CHANDRABABU BLASTS CM, CONG LEADERS—ATTENDING WEDDING
NEGLECTING PEOPLES’ PROBLEMS
The Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu lambasted the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and the Congress party leaders for ignoring the peoples’problems and making merry by attending marriages and meetings aimed at show of strength.
Twin-Cities Auto Rickshaw Owners’ Welfare Association has demanded the state government to set up more Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) filling stations in the city.
Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday criticised the State Government for legislating the SC, ST Sub-Plan.
Addressing the State BJP SC Morcha Convention at party’s State headquarters at Nampally, Venkaiah Naidu said that the the SC, ST Sub-Plan was only approved by the State Cabinet and therefore, it lacks legal status. He said if the government was genuinely serious, then it should have brought legislation for the Sub-Plan.
Srikakulam, Nov 4 (INN): The State Police on Sunday began probe into the factors that led to the death of former Union Minister and TDP senior leader K Yerran Naidu in a tragic road mishap.
Yerran Naidu met with the accident when the car he, along with four others, was traveling in hit an oil tanker from behind near Ranasthalam in the wee hours of Friday.
The TDP leader suffered grievous bleeding injuries and died after being shifted to a hospital. However, there are allegations that the ambulance came very late after the accident and it did not even had an oxygen cylinder.
The South Central Railway on Sunday cancelled,partially cancelled, diverted or rescheduled 20 trains in view of over-flowing of water over Railway Bridge between Tuni and Gullipadu section on Vijayawada Division due to
heavy rains.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will visit Qatar for two days from Tuesday for dialogue on bilateral and regional issues, officials said Sunday. The issue of raging Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan is also likely to be discussed during the visit.
The president will hold talks with Qatar’s Emir and the prime minister with particular focus on promoting trade and investment ties in a bid to boost bilateral ties, an official was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
During his visit Zardari will also meet eminent Qatari businessmen and invite them to invest more in Pakistan.
She has been dubbed as “The First Lady the World’s Been Waiting For” by Vogue, but the White House insists the First Lady sees herself first and foremost as daughters’ Malia and Sasha’s mom.
Reared in a blue-collar home on Chicago’s South Side, she was an associate at a law firm when she was assigned to mentor a summer intern named Barak Hussein Obama, whom she would marry in 1992 to become his family anchor as he rose from a community worker to President.
At least 10 people drowned and 70 others were rescued after their boat sank between the Libyan coast and the Italian Island of Lampedusa, local media reported Sunday.
After recovering bodies of three women overnight, Italy’s coast guards recovered the bodies of seven others would-be migrants in the Mediterranean, about 35 miles from the Libyan coast, according to Ansa news agency, reported Xinhua.
The survivors, including a pregnant woman, had spent hours clinging to the hull of a motorised raft. They were being taken to Lampedusa.
Irom Chanu Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike since 2000 demanding repeal of Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA), will be completing 12 years of fast tomorrow.
Sharmila, a civil rights activist, began her hunger strike after the death of ten people in an alleged encounter with the Assam Rifles at Malom in Imphal valley on November 2, 2000.
She has been demanding repeal of AFSPA which the human rights activists hold as a draconian law.
Currently she is in judicial custody where she is forcibly fed through her nose.
A teenaged girl from Karnal district in Haryana has alleged that she was raped by 12 men, police said Sunday. An accused known to her was arrested.
The 16-year-old victim, who belongs to Tarwari area, was rescued by railway police personnel from the Karnal railway station, where she had been dumped by one of her tormentors.
She underwent a medical examination, police said.
The girl told police that she was taken by a man, who was her friend and had promised to marry her. She alleged that later, 11 other men came and raped her Friday and Saturday.
Torrential rains continued to batter coastal Andhra Pradesh Sunday, claiming 22 lives, inundating hundreds of villages, paralysing road and rail traffic and damaging crops.
The rains triggered by northeast monsoon and Cyclone Nilam, which crossed the coast near Chennai Wednesday, have so far killed 22 people, said T. Radha, commissioner, disaster management.
Allah says in His Quran He did not create all of this for any foolish purpose.
Allah Says:
* “And I did not Create the jinn and humans except they should worship Me.” [Noble Quran 51:56]
He created us for the purpose of worshiping Him, Alone and without any partners.
Abu Hurairah (RadiyAllahu anhu) reported: Messenger of Allah (Sallellahu alaihi wa sallam) said, “Do you know who is the bankrupt?” They said: “The bankrupt among us is one who has neither money with him nor any property”.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s office Sunday went on Twitter to highlight the achievements of his government, just after his speech at the Congress rally where he said the UPA government’s economic policies had benefitted the people.
At the rally at Ramlila Maidan, the prime minister said the United Progressive Alliance government in the past eight years has set a “record for economic development, and achieved many goals in rail, road, power generation…But this is not enough, we will continue to work to ensure the benefits of development reach all equally.”
More than 50 protestors under the banner of the Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (INCABI) Sunday demanded boycott of a musical production by the Israeli ensemble Cameri Theatre here because the theatre group allegedly serves as a propaganda tool for the state of Israel.
The theatre group’s production of the musical “Stempenyu” was being held at the Siri Fort Auditorium as part of the sixth edition of the Delhi International Art Festival.
Couples about to marry shouldn’t ignore doubts about a life together, or they might regret it later, warns a researcher.
“If you are having doubts about the relationship, just ignoring them may make a difference years down the road,” says Matthew Johnson, who co-authored the study while at Kansas State University, US.
He is now assistant professor of human ecology at the University of Alberta.
The skipper of a US Navy frigate has been fired after a probe established his subordinates were involved in drunken behaviour in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, the homeport of the Pacific Fleet, the US Navy reported.
“Commander, Destroyer Squadron 15 relieved the commanding officer of the San Diego-based frigate USS Vandegrift (FFG 48) Nov 2,” the US Navy said in a statement on its website.
An explosive device Sunday ripped through a garage in front of Dama Rose Hotel, where a UN political office is housed, in the Syrian capital of Damascus, witnesses said.
The blast was so powerful that it shattered windows of the heavily-fortified hotel, a witness told Xinhua, adding that some people in the vicinity were injured.
Children with a thin placenta at birth have double the chances of dying from a sudden heart failure, warns a leading British physician.
A thin placenta can hit the quality of a baby’s foetal development by reducing the flow of nutrients between mother and child, and this can affect the way the heart develops.
David Barker, physician and professor of clinical epidemiologist at the University of Southampton, said it was crucial the characteristics of the placenta were recorded.
The Congress is gearing up for a younger look with general secretary Rahul Gandhi set to assume a more prominent role in the party, insiders say.
With his elevation as vice president or working president likely next week, Rahul Gandhi, 42, is expected to give responsible positions to many young leaders in the All India Congress Committee in tune with the changing demographics of the country and to make the 127-year-old party more in sync with the times.
Himachal Pradesh Sunday registered a record high polling of around 75 percent in elections for 68 assembly constituencies, Election Commission officials said.
The state’s Chief Electoral Officer, Narinder Chauhan, told IANS in Shimla: “The voter turnout was approximately 75 percent.”
In New Delhi, Deputy Election Commissioner Alok Shukla told reporters that the final figure for turnout was likely to go up as voting in about 200 booths continued even after 5 p.m.
“It is quite possible (that a) record is set. It is already higher (than the figure of 2007 polls),” Shukla said.
The army has stepped up vigil along the Line of Control (LoC) to thwart infiltration attempts from across the border before the ensuing winter, an army officer said here Sunday.
Speaking on the sidelines of a sports event here Sunday, Lieutenant General Om Prakash, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 15th corps, said: “The enemy has been trying to increase infiltration bids from across the borders in autumn months before the mountain passes get blocked due to heavy snowfall each winter.”
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will comment on the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections only after the latter takes a decision on the issue, a senior RSS leader said Sunday.
Queried by reporters on the Sangh’s stand on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi being the prime ministerial candidate for the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), RSS general secretary Suresh Joshi said: “We are not contesting elections. Political parties have their own way and process of decision-making. If they decide their candidate then we can discuss.”
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has offered Lok Sabha ticket to Olympic bronze medallist and ace shuttler Saina Nehwal from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Addressing convocation ceremony of a private university in Aligarh, on Saturday, in which Saina alongwith five other Olympic medal winners were felicitated by the university with honorary doctorate degrees, Mulayam spoke at length on status of higher education in UP and challenges before SP government in the state. In between, he devoted few minutes on praising the London Olympic medalists, particularly Saina.
Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab is suffering from fever and undergoing treatment in the high security Arthur Road jail here, police said on Sunday.
“Kasab is being treated for fever for the past few days. Suspecting that the prisoner could be suffering from dengue, three tests were conducted on him by a team of doctors of JJ hospital but the results were negative,” said a police official on condition of anonymity.
“Doctors do not want to take any chance. Kasab is under observation and responding well to the treatment,” the official said.