Mumbai,December 04:Dev Anand, the ‘Evergreen Romantic Superstar’ of Indian cinema, has passed away in London on Saturday night following cardiac arrest. He was 88.
Dev Anand, who had come to London for medical check up, was not keeping well for the last few days, family sources said. Dev Anand made his debut as an actor in 1946 in Hum Ek Hain. By the time his Ziddi was released in 1947 he was a superstar and has never looked back.
New Delhi,December 04:Relatives of Gauhar Aziz Khomany, who has been arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell for having alleged links with terror outfit Indian Mujahideen, have approached the National Human Rights Commission and the National Commission for Minorities seeking intervention and accusing the police of not having adhered to the Supreme Court guidelines on making arrests.
‘NOT INFORMED OF ARREST’
Hyderabad, December 04 Mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Banda Kartika Reddy will step down from her post tomorrow, paving the way for transfer of power from Congress to Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen. The MIM, as per its post-poll understanding with the Congress in 2009, will get to occupy the Mayor’s post for the next two years.
Bhopal, December 04 (Pervez Bari): The agony of the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the world’s worst industrial catastrophe, who have been suffering silently for the last over two-and-a-half decades aggravated further on the 27th anniversary of the ghastly accident when police rained canes on the protesters, lobbed tear-gas shells and fired in the air to disperse them from blocking train traffic on the busy New Delhi-Chennai and New Delhi-Mumbai route.
Mumbai, December 04: Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds will take part in Bigg Boss 5 , Times of India reported.
The mercurial cricketer is expected to enter the house sometime next week, the report said.
This makes him the second international contestant after Sunny Leone to participate in the reality show, and the second cricketer after Vinod Kambli to enter the house.
Symonds made news off the field after he accused Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh of making racial slurs at him.
London, December 4: Dev Anand, the ‘Evergreen Romantic Superstar’ of Indian cinema, has passed away here last night following cardiac arrest. He was 88.
Dev Anand, who had come here for medical check up, was not keeping well for the last few days, family sources told PTI.
His son Sunil was with him when he breathed last. Dev Anand made his debut as an actor in 1946 in “Hum Ek Hain”.
By the time his “Ziddi” was released in 1947 he was a superstar and has never looked back.
Hyderabad, December 04: Telugu Desam Telangana Forum Convenor Errabelli Dayakar Rao on Saturday challenged Telangana Rashtra Samithi to come to Speaker Nadendla Manohar’s chamber to prove that the resignations submitted by them were fake.
Hyderabad, December 04: Revenue Minister N Raghuveera Reddy on Saturday informed the State Legislative Assembly that a comprehensive report on the drought situation in the State would be ready in the next 15 days.
Hyderabad, December 04: Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar on Saturday disallowed three adjournment motions submitted by the MIM, BJP, CPI and CPM.
Hyderabad, December 04: Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar on Saturday agreed to take up discussion on the No Confidence Motion moved by Telugu Desam Party against the government. The decision was taken after Opposition Leader N Chandrababu Naidu moved the motion in the House and was supported by 76 members belonging to the TDP, TRS, CPI, BJP and CPM.
However, the decision was preceded by uproarious scenes and din for third consecutive day leading to adjournment of House twice. Later, the Speaker called for the meeting of floor leaders to end the impasse.
New Delhi, December 04: Bollywood actor Vidya Balan believes that she is on par with Emraan Hashmi as far as serial kissing on celluloid is concerned.
Replying to questions in Rajat Sharma’s Aap Ki Adalat show on India TV, Vidya Balan said: “Let’s say, we are on par, na woh aagey, na main aagey (neither he is ahead, nor me). Nowadays women can equal men in all spheres.”
Balan however denied reports which had quoted her as saying that locking lips with Emraan was fun.
Baghdad, December 04: Iraq’s Prime Minister says the recent bomb attack near the country’s parliament in Baghdad was a failed assassination attempt against him.
“The preliminary intelligence information says that the car was due to enter parliament [on Monday] and stay there and not to explode. It was supposed to explode on the day I entered parliament,” AP quoted Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as saying on Saturday.
However, the prime minister was not in or near the building at the time of the explosion.
Hyderabad, December 04: Almost three months after it made first arrest, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday filed chargesheet in the illegal iron ore mining case of Obulapuram Mining Corporation.
Mumbai,December 04 :Extended use of laptop by placing it on the lap can damage male sperms, according to a new study published in the Journal of Fertility and Sterility.
For the study, scientists from US and Argentina exposed sperms taken from 29 men to the electromagnetic radiation (that came from the laptop) for four hours. Results revealed that after four hour of exposure, the sperm decreased its motility and deveoloped DNA damage.
KENTUCKY,DECEMBER 04 :A US church has been plunged into a racism row after it banned interracial couples from joining its congregation. Members at Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, in Kentucky, have voted to prevent interracial couples from becoming members or taking part in any services other than funerals.
The ban has opened a war of words between worshippers in the Pike County community and provoked accusations of discrimination. It was imposed after Stella Harville, the church secretary’s daughter, attended a service with her black fiance Ticha Chikuni.
Hyderabad, December 3: According to Railway police Kachiguda 42 year old Mohammad Mastan died in a train accident occurred near Osmania University. Mastan was the resident of Indiranagar, Alwal.
The victim was trying to cross the railway track when the accident occurred and he died on the spot.
Railway police has registered a case and investigations are on.
Siasat news
Hyderabad, December 3: Director General (news and current affairs) Doordarshan news head quarters New Delhi has granted permission to regional news unit (RNU) of Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad to start another Urdu bulletin of 5 minutes duration.
Hence the new Urdu bulletin will be telecast daily from 1:10 to 1:15 pm daily at DD Saptagiri channel from Saturday December 10.
Siasat news
Hyderabad, December 3: The 13th Do Ba Do programme will be jointly organised by Siasat daily and Minorities Development Forum on Sunday, December 18. Parents and guardians will have consultation on the spot to settle the marriages of theirs sons and daughters.
This has been decided at Siasat premises in a special meeting of MDF presided over by Mr. Mohammad Allauddin Ansari advocate. Venue will be announced shortly.
Mr. Zaheeruddin Ali Khan stressed the need of effective guidance of young girls and boys in the light of Islamic education to live a happy life after marriage.
Hyderabad, December 3: First additional metropolitan session judge of Nampally criminal court on Friday issued orders asking officers of counter intelligence cell to handcuff terror suspect Viqaruddin Ahmed alias Viqar and three of his associates while they were shifted to Hyderabad court for trial from Warangal jail.
Court issued permission to handcuff the self styled president of the Tahreek Ghalba-e-Islam Viqaruddin and his 3 associates Izhar Khan, Sulaiman and Khaja.
Mumbai, December 03: After blitzkrieg promotions for a month The Dirty Picture opened yesterday with approximately 1,500 prints, including the Hindi original and dubbed versions. Trade pundits point out that although the advance bookings hadn’t been too promising earlier in the week, the film has registered almost 100 per cent collections across single screens and multiplexes in different centres.
Chicago, December 03: The Israeli government is facing an unusual backlash from major U.S. Jewish organizations after launching an advertising campaign essentially urging Israeli ex-pats not to marry clueless American Jews or raise their children in the United States.
The first ad shows a young Israeli woman wincing after her boyfriend mistakes candles and music marking Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s memorial day, for a romantic night in.
Jeddah, December 03: A court has given a man accused of being a serial child rapist one week to respond to a list of charges against him. The man who is alleged to have raped a number of young girls denied all charges against him before the Jeddah court on Wednesday.
The Prosecutor General is demanding the strictest punishment for the 42-year-old due to the large amount of incriminating evidence against him.
Makkah, December 03: The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque will play a key role in the committee supervising the Tawaf Area (Mataaf) expansion project.
The project will increase the capacity of the Tawaf Area from the current 50,000 pilgrims per hour to 130,000 per hour. The Presidency will cooperate with construction companies to ensure the continuity of Tawaf and that there is enough space for worshippers to pray in safety.
Hyderabad, December 03: For the first time after his Praja Rajyam Party’s (PRP) formal merger with the Congress in August, actor-turned-politician K. Chiranjeevi Saturday openly expressed unhappiness over the ruling party’s attitude towards his legislators.
Talking to reporters in the assembly premises after his party legislators met him, Chiranjeevi said it was because of his party that the Congress government was surviving in the state.
Mumbai, December 03: It often is the case that during outdoor shoots for films, the public gathers around to have a dekko at their favourite stars.
But to Anushka Sharma’s shock and surprise, an admirer turned up at the shoot of Ladies vs Ricky Bahl in the guise of the late legendary artiste, MF Husain.
A source associated with the unit tells us that the incident took place in Lucknow, some months after the maverick artiste revealed how impressed he was with Anushka after her second movie.