Month: October 2011

Hyderabad, October 05: England captain Alastair Cook feels the convincing win over India back home last month will not mean much when they face the World Champions in their own backyard.

The visitors don’t consider themselves favourites and are looking forward to what he described as a “very different challenge”.

“I don’t know too much about the favourites or anything like that. We know it is going to be a very different challenge. I don’t see any relation between what happened in England and what is going to happen here in India,” Cook said at a press conference here Wednesday.

Mumbai, October 05: Former beauty queen and actress Gul Panag, who feels Bipasha Basu and Akshay Kumar are Bollywood’s fitness icons, says girls should stop running behind size zero and simply focus on being fit.

“I don’t understand the relationship between size zero and a fit body. Fitness is that if your car breaks down and you can easily walk four to five km without tiring out, or if you can pick a heavy bag without complaining about your back … fitness is not necessarily about being skinny,” Gul told reporters here.

The 32-year-old also gave out some fitness tips.

Kabul, October 05: A senior leader of the militant Haqqani network was killed in a NATO air strike in eastern Afghanistan, Xinhua reported Wednesday.

Dilawar and two of his associates were killed in Musa Khel district of Khost province Tuesday. He was a close aide of Haji Mali Khan, the head of the network in Afghanistan, who was captured a week ago from neighbouring Paktia province.

The network, an ally of the Taliban, was founded by Mawlawi Jalaludin Haqqani and is led by his son Sirajudin Haqqani. The group has been fighting against Afghan and NATO-led troops.

–IANS

Mumbai, October 05: Mumbai was put on high alert for Thursday’s Dussehra celebration after police received intelligence input of a possible terror strike. The Mumbai police will maintain vigil all over the city, particularly the Shivaji Park ground where a political rally will be held on Thursday.

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, his son Uddhav and Republican Party of India (RPI) leader Ramdas Athavale will address the rally on Thursday. Intelligence agencies warned that terrorist or anti-social elements could strike to disrupt peace.

New Delhi, October 05: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani will cover 100 districts across the country during his anti-corruption yatra beginning Oct 12.

BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar said the yatra will start every day at 10 a.m. and go on till 10 p.m., covering 250-300 km a day.

“Advani will use a modified bus equipped with power lift (sky lift) that will also serve as dais. Every day, he will address three-four rallies and several nukkad (street) meetings,” Kumar told reporters.

Riyadh, October 05: Al-Rajhi is the richest family in Saudi Arabia, controlling nearly SR46.3 billion ($12.3 billion) at the end of September and far outpacing the ruling Al-Saud family, newspapers in the Gulf Kingdom said on Wednesday.

Al-Saud’s wealth was put at around SR32.9 billion ($8.7 billion) at the end of September to maintain its position as the second richest families in the world’s dominant oil power, the report showed.

Azamgarh, october 05: A youth today allegedly shot dead his girlfriend and later committed suicide in Gaurideeh Aiama village under Sidhari police station area here, police said.

Taubab (20) was in a relationship with Darafta (17). He shot dead the girl this morning before shooting himself dead, they said.

A case has been registered and the bodies have been sent for post mortem examination, the police said.

—PTI

Hyderabad, October : Man Hangs reason could be Telangana statehoodThe Sakalu Janula Samme demanding the separate statehood for Telangana reached the twenty third day, the State Transport Corporation protest has reached the seventeenth day. Earlier to this the agitation ignited by the regional politicians and fuelled by the students had seen a lot of deaths committed by the students in support of the agitation.

Islamabad, October 05: A Pakistani policeman assaulted by a Polish diplomat here watched in shock as his seniors served tea and snacks to his attacker in a bid to calm him down.

The bizarre incident took place when the diplomat beat up a traffic policeman who had asked him for his car documents to issue him a ticket in a busy Islamabad district, The Dawn reported Wednesday.

Police sources said their colleague Mohammad Ishaq asked Gerzy Bogusz, deputy defence attache at the Polish embassy, not to park in a no-parking zone. His car had a local license number plate.

Hyderabad, October 05: Senior Congress leader and Finance Minister Pranab Mukharji who is expected to come with some good news on Telangana issue during his forthcoming visit to Hyderabad, has disappointed the Telangana leaders with his latest statement.

Hyderabad, October 05: Senior Congress leader and Karim Nagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar, who nowadays is talking aggressively against his own party leadership, reacting to Pranab’s statement on Telangana issue has said “So far, we are telling the people that it is we who can bring Telangana and not anyone else.

Bhopal, October 05: They don’t regard Ravana as a negative figure. On the contrary, some people in four Madhya Pradesh districts worship Hindu god Rama’s arch rival on Dussehra when all across his effigies are burnt to mark the victory of good over evil.

In some places of Vidisha, Mandsuar, Ratlam and Indore districts, the effigy of Ravana is not burnt but the people welcome the 10-headed demon king.

New Delhi, October 05: Southern beauty Asin Thottumkal, who has worked with Salman Khan in “London Dreams” and “Ready”, says she admires and respects the actor but has never desired him.

“I never saw him in that light. For me he was somebody who I looked up to in a very respectful way, somebody that I admired. He is very attractive but that’s not the way I saw or looked up to him as…so that never really crossed my mind…of desiring him,” said Asin, who will grace Simi Garewal’s show “India’s Most Desirable” this Sunday.

“I really never thought of resisting him,” she added.

Hyderabad, October 5: Meerchowk police on Tuesday allegedly assaulted a motor mechanic Mohammad Ahmed Ali (50) later they admitted him to Osmania hospital and fled. Talking to press persons at Osmania hospital, Ahmed Ali’s wife Sabiha Begum told that her husband went to work in the morning he was washing his hands at a hotel opposite to Imliban bus station after having breakfast. Meerchowk police who was present there objected on his washing the hands when Ahmed Ali asked the reason for objection they badly assaulted him.

Hyderabad, October 5: A 14 year old boy who forced his mother to leave the house commits suicide. The incident occurred under Habeeb nagar police station limits last night. According to inspector Habeebnagar V Venkateshwar Rao Niketan who was a student of 9th standard hanged himself to death at his house. Niketan was the single child of Shivram Singh resident of Seetaram Bagh he had misbehaved and beat his mother on which his mother went to her mother’s house. Meanwhile his grand mother abused him a lot and told the neighbours that she is taking away her daughter just because of Niketan.

New Delhi, October 05: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has been consistently finding himself in the headlines soon after he declared war against his boss Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over police inaction in the 2001 Godhra riots.

The officer had alleged that Modi ordered the police to be soft on Hindu rioters on 27 February 2002 in an affidavit signed by a constable.

Hyderabad, October 05: The ongoing ‘struggle’ for Telangana has sparked a turf war within the main political parties in Andhra Pradesh. Unmindful of whether or not they reach the ultimate goal of securing statehood for the region, everyone involved wants to score brownie points and emerge the ‘champion’, or at least be seen as one, in the larger political game of one-upmanship.

Hyderabad, October 5: Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) is likely to be divided into different parts. Besides this proposal of its privatization is also being considered. According to sources after a loss of nearly 2000 crore there is no way left but to privatize the corporation. Sources also said that chief minister Mr. N Kiran Kumar Reddy had convened a meeting to mull over the matter.

Panaji, October 05: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator Francisco alias Mickky Pacheco was Wednesday jailed for six months after a court rejected his bail application in an assault case.

Kapil Natekar, a junior engineer employed with the electricity department, had in 2006 filed a complaint against Pacheco after the latter assaulted him in his office following an argument.

The former tourism minister was convicted by a trial court earlier this year and had appealed against this before the district and sessions court in Margao, 30 km from here.

Three of a family murdered, one arrested

Hyderabad, October 5 (Siasat News): Rajendranagar police has arrested a man who was involved in the murder of three persons of the same family just three days back.

As per the details, on October 1, the dead bodies of Geetha, 35 and her 13-year-old son Chandu’s body was recovered from Maikamma Nagar in Rajendranagar. As the bodies were highly decomposed, the foul smell coming out of the house alerted the neighbours.

Kamareddy, October 5: A man died due to heart attack during a rally conducted by Marwadi Gujarati samaj. The incident occurred at Kamareddy. According to details a rally was taken out for separate Telangana state by Desai Beedi Company. Sulaiman who was shouting passionate slogans suddenly suffered heart attack during the rally and he died on the spot.

New Delhi, October 05: Defending the arrest of police officer Sanjiv Bhatt, BJP said it is being done as per the legal process and asked if the attacks against Gujarat
Chief Minister show that being anti-Narendra Modi has become ”fashionable”.

BJP spokesperson Sitharaman also sought to know how Bhatt could be called a “whistleblower”.

Hyderabad, October 5: A delegation of Telangana Political Joint Action committee told Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh that Muslims are taking active part in the struggle for separate Telangana state. President Movement for Peace and Justice, Hamed Mohammad Khan who was among the delegation explained to prime minister the reasons behind Jamat-e-Islami Hind’s support to separate Telangana movement.

Jeddah, October 05: Over 19,000 Indian Haj pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage.

According to a release of the Consulate General of India here, a total of 19,549 pilgrims have arrived from India, of them 2,626 are in Makkah and 16,549 pilgrims are in Madina.

So far, 70 Haj flights have come from India.

Meanwhile, the first death of a Haj pilgrim has been reported from Madina. He has been identified as Farooqui Husain,70, son of Hafiz Anwar Husain Khan.

The Haj to Makkah, the holiest city for Muslims, at least once a lifetime, is obligatory in Islam.

Islamabad, October 05: Pakistan is committed to ending discriminatory practices against women, President Asif Ali Zardari has said.

In a message on World Teachers Day Oct 5, the president said his government valued the importance of women, particularly in the education sector.

“Women empowerment and gender equality is all about human rights that lie at the heart of development,” the Associated Press of Pakistan quoted Zardari as saying.

“Efforts for gender equality is the key to improve economic, political and social conditions in the country,” he said.

–IANS