Month: November 2011

London, November 29: At least 100,000 British people are dependent upon food handouts, as they cannot afford to eat being hit hard by poverty and rising food prices.

A new food bank opens in Britain every week in order to deal with the increasing number of poverty-stricken people who have to rely on food parcels, the Sunday Express reported on Sunday.

The revelations come as a British Army veteran and his wife committed suicide earlier this month being tired of a “hand to mouth” life and walking ten miles to get food parcels from a soup kitchen.

Hyderabad, November 28: Osman Bin Mohammed Al-Hajiri, President of Deccan Wakf Protection Society & others in a statement issued yesterday pointed out that Toli Masjid is a notified Wakf Property which has 27 acres Wakf Land under it.

Due to the negligence of Wakf Board, land grabbers have occupied the Wakf Land with the connivance of officials. It may be recalled that a few days back, a temple was constructed on this Wakf Land.

Hyderabad, November 29: Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday announced that the State Government may take back the land allotted to industries which were not utilised for the purpose.

Hyderabad, November 29: Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy on Monday advised the Probationary DSPs to be honest, effective and maintain a good image from the beginning of their career.

Mumbai, November 29: Three days after her arrest, senior journalist Jigna Vora has started spilling the beans.

Vora, deputy bureau chief with The Asian Age, was arrested by Mumbai police Crime Branch on Friday allegedly for her involvement in the murder of Jyotirmoy Dey, editor (investigations) of Mid Day.

Vora has been booked under stringent sections of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).

New Delhi, November 28 (Pervez Bari): It was a sea of humanity which descended on the Ramlila Maidan as the two-day Social Justice Conference, organized by the Popular Front of India, concluded with a mammoth Public meeting here on Sunday.

Hyderabad, November 29: The Andhra Pradesh State Transport Corporation has decided to regularise the services of about 6,000 contract employees working with the department.

According to Executive Director (HRD) GV Ramana Rao, the services of 2,755 drivers and 3,173 conductors working with the corporation as contract basis would be regularised. The services of these 5,982 contract employees would be regularised from December 1, he said.

——Agencies

Chennai, November 29: The Madras High Court, Tuesday, will take up of hearing the petitions by death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case seeking commutation of capital punishment.

On August 30, the court had stayed for eight weeks the execution of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan admitting their pleas for commuting their death sentence to life term.

New Delhi, November 29: A “sudden strike” by members of All India Passport Employees Association (AIPEA) on Monday left visitors to the Regional Passport Office in South Delhi in a lurch.

According to sources, the “immediate cause” of the strike “appeared” to be the two-day All India Regional Passport Officers conference to be held in the Capital starting Tuesday. “The members of AIPEA want to attend the conference, which will be inaugurated by the External Affairs Minister S M Krishna. We had not invited them, and thus, they went on a strike,” a senior official said.

Washington, November 29: The US military will lead the probe into the cross-border attack by NATO forces that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, the defence department said Monday.

The probe will “look at the full range of factors that contributed to this tragedy and it will be broad, expansive and thorough”, the department’s press secretary George Little said, adding that the US Central Command (Centcom) will lead the investigation.

New Delhi, November 29: The midnight crackdown on Ramdev and his followers at the Ramlila ground during their protest against corruption was a result of ‘irresponsible’ behaviour of the yoga guru’s running away from the venue and leaving his supporters who resorted to unprovoked violence, Delhi Police told the Supreme Court.

“Ramdev Baba jumped down and left the stage, leaving it to a few of his supporters who started hurling stones towards the police,” advocate Harish Salve, appearing for the police, told a bench of justices B S Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar.

New Delhi, November 29: Delhi MLAs and ministers will get nearly double the amount of their existing salary from this month. The Delhi assembly had passed an amendment bill in the winter session of the assembly in September effecting almost a two-fold hike in the salaries of MLAs and Ministers. The government has now notified the amendment bill.

The recommendations to hike the salaries were made by a House Committee and the bill was approved by the Union Home Ministry in July.

–Agencies

Hyderabad, November 29: Bhavani Nagar Police Station arrested 25 year old Asif from Sultan Shahi last night in connection with an attack on a man belonging to majority community.

Task Force police suddenly arrested him and shifted him to Bhavaninagar Police Station where he was tortured in police custody. Mr. Baig Addl. Inspector of police said that Asif is being interrogated in Bhavani Nagar police station.

——Siasat News

Hyderabad,November 29 :Minister had signed lease files linked to mining scam.

THE CBI arrested a senior IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh, Y. Srilakshmi, on Monday.

She was charged with helping mining tycoon and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy in the illegal mining of iron ore through his Obulapuram Mining Company ( OMC). The agency, however, spared state home minister Sabita Indra Reddy, who had signed the controversial file favouring OMC during her tenure as minister for mines when the scam took place.

Bangalore, November 29: Infosys’ assistant manager and former woman journalist Smita Rao, 32, hanged herself at her home Monday due to alleged harassment by her husband Rohit, a software engineer working with the popular web search engine firm Google in this tech hub, a police official said.

“We have registered a harassment case against Rohit under sections 498A and 304B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and are investigating to ascertain what actually forced his wife Smita to commit suicide by hanging in her flat,” Hennur police inspector G Prabhakar said late Monday.

Tehran, November 29: An American analyst believes belligerent US rhetoric and regional military moves targeting Syria and Iran indicate that imperialism’s manufactured “nuclear crisis” is a cynical pretext for war.

In an article published on the Global Research website on Monday, Tom Burghardt explained about US hostile measures in its three-decade covert war against Iran, mentioning the recent report by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano as an excuse to justify possible military action against Tehran.

New Delhi, November 29: Home Minister P Chidambaram today said India had asked the US about Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Headley’s links to US state agencies, but Washington had not been “willing” to share that information.

Asked about former home secretary G K Pillai’s statement to the investigative journalism website ProPublica that the US knew more than it told India, Chidambaram said, “That’s true.”

The home minister was speaking at the Idea Exchange programme at The Indian Express.

New Delhi, November 29: Stepping up pressure on the Lokpal issue, Anna Hazare has decided to hold a dharna here on December 11 if the Parliamentary Standing Committee’s proposals on the Bill were not to his satisfaction.

Team Anna said the 74-year-old activist will lead a day-long protest at Jantar Mantar if the Standing Committee does not come up with strong provisions in the Bill.

Mumbai, November 29: Salman Khan is leading his celebrity cricket team, Mumbai Heroes. The publicity poster for his team resembles that of actor Shah Rukh Khan’s blockbuster ‘Chak De India’s’ promotional poster.

‘Chak De India’ poster show Shah Rukh standing in the center with his girl’s hockey team behind him.

Mumbai Heroes poster also shows Salman Khan standing in the center with his team behind him.

It may be a mere coincidence or lack of research by the design team.

It might also be a case of Salman Khan getting inspiration from SRK’s work.

Mumbai, November 29: The grapevine has been abuzz for quite some time with the news of the impending marriage of Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan. While Saif’s sister, Soha Ali Khan says that the family is looking forward to their wedding in March 2012, Kareena has rubbished such reports in the media.

Kareens insists that no dates have been fixed, be it February 2012 or March 2012. She also added that everyone but the couple seems to know more about their wedding date.

Tehran, November 29: A top Iranian official has rejected media reports about an explosion being heard in the central city of Isfahan.

Mohammad-Mehdi Ismaili, Isfahan governor’s political and security deputy, said on Monday that report was completely baseless and fabricated, IRNA reported.

He added that the Isfahan governor would follow up on the report.

Ismaili made the remarks after certain media outlets reported that a powerful blast had been heard in Isfahan on Monday afternoon.

German, November 29: A German pensioner accused of raping his daughter repeatedly over a 34-year-period and fathering three children with her went on trial in this southern city Monday.

The now 69-year-old defendant, Adolf Bergbauer, admitted sex with his daughter in testimony before the court but denied charges of rape. He said she consented.

Bergbauer has been charged with 497 counts of rape. Suspected cases earlier than 1991 have now passed the statute of limitations and are too old to consider.

Mumbai, November 29: Nobody expected it to happen this soon, but Sunny Leone has been nominated for elimination in the second week of her Bigg Boss sojourn.

This week the nomination process was an interesting affair. After Pooja Bedi made Juhi Parmar safe and Mehek was kept out of the loop (as she was made the captain after Pooja Missra was evicted), the fight was to be between Amar, Siddharth, Shraddha, Shonali, Sky and Sunny Leone.
Mehek using her `power` as the captain, directly nominated Sky.

London, November 29: Fresh links between Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and the British government have emerged as it was revealed former Labour defence minister, Adam Ingram, gave him £100,000 in donations.

Argus Scotland, headed by Ingram, British defence minister from 2001 to 2007, gave a £100,000 donation to the Gadaffi International Charity and Development Foundation, revealed the Sunday Times in its 27 November edition.

The donation came around the same time Libya’s Organisation for the Development of Administrative Centres awarded the company with a multi-billion-pound contract.

Geneva, November 29: A United Nations commission of inquiry said on Monday Syrian military and security forces had committed crimes against humanity including murder, torture and rape, and the government of President Bashar al-Assad bore responsibility.

The panel, which interviewed 223 victims and witnesses including defectors, called on Syria to halt “gross human rights violations,” release prisoners rounded up in mass arrests and allow access to media, aid workers and rights monitors.