A techie based in the United States returned to his home state Andhra Pradesh only to end his life over alleged marital discord, police said Monday.
Immadi Anil Kumar, 30, was found dead in a cab outside the residence of his sister in Kukatpally here Sunday evening.
A native of Guntur district in coastal Andhra, Kumar had landed from San Diego Saturday and checked into a hotel in Kukatpally.
India on Monday offered to train Tajik personnel in the field of renewable energy and said it was willing to set up pilot projects in Tajikistan.
Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah said the Indian government was ready to help Tajikistan in the field on unconventional energy by training its people and set up pilot projects so that it can learn the benefits of alternative energy models.
He was addressing industrialists from the two countries in the presence of Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon.
Thirteen people were on Monday arrested in connection with rioting in east Delhi in which one person was killed following rumours that a youth died after an accident at a vehicle checking picket.
Thirty-nine people, including 35 police personnel, were injured in last night’s arsoning and rioting in Mayur Vihar Phase-III area after enraged locals attacked police posts and damaged public property.
A large number of police personnel have been deployed in the area following the rioting after spreading of rumours that the man, who fell from his scooter at a police picket, died.
Attacking the Centre on the coal allocation controversy, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the scam was “blackening the country’s face”.
“On the lines of Gujarat, the Centre had decided to distribute soil health cards to farmers. I don’t know when they are going to do this. They are stuck in coal (scam),” Modi said addressing a national convention on agri-business here.
“The scam is blackening the country’s face as Delhi has got mired in coal.”
Accusing the government of being “obdurate”, the CPI(M) on Monday asked it to immediately cancel 90 coal block allocations and order a probe into the issue to enable a discussion in Parliament.
It also demanded an inquiry into the CAG findings about alleged “diversion” of a “substantial per cent of coal” extracted from the mines which led Reliance Power to make “windfall gain of Rs 20,000 crore”.
Saudi Arabia has launched a crackdown on illegal private medical practices. Saudi Arabian authorities Sunday announced to have started the crackdown, with the latest closure being of a medical complex, existing with one physician only, Xinhua reported.
The closedown took place after an inspection by officials related to the Health Affairs in Jeddah city. It was found that the doctor was offering his services for a number of clinics in the complex with the assistance of unlicensed woman doctor and three nurses.
As the US presidential race enters its home-run, the campaigners for President Barack Obama’s second term concede that there is not the same level of enthusiasm among voters that was four years ago, but argue that Americans are not that dissatisfied with the administration.
Admitting that the race is running too close to predict with each coming day, the Democrats say.
“No,” replied Democratic Gov Martin, a prominent Obama surrogate, when was asked if he could “honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago?”
A young Christian girl arrested on a blasphemy charge that has sparked an international outcry will remain in a high-security jail till at least Friday as the court hearing her case was adjourned on Monday.
Judge Muhammad Azam Khan adjourned the case until September 07 because of a lawyers’ strike today.
The adjournment followed a request from the lawyer of Malik Ammad, the man who filed the complaint against Rimsha Masih.
Rimsha has been held at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi after she was arrested from the low-income Mehria Jaffar area on the outskirts of Islamabad on August 16.
A bridegroom and about 50 of his marriage party were stranded in Rajasthan’s Barmer town for a week as the would-be bride disappeared right before the ceremony, after duping him of Rs.3.75 lakh, police said Monday.
A first information report (FIR) was registered against the bride and two men who had fixed the wedding after taking the money, they added. One of the men was arrested Monday.
The incident took place in Sadar area of Barmer, some 550 km from Jaipur.
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram at the conference of Chief Commissioners/DGs of Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI
The government Monday rejected the conditions laid down by the BJP to end the parliament logjam and appealed to it to debate the issue while admitting that the purpose of coal block allocations policy has suffered a setback.
The government Monday said it has not taken any decision to discontinue e-auction of coal through which the world’s largest coal producer CIL has earned Rs 5,600 crore more than the notified price in 2011-12.
“During 2011-12, the subsidiary companies of CIL have earned Rs 5,600 crore more than the notified price of coal by selling coal through e-auction,” Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal told Rajya Sabha on Monday.
Voicing his protest against harassment of India Against Corruption (IAC) activists, Arvind Kejriwal Monday said they were ready to face punishment if the government felt that protesting against corruption was akin to breaking the law, and added that they would continue to do so in future.
Confident of meeting direct tax collection target for the current fiscal, the Finance Minister P Chidambaram Monday said the government will ensure stable tax regime and non-adversarial approach in revenue collection.
“We will ensure there is a stable tax regime, there are stable tax laws and everybody adopts a non-adversarial approach to tax collection,” he said after addressing Chief Commissioners and Directors General of Income Tax.
India lifted the Nehru Cup for the third consecutive time beating Cameroon 5-4 in a penalty shootout at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here Sunday.
Sunil Chhetri, Robin Singh, Denzil Franco, Mehtab Hossain and Clifford Miranda all scored from the spot while Thierry Makon struck the right-post to give India an unprecedented win.
In an end-to-end match which went into penalties, a valiant India held their more fancied opponents 2-2 in normal time.
The Press Information Bureau (PIB) has launched a mobile version of its website to help cellphone users seamlessly access information on the move.
“The URL of the mobile website is pib.Gov.In/mobile. Mobile users who want the full functionality and display of the regular website can access it through the URL pib.Gov.In,” a PIB official said.
The new site has been customised to display latest press releases on the home screen and offers links to other matters on the website, he said.
India is like the “historic father” of the Higgs boson project, the search for what could be the basic building block of the cosmos, says CERN chief Rolf-Dieter Heuer, ruing that Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose, from whose surname the word ‘boson’ is derived, did not get the Nobel Prize.
“India is like a historic father of the project. I am really very impressed seeing the immense talent pool that the country has,” the director general of CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), the world’s premier particle physics laboratory.
Keeping up its attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the alleged faulty allocation of coal blocks, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday said maintaining silence is a privilege not available to the head of government.
“The government has not given any response to the series of allegations in the coal allocation. The prime minister has invoked his right to silence… A right to silence is available to an accused in court, it is not available to a prime minister,” Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley told a group of journalists here.
Neha Dhupia says she has signed a Punjabi film with Jimmy Shergill and that she will be doing her first item song for another film.
“Yes I am. I am doing a Punjabi film with Jimmy Shergill called `Rangeeley` for which I am going to be shooting right now, I leave for a month,” the 32-year-old revealed at the Blenders Pride Fashion Preview Sunday.
Neha is also going to feature in a commercial Hindi film besides an item song as well.
Emraan Hashmi is on a roll post the critical and commercial success of films like `Shanghai`, `Jannat 2` and the actor says he wants to have a consistent run at the Box Office.
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Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who was shooting for Yash Chopra`s untitled directorial project in Kashmir, has wrapped up his schedule and says he is taking back home some important things that he learnt during his short sojourn in the valley.
SRK wrote on Twitter as he bid adieu to Pahalgham: “Leaving Pahalgham. Learnt life`s lesson in my forefathers land. Only beauty is not enuff, u gotta be tough too to survive. I will be, Insha Allah.”
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Ruling out cancellation of allotted coal blocks, Law Minister Salman Khurshid Monday said the opposition was not giving the Congress-led UPA government a fair option to end the deadlock over the issue that has led to the BJP stalling parliament for more than a week.
Talking to IANS in the Parliament House complex here, the law minister said the opposition’s offer was akin to offering someone a respectable funeral if he hangs himself.
“What they are saying is like ‘I will give you a respectable funeral if you hang yourself’,” Khurshid said.
Today’s Special Cabinet Meet, convened to discuss compensation to the victims of the gas tanker tragedy in Kannur, declared several packages under three categories. Briefing on Cabinet decisions here, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said special packages under three categories were mainly for the affected parties, affected area and precautionary measures to be taken for transportation of inflammable material in the event of the tragedy that stole 19 lives. The families of those dead in the tragedy will be given Rs 10 lakh each as solatium, he said.
The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu will hold a series of public meetings across the State to mark the 104th birth anniversary of Former Chief Minister C N Annadurai which falls on September 15.
India won the second cricket Test by five wickets and whitewashed New Zealand in the two-match series at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here Monday.
Set a target of 261 in the second innings, India made 262 for five after Virat Kohli remained unbeaten on 51 and Mahendra Singh Dhoni on 48. India had made 353 in the first innings.
New Zealand made 365 in the first innings and 248 in the second innings.
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The system of providing ‘Sahayaks’ to officers and Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) has been taken up for review following recommendations of the Standing Committee on Defence, government told the Lok Sabha on Monday.
In a written reply to the House, Defence Minister AK Antony said, “As per recommendations of the Standing Committee on Defence, the system of Sahayaks in the Army has been taken up for review.”
Sahayaks are authorised to officers and JCOs in the Army as per their entitlement while serving with formations functioning on war establishment, he said.