New Delhi, November 01: Amid uncertain job market conditions overseas, as many as 3,00,000 Indian engineering professionals are expected to return home during the five-year period from 2011-15, says a survey.
Global workforce solutions provider Kelly Services India has said that more Indians working abroad would migrate back to India within the next five years, lured by promising opportunities in the country.
New Delhi, November 01: Anti-corruuption crusader Anna Hazare on Monday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warning that if the Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed in the winter session of the Parliament he will again start his hunger strike.
Hazare has told the PM that he will start the fast on the last day of Parliament session in case the bill is not passed.
Mumbai, November 01: Union agriculture minister and NCP president Sharad Pawar has cancelled all his crucial political meetings scheduled for November 1 and 2 following the accidental death of the son of state NCP president Madhukar Pichad.
According to a senior NCP leader, Jeetendra (31) died after he came in contact with a live wire in his hometown, Akole, in Ahmednagar on Monday.
Pawar had convened a meeting of NCP ministers on November 1 and senior party leaders on November 2, to discuss the party’s strategy for the coming elections.
–Agencies
Rapist advocate and his client arrested
Hyderabad, November 1 (Siasat News): The north zone team of commissioner task force arrested a man from Chilkalguda for hatching a conspiracy to eliminate an advocate.
As per the details, Mirza Mushtaq Ali Baig, 28, resident of Warsiguda, was an ice cream trader who got married in 2006.
Hyderabad, November 1: Advocates belonging to Telangana Muslim advocates Forum and advocates Forum for Justice, Mr. Waheed Ahmed, Mohammad Nizamuddin, Mohammad Ayazuddin, Syed Lateef, A M Yahya Khan, Mir Wajid Ali Khan, Farhat Ahmed, Attaullah, Rashid besides district advocates M A Khaleel, Ateeq Pasha, Shaikh Faheemullah Mohammad, Jamal Shareef and other advocates appealed the people to attend Telangana Muslim Maha Dharna Programme to be organized on November 2, at 11 am at Indira Park.
They claimed that Muslims are equally participating in Telangana movement.
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Hyderabad, Novembaer 01: The 56th formation day of Andhra Pradesh was marked by protests and black flag demonstrations in Telangana with almost all ministers from the region staying away from the celebrations.
Telangana activists in various districts of Telangana hoisted black flags on government and private buildings in response to the call given by the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) to observe ‘betrayal day’.
It is often said that if the state were communally neutral, or scrupulous enough to protect the lives of all its citizens, there would be no large-scale communal violence. This argument is true, but only trivially so. Gujarat violence plumbed new depths of horror and brutality and an embarrassment for anyone who believes in the pluralistic core of Indian nationhood, a view enshrined in India’s constitution, a view that gives an equal place to all religions in the country, privileging none.
Hyderabad, November 1: Now a days administration of last rites of unclaimed bodies have become a problem due to apathy and alleged negligence of government departments. The situation of the two biggest government hospitals of the city is such that nearly 50 unclaimed bodies lie in the mortuary of Gandhi General hospital awaiting their last rites to be performed and have become a problem for the hospital too.
Guntur, November 01: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday stated that small political parties have no locus standi to advise major opposition parties on what they should do.
Tripoli, November 01: Libya’s National Transitional Council has selected an electronics engineer as the nation’s new interim president.
Fifty-one members of the NTC chose Abdel-Rahim al-Keeb, from Tripoli, and he will appoint a new Cabinet in the coming days, the Daily Mail reports.
Jalal el-Gallal, an NTC spokesman, said that al-Keeb received 26 votes in the election.
Hyderabad, November 01: Governor ESL Narasimhan on Monday greeted people of Andhra Pradesh on the occasion of 55th anniversary of the formation of the State.
“As inheritors of a proud legacy, it should be our endeavour to make our State rich and prosperous and to uphold its tradition of tolerance, peace and amity,” the Governor said in his message.
New Delhi, November 01: Governor E S L Narasimhan on Monday stated that the government led by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was not in minority.
The Governor made this statement after discussing the situation in the State during his meeting with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi. This statement assumes importance in the wake of media reports that Kiran Kumar Reddy government fell into minority with the resignation of three MLAs from the Congress party.
Mumbai, November 01: Following Shakti’s eviction, Sidharth, Shraddha and Vida were inconsolable. To cheer the trio, the other housemates planned a game in captain, Shonali’s room allowing everyone to say whatever was on their mind about whats going on inside the house.
Amar said that he believed Mandeep was masterminding a major plan and was creating rifts among everyone inside the house. Everyone else present in the room agreed with this view.
Los Angeles, November 01: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian filed for divorce on Monday, just 72 days after marrying basketball player Kris Humphries in a lavish wedding that was billed as a “fairytale.”
Kardashian, 31, star of the TV show ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’, filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court citing irreconcilable differences.
Mumbai, November 01: One of the most famous faces in Bollywood and soon-to-be mommy, Aishwarya Rai turns a year older today. Adding to the Bachchan canopy an allure so majestic, this ethereal beauty would be calling in her 38th birthday in a grand way.
Buzz has it that hubby Abhishek Bachchan has planned a gala bash later in the evening.
New Delhi, November 01: The controversial finance ministry note on 2G spectrum allocation that created a political storm by suggesting that the then finance minister P Chidambaram could have prevented the scam by insisting on auction of spectrum was drafted after detailed consultations with the PMO and the Cabinet Secretariat, and issued only because of the PMO’s “insistence”, although the “DEA (Department of Economic Affairs in the finance ministry) was not in favour of sending the note”.
Mumbai, November 01: After the dismal show on the first day, Shah Rukh Khan would be a lot relieved following latest Box Office figures of his Diwali bonanza, the mega movie of the year – ‘Ra.One’.
SRK`s super hero action film has set a new record at the Indian box office by earning a gross of Rs 170 crore worldwide in the opening weekend (first five days of release).
Anantapur, November 01: Rural Development Minister Dokka Manikyavara Prasad on Monday stated that the government would take all steps to check migration of farm labour to cities in search of employment.
Hyderabad, November 01: Telangana Political Joint Action Committee chairman Prof M Kodandaram on Monday appealed to all elected representatives and the general public to boycott the AP State Formation Day celebrations on Tuesday.
New Delhi, November 01: Striking back at Digvijay Singh for his statement that Sri Sri Ravishankar is Plan ‘C’ of RSS, BJP today said the Congress leader is Plan ‘D’ of his party which could be “dirty tricks department or duffer” and that he speaks for Sonia Gandhi.
“Digvijay Singh is D Plan of the Congress. Whether one calls it dirty tricks or duffer…,” BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said, adding that Congress should not merely distance itself from his comments but also criticise him.
BJP further alleged that Singh always supports all kinds of wrong-doings.
Cairo, November 01: Chemical weapons from the Muammar Gaddafi era have been found in Libya and the new government has sought international help in securing them, National Transitional Council Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril has said. He said the NTC forces have found two chemical weapons sites in the country and they are currently under guard.
Jibril said the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the Hague and the United States were notified about the findings.
Riyadh, November 01: The Ministry of Interior has made elaborate arrangements to prevent any terror attacks during the Haj, which begins on Friday and reaches its climax on Saturday when more than two million pilgrims converge on the Plain of Arafat to perform the most important ritual.
More than 3,500 members of the security forces have been mobilised, according to Lieutenant General Mohammad Bin Hamad Al Omani, commander of Saudi Special Security Forces.
Mumbai, November 01: As promotion of ‘Mission Impossible 4’ gears up the tussle among Bollywood Khans also seems to heat up.
While all actors close to Anil Kapoor are trying to use their clout now to see how they can host Tom Cruise when he comes to India on December 4, Shah Rukh and Salman Khan are leaving no stone unturned!
Mumbai,November 01:Union home minister P Chidambaram on Monday announced that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will not oppose the bail plea of the nine accused arrested in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case.
New Delhi, November 01: The Andhra Pradesh governor on Monday said the Congress government in the state has not been reduced to a minority and there is no need for it to prove its majority in the assembly even as the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) said it planned to move a no-confidence motion.
Governor ESL Narasimhan, who met union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in the national capital, told reporters that there is no reason for him to direct the government to seek vote of confidence.