Month: September 2012

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Wednesday opposed military intervention in Syria to settle the prevailing crisis in the country.

Morsi said Egypt would support such efforts to prevent a catastrophe in Syria that would “rule out the danger of foreign military intervention”.

On Tuesday, the emir of Qatar called for Arab military intervention in Syria.

The Syrian conflict has claimed up to 20,000 lives according to estimates by various Syrian opposition groups. The UN estimates the toll at over 18,000 people but the Syrian authorities say 8,000 people were killed.

Ace shuttler and Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal will fly Kiran Mk II jet trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Friday at the IAF’s training academy at Dundigal in Andhra Pradesh.

Saina has been invited to visit the Air Force Academy, Dundigal on September 28 as a special guest for the closing ceremony of the Inter Squadron Sports Championship.

During the visit, she is scheduled to fly a sortie on the Kiran trainer aircraft, the IAF said in a release.

A Naxal was arrested today and a tiffin bomb seized from him in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, police said. Pander Rachla was arrested from a jungle near Bajrangi village and the tiffin bomb recovered, SP Rahul Bhagat told reporters.

“During interrogation, Rachla said Naxals had planned to plant the tiffin bomb in a police station and he had gone to recce the area when the police team nabbed him,” Bhagat said. Rachla claimed some government employees were assisting the Naxals.

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Govt. whip T Jay Prakash has urged president Telangana Political JAC Prof. Kodandaram to postpone Telangana march. Talking to press persons at assembly premises he said chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has already appealed to postpone Telangana march in view of Ganesh immersion and international biodiversity conference.

He said violent incidents had occurred during the million march in the past, if violence erupts during Telangana march who would be responsible? Will KCR and Kondandaram take responsibility of violent incidents?

Four persons have been detained in connection with the alleged rape of a one-and-half-year-old child of a pavement dweller in Kolkata’s Park Street area, police said Wednesday.

“We have detained four persons for interrogation in connection with the alleged rape of a baby girl. All the four are also pavement dwellers,” said Mohammed Kalimuddin, officer-in-charge of Park Street police station.

The baby with critical injuries is now in the ICU of a private nursing home.

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers would occur at a few places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh during next 48 hours. Isolated rain or thundershowers would occur over Telangana and Rayalaseema, the Met Office said here today. The sky over Hyderabad and neighbourhood would be generally cloudy Rain or thunder showers may occur in parts of city over next two days. Maximum and minimum temperatures would be around 33 and 22 degrees Celsius respectively. Observations recorded till 0830 hours today indicated that isolated Rain occurred over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

State BJP has expressed its happiness over seizure of 34 Villas in Boulder Hills in Emaar Properties near GachiBouli and 4.86 acre land at Kalkaji near Delhi by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

In a press note, State BJP vice-president Dr S Malla Reddy said that the action initiated by the ED was good, but it was not enough. He demanded the ED to seize all the Villas of Emaar Properties and then only it is possible to close the land scam of Emaar Properties. He also asked ED to seize 80 acres land in Emaar Properties and give it back to the farmers.

Telangana Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Palvai Goverdhan Reddy has said that the decision on Telangana may evolve in the coming 15 days.

Speaking to the media at CLP office here on Wednesday, Palvai said that the Centre was busy in dealing with other serious issues than Telangana issue. He said that the Centre may respond on the issue after 15 days.

Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday admitted that continuing the support to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance at the Centre after 2002 Gujarat riots was a mistake which spoiled TDP’s image as a secular party.

AICC secretary general in-charge of Andhra Pradesh affairs, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has made it clear that the creation of separate Telangana State was only possible when the three regions accepted for the division of the State.

Speaking to the media here on Wednesday, Azad asserted that the Telangana problem was as old as 40 to 50 years, and it is not that easy to solve it and said that efforts to solve the problem were failed.

State Youth Congress former media convener Pendyala Naresh has demanded the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to order an inquiry into the involvement of AICC secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy in private settlements through which he was earning lakhs of rupees.

The State Government has decided to file a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court on the local body elections issue.

Speaking to the media in his chamber, Secretariat here, the Minister for Panchayat Raj K Jana Reddy said that it was not possible to immediately conduct elections to the local bodies. Hence, the government has decided to file an SLP in the Supreme Court on local body elections. The State Government would also request the Centre not to stop the funds to the state due to non-conduct of local body elections, keeping in mind the interests of the state.

TRS senior leader and Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao has said that achieving separate Telangana State is important to the Telangana people, than the International Conference on Bio-Diversity.

Speaking to media here on Wednesday, Harish Rao has warned the State Government that they will organize Telangana March at any cost. He called upon the people to make the Telangana March a big success as was done in the case of Million March earlier. He urged the Telangana people to participate in a big way and said that lathi-charge and police firing will not stop the movement.

Former CWC member Dr K Keshava Rao has made sensational remarks on Wednesday against the Congress party high command. He said that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) had discussed the issue seriously when mere 45 sarpanchs tendered their resignations in Jammu and Kashmir, but nobody discussed about the Telangana issue when 118 public representatives tendered their resignations.

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The Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy has said that it is for the state government to see that the Telangana March was held in a peaceful manner on September 30.

Government Whip in the Legislative Assembly Turpu Jaya Prakash Reddy aka Jagga Reddy has alleged that the Telangana leaders were only enacting shows in the media, but not doing anything for achievement of separate Telangana State. He said that if violence occurred during the Telangana March, it could turn in to ‘communal riots’.

The Chief Minister Mr N Kiran Kumar Reddy asserted on Wednesday that it was not correct on the part of the people to raise a hue and cry when taxes were imposed or hiked, while they demand crores of rupees for development works.

Senior Congress leader and Cantonment MLA Dr P Shanker Rao has said that Andhra Pradesh State, which stood first in South India in crime against women, was competing with West Bengal for the first place in the Country. Women were facing severe sexual harassment and dowry harassments in the State, and Andhra Pradesh stood second in the country by registering 28,246 cases, he said.

Former Minister Dr P Shanker Rao has urged the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to give permission to the Telangana Political JAC proposed Telangana March on September 30. He also urged the JAC to organize the March peacefully, and said that he will participate in the March if JAC assured for it’s peaceful conduct.

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A day after Lata Mangeshkar claimed that late singer Mohammed Rafi had apologised to her in writing, his son Shahid Rafi has refuted her, saying it was a “publicity stunt” and he might even take legal action.

My father was a national property. I am hurt and so are his fans. His fan following is much bigger than any other
artist. If she can prove that my father had written an apology letter to her, then I am ready to apologise,” Shahid told reporters.

Let her show the letter. My father passed away years ago, and now she is talking about this letter? People keep

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) Tarun Barot, a key accused in the 2003 “fake” encounter of Sadiq Jamal Mehtar in Gujarat, was today remanded in two-day CBI custody by a Special Court here.

Barot, posted in North Gujarat’s Mehsana district, was arrested yesterday by the Central agency after it was asked by the Gujarat High Court to probe the killing of Sadiq,an alleged gangster, by the state police.

Barot, charged with murder and criminal conspiracy, was produced before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate A Y

YSR Congress Party today claimed that the Mahadharna across the State to protest against the hike in RTC bus charges and surcharge on power bills is successful and said the anti-people policies of the government will spell the doom for Congress Party in the general elections. Talking to reporters here, Party MLC Jupudi Prabhakar Rao said ‘Our party cadre held dharnas at all the district Collector offices demanding the rollback of hiked diesel prices and reverse the decision of colleting surcharge on energy bills with retrospective effect’,.

Questioning the double standards of the CBI by allowing bail to 24 persons, including a minister and senior bureaucrats in service but denying it to YSR Congress Party President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on the grounds that he would influence the witnesses in the disproportionate assets case, its spokesperson Vasireddy Padma alleged the government and the investigation agency will be answerable to this anomaly.

Speaking to newspersons here, she charged while Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao and 13 others could just walk away with bail, the CBI did not raise any objection.