Month: December 2011

Hyderabad, December 1: Hazrat Syedna Husain was not the imam of any particular religion but was the imam of entire humanity. His message was also for the whole mankind he sacrificed his life in Karbala and saved the entire humanity. These views were expressed by various thinkers here on Wednesday at Golden Jubilee Hall Siasat premises addressing a seminar on ‘Martyrdom of Syedna Husain (RAA)”. The seminar was organised by Hydery Educational and Social Welfare Society.

New Delhi, December 01: Bickering MPs may have virtually shut down Parliament’s winter session so far, but there’s one thing they all readily agree on: enhancement of privileges and perks. The committee of privileges of the Lok Sabha, in a report placed in the House on Wednesday, nearly unanimously recommended

that MPs be permitted to flash red beacons on their vehicles and their official status be brought on a par with chief justices of high courts.

New Delhi, December 01: Responding to Mayawati’s demand for giving reservation to Muslims, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister to consider measures which states like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala have taken on their own by including Muslims in OBCs.

The Prime Minister has also communicated to Mayawati that the Centre is studying examples of such states and trying to develop a consensus on measures that are justified as per the Constitution on the issue of reservation for Muslims.

Washington, December 01: The US has warned Pakistani leaders of dangerous consequences if there is another terror attack on India that originates from Pakistan, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama has said, asking Islamabad to give up the policy of supporting extremist elements.

James Jones, who was the national security adviser to President Barack Obama from January 2009 to October 2010, said the message that they should give up the policy of supporting terrorist and extremist elements has been conveyed to Pakistani leaders several times by top US officials.

German, December 01: A German federal court was to rule on Wednesday whether a Muslim pupil has the right to pray according to Islamic rites in school, capping a more than two-year legal battle. The 18-year-old pupil, identified only as Yunus M, insisted on his basic right to religious freedom but school

authorities argued the practice endangered the smooth running of the state high school.

With about four million Muslims living in Germany, the case has sparked interest after two earlier regional court rulings first found in favour of the boy, only then to be overturned.

Ghana, December 01: The world’s first urine-controlled video game has been installed in a London bar.

Visitors at the The Exhibit Bar in Balham can play one of three games every time they use a urinal.

Gordon MacSween, one of the game’s co-founders, said he was not sure how the public would react to the game initially.

But as soon he saw it go on trial at a bar in Cambridge he knew he was on to something good.

The game was designed to create a valuable media opportunity from the 55 seconds the average male spends while he pees just staring at a blank wall.

Hyderabad, December 1: Masjid Qutub Shahi is uninhabited in Qutub Shahi Seven Tombs. This mosque is near main gate. There are several graves opposite to the mosque. The mosque is very beautiful and is in good condition. It was built in 1580 which is now abandoned.

Siasat news

Ghana, December 01: The Ministry of Education is optimistic homosexuality in the country’s Junior and Senior High Schools will soon be a thing of the past.

Ahead of World AIDS day which falls on December 1, Paul Krampah, the Ministry’s Public Relations Officer, in an interview with Xfm 95.1 said the Ministry’s HIV/AIDS Secretariat has trained teachers who in turn act as facilitators to educate students on the menace of homosexuality and its adverse consequences including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Washington, December 01: The Obama administration’s censoring of photographs of the late Osama bin Laden, lest they offend Muslims, is one thing; but what about censoring words, especially those pivotal to U.S. security?

The Daily Caller reveals that “the Obama administration has been pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.”

Austria, December 01: While many people may think it’s an activity which should be best learned behind closed doors, an enterprising Swedish schoolmistress thinks otherwise. Ylva-Maria Thompson has opened the world’s first international sex school for teaching the art of being better lovers, the Daily Mail reported.

The Austrian International Sex School in Vienna offers ‘hands on’ lessons in seduction for 1,400 pounds a term. The ‘headmistress’ says anyone over the age of 16 can enrol at ‘the world’s first college of applied sexuality’.

Reports such as blowing up of school buildings and torturing school going children by the Taliban are common in Afghanistan and Af-Pak border region. They are particularly opposed to the education of girls. According to an estimate, the Taliban have attacked and destroyed more than 500 educational institutions in the last five years. On 13 September this year, they attacked a school van carrying students. Five innocent kids were killed by these cruel Taliban in that terror attack. Similarly, last month they blew up a school, just 75-kms from Pakistani capital Islamabad.

Seoul, December 01: South Korea is suspected of hacking US weapons systems and re-packaging the US-made arms technology for its own exports to enhance its defense industry.

South Korean Air Force has been accused of stealing Tiger Eye technology, which is a part of US-made F-15 fighter jet weapons systems, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday.

American and South Korean manufacturers have recently signed a memorandum of understanding to provide Seoul with the Global Hawk spy drones which would patrol over the area between the Koreas and oversee the military moves of Pyongyang.

Mumbai, December 01: Amidst constant rumours of her marriage with beau Saif Ali Khan, actress Kareena Kapoor says that an announcement in this regard would be taken only after the release of their upcoming film ‘Agent Vinod’.

The film, an action thriller directed by Sriram Raghavan, is scheduled to release next year though no exact date has been finalised as yet.

According to media reports, the marriage is likely to take place between February-March next year.

Hyderabad, December 01: The evil of interest on loans has become like a career which has affected the lives of some people. Most of the auto drivers borrow money on huge interest rates from non-Muslim financiers. Any Muslim auto driver collects 20-30 thousand rupees and approaches the money lenders for the remaining amount for the purchase of an autorickshaw.

Mumbai, December 01: Newly-turned producer and actor Eesha Koppikhar was in for a pleasant surprise when her restaurateur hubby Timmy Narang gifted her a high-end luxury watch on the eve of their 2nd wedding anniversary. The couple completed two years of marital bliss yesterday on November 29.

Mumbai, December 01: Actor Chitrangda Singh is basking in the success and the accolades that have been coming her way for her recent film, which was a commercial one. The actor is happy to shed her the tag of a ‘serious’ actor with it.While she has more often than not been referred to as ‘a thinking man’s sex symbol’, she’s now willing to shed it for a more fun one.

Washington, December 01: The US has reportedly released hundreds of terrorists from its prisons in Iraq on condition that they leave the country for Syria and fight against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

More than 400 terrorist have been freed from US prisons in Iraq to help fuel unrest in Syria, Islam Times quoted Lebanese political analyst Anis al-Naqqash as saying. He added that they have entered Syria illegally via Turkey.

Srinagar, December 01: Mansoor Ijaz, the Pakistani American who was at the centre of Memogate, had suggested former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto to “seek separation” from her husband Asif Zardari if she wished to return to Pakistan. At that time, she was shuttling between London and Dubai.

Hyderabad, December 01: Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana on Wednesday stated that the Telugu Desam Party and YSR Congress have no strength to dethrone Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy government through no confidence motion.

Moracco, December 01: A Moroccan man kidnapped a three-year-old girl, murdered her, wrested her heart out of her chest and cut the body into pieces before he started cooking the parts. Her parents who entered the killer’s house stood in horror watching him preparing their own daughter as his meal.

The girl went missing in the northern town of Tangier on Sunday, triggering a massive police manhunt. Her parents were told by a local resident that he had seen a man taking the child into his apartment.

Washington, December 01: The United States is planning to vacate a remote air base in Pakistan that has reportedly been used for conducting assassination drone attacks in the country’s tribal areas.

Washington is acceding to Islamabad’s demands that US forces leave the Shamsi Air Base in Pakistan’s Balochistan province within 15 days, Reuters reported late Tuesday.

Hyderabad, December 01: Handlooms and Textiles Minister Dr P Shankar Rao skipped the meeting of State Cabinet held at the State Secretariat here on Wednesday.

Dr Shankar Rao has been hitting the headlines by making controversial statements against Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and other cabinet colleagues. However, many cabinet ministers on Wednesday complained to the Chief Minister about Dr Shankar Rao’s behaviour. The Chief Minister has reportedly assured the ministers that he would take up the matter with the Congress High Command.

Hyderabad, December 01: The State Cabinet has given nod for filling up nearly 3,000 posts in various departments of the State Government.

Jerusalem, December 01: Former director of the Mossad spy agency Meir Dagan has warned that an Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would lead to a regional war.

Dagan said in a television interview on Tuesday that Iran, and the Hezbollah and Hamas resistance movements will respond with massive rocket attacks on Israel if the Tel Aviv regime attacks Iranian atomic sites, Haaretz reported.

He noted that Syria would also join Iran in that scenario.

Dagan added that such a war would take a heavy toll in terms of lost lives and would paralyze life in Israel.

New Delhi, December 01: A day before the Winter session of State Assembly, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has announced that there will be an All Party Meeting on the Telangana issue in December.

The announcement has put TRS and Telangana Congress leaders in a piquant situation and TDP which has been drumming up support for the no confidence motion it proposes to move should now work harder to muster enough strength.