Andhra Pradesh Dalitha Mahasabha State executive member Nethala Ramesh Babu has demanded that the State government file a case under SC and ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act against 300 villagers of Sriparru of Eluru Mandal of West Godavari district for attacking them to vacate 300 acres of their cultivation land.
YSR Congress honorary president Y S Vijayamma has said that none of the 26 controversial GOs were issued by her late husband Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. They were issued by his cabinet, she maintained.
India today successfully test fired its indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash missile of Air Force version from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near Balasore, the fifth trial of the anti-aircraft system in the last fortnight.
“The Air Force version of Akash missile was test-fired from the ITR. The trial was successful and met all the mission objectives,” a senior defence official said.
The anti-aircraft missile, with a strike range of 25 km and capable of carrying warhead of 60 kg, was test fired from a mobile launcher at launch complex-III of the ITR.
Police in Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh town are looking for parents of an infant girl who was found abandoned at a bus stand on Monday evening barely two days after her birth, officials said on Tuesday.
The child, who the police suspect was abandoned for being a girl, was on Tuesday handed over to a children’s home after she underwent treatment at a hospital.
The baby girl was found in a polythene bag near a sewerage line at Shastri Nagar junction in the town, some 250 km from here.
“Over 15,000 people across Assam were affected by floods triggered by incessant rains in the last two days”, officials said on Tuesday. “Water levels of major rivers, including Brahmaputra and Barak, are also rising”, they added.
At least 20 villages in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts of upper Assam have been affected by the surging waters of Pisola river, the officials said, adding that at least 10 villages were hit in Baksa and Udalguri districts of lower Assam.
A Mumbai-educated Indian-American has been appointed as the city’s chief
information and innovation officer. Mayor Michael R Bloomberg made the announcement appointing Rahul N Merchant to the post, which also includes respnsibilities to the departments of Information, Technology and Telecommunications.
Two months after hiking the freight, railways have increased the parcel and luggage rates by 25 percent on all goods with immediate effect, in a move that is expected to add to the inflationary situation.
With the action, the railways aims to mop up Rs 370 crore as additional revenue in the current fiscal. Railways have earned Rs 1600 crore from parcel and luggage in 2011-12.
An Egyptian security official says ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s health has deteriorated in the three days since a court sentenced him to life imprisonment in connection to the killing of protesters.
The official at Cairo’s Torah prison said that Mubarak collapsed several times today, and that he was placed on mechanical ventilation after having difficulty breathing. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to the press.
BJP leader Sanjay Joshi today said he had no idea about who had put up his posters at party headquarters here and prominent places in Ahmedabad and he had come to know of it only through the media.
In a statement to UNI, Mr Joshi, a former party General Secretary who had to quit from the National Executive bowing to the pressure of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, said that it was obviously the handiwork of some mischievous elements who could not be party’s well wishers. ”I strongly condemn their actions,” he said.
A 75-year-old woman was killed and around 200 huts devastated after a major fire broke out at Harbour Peta in East Godavari district, police said.
B Appayyama was charred and another woman, V Muthyalamma, was injured in the incident in Kakinada Port area when the blaze started around 2.30 PM today.
Both were taken to Kakinada Government General Hospital for treatment. The cause of the fire was not yet known, official sources said, adding that around 400 people were rendered homeless due to the fire.
“There is no culture like covering up mistakes committed by leaders, whoever it may be, in the Congress and Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy would have faced CBI inquiry even if he continued in the party,” PCC president Botcha Satyanarayana has said.
Speaking to the media at Gandhi Bhavan here on Tuesday, Botcha said that even the Chief Minister was not above law and would undergo punishment on committing mistakes. Congress sees justice as justice and the guilty will have to face punishment, he added.
Yuvraj Singh, who has been recovering well after his cancer treatment, is eyeing to play in some of the pre-season tournaments like Moin-Ud Dowla Gold Cup and Buchi Babu Trophy later this year before making a comeback into first-class cricket.
“Yuvi’s scan report shows that he is nearing complete recovery. For the first two years, the blood tests and scan needs to be done every three months. In the next three years, it will be every five months. He is a little bit weak but his rehab programme at the NCA is going pretty well,” one of Yuvi’s close friends said on conditions of anonymity.
Google Tuesday announced that it has acquired mobile office software company Quickoffice.
“Quickoffice has an established track record of enabling seamless interoperability with popular file formats, and we’ll be working on bringing their powerful technology to our Apps product suite,” said Google in its official blog.
Details of the acquisition were not disclosed, Xinhua reported.
A Chinese company will invest up to $3 billion to develop resorts in Russia’s North Caucasus region.
“Our counterparts visited the Dagestan republic and cities of Derbent, Sochi, and Arkhyz, and we have signed a nearly $3 billion investment agreement,” Akhmed Bilanov, head of Northern Caucasus Resorts which operates the tourist cluster, said Tuesday.
Bilanov added that China’s Dalian Wanda Group Corporation may also invest in projects in the Moscow and St. Petersburg regions.
Attacks on Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) have gone up rapidly in South Africa this year, with 18 cash machines being blown up in a single province, causing a loss of one million rand (about $125,000 dollars) in damages.
According to the South Africa Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC), ATMs are being targetted in the Western Cape province partly due to poor policing, Xinhua reported.
Each cash machine blown up costs between 50,000 rand (around $6,250) and 300,000 rand (about $38,000) in damages, excluding any money looted, the centre said.
The White House today described the death of al Qaeda deputy leader Abu Yahya al-Libi as a ‘major blow’ to the militant group and said there was no clear successor to take over his role.
White House spokesman Jay Carney, citing US intelligence sources, said Libi was al Qaeda’s ‘general manager’ responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan, and managing relations with affiliates.
We have confirmation of his death,’ Carney told a news briefing, declining to say where or how the network’s
External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is in Beijing to participate in the 12th summit of the China-backed Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in which India is an observer. There is speculation that India could be invited to participate in the Peace Mission counter terrorism exercises that is presently restricted to SCO members. The exercises are vital given the common concerns that exist over Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and Iran’s President Ahmedinejad are among those who will be attending the summit.
A superb unbeaten 96 by skipper Cheteshwar Pujara has carried India A to an exciting two-wicket victory over West Indies A on a tense final day of the opening four-day ‘Test’ match here at Kensington Oval.
The highly-touted 24-year-old from Saurashtra batted all day, holding his nerve and the innings together, as the Indians reached the victory target in fading light, beating showers that had forced three stoppages during the day.
SRK may have decided to skip the IIFA awards this year in favour of a family holiday, but arch-rival Salman will be on hand to provide the necessary star quality.
The three-day event, beginning on Thursday, June 7 in the Lion City of Singapore, will see a bunch of stars gathering to attend the IIFA World premiere, music and fashion event IIFA Rocks and the main awards gala among other events.
Shahid Kapoor and Farhan Akhtar are to co-host, and performers include Priyanka Chopra, and Ranbir and Rishi Kapoor.
Pakistan High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik today made a strong pitch for resumption of cricket ties with India.
This is the desire of the leaders of both the countries,” Mr Malik said in an interaction with Members of the India Women’s Press Corps.
He pointed out that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani discussed the matter when the latter visited Mohali to watch the India Pakistan World Cup Cricket Semi-final.
Nearly 10 days after Sanjay Joshi had to resign from the BJP’s national executive, posters appeared here Tuesday attacking Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Although the posters did not refer to Modi by name, they blamed his exit on the stubborness of “one leader” — a clear reference to the Gujarat chief minister.
Modi agreed to attend last month’s national executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Mumbai only after BJP president Nitin Gadkari asked Joshi, Modi’s known foe, to leave the leadership panel.
Andhra Pradesh Minister for Information and Technology Ponnala Lakshmaiah today said he had received the notices issued by the CBI last night in connection with the disproportionate assets case involving Kadapa Lok Sabha MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. ‘I will present myself before the CBI and cooperate with the investigating officials’, Mr Ponnala told newspersons at Warangal. The CBI had issued notices to the Minister last night in pursuance of Supreme Court Directions about Government Orders and asked him to appear before it on June 7.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India- Hyderabad Chapter today organsied a ‘Green Walk’ on the eve of World Environment Day as part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity to spread awareness around environment issues.
Commenting on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s disappointment with the Central Government’s annual economic package for her state, the BJP today accused the Centre of discrimination against the states ruled by the non-Congress parties. “Ms Jayalalithaa has raised an issue of very critical importance. The Congress Government is discriminating against the states ruled by the non-Congress parties. Today that pain is also being felt by Ms Jayalalithaa,” BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said at a press conference.
Even as India says that fresh evidence has been given against Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, Pakistani High Commisioner Shahid Malik said Tuesday Islamabad was waiting for evidence that can be “presented in a court”.
“We need evidence (from India) against Hafiz Saeed which can be presented to a court,” Malik told reporters at the Indian Women’s Press Corps here.
He said he could say no more on the issue.