The vanquished Indian cricket team, barring a couple of players, traced its way back to home on Saturday, drawing curtains on a disastrous Australian tour during which it lost more than it gained.
As soon as Sri Lanka pipped Australia at the post in Melbourne on Friday, the reservation plans were put afoot and the players lost little time in leaving for home on Saturday.
Google has triggered outrage by pressing ahead with a new system that will invade the privacy of millions of computer users — and may even be illegal.
The technology giant on Thursday put into place fresh rules that allow it to monitor much more information about our Internet use.
It can analyse the use of YouTube, social network sites and is even able to search personal email exchanges for key words.
Rumours are doing rounds that muscle hunk Salman Khan is once again experiencing health issues.
Salman underwent a jaw surgery in the US and thought that the pain was gone for good, but allegedly the pain has returned to haunt the actor.
Salman’s father Salim Khan denies any such news. “I must tell you one thing very clearly, your news is far from the truth. This kind of news just make the concerned perturbed. Salman is absolutely fit and fine. I fail to understand as to why you guys target us for such piece of bogus news.”
Not only has she managed to grab the attention of the aam junta with bold image, but she has also managed to get the celebrities to talk about albeit in a negative way.
After author Taslima Nasreen lashed out Poonam Pandey for exposing and demeaning womanhood , actress Chitranganda Singh has lashed out at the model.
The beautiful actress took to Twitter to lash out the woman who is famous for her stripping antics. Chitrangada wrote, “How do you compete with Poonam Pandey, when she is ready strip for kabbadi matches? (sic)”.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted regular bail to suspended police inspector V A Rathod in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
Rathod is the first accused policeman to get bail in the case after the Central Bureau of Investigation took over the probe under the directions of the apex court.
Rathod’s lawyer Punit Juneja said a division bench of SC comprising Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai granted bail to his client since the CBI, which proposed to discharge him from the case, had no objection.
(Siasat News) Nawab Ehtiram Ali Khan, Member Salar Jung Museum Board will inaugurate a special exhibition at Salar Jung Museum depicting the Seerath (Life of Prophet Mohammed (SAW) and the holy places of pilgrimage at 4.p.m. on 3rd March 2012. This exhibition will continue till 15th March 2012. it depicts models of calligraphy on Seerath, written by Hyderabad’s famous calligraphers Hafiz Ameerul Islam and Mr. Abdus Sattar. It also includes holy places such as the birth place of Prophet Mohammed (SAW) the tombs of Hzt. Bibi Amena (Prophet’s Mother), Hzt. Abdul Muttalib (Rz), Hzt.
(Siasat News)Under the auspices of Henry Martyn Institute of Islamic Studies and Interfaith coalition for peace, New Delhi and All India Mushaira is being organized at Quli Qutub Shah Stadium, near city college, Hyderabad to promote compatibility and understanding between various religious faiths. The Mushaira will start at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday 3rd March. It will be presided over by Mr. Zafar Mahmood, IAS (Rtd) President of Interfaith Police Commissioner, Mr. A.K. Khan will be the Chief guest.
–Siasat News–
(Siasat News) Intermediate examination 2012 in A.P. was started in a peaceful manner yesterday the first paper of Intermediate examination consisted of Language paper i.e., Urdu, Hindi, Telugu, Sanskrit and Arabic as the first language. For Intermediate (general) 8,89,876 and for Intermediate (Vocational) 89,431 candidates are appearing. In all. 9,29,307 candidates had registered their names but 70,284 candidates appeared yesterday and 7.17% of the candidates remained absent.
(Siasat News)Shaikul Islam Dr. Mohammed Tahirul Quadri stressed the need for unity and integrity of Muslim Ummah and said that Allah (SWT) and Prophet Mohammed (SAWS) have laid stress on Unity repeatedly. By unity, they can achieve success and can refrain from sins. He was addressing a gathering on the topic of the Unity of Muslim Ummah. Quoting verse 103 of Surah Aal-e-Imran, Prof. Quadri said that Allah (SWT) has clearly told us to hold the rope of Allah (SWT) firmly and not to get ourselves divided into broken pieces.
Ending the long suspense, the Andhra Pradesh Assembly speaker on Friday disqualified 16 rebel lawmakers belonging to the ruling Congress party who were loyal to YS Jaganmohan Reddy.
The speaker has also accepted the resignation of another Jagan loyalist Shoba Nagi Reddy of Praja Rajyam Party (PRP).
A statement about the disqualification was released from the office of Speaker Nandendla Manohar on Friday night.
(Siasat News)Prof. Mohammed Miyan, V.C. of Urdu University had already made preparations to bury Urdu in the coffin of Urdu University itself but for the timely rise of the lovers of Urdu, if not foiled his plans but adjourned for the time being. University has at last amended its employment notification on account of the public pressure of Urdu organizations and the luminaries of Urdu language and journalism.
Hyderabad district administration’s recent revelation on illegal transfer of government properties has put the spotlight on one of the city’s most high profile film studios, the Padmalaya Studios in Filmnagar that falls in Shaikpet mandal. The studio, owned by veteran Tollywood actor G Siva Rama Krishna Murthy (popularly known as Krishna and father of reigning heartthrob Mahesh Babu), was given 9.518 acres of land in Shaikpet mandal way back in 1982 at a throwaway price of Rs 8,500 per acre, by the then state government.
At least 73 people, mostly militants, were killed today in separate incidents of violence, including a suicide attack outside a mosque and a fierce clash between security forces and terrorists, in the restive tribal belt of northwest Pakistan.
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in the volatile Khyber tribal region this afternoon, killing 23 militants of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam group and injuring over 20 others, officials of the local political administration told the media.
Two-year-old girl child Falak, who was brought to hospital in a battered state two months back, was on Friday shifted from an ICU to the children’s ward after doctors at AIIMS found her medical condition stable.
Doctors at the AIIMS Trauma Centre, attending on her since the past 45 days, also said Falak will be discharged soon if she continues to show improvement in her medical condition.
For 10 years, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has chosen to answer with silence—and election victories—the many questions about his role or lack of it in the Gujarat carnage of 2002. He has walked out of TV interviews, glared at interviewers, sidestepped every court stricture. About the only time he sat down with an interrogator was when he faced a member of the SIT in March 2010; his responses are now in the public domain. But Modi still hasn’t answered many key questions. He can start here.
When a group of volunteers set out to conduct a survey about sexual harassment in public places in Mumbai, they thought that the findings would not be surprising.
But, a fortnight and 1,000 interviews later, they realised how big the problem really is and how little is being done to resolve it.
Renewing focus on Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a top US military commander has described it as a dangerous outfit with a lot of international design.
Claiming that the group boasts of good “operational security,” Admiral Robert Willard, the PACOM Commander, told the US Congress that America and India were working together to contain LeT.
Willard said Pakistan-based LeT is a very dangerous organisation. It not only has very good operational security, but also a lot of international design in terms of their aspirations.
The 2G spectrum smitten former minister A Raja on Thursday, Feb 2 completed one full year in Tihar jail, however, he is still far from breathing the air of freedom. Meanwhile, his tenure in jail is not slated to get over any time soon.
A new survey finds that the number of U.S. mosques has grown dramatically in the decade since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, despite protests against their construction and allegations they have promoted radicalism.
The survey is sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America and other groups in conjunction with the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, which tracks church membership and other aspects of religious life in the United States.
The survey’s tally of 2,106 mosques marks a 74 percent increase since the year 2000, when
After Sriprakash Jaiswal, another Congress leader Digvijay Singh suggested that the possibility of President’s rule in Uttar Pradesh in face of a hung assembly cannot be ruled out altogether.
“Every political party if it has majority has the right to form government. If two, three or even 14 parties or 16 parties can together notch up a majority they have a right. “And if no party is in a position to make a government without any alliance as had happened in 2002. No party was in a position to form a government for some months. Then what is the option?” Singh told reporters.
Banks and stock broking firms are beginning to carry out business on Facebook, an important step as they try to build deeper customer relationships through social media platforms. With nearly 45 million users in India and growing rapidly, Facebook’s popularity is making banks test the waters with a few basic services to discover how comfortable customers are carrying out transactions on the social networking site.
Saba Farooqui, a close friend of architect Zahida Parvez, was on Friday arrested in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood by the CBI which claimed to have got “clinching evidence” of Parvez’s alleged involvement through call details and her seized diary.
The agency believes that the murder was purportedly triggered by Parvez’s obsession with a BJP MLA who was also close to Masood.
Beyond the din of a bitterly contested electoral battle between Mulayam Singh and Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi, two leaders still evoke great respect and affection among the people of Uttar Pradesh — their names cropping up, unbidden, in many a conversation throughout our journey across large swathes of the state.
The first is Indira Gandhi, who is remembered most fondly by the rural poor to this day. The second is Atal Bihari Vajpayee whose appeal transcends caste, age and religion.
A group of lawyers here on Friday took law into their hands and thrashed media persons, stoned their vehicles, police and college students at a court complex injuring 30 policemen and 10 others from the media.
Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda condemned the violence and announced a judicial probe into the incident.
Troubled erupted when a large number of journalists had gone to the complex to cover the court appearance of former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy in an illegal mining case.
Despite an intensified crackdown, rhino poaching continued unabated in South Africa, authorities said Friday.
In the latest attack, a rhino was killed and two others were critically injured after poachers struck in the Eastern Cape Friday, according to the Hawks, a special anti-crime task force.
“Rangers at the Kariega Game Farm were patrolling this (Friday) morning when they found three dehorned rhinos,” said Hawks spokesperson McIntosh Polela.
“The police have cordoned off the scene and are investigating,” he said.