Secretary AICC and MLC P Sudhakar Reddy has told that it would have been better if chief minister would have met Congress MPs who reached camp office, still he would try to bridge the gap between CM and Congress MPs of Telangana.
He asserted that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi who is a Muslim-killer should seek apology from the nation.
A 9 and a 10 year-old Egyptian Christian children were released by an Egyptian Court.
Both were accused of insulting Islam by allegedly urinating on a paper containing verses of the Quran.
According to an AFP report, the prosecutor Abdul Maguid Mahmoud took the decision because the accused are minor.
Nabil Naji Rizq, 10, and Mina Nadi Faraj, 9, were to have been held and questioned for a week at a juvenile facility.
A Delhi Court Friday awarded death sentence to five members of a family convicted earlier for killing a young couple to death in 2010 in the name of honour.
Additional Sessions Judge Ramesh Kumar Singhal sentenced to death the parents of the girl, Suraj and Maya, uncle Om Prakash, aunt Khusboo and brother Sanjeev.
Asha, 19, was beaten, and then electrocuted along with her 20-year-old boyfriend Yogesh.
The family reportedly did not want the two to marry because the boy was from a lower caste.
—IANS
In a major setback to YSR Congress Party leader Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy, the Supreme court Friday declined to grant him bail in the disproportionate assets case
While declining to grant bail, the apex court bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam rejected the petition, saying: “You will have to wait.”
The rejection of the bail plea came after Additional Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran told the court that Jaganmohan was involved “in very serious economic offences which were unparalleled”.
Andhra Pradesh Hajj committee is all set for Hajj 2012. Nearly 300 Hajj aspirants have already arrived from various districts. Hajj House Nampally has been illuminated for Hajj aspirants. State hajj committee has reviewed the arrangements and performance of various departments to ensure smooth departure of Hajj pilgrims.
Bihar observed Dolphin Day Friday to raise awareness about conservation of the Ganga river dolphin declared as India’s national aquatic animal.
“Dolphin Day is a step towards conserving the Ganga river dolphin and would be observed every year on Oct 5,” Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said at a workshop here.
“It is a part of the Wildlife Week being observed in Bihar (Oct 2-8),” he added.
We cannot tolerate blasphemy of Prophet (pbuh). Instead of condemning the protest against blasphemy of Prophet (pbuh), the western world, keeping in view the Muslim sentiments, should immediately take measures to remove the blasphemous film from the internet and taking legal action against the producer and recompense him for his evil deeds.
The environment ministry has rejected an Indian Navy proposal to test fire missiles at the Tillachang sanctuary in the Andaman and Nicobar islands as a firing range would destroy the habitat of the megapode, an endangered ground bird species.
“The matter came up during the meeting of the National Board for Wildlife last month and many non-official members raised concern about it. I decided yesterday (Thursday) that the range should not come in that area,” Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan told reporters here Friday.
As Kingfisher Airlines extended its partial lockout by a week till October 12, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Friday the debt-ridden company will have to satisfy airline regulator DGCA on safety before it gets permission to fly again.
“There are a lot of factors involved in it.
“That includes the salaries of the employees, their disgruntlement issues and others. If the employees are disgruntled there is an issue of safety.
The Supreme Court today dismissed the Special Leave petition filed by Mohammed Bin Omer Yafai aka Mohammed Pahelwan, seeking relief in the cancellation of bail by the A.P.High court.
The Apex court has also cancelled the bails of other five accused allegedly involved in the April 30,2011 MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi attack case.
In a major setback to SIT, the 8th additional Metropolitan Session Judge of Nampally Criminal Court has dismissed the petition filed by SIT to cancel bail of two sons of Maulana Mohammed Naseeruddin, president Wahdat-e-Islami, Mohammed Muqeemuddin Yaser and Baleeghuddin Jaber.
In September the Indore court had acquitted Yasser and Jaber in criminal conspiracy case.
As politics in the cool environs of Himachal Pradesh heat up with the Election Commission sounding the poll bugle, has the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed an edge over its seemingly somnolent rival Congress?
That’s what it appeared to be with the Election Commission announcing Wednesday that the state would vote for a new assembly on Nov 4. The BJP is ahead of its arch rival as far as ticket allocation and campaigning at the grassroots level are concerned.
Four people, including a 40-year-old woman, have been arrested for the assassination attempt on Lt Gen (Retd) K.S. Brar, who led the Indian Army operation into the Golden Temple at Amritsar in Punjab in June 1984, police here said.
Brar, who was on the hit-list of Sikh militant groups, was on a private visit to London when he was viciously attacked on the evening of Sep 30. The retired general and his wife Meena returned to India Oct 3.
Infant’s dead body found
(Siasat News): Police has recovered the dead body of an infant wrapped in a white cloth.
Acting on a tip off, the police reached Santosh Nagar and found the dead body near a video shop. After the panchnama, a case has been registered and investigation is going on.
New bride ends life
Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 16 runs to reach the final of the World Twenty20 tournament here Sunday.
Skipper Mahela Jayawardene (42) steered Sri Lanka to a competitive 139 for four on a difficult surface and then the bowlers came up with a brilliant effort to limit Pakistan to 123 for seven in the first semifinal here.
The inclusion of left-arm spinner Rangana Herath (3/25) in the playing eleven worked wonderfully for the hosts with other significant contributions coming from speedsters Lasith Malinga (0/19) and Angelo Matthews (2/27).
India Friday tested its nuclear-capable ballistic missile Dhanush from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal in Odisha, an official said.
The missile was fired from a naval ship somewhere between Puri and Visakhapatnam as part of the training exercise of the Indian Navy.
“The test was successful,” Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) spokesperson Ravi Kumar Gupta told IANS.
Dhanush is a naval version of the nuclear-capable ballistic missile Prithvi. It has a range of 350 km.
—IANS
(By Kuldip Nayar) Politics is different from politicking. One is an art of running a government, while the other is mere manipulation of votes. What is currently going in India is politicking — how to gather sufficient votes to dislodge the Congress-led United Progress Alliance (UPA). The withdrawal of support by the Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee has presented the opposition with a golden opportunity. Her 19 votes in the Lok Sabha has reduced the Congress coalition to 254 from 273, which is the magical figure for a simple majority in the lower house.
Abu Huraira (radiAllahu anhu) reported Allah’s Messenger (sallellahu alaihi wa sallam) as saying that Allah said to him: “Spend, I will bestow upon you.” And the Messenger of Allah (sallellahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “The right hand of Allah is full and spending (the riches) liberally during day and night will not diminish (the resources of Allah). Don’t you see what (an enormous amount of resources) He has spent since He created the heaven and the earth, and what is in His right hand has not decreased?
Narrated Abu Huraira (RadiAllahu anhu): The Prophet (Sallellahu alaihi wa sallam) said, “An Israeli man asked another Israeli to lend him one thousand Dinars. The second man required witnesses. The former replied, ‘Allah is sufficient as a witness.’ The second said, ‘I want a surety.’ The former replied, ‘Allah is sufficient as a surety.’ The second said, ‘You are right,’ and lent him the money for a certain period. The debtor went across the sea. When he finished his job, he searched for a conveyance so that he might reach in time for the repayment of the debt, but he could not find any.
Samsung Electronics estimated Friday its fresh record quarterly high of operating profit for the third quarter at $7.29 billion.
At 8.1 trillion won or $7.29 billion, the preliminary operating profit estimated by Samsung in the July-September period was up 90.59 percent from a year earlier, topping the previous record high of 6.72 trillion won tallied in the prior quarter, reported Xinhua.
Sales were estimated at 52 trillion won in the three months ending Sep 30, up 26 percent from a year before. The figure was up 9.24 percent from three months earlier.
With an IQ of 162, a 12-year-old schoolgirl in UK has been rated brainier than even Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Olivia Manning, from Liverpool, has been accepted into Mensa, the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world after she got a whopping score of 162 in an Intelligence test.
Her score is not only two points better than German genius Einstein and physicist Hawking, it puts her in the top one per cent of intelligent people in the world, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported.
Being honoured with entry into Mensa means she will join a network of brains from across the globe.
Nigeria will double its production of cocoa, one of its major export crops, from 250,000 to 500,000 metric tonnes by 2015, Minister of Agriculture Akinwumi Adesina said.
Adesina told an audience at the First International Cocoa Conference held in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State in southwestern Nigeria, that 3.6 million hybrid cocoa pods would be distributed free to cocoa farmers in the country to meet the target, reported Xinhua.
The new hybrid cocoa pods were developed by Nigerian researchers for local farmers.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) Friday decided to keep the monetary policy unchanged.
The BOJ’s Policy Board voted unanimously, to keep the key short-term interest rate at around zero to 0.1 percent and decided to keep the size of its asset purchase program at the current 80 trillion yen, after expanding the fund by 10 trillion yen at the previous meeting Sep 19, reported Xinhua.
The BOJ’s assessment on domestic economy is “leveling off more or less”, as the exports and industrial production weaken by strong yen and economic troubles in Europe.
—IANS
Chandigarh, termed The City Beautiful by its French founder-architect Le Corbusier, has always been the subject of controversy between Punjab and Haryana with both laying claims over it. Now, a third and new dimension has been added with a demand from some quarters that the city be made the 29th state of India.
Officially a union territory (UT) administered by the central government, Chandigarh has the unique distinction of being the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, even though both the states have no control over its administration.
The Pakistani government Friday submitted to the Supreme Court a fresh draft of a letter that has to be sent to Swiss authorities to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. However, the court said the draft was not in the spirit of its order.
Federal Law Minister Farooq H. Naek presented the amended draft of the letter to be sent to Swiss authorities when the Supreme Court resumed the hearing in the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) implementation case, reported Dawn.
A five-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa heard the case.