Investigators today seized the laptop and mobile phone of the 23-year-old former airhostess, who committed suicide due to alleged harassment by a former Haryana Minister even as her family demanded a CBI probe into the case.
Police is yet to question Gopal Kanda, her employer and the Minister who quit Haryana Ministry, though it has served a notice to Anuradha Chaddha, who was also named in the victim’s suicide note.
–Agencies
Pakistani model-actress Veena Malik is back as the host of the special show prepared for the holy month of Ramzan.
The channel had previously decided to cancel the show featuring the Malik following a public outcry.
The 28-year-old, who rose to prominence in India after participating in reality TV show Bigg Boss will host Hero TV’s ‘Astaghfar’.
“I am very happy that my show ‘Astaghfar’ is going to be on air I thank Allah for giving me such opportunity to host this show. It is the love of the people there that has brought me back on the show,” Malik said in a statement.
Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal has said that there was no chance for Rajya Sabha member K. Chiranjeevi to become chief minister of the State.
Speaking to the media here on Monday, Lagadapati predicted that Chiranjeevi would get a berth in the Union Ministry in the next cabinet expansion. The Prime Minister may induct Chiranjeevi in his Cabinet shortly.
Wives of constables of APSP VIII Battalion ended their dharna on the third day at Kondapur here on Monday on the assurance of the Director General of Police V. Dinesh Reddy.
The police families continued their dharna on the third consecutive day on Monday. The DGP himself entered the scene and held discussions with the protestors and assured them of solution to all their demands. Satisfied with the DGP’s assurance, the police families withdrew their dharna immediately.
Daughter of a retired IPS officer has knocked the doors of AP State Human Rights Commission for protection to her life and money for living.
The Telugu Desam Party on Monday claimed that the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government had no moral right to continue in power.
Talking to media persons here Telugu Desam Party general secretary Varla Ramaiah said that Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and Home Minister P Sabita Indra Reddy have failed to identify and solve the serious problems being faced by different sections of the society, especially the government employees.
Former AP Youth Congress President TJR Sudhakar on Monday called on PCC president B Satyanarayana and presented a memorandum mentioning the names of seven ministers and other MPs, MLAs and MLCs accusing them of covertly working for the YSR Congress party.
Criticising the Centre of ignoring the State interests by diverting the gas quota to Maharashtra, YSRCP has said that it would take to agitation if the allocation is not revoked.
“Petroleum Minister S Jaipal Reddy has mortgaged the self-pride of the State as such an irrational decision cannot take place without his knowledge. Should the Centre fail to reverse its decision to divert our gas quota, we will take the issue to the people,” party spokesperson Janak Prasad told reporters here on Monday.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday relieved 11 ministers from the post of Districts’ In-charge.
The Ministers who have been relieved include Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha, Panchayat Raj Minister K Jana Reddy, Finance Minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy, Revenue Minister N Raghuveera Reddy, Major Irrigation Minister
Sudarshan Reddy and Minister for Rural Development D Manikyavara Prasad.
Criticising the Centre of ignoring the State interests by diverting the gas quota to Maharashtra, YSRCP has said that it would take to agitation if the allocation is not revoked.
“Petroleum Minister S Jaipal Reddy has mortgaged the self-pride of the State as such an irrational decision cannot take place without his knowledge. Should the Centre fail to reverse its decision to divert our gas quota, we will take the issue to the people,” party spokesperson Janak Prasad told reporters here on Monday.
Arch-rivals Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati Monday attended the lunch hosted by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on the eve of the vice-presidential election, marking a new turn in her party’s relationship with the two Uttar Pradesh parties which support the UPA government from outside.
Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati shared the table with Congress president while Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was at the table with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Congress leaders said it was very unusual to see the two leaders together attending a “political lunch”.
Hyderabad Aug 6 (INN): Notification to counseling for admissions into engineering
colleges would be issued on August 8 and the process will start within five days after
the notification. Minister for Social Welfare and Chairmen Admission Fees Regulatory
Committee Pithani Satyanarayana informed on Monday at a press conference here at the
Secretariat.
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The minister said that state government would provide college tuition fees of Rs
31,000to each student as it has done in the last year and would provided bank loans to
The Anti Corruption Bureau on Monday arrested Karnataka MLA Gali Somasekhara Reddy, one of the main accused in the cash-for-bail case of mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy.
Somasekhar Reddy was arrested by the ACB officials when he appeared at the ACB office to face the investigations in connection with the cash-for-bail scam on fourth day on Monday. After his arrest, the officials shifted Somasekhar Reddy to Osmania General Hospital for medical checkup.
Later he was produced him the ACB court which remanded him to judicial custody till August 17.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will take part in a meeting of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Saudi Arabia, which will focus on the Syrian conflict, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported Monday.
Mohammad Reza Forqani, head of the international affairs in Ahmadinejad’s administration, said the president was invited by the Saudi king.
Though the FBI is tight lipped about the identity of the shooter behind the gruesome killing of six people at a Gurudwara in Wisconsin, media reports say he was a white Army veteran in his 40’s and possibly a “skin head” or “white supremacist”.
Few details emerged about the man whose Cudahy duplex apartment was searched by police hours after the shooting in Milwaukee’s Oak Creek suburb.
He was described as white, single, in his 40s and an Army veteran.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Andhra Pradesh Monday arrested Karnataka legislator G. Somasekhara Reddy in a cash-for-bail scam involving his brother and former Karnataka minister G. Janardhana Reddy.
ACB officials said they arrested Somasekhara in Hyderabad after questioning him for the fourth consecutive day.
He is the 11th accused and the second Karanataka legislator arrested in the same case. Somasekhara is a member of the Karnataka assembly from Bellary urban.
Boxer MC Mary Kom ensured another medal for India from the 2012 London Olympics with a convincing 15-6 victory over Tunisian Maroua Rahali in the quarter-finals of the women’s 51kg category at the ExCel Arena in London on Monday. The winners of the two semi-finals compete for the gold
medal while the losing semi-finalists are awarded a bronze each.
The Indian, a five-time World Champion, put in a dominant performance. But her style Monday was in stark contrast to her performance Sunday, when she beat Karolina Michalczuk of Poland.
Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone teamed up with Arunoday Singh and Randeep Hooda in her Bollywood debut “Jism 2”, and now she has expressed a desire to work with Hindi movie star Salman Khan.
“Whoever wants to work with me, I want to work with them. But Salman Khan is on the top of my list,” the 31-year-old said here Sunday during a visit to a theatre for a public interaction.
Recently released “Jism 2” was promoted aggressively before its release and Dino Morea, co-producer of the erotic thriller, says it’s important to promote a film after it hits the screens.
Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab joined the opposition and fled to Jordan Monday, in what could be the highest-ranking defection in the 17-month uprising. State media claimed Hijab was sacked just two months after his appointment.
President Bashar al-Assad had appointed the former agriculture minister as prime minister in June, following elections in May, Sky News reported.
Conflicting reports from Syrian state TV claimed Hijab was “dismissed” as he was about to announce his support for the opposition.
A man in America’s Ohio state has been arrested after he shot his wife of 45 years in her hospital bed while she was being treated for a critical illness, a media report said here.
Barbara Wise, 65, who is recovering from a life-threatening illness in the intensive care unit at the Akron General Medical Center, survived the gunshot wound but is in critical condition, the Daily Mail reported.
Her husband, 66-year-old John Wise has been arrested on attempted murder charges.
This Christmas Chulbul Pandey will return at the Bollywood box office in the much-awaited sequel to 2010 blockbuster “Dabangg”. It will be ready for release Dec 21.
“Well for all the Chulbul Pandey fans… ‘Dabangg 2’ is almost 60 percent complete. We resume shoot after the promotion and release of ‘Ek Tha Tiger’,” tweeted Arbaaz Khan who is making his directorial debut with “Dabangg 2”.
“‘Dabangg 2’ is slated for an end of the year Christmas release… 21st Dec 2012,” he added.
They may not be on talking terms but Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan doesn’t shy away from heaping praise on arch-rival Salman Khan. And this time it is for Salman’s forthcoming film “Ek Tha Tiger”.
Asked what does he have to say about Salman and Katrina Kaif’s chemistry in the film, Shah Rukh said: “It is very nice they have done few movies together. I think chemistry is a too deeper word… media has created it. Kajol and I always had this issue, ‘what is this chemistry?’ It has taken me years to understand what this means.”
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be seen romancing much junior actors – Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma – in his forthcoming film. He says working with younger actors is a learning experience for him.
The 46-year-old has teamed with Katrina, 28, and Anushka, 24, for Yash Chopra’s yet-to-be-titled film.
“It’s been a learning experience, it helps me. It’s wonderful to work with actors who come with a new language and a new way of doing scenes,” Shah Rukh said Monday at an event here.
Janata Dal (United) chief Sharad Yadav, who is also the convener of the NDA, Monday said he disagreed with veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani’s prediction of a non-Congress, non-BJP prime minister after the 2014 general elections.
“L.K. Advani is the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) working chairperson. But he has predicted… and I do not go by the prediction. UPA will go (after the elections) and NDA will put up a fight,” he said.
The man who shot dead six people in a Sikh temple in Milwaukee before police shot him has been identified as a 40-year-old former US Army soldier named Wade Michael Page, a media report said Monday.
Fox News said Page was at one time attached to the Fort Bragg Army installation in North Carolina.
The shooting took place in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek. Six people were killed and four wounded, including a police officer, before the man identified as Page was shot dead by a police officer.