Mumbai, January 28: While Neha Dhupia’s famous quote ‘sex and SRK sells in Bollywood’ holds true for A-Grade-films, there is a blooming parallel industry of B, C, D and E-Grade films that can easily do without any Khan. All they need is a heavy dose of ‘erotica and cheap thrills’ to get the desired eyeballs.
A still from Miss Lovely
Sudan, January 28: South Sudan says it will complete the shutdown of its oil production on Saturday, after attempts to resolve a dispute with Sudan failed.
The presidents of both countries held talks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, but were not able to sign a deal.
South Sudan seceded from Sudan in July, and uses its northern neighbour’s infrastructure to export its oil.
The two countries disagree about how much this should cost.
Oil transit fees are a big part of Sudan’s budget. The country lost most of its oil producing areas when the south became independent.
Tripoli, Januay 28: New evidence has emerged that supporters of the former Libyan leader, Col Gaddafi, have been tortured while in detention.
The BBC has been told by inmates at a jail in Misrata that they were beaten, whipped and given electric shocks.
The head of the city’s military council has dismissed the allegations.
United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay has called on Libya’s transitional government to take full control of all prisons.
The allegations come exactly 100 days after Col Gaddafi’s violent death at the hands of former rebels.
Hyderabad, January 28: For long, some unscrupulous elements are trying to paint Hyderabad, the city of peace and brotherhood, with saffron colour. For this they have been plotting to afflict Hyderabad city with communal fire. To instigate their wicked plan they are building illegal temples inside sacred places of Muslims.
As part of this wicked plot some miscreants have kept the photos of god and goddesses, while sprinkling saffron colour, under a tree, inside the 100 year old grave yard, located in the premises of Osmania hospital, and have started puja in it.
The Hague, January 28: The Dutch government Friday approved a ban on face-covering clothing, such as a burqa, a niqab, a forage cap, or a full face helmet.
People going on the streets with one of these now risk being fined for up to 380 euros ($499).
“It is very important that people in an open society meet each other in an open way,” Minister of Interior Affairs Liesbeth Spies said after the cabinet meeting.
Imphal, January 28: Manipur recorded 40 percent polling till noon ion Saturday as voting continued at a brisk pace with people turning out in huge numbers to elect a 60-member assembly despite a string of bomb blasts in the past one week.
Voting remained peaceful, barring one incident of violence in Tipaimukh constituency where some irate electors damaged an electronic voting machine at one polling booth. This led security personnel to open fire, but no one was injured.
Secunderabad, January 28: Unable to cope with financial problems, four members of a family committed suicide here, police said Saturday.
The bodies of K. Balaji, his wife and parents were found Saturday morning at their house in R.K. Nagar neighborhood of Malkajgiri area of Secunderabad.
Balaji, 32, was found hanging in one room while the bodies of his wife K. Prasanna (24), father A. Nageswara Rao (60) and mother Vijayalakshmi (52) were lying in the other room.
A suicide note found on the body of Balaji said they were committing suicide due to financial problems.
New Delhi, January 28: Model and Twitter celebrity, Poonam Pandey is looking for a date. The most searched model on the internet is soon going to have 1lac followers on micro blogging site Twitter and she has promised to go on a dinner date with the person who becomes her 1lac follower.
The model, who first came into limelight during the Cricket World Cup when she promised to strip for Team India, has used Twitter to voice her opinion and to connect with her fans all this while.
Hyderabad, January 28: A meeting entitled ‘Preservation of structural heritage of Hyderabad’ will be held at Salarjang Museum on February 4.
P Anuradha Reddy convenor Deccan Heritage Circle told that besides Hyderabad, the archeological experts of Dharwad, Aurangabad and Gulbarga will also exchange their views.
The motive behind conducting the meeting is to dwell on the measures to be taken to preserve the historical structural heritage of Hyderabad.
Siasat news
Riyadh, January 28: An Ethiopian housemaid in Fujeirah attacked her colleague at the same house with an axe, causing serious injuries to the woman’s head before she was overpowered and handed over to the police.
Her employer told police the maid assaulted another Ethiopian maid with an axe and hit her on the head following an argument between the two at his house in Madhab area in the eastern emirate.
The incident took place early this month and the maid will stand trial after she was questioned by the prosecutor, ‘Alkhaleej’ newspaper reported.
Hyderabad, January 28: TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to field a Muslim candidate in the fray in the ensuing bye elections.
Hyderabad, January 28 (Siasat News): There was a report published in Siasat’s January 26 edition on page No.6 in printed paper and page no 11 in e-paper in connection with a widow Fatima Begum.
As her bank account was not furnished, it was not published also and this created problems for the donors.
Now her new bank account is being opened. Donors please note. (Siasat)
Fatima Begum A/c No. 860010110006033
IFSC Code: BKID0008600, Bank of India
Branch Nampally Station Road, Hyderabad, 500 001.
Hyderabad, January 28: The Silver Jubilee celebration of Mukarram Jah School run by Mukarram Jah Trust was kicked off by Princess Esra on January 25. The school children gave a warm welcome to princess Esra on her arrival at Masarrat Mahal. Following the presentation of guard of honour, princess unfurled the school flag.
Washington, January 28: Aneesh Chopra, President Barack Obama’s information technology honcho, who was the highest ranking Indian American in the Obama administration, is leaving the White House, apparently to try his hand at politics.
Announcing the departure of Chopra, Assistant to the President and the federal government’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Obama said “Chopra did groundbreaking work to bring our government into the 21st century.
New Delhi, January 28: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday said the proposed monorail service in East Delhi will be extended to more areas against the earlier plan of covering around 11 kilometres.
Dikshit said government will also introduce small taxis being developed by certain manufacturers to improve transport communication in congested areas in East Delhi where extension of metro network is not feasible.
Minor girl kidnapped and raped
Hyderabad, January 28 (Siasat News): Falaknuma police has handed over a youth to judicial custody in connection with the kidnap and rape of a minor girl.
According to police, Mohd. Ahmed, 21, resident of Achi Nagar was handed over to judicial custody. Ahmed was a mobile technician and was in love with a minor girl of class IX.
Last week, he somehow managed to woo the girl to come with him to Mumbai where he had reportedly raped her.
United Nations, January 28: The UN headquarters recently became the recipient of a very unusual package – 16 kg of cocaine from the notorious Mexican drug cartels valued at about $2 million.
Yes, a whopping 16 kg of the highly addictive drug and that too sent in bags with fake UN symbol printed on it. The two bags containing the narcotics were seized at the mail center of the UN, New York police officials said.
Ananthapur, Janaury 28: She dreamt of being a teacher, but fate forced her to do begging! Educated, speaking in English, and having her left hand disabled by birth, she presents a curious sight.
Seventeen-year-old Shravani, a native of Ananthapur in Andhra Pradesh, was rescued by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Friday while she was begging in the town here. Soon, she was sent to the Mahilamandiram in Alappuzha for rehabilitation.
Hyderabad, January 28: According to Mohammad Khaja Moinuddin, general secretary MDF, Minorities Development Forum is going to organize free Mega Health and Medical Camp on Sunday, January 29, from 10 am to 4 pm, at MBT office, Fateh Shah Nagar, near Imadia Function Hall, under the supervision of Mohammad Allauddin Ansari advocate, president MDF.
Dr. S A Majeed will be the convenor. Chief patron MDF and editor Siasat daily Mr. Zahid Ali Khan will inaugurate the free medical camp.
New Delhi, January 28: Two of the four naval officers in the dock for allegedly divulging classified information and data on social networking and other websites are likely to be sacked from service.
The Navy HQ here is now examining the report of the Board of Inquiry (BoI), conducted at the Western Naval Command at Mumbai, against the four commander-rank officers (equivalent to Lt-Colonels in Army) from the naval technical branch.
London, January 28: She’s got a hunky footballer boyfriend waiting for her at home, but Irina Shayk still has to keep up her day job. And if that means lazing topless on a male model, so be it.
Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo must be a secure man to let his gorgeous Russian girlfriend close to up and coming Vinnie Woolston.
Especially because the couple themselves met through the Armani Exchange campaign. The 26-year-old is seen with New Zealander Vinnie in the spring/summer campaign for Replay, the Daily Mail reported .
Washington, January 28: US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the US in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound last May.
Panetta told CBS’s “60 Minutes,” in a profile to be broadcast on Sunday, that Shakil Afridi helped provide intelligence for the raid on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Bhopal, January 28: Holding that Gita contained philosophy and not religious teachings, the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging introduction of ‘Gita Sar’ (essence of Gita) in school curriculum.
When the Catholic Bishop’s Council filed the PIL in August last year, the court gave the petitioner’s counsel two months to read the holy book in entirety and make up his mind.
Mumbai, January 28: Former Shiv Sena Lok Sabha MP Shivaji Mane, till now Hingoli district Congress president, Saturday joined NCP, saying he was feeling “suffocated” in the Congress.
Mane joined NCP in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar at a function in party office here this morning.
He said Youth Congress president Rajeev Satav, who hails from Hingoli, a district in Marathwada region, was functioning in an “autocratic” manner. “I was feeling suffocated in the Congress and was being ignored.”
Tel Aviv, January 28: In a bizarre incident a baby survived even after bit by a poisonous snake, but the snake died after the baby bit off its head.
The 1-year-old, named Imad Gadir from Shfaram in northern Israel, found a 35-centimetre-long snake in his room on Thursday morning. The child caught the snake but the snake had bit him several times. When the mother reached there after listening to baby’s cries she was stunned to see that the infant was chewing snake’s head with his few teeth.