Lucknow, September 12:Falling in love with an upper caste girl proved fatal for a youth who was brutally killed and one of his eyes gouged out in Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad district, about 125 km from here.
According to police sources, the body of the youth identified as Rehan Ahmed, a resident of Khandpipra village in the district, was recovered from near a graveyard, a few hundred metres away from the village, on Saturday.
New Delhi, September 12: The Supreme Court on Monday is likely to decide whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s role should be probed in the 2002 Gulbarg Society case. Sixty nine people, including Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed by a rioting mob in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002.
In February, the SIT team headed by former CBI Chief RK Radhavan submitted a 600 page report in sealed envelope to the Supreme Court. CNN-IBN and Tehelka had accessed its details. The report posed several embarrassing questions for Modi, but said the evidence was not strong enough to prosecute him.
Bhopal,September 12 :The salaries and perks drawn by the legislators from Madhya Pradesh has recorded a rise of 1000% percent during the last 15 years in stark contrast with the pension assigned to the elderly living under poverty line, sources said.
With the development funds sanctioned for the law-makers going up by 300 per cent, the old living below the poverty line still get a pension of only Rs 275 per month, they said.
Of the measly sum of Rs 275, the state government’s contribution is Rs 75, while the remaining Rs 200 comes from the Centre.
Bangalore,September 12 :New twist and turns to an affairs between director and film actress in an unprecedented manner the KFPA took a decision to ban an actess for beaking the family because of her extra maritial relationship.The Darshan-Vijayalakshmi case took another curious turn, with the Kannada Film Producers’ Association (KFPA) turning its ire on model-turned-actor Nikita Thukral, for allegedly “creating disharmony in Mr. Darshan’s family.”
Hyderabad, September 12: Event managers can learn lot of lessons from the Hyderabad City Police which has exhibited its skills by ensuring successful conduct of Ganesh immersion procession on Sunday.
Ensuring security for nearly 12 lakh people on city roads spread across 15 kilometres is not a small task. However, effective planning and execution has ensured the celebration of festival without any hassles.
Hyderabad, September 12: City Police Commissioner AK Khan on Sunday thanked the general public for their cooperation in ensuring the peaceful conduct of final Ganesh immersion procession in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
Karimnagar, September 12: Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar on Sunday appealed to the Centre to begin the process for the formation of Telangana state.
Talking to media persons, Ponnam Prabhakar demanded that the Telangana ministers submit their resignations directly to Governor ESL Narasimhan for the cause of statehood. He said that the Ministers should press for acceptance of resignations by mounting pressure on Speaker Nadendla Manohar.
Hyderabad, September 12: Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday ordered probe into death of two tribals who were allegedly killed for practicing witchcraft at Vissapuram village in Bhadrachalam mandal in Khammam district.
The Chief Minister ordered the District Collector to submit a comprehensive report on entire incident to him. Following CM’s directives, Sub-Collector Hari Kiran went to Vissapuram village to collect first hand information on the incident.
Hyderabad, September 12: In-charge of State Congress affairs and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad avoided any discussion on the issue of separate Telangana during his visit to the State capital here on Sunday.
Guntur, September 12: Law and Courts Minister Erasu Pratap Reddy on Sunday stated that the State Government has not discontinued any welfare schemes and programmes launched by former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
Hyderabad, September 12: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday conducted searches at the residences of two close aides of former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, who has been arrested in connection with a case of illegal mining.
According to sources, an 11-member CBI team led by Superintendent of Police Venkatesh from Hyderabad searched the residence of Gurulinge Gowda, Chairman of the Bellary Urban Development Authority located at Renukacharya Nagara.
Anantapur, September 12: Former chief minister NTR’s son and noted actor Nandamuri Balakrishna on Sunday announced his entry into active politics.
Talking to a private news channel while participating in a stars’ cricket match at Anantapur district, Balakrishna said that he would contest the next general elections. However, he was yet to decide on the constituency.
Hyderabad, September 12: Tension prevailed in the Saidabad area this evening after four Muslim youths were beaten up by the youths belonging to the other community during the Ganesh immersion procession. According to the sources Mustafa Ahmed and Mohammed Aslam both residents of Sapotabagh, Saidabad were passing from the communally sensitive area (poosala Basti) of Saidabad.
Hyderabad, September 12: The end of admissions for Eamcet 2011 has sent private engineering colleges into a panic mode as the second phase of counselling hardly made any difference on the number of students enrolled.
Out of the 59,610 students, who exercised their options in the second phase, 15,028 fresh allotments were made.
At the end of second phase of engineering counselling on Saturday, the number of unfilled seats continues to be 84,971 putting a large number of engineering colleges in a tight spot.
Bhadrachalam, September 12: A girl studying graduation in a college in Khammam was gang-raped while she was going to her relatives’ house at Jaggaram village in an autorickshaw on Friday night.
According to the police, the girl who boarded a bus in Khammam, reached Manuguru around 11 pm.
She hired the autorickshaw to go to Jaggaram, which is 8 km away from Manuguru.
It was alleged that the auto driver and three of his friends who boarded the vehicle, gangraped her in the Gottela forest area.
The victim lodged a complaint in Yeturunagaram police station on Saturday.
Bhopal, September 12: The family of RTI activist and India Against Corruption’s Madhya Pradesh chapter head Shehla Masood, who was killed here last month, feels the probe into the case would have acquired more urgency had Anna Hazare and his associates “raised the issue the way they should have”.
London, September 12: It has been revealed that the dress worn by Princess Diana while dancing with John Travolta at a White House gala dinner in 1985 hosted by Ronald and Nancy Reagan, which was reported to have been auctioned off this year, has not been sold.
The blue velvet “Travolta” gown, which perhaps became the most famous in Princess Diana’s wardrobe, was said to have been sold for a reputed world record of 510,000 pounds at an auction.
Mumbai, September 12: Commitment and dedication put forth by Shahid Kapoor towards ‘Mausam’ seems to paying off incredibly well.
Shahid’s new look in ‘Mausam’ where he dons the air force uniform and sports the classic moustache with aviator glasses is already a hit, but the actors’ latest get up has earned a first-time admiration from the young students of National Defense Academy (NDA).
Four days back when I got the Agenda papers (for the meeting of National Integration Council), I was little bemused to see the question marks after every item of the agenda circulated. What I tried to understand and speculate, was the confusion about the communal harmony, discrimination and civil disturbances in the minds of the government functionaries. Are the officers who had drafted the agenda, had done so under duress and are in disagreement of the agenda? I could not reach to any conclusion.
Patna,September 11 :GOING on a holiday and then getting married sounds like a cool idea. But Nigar Fatima Hussain had no such plans when she and her family decided to visit India.
Nigar, who is from Karachi, and her family decided to celebrate Eid with her aunt who stays in Phulwarisharif, on the outskirts of Patna.
But by the time they were getting ready to leave the country, Nigar got married to Sheeraz Ahmad, a businessman from Patna, in a quiet ceremony on Friday night.
Mumbai,September 11 :Mms and snapshots of a passionate kiss that Ranbir Kapoor shares with his debutant co- star Nargis Fakhri in Rockstar are doing the rounds on the Internet.
Quite smartly, the liplock photos have been leaked online at a time when the first trailer of the Imtiaz Ali film has been launched on television and has generated ample buzz.
Ranbir is set to share sizzling chemistry with the half- Czech, half- Pakistani Nargis with whom his name was linked as soon as Imtiaz launched his ambitious film last year.
London, September 11: Former British prime minister Tony Blair says that even though “significant blows” have been struck in the war against terror, “it’s not over”.
Blair said it was “deeply naive” to believe the response of the West had radicalised extremist Muslim factions.
“It is not because of something we’re doing to them. They believe in what they believe in because they believe their religion compels them to believe in it,” the Daily Express quoted the former prime minister as saying.
He said the terror threat would take some time to be defeated.
Moradabad, September 11: Hours after former Indian skipper and Moradabad MP Mohammed Azharuddin’s son Ayazuddin suffered serious injuries in a bike accident in Hyderabad, the residents here on Sunday prayed for his well-being.
“Today we got to know that son of Azharuddin met with an accident and is in serious condition in the hospital, we just prayed for his good health. He is a young boy and all of us are praying god for his good health,” said Mohammad Ismail, a local.
Hyderabad, September 11: From a mere Rs 450 in 1994, the famous Balapur Ganesh laddu fetched a whopping Rs 5.45 lakh in the open auction held before the start of final Ganesh immersion procession here on Sunday.
Hyderabad, September 11: Vasuki Sunkavalli (27) from Hyderabad is selected to represent India in Miss Universe competitions to be held at Paulo, Brazil on tomorrow that is on 12th September. The on-line votes polled in favor of each contestant are also very vital and considered as one of the deciding factor in this Miss Universe contests. So, please vote for ‘Vasuki.’