Month: January 2012

Agartala, January 29: The Communist movement in India will not fall back despite attacks and conspiracies. Its fight against the social exploitation of Dalits, tribals, the poor and others would make it stronger, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat said here Sunday.

“During the freedom struggle, Communists had shown the way to the entire country. Over 450 Left partymen were killed, thousands made homeless, hundreds of party offices were destroyed in a few years in Bengal. But the Communists would not run away,” Karat said.

Mumbai, January 29: A Pakistani judicial commission will arrive here on February 3 to record the statements of key persons involved in Mumbai attack probe.

Official sources said that officers of the crime branch have been asked to provide assistance to the Pakistani commission during their visit here for which the Bombay High Court had recently given a go-ahead.

Islamabad, Jan 29 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a “genuine person” who desired to resolve all issues including Kashmir with Pakistan, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.

“We have resumed comprehensive dialogue with India, and are in the process of normalising trade relations with India, which will benefit the people of both the countries,” Gilani said Saturday in Davos, Switzerland.

**How terror cases are probed in India

Mohammad Aamir Khan’s story should qualify as a case study for someone doing research on ‘How terror cases are probed in India’.

In the winter of 1998, the Delhi police named Aamir in more than two dozen bomb blast cases — 17 in Delhi, the twin blasts in Haryana’s Rohtak district and the 1996 Frontier Mail blast in Ghaziabad. Twenty in all.

The National Investigation Agency, which has been struggling to collect evidence in the 2006 Malegaon blast case, is likely to quiz some of the Maharashtra ATS officials who had probed the case.

In the light of a confession by Swami Aseemanand before a magistrate, the nine youths arrested by the Anti-Terror Squad in 2006 were released on bail recently by the court as the NIA did not oppose the same due to lack of evidence against them.

Warangal, Jan 29 (INN): The Telangana MPs on Sunday once again reiterated that they would continue their agitation for separate Telangana statehood.

Talking to media persons after performing special poojas to Goddess Samakka Sarakka at Medaram in Warangal district, the MPs stated that until the Centre announces Telangana state, they would continue their agitation.

Asifabad/Utnoor, Jan 29 (INN): Bharatiya Janata Party Maharashtra state unit president Sudhir Muniganti on Sunday stated that the development of Telangana would not be possible with special regional councils or financial packages.

Addressing a massive gathering at Asifabad while participating in Telangana Poru yatra, Sudhir Muniganti said that the regional councils and financial packages would not serve any purpose and the development of region would be possible only with the formation of smaller states.

Yanam, Jan 29 (INN): The left parties’ leaders on Sunday demanded that the Pudducherry Government order judicial probe into the conditions that led to violence after the closure of Regency Ceramics factory in Yanam.

Hyderabad, Jan 29 (INN): Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary K Narayana on Sunday demanded that the State Government withdraw VAT on textiles.

In a symbolic protest, Narayana and other CPI activists took out a rally to Indira Park by removing their shirts. Later, talking to reporters Narayana said that the continuation of VAT on textiles would put additional burden on the common man to the extent that they would not able to buy clothes.

Karimnagar, Jan 29 (INN): The police on Sunday seized a huge quantity of explosive material and detonators at Medipally in Karimnagar district.

The seized explosives include 200 detonators, 600 gelatin sticks and 16 bags containing ammonium nitrate. The seizure was made during routine checks by the Karimnagar district police. On suspicion police intercepted an auto-rickshaw at Medipally and on search, explosive that were concealed in gunny bags were found.

London, January 29: A Muslim pilot working for a well-known British carrier has said he was fired because his bosses feared he might copy the Sep 11 terror attack.

The London-based pilot — who was not named for legal reasons — was judged a security risk after the discovery of his link to two alleged extremists suspected of “planning to use an aircraft as part of a hostile or terrorist act”.

According to the unnamed airline, the pilot was “in a position to divert or sabotage an aircraft”, the Daily Mail reported.

Islamabad, January 29: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will visit Kabul on February 1 to boost Pakistan- Afghanistan ties and efforts to engage the Taliban that were affected by the assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani last year.

Khar will become the first Pakistani woman politician to lead a delegation to Afghanistan when she arrives in Kabul on a daylong trip.

The visit is being seen as “an icebreaker in bilateral ties”, The News daily quoted its sources as saying.

Washington, Jan 29 (IANS) One promised the moon, the other “fired” him for the loony idea and the man they hoped to challenge in November lowered his lofty vision from “hope and change” to “fairness and equality.”

Election season 2012 is hotting up with two leading Republican contenders, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, vying for the right to take on President Barack Obama, entering into a no holds barred combat.

With her child-like enthusiasm and ready smile, Prince Charles’s new girlfriend was just the type of house-guest to appeal to the Queen. The year was 1980. And there was no doubt that Lady Diana Spencer had just passed the Balmoral test with flying colours.

‘We got hot, we got tired, she fell into a bog,’ remembered Prince Charles’s friend Patty Palmer-Tomkinson, ‘She got covered in mud, laughed her head off, got puce in the face. She was a sort of wonderful English schoolgirl who was game for anything.’

Tehran, January 29: A delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived in Iran to discuss the country’s controversial nuclear programme, Iranian media reported Sunday.

Iran’s envoy to the IAEA, Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, said last week that a delegation of the UN nuclear watchdog would visit Iran Jan 29-31 “to negotiate and discuss issues raised by the IAEA”.

New Delhi, January 29: Days after Salman Rushdie was not allowed to speak at the Jaipur Literature Festival, the issue continues to touch a raw nerve among Muslim clerics and intellectuals even as liberals excoriate the brazen violation of a writer’s freedom of creative expression.

“It was the right thing not to let him speak. And it’s a good thing he did not come,” Darul Uloom Deoband vice chancellor Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani told IANS when asked whether he felt vindicated after Rushdie’s video-conference was cancelled Jan 24 amid apprehensions of protests.

New Delhi, January 29: A year after the people’s uprising in Egypt that toppled the 30-year regime of president Hosni Mubarak, a university scholar says Egyptians believe it is time to govern the newly-democratic country in an “Islamist way”.

“There is this simple conviction among people that with Islamists, things will be better. Or else, the Tahrir Square is always there,” Mustafa Riad, professor of English literature at the faculty of arts in Ain Shams University in Cairo, told IANS in an interview here.

Hyderabad, January 29: 52 year old Alia, wife of Awad bin Ali, resident of Yakutpura died in a road accident.

The accident occurred under Saifabad police station limits.

Alia was seriously injured in an accident occurred on January 20. She succumbed to injuries last night.

Siasat news

Hyderabad, January 29: A jilted lover ended his life when the girl spurned his proposal. The incident occurred at Anjaiah nagar Alwal, where Naga Raju, a driver by occupation consumed poison. He died last night.

Raju whose age is said to be 20 years, loved a girl living in the area. However the girl spurned his overtures. The youth resorted to suicide.

Siasat news

Hyderabad, January 29: A woman who was always busy on cell phone became the cause of death for entire family. Her distrustful husband killed entire family and ended his own life. The incident occurred under Malkajgiri police station limits, where distraught by wife’s obsession with cell phone, the man killed his wife along with his parents and then hanged himself.

Hyderabad, January 29: The Urdu Dani, Zaban Dani and Insha exams conducted by Abid Li Khan Educational Trust (Siasat) in collaboration with Idara-e-Adabiyat-e-Urdu will be held today on January 29, from 10 am to 1 pm.

According to Qaudri Mohammad Dastageer Khan students as well as women will appear in the above said exams at Mahboobia Islami School near Bangla Bini Dabeerpura, Madarsa Dinia Rasheedia and Shah Husain at Alava Bibi, Indo American High School Panjesha, Alhadi high school Yakutpura and other schools.

421 students have submitted forms this time.

Siasat news

Mumbai, January 29: Actress Anushka Sharma, who has worked with some of the top guns of B-town in her four-year acting career, is all excited about her forthcoming project, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola.

The 23-year-old model-turned Bollywood actress, who made her debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in a Yash Chopra production, says she was dying to work with the critically acclaimed filmmaker Bhardwaj as he “brings out the best in his actors”.

Hyderabad, January 29: Mayor Mohd Majid Hussain is facing a peculiar problem. His mother tongue is Urdu. Being a student of English medium, he can probably manage in the language. But understanding Telugu has become pretty difficult for him.

With most citizens venting their problems in Telugu and the language becoming a major communication barrier, he is taking the help of his officer on special duty (OSD) to translate their grievances.

Hyderabad, January 29: On one side Islam declares the biological need of Nikah as wajib and Sunnah, and on the other hand it prohibits extravagance in marriages. A Hadeeth of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) says “The most blessed Nikah is the one in which least expenses are incurred, and is simple.” Besides this the Quran also says “…Do not squander your wealth wastefully; for those who squander wastefully are Satan’s brothers …”

Nikah in Islam has an aspect of Ibadah, but the Muslims have made this sacred contract, an occasion to showoff and are engaged in extravagance, obscenity.

Prophet Ayoub (Alaihi-salam – May be peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was one of Allah’s very sincere worshippers. We find in his story many lessons that we can reflect upon to assess our relationship with Allah. This story especially should make us question whether all our sincerity and worship for Allah is dependent on His blessings on us.

The following story was documented by Ibn Kathir.

Prophet Ayoub (A) was Allah’s thankful, repentant, patient and steadfast worshipper. Allah the Almighty has praised Him in the Quran thus: