Hyderabad, December 07: The seven vacancies in the 294-member state assembly and 17 members facing disqualification for defying the party whip, the by-elections would decide the course and trend of the next general election due in 2014.
Though YSR Congress camp made some provocative speeches that it will dethrone the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government if a no confidence motion is tabled, things did not go the way to the liking of Kadapa MP, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
London, December 07: On 19th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition, Chairman of Council of Indian Muslims-UK (CIM), Mr. Munaf Zeena termed the demolition of Babri Masjid on 6 December 1992 by BJP led Hindu zealots as an unforgettable incident for Muslims.
“Destruction of Babri Mosque has left deep wounds in Muslims’ psyche while ongoing cases of harassment and extrajudicial killings of Muslim youths by law enforcement agencies have kept the wound ever fresh. The only thing that will heal that wound is the reconstruction of a mosque on its original site” said Mr. Zeena.
Raipur, December 07: Maoist militants on Tuesday blew a bridge on a key national highway in Chhattisgarh that connects the state’s violence-hit Bastar region to the state capital, police said.
The bridge is at Kondagaon on National Highway Number 30 in Bastar district, some 210 km south of Raipur.
“It was a massive blast that ripped through the bridge. The traffic on the key national highway, Number 30, was blocked for hours after the blast but was resumed later,” Bastar’s Superintendent of Police Ratanlal Dangi told IANS.
Maoists blow up bridge on key national highway
Islamabad, December 07: Interior Minister Rehman Malik caused consternation today by thanking the Taliban for maintaining peace during Muharram, for which authorities had deployed tens of thousands of security personnel across Pakistan to prevent any sectarian attacks.
“I had appealed to the Taliban that they should respect the Muharram. I am grateful to them that they respected the Muharram this time. This is a good thing”, Malik said while speaking to reporters in Islamabad this evening.
Mumbai, December 07: Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds is all set to enter the Bigg Boss 5 house on Wednesday.
This is the first time that an international cricketer will enter the reality show.
Even though a language barrier stands between him and his ability to win the hearts of the viewers, Andrew is certain that it will not prove to be a problem, given that he is already a household name.
He tells Rajul Hegde why he decided to enter the show.
What made you take up Bigg Boss?
Hyderabad, December 07: National parties more often than not recognize that local factors count, but fail to acknowledge the fact. The same was witnessed in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in quick succession with the ruling parties BJP and Congress facing the heat.
Ruling BJP suffered a humiliating defeat at Bellary at the hands of a rebel, who is the supporter of suspended member Srinivasulu Reddy while Congress has to part with some of its legislators to YSR Congress during no confidence motion in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
Ghaziabad, December 06: Two men who kidnapped a sales executive and tried to rape her in a moving car were arrested in Ghaziabad, police said Tuesday.
Annu Verma and Anil Nagar are residents of Shalimar Garden neighbourhood where the woman worked. They were held Tuesday, police said.
The incident occurred Monday evening in Shalimar Garden at 6.30 p.m. when the woman was coming out of her office.
The two dragged her into a car and molested her in the moving vehicle. The woman while resisting their rape attempt shouted for help, police said.
Hyderabad, December 06: YSR Congress party president and Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday dared the Congress party to disqualify the MLAs who voted in favour of No Confidence Motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government.
Hyderabad, December 06: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday stated that his party introduced the No Confidence Motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy expecting that the government would announce a package for the affected farmers. However, he said Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy gave political packages to several MLAs to save his government.
Hyderabad, December 06: When his father YS Rajasekhara Reddy, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died in a helicopter crash in 2009, Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy was backed by 150 out of 155 Congress MLAs in the state Assembly for the Chief Minister’s post.
In 27 months since then, Jagan ? now the head of his own YSR Congress party ? has been left with just 18 MLAs on his side, including his mother Y S Vijaya.
Hyderabad, December 06: India’s new draft mining policy is ready to ensure that the local communities are also benefited from the activity, a top official said Tuesday.
G. Srinivas, joint secretary in the union mines ministry, said the new policy would also help in getting faster clearances for mining.
Addressing the sixth International Conference on Aluminium (INCAL), which began here Tuesday, he underlined the need for making available bauxite and coal blocks for aluminium projects to boost the production.
Lucknow, December 06: Ahead of the state assembly elections, UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday laid foundation of 160 development projects worth Rs 1,500 crore on the occasion of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s Mahaparinirvan (death anniversary) diwas. While invoking Ambedkar, she reminded Dalits that their ultimate aim should be to form government at the Centre.
New Delhi, December 06: A 27-year-old driver has been caught here for stealing Rs.10 lakh from his Gurgaon-based employer, police said Tuesday.
On Nov 29, Dheeraj Pahwa, a real estate agent, asked his driver Shiv Shankar and another aide, Bhagwan Singh, to collect some payment from a client, a police officer said.
“On their way back, Shiv Shankar duped Singh and fled with the money, leaving the Innova car behind. When he could not be contacted, an FIR was registered and police started investigation,” the officer added.
Kuwait, December 06: A 10-year-old Egyptian boy was playing near his house in Kuwait when an unknown man asked if he can join him.
The boy accepted the man’s offer and the game later developed into a chase to a deserted area. The boy then wanted to return home but the man grabbed him.
“The man raped the boy and fled…the boy rushed to his mother and told her…she reported the man to the police who are still looking for the rapist,” the Kuwaiti Arabic language daily Alwatan said.
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Mumbai, December 06: A bid was made for Rs. 1.75 crores for the first copy of a book on the life story of legendary Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar. It is the first time that a book on cricket fetched so much amount. There was already a bid of Rs. 1.25 crores for the 700 page book weighing 37 kgs. Now another person had bid for the book at Rs. 1.75 crores. Carl Foler, CEO of the Opus Media Group which prepared this book, has given this information.
Jeddah, December 06: A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year prison term and 100 lashes for committing adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus.
The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed that she had a forced sexual intercourse with a man who had offered her a ride. The man, the girl confessed, took her to a rest house, east of Jeddah, where he and four of friends assaulted her all night long.
Beijing, December 06: Staff at a wildlife park in southwest China have turned to the country’s half a billion web users for advice after a male sheep and a female deer began mating — and soon became inseparable.
A posting on the park’s microblog posed the question: “What do you do when a ram falls in love with a deer?” It asked readers whether they agreed it would be “unethical” to let the unusual pairing continue.
Dubai, December 06: An unemployed Egyptian identified as Khaled. L has been arrested and charged with stealing his wife’s kidney.
In a plot straight out of a movie, the police in Cairo, Egypt, received a tip off from the family of the victim that man stole a kidney.
According to the report in Egyptian newspaper ‘Al Youm Al Sabea’a’, the wife told the police that her husband drugged her juice and when she felt sick, told her he was taking her to hospital.
At the clinic he took her to, she was sedated under the pretext of treatment and her kidney was removed.
New Delhi, December 06: Abhishek Manu Singhvi, the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee looking into the Lokpal Bill, on Tuesday said there was no delay in the panel’s report and that it would be submitted soon.
The panel was initially scheduled to submit its final report by December 7 but it had sought some more time to finalise the report.
Sources said the report would be submitted in Parliament by December 9.
Kolkata, December 06: Blaming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the logjam in parliament, senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Gurudas Dasgupta said here Tuesday that the central government should roll back its decision of permitting foreign investment in retail trade.
Mumbai,December 06:India is safer than you think. When newspapers and TV channels run stories of terrorist outrages, you may get the impression you are living in a dangerous country. But experts charged with the business of insuring you against such acts of terror may have just given a thumbs-up about the safety of the country.
Insurance against terror may soon come at cheaper rates than before. Premiums paid for such insurance are set to dip because the corpus (pool) created for this purpose has swelled and received less claims.
New Delhi, December 06: Acknowledging that he “committed violence” when he made the infamous remark “just one slap” after Sharad Pawar was attacked in Delhi last month, Anna Hazare today said he did not consider this violence as wrong.
“For the betterment of the society and the country, I have used strong words many times in the past. “Just One Slap?” ?” I admit that I committed violence when I said that. But for the betterment of society, I do not consider this violence as wrong,” Hazare posted on his blog.
Hyderabad,December 06:It took just 19 minutes for National Security Guard commandos to rush out of their regional hub at Trimulgherry, 15 minutes to reach the Hakimpet Air Force Base and another 30 minutes to get airborne for their destination.
It is the response time in which the NSG commandos get ready to foil a terrorist attack.
Shimla, December 06: Himachal Pradesh’s Congress chief Kaul Singh was seriously injured when his vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gorge on the outskirts of this state capital, police said Tuesday.
Singh suffered spine and head injuries. Doctors treating him said his condition was stable.
Superintendent of Police Sonal Agnihotri told IANS that the accident occurred Monday night near Totu when Singh, who was at the wheel, failed to negotiate a curve.
Passers-by immediately rushed him to the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMCH).
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