Month: November 2011

Lucknow, November 04: A mob fought pitched battles with police and resorted to arson and vandalism in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district Friday after a school student was mowed down by a private bus, police said.

Vipin Kumar, 14, was crushed to death by the speeding bus in Aaho Patti area while going to school.

“Agitated over the accident, locals in large numbers indulged in heavy brick batting, torched the private bus and damaged some private vehicles,” Superintendent of Police (City) Ashok Kumar told reporters in Azamgarh, some 300 km from Lucknow.

Hyderabad, November 04: Signs of the economic slow down may be dropping hints as the city witnessed a 10% decline in recruitment in the month of October when compared to the previous month. The Naukri Job Speak Index stated that all key industry sectors and functional areas of the city have witnessed dips in their hiring activity.

Added to the possible global slow down, the index cited that the double digit percentage dip in hiring could be attributed to the festive season spanning across October. But they also said that the Oct-11 index at 997 is 7% higher than the Oct-10 index.

Delhi, November: DMK MP Kanimozhi will appeal in the High Court today for bail in the 2G scam case. Yesterday, a CBI court in Delhi had dismissed her bail plea along with that of seven other accused.

The court’s decision stunned many as the odds were in favour of her getting bail after more than five months in prison for her alleged role in the telecom scam.

The CBI, which had contested three earlier bail applications for her, had said a few weeks ago that this time around, it has no objections to her leaving prison.

Hyderabad, November 04: It’s time for motorists to rethink about driving after downing a peg or two. The traffic police’s drive against drunken driving will start from Friday. Unlike in previous such initiatives, when drunken drivers were penalised and let off, police will be hauled off to drivers from now on.

Announcing the spirited drive, additional commissioner of police (traffic) CV Anand said drunken drivers will be booked under Section 185 (a) of the Motor Vehicle Act and produced in court on the very next working day.

Masjid Bukhari Rajendarnagar uninhabited
Hyderabad, November 4: Foundation stone of Masjid Bukhari Rajendarnagar was laid by Afzalul Ulama Prof. Abdul Wahab Bukhari on March 3, 1977 at Agricultural University. This mosque is uninhabited thanks to the narrow-minded officials.

Lucknow, November 04: A mob fought pitched battles with police and resorted to arson and vandalism in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district Friday after a school student was mowed down by a private bus, police said.

Vipin Kumar, 14, was crushed to death by the speeding bus in Aaho Patti area while going to school.

“Agitated over the accident, locals in large numbers indulged in heavy brick batting, torched the private bus and damaged some private vehicles,” Superintendent of Police (City) Ashok Kumar told reporters in Azamgarh, some 300 km from Lucknow.

Hyderabad, November 04: A mathematics teacher was assaulted by the parents and relatives of a student for beating the boy and making him do 200 sit-ups at the Bhashyam Public School in Attapur.

The teacher, D Sudhakar, had allegedly forced Sai Pranay, a student of Class VIII, to do 200 sit-ups for not paying attention in class and failing to complete his work on Tuesday. Sai Pranay, whose legs were swollen as a result, complained to his parents.

Hyderabad, November 04: City Police is seeking to question Pune-based businessman Hasan Ali Khan in connection with a case in which he is accused of procuring a fake passport from the city.

“We need to interrogate Hasan Ali Khan on charges of obtaining a passport from here by fraudulent means. We have definite evidence against him and have filed an application for a prisoners transit warrant in a court here to bring him from Mumbai,” Hyderabad Police Commissioner AK Khan told reporters here.

London, November 04: Russian strong-man Vladimir Putin has been accused of being a “wife-beater and a philanderer” by German spies when he worked as a KGB agent in the German city of Dresden, a leading German paper reported.

The Russian Prime Minister allegedly had a string of flings while he was himself a spy in Dresden in the late eighties, Germany’s biggest paper ‘Bild’ was quoted as saying by the ‘Daily Mail’ here.

Makkah, November 04: The Passport Department has sent back 89,000 people who were traveling to Makkah without Haj permit.

The passport officials also arrested 1,600 overstayers and those who violated residence regulations or attempting to sneak in with forged permits, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday.

There are 16 passport checkpoints around Makkah and four in Madinah region.

Hyderabad, November 04: (Siasat News) Division Bench of A.P. High Court comprising Chief Justice Ghulam Mohammed and Justice N. Rammohan Rao allowed the Govt. of A.P. to go ahead with the process of the appointments of vice chancellors of various state Universities in A.P. The division Bench vacated the stay order of a single judge who had interdicted the process of the appointment of search committees for suggesting a panel for the appointment of Vice Chancellors. Mr. B. Srikanth had filed a writ petition complaining that the appointment of Vice Chancellors was not as per the rules.

Hyderabad, November 04: (Siasat News) T.R.S. Leader and MLA from Siddipet Mr. T. Harish Rao, challenged TDP supremo Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu to move ‘No confidence motion’ in the A.P. State Assembly in its next session.

Hyderabad, November 04: (Siasat News) C.M. Mr. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy told the officials of Rajeev Vidya Mission that they should achieve the target of 15 lakh jobs at any cost by 2014-15. C.M. has asked the Finance Department to release Rs. 1000 crore for this purpose. A video conference would be held with the district collectors on 5th November. C.M. will address the collectors of the Districts.

–Siasat News–

Hyderabad, November 04: (Siasat News): Chairman of Police Recruitment Board of A.P. has issued notification for the recruitment of 2275 sub-inspectors of police of various cadres. This includes 230 women Sub-Inspectors of Police (Civil) Graduates within the age group 21-25 years are eligible to apply.

Applications must be submitted on or before 28th November 2011.

For further details website www.apstatepolice.org may be seen.

–Siasat News–

New Delhi, November 04: India’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, regarded as Iron Man of India, had told the them prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru that the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was not result of any conspiracy by RSS, but by a section of the Hindu Mahasabha, Media reported today.

Previously unpublished correspondence between the two leaders reveals that Patel was miffed over orders being issued by the prime minister “in matters which fall within my departmental responsibility”.

New Delhi, November 04: Anna Hazare on Friday broke his ‘vow of silence’ for the past 19 days after paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in New Delhi.
74-year-old Hazare visited Gandhi’s memorial at around 7 am and broke his ‘maun vrat’, observed since Oct 16, saying ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’

Hazare had reached Delhi last night to attend a meeting of the Standing Committee on Lokpal Bill. He had begun his ‘maun vrat’ at his native village in Maharashtra for ‘atma shanti’ (peace of soul).

Hyderabad, November 04: The State Government on Thursday issued notification for the recruitment of sub-inspectors in the Police department.

As many as 1,238 men would be recruited as Sub-Inspectors under Civil posts in the Police Department; 306 in Armed Reserved; 10 in SAR CPL; 406 in the Andhra Pradesh Special Police and 17 in the 15th Battalion of APSP and 68 men would be recruited as sub-inspectors in Special Protection Force. In addition, 21 men would be recruited as Station Fire Officers in the AP Fire and Emergency Services Department.

Hyderabad, November 04: YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, son of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, would appear before the CBI for questioning on Friday in connection with alleged multi-crore iron ore mining scam.

Jagan Mohan, MP from Kadapa, is under the agency’s scanner over his alleged nexus with Janardhana Reddy, whose company Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) has been accused of violating mining norms in the Ananthpuram disctrict of Andhra Pradesh. He will have to present himself at the CBI office today.

A Kiwi Describes His Journey to Islam, My Life Before Islam: My mother is a Jehovah’s Witness, and my father would be called a “lapsed Catholic”, but I was raised in the 1970s in a very tolerant atmosphere.

In fact I have one uncle who is an Apostolic, and other family members are Anglicans.

I was studying history at university in the 1990s, and I developed a strong interest in all matters Islamic.

Hyderabad, November 04: Congress MLA Gandra Venkata Ramana Reddy on Thursday objected to the use of harsh language by former minister Komatreddy Venkatreddy, who started indefinite hunger strike at Nalgonda for the cause of separate Telangana.

Beijing, November 04: A sudden explosion of rock in a coal mine in central China following a small earthquake killed four miners and trapped 57 others, a state news agency reported on Friday.

The accident in the coal mine in the city of Sanmenxia in Henan province occurred Thursday evening when 75 miners were working in the shaft, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Fourteen workers escaped.

The Qianqiu Coal Mine belongs to Yima Coal Group, a large state-owned coal company in Henan, the State Administration of Work Safety said on its website.

Mumbai, November 04: A major fire destroyed the second floor of the main administrative building at the high-security naval dockyard here on Thursday evening. A part of the heritage building constructed in 1807 was also gutted.

“There are no injuries or casualties. The fire was due to short circuit. It is under control now,” Narendrakumar Vispute, Public Relations Officer, Defence, told reporters outside Lion Gate of the Naval Dockyard, against the backdrop of the rising smoke and billowing flames.

Tripoli, November 04: On October 24, National Transitional Council leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil declared Libya to be “liberated.” Operating free of any democratic constraints, Jalil also declared that the law against polygamy will be repealed, Islamic banking will be adopted, and Shariah (Islamic) Law will form the basis for all Libyan law.

San Barnardino, November 04: On a warm Thursday morning outside the John M. Pfau Library at Cal State San Bernardino, 24-year-old psychology student Gina Cuellar waited for her study partner.

Other young women passed by her, many wearing blue jeans and boots. Cuellar wasn’t hard to spot.

A recent convert to Islam, she sported a hot pink head scarf known as a hijab, with her sunglasses propped on top.

“I think God watches over me whenever I wear it,” she said. “You get blessings.”

Mumbai, November 04: Veena Malik was detained at the Mumbai airport on Wednesday for evasion of customs duty, according to news reports.

Veena, a Pakistani national, was reportedly found to be carrying undeclared dutiable goods worth `40,000 to `50,000. Reports said the actress was let off after paying a fine of `10,000. Veena is the second Pakistani artiste to have been penalised.

Earlier this year, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was detained for carrying unaccounted foreign currency while leaving Mumbai.

–Agencies