Month: May 2012

Amir Khan’s visit to Hyderabad

by

Famous Bollywood flim star Mr.Amir Khan suddenly made his appearance in Hyderabad to attend a function held at National Police Academy where he met the trainee police officers.

He spoke to them in connection with his TV programme “Satyameva Jayate”.This programme has become such a popular TV show that it left behind “Kaun Banega Correpathi”conducted by Amitabh Bachan.

Amir Khan was to share his exprencines with the trainee officers so that it will facilitate in the work relating to social upliftment.

IPL player Luke Pomersbach arrested for molestation

by

Indian Premier League (IPL) player Luke Pomersbach was arrested Friday for allegedly molesting an American woman.

The Australian player from the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team is alleged to have molested the woman at the ITC Maurya hotel here. Her fiance was beaten up by the player when he tried to stop him, police said.

—IANS

27/30: Bihar’s Super 30 shines again in IIT-JEE results

by

In another big score, 27 of the 30 students from Bihar’s Super 30, a free coaching centre for underprivileged students, have cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) this year, its director said Friday.

“It is again good news that this year, 27 out of the 30 students made it to the IIT-JEE… it has underlined how with proper opportunity, students from poor families can also reach the prestigious IIT,” Super 30’s founder-director Anand Kumar told IANS.

Govt gives divorced women only a pie of husband’s property

by

WOMEN have ended up getting a raw deal from the government on the contentious divorce law. On Thursday, the Union cabinet amended its earlier decision of March, which had given a woman a share in all “ immovable property” of her husband in case of a divorce.

According to the latest decision, a woman will now get a clearly defined share but from only the “ residential immovable assets” of her husband, meaning essentially just the house rather than all other assets.

We are ready to strike Iran: US envoy to Israel

by

US plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is “fully available,” the US ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which suspect it of seeking to develop nuclear arms.

Like Israel, the United States has said it considers military force a last resort to prevent Iran using its uranium enrichment to make a bomb. Iran insists its nuclear program is for purely civilian purposes.

Shah Rukh Khan, the new bad boy of Bollywood

by

Just when you thought it was safe to skim through the Bollywood gossip pages, Shah Rukh Khan has gone ahead and filled the section with R-rated column inches courtesy of yet another alleged drunken brawl – this time with the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).

With a lifetime ban on entering Mumbai’s prestigious Wankhede Stadium looming in the horizon, Khan has this time around managed to upset cricketing officials, the state government and fans for supposedly abusing security officials who were only performing their duties.

BJP crises : Jaitley on trouble-shooting mission

by

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘s senior leader Arun Jaitley is rushing to Bangalore Friday on a trouble-shooting mission to defuse the crisis in the state’s faction-ridden ruling party following a revolt by a beleaguered former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and his loyalists.

“The party’s central leadership has deputed Jaitley and Dharmendra Pradhan (in-charge of party affairs in Karnataka), to Bangalore to hold talks with our state unit leaders and cadres,” state unit president K.S. Eshwarappa told reporters in Bangalore Thursday.

Kashmir hospital chief removed over 368 kids’ deaths

by

The Jammu and Kashmir government Thursday removed the medical superintendent of G.B. Pant Hospital in Srinagar where 368 children have died since Jan 1 this year.

Health and Medical Education Secretary M.K. Dwivedi told reporters here: “Doctor Skowkat Ali Zargar, director of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), discussed his preliminary findings into the neo-natal deaths of children in G.B. Pant Hospital with me today.”

Facebook set to raise $16 bn with largest tech IPO

by

Pricing its IPO at $38 a share, Facebook, the highly popular social networking site that has over 45 million users in India, is expected to raise $16 billion, making it the largest tech IPO in history.

It’s reported to be the third largest US IPO ever, trailing only the $19.7 billion raised by Visa in March 2008 and the $18.1 billion raised by automaker General Motors in November 2010.

TRS slams BJP over Telangana issue

by

Telangana Rashtra Samithi Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao on Thursday condemned Bharatiya Janata Party president G Kishan Reddy’s criticism on the party on the Telangana issue.

Talking to media persons, Harish Rao sought an explanation from the BJP State president as to why he has not submitted his resignation from elected post when the statehood agitation was going-on at its peak. Stating that NIzamabad MLA E Laxminarayana submitted his resignation from the elected post expressing solidarity to statehood agitation, he asked as to why Kishan Reddy went abroad during the agitation period.

Nupur Talwar fasts on daughter’s 4th death anniversary

by

On the fourth death anniversary of her daughter Aarushi, Nupur Talwar observed fast and performed pujas in prison on Thursday. Nupur, inmate number 70 of barrack 13 at Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad, kept a half day fast.

“Nupur asked for permission from the prison authorities to keep the fast and perform some rituals. She was granted the permission for a half day fast and reciting Hanuman Chalisa and Bhagwad Gita,” Jail superintendent Viresh Raj Sharma said.

Chiru predicts Jagan’s arrest

by

Rajya Sabha member K Chiranjeevi on Thursday predicted that YSR Congress president and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy would be arrested soon.

Addressing an election rally at Kavali in Nellore district, Chiranjeevi said that the CBI would arrest Jagan for looting the State indiscriminately and resorting to illegal methods to accumulate properties. He said that those having links with criminals and misusing public funds have no moral right to seek votes of the people in the ensuing by-elections.

Why you went abroad when T- stir was at Zenith

by

TRS senior leader and Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao has questioned why State BJP president G Kishan Reddy, who was stating that the BJP would alone carve out Telangana State, did not respond when Telangana movement was at peak stage.

12 lakh jewellery stolen from Lucknow shop

by

Two men on a motorcycle fled with jewellery worth Rs. 12 lakh from a shop in the Aashiana area in Lucknow on Thursday, police said.

The men told the shop owner that they wanted to buy gold ornaments for their sister. After they were shown the jewellery, they picked up a few pieces, saying that they wanted to show them to their sister waiting outside.

Once they came out, they got on the bike and decamped with the jewellery, police said.

Police is searching for the accused and are also scanning the shop’s CCTV camera footage to identify them.

–IANS

49 Selected for posts of Assistant Public Prosecutors

by

Forty-nine candidates have been provisionally selected to the posts of Assistant Public Prosecutors in Andhra Pradesh State Prosecution Service. The same is uploaded in www.apstatepolice.org. In recruitment folder.

State Level Police Recruitment Board chairman has stated that the list of not qualified in the written examination, qualified in the written examination, merit lists and final lists and cut-off marks to the post of Assistant Public Prosecutors in Andhra Pradesh State Prosecution Service are also uploaded in www.apstatepolice.org. in the same folder (NSS)

Hot spell to continue for two more days

by

With the day temperature shooting up enormously, the people in various parts of the State were groaning under hot spell and keeping themselves confined in their houses. The Met. Officials on Thursday stated that the oppressive heat wave conditions will continue to prevail for another two days.

No ban on Shah Rukh if he apologises

by

The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) is likely to take a final call on Friday on the much-publicised spat between the MCA officials and Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, who is also Kolkata Knight Riders’ co-owner. But the actor may be sparred from a possible life ban on his entry into the Wankhede Stadium if he apologises for his unruly behaviour, sources confirmed.

Kiran cautions Muslims against Jagan & Naidu

by

Lashing out at YSRCP Chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has asked the Muslim minorities whether they would give guarantee that Jagan Mohan Reddy would not join hands with the BJP in future.

Armed cops to keep watch in Hyderabad’s Old City

by

Viquar Ahmed may be behind bars but the terror he created among police personnel is clearly visible in the bandobust for the fifth Mecca Masjid blast anniversary. Police have decided to drastically reduce static pickets, which were repeatedly targeted by Viquar, and instead go mobile with armed personnel.

Strong quake hits Chile

by

A 6.2-magnitude quake struck off the coast of Chile Thursday night, US authorities said.

The epicentre of the tremor was located 675 km southwest of the port city of Puerto Montt at a depth of 10 km, Xinhua quoted the US Geological Survey (USGS) as saying.

Delhi judges attacked with bricks by motorcyclists

by

In a suspected case of road rage, three judges and the driver of the car they were travelling in were attacked by unidentified motorcyclists in south Delhi on Thursday evening.

This is the second incident of attacks on judges in the national capital in the past four days.

One of the judges, Ajay Garg, suffered head injuries while two of his colleagues Additional Sessions Judges Inderjit Singh and M K Nagpal escaped unhurt in the incident which took place at Dakshinpuri J Block at around 5:30 pm.

EC hold all-party meet with parties

by

The Election Commission held a meeting with all the recognised National and state political parties in connection with the by-elections to 18 Assembly constituencies and one Parliamentary constituency in 12 districts to be held on June 12.

Addressing the press here last evening, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Bhanwarlal said representatives from
Congress, TDP, TRS, CPI (M) and BJP had attended the meeting.

Mr Bhanwarlal said he has briefed about the various provisions of Model Code of Conduct and brought to the

‘Rajat Gupta cannot take a Mother Teresa defence’

by

Rajat Gupta has been forewarned that he cannot beat insider trading charges by trumpeting his philanthropy history any more than Mother Teresa could use her missionary work to fend off bank robbery charges.

“If Mother Teresa were charged with bank robbery, the jury would still have to determine whether or not she committed a bank robbery,” US District Judge Jed Rakoff told the lawyers of former Goldman Sachs’ Indian American director ahead of his May 21 trial.

India to take up with Pak issue of ‘persecution’ of Hindus

by

India will take up with Pakistan the issue of “persecution” of Hindu minorities and desecration of their religious places in that country and ask Islamabad to ensure that constitutional rights of the minorities are protected.
The issue will be taken up with Pakistan during External Affairs Minister S M Krishna’s proposed visit to Islamabad
in July-August and subsequent discussions with his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar.

Announcing this in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, the External Affairs Minister said it was a “very sensitive and very