Former Minister Dr P Shankar Rao on Thursday requested the Andhra Pradesh High Court to take action against Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy and other police officials for contempt of court.
The Greater Hyderabad City Biodiversity Index (CBI) covering the GHMC limits spread across Medak, Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad districts will be released on October 15 during the City for Life Summit as part of on-going global biodiversity conference.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Thursday reviewed the progress of the COP-11 being held in Hyderabad and also the advantages Andhra Pradesh have from the biodiversity conference.
The Chief Minister enquired from various departments the steps being taken by Andhra Pradesh in protecting the Biodiversity. Officials told the Chief Minister as on Thursday, 1220 delegates from 164 countries are participating in the Biodiversity meet and it is going on successfully and all the international delegates are happy about the arrangements.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy expressed grief over the demise of Smt Savitramma, mother of Roads and Buildings Minister B Dharmana Prasada Rao.
In a message, the Chief Minister conveyed his condolences to Dharmana Prasada Rao over phone and sympathies to the bereaved family members. (INN)
The Board of Intermediate Education on Thursday extended the last date for submission of applications for scholarships by the students who passed intermediate in March this year up to October 12.
Influential BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said the party would announce its prime ministerial candidate at an appropriate time as he ruled out any differences in the party on the issue.
Responding to questions, Chouhan said that the name of prime ministerial candidate would be announced at an appropriate time before the next general elections.
Chouhan, who is here on an official visit, said he has no plans to move to the center and intends to stay in Madhya Pradesh and focus his entire energy on its inclusive growth.
Reaching out to the people of Kashmir, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said he wants to understand their “pain” and help connect them with the development of the country.
On a visit to Kashmir after a year, Gandhi said the youth in the state should join the development process taking place in the country in various sectors such as education, health, infrastructure and electricity.
Myanmar President U Thein Sein will pay a state visit to South Korea soon, an official announcement from Nay Pyi Taw capital city said Thursday without specifying the date of his visit.
At the invitation of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Thein Sein will pay the visit as a follow-up of his recent trips to China and the US in September, reported Xinhua.
The Philippine anti-graft court on Thursday ordered the arrest of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the third corruption investigation against her, this one accusing her of misusing USD 8.8 million in state lottery funds during her last years in office.
Arroyo’s lawyers questioned the charges during oral arguments, and the court said it would take a second look.
Describing Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s speech in Rajkot as “lacklustre”, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi taunted her on Thursday, saying the Congress treads carefully in the state and is scared of speaking fearing a backlash.
Iraqi police and health officials say a car bomb explosion in western Baghdad has killed five people and wounded 13.
Two police officers say the parked car bomb went off this morning in the upscale Mansour district but narrowly missed a passing convoy of employees working for a foreign security company.
They say three policemen were among those wounded in the attack. The police could not immediately provide the name of the security company.
Sensitive documents related to delicate information about US operations in Libya are laying unguarded at the American consulate in Benghazi, more than three weeks after the attack on the compound which killed ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as the new chief of Al Qaeda, may be in Pakistan, says a new book.
Zawahiri, an Egyptian cleric, became the new Al Qaeda chief after the killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad town May 2 last year.
Imtiaz Gul, a Pakistani defence and security analyst, in his book “Pakistan: Before and After Osama” says: “Just as the search for bin Laden has been a pre-occupation for the past decade, the whereabouts of Zawahiri are now likely to engage the US and Pakistan intelligence.”
The 26/11 key handler and LeT terrorist Abu Jundal was on Thursday remanded in judicial custody by a Delhi court after the Mumbai ATS produced him before it saying he was no longer wanted for his interrogation in cases registered against him in Maharashtra.
Jundal was produced before chief metropolitan magistrate Vidya Parkash by the Mumbai ATS and was sent to Tihar jail.
The second edition of the World Series Hockey is to be held from Dec 15 to Jan 20 with a total of 45 matches.
The tournament, to be played over five weeks, will have 14 matches less than the last edition played from Feb 29 to April 2.
Importantly, the number of teams have been reduced to seven from eight with the Chandigarh Comets and first edition champions Sher-e-Punjab uniting into one Punjab team.
Amidst growing criticism of the role of the military and security agencies in Balochistan, Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said his force will “fully back” any solution to the problems of the restive province that are within the country’s Constitution.
“The army will fully back any solution under the Constitution of Pakistan,” Kayani was quoted as saying in a rare public statement on the situation in Balochistan, which has been rocked by militant and sectarian violence for the past few years.
Police on Thursday cane-charged Congress workers and lobbed teargas shells when they tried to gherao Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s residence here.
Police used force to stop a large number of Congress workers, led by state unit president Kantilal Bhuria and leader of opposition Ajay Singh, when they were seen trying to break the barricades erected by police to prevent them from moving towards Chouhan’s residence.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said Thursday it was his desire to forge a relationship with the people of Kashmir, to understand their pain and suffering and help mitigate the problems of the region.
“I want to reiterate that my family also comes from Kashmir and I am also a Kashmiri. As Dr. Farooq Abdullah has said, his father and my grandfather joined hands for Kashmir. I am here to join hands with Omar Abdullah and the people of Kashmir,” Gandhi said, as he addressed a large gathering of people who had come to Sonamarg to listen to him, braving rain and hailstorm.
Drug firm Cipla today said an anti-malarial drug developed by Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has received pre-qualification from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The Mumbai-headquartered firm is manufacturing the fixed dose combination drug of Artesunate and Mefloquine (ASMQ FDC) under a technology transfer agreement with Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi).
This Cipla-manufactured ASMQ FDC is the first artesunate-mefloquine FDC to be prequalified by WHO and is recommended for the treatment of malaria, Cipla said in a statement.
People from different walks of life paid tributes to Mr. Zahed Ali Khan editor Siasat for his remarkable community services and effective representation for the welfare and prosperity of Muslims. A delegation led by Osman bin Mohammed Alhajari met Mr. Zahed Ali Khan and garlanded him.
Mr. Zahed Ali Khan told that TDP supremo Mr. N Chandrababu Naidu has shown generosity by making addition to the recommendations made by the Telugu Desam Minority committee which is a sign that Naidu is a Muslim sympathizer and wishes Muslim upliftment.
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Two persons were held after a huge cache of explosives was seized from their van near Rajampeta mandal of Kadapa district on Thursday, police said here.
About 2,000 gelatin sticks, 1,250 kg ammonium nitrate packed in 25 bags and 3,000 metre of fuse wire were seized from a van going from Kondapur to Chittoor during a routine checking exercise, Rajampeta rural police inspector Venkateswarlu said.
There were two persons in the van at the time of seizure who have been taken into custody, he said.
Further investigation was on, he added.
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As part of the ongoing probe into the multi-crore illegal granite quarrying scam in Madurai, police on Thursday raided the film production company of Union Minister MK Alagiri’s son, Durai Dayanidhi, an accused in the case.
The police team from Madurai searched the premises of Dayanidhi’s cinema company here for nearly an hour, sources said without elaborating.
Dayanidhi, for whom a special police team was on the lookout, and nine others are facing charges that companies owned by them mined sand and granite without permission.
Popular Front of India, Hyderabad unit organized a 1-day programme on interest free loan scholarship and personality development. President state front Mufti Abdul Subhan told this. Arif Ahmed committee member front inaugurated the programme. He threw light on the status of Muslim community in India and revealed that the front provides financial aid to Muslim students.
Maulana Rasheed Rashadi president All India Imam Council delivered lecture on Islam and Education. Hasan Shaikh general secretary Front spoke on students’ role in the society.
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Actor R. Madhavan has through a hard-hitting video joined hands with animal rights organisation PETA to expose the meat, egg and dairy industry cruelty, and sought to stop killing of animals.
The actor has shot the video “Glass Walls” for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India for the World Animal Day Thursday and Vegetarian Awareness Month (October).
“I’m Madhavan, and I’m a vegetarian. When you see what goes on inside a slaughterhouse, I think you’ll lose your appetite for animal flesh, too,” Madhavan says in the video.
The US today cracked down on several online fraud schemes, mainly operating from India, that duped consumers into paying to clean their computers of bogus virus infections.
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a US District Court Judge ordered a halt to six alleged tech support scams pending further hearings, and has frozen their assets.