Month: September 2011

Hyderabad, September 24: The political strategy adopted by the TRS has both the Congress and Telugu Desam legislators, differing over the issue of submitting their resignations to the Assembly Speaker. Party legislators from the Congress and the Telugu Desam are blaming each other for the resignation issue, but they have realised, that the TRS chief, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, is only trying to usher in bypolls for the region. If he does realise his plan, he may have the upper hand and secure his party maximum seats in the election by riding on the Telangana wave.

Bihar, September 24: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will flag off Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani’s anti-corruption ‘rath yatra’ at Sitabdiara village in Saran district of Bihar on October 11.

The village is the birth place of veteran socialist leader Jai Prakash Narayan.

At a press conference here, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said Mr. Kumar agreed to flag off the yatra after party president Nitin Gadkari called him up and made a formal request.

Hyderabad, September 24: All train services in the Telangana region are slated to come to a grinding halt from Saturday morning, signifying virtual stoppage of every form of mass transport in the region as the Telangana Joint Action Committee (T-JAC) ratcheted up its agitation demanding a separate State.

United Nations, September 24: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly Friday that his country desired peace with the Palestinians, but this could only be achieved through talks, not a UN resolution.

Netanyahu was speaking after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas the General Assembly to ask it to recognise a Palestinian state. The latter filed a request with the UN for full membership earlier in the day.

“As Israel’s prime minister I didn’t come here for applause. I came here to speak the truth,” he said at the start of his address.

Hyderabad, September 24: the Osmania University Students JAC called upon all petrol pumps and liquor outlets in the region to shut shop for two days to express solidarity with the striking Telangana state government employees.

Mumbai,September 24 : Renowned ghazal singer Jagjit Singh was admitted to a hospital here today after he suffered a brain hemorrhage and is in a critical state, doctors attending to him said.
Doctors at the Lilavati Hospital in suburban Bandra performed a life-saving surgery on him, hospital sources said.

Singh (70) is under observation and is stated to be in critical condition, they said. Sources also say a medical bulletin will be released on Saturday afternoon.

Mr Singh was admitted just hours before he was to perform with another Ghazal maestro, Ghulam Ali in Mumbai.

Islamabad, September 23: Former Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar — the man who has bowled the fastest delivery in the game — has just published his autobiography. The book, Controversially Yours, will sting like Akhtar’s deliveries.

In the book, the temparamental Pakistan speedster has questioned the class and
temperament of India’s batting stalwarts Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, accusing Tendulkar of being scared to face his scorching pace on a slow Faisalabad track.

He also claimed that Tendulkar and Dravid were not match-winners nor did they know the art of finishing games.

Hyderabad, September 23: The denizens of Hyderabad can breathe easy. With the sanitation workers of GHMC agreeing to resume work and start lifting tonnes of garbage piled up on the streets, people can look forward to stink-free roads.

But the woes of commuters, already hit by the RTC strike, are set to compound further from Friday midnight with autos also going off the roads in support of Sakala Janula Samme, which entered 10th day on Thursday.

Mumbai, September 23: If there’s anything that comes to the minds of Indian designers about Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi​ other than his royal style, it is his chemistry with his wife – veteran actress Sharmila Tagore​. Designers feel the two were a “perfect” and “made for each other” couple.

Pataudi died of a lung infection here Thursday.

“Extremely sorrowful with the news. Saw him as a supremely well-rounded man. Sharmila and he looked perfect together,” designer Anupama Dayal said.

Hyderabad, September 23: Telangana Congress Steering Committee convener and Rajya Sahba MP K Kesava Rao on Friday stated that the creation of Telangana state was possible only with the participation of all people in the general strike.

Dubai, September 23: A drunk Saudi businessman allegedly molested a Chinese sales woman at the entrance of her building, the Dubai Criminal Court heard on Wednesday.

According to the prosecution, the incident took place on June 30 at the entrance of the victim’s building. The victim identified as YA, testified that at around 2.30pm when she was at the entrance of her building, she was shocked when someone came from the back and touched her at an inappropriate place.

Hyderabad, September 23: Nizam College students protest by begging on roads on Friday.

They said they were begging to collect money for treatment of students who were injured in police lathi-charge.

—Source: Bharatwaves

Gurgaon, September 23: Congress veteran and former Union Minister Vasant Sathe died in Gurgaon on Friday night of heart attack. He was 86.

Sathe complained of chest pain late in the evening and was rushed to a private hospital where doctors declared him dead.

He breathed his last at 7:50 pm, doctors said. A lawyer by training, Sathe was the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting in Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s cabinet.

Hyderabad, September 23: In view of the proposed 48-hour ‘Rail Roko’ agitation in Telangana region on September 24 and 25th, the South Central Railway has made additional changes in the pattern of trains services.

According to the SCR, following trains have been cancelled:

1. Train No.57564 Nanded-Hyderabad Passenger leaving Nanded on 23rd September, 2011 is cancelled instead of 25th September, 2011 as intimated earlier.

2. Train No.67273/67274 Vijayawada-Guntur-Vijayawada Passenger is cancelled on 24th and 25th September, 2011.

Merrut, SEptember 23: Two get life term for murder of Meerut university professor Ghaziabad : A special CBI court here awarded life imprisonment to two people and a three-year jail to a third person held guilty in the 2006 murder of Meerut University professor Kavita Chaudhary.

The court awarded life term to Ravinder and Sultan for hatching a conspiracy, abducting the professor before killing her, destroying evidence, and extorting money from former state irrigation minister Merajuddin Ahmed.

The court awarded three-year jail term to Yogesh, the third person held guilty Yogesh.

Tirupati, September 23: Telugu Desam Party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Friday predicted the fall of Congress Government in the State in near future.

Talking to media persons during his visit to Chittoor district, Naidu said that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy had become politically insecure and hence, was harping on welfare and populist schemes for his survival. He said that the Congress was on the verge of collapse in the state and described it as a sinking ship.

Bhopal, September 23: Pataudi carved a special place in Bhopal history Bhopal: Not many know that Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi – grandson of the last Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan – had done two things in his life that cannot be denied place in the history of Bhopal and its Muslim people.

The Bhopal-born Pataudi had donated a piece of land in the City of Lakes for a mosque later named after his mother.

And he recommended that his elder daughter, Saba Ali Khan, succeed him in Awqaf-e-Shahi – the princely waqf properties he was managing in the name of God for charity.

Hyderabad, September 23: Tension prevailed in Buddaraopeta of Warangal district on Friday when some Telangana activists desecrated the statue of late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy​.

According to police, some Telangana activists damaged YSR’s statue in Buddaraopeta of Khanapur mandal and raised slogans calling him as an enemy of Telangana. It may be mentioned that the TDP MLAs became the target of T-activists across Warangal district on Friday. However, it was for the first time that the activists damaged YSR’s statue that was installed after his death about two years ago.

Satna/Madhya Pradesh, September 23: A 40-year-old mentally challenged man was brutally attacked by a policeman on Friday, Sep 23 at Satna in Madhya Pradesh when he allegedly fought with his neighbours.

Hyderabad, September 23: The Special Operations Team of Cyberabad police on Friday seized a huge quantity of explosives kept in house at a residential area in the Madhapur police limits.

During a raid, as many as 800 gelatine sticks and 800 detonators were seized from a house in Siddiq Nagar in the Madhapur police limits. Police say that the explosives are generally used at the construction site and they were purchased legally. However, the police is verifying that whether the owner could keep those explosive in a residential area.

Further investigations into the case are on. (INN)

Hyderabad, September 23: The Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee on Friday called for petrol bunks and wine shops bandh in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad on Saturday expressing solidarity to general strike of employees.

The OU JAC which met at University campus on Friday gave a call to wine shop owners and petrol bunks to shut down their business activities on Saturday as part of extending solidarity to Telangana agitation.

Bhopal, September 23: The funeral procession of late former Indian cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi began from his home here with sobbing family members, friends and several celebrities paying their last respects before his burial which will be held on Friday in Pataudi.

The former captain, who would forever be remembered for leading India to their maiden Test series triumph abroad, died on Thursday due to a lung infection at the age of 70.

Gandhinagar, September 23: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the procedure to get visas should be relaxed for Pakistanis wanting to visit Ajmer Sharif shrine.

Modi was inaugurating the annual convention of Indian Association of Tour Operators XXVII IATO at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar on Thursday when he suggested this to Union Tourism Secretary R H Khwaja, who was present at the event.

New Delhi, September 23: Former India cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who lost his right eye at the age of 20 in a car accident, helped some 1.5 lakh visually challenged people to get back their sight. And continued to do so even after his death when he donated his eye.

Pataudi, who died Thursday and was laid to rest in his native village Pataudi Friday, has donated his eye to the Delhi-based Venu Eye Institute, of which he was a brand ambassador since 2001. Someone will benefit from his generosity in a couple of days, an official said.

Hyderabad, September 23: The Telangana agitation took a violent turn on Friday when the activists, mostly TRS workers, physically attacked the legislators of Telugu Desam Party at different places in the region.

The TDP MLAs were holding one-day hunger strike in their respective constituencies demanding statehood for Telangana. However, their programme was totally sabotaged by the Telangana activists. More violence was reported from Warangal district where the TDP Telangana Forum convener and MLA Errabelli Dayakar Rao was sitting on a day-long hunger strike.