Hyderabad, January 08 (INN): Raising a banner of dissent, Congress MLC Paladugu Venkat Rao has said that seniors in the party would feel insulted if Praja Rajyam legislators were given special treatment after the merger process is complete.
“Resentment would brew in the Congress if senior leaders were not given proper recognition and party posts resulting in heavy damage to the party at ground level,” he told reporters here on Saturday.
Mumbai, January 08: Salman Khan, who has launched many an actress, has now promised “the original item girl” Rakhi Sawant that she would star in one of his films.
Rakhi, who was here to perform during the grand finale of reality show Bigg Boss, said, “I told Salman that he has been launching all actresses, like Katrina Kaif, Zarine Khan, Sneha Ulal….I asked him when he would give me a big break. I was adamant that he give me a chance. He has committed that he will give me an item song in one of his films. Hope Salman fulfils his commitment.”
Lucknow, January 08: Flaring up passions, the Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav reiterated that Babri Masjid existed in Ayodhya while no Hindu treated the place as a mandir.
Yadav was addressing a gathering of Pasmanda Muslim Samaj (PMS)-an organisation of backward Muslims who had converged at party office to extend support to his outfit in the elections on Saturday.
“Till the court gives its verdict in the case, I will treat it as a masjid. The masjid was demolished but a mandir was not constructed,” said Yadav amidst thunderous applause of Muslims.
Lucknow, January 08: Ever thought of a mobile phone which reminds you namaz timings? There is one which automatically goes into silent mode during prayers. Further, this mobile offers whole Quran recitation for its users.
The Islamic phone will be available in Lucknow from Sunday. Manufactured by a Malaysian company, the mobile phone will be formally launched at Islamic Centre of India by Imam, Aishbagh, Eidgah, Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahli on Sunday.
Beijing, January 08: China’s state media has criticized the United States’ major strategic shift into Asia-Pacific, accusing Washington of being a troublemaker responsible for tensions in the region.
“While boosting its military presence in the Asia-Pacific, the United States should abstain from flexing its muscles, as this won’t help solve regional disputes,” said an editorial published by China’s state-run Xinhua news agency on Friday.
Xinhua warned that any American militarism in the Asia-Pacific region will “endanger peace instead of enhancing regional stability.”
Lucknow, January 08: The Chief Election Commissioner S. Y. Qureshi today ordered the draping of all statues of UP chief minister Mayawati and her party BSP’s election symbol ‘elephant’ at public places in Uttar Pradesh, particulary in Noida and Lucknow, where Mayawati had erected special parks for Dalit luminaries, including herself.
Qureshi said, the order will be implemented with immediate effect.
This has been done to provide what he called “a level-playing field” to all stakeholders in the UP assembly elections.
New Delhi, January 08: External Affairs Minister S M Krishna will undertake a strategically important visit to Israel and Palestine from tomorrow, marking the first such trip to that region by an Indian Foreign Minister in over a decade.
Two pacts—Extradition Treaty and Transfer of Sentenced Persons—are expected to be signed during his visit to Israel, sources said here today.
He will be in Tel Aviv from tomorrow till January 10 to mark the 20th year of establishment of diplomatic relations.
Warangal, January 08 (INN): TDP Telangana Forum convenor Errabelli Dayakar Rao on Saturday stated that the TRS should learn lessons after the successful conduct of Rythu Padayatra by TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in Palakurthy.
Talking to media persons, Dayakar Rao criticised TRS and Telangana Political JAC for opposing Naidu’s padayatra and held them responsible for causing law and order problem and forcible police arrests in the district.
Hyderabad, January 08 (INN): Handlooms and Textiles Minister P Shankar Rao on Saturday once again fired fresh salvo against Home Minister Sabitha India Reddy.
Talking to media persons at Secretariat, Shankar Rao alleged that Home Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy has been collecting bribes to give postings in her department. Stating that he has clear evidence to prove his charge against the Home Minister, Shankar Rao alleged that Sabitha Indra Reddy has been misusing her official position and minting money with her post.
Anantapur, January 08 (INN): Communist Party of India (Marxist) state general secretary B V Raghavulu on Saturday took serious note on Telangana Rashtra Samithi opposing Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu’s padayatra on farmers issue in the Telangana region.
Udaipur, Rajasthan, January 08: In September last year, villagers of Godli near Udaipur had paraded a married woman and her lover naked in the village and tortured them as police watched the scene, but after a media outcry, 24 persons were rounded up by Udaipur police.
Now, a fresh twist: the same woman has filed a petition in the court alleging she was raped by her lover.
She has also levelled charges of confinement against the lover’s family members.
The court has forwarded the complaint to the police for a fresh probe, says Sudhir Joshi, Additional SP, Udaipur.
Kolkata/New Delhi, January 07 : In an indication that all is not well within the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Saturday threw an open challenge to partner Congress to walk out of the combine.
This is the first time Banerjee has spoken so bitterly and openly against the Congress after the ties between the two parties — allies in the central and state governments — worsened in recent months over various issues.
Chandigarh, January 07: Upset over being denied a Congress ticket for the Jan 30 state assembly polls, Malwinder Singh, the younger brother of Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh, Saturday quit the party and joined the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal.
Malwinder Singh, who openly opposed the Congress allotting a poll ticket for the Samana assembly seat to Amarinder Singh’s son Raninder Singh, was welcomed into the Akali Dal fold by its president Sukhbir Singh Badal, who is also the deputy chief minister.
Jodhpur, January 07 :Forensic teams Saturday recovered some more items from a crater and a canal near here, suspecting to be belonging to missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, sources said. Meanwhile, a local court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a Congress legislator’s sister, who is absconding and named in the case.
Indra Bishnoi is the sister of Congress legislator from Luni constituency Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, who has been arrested in the case.
London: An Indian-origin UK police constable has been accused of using his force’s database to target vulnerable women for sex while on duty.
Police constable Jasbir Singh Dhanda, 52, is accused of misusing the database while he was a serving officer with Derbyshire Police over a seven-year period, The Daily Mail reported.
The officer allegedly had sex with two women while he was working after tracking them down on the police systems.
Dhanda has denied all charges.
New Delhi, January 07: Former leader of Samajwadi Party Amar Singh
today said his newly-formed Lok Manch Party will support Mayawati’s
ruling Bahujan Samaj Party in the coming UP Assembly polls.
“Of course, I support Mayawati as she has supported our cause in
taking the lead in carving out Poorvanchal from Uttar Pradesh,”
an ailing Amar Singh told a TV news channel in an interview. Stating that even Mayawati took the lead in this regard purely on political reasons, he said she did what ”we really wanted for the overall development of backward
Poorvanchal region.”
New Delhi, January 07: Bipasha Basu, who celebrates her birthday today, began her Bollywood journey 10 years ago says that she has come a long way from being the lost child that she was.
It was in September 2001 that she made her acting debut with ‘Ajnabee’ and 10 years down the line, she is reuniting with Abbas-Mustan as well as her co-star Bobby Deol in ‘Players’, which released this week.
Jaipur, January 07: The Indian government on Saturday launched a special pension and life insurance scheme that would benefit over 5 million unskilled and semi-skilled workers employed overseas mostly in Gulf countries on temporary contract visas.
The government has created a special fund called Pension and Life Insurance Fund which will be used to partly contribute to a pension and insurance cover to the low-paid workers, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said while launching the scheme here.
Karjat (Mumbai), January 07: Three months of patience and fair play paid rich dividends to TV actress Juhi Parmar, who Saturday won the fifth season of the controversial reality show “Bigg Boss” and the prize money of Rs.1 crore.
The “Kumkum” fame actress, who was among the first 13 contestants to enter the house Oct 2, 2011, pipped actress Mahek Chahal and Siddharth Bhardwaj to win the show, which was described as high on fights and low on entertainment quotient by season three participant, actor-filmmaker Kamaal R. Khan.
New Delhi, January 07: In two separate incidents, a 21-year-old married woman from east Delhi was raped in Noida by two people on the pretext of a job interview and a teenager was raped by a labourer with whom she had eloped from south Delhi, police said Saturday.
In the first incident, a 21-year-old married woman, resident of Loni Road area in Delhi, was raped Friday by two people on the pretext of providing her a job.
“She was sent to Noida by a placement agency based at Shakarpur in east Delhi,” said a police official.
Anantapur, January 07: Communist Party of India (Marxist) state general secretary B V Raghavulu on Saturday took serious note on Telangana Rashtra Samithi opposing Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu’s padayatra on farmers issue in the Telangana region.
Hyderabad, January 07: A Bangladeshi national was arrested in Humayunagar on Saturday on the charge of illegally staying in India with the help of fake documents.
Commissioner’s Taskforce (South Zone) nabbed Zahidul Islam, a native of Chittagong, Bangladesh, who had changed his name to Syed Abu Nasir, said Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, S Chaturvedi.
Zahidul came to Kolkata in 2004 on a visit visa and later proceeded to Uttar Pradesh and tried to get admission into a Madarasa. But he failed, and went to Mumbai.
Hyderabad, January 07: Handlooms and Textiles Minister P Shankar Rao on Saturday once again fired fresh salvo against Home Minister Sabitha India Reddy.
Talking to media persons at Secretariat, Shankar Rao alleged that Home Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy has been collecting bribes to give postings in her department. Stating that he has clear evidence to prove his charge against the Home Minister, Shankar Rao alleged that Sabitha Indra Reddy has been misusing her official position and minting money with her post.
Islamabad ,January 07: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said his government was not “at war” with the powerful Army and the confrontation will “simmer down,” remarks that come amid tensions between the executive and the military sparked by a high-octane memo scandal.
In his first interview since the
military and judiciary began pressuring the government over an alleged memo seeking US help to stave off a feared coup, Zardari rejected the possibility of a clash between various state institutions.
Vijayawada, Januray 07: Cine actor Nandamuri Balakrishna has announced that he would contest the next assembly elections in the State.
Talking to reporters here on Saturday, Balakrishna said that he would join the electoral politics in the next assembly elections. However, he did not specify the district or the constituency from where he plans to contest. He said that the decision on his constituency would be taken by the party leadership.
Balakrishna also said that he do not possess any individual opinion on separate Telangana and he would abide by the party’s stand on the issue.