Month: September 2011

Hyderabad, September 26: Three city police constables were arrested on Sunday for extorting Rs 12 lakh from employees of a Mumbaibased plastic dealer. The arrested trio are DS Nagesh Goud attached with the Central Crime Station, G Mahesh Yadav and S Mahesh Kumar, attached with Sultan Bazar and Shalibanda police stations respectively. According to police, a Mumbaibased plastic dealer, Ashok Bhai has nearly 10 clients in the city to whom he supplies plastic material. One customer, Vishnu Solanki collects money from other clients on behalf of Ashok Bhai regularly.

Hyderabad, September 26: Members of a city-based adventure club were prevented by Rangareddy police from taking out a rally on Sunday, due to lack of prior permission.

According to police, the club members had planned to take out a rally to Chittempally village in Vikarabad and explore the scenic beauty and rocky hillocks. They set off in 38 vehicles from the city. But those who reached there first created a flutter among locals.

Hyderabad, September 26: After making a host of unconventional films, film-maker Nagesh Kukunoor, who had once claimed never to make a love story, is back with his film Mod, which is incidentally a love story. “Never say never in this field,” exclaims Kukunoor, elaborating, “I had always thought that I will not be able to add anything new to the concept of a love story.

Hyderabad, September 26: Jubilee Hills police arrested 4 police constables indulged in robbery case. According to details Nagesh Goud belonging to Central Crime Station (CCS) along with other three constables, Mahesh Kumar of Shalibanda police station, Mahesh Goud and Mahesh Yadav of Sultan Bazar had threatened a businessman at road no 36 of posh area Banjara Hills and robbed him of 12 lakh rupees.

It is said that the policemen threatened Solanki saying that the money he possessed is black money and after robbing him of the money forced him to flee.

Hyderabad, September 26: Onam celebrations were organized by ‘Maithri’— a Malayali association on Sunday at Thirumalghery, Secunderabad.

Hyderabad, September 26: A DIG rank officer is likely to be questioned by a team from the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the Sohrabuddin killing. A CBI team from Delhi led by DIG Kandaswamy arrived in Hyderabad three days ago in connection with the probe. Sources told Express that Kandaswamy is in the city to question the DIG rank officer as CBI believes he played a key role in providing logistics support to the Gujarat police team, which ended up in the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauserbi in November 2005.

Hyderabad, September 26: In a move to boost the antinaxal operations in the state, the government would soon be utilising an unmanned aerial vehicle and a helicopter to track down naxalite movement in deep forests and take up rescue operation. The UAV and the chopper, provided to a state for the first time by Centre, would start operating from October and November respectively.

Hyderabad, September 26: A person suffered serious injuries while three of his family, including two children suffered minor injuries at Malakpet on Sunday.

The family of Muneeruddin were going to their house at Edi Bazar when an RTC bus coming from behind hit them. Police said, the bus was being driven by a person who was taken on contract basis in view of RTC employees’ strike.

Police said Muneeruddin and his wife and two children aged 4 and 2, suffered injuries. The bus driver fled from the spot.

–Agencies

Hyderabad, September 26: Mild tension prevailed at Moula Ali after two proTelangana activists climbed an advertising hoarding and threatened to jump from there on Sunday. This is the third incident in three days when T activists created a furore by climbing highrise structures and threatening to jump from there.

Hyderabad, September 26: A couple was killed and their children seriously injured in a car accident that occurred on the Telugu Talli flyover, late on Sunday night.

The Santro car in which the couple and their children were travelling was hit by a speeding lorry from the opposite direction on the flyover.

Saifabad police subinspector S Vijay Kumar said Yadaiah (50) and Chandrakala (45), a couple from Katedan in Old City were killed in the mishap while their children are undergoing treatment.

Hyderabad, September 26: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has reiterated that the BJP will get the maximum benefit in a separate Telangana state.

Speaking to mediapersons at the party headquarters here on Sunday, Owaisi did not specify whether his party would support the Telangana bill or not if it was introduced in Parliament.

Replying to a query, he asserted that the MIM would abide by the stand taken by the party leadership on the contentious Telangana issue, which was given in writing to the Srikrishna Committee.

Hyderabad, September 26: A two-day meeting of the National Executive of Communist Party of India was held in New Delhi recently which was attended by Top leaders of the party. Anti people policies of the Govt. were severely criticized and CPI has prepared a programme of action for future. On this occasion, Mr. Syed Aziz Pasha, M.P. presentation presented a resolution condemning the communal riots of Bharatpur in Rajisthan and the police firing on the Mosque.

Balasore (Orissa), September 26 : India today successfully test-fired its nuclear capable ‘Prithvi-II’ ballistic missile, with a range of 350 kms, as part of user trial by the armed forces from Chandipur off Orissa coast, about 15 km from here.

“The indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile was flight tested at around 8.50 AM from a mobile launcher from the Integrated Test Range launch complex-III,” ITR Director S P Dash said.

Kabul, September 26: A compound in Kabul used by the US’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came under attack Sunday, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults in the Afghan capital.

Afghan interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui said police had heard “a couple of minutes” of gunfire from inside the Ariana Hotel compound at around 9.15pm local time.

“Our police heard there were some shots from inside the Ariana compound,” he said. But he added that Afghan forces could not go inside as the site “belongs to coalition forces” and was “not within the reach of police”.

Tripoli, September 26: Libyan interim government officials have discovered a mass grave that they say contains the remains of more than 1,700 prisoners killed by forces of the former regime in a 1996 massacre.

Khalid Sharif, military spokesman for the National Transitional Council, said on Sunday that remains of the executed detainees were unearthed at Tripoli’s notorious Abu Salim jail.

“We found the place where all these martyrs were buried,” Sharif was quoted by AFP as saying.

Gaza, September 26: The acting Palestinian Authority chief has ruled out new talks with the Israeli regime without a total halt to settlement expansion efforts on his return from New York to the occupied West Bank.

“We have confirmed to all that we want to achieve our rights through peaceful means, through negotiations — but not just any negotiations,” Mahmoud Abbas told a cheering crowd of thousands on his return to Ramallah on Sunday, Reuters reported.

Washington, September 26: A high-profile American senator has said that the United States should consider military action against Pakistan if Islamabad continues to sponsor militant attacks against US troops in Afghanistan.

“The sovereign nation of Pakistan is engaging in hostile acts against the United States and our ally Afghanistan that must cease,” said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Associated Press reported Sunday.

Hyderabad, September 26: The twin cities added another glorious chapter to its sports facade A glorious chapter was added to the vibrant sports canvas of Hyderabad with the unveiling of a multi-purpose state-of-the-art sports Centre here on Sunday.

Inaugurating the centre, Test cricket’s crisis man, V V S Laxman certified it as among the best infrastructural centres in the country. Lauding the promoters Ajmal Sanai Cricket & Sports Foundation (ASCSF) for bridging a long felt gap, Laxman said the facilities of the highest global standards.

New Delhi, September 26: Petroleum Minister S Jaipal Reddy on Sunday assured that the Centre would provide additional gas to the gas-based power plants of Andhra Pradesh to help the State Government overcome power crisis that has arisen due to the general strike in Telangana region.

Nasik, September 26: A minor girl from Peint taluka in the district, was allegedly raped by a youth, police said.

The 13-year-old girl, studying in Imambari government ashram school in tribal-dominated taluka, was found in an unconscious state at the back of the school today, they added.

According to Mangla Gosavi, a social worker from Peint, the girl was absent from the school from the past three days, but was found in an unconscious state behind the school.

The girl was admitted to Nashik Civil Hospital, police said.

Ahmedabad, September 26: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today accused the Congress of conspiring to dislodge his regime through the Raj Bhavan as the state BJP passed a resolution seeking governor Kamla Beniwal’s recall.

“For the last three years, you (Congress) have used Raj Bhavan to make a back- door entry to run a parallel government. This is a mega rally against the conspiracy,” he said in Vastrol on Ahmedabad’s outskirts less than a week after his sadbhavna fast.

In  a 10-minute video, a girl gang-raped begged to either be spared or killed. But who is she? Who are the rapists? Ugochukwu Eke reports that though no one doubts the video clips, unravelling the identities of the victim, the rapists and the location of the crime is like selling ice to the Eskimos.

Visakhapatnam, September 26: The Andhra Pradesh government will provide a corruption-free administration by introducing a new scheme from November, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy said today.

Ahmedabad, September 26: LK Advani, who launches a yatra against corruption from Bihar next month, on Sunday skipped his annual visit to the famous Somnath temple to mark the anniversary of the rathyatra which he had started for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya in the 1990s.

The BJP veteran had made it a point to visit Somnath temple on September 25, the day on which he started his famous rathyatara, every year since 1990 to seek the blessings of Lord Shiva.

Kabul, September 26: A man runs away after a rocket propelled grenade lands near him during an attack against presidential palace in Kabul, 2010.
A huge explosion has reportedly taken place near the presidential palace in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, injuring at least three people.

The incident occurred Sunday night when a missile was reportedly launched from an unidentified location, targeting the palace. The rocket attack was followed by gunfire, according to local reports.