New Delhi, February 04: The SC order said quite clearly that then telecom minister A Raja “wanted to favour some companies at the cost of the public exchequer” and lists seven steps he took to ensure this happened. Here are the steps as the SC saw them:
1. After taking over as telecom minister, Raja directed that all applications received for UAS licences should be kept pending till receipt of the Trai’s recommendations
Hyderabad, February 04: Ms. Tahseen Khatoon (20) resident of Hafiz Baba nagar reached her house after five years with her three children.
She was captivated by a tantric from Mangalghat five years back. Sunder Singh alias Ravan singh a witchraft practitioner from Mangalhat had kept her in his house as a captive for five years during which period he exploited her sexually.
She gave birth to three children. He didn’t allow her to go out of the house during these days.Now that the repair work was in progress,she got an oppurtunity to escape.
Hyderabad, February 04: A leading Islamic seminary in Hyderabad has issued a fatwa asking Muslims to desist from un-Islamic practices like playing music, singing and dancing on Milad-un-Nabi, the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
The Jamia Nizamia has asked community members to avoid excess revelry and ostentatious expenditure during Milad, which falls Feb 5. It has advised people not to put up flags with the names of Allah and the Prophet Moahmmed written on them as the flags may fall down, which will amount to showing disrespect.
Mumbai, February 04: And once again she proved unlucky for love. Well, yes! we are talking about the leggy lass Deepika Padukone, who has reportedly split with Siddharth Mallya, after a 2years long relationship.
While some say the reason for their break up is, Deepika signing a film with Ranbir, other say that they are just not compatible.
Soon after the news came out in the open, its is heard that Deepika changed status on her phone messenger. Her status read “Game Over”! Not just the status, but her display pic was also replaced with a dark patch.
New Delhi, February 04: A suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist believed to be involved in the Jama Masjid blast was arrested in Bihar, police said Friday.
“The suspected terrorist is identified as Mohammed Tariq (35). He was arrested from Nalanda in Bihar,” police said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Ashok Chand said: “Tariq is co-founder of IM. He joined SIMI in 1998 and is an engineering student.”
The suspected terrorist was arrested by special investigation team (SIT) of Delhi Police.
Tehran, February 04: Iran’s supreme leader threatened to attack Israel yesterday in retaliation for Western sanctions against the Islamic Republic, warning that “threatening Iran and attacking Iran will harm America”. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s declaration came as apprehension of possible conflict was intensified by a report suggesting that the US Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, believes Israel could strike nuclear targets in Iran before the summer after concluding that military action might be needed before it was “too late” to stop Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Hyderabad, February 04: Despite police alert,some miscreants are trying to distrub the peace of the city these days.
On last Friday an incident of willful ringing bell at a temple near Charminar occurred .This Friday again such attempt was made.Communal elements reached Bhagyalakshmi temple at Charminar and started ringing the bell.
Corporator of Mangalhat Raja Singh and former M.P.ANarendra also participated in ringing the bell at the time of Friday prayer yesterday.
Astana, February 04: Monkeys in a Kazakhstan zoo are enjoying a “very human” remedy against cold weather, with wine added to their daily ration.
Each monkey is getting a moderate dose of about 50 grams of Cahors wine a day, mixed with piping hot water and served with apples, lemon and sugar, the Tengrinews.kz website reported.
The monkeys enjoy their drink, said Svetlana Pilyuk, deputy director of the zoo in Karaganda city, around 190 km from Kazakh capital Astana.
London, February 04: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has reportedly been “hanging out” with American football quarterback Mark Sanchez.
The 31-year-old, who was last year married to basketball star Kris Humphries for just 72 days, has been hooking up with Sanchez but has been careful to avoid being seen with him in public.
“Kim and Mark like to meet in hotels for dinner dates and flings,” contactmusic.com quoted a source as saying.
Hyderabad, February 04: Even as the IAS officers in the state are up in arms over the arrest of two of their colleagues in the Emaar scam and illegal mining case, two former bureaucrats who have served GOI in top positions have said that the law is taking its course with respect to corrupt officials and that politicians guilty of graft are not far from being brought to book.
Hyderabad, February 04: A delegation comprising politicians, civil society members and academicians from the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Manuu), submitted a memorandum to chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy seeking Rs 3000 crore for the Muslim community in the coming financial year.
London, February 04:Actress Sharon Stone will play a married woman who seduces a student in director Tony Kaye’s new movie.
According to contactmusic.com, the 53-year-old, known for her bold role in “Basic Instinct”, will play the lead in “Attachment”.
The film talks about a one-night stand where Stone gets intimate with her daughter’s boyfriend.
Shooting for the film will start in April.
–Agencies
Hyderabad, February 04: A software engineer of a multi-national company ( MNC) in Bangalore was arrested on Friday by Crime Investigation Department (CID) officials for allegedly uploading his ex-colleague’s obscene photographs, which he forcibly took, in social networking sites.
According to the CID sleuths, 27-year-old T Satish was arrested from Bangalore, where he is presently working. The victim, also a software engineer, lodged a complaint with the CID in January alleging that Satish, who was her former colleague, befriended her at one point of time.
Idaho, February 04: The head of memory chip maker Micron, long known for taking risks in stunt piloting, died Friday when a small experimental plane he was piloting steeply banked, stalled and crashed near an Idaho runway.
Steve Appleton, who survived a similar crash eight years ago and had a reputation as a hard-driving daredevil, was the only person aboard the plane when witnesses said it crashed shortly after its second take-off attempt in Boise, according to safety investigators.
New Delhi, February 04: Social activist Swami Agnivesh has urged CBI Director A.P. Singh to “act to retrieve its [the CBI’s] reputation” and carry out an independent and impartial probe into the alleged July 1, 2010, encounter killing of Maoist spokesman Cherukuri Raj Kumar alias Azad, and attack on him (Mr. Agnivesh) and people of three villages of Chhattisgarh by the Salwa Judum and the police personnel in March last year.
Mumbai, February 04: Criticising Congress president Sonia Gandhi for being “quiet” on the 2G spectrum scam, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Friday hit out at Home Minister P Chidambaram, saying he should resign immediately.
“The ‘Yuvraj’ of Congress (Rahul Gandhi) is very vocal over the corruption by Mayawati. However, he is not saying anything about the corruption by his own government,” Mr. Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana.
“His mother (Sonia Gandhi) is also quiet on the issue.
Kolkata, February 04: Magsaysay Award winner Mahasweta Devi said here on Friday that not allowing controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen’s book to be released at the scheduled venue at the 36 Kolkata International Book Fair was a “grave injustice.”
“For a long time I have seen that Taslima writes a book and then faces protests…. Taslima Nasreen does not do anything more than write books,” Mahasweta Devi said, adding there was a need for public opinion to be mobilised against these incidents.
Bangalore, February 04: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday warned the Centre of launching a public movement if it did not drop its proposal to carve out a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities from the 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in Central government jobs and educational institutions.
New Delhi, February 04: A special CBI court on Saturday will decide on the alleged role of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G scam on a petitioner’s plea seeking to make him an accused in the case.
The petitioner alleged that Chidambaram was equally culpable like former Telecom Minister A Raja as he also had a role in deciding the spectrum pricing and allowing telecom companies to off-load shares to foreign firms.
With the Supreme Court leaving the issue to be decided by the trial court, the ball is now in the court of Special CBI Judge OP Saini.
Malda, February 04: Infant deaths have returned to haunt West Bengal with 19 babies dying in Bankura and Malda districts in the last two days.
Ten babies died at the Bankura Sammilani Medical College while nine died at the Malda Medical College and Hospital, officials said today.
Superintendent of Bankura Sammilani Medical College and Hospital Dr P Kundu said while four children died on Wednesday, six babies expired yesterday.
The deaths were due to meningitis, pneumonia and low birth weight, Dr Kundu said.
New Delhi, February 03: An Air India pilot, who is also a Flight Operations Inspector with civil aviation regulator DGCA, has been suspended from active duty after he tested positive for alcohol.
“Captain Sebastian, who was to fly between Chennai to Madurai, has been grounded for three months after he was tested positive for the alcohol during a pre-flight breathalyser test, a mandatory exercise to ensure flight safety,” a senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official said.
New Delhi, February 03: The chief of the Indian Army, General V K Singh, won the first round of his legal battle against the government in the Supreme Court today. The judges said that the process used by the government to reject his claim that he was born in 1951 and not 1950 is defective or “vitiated”.
The government has been told to either withdraw that decision, taken on December 30, or have it officially over-ruled by the court. The next hearing has been scheduled for February 10.
The problem, the Supreme Court said, lies in the role played by the
Utterpardesh, February 03: They have serious crime cases registered against them for allegedly committing murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, robbery and extortion. One of them is even facing 15 criminal cases including nine for serious offences.
These are not the people wanted by the police or against whom rewards have been announced in Uttar Pradesh.
They are the contestants of the major political parties, including the ruling Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) and the main opposition Samajwadi Party, in the February 11 second phase of Assembly election in U.P. covering 59 constituencies.
Cairo, February 03 — Violent clashes reignited in Egypt on Friday between police and protesters angered by reports of inadequate security at a soccer match that devolved into a riot this week, leaving 79 people dead.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Interior Ministry in Cairo, prompting riot police to deploy tear gas for fear the men — some of them masked — would storm the building.
Syria, February 03: The U.N Security Council is considering the most important resolution yet on the brutal rule of terror that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has unleashed on his people.
The resolution proposed by Morocco and supporting the Arab League’s plan, calls for al-Assad to leave power as the first step of a transition toward democracy.
Yet even while U.N. deliberations are taking place, al-Assad is desperately trying to quash the protest movement by escalating violence to an unprecedented degree.