Month: October 2012

In Rajapalem Village in Kothapatnam Mandal of Prakasham District, 15 Muslim families were dislodged from their village two days back by the people of the majority community.

Two days back there was a rift between the Hindus and the Muslims. It is reported that the Hindus started pooja on the land belonging to the Muslims. It is adjacent to the Mosque.

The villages locked the houses of the Muslims and forced them to shift to other places.

Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, TDP Chief discussed with Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Polit Bureau member of TDP and Editor Siasat, the ways and means to communicate Mulim Declaration to the Muslims.

Mr. Naidu presented proposal for popularizing these documents among the Muslims.

It is reported that during the course of discussion, the nomination of office bearers of Minority Cell of TDP was also discussed. In addition to this issue, various other issues were also discussed.

Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu is proceeding to the districts today in connection with his padayatra.

-Siasat News

Staunch supporter of integrated AP, Mr. K.S. Rao told that he has no objection if the Central Government takes a decision to form smaller states like Telangana. Mr. T.G. Venkatesh told that ‘the fast unto death’ of Prof. Kodandaram cannot form Telangana state but a series of suicides would start once again.

Congress has advocated for having patience on Telangana issue and said that all the issues related to it are of sensitive in nature.

It is, therefore, necessary to negotiate with all the parties.

Mr. Manish Tiwari, Congress Spokesman told that he understands the sentiments of the people of Telangana. Since all these problems are related to sensitive nature, their solution can’t be easier. It requires patience. Government is engaged in negotiations with all the stake holders. The people of Telangana should also exhibit patience and they should talk peacefully.

Secretary of AICC and MLC Mr. P. Sudhakara Reddy reached New Delhi and met Ms. Sonia Gandhi and Mr. Rahul Gandhi. He presented a memorandum on the successful Telangana March and the excesses of police. He demanded for early formation of Telangana State. Congress MP’s had met at the residence of Dr. K. Keshava Rao, former MP the day before yesterday and had decided to send Mr. P. Sudhakara Reddy to New Delhi to report about the success of Telangana March.

Flu season being around the corner, getting a vaccine might help prevent people from falling sick. But there is a rider. The vaccines only work if their developers have accurately predicted which virus strains are likely to be active.
Recently, a team of scientists from Germany and Britain improved methods used to determine which strains of the flu virus to include in the current season`s vaccine.

APCC Spokesman, Mr. N. Tulasi Reddy applauded the patience of Police officials that despite attacks by the agitators on policemen, it exhibited extraordinary patience and saved the situation from becoming worst.

German scientists are testing a vaccine which if successful could bring relief to thousands of kidney cancer patients.

The vaccine was conducted on 19 patients with renal cell carcinoma so advanced that other therapies were no longer effective.

“Seven of these patients are still alive and have had their disease stabilized for up to 65 weeks,” Ingo Schmidt-Wolf, of the Centre for Integrated Oncology in Bonn, said.

`Cafeteria diet,` rich in fat, sugar and sodium, is often a short-cut to stroke or death at a younger age, said a Canadian study and warned that people in their 30s or 40s may even suffer from dementia due to this junk food diet.

Researchers found that such a diet induced most symptoms of metabolic syndrome – a combination of high levels of cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure and obesity – in rats after only two months.

Annihilated by India in their second Super Eight match, an inconsistent Pakistan are faced with a do-or-die situation and need nothing less than a big win when they take on a rampaging Australia in the World Twenty20 here on Tuesday.

Pakistan will have to pick up the pieces from their all-round failure against the arch-rivals and come up with an inspired performance against the unbeaten Australian side, which has been almost assured a semifinal berth with a commanding eight-wicket victory over South Africa in their last game on Sunday.

Their campaign is back on track after the morale-boosting win over Pakistan but India can hardly afford to relax as they take on an erratic but still quite intimidating South Africa in their final Super Eight match on Tuesday for a place in the semifinals of the ICC World Twenty20 here.

The fight for the second semi-final slot from group-2 is indeed intriguingly poised as both India and Pakistan have a fair chance of making the cut although Australia seems favourite at the moment.

Anurag Kashyap is wearing the producer’s hat for Rani Mukherjee’s upcoming film ‘Aiyyaa’ but he hopes to direct the actress in future.

“Aiyyaa” has been directed by Sachin Kundalkar. The film, which releases on October 12, will see Rani returning to the big-screen after a year.

“‘Aiyyaa’ is a very quirky film. I always wanted to direct Rani but not in this movie as it’s Sachin’s film, I cannot take that away from him.

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It will not be mandatory for flat-owners and housing society residents to get NOC from builders while selling or transferring their property, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has said.

“There is no need for flat owners to seek NOC from builders before sale or re-sale of flats. There is no such provision in the Maharashtra Ownership of Flats Act (MOFA),” he said.

Chavan has said such illegal activities of pressurising flat-owners to seek NOC must be stopped.

A former Pakistani lawmaker on Monday offered a USD 200,000 bounty for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film during a protest against the movie in Peshawar, days after a federal minister announced a reward of USD 100,000 for eliminating the person behind the video.

Ikramullah Shahid, a leader of a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, made the offer before a crowd of 15,000 people during a during a rally led by the Defa-e-Pakistan Council.

Shahid is a member of the grouping that includes hardline religious and extremist groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Sipah-e-Sahaba.

Panetta calls new Afghan defence, interior ministers Washington: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has called his newly appointed Afghan counterpart and the interior minister and assured full support as they take over the security of the country from the American troops.

Panetta called the Afghan Minister of Defence Bismillah Khan Mohammadi and the Minister of Interior Ghulam Mujtaba Patang to congratulate them on their recent appointments, the Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said.

The White House has confirmed its computer system was targeted in a cyber attack, but the effort was thwarted and no classified networks were compromised.

Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Monday that it was a “spearphishing attack against an unclassified network”.

He said these types of attacks are not infrequent and the White House has mitigation measures in place, reported Xinhua.

Carney made the remarks to reporters in Henderson, Nevada, where President Barack Obama is preparing for the first presidential debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Wednesday.

There was no difference between the UPA government at the Centre and the BJP-led coalition in the state as both failed to deliver people-friendly policies, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric-JVM) chief Babulal Marandi alleged today.

“Besides, corruption has been rampant both at the state and central level with public funds being looted through various scams,” Marandi said a day after announcing withdrawal of support to the Manmohan Singh government in protest against the reforms launched by the Centre.

People were fed up of corruption and were coming together to change the politics of the country, activist Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday.

Donning a Gandhi cap with “Mein hoon aam admi, mujhe chahiye Janlokpal” (I am common man, I want Jan Lokpal) printed on it, Kejriwal said: “It is a big day for the common people. They are fed up of corrupt politicians and rising prices and are coming together to change the politics of the country.”

Kejriwal, who split up with Anna Hazare recently, reiterated that there was no rift between them.

Strongly reacting to External Affairs Minister S M Krishna’s reference to Kashmir at the UN, Pakistan has claimed that Jammu and Kashmir had never been an integral part of India and said President Asif Ali Zardari’s statement on the issue was “not unwarranted”.

Pakistan’s mission to the UN said it was exercising its ‘Right of Reply’ regarding the remarks made by the Indian minister that an “unwarranted” reference to Jammu and Kashmir was made at the United Nations.

The Pakistani Taliban has offered protection to Imran Khan who is scheduled to hold a peace march in the violence-prone tribal areas Sunday, it was reported here.

Imran Khan, a former cricketer, now heads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. His rallies have witnessed a massive participation.

The Pakistani Taliban’s senior commanders said a meeting headed by the group’s leader Hakimullah Mehsud set aside earlier instructions to send suicide bombers to assassinate Khan, reported Daily Telegraph.

Defending champions England were knocked out of the World Twenty20 Championship Monday as Sri Lanka marched into the semi-finals with three consecutive wins in the Super Eight stage.

Sri Lanka confirmed their semi-final berth with the a 19-run win along with the West Indies, who had earlier in the day defeated New Zealand via a Super Over.

Pacer Lasith Malinga was the catalyst in Sri Lanka’s victory as he took five for 31, restricting England to 150 for nine. England, who required a win to qualify for the semis, failed to chase down the hosts’ score of 169 for six.

President Pranab Mukherjee begins his two-day visit to Bihar Wednesday with the launch of the state’s road map for agriculture, officials said Tuesday. Tight security arrangements have been made for his visits to Patna and Darbhanga.

Bihar Chief Secretary A.K. Sinha said that preparations for the president’s visit have been completed. Mukherjee will formally launch the state’s agriculture road map here, prepared by the state government to boost food, fisheries and animal husbandry industries.

Girl dies during treatment
(Siasat News): A 16-year-old girl from Pargi died in suspicious circumstances during the treatment in Osmania General Hospital.

According to Pargi police, B Saritha, a first year intermediate student of Government Junior College, Pargi, was complaining of severe stomach pain for three months.

She was admitted at the Pargi General Hospital. However, doctors had advised parents to shift her to Osmania. Further investigations are on.

2 die in cylinder blast