Hyderabad, July 29: Senior TDP leader, Mr. B. Reddy Rajasekhara Reddy demanded separate statehood for Rayalaseema in case, AP State is divided. He asked Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu if he sends a letter to Central Government for the division of AP State, he should include the demand of Rayalaseema for a separate state. He also told that if need be, TDP members of Rayalaseema would resign from their party.
Samajwadi Party leader Mohd Azam Khan today asked Team Anna as to who will meet their demands after they have exhibited “distrust” in the government and Parliament.
“When they have been accusing the President and the Prime Minister and exhibiting distrust in Parliament then from whom the said activists want their demands to be met?” Khan said while talking to reporters here.
On the strife in Assam, he said the delayed deployment of the Army led to the flare up in violence.
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(Siasat News)Headmaster of a municipal school, Mr Ch. Subba Rao lodge a police complaint against father of class III student when he saw a burnt on his back. When he asked he said that his father beaten at home.
Headmaster of school took the child to private hospital and lodge a complaint.
As the mother of the child is ill and is on bed, he used to be angrier.
When the student went to the school Mr Subba Rao, noticed the bruises and enquired about them.
When child reveal the fact HM tried to counsel his father when he didn’t coorperate,he made a police complaint.
Union Law minister Salman Khurshid has said that the Centre was ready to pass the Lokpal Bill by consensus and was making all efforts in this regard.
“The Lokpal Bill cannot be passed through agitations…We are ready to pass the Bill by consensus and all efforts are being made in this regard…Anna Hazare is ignoring the fact that UPA did not have a majority in Rajya Sabha”, Khurshid said talking to reporters here last evening after attending an ‘Iftar’ function.
(Siasat News)Nawab Mohammed Kazim Ali Khan, National President of Ambedkar National Congress expressed his grave concern on the killings of innocent Muslims in Assam and U.P and demanded the Central Govt to admonish the state Govt. severely and restore peace in these states. He also demanded for giving compensation to the family members of the victims. The refugees who have taken shelter in camp should be sent home. In Assam, many villages have been set ablaze. It is the duty of the Govt. to rehabilitate all such areas. C.M. of Assam Mr. Tarun Gogoi blamed the Central Govt.
(Siasat News)State Govt is seriously considering to start counseling for engineering stream of EAMCET on 6th August 2012.
Mr. Damodhar Narasimha, Dy. C.M. and Education Minister in secretariat yesterday convened a high level meeting to finalize the schedule of counseling and fixation of fees for engineering could be taken in the meeting regarding the enhancement of fees. It was adjourned for the next meeting. Final decision will be taken today.
The counseling schedule would be finalized in consultation with the representatives of engineering colleges.
(Siasat News)Mr. A.K.Khan Managing Director of A.P. State Road Transport Corporation has agreed to accept the demands of RTC employees.
Hence, National Mazdoor Union of RTC has withdrawn the call given for the call given for strike.
(Siasat News)Mr. Abid Rasool khan, General secretary of A.P Congress Committee condemned the statement of TDP leader Mr. T.Devender Gound in which he had made a comparison of Congress rule with that Moghal emperor Aurangzeb. He demanded Mr. Goud to take back his statement. He told that, Mr. Devender Goud has every right to criticize Congress Govt. on political grounds. He can find fault with Mr. N.Kiran Kumar Reddy C.M of A.P. Since he has dragged the name of Moghal Emperor Aurangzab that is objectionable. Aurangzeb has been a very good ruler of his time. He had paid attention to education.
(Siasat News)Custodian of Rubath Nizam Hyderabad in Makka, Mr. Husain Mohammed Shareef took draw in the presence of Mediamen for allotting free accommodation in Makka to the Hajj pilgrims of erstwhile Hyderabad state. In all, 370 pilgrims were selected through the draw. At present, accommodation is available in both the Rubaths to the extent of 263 and 145 individuals. He clarified that the resident permit for the second Rubath is yet to be received from the civic body of Makka. This wiould be obtained by the end of Ramazan. Out of 408 seats capacity.
Seven persons, including six police personnel, were injured when the escort jeep for a Delhi High Court Judge was involved in a road accident here on Sunday, police said.
Justice V K Shali was returning to Madurai in a car after a pilgrimage trip to this island when the escort vehicle in wich six police personnel were travelling collided with a van.
The six police personnel and the van driver were injured and had been hospitalised, police said.
The Judge continued his journey after another escort team was arranged.
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Talibani militants on Sunday shot dead a district head in eastern Afghanistan, an official said.
Mohammad Ismael Wafa was the governor of the restive Chak district, officials said.
Hi vehicle was overtaken and fired at by the militants when he was on his way to office. His son who was accompanying him also got injured in the firing but he is said to be alive.
The responsibility of the attack has been claimed by the Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid via an SMS.
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More than 70 supporters of Team Anna were on Sunday detained when they staged a demonstration outside the residence of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram here.
The protesters raised slogans against Chidambaram and demanded an inquiry by a Special Investigation Team into the allegations of corruption against 15 Central ministers including him.
Police said the demonstrators were detained.
Following the protest, security has been tightened in the area.
The protest comes a day after Team Anna supporters staged a protest outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Delhi.
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Amid clamour for a larger role for Rahul Gandhi, Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that the young leader will do “very well” in government as well as the Congress.
“Why not? Gandhi can accept an office in government or in the party or in the House. I am sure that he will do very well in any of these places”, Chidambaram told a Malayalam news channel.
He was asked for his reaction on demand of several Congress MPs that Rahul be made the Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha.
An earthquake of mild intensity was today experienced in Assam and parts of the north-east.
The quake measured 4.7 on the Richter Scale, sources at the Meterological Centre here said.
The epicentre was yet to be ascertained.
There was no report of any damage.
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Floods triggered by torrential downpour have killed 88 people in North Korea, the official KCNA news agency reported.
A total of 134 were reported injured and around 63,000 have become homeless in the past 10 days, Xinhua said.
More than 5,000 houses were destroyed and nearly 12,000 were submerged in floodwaters.
Embankment extending 160 km and 4,800 hectares of cropland were washed away.
BBC said South Pyongyang province suffered the biggest loss of life.
The KCNA said “big human and material losses” were caused between July 18 and 24.
A case has been booked against a school teacher in Vijayanagar for alleged sexual harassment of his girl students. Some students of Sangamesha Vidya Kendra have accused Basavraj, a Hindi teacher, of detaining them after class hours on the pretext of special classes and trying to molest them.
The parents of one such student lodged a complaint with the Vijayanagar police on Saturday. The culprit Basavaraj is said to be absconding and a hunt is on to arrest him. Cases have been registered against him under IPC section 354 (relating to outraging modesty of woman).
Gandhian Anna Hazare began his fast-unto-death on Sunday at Jantar Mantar after his four-day ultimatum to the government to concede to his demands on Lokpal Bill found no response. His team members including Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai are already on an indefinite fast.
Anna, who had been sitting on a dharna along with his three fasting colleagues for the past four days, reached Jantar Mantar here this morning to slogans of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’, ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Inquilab Zindabad’.
(Siasat News)EAMCET Counseling to begin from August 6,though there is no final decision on the fee hike in Engineering college, The Management of Engineering Colleges is demanding common fee for both management and convener quota i.e., 95,000 per annum.
However Depty Chief Minister and Higher education minister Damodar Raja Narasimha said that the government is ready to increase fee from Rs.31, 000 to Rs.35, 000 if the Management of Engineering Colleges withdraw their demand.
APCC general secretary Abid Rasool Khan today condemned the statement of TDP leader and Rajya Sabha member T. Devender Goud dragging Mughal emperor Aurangazeb’s name while criticizing the Congress government. He said that “great Moghal emperor” is held in high esteem by all the Muslims.
Anna Hazare Sunday said the protest by his supporters outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s official residence was a reaction by the people who were angry at the government.
However, he advised all his supporters to “think before doing any such things”.
“People are fed up and angry as they have been suffering for so long. We should think before taking any such step as it involves the country’s prime minister,” Hazare told reporters here before beginning his indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar.
A man was arrested here for raping his 10-year-old daughter, police said Saturday.
Alamgir, 27, a divorcee and living in Sarai Kale Khan area in south Delhi, was arrested from the Nizamuddin area nearby.
His daughter lived with her aunt in Nizamuddin.
“During the school summer vacations, he brought her to his home. On July 22, he and his friend Kamaal, who is an autorickshaw driver, abused her sexually,” a police official told IANS.
“With the blessings of Almighty Allah my daughters’ lives have been changed by way of Siasat daily. I was very much worried about the future of my 4 young deaf and dumb daughters. I was spending sleepless nights and it is because of weeping continuously that my eyesight has weakened.
A child “cannot be forced to reside in the company of his stepmother and step-siblings,” a Delhi court has said, while refusing a man the custody of his minor son from his first wife after his remarriage.
Guardian Judge Gautam Manan declined the man’s plea for custody of his 13-year-old son from the first marriage and said, “The petitioner has remarried and also has children from the second marriage and thus the minor cannot be forced to reside in the company of his stepmother and step-siblings.”
A governor of an Afghan district was shot dead by the Taliban Sunday, an official said.
Mohammad Ismael Wafa, the governor of Chak district, some 30 from Kabul, was on his way to office when militants opened fire at his vehicle, Xinhua reported. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
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India’s top pugilist Vijender Singh, touted as a serious medal contender, kept his reputation intact as he cruised into the pre-quarterfinals of the boxing event in the Olympics with a comfortable win over Kazakhstan’s Danabek Sukhanov on Saturday.
The 27-year-old Vijender, a bronze medallist in the Beijing Games four years ago, was a trifle cautious in the first round as he did not go for the attacking mode, preferring to gauge his opponent’s strategy but opened up subsequently to carve out a comfortable 14-10 verdict.