Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today directed the officials to take up developmental works at a cost of Rs 577.35 crore for creating world class infrastructure in city for the forthcoming Biodiversity a International Convention to be held here in October.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday demanded enquiry into the allocation of gas of KG Basin to power generating units in Andhra Pradesh.
In a letter to Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister S Jaipal Reddy, former minister Bandaru Dattatreyya said that the capacity of Well No D 6 of KG Basin, owned by Reliance, was 50 MMCM, but the actual production was not more than 30 MMCM. He alleged that the Reliance was deliberately cutting down the production to create artificial shortage.
The Cyberabad police on Sunday took CPI State Secretary K Narayana and other activists into custody when they tried to enter the Emaar-MGF Boulder Hills at Gachibowli.
Demanding return of land given to Emaar-MGF, the CPI activists led by Narayana tried to enter the premises. Talking to reporters, Narayana alleged that the farmers, whose lands were taken for the project, were yet to be paid compensation. He demanded that the government return the land to farmers or immediately pay compensation for the same. He said the CPI would continue its protest till the affected farmers get justice.
Telugu Desam Party N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday appealed to the voters to discourage political uncertainty in the State by not voting for the Congress and YSR Congress party.
YSR Congress party spokesperson Ambati Rambabu on Sunday denied reports of likely arrest of Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with disproportionate assets case.
More than 10 years after the deadliest riots claimed over two thousand lives, Muslims continue to live in fear in Gujarat.
Addressing a meeting titled “Gujarat – 10 years of shame” organised by the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen at Jubilee Hall here on Sunday, prominent personalities including former Chief Election Commissioner JM Lyngdoh and former Gujarat DGP BN Sri Kumar expressed concern over the violation of human rights and the discrimination that the Muslim community has been subjected to.
Nearly 71,240 suitors have lined up for the hand of Pakistani actor Veena Malik in her TV swayamvar reality show, reports HT City.
For Swayamvar Season 4 – Veena Ka Vivah, Veena Malik has attracted the maximum number of entries (71,240) on Imagine TV, leaving far behind Rakhi Sawant (30,000), Rahul Mahajan (43,000) and Ratan Rajput (54,000).
Most of the ‘applicants’, the report said, are from India, Pakistan, the UK and the US, and even from faraway Poland.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday directed the officials to take up developmental works at the cost of Rs 577.35 crores for creating world class infrastructure in the city for the Biodiversity Convention.
US President Barack Obama says Washington has remained and will remain committed to Israel’s security, despite Tel Aviv atrocities committed against Palestinians.
During his speech at the AIPAC Conference in Washington on Sunday, Obama said that there is no need to rely on his words to judge his commitment to Israel as the last three years of his record in office speaks for itself.
“At every crucial juncture, at every fork in the road, we have been there for Israel every single time,” Obama said.
President Barack Obama on Sunday vowed to use “all elements of American power”, including “a military effort” to prevent Iran from making nuclear weapons, arguing it was not only against US and Israeli security interest, but also ran the risk that that it would land into the hands of terrorists.
“I have said that when it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table, and I mean what I say,” Obama said in his address to the American-Israel Public affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference here.
Summer 2012 will see one debate generate considerable heat: who should be the next President of India after President Pratibhatai Devisingh Patil retires this July. The head of state of the Republic of India, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and yes, ideally speaking, also the nation’s conscience-keeper. Political circles are abuzz with a few names who could wear these hats; who, if any of them, will eventually occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan depends on a number of political permutations and combinations.
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), which has been carrying out raids on the liquor syndicates across Andhra Pradesh, has arrested four senior Excise officials for their alleged links with the liquor mafia, a top officer said on Sunday.
A group of over three dozen men stripped a woman and paraded her naked around a village in Pakistan’s Punjab province after accusing her son of forcibly marrying a girl, police officials said on Sunday.
According to an FIR lodged with police, over three dozen men of the Gopang tribe raided the home of Manzooran Mai in Khundai village of Muzaffargarh district, 350 km from Lahore, yesterday and took the woman and her daughter-in-law Azra away with them.
Three builders, including two prime witnesses in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, were arrested in connection with a Rs 100-crore land scam on Sunday, city crime branch officials said here.
The two witnesses, Dashrat Patel and Raman Patel, and their relative, Pankaj Patel, who own a construction firm ‘Popular Builders’, were arrested on the basis of a complaint filed in 2010, police said.
The three builders were accused of forging documents to acquire land in Sachin, Unn Taluka, they added.
A six-year-old boy was kidnapped and killed for ransom in Thakurganj area, police said on Saturday.
The body of Onkar Tiwari alias Shivam, who was missing since Thursday, was recovered from the jungle around two kilometers from his house in Thakurganj on Friday, they said.
Police said that Raja Ram Tiwari, a businessman, had lodged an FIR regarding disappearance of his son late on Thursday night.
The family members later received a call from the kidnappers demanding Rs. three lakh for the boy’s safe release.
US President Barack Obama invoked the legacies of his heroes Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela as he sought support from voters for a second term, saying he too needs time to fulfil his promise of bringing a “real change” to America just as the two legendary leaders did.
“The change we fought for in 2008 hasn’t always happened as fast as we would have liked… real change, big change, is always hard,” Obama said at a fundraiser held here.
Britain’s biggest-selling brand of babies’ gripe water is being investigated by the Government’s medicines watchdog.
Stocks of Woodward’s Gripe Water have almost dried up at supermarkets and pharmacies – leading to mothers panic buying the remaining supplies.
Until now the reason for the shortage was not clear. But yesterday the manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser confirmed production had ceased four months ago.
Bottles of the tonic, which sell in shops at £2.49, have been changing hands on eBay for up to five times the normal price.
Amid a flurry of exit polls predicting the outcome of Assembly elections ahead of the March 6 results, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi on Sunday said such surveys should at best be on entertainment channels.
“Opinion and exit polls should at best be on entertainment channels!,” Quraishi tweeted this afternoon, taking a dig at the surveys.
The second “Azeem-ush-Shaan Musabaqa-e-Azaan” (contest of rendering call for prayers to Muslims) will be held here on March 10 at the historic Iqbal Maidan.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Nehru Olekar, who is a member of the panel that is probing into the Karnataka Assembly porn scan, has said that not just three, but as many as 15 MLAs watched porn in the Karnataka Assembly.
The panel member also said that those watching porn included not just MLAs of the BJP, but also members of the Opposition.
Reacting to the allegations, Congress MLA Krishna said that it was an attempt by the BJP to shift the blame on other parties.
Two Congress MPs on Sunday tried to prove that Telangana issue could be resolved through dialogue.
Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar called upon Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao at latter’s residence to discuss the Telangana issue. Later, talking to reporters Ponnam said that the MPs from Seemandhra region, who are opposing statehood for Telangana, should introspect and find out the reasons that led more than 700 students to commit suicide for the cause. He appealed Rayapati to support the Telangana demand and invited other MPs from the Seemandhra region for a dialogue on the issue.
Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) leader Pradip Shankhwar was found dead in mysterious circumstances in Barara area of Kanpur city last night. According to police the deceased, husband of former Zila Panchayat chairperson Mira Shankhwar, went to Ghatampur to meet his friend and they consumed liquor in their car. Later the deceased fell unconscious and was rushed to the hospital where he was declared dead. Prima facie police report said that consumption of liquor could be the reason behind the death. However, the post-mortem report will reveal the real reason behind the death.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to deliver an ultimatum to the US over Iran’s nuclear plans, a media report said Sunday.
At Monday’s meeting between Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama, the Israeli prime minister will deliver a stark warning, The Telegraph reported.
Netanyahu effectively brings with him an ultimatum, demanding that unless the president makes a firm pledge to use US military force to prevent Iran acquiring a nuclear bomb, Israel may well take matters into its own hands within months, it said.
One person died and three were injured when a major fire broke out in Jharkhand’s steel city of Jamshedpur, Sunday, police said.
According to police, fire broke out in the Chayanagar neighbourhood of the city and gutted more than a dozen houses. One person died and three were injured in the fire. The injured have been admitted to a local hospital.
Locals alleged that the fire brigade vehicle reached late to extinguish the fire. The fire spread very fast as the houses were made of bamboo. Rescue operations are going on in the area.
The cause of the fire is yet to ascertained.
The CBI probe into Madhya Pradesh RTI activist Shehla Masood’s murder has hinted at arrested woman architect Zahida Parvez being the brain behind the killing as she was jealous of Masood’s alleged friendship with a legislator, sources said Sunday.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths who recovered four personal diaries written by Zahida Parvez, 35, between 2009 and 2012, claimed that she was “obsessed” with Bharatiya Janata Party’s Bhopal legislator Dhruv Narayan Singh.