Month: September 2011

Hyderabad, September 25: At a time when Telangana is bristling with agitations and protests and Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is calling the shots, Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu is quietly making moves to pull the carpet from under the feet of KCR.

The TDP chief is meeting members of backward castes, particularly Gouds, from the region and egging on them to `expose’ the TRS chief who has more or less become synonymous with the Telangana movement.

Hyderabad, September 25: The striking employees of the electricity department in Telangana have threatened to cut power supply to the houses and offices of Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and other ministers in Hyderabad.

As the indefinite ‘people’s strike’ demanding separate statehood to Telangana entered the 12th day Saturday, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of electricity employees said they would resort to power cuts if the government failed to respond favourably to the demand.

Hyderabad September 25: With all trains cancelled, auto-rickshaws off the road, and the state Road Transport Corporation buses already standing idle, Telangana region came to a standstill Saturday.

Adding to the people’s difficulties, particularly of those passing through the state, all trains were cancelled by railway authorities in view of the two-day “rail blockade” called by those agitating for a separate Telangana state.

All the trains between Hyderabad and destinations like like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Guwahati, Patna, Rajkot and Balharshah have been cancelled.

Hyderabad, September 25: Promising more trouble for denizens of the State this weekend, the pro-Telangana groups are gearing up for disruption of train services in the region for the next 36 hours beginning 6am on Saturday.

In a bid to intensify the stir, the auto-drivers also will observe a 48-hour bandh from midnight on Friday even as violence erupted across the region with Telangana TDP and TRS cadres locking horns with one another across the region.

Hyderabad, September 25: The Special CBI court on Friday re-posted the hearing on CBI’s petition seeking custody of Obulapuram Mining Company managing director BV Srinivas Reddy and director Gali Janardhan Reddy to September 29.

After a six-day-long interrogation of the accused by the CBI that came to an end on September 19, the CBI’s counsel filed a petition in the court seeking a further nine-day-long custody of the accused to interrogate them further in connection with alleged illegal mining.

Hyderabad, September 25: The proposed 48-hour rail roko by the Telangana Joint Action Committee is set to start from Saturday morning all over the Telangana region.

With the rail roko, TJAC plans to break the rail transportation link between south and north to make the Centre understand the gravity of the situation in Telangana.

According to TJAC leadership, the South Central Railways has nearly 1500-km tracks in Telangana and rail transport would be paralysed to create impact on the state and central governments.

Hyderabad, September 25: The Majls-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has made it clear that it will not support the on-going Sakala Janula Samme, the general strike, for Telangana.

Addressing a press conference at MIM’s headquarters Darulsalaam here on Sunday, MIM president and Hyderbad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said that the on-going agitation has been causing lot of inconvenience to the common man.

“Nearly 25-30 lakh poor are literally starving due to the general strike and therefore, there is no question of support the present agitation,” he said.

Islamabad,September 26 : Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday called back foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar from the US amid strained ties with Washington following an accusation that Pakistan was supporting the Haqqani terror network.

Khar was called back for consultations over the strained relationship between Pakistan and the US, Online news agency quoted sources as saying.

New Delhi,September 26 : Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said home minister P Chidambaram should be in jail for his alleged involvement in the 2G spectrum scam.

“The proof against Chidambaram is overwhelming. He should be in jail with A Raja,” BJP leader Yashwant Sinha told reporters here.

He also said the prime minister acted on Chidambaram’s advice on the 2G spectrum allocation, and his silence showed his approval.

Chidambaram was the finance minister at the time the spectrum was allocated in 2008.

New Delhi,September 25 :Three-day exhibition of Quran in 53 languages closed on Day 2, 56 detained at Daryaganj police station .The three-day Quran exhibition put up by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat-Delhi at the Constitution Club was cut short on Saturday, the second day of exhibition, after protests by Muslims.

Newyork,September 25 :2G scam is taking its tool on UPA 2 govt which is facing one scandal after another scandal.Not only UPA allies are facing trouble buts congress party wo Minister are throwing their faces in towels.Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has arrived here for a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 2G spectrum issue in the wake of a Finance Ministry note involving P. Chidambaram.

Mukherjee arrived here from Washington rescheduling his travel plans ahead of his return home on Sunday evening.

3 tomb mosque, Shaikhpet uninhabited
Hyderabad, September 25: 3-tomb mosque at Vinayaknagar Shaikhpet is uninhabited. There was 3270 sqyd land under the mosque which has been encroached upon. The encroachers are not strangers but our own men. When our correspondent went to the mosque for inspection he saw that a Muslim man was constructing a house taking the help of well-built youth.

New Delhi, September 25: The current debate over poverty, if Rs.32 a day is enough for a person, is misdirected and the government should answer why the numbers of poor in the country are on the rise, says National Advisory Council member N.C. Saxena.

“The government’s estimate for poverty in 1972-73 was benchmarked at Rs.1.50 per day. It translates into Rs.32 per day today. There is nothing new with this estimate,” said the retired bureaucrat, known for speaking his mind, even in front of prime ministers.

New Delhi, September 25: A woman, along with her paramour and his accomplice, has been arrested for murdering her husband who used to beat her over her illicit affair, police said Saturday.

Arti, 32, Sant Saran Nehra, 32, and Mirdul Dixit, 30, were arrested Friday.

Police said Arti hatched a plan with the other two to kill her husband Sonu, 32, at their home in Moti Nagar in west Delhi.

Accordingly, the two men entered the couple’s home late Wednesday night and attacked Sonu with a sharp object. To disguise the entire incident as a case of robbery, they tied up Arti and fled.

Hyderabad, September 25: Maulana Syed Mohammad Qubool Pasha Qaudri Shutari, organizing president Majlis Ulama-e-Deccan has urged vice president of India Mr. Hamed Ansari via e-mail not to attend the 3-day Quran programme to be conducted by Qadyanis at Constitution club.

In an English daily, a letter of a reader has been published against the Department of Meteorology. In his letter, the reader has sprinkled the drops of his anger with thunder and hightning of the clouds on the Department of Meteorology. He has not only sent the hurricanes of stormy air but has dropped hailstones as well. His anger is so intense that it seems that it is highest peak of anger of his life. The writer of the letter says that the Department of Meteorology is the only department whose utility could not be comprehended by anyone.

Hyderabad, September 25: 19 year old Rubab Atifa died in a road accident occurred at Osmania University campus. The accident occurred near AMS Kaman at Osmania University campus where Rubab, daughter of MA Qadeer Baig, resident of Seetaphalmandi was hit by a Tata vehicle while she was crossing the road and died on the spot. Osmania university police has registered a case and investigations are on.

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Hyderabad, September 25: President Jamiatul Ulama-e-Hind Andhra Pradesh Maulana Hafiz Peer Shabbir Ahmed MLC said that all the political parties who were strictly against Muslim interest are today showing concern about the welfare and interest of Muslim community for their vote bank. Even the ill-famed BJP leader Narender Modi, who was responsible for 2002 Muslim carnage in Gujarat a blot in the history of India, is also trying to sympathize with Muslims.

Hyderabad, September 25: District officials asked managements of professional colleges to take concrete measures to check ragging in educational institutions by creating awareness on its ill-effects.

The district collector, Mr S.A.M. Rizvi, commissioner of police, Mr P. Madhu-sudan Reddy and the district superintendent of police, Mr Ramakrishna, addressed district officials and managements of colleges at the sub-collector’s conference hall on Friday. The meeting was convened in the backdrop of opening professional colleges for new students.

Mumbai, September 25: Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor’s father, producer Surinder Kapoor passed away on Saturday evening, Sep 24 following a heart attack. Kapoor died at the age of 88.

Kapoor was also the president of the Film and Television Producers Guild of India from 1995 to 2001.He was awarded with L.V. Prasad Phalke Award in 2009.

Kapoor was well known as a filmmaker to reckon with in the ’70s and ’80s. He produced films like Ponga Pandit (1975), Hum Paanch (1980) and Woh Saat Din (1983). His last film as a producer was No Entry in 2005, along with his son Anil Kapoor.

Hyderabad, September 25: A division bench of A.P. High Court comprising Justice V.S. Rao & Justice K.G. Shankar directed the APPSC to allow the candidates who have secured 83% marks in Group I (Preliminary) to write the examination which commences on 25th September 2011.

The judges opined that the restriction of age limit would affect the quality and by lifting this ban on age limit, they allowed the candidates to write the exams.

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Hyderabad, September 25: CPI(M) Floor leader in Assembly Mr. J. Ranga Reddy demanded the CM to postpone Group I exams in view of the present transport strike. If the CM doesn’t yield to this demand, agitation would be launched against him. Talking to newsmen, he said that A.P. High Court has allowed 1004 candidates to write Group I (Main) examination but the situation in the state seems to be uncertain which is not appropriate for conducting these examinations.

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Hyderabad, September 25: Dr. K. Keshava Rao, Chairman Congress Steering Committee met Mr. K. Jana Reddy yesterday evening and appealed to him to represent to the CM to postpone Group I exams in view of the collapse of transport system in the state.

Mr. Jana Reddy told him that he would write a letter to CM requesting him to postpone these exams. Prof. Kondandaram said that auto drivers and bus drivers are on strike and it is not possible for the candidates to reach the exam centers but the CM is adament on conducting the exams. He requested the CM to postpone the same.

Hyderabad, September 25: Dr. A.A. Khan, President, Unani Medical Organisation told that for M.D. (Unani) course, NTR Health University has issued admission notification for the year 2011-12. Online registration could be made on website http://www.pgntruhs.org . He has advised the candidates to download prospectus and register applications before 5th October 2011.

Hyderabad, September 25: Responding to the appeal made by Telangana Political Joint Action Committee, BJP workers participated in ‘Rail Roko’ programme yesterday. Many workers staged ‘Dharna’ at Moula Ali Railway Station under the leadership of Mr. Dattatreya former MP of BJP.

——Siasat News