Month: August 2011

Hyderabad, August 7: The Central Crime Station police nabbed an ex-personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force in connection with various property offences in several localities in the city. J Satyanarayana, deputy commissioner of police (Crime) said police have arrested Kattamanchi Govardhan alias Kartthik alias Jayasurya, a resident of CRPF Quarters, Chandrayangutta and native of Vallivedu village in Chittoor district for committing various property offences. The DCP said the accused has been committing offences since 2007.

Hyderabad, August 7: The unrest among people against largescale acquisition of land in areas where mining, power and irrigation projects were coming up is giving scope to modern face of naxalism, Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh has said. “In the long run, naxalism can be countered successfully through proper, transparent and accountable rural development programmes,” he added.

Visakhapatnam, August 7: Khap panchayat scourge seems to have spread its tentacles to the fishing community here. At a time when woman empowerment is the buzzword, a woman belonging to the fishermen community at Bheemili in Visakhapatnam city was ostracised for demanding maintenance from her husband after the latter was granted divorce by the elders of the community.

Vijayawada, August 7: The YSR Congress has finalised the schedule of Odarpu Yatra Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy. As part of his Odarpu Yatra, Jagan will tour Krishna district from August 15 to console the bereaved families who lost their members after the tragic demise of YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
Jagan will begin his Yatra from Vatsavai mandal in Jaggaiahpet. He will cover all 16 Assembly segments in Krishna district.

YSR Congress’s Bhumana Karunakar Reddy said Jagan will console all 60 bereaved families. He will also unveil 160 statues of YSR during his 1,150 km yatra.

Hyderabad, August 7: Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chanadrasekhara Rao on Saturday slammed Union home minister P Chidambaram for saying that the solution to the Telangana tangle had to come from the people of the state themselves. “If the solution to the Telangana issue is to come from the state, where is the need for the Centre and why should there be a home minister at Delhi?’’ he wondered while speaking after unveiling a statue of Telangana ideologue K Jayashankar at Telangana Bhavan on his birth anniversary.

Hyderabad, August 7: Reiterating that the Telangana Congress public representatives would not go back on resignations issue, Telangana Congress steering committee which met here on Saturday finalised a fresh round of protest programmes across the region.

Hyderabad, August 7: Government employees in Telangana region are set to protest from Monday in the run up to the indefinite strike from Aug 17, even as the government decided to invoke Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) in all key departments.

A showdown appears inevitable with the employees’ unions deciding to boycott talks till the government withdraws orders under ESMA and calls back police forces deployed at the offices and the government giving no hint of accepting their pre-conditions.

Hyderabad, August 07: Underlining rural development as the key to tackle Left wing extremism, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said “a modern face of naxalism” is reflected in the projects that violate the environmental and forest norms.

Beijing, August 07:As many as 4,251 couples registered their marriage here Saturday on China’s Valentine’s Day, authorities said.

The numbers were 10 times than that of the daily average and was about 200 more than that on the Feb 14 Valentine’s Day, Xinhua reported citing the Beijing Daily.

Expecting a heavy rush, some marriage registration bureaus here began work an hour early.

China’s Valentine’s Day “Qixi” falls on the seventh day of the seventh month on the country’s lunar calendar.

Kabul,August 07:The nation’s military is mourning the loss of some of their most elite forces. Thirty-one U.S. special operation troops are dead after their helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan. ABC News is reporting that 25 Navy SEALs were on board the chopper which went down overnight after an operation against the Taliban in Wardak province.

Islamabad, August 07:A woman shot dead her boyfriend after they had a quarrel when they were about to commit suicide in this Pakistani capital, police said.

The 20-year-old man was shot dead by his girlfriend Saturday in Chara village.

The police said the woman and the man were in love and wanted to marry but their families were opposed to it, reported Dawn.

They then entered into a suicide pact and met in an abandoned house.

It was decided that woman would shoot the man and later turn the pistol on herself, the media report said.

However, they had an argument.

London, August 07:A British soldier was blown up by a boy in Afghanistan for just $80 he was promised for the act, a media report said.

Stephen Curley, 26, died instantly when the 14-year-old set off a roadside bomb, The Star newspaper reported Saturday.

When Aga Wali went to collect his cash, Taliban militants broke their promise and refused to pay up, telling him he should have been fighting for religious reasons, not money.

The boy was left feeling betrayed, and confessed to the crime days later after his dad turned him in to police.

Hyderabad, August 07: Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday said that in order to widen the scope of the MGNREGS, the involvement of unskilled labour has to be increased in certain areas.

Hyderabad, August 08: Telangana employees are set for indefinite strike Hyderabad: Government employees in Telangana region are set to protest from Monday in the run up to the indefinite strike from Aug 17, even as the government decided to invoke Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) in all key departments.

A showdown appears inevitable with the employees’ unions deciding to boycott talks till the government withdraws orders under ESMA and calls back police forces deployed at the offices and the government giving no hint of accepting their pre-conditions.

Hyderabad, August 07: YSR Congress Party leader Gone Prakash Rao on Sunday slammed Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao for arousing the passions of the Telangana people despite being aware that a separate state will only be created around the year 2014.

Talking to media persons at Assembly Media Point, the senior leader and strong YS Jaganmohan Reddy loyalists advised the TRS chief and Telangana Political Joint Action Committee convenor M Kodandaram to stop making provocative statements and creating law and order situation.

Hyderabad, August 07: Handlooms and Textiles Minister P Shankar Rao on Sunday stated that he was in a better position to deal with the separate Telangana statehood demand than Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.

“Going by his speech on the separate Telangana statehood demand in Parliament on Friday, I know more about Telangana that Mr Chidambaram. I even know more about how to deal with it,” Dr Shankar Rao said.

Hyderabad, August 07: Defending himself against the allegations levelled against him by Congress MP Gutta Sukhender on Saturday, former chief minister K Rosaiah on Sunday said that he did not introduce a resolution on Telangana in the state Assembly because it was doomed to fail.

“Would it have been good for Telangana if I had got a resolution on the separate state introduced in the Assembly and it was defeated?,” Mr Rosaiah said, countering Mr Sukhender’s accusation that he had failed to get a resolution passed in the state Assembly during his stint as chief minister.

Hyderabad, August 07: 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).

A pleasant news has come from Rajasthan’s Moham Lal Sukhadia University that for 15 posts of peons, three thousand unemployed job seekers have sent their applications with great hopes. In the context of the prevailing employment situation of the country the sincerity with which three thousand candidates have offered their valuable services for the glorious post of a peon is not an extraordinary matter because even if ten thousand applications had been received, the number would have been considered less.

New Delhi, August 07: Zaheer Khan, the India fast bowler, has been ruled out of the remainder of the series against England and faces a 14-16 week period of rehabilitation. He will return to India and will be replaced by RP Singh in the squad. Zaheer picked up a hamstring injury during the first Test at Lord’s, but the BCCI has now said he not only has a recurring hamstring problem but also a right ankle impingement that will require surgery.

Islamabad, August 07: Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram feels that the recall of Rahul Dravid in India’s ODI squad after a gap of two years exposes the inexperience in the team in negotiating seaming conditions in England.

“Dravid’s technique is very good, and on difficult wickets he comes really into his own. He is one player who can play 50 overs. India need that kind of player right now, especially after what has happened in the first two Test matches,” Akram was quoted as saying by ESPN Mobile.

Hyderabad, August 07: Eight people, including three women were today killed and six others injured in two different road accidents in Andhra Pradesh. Police said in Chittoor District, five people were killed and three injured when the jeep, in which they were travelling, collided head-on with a lorry at Seetharampet in Yarpadu Mandal.

Srinagar, Augus 07: Two terrorists, including a top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative, were gunned down early Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

Acting on prior information, the army and the police carried out a joint operation at a hideout of the terrorists in Darsangla, a forested area of Surankote in Poonch district, 220 km north of here.

One of the slain militants was identified as Divisional Commander of LeT Abu Usman from Pakistan, an official told IANS.

“This has dealt a severe blow to the LeT in Jammu region,” said a senior police officer here.

Hyderabad, August 07: YSR Congress party president YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy who is widely visiting the state is planning to construct a Helipad at his Jubilee Hills residence built near Lotus Pond in Hyderabad.

So, he has applied to Aviation department seeking permission for it and the concerned officials from the department have inspected the location and the surrounding areas on Saturday to give feasibility report.

Washington, August 07: Radical anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr warned that any US training mission in Iraq after 2011 would amount to an occupation force and need to be opposed by “military means,” in a letter seen on Sunday.

The letter, released on Saturday in the Shiite cleric’s base in the shrine city of Najaf, came after Baghdad agreed to open talks with Washington for a training mission post-2011, when all US troops are due to have left.