Sub-Inspector’s posts in the police department without getting the controversial Clause 14 F deleted from the Presidential Orders of 1975.

The students JAC leaders told media persons that the state government can only go ahead with holding the recruitment examinations for the Sub-Inspectors only after the Centre deletes the controversial Clause.

Hyderabad: Apparently dismayed over the statement of Union Home Minister P Chidmabaram on Telangana in the Lok Sabha, an M Tech student hanged himself to death at his residence in Mandamarri town.

According to police, the incident took place late on Saturday, but came to light on Sunday.

The deceased has been identified as R Srikanth, who was pursuing M Tech (Mechatronics) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTU-H).

Hyderabad August 7: Police nabbed an offender in connection with theft case of laptops from an Aadhaar card centre at Gowliguda and recovered 12 laptops worth Rs 3.50 lakh.

Hyderabad, August 7: The Telangana Telugu Desam Forum will meet here at 11 am on Sunday to chalk out its future course of action.
Its leaders called on party chief N Chandrababu Naidu at his residence here on Saturday and discussed the situation in the wake of Union home minister P Chidambaram’s statement in the Lok Sabha on Friday.
“We discussed the matter with Naidu. He directed us to go our own way. We are for Telangana state and plan our agitation accordingly,” TTDF convener E Dayakar Rao told Express.

Hyderabad August 7: An M.Tech student reportedly hanged himself to death at his residence in Mandamarri town on Saturday for the cause of separate Telangana.

The deceased, R Srikanth, who was pursuing M.Tech (Mechatronics) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTU-H), took the drastic step upset over P Chidambaran’s statement on Telangana in the Parliament on Friday. In the suicide note, purportedly written by him, he urged the government to provide free education to all students in the region.

—Agencies

Hyderabad, August 7: With the Ganesh festival commencing from September 1, city police commissioner AK Khan has issued a notification for rules and regulations to be followed by festival organisers. Organisers wishing to install Ganesh idols have to take application forms for prior permission from respective police stations, to be available from August 10 to 14. They have to submit the forms by August 18.

Application should indicate the place and date of proposed installation and the date, time, route and

Hyderabad, August 7: Congress Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao along with his family members began Shata Chandi Mrityunjaya Yagam at Mahankali temple in Amberpet here on Saturday wishing Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who is convalescing from a surgery in a US hospital, a speedy recovery.

Speaking to media persons on the occasion, Rao said that the yagam will continue till such time Sonia Gandhi returns to Delhi in the pink of health. He said he would perform similar yagam at his residence in Delhi also.

Hyderabad, August 7: The aim of public relations is to reduce, as much as possible, the gap between perceptions and facts, B Venkatesham, commissioner of information and public relations said.

Speaking at a function organised by the Public Relations Society of India here on Saturday on the occasion of National Public Relations Education Day, he described a PR officer as the face of an organisation. “In this age of rampant miscommunication and disinformation, PR professionals have a vital role to play,” he said and called for introduction of more professional PR courses.

Hyderabad August 7: The road over bridge at Lakdi-ka-pul which caters to huge vehicular traffic is going to be widened soon. After the work is completed, it will provide an additional carriageway of 11 m along with a footpath of 2 m. The width of the existing bridge is 9.7 m.

The South Central Railway has taken up a part of the construction on the request of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

Hyderabad, August 7: Cyberabad police on Saturday busted a prostitution racket operating from star hotels and houses in posh localities. Two pimps along with their associates, six customers and three women, including one belonging to Uzbekistan were arrested. Police also recovered two cars, cell phones and `1 lakh in cash from the accused.