According to Mr. Mohammad Khaja Moinuddin, general secretary Minorities Development Forum a meeting in connection with the distribution of Senior Citizen Card will be held on May 2, at Mahboob Husain Jigar Hall, Siasat premises at 4 pm.
Mr. Aliuddin Ansari advocate and president Minorities Development Forum will preside over. Mr. Zahid Ali Khan editor Siasat and chief patron Minorities Development Forum will be the chief guest.
An Iranian lawmaker says deployment of US F-22 Raptor stealth fighters at an airbase in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is nothing new and cannot be considered a threat to the Islamic Republic.
Member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Hossein Ebrahimi stressed that the UAE will never be able to use its military equipment against Iran, Majlis official news agency, ICANA, quoted him as saying on Monday.
Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says the country will never stop its uranium enrichment program but hopes the upcoming talks with the agency in mid-May will be successful.
In an interview with Reuters published on Monday the Iranian envoy expressed hope that negotiations between Iran and the IAEA “will be very constructive and successful.”
“The main purpose is to negotiate on a modality and framework to resolve outstanding issues and remove ambiguities,” he said.
Iraqi judiciary has charged fugitive Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi and some of his associates with killing six judges ahead of their trial.
A judicial spokesman said on Monday Hashemi and his bodyguards will face terrorism charges, including the killing of six judges, during their trial that is to open on Thursday.
“There are many crimes of which Hashemi and his bodyguards are accused and confessions were obtained on them, including the assassination of six judges, mostly from Baghdad,” Higher Judicial Council spokesman Abdelsattar Bayraqdar said in a statement.
A US official says he may reopen a mothballed jail in Illinois to serve as a detention facility for arrested protesters during a NATO summit next month.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says that the Joliet Correctional Center could be temporarily reopened to house those arrested for offenses during the May 20-21 summit.
Officials in Colombia say a Colombian air force helicopter has crashed near the Caribbean coast and all 13 people aboard have been killed.
Atlantico state civil defence director Jorge Fernandez says the aircraft crashed in a field in a rural area of the town of Sabanagrande.
Two officials who spoke on condition they not be further identified put the death toll at 13. Both say they were not authorised to disclose the number.
They say that the aircraft caught fire as it fell to the ground and that police and air force personnel were aboard.
Brushing aside reports suggesting that he is trying ‘shortcut’ to make his way into Pakistan cricket team, former skipper Mohammad Yousuf today said he will continue the hard work until his turn comes to don the national colours again. ‘I am not looking at shortcuts to gain an entry in the team. I am concentrating on continuing the hard work that I have put in and play at any level till I regain my place in the playing-eleven,’ Yousuf was quoted as saying by the ‘Express Tribune’.
The cost of air travel from the city will go up by Rs 600 for those flying to overseas destinations and by Rs 100 for domestic travellers with the levy of development fee from Tuesday.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed all the air-carriers to collect development fee from passengers and subsequently deposit the same with Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), which is managing the airport, a Aeronautical Information circular issued today said.
The Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) is getting ready to demolish parts of the palatial house constructed by Congress legislator Mastan Vali in violation of the building norms. “Notices have been readied and would be served to him anytime now,” confirmed a senior official at GMC.
The YSR Congress Party today came down heavily on TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu for degenerating political values by using sacrilegious language and demeaning the democratic process by bringing in caste and creed into the orbit of electoral campaign. “Using words like demons and devils besides bringing in caste and religious issues and branding its party Chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy as a villain does not serve the purpose as the heinous past keeps haunting,” party Spokesperson Vasireddy Pama told reporters here.
The Chief Minister Office (CMO) today dismissed reports of about thee lakh files pending with Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. A section of media has been publishing baseless stories without verifying facts with the concerned office and giving wrong information to the people, the CMO said in a release here. Since January last year, it has received 13,000 files and cleared more than 12,000 files or above 92 percent.
The state government has directed the district Collectors to identify the land for construction of nursing schools at the locations identified by the Union Government in the state under strengthening and upgradation of nursing schools and colleges scheme sponsored by the Health Ministry.
Chief Commissioner of Income Tax Rajeswara Rao today inaugurated two Ayakar Seva Kendras (ASKs) for the benefit of the tax-payers here.
ASK is a single window contact centre for centralised receipt and registration of certain specified categories of documents, including income tax returns. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Rao said this was an effort to change the I-T department’s image from an ‘enforcement agency’ to a service oriented organisation.
Deputy Election Commissioner Vinod Zutshi will conduct a meeting with the Collectors and Superintendants of Police of 12 districts to review arrangements for the by-elections to be held on June 12, on May 5. Talking to reporters at the State Secretariat, Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwarlal said the Deputy Election Commissioner would review the arrangements and issue instructions for the administration of election-bound districts.
Gold on Monday surged to an all-time high of Rs 29,590 per 10 grams on brisk buying by stockists on sustained buying by jewellers to meet the marriage season demand amid a firming global trend.
The precious metal, which has gained Rs 650 in the last eight trading sessions, advanced further by Rs 50 to Rs 29,590 per 10 grams, a level never seen before after consumption of the precious metal rose for the ongoing marriage season.
Chhattisgarh government-appointed mediators have announced that Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon, abducted by Maoists, would be freed within 48 hours.
“There is substantial progress in talks between the state government and Maoists as both the sides reached at an ‘agreement’ on certain points. The Sukma collector will be freed in next 48 hours”, government-appointed mediator Nirmala Buch said.
Army Chief Gen VK Singh on Monday said the land in south Mumbai on which the scam-tainted Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society stands belonged to the Army.
He also said the judicial commission, which has drawn a contrary conclusion, was not “a court”. “Commission ko koi manyata nahi hai (The commission has no standing)…That had been appointed by the state, for its own information. So, we need not take its finding seriously,” he said.
A bill seeking to make ‘irretrievable breakdown of marriage’ as a ground for divorce appeared to be in trouble with MPs from within the ruling side as well as the Opposition attacking the changes.
The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, which was taken up passage in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, was seen to be loaded against women by a significant section of the House. In the face of concerns raised by members, the bill will now be taken up for discussion on Wednesday.
Two suicide bombers on motorcycles rammed into a convoy carrying a senior Nigerian police officer on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 26 others.
The attack which took place in Jalingo town in northern state of Taraba targeted the commissioner of police Mamman Sule who was on his way to office.
Sule escaped unhurt in the attack that came a day after motorcycles-borne assailants targeted Christian worshipers at elitist Bayero University in Kano city killing 20 persons.
Get ready to shell out Rs 5 instead of Rs 3 for entering railway platforms across the country as the increased platform ticket rate will come into effect from May 01.
The hike in platform ticket was announced in the Rail Budget in Parliament and accordingly the new rate of platform ticket would be Rs 5 instead of Rs 3, a senior Railway Ministry official said on Monday.
The increased rate of platform tickets will be charged on tickets issued from May 1. A platform ticket is valid for two hours.
A new law banning the entry of non-European Union citizens accused of human rights violations can be used to bar Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from entering Britain.
On Sunday, human rights campaigners said they would demand that the proposed rules be used to prohibit Modi against the backdrop of the 2002 post-Godhra communal riots in Gujarat in which 1,200 people were killed.
State BJP president G Kishan Reddy today alleged that the YSR Congress Party has one-point program of grabbing ‘power’ by the hook or the crook and has no ideals.
Inaugurating the party State Executive meeting here on Monday, Kishan Reddy said that there was no coordination between the Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues resulting in paralysis in the State administration. He alleged that the Chief Minister was totally depending on Delhi leaders to decide everything in the State and shuttling between Hyderabad and Delhi like a messenger.
TDP has received a jolt in Vizianagaram when party senior leader Gadde Babu Rao has joined the YSR Congress party.
Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has welcomed covered Babu Rao, who was with the TDP for the past 30 years and served in different capacities, with a shawl and invited him into his party. Film actor and producer Giri Babu also joined the YSRC in the presence of Jagan.
The Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) today condemned news items that appeared in a section of the media that thousands of files were pending in the CMO and termed them as “cooked up” and painful ones.
Deputy Chief Minister and Chairman of Cabinet Sub-Committee on SC/ST Sub Plan funds C. Damodar Rajanarasimha here on Monday said that the issue of diversion of SC/ST sub-plan funds would be discussed with the heads of all departments and Rs 1,500 crores, which have been diverted for other purposes in the last three years, would be brought back to the fund and utilized on education of SC and ST students.