Month: March 2012

Shutdown in Telangana over suicides for separate state

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A daylong shutdown began across Andhra Pradesh’s Telangana region Tuesday following a call by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to protest the central government’s insensitivity towards the demand for a separate state, which is driving youth to commit suicide.

Shops and business establishments remained closed in most parts of Telangana, which comprises 10 districts including Hyderabad.

State-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) buses were plying as usual as the TRS has exempted the bus transport service from the shutdown in view of the ongoing Class 10 examination.

Moderate earthquake shakes eastern Turkey

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A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 shook eastern Turkey on Monday, demolishing barns and causing some damage to mud-brick homes at a village in its epicenter, officials said.

The quake struck the village of Sultani, in the eastern province of Mus at 1:35 p.m. (11:35 GMT), said Turkey’s Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory seismology center.

The Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory says the epicentre was near the town of Sultanli in the eastern province of Mus. The quake struck at 11:35 GMT today.

Anna Hazare losing relevance: Bal Thackeray

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Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray Tuesday questioned the relevance of the anti-corruption crusade by veteran activist Anna Hazare and his team members.

In an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna, Thackeray said that for the first time since Hazare’s “flop show” in Mumbai in December last year, Team Anna had again featured in the news.

Free EAMCET 2012 coaching for Minorities in O.U.

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(Siasat News) Prof. S.A. Shukoor, Director of the Centre for Educational Development of Minorities, Nizam College, Osmania University has informed that with the financial assistance from the Dept. of Minorities Welfare, Govt. of A.P. free coaching programme is being conducted for the candidates belonging to Minorities who want to take EAMCET 2012 for admission into medical and engineering courses. Coaching classes will be conducted from 11th April to 10th May 2012 at Nizam College, Bashirbagh, Osmania College, Kurnool, Andhra Muslim College, Guntur and Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.

Urdu University recruitments – Appointment of non-Urdu teachers – CBI probe demanded by M.P.s

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A delegation of M.P.’s met P.M. Dr. Manmohan Singh, Mr. Kapil Sibal and Ms. Purandeshwari demanding the investigation by CBI and to cancel all the appointment of the non-Urdu knowing teachers recruited in the recent selections.

The delegation included Mr. Syed Aziz Pasha, Mr. Sayeed Ahmed Maleehabadi, Mr. M.A. Khan, Mr. Tariq Anwar, Mr. Mohammed Shafee, Mr. Mohammed Adeeb and Mr. R.C. Singh.

Attacking Iran will spell Israel’s end: Cleric

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A senior Iranian cleric says the Israeli threats of a military strike on Iran are mere “psychological warfare” as Tel Aviv fully understands any such venture would lead to its “total annihilation”.

“There has been some talk in the media for some time of a military move [against Iran] by the Zionist regime [of Israel] in particular; these menacing murmurs are nothing but psychological warfare,” Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami said on Monday.

SC to hear Rajiv Gandhi assassins’ plea

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a plea by the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The convicts are reportedly seeking that the case be tried in the apex court.

Meanwhile, the Madras High Court will also hear another petition by them seeking the setting aside of the President’s order that rejected their mercy pleas.

The convicts are pleading that the Madras High Court commute their life sentence to life imprisonment.

–Agencies

I would love to work with my mother on-screen

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Bollywood actress Kajol says as much as she would love to team up with her mother Tanuja on-screen, she is too scared to work with her.

The 37-year-old, who worked with the veteran actress only once in 1992 film ‘Bekhudi’, says her mother is a perfectionist and it scares her to match up to her perfection.

Pathan brothers are quite okay to tie the knot on the same day

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Its celebration time for the Pathan house in Vadodara. The eldest son, Yusuf is all set to enter matrimony this year. The flamboyant all rounder of the Indian cricket team has apparenltly got engaged to a Mumbai based girl, Afreen in a hush-hush ceremony held recently.

Talking to DNA, a source said, Yusuf left for Vadodara on Friday to attend a family get-together post the engagement. While it hasn’t yet been revealed when the engagement took place, it certainly happened much earlier. The marriage will happen sometime this year itself.”

Enemies of regional nations reach stalemate: Ahmadinejad

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged all countries in the region to strengthen relations, saying common enemies of regional nations have reached stalemate.

“Common enemies of regional nations are faced with many woes and internal and foreign issues while they are in conflict with each other. They have reached a deadlock,” said President Ahmadinjead in a joint meeting with his Tajik, Afghan and Pakistani counterparts Emomali Rakhmon, Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari in Tajikistan’s capital of Dushanbe, on Sunday.

Japan shuts down another nuclear power station

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Following last year’s disaster at the Fukushima plant, Japan shuts down another nuclear power station, raising the possibility of power shortages in the country.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that the number 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture was shut down early Monday.

The incident leaves only one of Japan’s 54 nuclear reactors in operation, which is also due to be switched off in May.

The reactors have been turned off for routine maintenance but local communities have refused to allow them to be restarted because of safety fears.

Widow chops off man’s **** after he tries to rape her

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A 37-year-old widow chopped off a man’s penis when the latter attempted to sexually assault her at a village in outer Delhi, police said. According to the police, the incident was reported from Bakhtawarpur, a village in outer Delhi’s Alipur, on Sunday evening. “The victim’s

husband passed away a few years ago and she’s been a loner ever since. Used to mostly staying indoors, she claims the accused, Jeevat, barged into her house last evening and tried to rape her,” said a senior police officer.

2 lakh cr-scam hits Karnatka Wakf Board and Andhra wakf board

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A scam that threatens to be bigger than the 2G scam has emerged from Karnataka, promising to bring more trouble for the Congress. The State Minorities Commission has found that over 22 thousand properties owned by the Wakf Board was illegally encroached and sold over the last decade.

Wakf Scam are the oldest and Biggest scam in the country and after independence every Muslim politician of every party is acting as a pimp of wakf properties.

The estimated loss to the exchequer is estimated to be around Rs 2 lakh crore.

Islamic book tells husbands to ‘beat wives’, sparks outrage …

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An Islamic marriage guide advising men on ‘the best ways’ to beat their wives has sparked outrage in Britain, especially among moderate Muslims who say that it encourages domestic violence. The book – A Gift For Muslim Couple – tells husbands that they should beat their wives with “hand or stick or pull her by the ears”, the Daily Mail reported.

Authored by Maulavi Ashraf Ali Thanvi, who is understood to be a prominent Islamic scholar, the 160-page book claims to be a “presentation for newlyweds” or couples who have been together for some years.

Telangana region bandh today

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The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has called for a bandh in the Telangana region on Tuesday to protest the government’s apparent indifference towards the separate statehood issue. A ruckus broke out in Delhi and Hyderabad over the issue on Monday. MPs from the region shouted slogans in Parliament after two students demanding separate statehood for Telangana set fire to themselves.

One of the two students died in the self-immolation bid.

Facebook helps cop nab thieves

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The social networking site has helped the police crack a theft case wherein two students were arrested after they allegedly picked a motor-bike from a mall a few days ago.

The police have arrested Ayush Rai, a resident of Anuppur and Abhishek Tiwari, a resident of Shahdol, after tracking them with the help of the Facebook. Tukoganj police station inspector Ashok Tiwari said a motorbike of Nikhilesh Khandelwal was stolen from the Treasure Island parking on March 14. The CCTV camera installed in the parking captured the image of thieves, he said.

No refund for cancelled licences: TRAI

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Telecom regulator TRAI Monday said companies exiting the sector need not to be refunded their entry fee and a separate policy to help them move out is not necessary.

“There is no need for a separate exit policy and that the entry fee paid will continue to be non-refundable,” Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said in its draft response to ‘Exit Policy for Various Telecom Licenses’.

The exit policy was to be created for categories like the 122 UAS license given on or after January 10, 2008, licences given prior to January 10, 2008 and all other licence and future licences.

Radio Azad Hind dedicated to values of freedom struggle & self-rule launched

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(Pervez Bari) The Bharatiya Janata Party, (BJP), ruled Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched Radio Azad Hind here on Sunday.

It is the first radio of its kind in the country, which is fully dedicated to the values of freedom struggle and self-rule. It can be heard on 90.8 megahertz daily from 7 am to 12 noon and 5 pm to 10 pm. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had set up Radio Azad Hind 70 years ago on March 25, 1942. Radio Azad Hind has been launched to commemorate this day.

Best guarantee for nuclear safety is world free of n-weapons: Manmohan

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The best guarantee for nuclear safety is a world free of nuclear weapons, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday, calling for a multilateral framework for achieving this. He also announced a contribution of $1 million to the IAEA’s Nuclear Security Fund for 2012-13.

“The best guarantee for nuclear security is a world free from nuclear weapons,” Manmohan Singh said while addressing the plenary of the Nuclear Security Summit here.

Bihar probationary officers undertake Heritage Walk in Bhopal

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Sixteen probationary officers of the Bihar State Administrative Services, who are in Bhopal on a training schedule, participated in a Heritage Walk in the walled city on Sunday.

The Heritage Walk was conducted for the officers by Prof. Savita Raje, Registrar of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, (MANIT), Bhopal, and president of Living Heritage Alliance. The visiting officers are from the Bihar Public Administration and Rural Development Institute who are on a Field Visit and Training programme organized by the RCVP Naronha Academy of Administration and Management, Bhopal.

Court to hear Zakia Jafri’s new plea today

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An Ahmedabad court is set to hear Zakia Jafri’s new plea seeking access to the SIT report on the Gulbarg Society massacre case on Tuesday. Zakia is the wife of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri. The SIT may submit its reply on Tuesday.

Zakia has accused 64 senior politicians, bureaucrats and police officers of committing crimes during the riots.

Megan Fox wants to be a mother

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Actress Megan Fox has her sights set on becoming a mother. The actress has told friends that she is desperate to start a family with husband Brian Austin Green and is willing to put her movie career on hold to make her dream come true.

“Megan is very broody right now. She always said she would wait to start a family but with Brian in his late thirties and her career back on track she feels it might happen sooner rather than later,” showbizspy.com quoted a source as saying.

“Megan has matured a lot in recent years and she would make a great mother,” the source added.

–IANS–

‘Nice to meet you:Obama

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh got a big hug from US President Barack Obama, who greeted him with ‘Nice to meet you prime minister’, at a dinner here on Monday for the world leaders attending the Nuclear Safety Summit. Manmohan Singh also shook hands with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Speaking of the Obama-Manmohan meeting, an Indian government source said: “There was no pull-aside; there was a pull-in. Obama gave the prime minister a big hug and said ‘Nice to meet you prime minister’.”

Indian student jailed in Australia in visa scam

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A Perth-based Indian student will spend 14 months in jail for his involvement in a scam to falsify English test scores to get Australian visas.

Rajesh Kumar, 31, faced ten charges for his part in fraudulently altering the International English Testing System (IELTS) scores at Perth’s Curtin University between November 2009 and June 2010. A Perth District Court sentenced Rajesh Kumar on Monday after he pleaded guilty for changing the outcomes of IELTS test apparently to get permanent residence in Australia.

US mulls missile defense shields in Asia, Mideast

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The United States is reportedly seeking to expand its missile systems to Asia and the Middle East by building regional shields against ballistic missiles in those regions.

Madelyn Creedon, a senior Pentagon official, disclosed on Monday that Washington is engaging in two sets of trilateral dialogues on the issue – one with Japan and Australia and the other with Japan and South Korea.

She added that the shields are intended to counter threats posed by Iran and North Korea to the duo’s neighbors and help defend the US from any long-range missiles.