Patna, January 05: To protest against the alleged attempt of Bihar government to throw out Urdu language from the state and injustice to the Urdu teachers, Karwan-e-Urdu will be organizing a protest march to Raj Bhavan in Patna on January 10, 2012, marking the birth anniversary of freedom fighter and hero of Urdu movement late Ghulam Sarwar.
Hyderabad, January 05 (INN): The sequence of events unfolding in the YSR Congress camp, will in no way affect Congress party and will have no impact in the by-elections, said former minister J C Diwakar Reddy.
“Congress will not suffer any major loss in the bye-elections to be held for 24 constituencies with the arrests of anyone in respect to the disproportionate assets case of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy,” he told reporters here on Wednesday.
He rebutted the charges of YS Jagan Reddy that the Congress was using CBI as tool to settle scores with YSR Congress activists.
New Delhi, January 05: India Wednesday said it was aware of “gross inaccuracies” in a map of India on the US State Department website and asserted that “the entire border state of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of the country”.
India also said it has consistently “rejected incorrect depiction of its borders on maps used by the US government”.
Hyderabad, January 05 (INN): Chief Secretary Pankaj Dwivedi inaugurated the in-service training programme for the Secretariat officers here on Wednesday.
The training would be imparted to the staff from Assistant Section Officer to the Additional Secretary level for improving capacity building.
“Our focus has been shifted and our efforts should be to refocus our attention. Note files are becoming bulkier”, Dwivedi said while inaugurating the training programme, according to an official release here.
Warangal, January 05 (INN): TRS has vehemently opposed TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu’s padayatra in Telangana region and police arrested 50 party workers ahead of the Friday’s Rytu Porubata.
TRS has said that Naidu has no moral right to undertake padayatra as he failed to redress farmers’ problems while in power.
“Naidu neglected farming sector while in power and now trying to project himself as the champion of farmers’ cause is ridiculous,” TRS leader T Harish told reporters here on Wednesday.
Hyderabad, January 05 (INN): Handlooms and Textiles Minister Dr P Shankar Rao on Wednesday said that his ministry would seek allocation of Rs 1,000 crore in the next budget.
Talking to reporters at the State Secretariat after releasing APCO’s calendar, Dr Shankar Rao said that all departments in his ministry were in bad shape and need immediate financial assistance. Therefore, he would seek allocation of at least Rs 1,000 crore for his ministry from Finance Minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy during the next State budget.
Hyderabad, January 05 (INN): The State Government has extended the last date for submission of applications for the posts of Village Revenue Officers (VROs) and Village Revenue Assistants (VRAs) to January 18.
Addressing a video-conference with Districts’ Collectors at the State Secretariat here on Wednesday, Revenue Minister N Raghuveera Reddy said that the date has been extended from December 28 to January 18 to help the aspirants.
Tehran, January 05: The US military is preparing a massive military campaign against Iran, sending thousands of American troops, warships and weaponry to Israel.
An unnamed source said the military deployment of US anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel will occur in January and later this spring, Global Research reported.
Commander of the US Third Air Force based in Germany Lt.-Gen Frank Gorenc said it is not just an “exercise,” but a “deployment,” The Jerusalem Post said.
Mumbai, January 05: More than 72 hours have passed since Abdul Wahab Umar (22) and Qamar Alam Sheikh, students of mechanical engineering at Swami Paramanand Engineering College, Mohali (Punjab), were picked by Mumbai ATS sleuths in plain clothes but their families in Darbhanga (Bihar) have not yet been informed by the police. This is yet another case of picking up Muslim youths in alleged terror cases without informing their family.
Beijing, January 05: A Chinese student has extracted pure gold from scrap CPUs, earning him the title “modern alchemist”.
Li Dianwu, a chemistry senior at Nankai University in Tianjin in north China, dissolved useless CPUs in a solution of sulfuric acid, thiourea and hydrogen peroxide, and filtered the solution with activated carbon.
Then he put the metal-filled activated carbon in a muffle furnace and extracted 65 milligrams of gold at a temperature of 1,100 degrees Celsius, the Shanghai Morning Post reported Wednesday.
New Delhi, January 05: A biography of Rajinikanth will hit book stands in the superstar’s true style on 12.12.12.
Publishers Penguin Books India said that “Rajinikanth” by critic-producer Naman Ramachandaran will be the first and only definitive biography of one of India’s biggest stars and the launch will commemorate his 62nd birthday on the unique date December 12, 2012.
“The book will comprehensively analyse his meteoric career in the movie industry from his debut performance to his forthcoming blockbuster “Rana”, releasing this year.
Riyadh, January 05: A man convicted of murdering a young female relative after sexually assaulting her was beheaded Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said.
Sami Al-Mekhlafi took the girl to a deserted area before sexually assaulting and strangling her until she passed out, and then hit her on the head with a tent pole until she died, the ministry said in a statement.
He was executed in Madina.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are punishable by death under the Islamic Shariah law.
——Source:Saudigazette
New York, January 05: Soft drink multinational Pepsi is facing a suit from Illinois resident Ronald Ball after the later found a small mouse’s body inside his can of Mountain Dew in 2009.
But the strange argument that Pepsi has given is that Ball would never have known the mouse had been in his can because it would have dissolved into jelly.
Ball says he bought the Moutain Dew can from a vending machine at work in 2009, and while pouring the drink into a styrofoam cup, he found to his shock when a tiny mouse came out.
Kadapa, January 05 (INN): TDP MLC Satish Kumar Reddy on Wednesday called off his four-day fast following the government’s direction to irrigation authorities to release water to Pulivendula Branch Canal from regulator at Tumpera.
Calling off the fast at Pulivendula Tahsildar’s office, Satish Kumar Reddy thanked the government for releasing water to Pulivendula Branch Canal.
The TDP MLC was on fast from Friday.
Hyderabad, January 05: The TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao has expressed confidence that his party would win all the six seats where by-elections would be held in the Telangana region.
Talking to the media at the Telangana Bhavan on Wednesday, he said he would be taking up ‘Palle Bata’ on January 7,8 and 9. KCR has held a meeting with Palle Bata in charges at the office. He said TRS state working committee would meet on January 17 and JAC meeting would be called the next day.
Hyderabad, January 05 (INN): The welfare schemes and jobs to youth will enable the Congress to sweep the by-elections in all the 24 constituencies, according to Minor Irrigation Minister T G Venkatesh.
“Congress will go to polls on the plank of welfare schemes it has launched for poor and downtrodden, three lakh jobs for youth under Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu and execution of irrigation projects in the state,’ he told reporters after releasing New Year calendar at a programme in the city.
Jalna, January 05: Vice president of Rashtriya Lok Manch and actress Jaya Prada today said here that though Anna Hazare was “a good and sincere” person, his associates Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal were “tainted”.
“Anna Hazare is good and sincere. But the people surrounding him…Kiran Bedi and Kejriwal, are tainted,” the actress-turned-politician said here.
On Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, she said her party had decided to contest all seats. The people of UP were fed up with Mayawati’s corrupt government, she said.
New Delhi, January 05: Tihar Prisons will become the first jail in the country to install a full body scanner on its premises to check smuggling of prohibited items like narcotics, mobiles and weapons by inmates.
Officials said that two rounds of trials have been successfully completed in the country’s largest jail.
Lucknow, January 05: An SMS that people who doze off will be turned to rocks and a temblor is going to rock the state gave many in Uttar Pradesh a sleepless night, police said on Tuesday.
The SMS, sent by unidentified miscreants, sparked panic in several districts of the state on Monday night, they said.
The Uttar Pradesh Police have ordered an inquiry and are on the lookout for the source of the rumour.
“An inquiry is being conducted into last night’s rumour- mongering and action will be taken against those found guilty,” Inspector General of Police GP Sharma told reporters here.
Hyderabad, January 04: TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao today held a meeting of the party leaders here regarding the by-polls that are to be held in the Telangana region soon.
The party would conduct a mass-contact programme `Palle bata’ (sleeping in villages) in some of the assembly constituencies on January 7, 8 and 9 in the run-up to the by-polls, TRS floor leader E Rajender told reporters.
The by-polls will be held for a total of six seats in Telangana region.
Pune, January 04: Anna Hazare who was admitted to hospital with chest congestion, is responding well to treatment and his condition is improving, doctors attending on him said here Wednesday.
“Anna is stable and improving. The congestion in his chest has reduced and he got good sleep last (Tuesday) night,” said Sancheti Hospital’s Mahendra Kawedia, who has been closely monitoring Hazare’s condition.
Imphal, January 04: A ruling Congress party office came under a powerful grenade attack late Wednesday in election-bound Manipur, even as seven influential separatist groups called for a ban on all poll meetings and campaigning by the ruling party.
A police spokesperson said unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at a Congress party election office at Singjamei on the outskirts of capital Imphal around 8.45 p.m.
“Nobody was injured in the attack as the office was closed by then. A parked car was damaged in the impact of the blast,” the official said.
New Delhi, January 04: A Nigerian drug trafficker was arrested with cocaine worth Rs.30 lakh from east Delhi, police said Wednesday.
Felex Chinadu was arrested Tuesday from Vikas Marg. Police recovered 30 gm of fine quality cocaine worth Rs.30 lakh from him, a police officer said.
–Agencies
New Delhi, January 04: Against economic troubles in Europe and uncertainty in the US, Saudi Arabia today said it sees “huge potential” for stepping up commercial engagement with India.
However, Saudi Arabia which is home to two million Indian workforce, asked the Indian government to relax visa rules to boost bilateral trade and investment.
“We are eager to do more trade with India. Huge potential is present in both the nations as both are emerging economies,” Saudi Arabia Commerce and industry Minister Tawfeeq Bin Fouzan Al Rabea said at a Ficci meeting here.
London, January 04: Pakistan’s embattled former ambassador to US, Husain Haqqani, fears he will be murdered if he leaves his sanctuary in the official residence of the Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, a media report on Wednesday said.
Haqqani who is at the centre of the memo scandal said the allegations against him are part of a “psychological war” against Pakistan’s civilian government by “certain powerful quarters.”