The brother of Ibrahim Yafai who was killed during the attack on MIM Akbaruddin Owaisi last year lodged a complaint with the city police commissioner on Tuesday claiming that Ibrahim’s death “was a murder and a result of a conspiracy hatched by Owaisi.” Awad Bin Younus Yafai in his complaint alleged that on April 30, 2011, the gunman of MLA Ahmed Balala,
Accusing the Government of indecision, BJP on Tuesday promised to accord “first priority” to creation of Telangana state if voted to power at the Centre, as its cadre tried to march towards the Prime Minister’s residence, forcing police to use tear gas shells against them.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley blamed “policy paralysis” of the UPA Government for its indecision on the separate state issue and accused it of “outsourcing” its job on the decision to a Committee headed by former judge.
In a bid to strengthen bilateral economic relations, India and Pakistan will soon sign agreements for liberalising visa norms for business travellers, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said Tuesday.
“From our side, it is ready and it will be signed soon,” Sharma said at an India-Pakistan Parliamentary Dialogue meeting organised here by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
Sharma said the clear announcement regarding the visa agreements would be made during External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna’s visit to Pakistan later this week.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday conducted raids on the offices of Nav Bharat Power Pvt Ltd, one of the five companies named by the agency in the FIR in coal block cases.
A team of CBI officials from Delhi conducted raids on the residences of the Nav Bharat executives and seized some documents.
Y. Harish Chandra Prasad, chairman, Malaxmi Infra Ventures (India) Pvt Ltd, who has been named in the FIR along with P. Trivikrama Prasad, was not available for comment when IANS tried to contact him on his phone.
India’s leading Islamic seminary Darululoom-Deoband will soon sell English and Hindi translations of its Urdu publications, its officials said Tuesday.
The seminary management came up with the decision after observing the growing demand for its publications at the stall within the first two days of the 18th Delhi Book Fair.
“This is the first time we have come to Delhi Book Fair. What we are witnessing is that people from diverse communities and religions want to know about Islam,” stall manager Mohammed Faizan Siddique told IANS.
An implantable pacemaker as tiny as a pinhead is set to revolutionise medicine with its big advantage. It is powered by radio waves from outside the body and does not need batteries.
The breakthrough by Stanford University engineers could lead to a host of new medical sensors that could function without batteries. The implanted device is housed in a cube less than a millimetre in radius.
A Swiss scientific lab has agreed to exhume the body of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for additional tests for possible polonium poisoning, a Palestinian official announced Tuesday.
The Lausanne-based Institute of Radiation Physics responded positively to a request from the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which invited the institution to send experts to the West Bank to take samples from Arafat’s body, said Tawfiq Al Tirawi, head of the Palestinian committee investigating Arafat’s death in 2004, reported Xinhua.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Tuesday expressed grave concerns over a series of insider attacks in Afghanistan, but assured that the ongoing transition process will not be disrupted.
“The insider attacks are a matter of strong concern, but will not derail our transition process… Our goal, our strategy and our timetable remain the same,” Rasmussen told reporters here at NATO headquarters, reported Xinhua.
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who is shooting in Kashmir’s Gulmarg Town, spent Monday night in the same room where legendary Raj Kapoor filmed the famous “Hum tum ek kamre mein band hon” song for his 1973 superhit teenage romance “Bobby”.
“I am staying in 305, the room where ‘hum tum ek kamre mein band ho’ was shot in ‘Bobby’. Feels sweet… now just to try and lose the keys… ha ha”, SRK posted on his widely followed microblogging site Twitter Tuesday morning.
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram was admitted to a private hospital here on Tuesday for a minor elective laproscopic procedure.
He was admitted this evening for ‘a minor elective laparoscopic procedure.’ He will be discharged in a day, a statement from Apollo Hospitals said.
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True to the glamorous spirit of their film “Heroine”, actress Kareena Kapoor, director Madhur Bhandarkar and producer Siddharth Roy Kapur held a stylish and glitzy promotional programme on a cruise here.
Kareena felt like a true ‘heroine’ as she alighted from a seaplane at the Jebel Resort here Monday evening for the cruise.
“True to the role that I am playing in ‘Heroine’, this event in Dubai has let me relive the moment of playing the role of a star once again,” Kareena said in a statement.
CBI today carried out raids in 30 locations across the country after filing cases against five companies for alleged criminal conspiracy to get coal blocks by fudging their net worth figures and misrepresentation of facts and named Congress MP Vijay Darda in one of the FIRs.
Ahead of his visit to Pakistan, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday said he was going with “greater optimism”, carrying a message of India’s “serious intent” to resolve outstanding bilateral issues through dialogue in a “terror and violence”-free atmosphere.
He also noted that there was a “huge difference” in the bilateral relations between now and two years back when his visit had created “certain positive vibe” but there were some “questions which remained unanswered”.
At least 20 people were killed and more than 50 others injured Tuesday afternoon when a suicide bomber hit a funeral procession in eastern Afghanistan’ s Nangarhar province, an official said.
“The suicide blast occurred at around 3 p.m. local time Tuesday in Dur Baba district,” a spokesman for provincial government, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, told Xinhua.
He said the district administration chief’s son was also killed in the attack and the district chief and his brother were among the injured.
The injured were shifted by police to hospitals in the provincial capital.
India’s leading Islamic seminary Darululoom-Deoband will soon sell English and Hindi translations of its Urdu publications, its officials said Tuesday.
The seminary management came up with the decision after observing the growing demand for its publications at the stall within the first two days of the 18th Delhi Book Fair.
“This is the first time we have come to Delhi Book Fair. What we are witnessing is that people from diverse communities and religions want to know about Islam,” stall manager Mohammed Faizan Siddique told IANS.
Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Council S R Patil today alleged that the ruling BJP government in the State had failed to handle the drought situation in the State.
In a pronouncement of considerable significance that could check the judiciary’s overstepping into legislative and governmental functioning, the Supreme Court has said the question of fixing the poverty line was in the domain of expert bodies like the Planning Commission and the judiciary could not engage itself in setting the nation’s economic policies.
“This should be left to expert bodies. Reviewing the poverty line is very difficult. We can’t be setting economic policy,” the court said last week in the course of a hearing.
A court here sentenced to death a 28-year-old man who murdered his parents, who had adopted him, and his pregnant wife in 2008, terming him a menace to society.
“The convict (Nitin) is a menace to the society. When he did not spare his own parents and wife and killed them in cold blood, what respect he would show for the lives of others,” Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat said.
The court called the convict a live bomb, which has the potential of causing a huge catastrophe, if not destroyed at the earliest.
Smoking scenes will be back on the silver screen as the government Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it would shortly permit them – though with the strict stipulation that one of the actors in the scene warns viewers that “smoking kills”.
A bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan Gogoi was told that the new notification would mandate that the films showing a smoking scene would show the actor giving a warning at the start of the film, in between after the interval while a static message would be displayed in the course of the scene showing smoking.
Union Finance Minister P.Chidambaram was admitted to a private hospital to undergo a minor medical procedure Tuesday.
In a statement issued here, the Apollo Hospitals said Chidambaram was admitted to the hospital and will undergo a “minor elective laparoscopic procedure”.
“He will be discharged in a day,” the statement added.
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Iran would strike US military bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities, the leader of Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Monday.
Tit for Tat will be the policy .A Israeli newpaper has come out with news that US administration has secretly informed Tehran that Us will not be interested in furthuring conflict in Persian gulf and US interest should be safeguarded.
According to Hasan Nasrullah the Hamas leader Iranian targets will be US interest particularly in persian gulf. “If Israel targets Iran, America bears responsibility.”
Salman Khan looks debonair in the first look of Kudiye di kurti, the song he especially shot for Preity Zinta’s debut production Ishkq In Paris.
Salman agreed to make a cameo in Preity’s film without a second thought, and the actress can’t thank him enough.
“I love Salman for being part of my first film as a producer. First experiences are always the most memorable and special and he has rocked the movie for me by looking so handsome and super hot,” Preity said in a statement.
Shiv Sena activists on Tuesday held a protest in Phagwara against the alleged “atrocities” on minorities in Pakistan.
During the protest, Shiv Sainiks raised anti-Pakistan slogans and set ablaze the flag of the neighbouring country.
On the occasion, Shiv Sena’s state vice-president Inderjit Karwal said, “Hindus and Sikhs were being forced to convert in Pakistan.”
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Nuclear power is actually as safe as air travel, even though people perceive it as dangerous, top nuclear scientist and ex-chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India (AECI) Anil Kakodkar said on Tuesday.
The former director of the Maharashtra-based Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), who was speaking at a public function at Dona Paula, on the outskirts of Panaji, also said that considering India’s growing need for large volumes of power in the future, the country would have to resort to nuclear technology for power generation.