Month: October 2011

Hyderabad, October 07: (Shahabuddin Hashmi’s Report) In the wake of Telangana stir reaching its peak, some people think that there is a likelihood of President’s rule in the state. According to a senior IAS officer, President’s rule is not possible because there is no law and order problem due to Telangana agitation. If violence bursts out in a large scale and if the police is unable to contain it, then there is a possibility of President’s rule.

New Delhi, October 07: NIA has arrested a Kashmiri medical student who is alleged to be a ‘key link’ in the conspiracy behind the Delhi High Court blast last month that left 15 people dead and over 80 injured.

Wasim Ahmed, a student of Unani medicine in Bangaldesh, was being questioned by the NIA in connection with the blast, official sources said.

There was no official word on whether Wasim was arrested near the Indo-Bangla border or the authorities in Dhaka had handed him over.

New Delhi, October 07: Narendra Modi completed 10 years as Gujarat Chief Minister on Friday.

The main opposition BJP is organizing several programmes to mark ten years of Modi’s rule, who took oath as Chief Minister on 7 October, 2001 in Gandhinagar. He replaced the then Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel who was asked to step down by the BJP central leadership.

Since then, he has won two Assembly polls with 2/3rd majority in Gujarat, and three Assembly polls personally contesting from Rajkot, Maninagar and Maninagar.

Hyderabad, October 07: The general strike in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh entered its 25th day Friday as the impasse continues over the demand for a separate state.

Government employees, teachers, workers in Singareni coal mines and Road Transport Corporation (RTC) are continuing their strike to press the central government to initiate the formation of a separate Telangana state.

With the centre seeking more time to resolve the issue, an early end to the strike is not in sight.

Tripura, October 07: The police have recovered 1,381 sovereigns of gold jewellery stolen from Muthoot Mini Finance Private Limited here, exactly 11 days after the heist.

The district police have arrested six persons from whom they recovered the jewellery. They also recovered Rs.45,000 out of the Rs.2.5 lakh stolen by the gang on September 24. Three others, including T. Venkatesan, mastermind of the robbery and former employee of the firm, are yet to be nabbed.

New Delhi, October 07: Actresses Neha Sharma and Sarah Jane Dias have been picked as the leading ladies of Riteish Deshmukh and Tusshar Kapoor-starrer “Kya Super Kool Hai Hum”, a sequel to 2005 comedy film “Kya Kool Hai Hum”.

Neha has earlier featured in “Crook: It’s Good To Be Bad” while Sarah was seen in “Dum Maaro Dum”.

“Neha Sharma and Sarah Jane Dias have been cast opposite @Riteishd and me in our ‘Kya Super Kool Hai Hum’!” Tusshar posted on his Twitter page.

Riteish confirmed the development too, and said he is excited to work with the beauties.

Hyderabad, October 07: Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has laid foundation stone for IIT Buildings in Kandhi village in Medak district on Thursday. The project is estimated around Rs. 400 crores and it will be named as IIT Hyderabad.

Speaking on the occasion CM Kiran Kumar Reddy has said “Students and parents should understand that showing interest in Engineering and Medicine only is not advisable and you have to think about the other courses too.”

Hyderabad, October 07: Center has summoned Governor Narasimhan to New Delhi. It already had meetings with Chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana.

Since, KCR & Co., has bluntly refused to end their general strike until a favorable announcement is made on Telangana issue, the Center is said to be preparing to impose President’s Rule on the state to bring normalcy.

New Delhi, October 07 : A 32-year-old married woman was raped by a friend with whom she went out to see Durga Puja celebrations. The friend drugged her and raped her in his car, police said Thursday.

The friend is absconding.

The victim, a native of Panipat in Haryana, was staying with her husband in Rohini Sector 24 in north Delhi. Her husband, an apple trader, had gone on a business trip to Himachal Pradesh.

Islamabad, October 07: A ban on Indian films in Pakistan’s cinema houses would help the country’s film industry “develop and thrive”, a Pakistani daily said Friday.

An editorial in The Nation said the demand made by a group of artists, singers and directors in Lahore Wednesday to ban Indian films in national cinema houses ought to be met by the government.

“That would help the national film industry develop and thrive.

Kuala Lumpur, October 07: A judge on Thursday quashed subpoenas ordering Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife to testify in the sodomy trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

The ruling by High Court Judge Zabidin Mohamed Diah removes the prospect of a sensational court appearance by Najib and his wife Rosmah Mansor, whom Anwar says are behind what he calls bogus charges.

Mumbai, October 06: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, who is returning to the big screen after four years with the Sino-Indian venture The Desire, admits that she missed being on celluloid but has learnt to prioritise her life with time.

Mumbai, October 07: Conventional wisdom has it that there are two power centers in the UPA; in reality, there have been three. As chairperson of the UPA, Sonia Gandhi is the Supreme Leader but without the responsibility for day to day governance. That task was left to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2004 who as head of the cabinet was meant to be a CEO-like figure entrusted with policy execution. But there has always been a third power center, less visible perhaps, but no less important. Pranab Mukherjee has always been much more than just the senior minister in the UPA.

Washington, October 07: A State Department official on Thursday said that the US would continue to work to improve its relationship with Pakistan.

“As we’ve said many times over the last couple of days and weeks, we are engaged intensively with Pakistan at all levels. That engagement will continue,” the State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, told reporters at her daily news conference.

The Special US Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Marc Grossman, will be there in Islamabad for talks with the top Pakistani leadership over the weekend.

New Delhi, October 07: A court in Ahmedabad will decide on Indian Police Service officer Sanjeev Bhatt’s bail plea on Friday. The court had on Wednesday rejected the Gujarat government’s application opposing bail to Bhatt and begun hearing his bail plea.

Sessions court Judge V K Vyas had adjourned the hearing on Bhatt’s bail till October 7 after partly hearing arguments of Bhatt’s lawyer I H Sayed.

The Gujarat government had on Tuesday moved an application opposing the hearing of Bhatt’s bail plea on the grounds that his revision remand application was pending.

Ahmedabad, October 07: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case is expected to ask for more time to finish its conclusive report.

The SIT is likely to make the request when the case comes up for hearing in the Gujarat High court on Friday.

An interim progress report in the case was on Wednesday submitted by the SIT in the Gujarat High Court.

New Delhi, October 07: She might have done it for love but finds herself handcuffed. A domestic maid, to bail out her lover in judicial custody, burgled the house in which she worked and tried to get away with perhaps more than the bail amount.

Pinkie and her partner in crime, lover Sachin’s friend Ashif, were caught while trying to sell the stolen goods in north Delhi’s Ashok Vihar Wednesday, Deputy Police Commissioner Meenu Choudhary said Thursday.

Washington, October 07: Apple’s visionary co-founder Steve Jobs had a spiritual side too shaped by a “spiritual retreat to India” and “traversing through the country had sparked Jobs’ conversion to Buddhism.” Like the Beatles, Jobs took a spiritual retreat to India and regularly walked around his neighbourhood and the office barefoot, according to various media reports. Traversing India sparked Jobs’ conversion to Buddhism. Kobun Chino, a monk, presided over his wedding to Laurene Powell, a Stanford University MBA.

New Delhi, October 07: The German auto major BMW, which entered the domestic market early this year with as many as six models in the two-wheeler segment, plans to launch under-1,000-cc bikes by January.

“We will launch bikes below 1,000 cc in the domestic market in January,” Navnit Motors Managing Director Sharad Kachalia told PTI here.

BMW Motorrad, the superbikes division of the German luxury carmaker, does not have direct presence in the country.

Washington, October 07: The US has turned the heat up on Pakistan once again with the latest reprimand coming in from US President Barack Obama himself, who was concerned about the ISI links with terror groups. He even said that Pakistan must adopt a peaceful approach towards India.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visit to India and the signing of the Strategic Partnership Agreement found echoes in Washington.

Briefing journalists in Washington, US President Obama, without naming the Haqqani network, hinted at its linkages with Pakistani intelligence.

New Delhi, October 07: A seven-year-old girl died of critical injuries after a burning log from a Ravana effigy in flames fell on her at Ramlila Maidan here, police said Thursday.

The log fell on Bhavya Gupta as she along with her parents was watching the Dussehra celebrations at the ground, police said.

“We received a call at around 7.15 p.m. A few people got injured but the girl was critically injured,” a fire brigade official told IANS.

She was rushed to Lok Nayak Hospital. The other injured people were discharged after first aid, the official said.

Washington, October 07: A new opinion poll in the United States shows that a record number of American citizens are dissatisfied with how President Barack Obama is running the country.

The survey by Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut found that 55 percent of Americans, as opposed to 41 percent, did not like the way that Obama was handing his job, the university’s official website reported on Thursday.

Hyderabad, October 07: With a majority of government employees, including those working in district treasury offices in the Telangana region, barring Hyderabad, participating in the general strike, salaries could not be disbursed to about 80 per cent of employees in the region.

New Delhi, October 07: Even if the electoral demise of the Congress had not been the avowed aim of Anna Hazare, his backers in the RSS would have been working towards that aim.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday highlighted the aim unambiguously with a rider – root out the “minority-based” elements in the anti-corruption agitation who opposed the use of nationalist symbols such as Bharat Mata and Vande Mataram.

Washington, October 07: CIA has entrenched itself in Pakistan-Afganistan for the last 30 years.Its was Western countries and especially American which took up the challenge in training Taliban recently the wikileaks have come out with documents on how CIA helped Rabbani Network both financially and technologically.