TRS MLA Pocharam Srinivas Reddy on Friday expressed confidence that he was expecting a positive statement on the Telangana State formation from the Centre before the deadline of September 30 set by TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Former Minister Dr P Shankar Rao on Friday said that he would sit in for Silent Deeksha on September 30 in protest against the insult meted out to Telangana Ministers and MLAs in Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s Cabinet.
A bandh was observed in the predominantly Muslim Juhapura area of the city today to protest against the controversial anti-Islam film made in the USA.
“Retail shops, eateries, auto-rickshaws among others joined the bandh. Educational institutes, however, were kept out of it,” social activist Fazal Bahelim told PTI.
Local Muslim organisations had called the bandh.
There was no untoward incident, a police official said.
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The police on Friday arrested Telangana United Front Leader Vimalakka as a precautionary measure before the Telangana March.
The police on Friday morning went to her residence at Domalguda and took her into custody. Apart from Vimalakka, the police also arrested a few activists who opposed the arrest of Vimalakka. Meanwhile, tension prevailed at the Domalguda for some time when the police arrested Vimalakka.
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YSR Congress party Minority Cell Convenor Habbeb Abul Rehman has reiterated that Muslims are not in a position to believe N Chandrababu Naidu as his past carries the scar of being associated with fundamentalists while the community has benefited enormously with the YSR welfare schemes.
Speaking to media here on Friday, he said: “It was YSR who introduced 4 per cent reservations and Chandrababu Naidu’s association with BJP and NDA is still fresh in the memories of Muslims and his sudden turn-around to appease the community will yield no fruits as he drifted away from us.”
A Delhi court today issued fresh non-bailable warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray along with summonses against him and Shiv Sena leaders Bal Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray in a host of complaints for their alleged remarks against Bihar natives.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate ManishYaduvanshi issued NBWs against Raj Thackeray and ordered its
execution by November 17 after he failed to appear before him in response to the August 31 summons and sought exemption from personal appearance instead.
Around 237,000 six-year-old children — 40 percent of the total from all over Britain — were unable to read 32 words correctly out of 40 in a spelling test.
The children struggled with words like “farm”, “goat” and “shine”, the Daily Mail reported.
Pupils were tested for the first time this year on how well they use the traditional phonics method of reading, where children learn the letter sounds of English.
Only nine percent scored full marks, and 21 percent failed to cross the halfway mark, according to results released by the Department for Education.
A pilot of a private flight with his girlfriend tricked her into believing that they were about to crash. He asked her to read the emergency manual, where it was written “Will you marry me?”
Ryan Thompson from Chicago took his girlfriend, Carlie, on a private flight over the city, where he planned to propose, the Daily Mail reported.
Mid-flight, he tricked her into believing that the plane’s controls were malfunctioning. He asked the woman he needed her to read the emergency procedure to him.
“Honey, I need you to remain calm,” Thompson told her.
Targeting the Prime Minister, BJP on Friday accused him of leading his party and government in attacking and subverting constitutional institutions in a bid to shield corruption and demanded a probe by Supreme Court appointed SIT into coal blocks allocation issue.
“This government is engaging in corruption and is then being brazen about it. Have they got any inner conscience which is needed to continue in office? This is a government of, for and by the corrupt,” senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi while moving a political resolution at the BJP National Council here.
Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Jairam Ramesh Thursday said it was the objective of the union government to make India an open defecation free country in ten years.
“It is our objective to make the country open defecation free in the next 10 years. This is a very important issue which needs to be made a national as well as a political issue,” said Ramesh.
He was speaking at the pre-launch of ‘Nirmal Bharat Yatra’ which is a 55-day campaign for spreading awareness about sanitisation and cleanliness in five states of the country.
n the midst of ongoing protests against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, the National Disaster Management Authority on Friday said all nuclear installations in the country were safe and there was no need for any worry for the people living in the surrounding areas.
“There is no need for any concern for any of the plants,” NDMA vice-chairman M Shashidhar Reddy said at a press conference here.
Reddy said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, senior government officials and experts have repeatedly said there would be no compromise on the safety standard of any of nuclear plants.
A man has terrorised several women in an Australian city by exposing and touching himself indecently in front of them, a media report said Friday.
In an attack this week a woman was home alone Saturday night when she woke to find a man at her screen door, the WAtoday.com reported.
The man was stark naked except for a covering over his face and head, leaving only his eyes uncovered and left after the woman shut the door and locked herself in her bedroom.
A 20-year-old Brazilian woman student is auctioning off her virginity to the highest bidder to raise cash to build homes for poverty-stricken families, the Daily Mail reported.
Catarina Migliorini, a physical education student of Italian descent, has till now been offered $155,000.
She hopes to pump in the money into a non-governmental organisation that will construct houses in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.
The girl rejected claims that she was a prostitute, and said she still believed in love, the daily reported.
Thirty-one percent of young Australians admit to reading and writing on their Facebook page while taking a toilet break, according to a survey.
Facebook is overtaking the magazine rack in the toilet closet, the Herald Sun reported Thursday quoting the survey.
But it wasn’t the most popular place. Sixty-six percent of respondents admitted to checking their Facebook page after they head off to bed.
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Labour party leader Ed Miliband has suggested that churches and other religious institutions in Britain should be free to stage gay weddings.
Miliband has backed the government’s plans to legislate for same-sex marriages as a sign that Britain is a “modern country”, The Telegraph reported.
He called for the right to hold same-sex marriages to be extended to faith groups as well.
BJP leader and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a sharp attack on the UPA government, accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of working for the benefit of “foreigners”.
Taking a jibe at the Prime Minister, Modi compared him to a Hindi film character ‘Singham’, asking as to why he became bold only to benefit foreign countries.
“Mister Prime Minister, the country wants to know – in eight years, you have become ‘Singham’ twice, once when there was the nuclear treaty with the US, and the second time on the FDI issue,” Modi said.
Santa to Shopkeeper: – Mujhe India ka flag dikhao.
Shopkeeper ne flag dikhaya,
Santa: – Isme aur colour dikhao.
Ek samay do bahut milne wale dost rahte thay. Lekin ek din ek dost ka maut ho gaya aur police investigate karne ke liye aaya aur uske dost ko sawal poochne laga…
Police: “Tumhara dost kaise mara?”
Sardar: “Pata nahi sahab, woh bola mere pet mein chuhe kud rahe hai toh maine usko chuha marne ki dawa khila di.”
SARDAR : Yaar maine apni girl friend ko gift dena hai, kya du?
2ND : Gold ring de de.
1ST : koi badi cheez bata.
2ND : M.R.F ka tyre de de.
A 60-year old man was killed and three others including two Assam Rifles jawans were injured on Friday when a powerful bomb exploded followed exchange of fire with insurgents in Manipur’s Chandel district.
Official sources said the bomb, allegedly planted by insurgents to target security personnel at a roadside at Kwatha Khunou. went off this afternoon at about 1.30pm, injuring two Assam Rifles jawans of 24th Assam Rifles battalion who were patrolling the area near Manipur-Myanmar border.
The Govt said it has not banned issue of fresh cooking gas (LPG) connections and there was only a temporary three-week hiatus in new allotments pending elimination of duplicate connections.
State-owned oil firms are carrying out a massive nationwide exercise to eliminate users having multiple connections at the same addresses.
Pending this, new allotments are on hold, an official said.
The BJP on Friday said it would go to the people to expose the government on the issue of coal blocks allocation, foreign equity in multibrand retail and capping the supply of subsidised cooking gas.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari told the party’s national council meeting here that he has asked the women’s wing to campaign on October 12 across the country against the government’s decision to limit the number of subsidised cooking gas cylinders to six per family per year.
With allegations flying thick and fast against its own leaders including party president, senior BJP leader LK Advani on Friday made some “plain speaking” saying that its own rank and file should be above board on corruption issues.
He also told the party leadership at all levels that they must speak in one voice and avoid the tendency to speak in multiple voices.
Burrma Task Force USA, (BTF— www.burmamuslims.org) a national alliance of Muslim organizations of the US that includes Rohingya groups protested against the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya and against President Thein Sein’s inaction in securing justice for the persecuted minority during his speech at the Asia Society on September 27, 2012
The BJP said on Friday the Congress-led UPA government had forfeited the mandate to govern, adding that the BJP could give a new direction to the country.
“The nation is at the crossroads. The Congress-led UPA has clearly forfeited its mandate to govern,” BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said while moving the political resolution at the party’s national council meeting in this town, bordering Delhi.
Party chief Nitin Gadkari said: “It is time to give a new direction to the country’s politics.”