Thirteen people were killed early Wednesday when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, police said.
The Tata Sumo carrying 13 passengers rolled into a 300 metre deep gorge at Digdol, about 165 km north of Jammu city, an official said. All the passengers died instantly.
Bodies were scattered all over and police were finding it difficult to retrieve them, the official said.
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India has called on the international community to increase its financial support to the United Nations’ body dealing with women’s empowerment, to help it meet the global commitments of gender equality.
Addressing the annual session of UN Women’s executive board yesterday, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri said work on gender equality and empowerment of women continues to remain “chronically underfunded”.
Vice Admiral Pradeep K Chatterjee, a veteran submariner, was on Tuesday appointed Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (DCNS) succeeding Vice Admiral Satish Soni who will now move to head the Kochi-based Southern Naval Command.
Commissioned into the submarine arm of Navy in January 1977, Chatterjee has commanded Shishumar class submarines such as the INS Shankush and Shankul.
His ship command include the training vessel INS Krishna and guided missile destroyer INS Rajput.
The RSS on Wednesday disapproved of Team Anna’s comments against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the issue of corruption.
Decency in language should be maintained while criticising the Prime Minister, who holds the highest office in the Government, RSS Joint General Secretary Dattatraya Hosbale told reporters here.
Key aides of anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare have levelled corruption charges against Singh and some of his Ministers. The charges against the PM related to allotment of coal blocks when he was in-charge of the Coal Ministry.
The agents of the US company Blackwater are operating inside Syria and are involved in the deadly turmoil in the Arab country that began in March 2011.
“We have real evidence now that the Blackwater company is working in Syrian territories,” said Taleb Ibrahim, a political analyst from Damascus.
Ibrahim also stated that there is a “third party” inside Syria that “wants to undermine” the six-point peace plan put forward by UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan in March.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich has criticized the US sanctions against Iran as violating international law, noting that Russia opposes such measures.
“Regarding the US unilateral sanctions against Iran, which have been enforced during the past 20 years over concerns about Tehran’s nuclear energy program, I should say that Russia does not agree with the transnational nature of these sanctions,” Lukashevich said on Tuesday.
“Moreover, we believe that these sanctions are in contradiction to international law,” he added.
‘Search for peace of mind and contentment of heart introduced me to Islam and for this I started reading religious books and today Alhamdulillah I am a Muslim.’ Mrs. Khadija (former name Janet Foxcroft) revealed this during a meeting with Siasat correspondent. She told that she wishes to serve for the welfare and prosperity of her community as a Muslim, since Muslims are alienated from welfare activities due to which uncertainty prevails in elimination of poverty from Muslim community.
Rejecting Team Anna’s allegations of corruption against him, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday declared he will quit public life if the charges on coal block allotments are proved.
They describe a paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, but approves lethal action without hand-wringing. The report described the top-secret process, which begins with some 100 counterterrorism officials going through biographies and selecting suspects in Yemen and Somalia to be added to the kill list.
Nato takes out Afghanistan Qaida No. 2
After working in the successful fun-filled film Housefull 2, actor Zarine Khan will soon be seen promoting education.
Samalkha Group of Institution (SGI) has roped Zarine as their brand ambassador and the actress says that she finds the goal of the SGI and her life the same.
“As a person I have always worked towards excellence. In SGI group, I see the same commitment towards their students, faculty and external stake holders,” the 25-year-old said in a statement.
A US marine sergeant has been arrested by Italian police after he allegedly made a video of his repeated rape of a seven-year-old girl and posted it online.
The 28-year-old soldier from Florida was arrested Tuesday by the Italian carabinieri military police and is being held at a prison in Pisa.
The US has the right to request his extradition. The US marines took part in the investigation.
The unnamed suspect was serving at Camp Darby between Pisa and Livorno in Tuscany region.
The University College of Science, Osmania University, Saifabad, is conducting a five-day residential science camp “Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research” (INSPIRE), a national program under Scheme for Early Attraction of Talents to Science” ( SEATS), for plus-one and plus-two students, sponsored by department of Science and Technology ( DST) from May 30 to June 3 on its campus.
In his bid to wean away Muslim voters from Congress’ fold in election year, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is making efforts that include experimenting social engineering and even shedding his saffron persona to woo the community towards BJP.
In what appears to be a well thought out strategy, Modi is holding a meeting of the state BJP Minority Cell at Staff Training College in Gandhinagar tomorrow to “ponder” over the ways to bring Muslims to BJP, a party functionary said.
TDP MLA Sitakka has sarcastically said that instead of being depressed, the YSR Congress party cadres became enthusiastic after their leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was arrested.
Talking to the media at the party office along with Telugu Mahila leader Shobha Rani, Sitakka said that there was new enthusiasm in the YSR Congress as they were all now thinking that they could be benefited because of Jagan’s arrest.
Sitakka has alleged that Jagan has earned properties sufficient for generations during his father Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s regime.
India has handed over to Pakistan a list of four precise coordinates, with locations and addresses, of Dawood Ibrahim, New Delhi’s most-wanted, designated global terrorist and main accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
The information is part of a list of 49 most-wanted given by home secretary RK Singh to his Pakistani counterpart Khwaja Siddiqui during the May 24-25 secretary-level talks in Islamabad.
Islamabad has also been asked to confirm the death of 313 brigade terrorist Illyas Kashmiri, declared dead by the UN.
Lashing out at the YSRCP Chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy for stating that his arrest was a political conspiracy, AICC official spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Renuka Chowdhary has said that Congress party would have protected its ministers and officials if the Law was in the hands of the Congress party.
Four persons were arrested by the police in connection with the blast that occurred in a resort owned by Vijayawada Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal on the outskirts of the city. Police said the four – Shiva Kumar, Raju, Srikant and Anand – have admitted that they triggered the blast for the Telangana cause. Police said they had also admitted to have left Telangana pamphlets at the place.
The State Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that the Congress government conduct fresh census of Backward Classes without separate reservation for Muslim minorities in order to finalise BC reservations for the ensuing municipal elections in the State.
TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu here on Tuesday demanded immediate dismissal of the ministers, who were actively involved in irregularities and corrupt practices.
Addressing a road show in Aluru village in Nellore district, the TDP supremo alleged that the Congress and YSR Congress party looted the State to the possible extent. He also asked why the Congress government was not taking action against senior Congress leader Dr KVP Ramachandra Rao, who claimed himself as the soul of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
Telugu Desam party MP Nama Nageshwara Rao here on Tuesday criticized the YSR Congress honorary president Y S Viyalalakshmi for talking “as she liked” against the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Speaking to media persons, Nama Nageshwara Rao recalled that then chief minister late Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had ordered a CBI inquiry into the murder of TDP leader Paritala Ravi. The TDP leader also played a CD in the NTR Bhavan in which late YSR declared in the Assembly that the CBI was an autonomous premier investigating agency in the country.
A.P. State Aids Control Society State Program Manager Dr U. Rama Krishna has said that the Red Ribbon Express-III, which is a mega HIV/AIDS awareness campaign, would enter the State on May 31 at Dharmavaram in Anantapur district.
The PCC today released the tentative tour program of Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy in connection with bye-election campaigning. He will visit West Godavari, Srikakulam, Chittoor, Prakasam, Kadapa and Kurnool districts from May 31 to June 6.
On May 31, he visit Narsapur constituency (West Godavari) and will address a public meeting in the evening. He will also stay there for night halt. On June 1, he will tour Payakaraopeta constituency (Srikakulam) and participate in a road show. He will make night halt at Visakhapatnam.
On the occasion of World No-Tobacco Day, Nicorette®, global leader in tobacco cessation products, has announced the launch of a National Tobacco Cessation Quit Line-1800 227787. The national quit line is a dedicated toll-free number that can be reached daily from 9am to 9pm from May 31. The quit line will provide free support and guidance to tobacco users to overcome their addiction and increase their chances of quitting successfully.
G. Sainath, deputy Collector, who was awaiting posting order, was posted as Special Deputy Collector to KRCC, Chittoor in the existing vacancy.
According to the GO, the individual has been directed to report before the Collector of Chittoor district immediately. (NSS)
The State government today issued a GO merging surrounding 10 villages into the Mahbubnagar municipality.
According to the GO, ten gram panchayats — Bandameedipally, Doddalonipally, Timmasanipally, Palakonda, Christianpally, Chinadarpall, Yenugonda, Appanapally, Boyapally and Yedira — were brought under the jurisdiction of Mahbubnagar Municipality.