Month: November 2011

Dubai, November 02: Dubai Police’s beach security patrols charged beachgoers with 1,980 offences during the first 10 months of 2011, compared to 1,534 offences during the whole of 2010.

Lt Colonel Abdullah Al Maziod, Director, Dubai Ports Police Station, said: “These offences included 106 for taking photos of women on the beach without their observation, 135 for causing nuisance to beachgoers, 324 for indecent behaviour  and 1,410 offences involving inappropriate beachwear.

Mumbai, November 02: Bollywood actress and mother-to-be Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan, is turning 38 today and will celebrate her birthday with family and close friends.

“She will be celebrating her birthday with family…like she always does,” a source close to the actress said.

There is a buzz that the Bachchan family is planning a grand party this evening, where besides, family members, several B-town personalities would be coming.

Recently, the Bachchans hosted a grand ‘godh bharai’ ceremony for Aishwarya, where several actresses came in to shower their blessings.

Ghaziabad, November 02: Facing allegations of financial misconduct, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal says he will quit the anti-graft movement if “corruption of even Rs 10 is proved” against him.

On the day the movement’s audit report for six months starting April was released, Kejriwal also dared the Congress and the BJP to make public information about all the donations received by the parties.

Dibba, November 02: Authorities in Dibba seized nearly 100 Chinese-made toy guns which offend Islam by mocking the wife of the Prophet (peace be upon him), the Arabic language daily Albayan reported on Wednesday.

The guns, sold in shops, were found to be issuing sounds that sneer and insult Aisha, a few days after an Emirati female activist said she found one such gun in a shop in Bani Yas just outside Abu Dhabi city.

Patna, November 02: A man in Bihar imposed a fine of Rs25,000 on his wife for giving birth to a female child, forcing the local administration to intervene.

Ironically, Nargis, a girl born on Monday in a village in the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh, was welcomed as the world’s seven billionth baby.

Hyderabad, November 02: In the name of animal rescue, animal birth control and anti-rabies (ABC/AR) vaccination programme for stray dogs, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been putting many dogs to sleep. The dogs are kept under ABC/AR or medical treatment for a week or more in the animal rescue centres which have neither adequate infrastructure nor the required number of veterinary doctors.

Hyderabad, November 02: Libyan students in Hyderabad are ecstatic about the developments in their country. For them, the joy of watching their homeland, which was under the dictatorship of Colonel Gaddafi for over four decades, returning to democracy is a moment worth living for.

27-year-old Ali Ahmed Talpie from Libya, who is an MTech IT student at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, is happy that the autocratic regime of Gaddafi has finally been toppled. But he’s conscious of the work ahead.

New Delhi, November 02: A 40-year-old Pakistani woman, married to an Indian farmer living in a remote village of Bikaner on the India-Pakistan border, had to surrender her “wrongly issued” voter ID as she failed to get an Indian citizenship.

Allabasai, a resident of Bahawalpur city in Pakistan, got married to Jaggu Khan in 1986 and shifted to 26 KJD village in the Khajuwala sub-division in Bikaner. She had been living there since on an extended visa.

Allabasai was, however, successful in getting a voter ID card last year by filing an affidavit along with other required documents.

Hyderabad, November 02: The Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy of Maulana Azad National Urdu University will organize special lectures on “Addressing the Problems of Minorities and Other Excluded Groups: Reflections on Policy and Research” on November 3.

New Delhi, November 02: The Editors Guild of India has come out with a scathing condemnation of Press Council of India chairman Justice Markandey Katju’s “ill-considered, sweeping and uninformed comments on the media,” alleging that they “touched a new low.”

Justice Katju made the remarks in an interview to Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN over the weekend.

New Delhi, November 02: With the growing clamour for revealing the names of persons involved in stashing away black money in tax havens, even as the Income Tax Department has started sending notices to them based on information received from abroad, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee reiterated here on Tuesday that such disclosures could be made only prosecution proceedings are initiated.

Hyderabad, November 02: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority with the assistance from Union Ministry of Urban Development is preparing a Comprehensive Transportation Plan for the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Area (HMA).

Hyderabad, November 02: GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL), which operates the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, wanted to make Hyderabad a gateway to south and central India, said Vikram Jaisinghani, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), GHIAL.

It took lesser time and was less expensive travelling via Hyderabad than via other connecting airports for both domestic and international travel, he said.

Washington, November 02: The Pentagon is still interested in selling its fighter jets to India, which recently decided against it, and is seriously exploring the potential of co-development of military weapons systems with India.

In a nine-page report to the Congress yesterday, the Pentagon acknowledged that India’s recent decision not to opt for America’s F-16 and F-18 for its 126-fighter jets was a setback.

“Despite this setback, we believe US aircraft, such as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), to be the best in the world.

Mumbai, November 02: Actor Shah Rukh Khan is a relieved man these days. With his superhero film released and debated around, he now looks ahead, to another film, another dream on his birthday. After promoting his recent release for a whole year, he admits that he cannot afford a huge break as filmmaker-actor Farhan Akhtar’s Don 2 is set to release on Christmas.

New Delhi, November 02: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heads for Cannes in France today to attend a crucial summit of the world`s 20 leading economies(G20) during which India is expected to make a call to resist trade protectionism when the global economic growth is facing a slowdown.

Singh, who will be at the G20 summit for the sixth consecutive time since it was first hosted by the US in 2008, is also likely to push through India`s agenda for voluntary exchange of tax information to curb black money.

Hyderabad, November 02: Andhra Pradesh BJP on Monday dubbed Union Home Minister P Chidamabaram’s statement over Telangana issue as a “dilly-dallying tactic” by the Centre.

“Chidambaram’s remark is nothing but a dilly-dallying tactic by the central government on the issue of Telangana,” state AP BJP general secretary N Ramachander Rao alleged in a statement issued Hyderabad reacting to Chidambaram’s statement on Sunday that movement towards a decision on the Telangana issue will take place after the Eid-ul-Azha festival.

Panaji, November 02: Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was heading the most corrupt government since Independence.

Singh is presiding over the most corrupt government since Independence. Corruption has attained gigantic proportions in the country in the last two years, he said at a rally at Polem, about 80 kms from here.

The octogenarian leader claimed that his Jana Chetana Yatra was receiving an over-whelming support due to the public anger against the UPA government.

Hyderabad, November 02: Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday made a clarion call to all political parties, elected representatives, leaders and the people of Telangana to cooperate and participate in the second round of Rachabanda programme being launched on Wednesday

Hyderabad, November 02: Tension prevailed in the Osmania University campus for several hours on Tuesday after the police prevented students from taking out a rally to mark the AP Formation Day as the ‘Betrayal Day’.

Hundreds of students under the banner of Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s students wing TRSV gathered at the Arts Colleges while raising ‘Jai Telangana’ slogans. They also shouted slogans against integrated Andhra Pradesh and also the State and Central Governments. Then they started proceeding towards the Gun Park at Assembly.

Tunis, November 02: The Tunisian revolution is a totally unique phenomenon in the Arab world.

Over the past few decades, the country has been the standard-bearer of social and cultural developments in the region. Under the influence of Habib Bourguiba, the founder and first president of the republic, who was in office from July 25, 1957 until November 7, 1987, Tunisia became one of the most Westernized Arab countries and mostly employed extremist secularists to run the state.

London, November 02: A London court will rule on Wednesday whether WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who angered the government by publishing thousands of secret diplomatic memos, can be extradited from Britain to Sweden for questioning over alleged sexual crimes.

Swedish authorities want to quiz the 40-year-old over accusations of rape and sexual assault made by two former female volunteers for his WikiLeaks organisation.

Warsaw, November 02: No one was hurt when a Boeing 767 flying from New York with some 230 people on board made an emergency landing at Warsaw’s airport on Tuesday after trouble with landing gear.

“All safety procedures worked perfectly fine and, thanks to this, nobody was injured,” said Leszek Chorzewski, spokesman for the Polish national flag carrier LOT, operator of the plane.

Washington, November 02: The US on Tuesday designated a top Pakistan-based Haqqani Network commander, Mali Khan, as a foreign terrorist and slapped financial sanctions against him, aimed at crippling the finances to the dreaded outfit.

Acting as a Haqqani commander, Khan has overseen hundreds of fighters, and has instructed his subordinates to conduct terrorist acts, the US State Department said in a statement.

Mumbai, November 02: The Chunabhatti police on Tuesday arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly killing his elderly mother at their Lal Dongar hutment in Chembur. At 9.35pm on Monday, Nana Jagtap beat up his bed-ridden mother Kamal (66) for refusing to eat and dirtying her bed.

Police said the accused initially tried to misguide them by saying that Kamal had fallen unconscious and died after losing her balance and falling on her head. However, his luck ran short when the preliminary post-mortem report showed the cause of death as internal injuries sustained in assault.