The Central Crime Branch of the city police have arrested five people on the charges of murder of a rowdy sheeter here last week. In a daring day light murder rowdy Dilip was brutally murdered in a wine shop which led to panic fearsome in the minds of the public. The five — Satish, Parusharama, Suresh, Ganesh and Raju were nabbed at Hosur in Tamil Nadu on September 27 by a special team formed to nab the culprits.
Continuing his tirade against the party central leadership senior BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa today accused party President Nitin Gadkeri of failing to keep up his promise. “Gadkeri has failed to keep up his words unlike Congress supremo who has kept up her promises made,” he told newsmen here. Mr Yeddyurappa said when he was asked to step down as Chief Minister on July 31, 2010, Mr Gadkari had promised to suitably compensate him soon after he was released from the jail following his arrest by Lokayukta on illegal iron ore mining case.
With less than 48 hours left for the proposed ‘Telangana March’ at Tank Bund here on September 30, the Andhra Pradesh Police today reiterated its warning of initiating stern action against lawbreakers even as it appealed to the organisers to put off the march.
A firming global trend and the rupee rising to five-month high against the dollar helped the market commence the new settlement in the derivatives segment on a promising note
The BSE benchmark Sensex on Friday jumped by 183 points to end at a 15-month high on buying in auto, FMCG and metal stocks amid strong global cues and a surging rupee.
After gaining 269 points at the outset, the Sensex closed up 183.24 points, or 0.99 per cent, at 18,762.74, a level last seen on July 7. The 30-share barometer has gained 8.2 per cent this month.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has rejected a claim that he snubbed a phone call from US President Barack Obama to carry on a game of tennis.
Cameron’s schoolfriend Charlie Brooks had claimed the prime minister had been too involved in a match at his country residence, Chequers, to speak to the US president, the Daily Mail reported.
Brooks, who studied at Eton with Cameron, said the pair were “pretty good friends”.
The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the Karnataka government for failing to comply with the Prime Minister-headed Cauvery River Authority’s (CRA) directive to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu.
A bench of justices D.K. Jain and Madan Lokur warned Karnataka that if it failed to comply with the CRA directive, it (the bench) will have to pass appropriate orders.
All 19 people, mostly foreigners, aboard a Dornier aircraft of a private airlines were killed on Friday as the plane crashed minutes after taking off from the Tribhuvan International Airport here.
Sixteen passengers and three crew members who were heading towards Lukla, gateway to Mt Everest, were killed when the small aircraft belonging to Sita Airways crashed two minutes after it took off at 6:15 am (local time), airport officials said.
Pakistan restricted South Africa to 133 for six in 20 overs in their first Super Eights match of the World Twenty20 cricket tournament at the Premedasa Stadium here Friday.
Jean Paul Duminy was the top scorer with 48 while skipper AB de Villiers made 25.
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Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy on Friday stated that there was no question of giving permission to Telangana March as the Intelligence wing has clearly hinted that the activists would resort to attack properties of Seemandhra people.
TRS MLA Harish Rao slammed TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu, on sending letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and termed it as a new drama.
Talking to press persons he said there is nothing new in Naidu’s letter and it is synonymous to old wine in a new bottle. He told that Naidu has not referred to separate Telangana supporting the entire letter.
Cocking a snook at the BJP top brass, sulking former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Friday praised Congress leadership, including Sonia Gandhi, asserting he would not hesitate to leave the party if his honour was at stake.
“Everything was all right in the party when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister. The situation is not well now. There are problems in states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra,” Yeddyurappa told reporters here.
Our brains register new and approaching sounds much better than noting the disappearance of an existing one, says a new study.
The research, funded by Wellcome Trust, could explain why parents often fail to notice the sudden quiet from the playroom that usually accompanies the bustle of mischief. Hearing plays an important role as an early warning system to rapidly direct our attention to new events.
Six Maoist militants were apprehended Friday in a forested pocket of Chhattisgarh’s restive Bastar region, police said.
The rebels, who are senior cadres of the banned outfit Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), were arrested in a search operation in Bijapur district.
Himanshu Gupta, inspector general of police (Bastar region), told reporters that the guerrillas were arrested by a joint contingent of District Force and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) from Mirtoor police station area, some 500 km south of state capital Raipur.
The BJP Friday said it would go to the people to expose the government on the issue of coal block allocations, 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 Oct 12 across the country against the government’s decision to limit the number of subsidised cooking gas cylinders to six per family per year.
Sensing a big opportunity for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the next Lok Sabha polls, senior leader L.K. Advani Friday called upon party members to build a “credible” and “corruption-free” image.
Speaking at the concluding function of the BJP’s national council meet here, Advani said they needed to make an effort to be seen as a “credible alternative” to the Congress.
“Congress’s only escape in the present situation is to prove that all political parties are same, and corrupt,” Advani said.
According to Prof. S A Shukoor general secretary, the Urdu Maher, Urdu Aalim, Urdu Fazil exams of Idara-e-Adabiyat-Urdu, will be held in the month of December simultaneously in Hyderabad and Secunderabad, districts of Andhra Pradesh and outside the state. Payment of the fee without fine can be made from October 5 to November 9. Incomplete forms will be rejected.
Prof. S A Shukoor has appealed to all officials of educational centres and interested candidates to submit forms after completely filling it, along with fee through DD, in favour of Idara-e-Adabiyat-e-Urdu at Panjagutta.
‘Elders and religious scholars are highly revered among Muslims, I came to know that you people have a very good system of resolving marital disputes and the solution is sought from the Islamic scholars. Despite that majority of the cases of marital disputes in south zone area are of Muslims. Even though Islam has a perfect family system, the marital disputes among Muslim couples surprises me.’ These are the words of Madhavi Lata, inspector women police station, Ghansi Bazaar, who is fed up of resolving marital disputes among Muslim couples.
BJP leader L.K. Advani Friday said the UPA government may fall before 2014 and asked his party to think of finalising its candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.
Speaking at the concluding function of the party’s national council meet here, Advani said some allies of the ruling United Progressive Alliance were willing to bring the government down.
The new Indian Consulate in Atlanta will start its services partially from October 01, the Indian embassy has announced.
“The Consulate General of India in Atlanta will start its Passport/Misc Services operations with effect from 1st of October, 2012,” the Indian embassy said in a media advisory.
“Visa/OCI (Overseas Citizens of India)/PIO (People of Indian Origin) services at CGI Atlanta will commence at a later date,” it said.
Proposed changes to a mandatory death sentencing law in Singapore, if approved by Parliament, may save an Indian national from the gallows for killing a Filipina prostitute in 2010, a media report said on Friday.
Bijukumar Remadevi Nair Gopinathan’s appeal on the death sentence for murdering Roselyn Reyes Pascua was dismissed yesterday, the Straits Times reported.
Singing legend Lata Mangeshkar celebrates her 83rd birthday Friday and her younger sister Asha Bhosle paid rich tributes to her in Shiv Sena party mouthpiece Saamna.
“A singer that can equal Lata didi has not been born yet. She is only one such piece created by god. There will never be someone like her ever – has not been in the past, will never be in the future,” Asha said in her tribute that appeared in Saamna Friday.
She said she is indeed privileged to have been born as Lata’s sister.
Amitabh Bachchan was speechless when one of his fans from Gujrat got his autograph tattooed on his hand. He says that it is humbling to see such an expression from his followers.
“Intense well-wisher from Gujarat met up and took my autograph on his hand. Today at KBC (‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 6’) he showed me that it had now been tattooed,” the 69-year-old tweeted Friday.
“The extremes that fans will go to express devotion is the most humbling experience for me, ever. I feel blessed! Beyond words,” he further tweeted.
The BJP said 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.”
Filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh will start shooting for the sequel to his successful thriller “Kahaani” next year with Vidya Balan in the lead role.
Ghosh told IANS: “The film will definitely go on the floors by next year… The film is in its scripting stage. I have just started writing it so we have a long way to go.”
The 46-year-old said all the characters will be the same in the sequel and added: “Of course, we will have Vidya Balan in the film and rest of the characters will also be the same.”