Month: October 2012

A Pakistani institute that works for promotion of peace with India has welcomed the decision to rename a city centre in Lahore after Bhagat Singh, and said it plans to install a statue of the martyr there.

“This is a victory for people of all religions, and activists who had been rallying for this cause since long,” the Institute for Peace and Secular Studies (IPSS) was quoted as saying by the Daily Times.

The IPSS plans to place a statue of Bhagat Singh with a plaque displaying his poetry and biography at the newly named Bhagat Singh Chowk, it said.

Stating that the United Progressive Alliance was trying to sell the country, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said Monday that she might bring a no-confidence motion against the government in the next parliament session.

Addressing a rally against economic reforms at Jantar Mantar here, the Trinamool Congress chief said she might bring a no-confidence motion against the government during the next parliament session.

It is almost fitting, given how much the green-on-blue attacks have sent the Pentagon scrambling, that this weekend’s bloody milestone for the 11-year-long occupation should also come with an insider attack.

An Afghan soldier opened fire on a group of US and Afghan forces today, killing the 2,000th US soldier to die in Afghanistan since the war began. He also killed a civilian contractor and three Afghan soldiers.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Gadkari Monday filed a defamation case against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for dragging his name into alleged irregularities in coal block allocation.

Gadkari appeared in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Sudhesh Kumar to file the case.

According to the complaint, Digvijay Singh named him in the allocation of coal blocks to a company belonging to BJP’s Rajya Sabha member Ajay Sancheti. Sancheti has been alleged to be Gadkari’s close associate.

Former Minister and Congress MLA, Mr. K.Venkata Reddy had declared yesterday that all the protesters of Telangana March would sit at Necklace Road till Telangana State is declared. If police wants to open fire, let them shoot us.

He pointed out that the Govt. permitted for holding Telangana March after licking the boots of the Andhra Chief Minister right from the morning two days back.

Congress M.P. of Rajya Sabha, Mr. Anand Bhaskar told that the arrest of his fellow M.P’s by the police yesterday on the occasion of Telanganan March was shameful on the part of the Govt. He strongly protested the action taken by the police to arrest the M.P’s. He blamed Mr. N.Kiran Kumar Reddy for making an attempt to sabotage Telangana Movement. Govt. granted permission for the March but the police didn’t care for Govt. order. The M.P’s who wanted to apprise the C.M. of the police atrocities were arrested which is shameful.

Protesting against the illegal arrests of Congress M.P’s and other agitators, Dy. C.M. Damodhar Raja Narimha and Pancharayath Raj Minister threatened to resign from their posts if C.M. Mr. N.Kiran Kumar Reddy fails to stop the police from preventing the people coming to attend the Telangana March.

They said that Govt. has already given permission for Telangana March.

Police arrested G.Sukhender Reddy, Poonam Prabhakar, Dr. K.Keshava Rao, G.Vivek when they were proceeding towards Necklace Road in a rally procession. They were again arrested after their release.

Before participating in Telangana March, the police arrested the leaders of Telangana TDP forum and they were shifted forcibly to other places. Mr. Dayakar Rao indulged in heated discussions with the police at Gun Park. The police shifted them to other places forcibly. He questioned the justification for their arrest. Mr. Dayakara Rao, MLA Chairman Telangana Forum of TDP, Mr. M.Narasimhulu, Mr. T.Krishna Reddy, former Mayor, Mr. M.L. Srinivas and other leaders were present on this occasion.

A large rally was organized under the stewardship of BJP State President Mr. G.Kishan Reddy from Indira Park to Necklace Road yesterday.

Bandaru Dattatreya, Ch.Vidyasagara Rao, Dr. K.Lakshman, N. Indira Sena Reddy, N. Lakshminarayana, M. Srinivasa Reddy and others attended the March.

Home Minister, Ms. Sabitha Indira Reddy and Panchayathraj Minister Mr. K.Jana Reddy declared yesterday’s Telangana March successful. They said that once again the people of Telangana have succeeded in communicating their sentiments to Central Govt. They said that their next target would to form Telangana State.

They appealed to the people who were agitating at the necklace road to end the protest and to cooperate with the police.

Senior Congress leader, Dr. K.Keshava Rao blamed the police for using rubber bullets and tear gas shells on the peaceful Telangana agitators despite the fact that permission was given for the March. He told that Congress M.P’s of Telangana are reviewing the situation. He has also spoken to Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad. He said that they won’t hesitate to take a stern step.

He thanked the people and Prof. Kodandaram for the success of Telangana March.

CPI (M) condemned the attitude of the police in arresting the Congress M.P’s. The State Secretary of CPI (M) Dr. K.Narayana deplored this incident strongly and said that it is most unfortunate that arresting Congress M.P’s in the Congress ruled state is a humiliation to the Govt. C.M. has no moral right to continue in his post. He told that Central Govt. is indecisive about Telangana issue for the past 8 years. In fact, Congress Govt. had promised for the formation of Telangana State at the time of 2004 elections itself. Mr.

Staunch supporter of integrated A.P. State, Mr. L.Rajagopal M.P. told that Hyderabad is not the jagir of anybody. He appealed the people to boycott the leaders of the Telangana who turned the Telangana March violent and also to take action against them under Preventive Detention Act.

Irritated by their arrests, Congress M.P’s targeted the State Govt. that it is a part of a conspiracy to sabotage Telangana March by erecting barricades on the roads and also by stopping the district protesters from attending the March.

Mr. Mohammed Ishaq Kamal Quadri will diliver a lecture at 5 p.m. today at Aliya Masjid, Gunfoundry.

The mosque committee under the shariyath information service arranges this lecture. The topic of the lecture is Revolutionary worship. All those who are interested, many attend this informative lecture.

—Siasat News

Mr. Aziz Pasha, former M.P. alleged that police is responsible for the eruption of violence because it committed a mistake of irritating the protesters to vacate the place before the permitted hour and also to end the meeting. As a result of it, the peaceful agitators had to reap it consequences. He told that the police arrested thousands of CPI activists who had come from the districts to participate in the March. It also arrested the Communist workers from the city. In this way, police tried to sabotage the protest March. He also objected to the fencing erected on the Necklace Road. Mr.

A sea of heads of the Telangana supporters was seen at the Necklace Road yesterday on the occasion of Telangana March.

People started coming right from the morning to the Necklace Road

Police stopped many leaders from approaching the spot. They include Mr. P. Mr. Vishnu Verdhan Reddy and other M.P’s & MLA’s.

Telangana TDP Forum paid homage to Konda Lakshman Bapuji at Gun park and recorded their protest.

Telangana Supporters coming from the districts were sent back by the police.

A music teacher in a British college has been banned for life from teaching and jailed for 14 months after he had secret sex sessions at his institute with a 16-year-old girl.

David Livesey, 27, from Prenton, Merseyside, sparked the affair with a suggestive comment on a photo of the girl in a prom dress on a social networking site, the Daily Express reported.

The Liverpool crown court heard that the man had an 11-month relationship with the girl, now aged 18, and sex sessions at St. John Plessington College, Wirral.

Days after his split with Anna Hazare, activist Arvind Kejriwal will formally join politics Tuesday with the announcement of launch of a political party.

The move will coincide with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Kejriwal will also announce members of his new party, an aide said Monday.

“The formal launch of the party will be tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. The announcement will be made at a function at the Constitution Club in New Delhi,” Aswathi Muralidharan, India Against Corruption media coordinator, told IANS.

A senior Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer of the Uttar Pradesh government was Monday arrested for molesting a woman on board the Lucknow Mail, police said.

The arrest was made by the Railway Police after the woman, who was on board the Lucknow Mail train, lodged a formal complaint on arrival in Lucknow, according to police.

Inspector General of Police (Railways) Ashutosh Pandey confirmed to IANS that senior IAS officer Shashi Bhushan was arrested on charges of molestation.

NCP leader Ajit Pawar, who resigned as Maharashtra deputy chief minister after allegations of irregularities in irrigation projects, on Monday launched a veiled attack on chief minister Prithviraj Chavan over “tardy pace” of clearing files.

“Some people keep files pending. For what reasons, I don’t know. May be they want to study those files. I don’t want to comment on that,” Pawar said, without naming Chavan.

He was speaking to reporters at Satara, Chavan’s home district in western Maharashtra.

Date palm leaves can help remove chemicals like pharmaceuticals and dyes from hospital waste water before it is discharged into the municipal sewers, says a scientist from a university in Oman.

Al Said Al Shafey, principal investigator of a project at the chemistry department of Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, has started a research with an objective to establish a physico-chemical unit for the treatment of hospital waste water, the Gulf News daily reported.

Twelve days after his split with Anna Hazare, activist Arvind Kejriwal will formally enter politics on Tuesday with the announcement of a political party.

Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia said the announcement will be made at a function in the Constitution Club here on Tuesday morning.

The vision of the party, Constitution and selection of members and candidates will be stated at the function, coinciding with Gandhi Jayanthi.

Going deaf? Blame a genetic mutation, linked with Usher syndrome type 1, says the latest finding, which could help develop more effective ways of treating this syndrome.

Usher syndrome is a genetic defect that causes deafness, night-blindness and a loss of peripheral vision through the progressive degeneration of the retina.

Five separatist militants, all from Pakistan, were killed in a gunfight with security forces in north Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Monday, police said.

“Five militants have been killed in this encounter. All of them belonged to the Hizbul Mujahideen group,” a senior police officer said.

The officer said all the slain guerrillas were foreigners belonging to Pakistan.

A huge cache of arms and ammunition has been recovered from the encounter site.