US President Barack Obama has discussed current volatile situation in Iran and Syria as well as global energy prices with UAE’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, the White House said.
The two leaders discussed the ongoing negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme and the three Gulf islands whose sovereignty is disputed between the UAE and Iran, said a joint statement issued after the meeting held at the White House yesterday.
A man killed his neighbour in Uttar Pradesh early Thursday for not inviting him to a dinner party, police said.
Salim was killed by his neighbour Nizamuddin with a brick in Bhimnagar district, 470 km from here, police said.
Nizamuddin hit Salim with the brick until he collapsed, Superintendent of Police Tehsildar Singh told IANS. The accused is now on the run.
The assailant was angry that while all neighbours were invited by Salim to the dinner Wednesday, he did not get an invitation.
Salim had organised the dinner at his home on occasion of completion of a religious ritual.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday reserved its judgment on YSR Congress party chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s bail petition for July 4.
Justice S Govinda Rajulu concluded the hearing on the petition today.
While noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani argued for Jagan, senior counsel Ashok Bhan represented the CBI.
The CBI counsel had argued that the case involved financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 43,000 crore and the CBI is investigating the fund flow to Jagan?s companies.
Refusing to attach much importance to the cut in petrol prices announced Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that the rates have been lowered in view of the upcoming presidential poll and these would be raised later.
“The price has been reduced because of the presidential poll. They will increase it later,” said Banerjee at the state secretariat Writers’ Buildings.
She also emphasised that crude prices have gone down by Rs.100 per barrel (159 litres). “So they should have reduced it by Rs.10 to Rs.30 per litre.”
The first domestically-developed strike unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will be put in service with the Russian Armed Forces by the end of 2014, a defence industry official said.
In April, the defence ministry issued a technical specification for the development of the drone.
The new aircraft is expected to have a modular structure and be able to carry various types of equipment and armament.
A man in Russia’s St. Petersburg city has been placed in a psychiatric ward after he attempted to exorcise the devil from his wife by stabbing her with knives and a screwdriver, prosecutors said.
The failed exorcism was triggered by a family argument, but was apparently anticipated because the suspect, Yury Simakov, prepared the knives beforehand, they said.
After getting into an argument with his wife in their apartment in St. Petersburg, Simakov stuck three knives into her vital organs.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been served with an extradition notice by British police, BBC reported. He is wanted in Sweden on sex assault charges.
The 40-year-old Australian national, who took refuge at Ecuador’s embassy in London last week and asked for political asylum in the South American country, was requested to present himself at a police station Friday.
Britain’s Supreme Court ruled two weeks ago that the founder of the whistle-blowing website should be extradited to Sweden where he is wanted on sex assault charges, RIA Novosti reported.
The bail application filed by key accused in the Malegaon 2008 blast Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur on medical ground was today rejected by the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA)court today. “Sadhvi had filed for bail on the ground that she needs to be operated for her lumber spondylitis but it got rejected,” one of her lawyers Rameshwar Gite said. “The court rejected the bail after observing that the Sadhvi can undergo the operation even when she is in custody,” said another of her lawyer Ganesh Sovani.
With the surging demand for passports and glitches in online applications, the external affairs ministry Thursday announced that passport offices will remain open this weekend in various cities including Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Nagpur and Goa.
The Regional Passport Offices (RPOs), including Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) under their jurisdiction, will remain open in Delhi and Bangalore Saturday and Sunday, it said.
(IANS/RIA Novosti) A 19-year-old woman recruited by an extremist group to carry out a suicide bombing in Russia’s Dagestan republic has been arrested in neighbouring Chechnya, officials said.
The woman, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria republic, was arrested in Chechen capital Grozny, said a spokesman for the Chechen interior ministry.
Police seized a “martyrdom letter” addressed to the woman’s relatives along with extremist literature, the spokesman said.
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf today called for the projection of the soft image of Pakistan through public diplomacy by encouraging people-to-people contacts, cultural exchanges and promotion of business and trade. Ashraf, who assumed office last week after his predecessor Yousuf Raza Gilani was disqualified by the Supreme Court, made the remarks during a visit to the Foreign Ministry this afternoon. He was given a briefing by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jillani and senior officials on the country’s foreign policy.
Reaching out to Mamata Banerjee, UPA Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee today heaped praise on the Trinamool Congress chief and asserted he does not have any “bitterness” towards her for not supporting his candidature. “No, I am not hurt. I don’t have any bitterness, because every political party has its own approach to a particular problem.
A two-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh was allegedly stolen from her mother’s custody by a co-passenger at Bandra terminus here, police said today. According to police, Puja Singh(20), a resident of Loni in UP, traveled from Delhi to Mumbai in a train and reached Bandra terminus railway station last evening. “During the journey, a woman who introduced herself as Niha (30) had befriended Puja Singh,” said a police officer at Nirmal Nagar police station.
Suspected Maoists from Galikonda Area Committee set a hydraulic excavator (JCB Proclainer) on fire in Jamparlova area of GK Veedhi mandal in the Agency area of the Visakhapatnam district last night. Police said that about 40 armed rebels, including a few women, doused the hydraulic excavator with petrol and torched it. The ultras also asked the workers living in nearby shelters what was the purpose of laying the road, police said.
Actress Lisa Ray, who is all excited about tying the knot with her American fiance Jason Dehni in California, says she is planning her wedding in typical Indian style.
The 40-year-old “Water” star will marry the management executive on October 20 at Napa Valley and will have the reception in India.
“I have never been so happy before in my life. I am nervous and at the same time excited as the wedding is approaching. I am shopping a lot in India.
Actress Preity Zinta’s search for a little girl who could play her younger version in comeback project “Ishkq In Paris” has ended.
The 37-year-old had launched her search on twitter a month ago, asking her followers on the micro-blogging site to email photos of girls between the age of four and seven who could play a young Preity.
“Thank you 2 all of you who sent kiddies photos 4 the role of mini me (my childhood) in ‘Ishkq In Paris’ (sic)! The role has been cast finally,” she tweeted.
Actor Uday Chopra, known for his confident bike stunts in Dhoom, has twisted his foot while riding a bike.
“My riding got jinxed… Fell off the bike and twisted my foot… damn! Now I can’t walk,” the 39-year-old wrote on Twitter.
The actor, who was last seen opposite Priyanka Chopra in Pyaar Impossible, will be seen next in the third instalment of Dhoom.
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Just four days after the crime, the city police arrested one person and recovered snatching cash of over Rs 2.05 lakh out of Rs 2,05,380 from him here today. In a release, police here said the accused Mohammed Rukhsan Khan (23) of Chaderghat snached the cash bag from Mr Dasari Mogulaiah, a temporary worker in APSRTC, Kachiguda bus Pass section when he was going to deposit it at the Central Bus Station. On credible information, the police apprehended the accused at Chaderghat in the city.
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers would occur at a few places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Rayalaseema over next 48 hours.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Secretary P Muralidhar Rao today appealed to the people’s representatives in the state not to vote for UPA-II Government’s Presidential Candidate Pranab Mukherjee as he was allegedly the main obstacle in the creation of separate Telangana.
The Special Judge for ACB cases, Nellore convicted Thoti Shivaji, Formerly Deputy Commissioner and Executive Officer Mahanandeeswara Swamy Devasthanams in Mahanandi of Kurnool District and sentenced him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three years and pay a fine of Rs two lakh for offences under Sec 13(2) r/w 13(1)(e) of the PC Act 1988. Further, the Judge also directed the government to sell the assets comprising houses, house-plots and agricultural lands of the accused in public action and confiscate the amount of Rs 22,46,769 to the state government, a release from ACB said here today.
Maharashtra ATS will seek the custody of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks handler Abu Jindal after Delhi Police finish their probe, sources in the ATS today confirmed and added that a designated court of the city has also issued warrant against him as he is an accused in the 2006 Aurangabad arms case. In a related development, state Home Minister RR Patil has also said the same while claiming that prisons in Maharashtra are safe, dismissing reports that Delhi Police objected to the security arrangements for Jindal.
City based the Bhagwan Mahavir Jain Relief Foundation Trust (BMJRFT) will open a new dialysis centre at Kumudinidevi out Patient Block in Ramdev Rao Hospital at Kukatpally here on July one. The state-of-the-art new Dialysis centre had procured ultra modern machines at a cost of over Rs one crore funded by donors. It will provide dialysis at concessional rate of Rs 400 as against normal and prevailing rates of around Rs 1200 to Rs 2000, Chairman, BMJRFT, Dhiraj lal Kapadiya told mediapersons here today.
Secondary Education Minister K Parthasarthi and MP Lagadapati Rajgopal clarified an elevated corridor would be constructed on NH 9 near Kanakadurga Temple only after completion of work on Inner Ring Road. Addressing a joint press conference with Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajgopal and VGTUDA Vice-chairman GSRKR Vijay Kumar here today, the Minister explained the construction of elevated corridor would be started only after the completion of work on Inner Ring Road. He said Rs 130 crore was sanctioned for the construction of inner ring road and works worth Rs100 crore completed.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Thursday moved a Delhi court seeking custody of Abu Jindal Hamza, alias Zabiuddin Ansari, a key suspect in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
The NIA filed the application for custody of Hamza before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, who would next take up the matter July 4.
–Indo-Asian News Service