Month: August 2012

Rowdy elements’ activities on the rise in old city

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The anti social activities of rowdy and unscrupulous elements are on the rise in old city these days. Police also seems to be under political pressure failing to contain the activities of those rowdy elements.

One such incident occurred at Ansari Road Falaknuma area of the old city where rowdies burnt down the bus belonging to the relatives of a Mufti. It is said that Naeb Mufti Jamia Nizamia Mufti Qasim Siddiqui Taskheer’s brother in law Ibrahim Khan’s bus was set ablaze by the rowdies for not giving ‘Mamool’. Earlier he was also being harassed by some way or other.

‘Fake doctor’ arrested in Delhi

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A ‘fake doctor’, who introduced himself as a medical practitioner to doctors from various hospitals, was arrested for allegedly cheating them of thousands of rupees, police said today.

Harish Goswami, who hails from Almora district in Uttarakhand, was arrested yesterday based on a complaint from Dr Surender Kumar, Senior Orthopedician of RML Hospital.

In his complaint, Kumar had alleged that Goswami introduced himself as a doctor of RML hospital and persuaded him for a loan of Rs 15,000 on the pretext that his grandmother was seriously ill.

Myanmar still has serious rights challenges: UN

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A United Nations human rights expert on Saturday called for an urgent independent investigation into recent bloody sectarian violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, which he said was one of many human rights challenges facing the country.

Tomas Ojea Quintana ended a weeklong visit to Myanmar saying that the country’s much-touted democratic reforms will not take hold unless the government places human rights at the centre of its agenda for change.

Cloudy morning for Delhi, rain likely

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It was a cloudy morning for the capital on Sunday with the minimum temperature settling a notch above the average for the season at 27.5 degrees Celsius. The weather office has forecast light showers in parts of the city.

“Sky would remain generally cloudy. Light thundershowers are possible towards the evening,” said an official from India Meteorological Department (IMD).

“The maximum temperature will stay around 34 degrees Celsius,” added the official.

Humidity at 8.30 a.m. stood at a whopping 84 percent.

Mob ransacks police station in Kolkata

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A mob on Friday ransacked a police station and torched a vehicle here after being removed from a hospital premises where they were protesting the death of a woman, police said.

Trouble broke out in the morning when people protesting the death of the woman, daughter of Trinamool Congress Councillor Moinul Haque Chowdhuri, at a nursing home in south Kolkata were removed, sources said.

The mob then ransacked Rajabagan police station and a set ablaze a police vehicle alleging police inaction.

CPI leader Bani Dasgupta passes away

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Veteran CPI leader and champion of women’s rights Bani Dasgupta died here on Saturday, family sources said.

She was 88. Her husband CPI leader and former editor of Kalantar Daily Patrika Prabhat Dasgupta had predeceased her in 2006.

Dasgupta was born in Calcutta in 1924 and did her college education from the BM College in Barisal in East Pakistan.

She plunged into students politics at that time and continued it actively during her education at Calcutta University.

Teachers arrested for strip searching girl student

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Two women teachers were arrested today for allegedly strip searching a girl student on the suspicion that she had stolen money, at Kaligati Smriti Nari Siksha Niketan here in Birbhum district, police sources said on Saturday.

The girl, a student of class-XI, filed a complaint with the police that two teachers, Chaitali Gupta and Lipika Saha, took her to the teachers’ room yesterday and stripped searched her alleging that she had stolen Rs 150 from another student, the sources said.

School principal serves liquor to girls

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The police were inquiring into a complaint by girl students of a residential school at Kaliachak in Malda district that the principal allegedly behaved indecently with them and gave them liquor to drink.

Three students of the English medium Nazipur SS Point Residential School yesterday lodged a complaint with the Kaliachak police station against the principal, Najib Ali, police sources said today.

Traffic cops to use Blackberry to book violations

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Karnataka traffic police has taken a big step forward to going green, becoming paperless today with senior personnel now using Blackberry devices to book motorists for traffic violations across Karnataka.

As many as 250 traffic officers of the rank of Assistant Sub-Inspectors, Police Sub-Inspectors and Police Inspectors across the state will start using Blackberry for traffic enforcement, according to officials of Bharti Airtel which is providing Blackberry devices with Airtel services to them.

Two-year-old boy abducted from Ajmer Dargah area

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A two-year-old boy was allegedly abducted by an unidentified man from Dargah area in the city today.

Nafisa, hailing from Nagpur, had come here for Ziyarat in the holy shrine of revered saint Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti three days back, police said.

During her stay, she befriended a man who told her he also belonged to Nagpur.

Today, the woman went to fetch food for the kid leaving him with the man in Dargah market, police said.

When she returned, there was no trace of the boy and the man, they said.

A case had been registered and a hunt launched for the man, police said.

IAF Sukhoi-30 jets have a design flaw: Browne

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Air Chief NAK Browne today said the IAF has identified a “design flaw” with the Russian-made supersonic fighter aircraft Sukhoi-30 though nothing is wrong with its “airworthiness”.

We have identified a Fly-By-Wire problem with the aircraft. It is a design issue and we have taken it up with
the designing agency,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a function held to mark Golden Jubilee celebrations of Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) here.

Referring to the December 13, 2011 crash of a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft near here, the Air Chief said

India, 30 others withdraw from voting on Syria resolution

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India has abstained along with 30 other countries from voting in the UN General Assembly on a Saudi-drafted resolution on Syria that denounced the escalating violence in the country and referred to calls for President Bashar Al Assad to step down.

The draft UN General Assembly resolution, which expressed “grave concern” at the escalating violence in Syria,
got 133 votes in favour in the 193-member body yesterday.

GOVT should release white paper on Wakf land LOOT ?

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Hyderabad, Aug.4 (NSS): All India Muslim Minority Organization has demanded that the State government release a white paper on 25,000 properties of Wakf Board in the interests of the minority community.
Speaking to mediapersons here on Saturday, organization chairman Syed Muqtar Hussain alleged that the political leaders and their henchmen were grabbing the Wakf Board lands across the State. He demanded that the State government take stern action against the land grabbers and protect the lands. Demanding that the State government set up a Wakf Commissionerate to protect the Wakf

Big fall in BPO jobs due to Global economic slump : ASSOCHAM

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Attrition rate has drastically fallen in the IT, ITeS and the BPO sector thereby coming down to the levels of about 15-20 per cent during the last six months of calendar year 2012 as against about 55-60 per cent attrition rate during the corresponding period last year, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) stated on Saturday.
Rate of attrition at all levels of the organisation has seen a fall ranging between 45-50 per cent between January-June, mostly due to a fragile global economy, according to a recent industry specific survey carried out by the Assocham.

HC directs Govt to take decision on Khadeer’s release in six weeks

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The Andhra Pradesh High court on Friday directed the state government to consider within six weeks the representation of convicted constable MA Khadeer seeking release by way of a pardon by the state. A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice PC Ghose and Justice Vilas V Afzalpurkar made this order while hearing a plea filed by Khadeer’s wife Sabera Begum who alleged that the authorities were discriminating against her husband in the matter of according pardon.

General says all Damascus retaken, Aleppo pounded

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The Syrian army today said it had seized the last rebel-held district of the capital Damascus as insurgents in the strategic northern city of Aleppo came under heavy bombardment by regime forces.

The army said it had retaken the hold-out rebel district of Tadamun in Damascus, a day after the United Nations
deplored the failure of diplomacy to end a conflict that has reportedly claimed more than 21,000 lives in nearly 17 months.

Vijayamma to hold two-day Deeksha on fee reimbursement

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YSR Congress party honorary president Y S Vijayamma on Saturday accused the State Government of planning to dilute the fee reimbursement scheme introduced by the former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy for the welfare of
poor and middle class people.Talking to media persons, Vijayamma alleged that the government was planning to

Byreddy begins 96-hr fast for Rayalaseema State

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Founder president of Rayalaseema Parirakshana Samithi Byreddy Rajasekhar Reddy on Saturday launched his 96-hour hunger strike, “Rayalaseema Melukolupu Deeksha” in front of Sri Krishnadevarayulu statue in Kurnool.
While sitting for hunger fast, Byreddy Rajasekhar Reddy said that the Deeksha was aimed to safeguard the self-respect and interests of the people of perennially drought-prone Rayalaseema region. Reiterating that he was opposed to the bifurcation of State, he called upon all parties to make their stand clear on the statehood issue and put an end to
uncertainty in the state.

Man held for murdering wife, in laws

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A 27-year-old man allegedly killed his wife and her kin at his in laws’ residence at Rapevada village in the district today, police said.

Naresh Patle, who had come to his father-in-law Ramchandra Rahangdale’s place along with his wife Uma (24),
allegedly had a heated argument with her in the afternoon and in a fit of rage axed her to death, they said.

After hearing Uma’s cries for help, her sister Poonam Rahangdale (20) and brother Manoj (22) rushed to her rescue
but Naresh also attacked them with axe resulting in their
death, police said.

All set for Group IV exams on Aug 11

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The Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) has made all arrangements for the smooth conduct of Group IV examination across the State on August 11-12.
Talking to media persons, APPSC secretary Poonam Malakondaiah said that 9,58,333 candidates have applied for the Group IV examination against the total posts of 1,335.
She said that the examination would be conducted in the 2629 centres across the State. She asked the aspirants to download their hall tickets from the commission’s website www.appsc.gov.in

Journalist flees Mexico after death threats

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Journalist and women’s rights advocate Lydia Cacho said that she fled Mexico after receiving an especially chilling death threat.

Cacho, who lives in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun, Friday said she left the country immediately after receiving the threat last Sunday at her house.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists publicized the threat earlier this week, relaying Cacho’s account that an unfamiliar voice came over the security system’s speaker and warned her “not to mess with us” or “we will send you home in little pieces”.

Plea in SC seeks review of quashing of case against Mayawati

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The supreme Court Saturday was moved seeking the review of its judgment quashing the first information report (FIR) registered by the CBI against former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati in an illegal assets case in 2003.

Pointing to the errors in the verdict quashing the FIR in the case against Mayawati, Kamlesh Verma, an intervener in the case, sought the review of the decision.

Verma said that he moved court because the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had made it known that they were not exercising the option.

Six killed in Pakistan fireworks blast

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At least six people were killed and 10 injured Saturday when a building collapsed following an explosion at a fireworks workshop in Pakistan’s Multan city, media reports said.

Geo News said the blast occurred in the city’s densely populated Hussain Agahi Chowk Bazaar area.

Due to the blast, a building collapsed while several others were damaged. Several nearby shops caught fire following the explosion.

Police said the building where the explosion occurred was owned by a woman, Parveen Bibi, and her husband. A case has been registered against the couple for storing the fireworks.

Olympics: Medals tally

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The following is the medal’s tally at the 2012 London Games here Saturday.

China 24 16 11 51
US 24 11 14 49
Britain 11 7 8 26
South Korea 9 2 5 16
France 8 6 8 22
Germany 5 9 6 20
Italy 5 5 3 13
North Korea 4 0 1 5
Kazakhstan 4 0 0 4
Russia 3 13 9 25
Netherlands 3 1 4 8
South Africa 3 1 0 4
New Zealand 3 0 4 7
Japan 2 9 11 22
Cuba 2 2 1 5
Hungary 2 1 2 5
Poland 2 1 1 4
Ukraine 2 0 4 6
Australia 1 10 6 17
Romania 1 4 2 7
Canada 1 3 6 10
Belarus 1 2 3 6
Denmark 1 2 2 5
Czech Republic 1 2 1 4
Brazil 1 1 4 6
Slovenia 1 0 2 3
Ethiopia 1 0 0 1
Georgia 1 0 0 1