FAMILY MEMBERS MEET JAGAN IN JAIL
Family members have met Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in the Chanchalguda jail on Monday. Jagan’s mother Y S Vijayamma, his wife Bharati and sister Sharmila have met him and spent some time with him. (NSS)
Month: July 2012
TWO DIE, MANY INJURED IN FOUR ROAD ACCIDENTS
Two persons were killed while several others injured in different road accidents in the state on Monday.
Two persons riding a motorcycle were killed when a van hit their bike on the outskirts of Korutla in Karimnagar district.
In the second accident, three students were injured when an auto-rikshaw was hit by an RTC bus near Jangareddypalli under Amanagal mandal of Mahabubnagar district.
In the third accident, four students were injured when the vehicle in which they were traveling met with an accident near Thangallapalli in Karimnagar district.
MAOIST PRISONERS GO ON FAST DEMANDING PROBE ON CHATTISGARH ENCOUNTER
Maoist prisoners in the Charlapalli and Warangal jails have on Monday gone on fast in support of the Maoist bandh call, protesting against the Chattisgarh encounter.
Maoist top leader Thushar Kant Bhattacharya has demanded a probe by a retired Supreme Court judge in to the encounter.
Maoists are alleging that the encounter was fake and that innocent tribal people who were sympathizers of Maoists were killed in cold blood.
SRI LAKSHMI TURNS PHILOSOPHICAL, REFUSING TO SEE EVEN DAUGHTERS
Former IAS officer Sri Lakshmi who was arrested in connection with the illegal mining case against Gali Janardana Reddy, appears to have turned philosophical and has been spending her time in reading spiritual books.
According to information, she has been refusing to meet all her family members and friends including her daughters. She has been meeting only her husband Gopi Krishna during the Mulakhat
time.
HC angry with CBI JD for calls to media
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has expressed its anger at the CBI Joint Director Lakshminarayana for making innumerable phone calls to the media. Questioning him about the need for the investigating agency to make so many calls to the media, the court has directed the JD to submit his explanation by July 9.
One Bhavanam Bhushan has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on the phone calls made by the JD to the media. Admitting the petition, the high court has issued notice to Lakshminarayana.
Rats! Even the BBC has the menace
If you have been making a song and dance about a mere mouse in your office canteen or around your seat, take it easy as even a high-end place like BBC office is not spared the mice menace.
The BBC is battling a plague of mice in its canteen, as horrified staff at the eaterie – famously the butt of jokes by stars who use it – have repeatedly spotted the vermin, The Sun reported Sunday.
Rodents scurry across the restaurant floor, leave droppings in kitchen preparation areas – and one was even found dead in the fan of a fridge.
British woman gives birth in coma
A British woman delivered a child in coma but lost any memory of even being pregnant at the first place as she gained consciousness a fortnight later at the hospital.
Emma Mynors, 23, was rushed to a hospital after falling unconscious with pneumonia and suffering two strokes. Two weeks into the coma, she began to go into labour prematurely at 29 weeks, The Sun reported.
Nurses carrying out a routine examination of Mynors noticed that she was delivering a child. She gave birth to a baby girl naturally.
Rahul Gandhi wants party unity in Himachal assembly polls
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Monday told partymen to remain united to oust the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government in Himachal Pradesh in next year’s assembly election.
“Those who put in hard work would be promoted. In the ticket distribution, Youth Congress members, block and district presidents will have more say,” Gandhi, who reached here on a two-day visit, said while addressing the party activists.
He said those who just tried to grab a party ticket at the last minute or at somebody’s behest would not be tolerated. “There is no space for paratroopers in the party.”
Act against corrupt ex-generals: Pakistani daily
A probe into a financial scandal in an army-run organisation is a test case, said a leading Pakistani daily that wondered whether “high-profile targets – now retired generals – are the reason for the slow pace of the investigation”.
An editorial in the Dawn, an influential daily, Monday said the financial scandal at the army-run National Logistics Cell which caused a loss of nearly Rs.1.8 billion through illegal investments between 2004 and 2008 was back in the news.
Coffee lowers risk of common skin cancer
Drinking more coffee could lower the risk of basal cell carcinoma, the commonest form of skin cancer, according to a new study.
“Our data indicate that the more caffeinated coffee you consume, the lower your risk of developing basal cell carcinoma (BCC),” said Jiali Han, associate professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Children’s performance linked to sound sleep
Parents expecting a good performance from their children at school can help their kids do so by first ensuring they get a sound sleep.
A study in China’s Shanghai city has found students lacking sleep tend to be poor performers in comparison to those who have enough sleep.
Doctors at Shanghai Children’s Medical Centre studied students of 10 local primary schools. They divided the students into two groups — one slept less than nine hours a day and the other group sleeping over 10 hours a day.
Apple pays $60 mn for iPad trademark in China
Apple Inc. has agreed to pay $60 million to Proview Technology (Shenzhen) to settle the dispute over the iPad trademark, a court announced Monday.
Apple has transferred the money to the account designated by the Guangdong higher court, and the intermediate court of Shenzhen Monday notified the state administration for industry and commerce to transfer iPad’s trademark to Apple, the higher people’s court of Guangdong province said.
The court said the settlement agreement went into effect June 25, reported Xinhua.
British women simply love porn
A study has found 90 percent of British women surveyed admitting that pornography turns them on.
An X-rated survey has revealed almost a third gain ideas from porn to spice up their sex lives, with online pornography being popular with 37 percent logging on for a peek at erotic pictures and one in 50 even watching it at workplace, The Sun reported.
Saucy novels like Fifty Shades of Grey are just the thing to get the girls going.
Seven killed in Afghan bombingii
At least seven people were killed and 23 injured when a suicide car bomb went off in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city Monday, said an official.
“Based on initial reports from the police, seven civilians were killed and 23 others injured in the suicide car bomb attack near the Kandahar University building Monday evening,” Xinhua quoted a provincial government spokesperson as saying.
He expected the casualties to rise.
Dalit teenager gang-raped in Rajasthan
Four youths gang raped a 16-year-old Dalit girl in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur town Monday, police said, adding one of them has been arrested.
The girl was allegedly raped in a room inside the compound of a cremation centre in the town, some 180 km from Jaipur, they added.
Student ragging, murder: Two varsity officials face case
A court here Monday directed the Uttar Pradesh Police to register a fresh first information report (FIR) against two officials and a student of a private university for the murder and alleged ragging of a B.Tech student in 2010.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Piyush Pandey ordered the district police to register a criminal case against SRM University student Siddharth Saini, Dean Manoj Kumar Pandey and manager S. Vishwanathan under penal provisions of murder and destruction of evidence and the anti-ragging law.
Abducted Saudi diplomat in Yemen makes fresh appeal
A Saudi diplomat, kidnapped by Yemen-based Al Qaeda wing three months ago, has made a fresh appeal to the Saudi king to ensure his release in exchange for prisoners as demanded, Xinhua reported Monday.
Abdullah al-Khaledi, Saudi Arabia’s deputy consul in Yemen’s port city of Aden, was abducted by the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) from outside his residential building March 28.
Shatrugan Sinha hospitalised after breathing trouble
Veteran actor Shatrugan Sinha was admitted to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital here Monday afternoon following breathing problems, doctors said. His condition is now stable.
“Shatrugan Sinha was hospitalised to the hospital around mid-day. His main complaint was breathing difficulty,” hospital COO Ram Narain told IANS.
According to the doctor, Sinha developed a respiratory allergic reaction as painting was going on at his house.”
Lanco Hills launches Lanco Domina
Lanco Hills, one of the world’s largest mixed development projects, Monday announced the launch of Lanco Domina, a set of two high-rise residential towers.
The Domina project, one of the several residential towers within the campus, will have 20 floors each with two and three bedroom condominiums ranging from 1,195 square feet to 1,580 square feet and priced from Rs.42 lakh onwards.
All condominiums confirm to the world-class features, unique blend of space, style and luxury and premium construction standards of Lanco Hills, said a statement from Lanco Hills.
Tourist dies of heat-stroke at Taj Mahal
A 53-year-old woman tourist from Bangalore succumbed to a heat-stroke at the Taj Mahal Monday, police said.
“Sudha came to Agra with a 50-member group. She had fever. But today (Monday) she could not bear the heat and collapsed. Her body has been sent for post-mortem,” Sushant Gaur, station officer, Tourist Thana, told media persons.
Venkatesh, the group leader, said Sudha had been ill and she fell down by the road-side in the western parking area.
–Ians
Rave party: ‘Event manager’ seeks anticipatory bail
Suryaprakash Ijangare, suspected to be the ‘event manager’ of the Juhu rave party busted at a suburban hotel in May, today told the special NDPS court that he was working as the manager of food and beverages when the police raided the sundowner event.
Ijangare moved the special NDPS court for anticipatory bail through his counsel Taraq Sayyed, which will come up for hearing on July 6.
=—PTi
Bindra’s Beijing gold will be rallying point: Sandhu
Ace marksman Manavjit Singh Sandhu today said that Abhinav Bindra’s gold-winning feat in the 2008 Beijing Olympics would be the rallying point for Indian shooters in their quest to produce a better performance in the upcoming London Games.
Sandhu, a former trap world champion, said that Indian shooters would win more than one medal in the July 27-August 12 Olympics, as the country would be represented by the “best ever team”.
—PTi
Fake currency of over Rs 4 lakh seized, three held
Fake currency with a face value of Rs 4.74 lakh was today seized and three people arrested from Bharatpur district in this regard, police said.
Acting on a tip off, a Special Operation Group (SOG) team nabbed Aarif (25), Rashid (50) and Rafiq (30) from a market when they were returning after receiving the currency notes from their sources, DIG (SOG) Vishal Bansal said.
–Agencies
Kalam:Sonia was constitutionally eligible to be PM
Rejecting controversy over his book, former President A P J Abdul Kalam today asserted that Sonia Gandhi was “Constitutionally” eligible to be appointed as the Prime Minister when Congress emerged as the largest party in 2004 elections.
“I have said already in the book because Constitutionally Supreme Court says that she (Gandhi) is a citizen. So, Constitutionally if the majority party says she should be appointed. But she did not… she put Manmohan Singhji.
–Agencies
Qaida plot to bomb US jet during Olympics?
Al-Qaida is plotting to blow up an American airliner in the run-up to this month’s London Olympics and has trained a Norwegian Muslim convert in an attempt to evade airport security, a media report said on Sunday.