New Delhi,September 30:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is examining the role of tycoon Anil Ambani in the multi-billion dollar 2G telecoms scandal that has rocked India’s political and business elites, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said on Thursday.
Srinagar, September 29: Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone on Thursday accused Mehbooba Mufti, President of the main Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of indulging in ‘cheap politics’.
“Mehbooba ji you are doing cheap politics … You are very cheap in politics,” the Speaker said as the PDP leader rose to defend her party’s silence during on Wednesday’s commotion in the House over the clemency resolution for
Parliament attack convicts Afzal Guru.
Mumbai, September 29: Veer” fame actress Zarine Khan is open to doing more item songs but sans vulgarity.
She teamed up with Salman Khan in the item song “Character Dheela”.
“I was offered a lot of item numbers but I wasn’t really comfortable. ‘Character Dheela’ I would not call an item number because it was a fun song and I had Salman in it along with me. I knew nothing would go wrong,” Zarine, who was here for the launch of skin care products, told IANS. “I am open to such songs where there is no vulgarity or sleaziness,” she added.
Hyderabad, September 29: For the ensuing festivals, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has instructed officials of the Civil Supplies department to ensure timely availability of sufficient stocks of essential commodities, including rice, and their proper distribution to the people.
Hyderabad, September 29: Senior IAS officer and Special Secretary (Land Administration) Pankaj Dwivedi has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of the State Government. He will be taking charge from SV Prasad who retired on September 30.
A 1975-batch IAS officer, Dwivedi was earlier the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration. He is the senior most officer in the state at the moment and his appointment has the backing of the Congress High Command.
Washington, September 29: Pakistan’s “most powerful military man”, army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, isn’t “a big fan of the Haqqani network” and would prefer a stable, peaceful environment on the border with India, suggests the top US military officer.
While sticking to his controversial remarks that the Haqqani network blamed for the attack on the US embassy in Kabul is a “veritable arm” of Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) agency, retiring Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen Wednesday sought to make a distinction between Pakistan and its spy agency.
Beijing, September 29: A 38-year-old man in China brutally killed his girlfriend by stabbing her all over while having a drink at a restaurant. He did not stop attacking her till he injured his hands.
The suspect, surnamed Tang, allegedly stabbed 37-year-old Chen Haihua over 30 times while drinking at a restaurant at People’s Square Aug 15. Chen, who suffered repeated stabs on the neck, chest, belly and back, was pronounced dead after she was rushed to the nearby Changzheng hospital, the Shanghai Daily reported.
New Delhi, September 29: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is unlikely to attend the two-day national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) beginning here Friday, triggering speculation of a rift in the party, sources said.
The official version given by the party is that he is caught up in the busy schedule related to the Navaratra festival.
Party president Nitin Gadkari said here Thursday: “We are speaking to him. He comes usually, but there are some issues due to Navratras.”
New Delhi, September 29: Reiterating the party’s stand on L.K. Advani’s anti-corruption ‘yatra’, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari Thursday said the round-the-country tour was not to establish Advani as party’s prime ministerial candidate.
“This ‘yatra’ is not for prime minister’s post, it is to awaken the country,” Gadkari said, making his first public appearance in Delhi since he underwent a surgery for weight reduction Sep 12.
Ishtiaq Hussain, aged 37, has signed up for a trek to Base Camp on the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest, in aid of Penny Appeal’s Rebuilding Pakistan Appeal, which aims to rebuild the village of Kamar Mashani in the Punjab region of Pakistan.
Countless villages in the region were swept away by the devastating floods that followed the heavy monsoon rains in July 2010, and which killed at least 1,700 people and displaced over six million others.
Beijing, September 29: China launched an experimental module to lay the groundwork for a future space station on Thursday, underscoring its ambitions to become a major space power.
The box car-sized Tiangong-1 module was shot into space from the Jiuquan launch centre on the edge of the Gobi Desert aboard a Long March II-F rocket.
Hyderabad, September 29: Seemandhra Forum convener and Primary Education Minister S Sailajanath on Thursday raised doubts that the proposal of merger of Anantapur and Kurnool into Telangana was mooted by the Centre.
Talking to reporters, Sailajanath rubbished the statement of Telangana Rashtra Samithi
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Libya, September 29: Four Republican senators traveled to Libya on Thursday to meet with the nation’s new rulers, the highest-profile American delegation to visit the country since the ouster of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The four lawmakers — John McCain of Arizona, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida — met with the head of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, and other high-ranking officials of the group that is now governing Libya after revolutionary forces ousted Gadhafi from power.
Allah has ordained the nature of man to be fallible. We are constantly subjugated to the pulls and desires of this worldly life. While we have the ability to steer our “free will” in any direction, we remain exposed to Satan’s attacks and whispers that can stray us from the straight path. We can counter Satan’s plan of pulling us down with sins by increasing our faith, knowledge, and good deeds and that can then elevate us to a level which can merit our meeting with Allah with bright and shining faces.
London, September 29: Demi Moore mused about how to deal with ‘anger’ the night before spending her wedding anniversary alone last weekend, it has emerged.
The 48-year-old actress is facing claims she has ‘separated’ from her husband of six years amid fresh rumours of infidelity.
Ashton Kutcher, 33, who is 15 years her junior, allegedly had a liaison with another woman after an alcohol-fuelled evening on Friday, according to U.S. showbusiness website Radar Online
Hyderabad, September 29: Samaikhyandhra Students Joint Action Committee leaders on Thursday condemned the physical attacks of pro-Telangana activists on employees and elected representatives belonging to Seemandhra region.
Moscow, September 29: A new intercontinental Russian missile whose development has been kept as a state secret failed in its first test-firing and crashed back into the launch zone, reports said on Thursday.
Reports published on Russian news agencies about the failed test firing from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Northern Russia appeared to be the first indication that the ground-based missile even existed.
“After launch, the missile fell back down onto the territory of the cosmodrome. There were no casualties or damage,” a military source said.
Hyderabad, September 29: The twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh Thursday went without newspapers as hawkers joined the ongoing general strike for a separate Telangana state.
No newspapers could reach the readers as the hawkers stayed away from distribution of papers. English, Telugu, Urdu and Hindi newspapers were missing from bookshops and newspaper stands across the state capital.
Tension prevailed at Secunderabad Clock Tower as police stopped newspaper hawkers from taking out a bike rally to Telangana martyrs’ memorial near the state assembly building.
Srinagar, September 29: Protests erupted in a Srinagar locality Thursday where residents alleged a woman had died of a heart attack after police visited her house to serve a warrant to her brother.
“Protests erupted in Iqbal Park area where some people disrupted traffic following the death of a woman named Jana, wife of Abdul Gaffar Sheikh of Baran Pathar area.
“The protesters alleged the woman had died of a heart attack after local policemen visited her home earlier today (Thursday) to serve a warrant issued by the district magistrate,” a police officer told IANS here.
Hyderabad, September 29: Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana on Thursday claimed that the Congress High Command would resolve the Telangana issue within one month.
Talking to reporters after meeting in-charge of party affairs in Andhra Pradesh and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here, Botsa said that the Centre was aware of the facts relating to the on-going general strike. He said that the Congress party would be holding discussions with all the UPA constituents on the issue to find an amicable solution.
Hyderabad, September 29: Several TDP MLAs from Telangana region were injured when they clashed with the police after they were prevented from entering the Banswada assembly constituency here on Thursday.
The clash took place near Basvapur of Bikanoor mandal. All 32 members TDP MLAs from the region, who submitted their resignations from the posts on Wednesday, took up bus yatra for Banswada assembly constituency where by-elections are scheduled to be held on October 13. They were demanding that all parties boycott the by-polls till the formation of Telangana.
Hyderabad, September 29: Incharge of Andhra Pradesh Congress affairs and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday made it clear that no clear-cut deadline could be set to resolve the Telangana issue.
Talking to reporters after he had a meeting with the State Congress leaders in the national capital, Azad informed that he had prepared a report on Telangana after having consultations with the Telangana and Seemandhra leaders. However, he would submit the report to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in the next two days.
Hyderabad, September 29: Demanding their resignations, Telangana protestors Thursday laid siege to the residences of Congress ministers and legislators in the region while the “people’s strike” continued for the 17th day.
Police arrested dozens of activists of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) for trying to barge into the houses of ruling Congress ministers and state legislators in Hyderabad and nine other districts of Telangana.
Mumbai, September 29: Actress Bipasha Basu has rubbished reports that she is planning to tie the knot with actor Rana Daggubati soon.
“Reading reports of my supposed wedding plans, there is absolutely no truth in them,” Bipasha, who parted ways with actor John Abraham, wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter.
Rumours were rife that Bipasha and her “Dum Maaro Dum” co-star Rana were dating and that they were planning to get married.
(IANS)
Miami, September 29: A Florida woman accused of having lured a teenager to a house where a group beat him to death says that she is a vampire.
“Since I was like, 12 … I know this is going to be crazy, but I believe that I’m a vampire. Part of a vampire and part of a werewolf,” 18-year-old Stephanie Pistey said in an interview with WJHG television in Panama City.
Apparently, Pistey confirmed to police that the five people – including herself – involved in the July murder of Jacob Hendershot, 16, near the panhandle city, were members of a vampire cult.