(Siasat News)Govt. of A.P. will institute Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s statue in the premises of Assembly or Council soon. Mr. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, C.M. gave this assurance while addressing J. Eswari Bai Memorial Award distribution Function held yesterday. He announced that Govt. grant for inter-caste marriages will be increased from Rs. 10 to Rs. 50 thousand. This will promote equality among various sections of the society.
Adilabad, February 25: An attempt to sell a three-month-old baby girl by a young couple in Andhra Pradesh was foiled in Mancherial town of Adilabad district, police said on Friday.
Accused Atram Akbar and Maheshwari, in their 20s, allegedly tried to sell the baby for Rs 1.5 lakh yesterday and planned to utilise the money to start a business.
The couple even negotiated with one “buyer” for the same, but after some locals suspected their intention, the “attempt” was foiled, they said.
(Siasat News)Physical training is being imparted by Siasat under the guidance of MR. Mohammed Abdul Aziz, Judo Coach for the past four months. 325 candidates for recruitment of police constable have been successful in 5 km March.
(Siasat News)Supporters of Palestine will reach Jerusalem to mark 36th Palestine Day to be celebrated on 30th March 2012.
Indian delegation will reach Jerusalem by road. Indian delegation will assemble in Delhi on 8th March. It will go to Raj Ghat on 9th March. It will go to Jallianwalla Bagh in Punjab on 10th March. It will participate in various programmes in Pakistan from 10th March to 14th March in Lahore, Islamabad, Multan, Quetta and Karachi. In Iran it will visit Zahdan, Isfahan, Tehran and Tabriz.
Kabul, February 25: Anti-US protesters tried to storm a US consulate and march on NATO headquarters in Kabul on Friday as violent demonstrations over the burning of Qurans pushed into a fourth day, killing 24 people.
Afghan officials said nine people died Friday, seven of them in the relatively peaceful western province of Herat, where the assault was made on the consulate in the capital.
King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, received at his palace in Riyadh Friday male and female participants of the 9th National Forum for Intellectual Dialogue. Among those who called on the King were Dr. Abdullah Bin Saleh Al-Obaid, member of the Presidential Committee for the King Abdul Aziz Center for National Dialogue; Dr. Abdullah Bin Omar Naseef and Dr. Rashed Al-Rajeh Al-Shareef, Deputy Presidents of the Committee; and Faisal Bin Abdul Rahman Bin Mo’amar, Secretary-General of the Center.
State-owned telecom services provider BSNL has launched three tablets with the cheapest model costing a mere Rs 3,250, making a quiet entry into the increasingly competitive market for the hand-held computers. Recently, Datawind, promoted by a Canadian India, had made a much-publicised entry into the market in a tie-up with the government to provide cheap networking devices ‘Aakash’, priced at Rs 2,250 for students.
Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana on Friday stated that the party would go to by-elections campaign with government schemes and programmes implemented for the benefit of people.
Talking to media persons after meeting Congress In-Charge of State Affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad, the PCC chief stated that the party would work unitedly and collectively for the success of party candidates in the by-elections being held in seven Assembly segments on March 18. He said that the `B’ forms for the party candidates would be issued on February 27.
Expressing shock at the “brutal murder” of two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders in West Bengal, a group of leading scholars and intellectuals Friday accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of trying to “thwart opposition or discontent against her misrule by open use of terror and falsification”.
Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday, exchanging a volley of tear gas and rocks.
Israeli troops entered the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Compound) after the Friday noon prayer, and fired tear and and sound grenades, causing confusion amongst the large crowds who worship at the holy site on Fridays, a Ma’an correspondent said.
Palestinian youth threw rocks at the forces, witnesses told Ma’an, adding that high security measures were imposed throughout Jerusalem.
Pop star Lady Gaga was “scolded” by her father for stiking her middle finger up at photographers at a baseball match.
The 25-year-old was watching the New York Mets in 2010 when she stuck up her middle finger to photographers, which did not impress her dad Joseph Germanotta.
“It was the first time in nearly two years that I was scolded by my father – partly for misbehaving in public and partly for attending a Mets game. But that’s the beauty of baseball, isn’t it?” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Gaga as saying.
The West is using a nonproliferation campaign as a blind for bringing about regime change in Iran, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said.
“Under the pretext of stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by neutralizing a new nuclear club member – Iran – attempts are underway to change the regime,” he said Friday.
“We have suspicions to that effect,” Putin said, adding that Russia disagrees with the Western position on Iran and ways of solving “the Iran problem”.
President Barack Obama, whose administration has by far the largest number of Indian-Americans, has turned to three prominent members of this growing and influential community to help his re-election campaign reach out to some three million Indian-origin voters.
Iran has the know-how to build engines used in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), an official said.”We are building turbofan engines for a variety of UAVs,” Iranian Armed Forces deputy Brigadier General Abdolkarim Banitarafi said Friday.
The construction of the engines is a significant step in the direction of building indigenous drones, the state-run Press TV quoted Banitarafi as saying.
Turbofan is a type of jet engine widely used for aircraft propulsion. Iran has taken “major steps” towards designing large Turbofan engines, Xinhua reported.
Parents of a 60-year-old Indian-origin hotelier, reportedly one of Britain’s wealthiest men, are sueing him for 100 million pounds (around $157 million), claiming their son took the family business for himself.Jasminder Singh, chairman of the Radisson Edwardian Hotels, is accused of renouncing the Sikh tradition of sharing family wealth and barring his parents from their multi-million pound business, the Daily Express reported.
His 84-year-old father, Bal Mohinder Singh, stands to take a third of the family fortune if he wins the high court battle against his son.
The state assembly may have discussed the lack of toilets in government schools in the state on Friday, but the reality on the ground seems to be worse. It turns out that almost 47,000 of the 76,000 government schools across Andhra Pradesh do not have toilets or provide drinking water.
As per the website of the state government-run project Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA), 53,801 primary, upper primary and higher secondary schools have no toilet facility for girls. 35,326 schools do not have toilet facilities for anybody.
Crude oil prices rose Friday after a confidential report of the UN nuclear watchdog showed expansion of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report increased worries about more confrontation between Iran and the West, Xinhua reported.
Light, sweet crude for April delivery gained $1.94, or 1. 80 percent to settle at $109.77 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. For this week, it soared $6.53, or 6.33 percent.
A senior government official in Britain had kept an Indian housekeeper as a “slave” and fed scraps for four years, according to a media report here. 43-year-old Pratima Das’s counsel Ian Wheaton said she was forced to work 15 hours a day while employed as a nanny and cleaner for Shibani Rahulan, the principle legal officer at the Department of Health. According to ‘The Sun’, Wheaton told the Court of Appeal in London that the Indian widow also claimed her passport was confiscated and she was unpaid for the work she carried out for Rahulan, 40, and her family.
The Andhra Pradesh Assembly today witnessed acrimoniouis scenes over the liquor syndicate scam with Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy stoutly defending Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana and stating he had not committed any crime and had not been made an accused. Replying during a heated debate on the issue in which personal charges were freely traded by both the Opposition and Treasury Benches, Mr Reddy declared the documents available with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had not named Mr Ramana even after taking into account the confessional statement of liquor trader Nunna Ramana.
Australian batsman Dean Jones says that Sachin Tendulkar looked tired of One-Day cricket but no selector has the courage to tell him to retire from the 50-over format.
“Father time waits for no one, including cricketing greats Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar. Both players are looking tired of the 50-over format of the game and this week enough was enough for the Australian selectors, who dropped Ponting from the one-day squad,” Jones said.
A day after the Supreme Court slammed the Delhi Police for its handling of Baba Ramdev’s Ramlila ground protest in June last year, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Friday squarely put the blame for the midnight crackdown on the UPA government and its ministers.
Inaugurating a two-day seminar on Indian diaspora human rights issues, Ravi Shankar said the Delhi Police were only following the orders of the political masters and called for “more work” to be done so such swoop downs are not repeated.
A 27-year-old woman and mother of two, who was brought to hospital as an accident victim on Friday morning, regained consciousness briefly to say that she was gangraped in a car and dumped on the New Bally Bridge. She died a few hours after giving her last statement.
Police have started a probe on the basis of her dying declaration. This comes barely a fortnight after a woman was gangraped at gunpoint in a car on Park Street.
Delhi Metro has penalised 295 men during the past one week for travelling in the women’s coaches on Metro trains.
Eleven special flying squads, comprising a station manager, Delhi Metro Rail police staff, security controller and two security guards, that fanned across all six operational lines of the Delhi Metro since Friday last also counselled 2,016 persons in this regard.
The special drive was conducted for a week following complaints from women passengers regarding entry and misbehaviour by male passengers inside the ladies coach in recent days.
The treasure hunt which is on at Saifabad in the heart of the city may not ultimately yield any results, or so indicates the history of the four-acre plot on which stands Vidyaranya School.
Historians in the city say that the Wanaparthy family, which has owned the plot for the last eight decades, never treated it as its sole ancestral property. The roots of the Samasthana or the autonomous princely state, are in Mahbubnagar district and that is where the family’s riches were stored. Till 1946, Hyderabad acted as only an administrative office for them.
An eight-year-old girl was abducted, raped and abandoned on railway track here, police said Friday.
The incident came light Friday morning after the injured girl managed to return home and inform her parents, who filed a police complaint.
The girl, a resident of of Arthala area, left home to buy groceries from a nearby shop when an unidentified man abducted her and took her towards a deserted area near the Delhi-Kolkata railway track where he raped the girl and fled, leaving her badly injured and unconscious.