ISrael, October 01: “The US president says that Israel’s security is his red line. [What has drawn this red line] the interests of the American nation or Obama’s need for the money and support of Zionist companies to secure his second term in office?”
In a Saturday address at the International Conference on Palestinian Intifada in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Saturday, the Leader said Obama’s red line would be crossed by the awakened Muslim nations.
Madrid, October 01: Spanish doctors cared for a new-born boy delivered by emergency workers after a deranged gunman shot and killed his expectant mother in a church, officials said.
A medical worker said she decided “in just seconds” to deliver the baby inside the Madrid church by emergency caesarian after failing to save the life of the 36-year-old mother.
The team had to resuscitate the boy because his heart had stopped but it was too early to know whether he had suffered any brain damage, she added.
Egypt, October 01: The altercations broke out after the police forced protesters to clear the historic square in central Cairo on Saturday.
Angry demonstrators had decided to continue their sit-in protests until their demands were met by military rulers.
Protesters hurled stones at the police on Saturday when the latter charged hundreds of people who had stayed in the square with shields and batons arresting 10.
New Delhi, October 01: At least 17 passengers were injured when two Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses collided here Saturday, police said.
The accident occurred around 10 a.m. on Outer Ring Road in west Delhi’s Rajouri Garden area.
‘Both the buses were heading towards Nehru Place. A bus running on route No. 442 was just ahead of another bus on route No. 568, when suddenly it was hit by the second bus.’
‘In the resulting jolt, a total of 17 passengers sustained bruises,’ a police officer said.
New Delhi, October 01: Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) publicly defended Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his absence from its national executive meet here Saturday, a party source said some senior leaders were not happy with his decision.
As the national executive meet ended here, the source said several senior leaders were unhappy with Modi’s decision to skip the meeting, which had left the party embarrassed.
Mumbai, October 01: Salman Khan has finally returned to India after his surgery, and will be at the ND Studios, Karjat today with co-host Sanjay Dutt, shooting the first episode of Bigg Boss 5 that airs on Colors. Earlier this week, he was in Dublin, shooting with Katrina Kaif for Ek Tha Tiger. As soon as he wraps up work for the TV show in India, he will fly back to the Irish capital immediately to resume the film shoot.
Kabul, October 01: NATO-led forces said on Saturday that they had captured the senior commander for the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, during an operation in eastern Paktia province earlier in the week.
Khan is “the uncle of Siraj and Badruddin Haqqani … one of the highest ranking members of the Haqqani network and a revered elder of the Haqqani clan,” the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
Siraj, or Sirajuddin, Haqqani and his brother, Badruddin, are sons of veteran Afghan militant commander Jalaluddin Haqqani.
New Delhi, October 01: In-charge of AP Congress affairs and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday clarified the finding a solution for Telangana statehood issue is a long process.
‘It is not an easy decision to be taken and it cannot be resolved in one day,’ Azad told reporters after having a meeting on the issue with senior Congress leaders including Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister AK Antony and Ahmed Patel.
New Delhi, October 01: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Saturday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take a decision on the Telanagana issue immediately.
‘Procrastination will only worsen the situation. I would urge you to see that a decision is taken on the matter without any further delay,’ said Karat said in a letter, which was released to the media.
The CPI-M leader noted that for the past three weeks, the Telengana region has been paralysed by the agitation of the people demanding a separate state.
New Delhi. October 01: The CPI(M) on Saturday demanded immediate release of senior Gujarat police officer Sanjiv Bhatt, saying his arrest on “concocted” charges showed how the Narendra Modi government was trying to cover up its involvement in the 2002 communal incidents.
The party Politburo maintained that Bhatt had “told the truth about the connivance of the Chief Minister and the state administration in the communal violence against the minorities in 2002” and filed an affidavit on the matter before the Supreme Court.
Lucknow, October 01: Going full throttle to woo SC and ST voters, Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding increase in quota for them as per their population and job reservation in the private sector and the judiciary.
In her latest missive to Singh, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister contended there has been an increase in the population of these communities but the quota has remained static, making it difficult to provide facilities to them.
New Delhi, October 01: Amid pressure from various quarters for an early decision on Telangana issue, government on Saturday said more consultations with various parties are needed on the contentious statehood demand and the exercise would take “some time” to end.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Political Secretary to Congress President Ahmed Patel discussed the situation in Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh at the North Block here.
New Delhi, October 01: Sharpening its attack on the United Progressive Alliance government at the centre, the Bharatiya Janata Party Saturday called it ‘arrogant’ and claimed the prime minister ‘has lost his confidence’. It called its cadres to be ready for possible mid-term polls.
Talking to reporters on the concluding day of its national executive’s two-day meeting here, party leader Arun Jaitley said that the prime minister ‘has lost his confidence’.
‘The style of governance is full of arrogance and intolerance,’ he said.
Hyderabad, October 01: Andhra Pradesh’s Infrastructure Minister Komatireddy Venkata Reddy Saturday resigned to protest the delay of the Congress leadership in taking a clear decision for formation of a separate Telangana state.
Venkata Reddy, who hails from Nalgonda district of Telangana region, met Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan and submitted his resignation as minister.
He later also submitted his resignation as member of the state assembly. Another Congress legislator C. Lingaiah also resigned.
New Delhi, October 01: Jailed DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar Saturday argued in the special court that they cannot be said to have committed a criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy in the 2G scam as they were not related in any way to the alleged dishonest disposal of the spectrum.
Islamabad, September 01: The incident took place on Saturday near a police van in Toor Ghar area of the town of Mansehra.
The policemen, recently recruited, were heading to a training center.
No group has taken responsibility for the attack.
Security forces cordoned off the area and the injured were shifted to a local hospital.
The death toll is expected to rise as some of the wounded are said to be in critical conditions.
Violence has been on the rise in northwestern parts of Pakistan where the government has launched an offensive against pro-Taliban militants.
Israel, October 01: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has strongly criticized US President Barack Obama for considering Israel’s security as his red line.
“The US president says that Israel’s security is his red line. [What has drawn this red line] the interests of the American nation or Obama’s need for the money and support of Zionist companies to secure his second term in office?”
Islamabad, October 01: Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi has joined in the controversy stemming from retired fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar’s book ‘Controversially Yours’
Afridi was quoted in the Indian media saying that he saw “Tendulkar’s legs shivering” in front of the Rawalpindi Express.
In his book, Akhtar wrote that Tendulkar was scared of his bowling, a comment that raised a storm, forcing Indian publishers to cancel all launch-related and publicity events.
Hyderabad, October 01: The current agitation in Telangana over the sentiments for a separate state has reached the level where the entire South India is under the threat of darkness since Singareni Collieries, the major producer of coal has remained paralysed. Hence, this has been affecting the electricity generation and this could just be the beginning of a power shortage that threatens the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Hyderabad, October 01: Muslim community leaders of the city have sought implementation of various welfare schemes announced by the Government for their welfare.
Riyadh, October 01: It is a ‘Saudi Spring’ of sorts. For the nation’s women, the right to vote and run in local elections in 2015 is a giant leap forward, though they remain unable to serve as Cabinet ministers, drive or travel abroad without permission from a male guardian.
Saudi women bear the brunt of their nation’s conservative values, often finding themselves the target of the unwanted attention of the kingdom’s religious police, who enforce a rigid interpretation of Sharia law on the streets and public places like shopping malls and university campuses.
Mumbai, October 01: She has not yet proved herself onscreen, but Nargis Fakhri seems to have already caught the imagination of Bollywood followers thanks to her mentor Imtiaz Ali.
The filmmaker is pulling out all the stops to maintain the mystery surrounding his American find before their Rockstar hits theatres this year. Not surprisingly, she’ll be kept out of all the promotional events, too.
Mumbai, October 01: Taking a dig at his ally BJP over Advani-Narendra Modi ‘cold war’, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Saturday said the “triphala churn” (an ayurvedic mix of three herbs used to detoxify and rejuvenate the body) concocted by the RSS, Gadkari and Advani is troubling the Gujarat Chief Minister.
Thackeray’s comments, in an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, come amid reports of the two-day BJP National Executive Meet being overshadowed by a cold war between the party’s two big guns – LK Advani and Narendra Modi with the latter conspicuous by his absence.
Hyderabad, October 1: Government officials, it seems, are going by the saying ‘if you want to wipe out the identity of a community then at first wipe out its language’.
Hardoi,October 01:Yoga guru Ramdev has said that had he not fled from the Ramlila ground in Delhi during the police crackdown in the wee hours on June 5, he too would have met the same fate as Rajbala.
In reply to a question from one of his followers in Hardoi on Friday, Ramdev claimed he would have been killed had he not fled from the Ramlila maidan.
“I would not have been here among you had I not fled that day,” he said. Ramdev is currently undertaking a ‘Swabhiman Yatra’ and is touring various districts of Uttar Pradesh.