Month: September 2011

Hyderabad, September 27: The industrial shutdown in Telangana entered its second day on Tuesday as the protests in the region continued even after 15 days.

Workers of Public Sector Units, including BHEL and Ordnance Factory, and private sector majors like Aurobindo, Reddy Labs and Matrix will abstain from work.

Meanwhile, a road roko agitation is also set to begin later on Tuesday, causing more inconvenience to the already stalled transport system around all 10 districts of the Telangana region.

Riyadh, September 27: A Saudi Arabian activist who defied the kingdom’s prohibition on women driving will be put on trial, her lawyer says.

Najalaa Harrir’s lawyer said she has been summoned for questioning by a prosecutor general in the city of Jeddah, AFP reported on Sunday.

Harrir is one of the many Saudi females who are part of a campaign against the government’s discrimination against women, including the driving ban.

Their campaign is called “My Right, My Dignity.”

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans women — both Saudi and foreign — from driving.

Paris, September 27: Paris plans to build a new Islamic center to address two issues, a dearth of mosques for the city’s sizable Muslim community and a new law banning street prayers. In the interim, Muslims been invited to worship in an unusual venue – an old fire station at the edge of the city.

For many practicing Muslims in Paris, Friday prayers means having to pack in overflowing mosques. Or when there is no more space, by rolling out prayer rugs on the city’s sidewalks. No longer.

New Delhi, September 27: Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal on Monday asked all that the parties to make their stand clear on Telangana issue.

Talking to media persons, the MP said that the Congress party was already holding internal discussions to resolve the Telangana issue. However, he said more than the Centre, the political parties need to hold consultations to bring consensus on the issue.

New Delhi, September 27: Ignoring TRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao’s call not to rush to New Delhi and instead join the Telangana movement, all senior Congress leaders from the region began arriving in the national capital on Monday in order to persuade the leadership to take a positive decision on the statehood issue by the end of the month.

New Delhi, September 27: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued guidelines to telecom regulators to stop all unwanted telemarketing calls and messages from this week.

New Delhi, September 27: Amid the controversy over the finance ministry note on the 2G spectrum allocation which suggested a rift between Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today held separate meetings with the two senior ministers at her 10 Janpath residence.

She was said to have heard their views, and is likely to take a call on the matter after discussions with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who returns from New York tomorrow evening.

Islamabad, September 27: Twenty-six students were killed and at least 78 others were injured Monday night in a bus accident when they were returning from a picnic in eastern Pakistan, officials said.

The accident took place near Kalar Kahar town, a tourist destination about 125 km from Islamabad. The students, from Millat Grammar School in Faisalabad city, were returning from a picnic in the town, Xinhua reported.

Police said the driver lost control of the overloaded vehicle when taking a turn. The bus was carrying over a 100 students although it had a capacity of only 72 people.

London, September 27: Actress Kirsten Dunst believes that almost everyone suffers depression and those who do not suffer are “weird”.

The 29-year-old plays a severely depressed woman in her latest movie “Melancholia”.

“People are embarrassed to talk about it. I would never put anyone down (who) was in that kind of space. I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life – and if they don’t, I think that’s weird,” contactmusic.com quoted Dunst as saying.

–IANS–

Hyderabad, September 27: The Telugu Desam Party Telangana Forum has decided to boycott the Banswada by-elections scheduled to be held on October 13.

The decision was taken in the Forum’s meeting held at Telugu Desam Legislature Party office here on Monday. Briefing the media about the decision, Forum’s convenor Errabelli Dayakar Rao said all TDP MLAs from Telangana region have unanimously decided to boycott the by-polls until the formation of Telangana State.

Hyderabad, September 27: The Sakala Janula Samme, the people’s general strike, is set to intensify further with the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee announcing another schedule of protests that would last till October 11.

Hyderabad, September 27: Congress MLA R Damodar Reddy on Monday announced that the Congress MLAs from the Telangana region would submit their resignations en masse on October 2, if the Centre failed to announce its decision on Telangana by this month end.

Hyderabad, September 27: A day after firing salvo against Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, the Handlooms and Textiles Minister Dr P Shankar Rao found a new target on Monday.

Addressing a press conference, Dr Shankar Rao alleged that Home Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy was involved in corruption at a large-scale. He accused the Home Minister of taking bribe to execute official works. He alleged that Sabitha’s corruption network was being operated by her relatives including her son and brother.

London, September 27: A 45-year-old woman has been sent for 16-month imprisonment over having sex with dog and child. The woman is from Kent in Britain.

Police discovered images of the woman in her house. All illegal pictures reportedly show her unnatural sex with dog and child. The court announced 16-month-imprisonment for the guilty.

Hyderbad, September 27: Congress MPs from the Telangana region have accused the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen of trying to sabotage the Telangana agitation by giving it a communal colour.

Hyderabad, September 27: Infrastructure Minister Komatreddi Venkat Reddy and other leaders from the Telangana region were arrested along with their supporters for staging a sit-in dharna in front of Vidyut Soudha, the office of Andhra Pradesh Transmission Corporation at Khairtabad, here on Monday.

New Delhi, September 27: The death of a 16-year-old minor boy in northeast Delhi over a cup of tea that cost Rs 2.50 on the premises of one of the busy police stations in the capital has jolted Seelampur residents who claim that police inaction had led to the death. DCP (northeast) Sanjay Kumar Jain denied any police involvement in the case saying the incident took place at least 30 metres away from the police station.

Hyderabad, September 27: There is little justification for continued inaction by the Centre on Telangana. The Telangana region is now chaotic, if not paralysed, thanks to intensification of the agitation for a separate state. Lawlessness in Hyderabad in the name of the agitation provides room for protection rackets that collect payment for not targeting particular commercial installations.

Srinagar, September 27: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday tried to strike a chord with the youth of Kashmir, saying he could well understand their sufferings as he himself has been a victim of violence. He said he had come to bring the youth into political mainstream, reports The Hindu.

Indore, September 27: Janata Party president Dr Subramanian Swamy on Sunday alleged that nearly Rs 60,000-crore changed hands in the Rs 1,76,000-crore 2G spectrum allocation scam.Talking to mediapersons here, Swamy claimed he had documents to prove that the scam took place with the knowledge of A Raja and P Chidambaram.

Swamy demanded a separate CBI probe against Chidambaram saying that the documents so far provided to the investigative agency were not complete. If the probe begins that nobody cannot stop him from going to jail, he added.

Hyderabad, September 27: The Telangana activists on Monday barged into premises of Road Transport Authority office at Khairtabad demanding withdrawal of show-cause notices served on employees.

Raising ‘Jai Telangana’ slogans, the activists entered the office of Assistant Commissioner Srinivasa Rao demanding that he withdraw the notices served on employees immediately. The activists had a heated argument with the Assistant Commissioner and manhandled him during the argument.

Hyderabad, September 27: The Central Administrative Tribunal on Monday adjourned the hearing on a petition filed by senior IPS officer P Gautam Kumar challenging the appointment of Dinesh Reddy as the Director General of Police to November 3.

The Tribunal adjourned has adjourned the hearing as the Telangana lawyers were boycotting their duties as part of on-going employees’ general strike.

Hyderabad, September 27: With the Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana away in Visakhapatnam, the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar held an urgent review meeting with Labour Minister Danam Nagender and RTC managing director Bayyarapu Prasada Rao at his camp office on Monday.

Hyderabad, September 27: Hundreds of Telangana employees in the State Secretariat on Monday intensified their strike demanding separate statehood for the region.

Besides regular demonstration, the staff launched a blind fold sit-in dharna in front of the Chief Minister’s C block. As part of the Sakala Janula Samme which entered 13th day on Monday, the Class IV staff also joining the stir. With the Class IV staff joining the agitating staff the government vehicular movement has been hit.

Hyderabad, September 27: Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has once again appealed to the Telangana employees to withdraw their strike and observe restrain till the Centre announces its decision on the separate statehood.