BJP on Tuesday hit out at Shiv Sena leader and NDA ally Uddhav Thackeray for his comments that Biharis living in Maharashtra should carry a permit, saying the party has fought since its inception for allowing all Indians to visit and live in any part of the country.
BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said Jan Sangh, the predecessor of the party, fought against the permit system in Jammu and Kashmir.
Unfazed by strident criticism of his cousin Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray over his anti-Bihari remarks, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday sought a permit system to check influx of Bihari migrants into Mumbai.
Uddhav also declared that his party would not accept Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as NDA’s prime ministerial candidate if he continues to stick to his stand on supporting “traitors”.
Dismissing any comparison between coal block allocation issue and Bofors pay-offs controversy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said “2012 is not 1989”.
“2012 is not 1989. Do not draw such comparisons”, Chidambaram said at the AICC media briefing when asked whether the Opposition was trying to re-enact a Bofors-like scenario.
The opposition had resigned en masse in 1989 following CAG report on the Bofors issue ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
Chidambaram said the chief prosecutor in the Bofors case had finally said Rajiv Gandhi was not at all involved in it.
The Panchayat Raj Institutions in Andhra Pradesh will soon go for elections as the High Court here paved the way on Tuesday, asking the state government to fix the reservations at 50 per cent and submit a report to the State Election Commission in this connection.
The SEC will have to complete the election process within three months after receiving the report from the government, official sources here said.
CBI witness and slain teenager Aarushi Talwar’s part-time maid told a special court here Tuesday that whatever was recorded in her statement was dictated to her by the probe agency.
Bharti Mandal, during her cross-examination before Special Judge S. Lal, said that she had never appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to get her statement recorded.
Following the witness’ remarks, the probe agency’s counsel took the maid outside the court for a few minutes.
The defence lodged a complaint over this and the court took a serious view on matter and reprimanded the CBI.
Surprising as it may sound but senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar’s defence has been breached three times in a row in the ongoing Test series against New Zealand.
After being bowled in the first innings of the first Test in Hyderabad and the first innings here, Tim Southee made it three in a row when he disturbed Tendulkar’s middle stump on the fourth day of the ongoing second Test.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy announced that one or two regional study centers in each region exclusively for the benefit of minorities will be established soon. Interacting with minorities at a programme as a part of Indiramma Baata at Nandyal in Kurnool District today, the Chief Minister assured that enhancement of salaries to Imams and Mouzams will be considered.
Telangana Praja Front (TPF) president Akula Bhumaiah has demanded that the State government withdraw false cases against the Telangana protagonists.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi has announced that it would soon intensify the statehood agitation.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday called upon the officials of power utilities not to compromise on seven hours supply of power to the farmers anytime.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi floor leader Etala Rajender on Tuesday dismissed the reports of possible merger of TRS with the Congress party.
Addressing a press conference at the TRS Legislature Party office, Etala Rajender described the merger reports as baseless and mere speculation. He said that the TRS would never merge with the Congress party and would continue its struggle till the formation of Telangana State.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday granted conditional bail to evangelist K A Paul, who is facing charges of his brother’s murder.
While granting conditional bail, the court asked Paul to submit a surety of Rs 1 lakh apart from surrendering his passport. The court also directed him to attend police station every week.
Paul was arrested on May 12, after a sting operation conducted by Ongole police in which he had offered Rs 5 crore bribe to a sub-inspector to eliminate the witness in his brother’s murder case.
–Agencies
The police on Tuesday arrested Telugu Desam Party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu and other activists for staging dharna on the issue of reimbursement of fees at LB Nagar crossroads.
Addressing the dharna, Chandrababu Naidu said that the poor students were being distanced away from higher education in view of the confusion and chaos created by the Congress Government on the issue of reimbursement of fees. He alleged that the government lacked commitment over the implementation of reimbursement of fee to all the BCs, minorities and EBCs.
Last week, I went on a journey for 2 days. All I took with me was a sleeping bag and some clothes. Before that, I had to go visit some cities for a duration of 6 days. For that journey, I took with me many more items than I took for the 2 days journey. Few years back when I was visiting a different country for a longer period, I had to take large luggages with me. The point is that we prepare more for long journeys than short ones.
Southeast Asian states must present a united front to the Chinese in dealing with territorial disputes in the South China Sea to “literally calm the waters,” US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said here Tuesday.
She urged all involved to make “meaningful progress” on a process for ending conflicts “without coercion, without intimidation and certainly without the use of force” by November.
The Dubai government is set to launch a new system in cooperation with many airlines to prevent blacklisted persons from entering the emirate by stopping them at their boarding points, a media report has said.
A database system will store information related to inbound travellers and the authorities will give permission to the passengers before they board a Dubai-bound plane.
While the battle in Syria continues, United Nations on Tuesday said that over 100,000 people fled Syria in the month of August.
The fleeing Syrian citizens took refuge in the neighbouring countries, as per BBC report.
The discussion in this concern took place between the head of Red Cross Peter Maurer and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Meanwhile, at least five people were killed and about 30 injured in a car bomb blast in the Jaramana neighbourhood of Damascus, reported Al-Mayadeen TV Monday.
Voicing concern over poor levels of student learning, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today pitched for continuous assessment of benefits derived by children through education besides tracking attendance.
Addressing ‘Teacher Awardees’ on the eve of Teacher’s Day, Singh said the last eight years had seen a significant increase in enrolment of children in primary schools and a decline in the gender gap in elementary education.
The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused David Coleman Headley was given counterfeit currency notes for use in India, the government said today.
“During investigation of the (26/11) case pertaining to the activities of David Coleman Headley and others it was revealed that fake Indian currency notes were given to him for using these in India,” Minister of State for Home Affairs Jitendra Singh told Lok Sabha today in a written reply.
Rainfall continued to batter city and threw road and rail traffic out of gear, turning key thoroughfares into cesspool. Low-lying areas of the city were inundated by incessant rainfall.
According to the Met department, 31. 4 mm rainfall was recorded till late evening. At least 17 trees were uprooted at different parts of the city. Major water logging was reported at Nampally, Chaderghat, Nadeem Colony, Talab Katta, Shaheen Nagar etc.
Eight trains were cancelled and 27 trains diverted on Monday as part of the railway tracks near Dornakal in Warangal district were flooded.
The Karnataka Police arrested Nayeem Siddique, an MBBS doctor from Basaveshwarangar, Bangalore on suspected terror links, taking the total number of such arrests in the past five days to 14.
The new social network, Salamworld, aims to connect Muslims around the world. Looked upon as the rival of networking giant Facebook, the Muslim network Salamworld is likely to make it internet debut globally by November.
With three-level content-filtering feature, Salamworld will provide a social network sans pornography, gambling and anything else that may be against Islamic principles. The Turkey based network aims at providing a safe space for Muslims. The new site will have offices in Moscow and Cairo and coordinators in 30 countries.
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.
Niue? What’s new? Last week, India quietly established formal diplomatic relations with Niue, a South Pacific island of 1,400 inhabitants, which is better known as the world’s first “Wi-Fi nation”, in which free wireless Internet access is provided throughout the country.
Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed and Prime Minister of Niue Toke Talagi signed a joint communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Niue, at Cook Islands, on August 30, the External Affairs Ministry said here on Tuesday.
BJP on Tuesday hit out at Shiv Sena leader and NDA ally Uddhav Thackeray for his comments that Biharis living in Maharashtra should carry a permit, saying the party has fought since its inception for allowing all Indians to visit and live in any part of the country.
BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said Jan Sangh, the predecessor of the party, fought against the permit system in Jammu and Kashmir.