Month: September 2011

Hyderabad, September 02: Every drop of water from the Hussainsagar will soon command a price as the Hyderabad Metropo-litan Development Autho-rity wants to be paid for water drawn from the lake once it starts releasing treated water into it.

Officials said the cost of treating the waters work-ed out to Rs 7 per kilo litre. The lake water would thus be costlier than the potable water being supplied — although at a highly subsidised rate of `6 per KL — to by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sew-erage Board.

Hyderabad, September 02: About 11,740 students who were allotted B.Tech seats in the recently concluded first phase of Eamcet counselling have not reported at their respective colleges within the specified date.

With this, the vacant seats in engineering colleges after the first phase of counselling have gone up to to 70,002 seats in the convenor quota alone.

This has come as a shock to the managements of engineering colleges, which are already reeling under large-scale vacancies.

Tripoli, September 02: Libya’s fugitive dictator Muammar Gaddafi has called on his supporters to launch guerrilla warfare against the opposition fighters, speaking in an audio message surfaced recently.

“Prepare yourselves for a gang and guerrilla war, for urban warfare and popular resistance in every town…to defeat the enemy everywhere,” he said in the message aired on Thursday, AFP reported.

“The aim is to kill the enemy wherever he may be, whether he be Libyan or foreign,” he added.

Tripoli, September 02: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has once again vowed in an audio message broadcast on television that he would not surrender. He urged his loyalists to continue their resistance to the rebellion.

‘We are not weak women. We are not slaves. We can not give up. We can not surrender,’ Gaddafi said in the message broadcast on Syria’s media.

‘Let this be a long fight and let Libya be engulfed in flames,’ he said.

Gaddafi called on his supporters in the capital Tripoli to fight back and ‘set ambushes’ against the ‘collaborators’ of NATO.

Cairo, September 02: At least 100 people held in Egypt’s prisons were killed during the 18 days of protests that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak’s government in February, an Egyptian human rights group has said.

“More than 100 prisoners were killed and hundreds hurt at only five prisons,” the report by Cairo-based Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) said.

The report described the deaths recorded between Jan 29 and Feb 20 as “deliberate”.

Kolkata, September 02: Chief Minister of West Bengal of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee today ordered a CBI enquiry of Waqf Property Scam in West Bengal. Ongoing session in WB Assembly today discussed Minority Affairs & Madrasa Education Budget. In that session MLA of Congress Abu Taher Khan demand aCBI enquiry of Waqf Scam in West Bengal during the Left Front rule. In her response to Abu Taher Khan CM of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee accepted his demand.

New Delhi, September 02: The Supreme Court Thursday reserved its verdict on a petition by Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur seeking bail in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast in Maharashtra which six people were killed and over hundred injured.

The apex court bench of Justice J.M. Panchal and Justice H.L. Gokhale reserved the order on the conclusion of the arguments wherein senior counsel Mahesh Jethmalani sought the release of Thakur on bail.

Hyderabad, September 02: Two persons have been killed and five others injured in separate cases of road accidents in the Cyberabad Police limits.

Hyderabad, September 02: An unidentified person died of electrocution while trying to trespass into an agricultural farm in the limits of Ghatkesar police station here on Thursday.

However, police suspect that the man, aged between 30 and 35 years, died of electrocution at the Dharam Reddy Agriculture Farm in Pocharam village. Since police found over 15 water taps from his possession, they suspect that he might have tried to trespass into the farm for theft. But due to electrical fencing, he could not crossover and died of electrocution.

Mumbai, September 02: Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan may not be as close as they used to be, but the actress still cares very deeply for former beau, says a media report.

Katrina has decided to give his Ek Tha Tiger top priority. Given Khan is currently undergoing treatment in America for a nerve disorder, the schedule of the movie may most probably be pushed forward.

Hyderabad, September 02: Heavy rains have continued to play the havoc across the state on Thursday. Several villages in the Telangana and coastal Andhra districts got inundated or cut-off due to heavy rains.

Hyderabad, September 02: Sensing that the Speaker Nadendla Manohar might accept the resignations submitted by 26 pro-Jagan MLAs, the Congress party has begun the hunt for candidates for the likely by-polls.

Hyderabad, September 02: Controversy is brewing over the publication of some alleged remarks made by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Nadendla Manohar in the Wikileaks Cable.

Hyderabad, September 02: The observance of second death anniversary of former Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy scheduled to be held on Friday is all set to become a show of strength for both Jagan Mohan Reddy and the Congress party.

While the PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana has instructed his partymen to observe YSR’s anniversary at a large scale across the State, pro-Jagan leaders are preparing to sabotage the Congress events accusing the party of doing injustice to the YSR’s family after his death.

Hyderabad, September 02: The Emaar Properties has moved the Supreme Court to stall the on-going CBI probe and the apex court is expected to take up hearing for admission of petition on Friday.

Earlier, YS Jaganmohan Reddy also made a futile attempt in the Supreme Court to stay the CBI probe against him in the disproportionate assets case. Jagan’s petition was turned down and now the Emaar is trying to make another attempt to get a stay from the Supreme Court.

Hyderabad, September 02: Nearly a dozen people including Kadapa MP and YSR Congress party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy may be arrested anytime by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the disproportionate assets and Emaar Properties case.

New Delhi, September 02:A woman has been arrested allegedly for getting two contract killers to murder her son to hide her extra-marital affair, police said Thursday.

Twenty-year-old Manjeet was kidnapped from Najafgarh in Delhi, where he resided, before being killed in the Sangur district of Punjab in January this year.

The matter came to light when the contract killers, arrested Aug 31 for robbery, confessed to their other crimes, including Manjeet’s murder.

New Delhi,September 02:THE NEW WikiLeaks revelations could leave the saffron party, which is in a perpetual state of denial about being remote controlled, crimson- faced. Leaked cables state that the RSS suspected the Hindutva credentials of Delhi- based BJP leaders — possibly alluding to Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley — and, therefore, chose Nitin Gadkari as the party’s president.

New Delhi, September 02 : Anna Hazare has returned to his village in Maharashtra but the Left seems to be taking his struggle forward.

Four Left parties will tomorrow march to Parliament Street to press for measures to tackle graft. The issues they plan to raise are similar to what Hazare had voiced when he broke his fast at Ramlila Maidan.

The five issues on which the comrades will march are: an effective Lokpal, separate mechanism to tackle corruption in the judiciary, electoral reforms, steps to unearth black money and changing policy to prevent high-level corruption.

Srinagar,September 02:HURRIYAT Conference leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq wants Anna Hazare to launch a campaign against the killing of innocent civilians in Kashmir.

Whether the anti- corruption crusader, who is gearing up for the next phase of his campaign, heeds the call or not remains to be seen.

But way back in 1998, he was the only one to visit the Valley after another separatist leader criticised activists for ignoring human rights violations in Kashmir.

Mumbai,Sep[tember 02 :SALMAN Khan’s latest release Bodygaurd has broken all opening day records in Bollywood, with first- day collections touching an unprecedented ` 20 crore mark.

Departing from the regular norm of a Friday release, the film opened on Wednesday on the occasion of Eid.

Bodyguard was released across 2,800 screens worldwide and the five- day extended weekend should guarantee new records for Salman.

Kerala, September 02: The draft proposes to make delivery of various government services mandatory. Failure of officials to provide the services within specified time would attract fine on the lines of the Right to Information Act.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the media after the Cabinet meeting that the services to be brought under the purview of the Bill would be proposed by various departments. They would be discussed with employees unions before final decision is taken on the matter.

New Delhi, September 02: Two minor girls were raped in the national capital in separate incidents since yesterday, police said today.Mohammed Salim (39) was detained for allegedly raping her 13-year-old daughter in west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar yesterday, a senior police official said.The detention came following the girl informing police that her father, a rickshaw-puller, reached home and under the influence of alcohol, allegedly raped her.Police rushed to the spot and the girl was taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where a medical test was conducted.The medical report is awaited.In the second

Hyderabad, September 02: the Centre to submit by tomorrow a report on the health condition of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan accused in money laundering cases.

A bench of justices Altamas Kabir and S S Nijjar passed

the order after Khan’s counsel urged the court to consider

grant of interim bail to him on the ground that he was

suffering from various ailments, including renal failure, for

which he needed urgent medical treatment.

The apex court then asked Additional Solicitor General

Harin Rawal to verify the claim and submit a report by

New Delhi, September 02: With the resignation of Justice Soumitra Sen – against whom the Rajya Sabha has passed an impeachment resolution – throwing up new legal issues, the final decision will be taken by the president and the Lok Sabha speaker, constitutional experts said.

“The president will have to verify whether the resignation is not motivated by the desire to quit, but to seek a respite from the punishment (impeachment),” former Lok Sabha secretary general Subash Kashyap told IANS.