Month: January 2012

New York, January 03: New York officials have condemned attacks on a Shia Islamic center and two nearby houses in the city, saying an investigation is being conducted into the incident.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday that the assaults “stand in stark contrast to the New York City of today that we’ve built together.”

“Personnel from the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit and the 103rd Precinct’s Detective Squad are moving at full steam to investigate and also determine if there are any connections to incidents outside New York City,” Bloomberg added.

Hyderabad, January 03: Mr. Jafer Ali Khan, Advocate wrote letters to collector, R.R. Dist, Tahsildar, Shahabad Mandal and CEO, Wakf Board to protect the land pertaining to Dargah Hazrath Pahelwan Shah Wali and the graveyard attacked to it.

Hyderabad, January 03: Taking into consideration the representations of parents, students and people’s representatives, Mr. Mohammed Ahmedullah, Minister for Minorities Welfare has extended the date of submission of Scholarship applications of Pre-Matric and Post-Matric students upto 15th January 2012.

As per the notification issued by the Managing Director of A.P. State Minorities Finance Corporation, the students and the parents are requested to avail of this opportunity and register their applications online on the website www.apsmfc.com before the last date of submission.

Hyderabad, January 03: A function will be held on 6th January 2012 to distribute compensation to the innocent Muslim youths affected after Makkah Masjid bomb blast. Mr. Syed Mohammed Ahmedullah, Minister for Minorities Welfare will preside over the function. Mr. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, CM of A.P. has already given instructions to the minister to distribute compensation. Mr. Ahmedullah is in Saudi Arabia for performing Umrah.

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Dead body fished out from Hussein Sagar

Hyderabad, January 3 (Siasat News): Police has fished out a dead body from Hussein Sagar but it remained unidentified so far.

According to Ramgopalpet police, the age of the deceased was around 55 years wearing wheatish shirt and purple pant.

It is shifted to Gandhi hospital mortuary for identification. Further investigations are on.

Man dies in suspicious circumstances

Tehran, January 03: Iran’s former Defense Minister says sensors used in a US RQ-170 spy drone, which was recently captured in eastern Iran, clearly prove that it had been designed to violate the country’s airspace.

Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said if the drone was meant to carry out spy missions along the Afghan border, it must have only carried photographic sensors because it would not need a monitoring system as well as thermal and spectrometer sensors which have been found in RQ-170.

Washington, January 03: A former CIA analyst says the notion that stirring up hostilities towards Iran will make Israel more secure will prove to be “the big mistake of the century.”

“If this rhetoric spins out of control, if there are incidents in the Persian Gulf or the Strait of Hormuz that lead to wider hostilities, as night follows the day, this could spin not only into a regional war but even farther; and… of Israel, I fear, may cease to exist.”

Bhopal, January 03 (Pervez Bari): The victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the world’s worst industrial catastrophe, have given a call for indefinite “dharna” (sit-in) agitation from January 3 for their demand of changing figures of death and injuries in the soon to be heard curative petition pending in the Supreme Court of India.

Mumbai, January 03: Salman Khan may not physically be there for every episode. And Sanjay Dutt may have taken over from him as the host this season, but Salman still seems to be bossing around at the Bigg Boss house. Mumbai Mirror learnt that the dabangg man has decided not to let Hrithik Roshan be the special guest for the grand finale of the reality television series.

Mumbai, January 03: Shazahn Padamsee, who hails from a theatre background prefers to work in the typical Bollywood masala films.

Daughter of popular theatre actors Alyque Padamsee and Sharon Prabhakar, Shazahn feels that she is the odd one out in her family who prefers to essay feel-good characters on screen and would not mind doing item numbers if there is an opportunity. “You need a figure like that to show off.”

Hyderabad, January 03 (INN): The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday gave clearance to the Andhra Pradesh State Public Service Commission to conduct interviews for the successful candidates of Group-I exams held last year as per schedule from January 4-10.

Earlier, the interviews were stayed by the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal following a petition by some Telugu medium candidates who alleged irregularities. The Tribunal had also asked the APPSC to file a counter petition by January 20. However, the APPSC approached the High Court challenging the stay.

Hyderabad, January 3: Mir Jaffer Ali Khan advocate wrote a letter to the collector Rangareddy district, CEO Waqf board and revenue officer Shahbad mandal Rangareddy district and urged them to protect the waqf land of dargah Hazrat Pahelwan Shah Vali and adjacent graveyard located at Shahabad village Rangareddy.

Texas, January 03: US military officials say the man who was apprehended on New Year’s Eve at a Texas airport while carrying explosives is an army demolition expert.

The officials said Trey Scott Atwater is a member of the so-called elite Green Berets who served in Afghanistan and is now stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Atwater was detained on Saturday after a security agent noticed he had explosives in his luggage while trying to board a flight at Midland International Airport.

The discovery prompted authorities to close the airport terminal for an hour.

Tehran, January 03: Senior lawmaker Kazem Jalali says if faced with a threat Iran will definitely use the defensive potential of the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Pointing to the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, Jalali said on Monday that while Iran would like all countries to use this energy conduit but if threatened it will definitely use all capacities to defend the country’s sovereignty.

Mumbai, January 03: Humaima Malick, 23, who shot to fame as 45-year-old Wasim Akram’s glamourous arm-candy, is reportedly no longer seeing the cricketer.

According to reports, Humaima, who waxed eloquent about her relationship with the dashing cricketer and even accompanied him to India when he took up the Kolkata Knight Rider assignment, has broken up with him.

Post the split. she is busy exploring career options in the entertainment industry and is sending out feelers to industry bigwigs.

-Agencies

Beijing, January 03: Hundreds of Muslims fought with armed police who demolished a mosque in China’s northwest, local police and a human rights group said on Monday, with several people injured in the “riot”.

The violence between local Muslims and roughly 1,000 armed police began after police declared illegal a newly built mosque in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and moved to destroy it, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, in Hong Kong, said.

Kabul, January 03: A 15-year-old Afghan girl severely tortured for months by her in-laws in an attempt to force her into prostitution will be sent to India for medical treatment, an Afghan official said Monday.

Sahar Gul’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law were arrested and her husband was being sought, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi. The case has shocked Afghanistan, though rights activists say serious abuses against women and girls in the conservative society are common. President Hamid Karzai has said that whoever used violence against Gul will be punished.

Hyderabad, Janaury 03: A group of 20 odd people were taken into custody by the Golconda police when they protested against what was called the ‘destruction of heritage monument’ at Golconda’s Naya Quila area which is allocated by the government for Golf course project.

Social activist Dr Jasveen Jairath of Save Our Urban Lakes (SOUL), who had called for the protest at the very site at Naya Quila, along with other activists were arrested in a few minutes from start of the programme.

Washington, January 03: A US Republican presidential candidate has warned that her administration would deploy missiles in the US and the Middle East in order to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

“What we need to do is take a very aggressive posture toward letting Iran know that we mean business, that we don’t want them to seek a nuclear weapon,” Michele Bachmann told CBS on Monday.

Hyderabad, January 3: The new executive officer of the State Hajj Committee Prof. S A Shukoor announced that he will not take monetary benefits from the Hajj committee. Prof. Shukoor took charge of his post after inspecting various departments of Hajj committee on Monday.

Mr. Shukoor is the director of Centre for educational development of minorities Osmania University (under minority welfare) and he has been given additional charge of executive officer of state Hajj committee.

Hyderabad, Janaury 03: The Osmansagar (Gandipet) and Himayatsagar water reservoirs, the only source of drinking water that meets drinking needs of the twin cities for about nine decades now, may soon become unfit for its purpose, thanks to the presence of large quantities of fishes and prawns in these two lakes which are being illegally stocked by the local fishermen and others.

New Delhi, January 03: A Delhi University student and his associate — a law student — have been arrested by the south district police for allegedly stealing sedans to woo their girlfriends and finance their lavish lifestyle.

Acting on a tip- off, police officers from the Neb Sarai police station in South Delhi laid a trap and caught Akshay ( 19) and Nitin ( 21) in a Honda City car. The duo failed to produce the papers of the car and on interrogation it was found the car had been stolen, the police said. The auto- match system further revealed it had been stolen from Malviya Nagar.

Riyadh, January 03: A Saudi man put up his son for sale on facebook for a whopping $20 million (Dh73.4m) to beat poverty.

According to ‘Al Sharq’ newspaper, Saud bin Nasser Al Shahry took the extreme step when all doors closed on him. His business of collecting debts and settling disputes had to be shut down following a court ruling, which stated it was not a legal firm, he alleged.

Kabul, January 03: A 15-year-old Afghan girl severely tortured for months by her in-laws in an attempt to force her into prostitution will be sent to India for medical treatment, an Afghan official said Monday.

Sahar Gul’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law were arrested and her husband was being sought, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi.

The case has shocked Afghanistan, though rights activists say serious abuses against women and girls in the conservative society are common. President Hamid Karzai has said that whoever used violence against Gul will be punished.