Washington, December 06: A U.S.-based research institute will soon publish what it says is “indisputable” evidence that Israel stole weapons-grade uranium for its still-undeclared atomic weapons program from a nuclear reprocessing plant in western Pennsylvania.
Mumbai, December 06: Dev was a shy, youthful person I still remember our midnight marriage on the sets of “Taxi Driver” in 1954. Dev was a shy, youthful person, very co-operative and sensitive. We passed six decades together amid a lot of thick and thin. Whenever I heard rumours that he would desert me, I laughed my heart out. I knew that nomadic Dev would always be mine. Mona Anand aka Kalpana Kartik (Dev Anand’s wife)
Hyderabad, December 06: (Siasat News) A meeting of MBT was held at Moghalpura. The spokesman of MBT Farhathullah Khan Khalid presented a resolution demanding the impeachment of Allahabad High Court judged for pronouncing the judgment of Babri Masjid on the basis of religious beliefs instead of historical evidences. He quoted the precedent of impeachment case of Justice Sumitra Sen, of Kolkata High Court in Parliament and said that on the same lines there should be an impeachment of Justice. B.V.
Hyderabad, December 06: (Siasat News) There is a lot of difference between the Islamic religious educational institutions and the modern Universities. These universities don’t have the concept of Allah. Subject specialist express their ideas based on their scholarship, research and experience. A scientist keeps in his mind the latest discoveries. He is not concerned about the creator of this Universe. The graduates of western universities have no concept of accountability before God. Whereas in Islamic institutions there is a concept of accountability which is the basic concept.
Hyderabad, December 06: (Siasat News) JAC of Osmania University students has decided to organize ‘bandh’ on 8th December and to close down all the educational institutions on that day to record their protest against the delay in the formation of Telangana state. Talking to newsmen, President of JAC P. Ravi and Raja Ram Yadav told that they are organizing bandh to pressurize the central and state governments for the introduction of Telangana bill in the Parliament soon. In order to intensity the Telangana stir, a cycle rally will be organized on 21st December from Osmania University.
Hyderabad, December 06: (Siasat News)According to a press note issued by Registrar NTR Health University, counseling for admission into BUMS course of Dr. Abdul Haque Unani medical college, Kurnool will be held at Vijayawada at 10 am on 10th December 2011. All those candidates who have passed the entrance test may appear for counseling. It may be noted that counseling for 50 seats was stopped. Counseling is being arranged on the orders of A.P. High Court.
Hyderabad, December 06: (Siasat News) Mr. G. Mallesh, floor leader of CPI in A.P. Assembly, while participating in the discussions in the Assembly on the ‘No Confidence Motion’ moved by TDP and TRS, said that the Govt. has failed to fulfill its promises mentioned in the election manifesto of the Congress. It has deviated from its promises and therefore it has no right to continue in power.
Hyderabad, December 06: (Siasat News) Praja Rajyam Legislative Party termed the ‘No Confidence Motion’ of TDP as politically motivated. The party appealed to TDP to withdraw the motion. Mr. K. Babu, Member of Praja Rajyam made this appeal while participating in the discussions held in the A.P. Assembly on the motion. He further said that there is no society which has not problems. If the performance of Congress Govt. in A.P. is reviewed for the past two years. It will be revealed that there are only schemes and no scandals.
New Delhi, December 06: Ayodhya and Faizabad on Tuesday will celebrate the 19th anniversary of Babri mosque demolition, the security has been tightened for the twin towns.
This year’s anniversary has coincided with Muharram’s 10th day. A section of muslims consider it as a day of mourning.
“To maintain peace and communal harmony, we are in touch with people of both the communities,” said RK Chaturvedi, SSP.
Madhusudan Raizada, Divisional Commissioner and DIG Anand Swarup Senior reviewed the security prescribed for the towns.
Hyderabad, December 06: Students of Osmania and JNT Universities belonging to Telangana Vidyarthi Aikya Vedika started shouting Jai Telangana slogans near A.P. Assembly yesterday. Police took them into its custody and shifted them to Nampally police station.
Among the students who were arrested include Nageshwara Rao, Rajini Shree, Vamsee, D. Srinivasa, Harsh Vardhan, Zaheer, Naresh, Sangam, M. K. Nageshwara Rao & Nagesh.
City Police Commissioner has promulgated section 144 in the city and hence these students were arrested because they violated the prohibitory orders of section 144.
Hyderabad, December 06: A.P. Congress President Mr. B. Satyanarayana told that Congress has always respected the former CM Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy. Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy resigned Congress because he was not made CM of A.P.
Hyderabad, December 06: Govt. has announced that Dr. Manmohan Singh will hand over appointment letters to the unemployed youths in this month. Applications are being received for Rajiv Yuva Karnalu Scheme. Muslim youths are facing a lot of inconvenience in registering their applications online because there is no column for entering ward number of their houses. Govt. has distributed 12 lakh acres of lands to landless but only 950 acres of land has been allotted to Muslims. In Nellore alone 650 acres have been distributed because Muslims of Nellore had gheraoed the revenue officials.
Hyderabad, December 06: Today being 10th Moharram, the historic ‘Bibi Ka Alam’ procession will start today in the old city from Kaman Shaik Faiz and will reach Musi river in the evening. The priest of Alawa Bibi Mr. Aliuddin Arif and the Alam bearer Quamar Hasan Rizvi will accompany the procession. Various political and religious leaders will offer “Dhatti” to the Alam at different places.
Police has made elaborate arrangements on either sides of the road and posted police pickets in sufficient numbers.
——Siasat News
Mumbai, December 06: If you thought that women and children are safe in Mumbai, then think again. An RTI query has revealed that there is a steep rise in kidnapping of minors between 2008 and 2010.
While 176 cases of kidnapping were registered in 2008, there were 149 cases in 2009. About 194 cases of kidnapping were registered in 2010.
Activist Chetan Kothari had filed an RTI plea seeking details from the police department in November.
Tokyo, December 06: Russian police in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok have confiscated a shipping container from Japan holding dozens of radioactive car tires.
According to a port official a total 29 tires in the shipment were emitting high levels of gamma and beta rays, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday.
“There’s a good chance the radioactive tires are a result of the Fukushima accident,” said a safety inspector, Ivan Skogorev.
Skogorev said that the tires’ owner might have them decontaminated, returned to Japan or dumped in a dangerous waste site in Russia.
London, December 06: A leading British anti-war group says western governments including Britain are “doing everything possible” to heighten tension with Iran, in line with a “brinkmanship” policy.
The Stop the War Coalition said in a newsletter that the British government’s move to close the Iranian embassy in London blocks “one of the last channels for negotiations” with Iran.
London, December 06: The Israeli regime has launched a systematic attempt to redraw the map of the occupied Palestinian territories by advertising tourism maps in the UK newspapers.
An Israeli tourism map appearing in the London-based newspaper The Guardian last weekend rendered occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories as part of “Israel”.
The three-page advertising spread from the Israeli tourism ministry in the Guardian Weekend is part of what increasingly looks like a major new advertising campaign in the UK.
London, December 06: A man tasered his girlfriend and then packed her into a cardboard box and buried her in a shallow grave because he was ‘bored’ with her, reports Daily Mail.
The 27-year-old mother was terrified and with great difficulty managed to dig her way out from the makeshift grave.
The court learnt that the 25-year-old boyfriend bound and gagged with parcel tape and put in a box with two small air holes. All this because he thought she was not pretty enough, the daily learnt.
After burying his girlfriend alive, the man used her bank cards to withdraw £500.
New Delhi, December 06: A 40-year-old woman in Delhi was gang-raped recently by two persons after they were embroiled in an argument with her husband the previous day.
The incident has been reported from Adarsh Nagar area of north-west Delhi.
A police source told Mid-day.com that the accused, Eroj alias Chitti, is a robber and has been involved in more than 14 cases. He was arrested after the victim approached the police. An FIR of gang rape also has been lodged in this respect.
Panaji, December 06: Unemployment is making youngsters in Goa desperate and forcing them to “clean toilets in countries abroad”, state assembly Speaker Pratapsing Rane said Monday.
Speaking to reporters at the assembly complex, Rane, a former chief minister of Goa over a decade through the 1980s-90s, said the flight of special economic zones (SEZ) from the state had hurt job prospects of Goan youngsters.
Gaza, December 06: Israel has destroyed two more Palestinian homes in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem), defying international calls for putting an end to demolitions.
Israeli interior ministry officials accompanied by security forces demolished two buildings in Silwan and Beit Hanina on Monday.
The buildings were “illegal, with court-issued demolition orders,” a ministry spokeswoman told AFP.
Palestinians say that their efforts to construct a free and independent Palestinian state will prove fruitless as long as Israel continues to demolish Palestinian homes.
Panaji, December 06: Fourteen commercial sex workers were rescued by Goa Police from a famous nightclub at the popular beach village of Calangute following a raid Monday, an official said.
A police spokesperson said nine promoters and staffers of Club Virgin, some 10 km from here, were booked for trafficking the women and peddling them to customers visiting the club.
“We have arrested nine promoters and staffers of the club. The women were being pimped in the club premises and were forcibly kept there,” the spokesperson said.
Bhopal, December 05 (Pervez Bari): Former hockey Olympian turned politician Aslam Sher Khan, an ex-Lok Sabha Congress member, has written a letter to Mrs.
Ghaziabad, December 06: A 26-year-old woman doctor jumped in front of a train here Monday over a failed relationship, police said.
Ankita Shukla, posted at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) in Shahdara, Delhi, lived in Karol Bagh area of the capital.
Her body, severed in two pieces, was found on the railway track between Mohan Nagar and Sahibabad railway station.
Police said she was in a relationship with a man named Ratan, which was revealed from her mobile phone recovered near the track.
London, December 06: Germany has successfully defused a 1.8-tonne World War II bomb in the Rhine river after about 45,000 residents of Koblenz were evacuated from homes, hospitals and even a prison, a media report said Monday.
The British aerial bomb is said to be one of the biggest found in the country.
It caused huge disruption across Koblenz as patients were rolled out of hospitals in wheelchairs and carried out on stretchers, the Daily Mail reported Monday.