Month: November 2012

(Siasat News) Vice Chairman and Managing Director of A.P.S.R.T.C. issued orders releasing enhanced D.A. arrears to RTC employees from 01-07-2012 at the rate of 5.7% of their basic pay.

President of APSRTC Mazdoor Union, Mr. M. Nageshwara Rao and General Secretary, Mr. Syed Mahmood told that their union had represented to the authorities for granting the enhanced D.A. arrears to its employees. They thanked the authorities. It is expected that it would benefit 1,10,000, RTC employees which would cost and additional expenditure of Rs. 7.5 crore monthly.

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(Siasat News) Very soon applications for A.P. Govt’s Post matric scholarships will be received online. The Managing Director of A.P. Minorities Finance Corporation has requested all the students belonging to Muslims, Christians, Budhist, Jain, Parsis and Sikhs to register their applications online at website www.apsmfc.com

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(Siasat News) Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad declared that all the allegations leveled in connection with communal riots are false and said that Hyderabad City police is functioning in a completely impartial way for maintenance of peace in the city. He told this in a press conference yesterday. He said that police can’t please everyone, so it takes a decision with is helpful for maintaining Law and Order under control. He gave the details of the ongoing communal tension in the city for the past 15 days. He claimed that any innocent person has not been arrested.

I am Charminar. I am the landmark of the Hyderabad city which is famous for its masajid, minarets, arches, gardens, devdis, palaces, monuments architectural masterpieces and its ganges-yamuna culture. My admirers see me as the pride of the city and a global icon of Hyderabad.

In a shocking case of corporal punishment, a 10-year-old girl suffered brain damage after she was trashed by her teacher for not doing her homework, her family claimed.

As per reports, the girl was beaten up and her head banged to a wall by her teacher in Karnataka’s Hassan district.

“Of all the children in the school, they gave extra homework to my child and threw her down. Her memory has been affected…we had to take her to NIMHANS…This is our only child…I want to save her,” said a teary-eyed Devaraj, the girl’s father.

The Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy will arrive at Gannavaram Airport, Vijayawada from Hyderabad by regular flight at 8 am on 6-11-2012 and have breakfast and will review with officers on the latest situation and relief measures being taken up at the flood-affected areas at the VIP lounge. He will reach Dhammapeta, Khammam District by helicopter and visit flood hit areas, interact with farmers and review with officials from 9.30 am to 10.30 am.

Several Congress MLAs from the Telangana region have met the AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad and requested him not to replace the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy.

It is learnt that some 25 MLAs led by Kichennagari Lakshma Reddy have been camping in the capital and going round meeting party leaders, holding brief for Kiran Kumar Reddy.

Congress Monday had a dig at Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray over his call to “staunch Hindus and patriotic public” to not to allow Indo-Pak cricket matches in India.

“Why the Shiv Sena is all the time only interrupting and disrupting? They should do some good also. Many among us think that we should not bring politics in art and sports,” Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary told reporters here.

Anna Hazare is likely to announce a coordination panel by Saturday to take his apolitical anti-corruption movement forward.

Hazare, who arrived here this afternoon, said he will hold a series of discussions with his associates in the next two days and visit a couple of places which have been shortlisted to house the movement’s office in Delhi.

The anti-graft crusader said he has decided to set up a coordination panel consisting of around a dozen associates.

An Indian man was killed and another injured as five explosions rocked parts of Bahrain’s capital Manama Monday, also claiming the life of another Asian, as the country grappled with growing political and ethnic unrest.

The blasts, including one near the Indian embassy, were described by Bahrain’s Prime Minister as a “heinous” crime while the country’s top police official said they were “acts of terror”.

India’s ambassador to Bahrain Mohan Kumar confirmed to PTI that one of the victims was an Indian who died when he accidentally stepped on an explosive device.

President Pranab Mukherjee will embark on a two-day visit to Chhattisgarh on Tuesday during which he will inaugurate a new integrated terminal building of Swami Vivekananda Airport at Raipur besides attending other functions.

“The President will inaugurate the new Mantralaya Complex of Government of Chhattisgarh at Raipur and participate in the closing ceremony of the Rajyotsav Celebrations on November 6,” a Rashtrapati Bhavan release said yesterday.

Congress leader Srikant Jena Monday demanded the resignation of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for “collusion” in the mining scam in the state.

Talking to mediapersons here, Jena, a Congress leader from Odisha, said that imposition of Rs.58,000 crore penalty by the state government on mining operators showed that the scam had been taking place for the last 10 years.

Jena, who is union minister of state (independent charge), statistics and programme implementation, claimed that the loss to exchequer due to scam was “to the tune of Rs.4 lakh crore”.

The Interior Ministry’s contention that Pakistan could learn from India’s handling of insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Monday forced the Foreign Office to issue a statement that said Islamabad’s position on the Kashmir issue had not changed.

Responding to media reports regarding a statement submitted by the Interior Secretary in the Supreme Court, Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Khan said, “There is no change in the official stance of the government of Pakistan about Jammu and Kashmir.”

After a delay of over eight months, Saudi Arabia and India Monday agreed to discuss issues relating to the over two million Indian labourers working in the Gulf nation and also to sign agreements in this regard at a later date.

This is viewed by India as a major breakthrough in securing the interests of its migrant labourers, who go to Saudi Arabia for employment, and also to put in place a system to match the skills of eligible workers and the needs of the Saudi employers.

Singer Miley Cyrus has been offered $1 million to star in a soft porn film.

The 19-year-old was offered the amount to star in a soft porn remake of her “Decisions” music video.

Cyrus, who is engaged to Liam Hemsworth, has been approached by Sex.com about a softcore remake of her music video alongside X-rated actress Jessie Andrews, 20, who stars in the promotional clip, reports contactmusic.com.

Israel’s hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered security forces to prepare for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2010, but his military chief and top spy refused to follow orders, calling the move “illegal” and akin to “stealing a war”.

At 33, Bipasha Basu is fit as a fiddle. She believes fitness is the best investment as good health leads to happiness.

“It’s very important to love yourself because that’s where your life begins. You have one life, one body that you need to respect and look after. There is no other place where you live but just your body,” Bipasha said here Sunday at the Fittest City contest.

Telangana senior Congress leader Dr K Keshav Rao has said that the party high command was holding talks with TRS Chief K Chandrasekhara Rao for finding a solution to the Telangana State issue.

Accompanied by a 45-member delegation, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal Monday arrived in Pakistan’s Lahore city to explore more avenues of overland trade with Pakistan’s Punjab province and help change the geopolitics of the subcontinent.

The delegation included five cabinet ministers, legislators, officers, industrialists and exporters and agriculture experts

Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan has said the farmers were losing heavily due to lack of awareness about farm practices on time.

Inaugurating a seminar on ‘Food-360’ organized by FICCI here on Monday, the Governor said that seminars of this kind should be organized at field level in order to create awareness on technology among the farmers. He expressed concern over the increasing need of food grains due to lack of storage facilities. “The problem will continue to prevail if the government failed to solve this issue once and for all”, he lamented.

TDP senior leader Revanth Reddy has said that Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was acting like the brand ambassador of Walmart.

TDP senior leader E Peddi Reddy has strongly criticized the government for
its inaction on the cyclone and said the Prime Minister, Chief Minister, Governor, ministers
and central ministers were all struggling for their own positions ignoring the people stuck in
worst floods, like the Emperor Nero who fiddled while Rome was burning.

Talking to the media here on Monday, he said though 27 persons lost their lives, crops were
lost in 10 lakh acres and loss was caused to the extent of 10,000 crore rupees, they were

Brahmana Joint Action Committee president Pannala Kishore Sharma on Monday declared that they would go on fast-unto-death if the “Denikaina Ready” film producer, director and hero failed to tender an unconditional apology to the Brahmin community and the film industry give categorical assurance on not making such controversial films in the future.

TDP chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu has said that Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy was only spending all his time to save his chair and was not showing any interest on people’s problems.

Activist-artist group SAHMAT Monday came out in support of theatre personality Girish Karnad, who had called Nobel laureate writer V.S. Naipaul “anti-Muslim”.

SAHMAT (Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust), in a statement released here, said: “We stand by Girish Karnad, actor and playwright, and extend our solidarity in condemning the Lifetime Achievement Award to V.S. Naipaul by the organisers of the festival.”

Karnad created a controversy at the Mumbai Literature Festival slamming Naipaul, who was given a lifetime achievement award at the event. The four-day LitFest opened Oct 31.