Month: February 2012

Dead woman married twice

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Investigators in China’s Hebei province are shocked after coming across a bizarre incident in which a woman’s corpse was married twice.

During this year’s Spring Festival, a family surnamed Wu sold their daughter’s dead body for 35,000 yuan ($5,557) to a man surnamed Liu who wanted to perform a “yin marriage” a marriage between two dead bodies between the Wu’s daughter and Liu’s younger brother, the Global Times reported.

After the ‘wedding’, the two deceased lovebirds were buried in a single tomb.

Man roasts and eats kids he can’t sell

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A man had a horrific tale to narrate when he was caught by villagers with a kidnapped child, 12, in the Indian town of Meerut.

He told the authorities that he would kidnap children from their homes and sell them off to passengers on trains. The ones he could not trade, he would roast them and eat their flesh, reports news agency.

Recently, villagers in the Meerut district had complained that a few children were missing and they could not be traced.

Authorities are investigating if the man’s claims are true.

—Source:emirates247

Turmoil in Kamareddy – Home Minister’s tour cancelled

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On the proposal to refuse Congress Party ticket from Kamareddy Assembly constituency to former minister Mr. Mohammed Ali Shabeer, Congress workers are angry and disappointed. Congress High Command’s efforts to organize the meeting under the stewardship of Home Minister Ms. Sabeetha Indira Reddy, to pressurize the Congress High Command for reconsidering Mr. Shabeer’s candidature, was abruptly cancelled on the receipt of intelligence reports.

Boycott of TDP and Congress inevitable in by election: T Harish Rao

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TRS MLA Mr. T Harish Rao said that Telangana State would be formed only when we boycott TDP and Congress. Talking to newsmen at the Media point at A.P. Assembly, he referred to the advice of TDP Telangana Forum Convener E.Dayakar Rao who had told TRS to boycott by-election.

Mr. Harish Rao told that both TDP and Congress have promised to form Separate Telangana State but both these parties are not ready to move a resolution in A.P. Assembly for separate Telangana. Both these parties have conspired to boycott Assembly repeatedly.

Ganguly feels Sachin should quit ODIs

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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has backed Kapil Dev and has said Sachin Tendulkar should think about the limited overs format and take a call if he’s still good enough to play in the ODIs.

The left-handed batsman, also stressed on Sachin’s decision to pick and choose the limited-over tournaments might affect the team’s rhythm.

In Pakistan, Meira Kumar Talks Peace In Flawless Urdu

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Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Tuesday floored an audience that included her Pakistani counterpart, senior ministers and parliamentarians by delivering a speech in flawless Urdu laced with couplets from Firaq Gorkhpuri, Majrooh Sultanpuri and Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

At a dinner hosted by Fehmida Mirza, the Speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly or lower house of parliament, Kumar was repeatedly applauded by the gathering as she interspersed her speech with Urdu couplets.

Kumar praised the natural beauty of Pakistan and said:

Hugo chavez to go under the knife again

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is running for re-election in October, announced Tuesday that he will have to undergo a new operation because “a lesion” was detected in the area from where last year he had a cancerous tumor removed.”I regret to inform the Venezuelan public, and I very much regret it because I know that, just as some are happy (about it), the majority will suffer because of it,” he said.

Humiliating behavior of CM with Muslim Congressmen

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Muslim Congressmen who had reached Chief Minister’s camp office at Begumpet, the day before yesterday faced the humiliating behavior of the Chief Minister who gave them only two minutes audience.

As a protest against the misbehavior of the CM the Congress leaders of the Muslim Community said that they had come to CM’s camp office to thank him for enhancing the budgetary allocation for the Dept. of Minorities Welfare and that they had not come to beg for the posts.

Free Chiropractic Medical camp

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Palmer University (USA) in collaboration with Siasat and Medwin Institute of Medical Sciences is organizing a Free Medical Camp for three days from 1st March to 3rd March at Musheerabad Junior & Degree College for Girls, Bahaduryarjung Hall, Musheerabad.

Mr. Zaheeruddin Ali Khan, Managing Editor Siasat, and Chairman of the Health Camp Dr. Syed Ghousudin and Dr. Mohammed Samiullah Khan, Coordinators of the camp have requested the interested persons to register their names at Siasat & Medwin Hospital.

Seminar on Prof. Mahboobul Haq today at EFLU

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English and Foreign Languages University is organizing a seminar on the commendable role of Prof. Mahboobul Haque for the promotion of Human Resources.

The seminar will be conducted at 10:30 am on Wednesday 22nd February 2012 in Room No. 1 of New Academic Block at English and Foreign Languages University.

The topic of the seminar is “Prof. Mahboobul Haque and Promotion of Human Human Resources”. All are invited to attend the seminar.

——Siasat News

BJP to contest four seats?

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The Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be preparing to contest in four Assembly seats of the seven 7 for which by-elections are scheduled to be held on March 18.

According to sources, the party is likely to contest in Station Ghanapur, Mahbubnagar and Kamareddy constituencies in Telangana, apart from Kovvuru in Nellore, native district of the BJP stalwart M. Venkaiah Naidu.

It is also learnt that some key leaders and former MLAs of TRS are likely to join the BJP as they are vexed with the dictatorial functioning of the party president K Chandrasekhara Rao.

High-level meet of Naxal-hit states today

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With red terror continuing in different parts of the country, the Home Ministry has convened a meeting of top police and civil officers of Maoist-affected states on Wednesday to take stock of anti-Naxal operations and fine tune the strategy.

Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh will take part in the meeting that will have in-depth deliberations on the security situation in the Maoist belt.

2 injured after gas cyclinder catches fire

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Two people, including an NRI, sustained serious burn injuries after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in Subhash Nagar today. Both injured NRI Harmesh Lal(60) and Kamaljit(23) were admitted to local Gandhi Hospital in critical condition. Treating Doctor Satnam Singh Parmar said the condition of both injured was stable, but serious. The injured came here to attend a social function and were sleeping in a room in the house of their relative Mahant, when one of them noticed some bad smell from the kitchen.

Mamata to meet PM; NCTC on agenda?

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Pitching for early solution of the Farakka barrage issue, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Wednesday.

Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress has 19 members in the Lok Sabha, would also take up implementation of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration during the meeting with Singh.

The meeting assumes importance as she is continuously opposing government’s various proposals including the latest National Counter Terrorism Centre. She has already written a letter to the Prime Minister opposing the proposal of setting up of NCTC.

Kiran not keen on Assembly run: Naidu

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TDP president Nara Chandrababu Naidu today said that Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy appeared to be not serious about conducting the Assembly properly.

Speaking to media persons on the Assembly premises, the TDP president said that if the corruption of the Kiran Kumar Reddy government was exposed in the Assembly, more than half of the ruling party members would be in jails. He said that there was an urgent need to discuss the burning issues like plight of drought-hit farmers, tuition fee crisis of students, ministers accepting bribes from liquor syndicates and so on.

Let’s bury Congress: Harish tells TDP

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TRS senior leader and Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao today asked the TDP to work with his party, so that they together could bury the ruling Congress in the State.

Talking to the media here on Tuesday, Harish Rao said that his party was willing to work with the TDP together if that party chief N Chandrababu Naidu gave a letter to the Union government, extending support for the Telangana demand. He said that they together could destroy the Congress party which was standing in the way of Telangana.

IJU demands PCI probe into killing of scribe in MP

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Indian Journalists Union ( IJU) has demanded sue moto probe by the Press Council of India ( PCI) into the ghastly killing of senior freelance journalist Chandrika Rai and his entire family in the coal belt area of Umaria District of Madhya Pradesh.

We won’t employ Harish even as attender: Yerrabelli

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TDP Telangana Forum convener Yerrabelli Dayakara Rao has said that his party would not have TRS MLA Harish Rao even as an attender.

Speaking to the media here on Tuesday, Yerrabelli said that TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao, his son K T Ramarao and nephew Harish Rao should stop enacting “dramas” at least now.

It may be recalled that Harish Rao had declared that he was ready to work as an attender in the TDP office if that party chief N Chandrababu Naidu gave a letter to the Union government proclaiming support to formation of separate Telangana State.

Ash daughter will be named Abhilasha ?

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If the word on the street is to be believed, actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s newborn is likely to be named Abhilasha. A tweet from author Shobhaa De sparked off speculation on the name of the baby girl.

De tweeted: “Beti B to be named Abhilasha? That’s a stroke of genius. Well done,parents. Abhi and Ash. Truly inspired, if true.” The news has not been confirmed yet by any one from the Bachchan clan. But it did not stop people on Twitter from sharing the news, most retweeting De’s cryptic tweet which does not specifically confirm the news.

President Son questioned for 1 crore cash seized

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The Amravati police on Tuesday questioned Congress MLA and son of President Pratibha Patil, Rajendra Shekhawat, in connection with the Rs 1 crore seized from a vehicle coming from Congress MLA and Minister Rajendra Mulak’s house in Nagpur.

According to Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar, Shekhawat accepted the fact that the money belonged to Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) and was meant for election expenses of Congress candidates in Amravati’s recent municipal corporation polls.

Noose around mopidevi’s neck tightens

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Noose around the neck of Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkataramana Rao is tightening with Nunna Ramana, who is in ACB custody, asserting that the minister had accepted Rs 10 lakh bribe from the liquor syndicate.

Ramana, who was being questioned by the ACB investigators for the past two days, told the interrogators that they had paid Rs 10 lakhs as bribe to the Excise Minister for bringing about a settlement between two syndicates in Khammam district.

It may be mentioned here that Nunna Ramana was taken into custody by the ACB officials in connection with the liquor syndicates scam.