The Bharatiya Janata Party predicted that if the Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Narender Modi is projected as the prime ministerial candidate in the general elections 2014, then the voting percentage of BJP in the Seema-andhra regions would increase at least up to 10. Stating this, the party senior leader Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, announced that BJP is ready to face even the interim elections.
The South Central Railway on Sunday informed that several steps have been taken to minimise inconvenience to passengers in view of disruption to train services between Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam due to heavy floods.
The Telugu Desam Party on Sunday condemned Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and other ministers for visiting New Delhi to attend Congress party’s programme at a time when thousands of people in the State were affected due to heavy rains and flooding under the impact of cyclone “Neelam”.
PCC Spokesperson and PM’s 20-Point Programme chairman Dr N Tulasi Reddy on Sunday accused the opposition parties of poticising the death of senior TDP leader K Yerran Naidu in a road accident.
The State Government on Sunday confirmed the death of 22 people due to cyclone “Neelam” related incidents.
Addressing a press conference at the State Secretariat, Disaster Management Commissioner P Radha said that the maximum seven deaths have been reported from East Godavari district. He said nearly 67,819 people of 21,655 families have been shifted to 86 relief camps set up in the affected districts. He said safe drinking water, food and medical assistance was being supplied in the relief camps and other affected areas.
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.
Buffeted by charges of corruption against its government, the Congress put up a massive show of strength at a rally here Sunday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi hitting back at detractors and asserting that the recent slew of economic reforms will benefit the country and create more jobs.
In a shocking disclosure, Priyamvada Patel Hazarika, the widow of music legend Bhupen Hazarika, told a local news channel on Friday that her marriage with Bhupen Hazarika was on the rocks because of his relationship with the nightingale of India –Lata Mangeshkar! This disclosure is surely going to stir up a hornet’s nest as it involves one of the biggest names in the Indian music industry.
A handful of miscreants are continuously trying to disrupt the Ganges-Yamuna culture of the Hyderabad for their wicked motives. After trying various plans the miscreants are now targeting the historical Charminar. For this the controversial religious structure at the corner of Charminar is used as a target.
President Lok Satta Party Dr. J Prakash Narayan will address the global conference on November 4, at Goa. He will speak on corruption menace in India. Dr. J Prakash Narayan will point out the nature of corruption in India, during the event being organised by Tehelka magazine.
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Although the government claims to remove irregularities from the minority institutions and to effectively implement government schemes but the same is countered by its recent move by which it has saddled Mr. M A Hameed with two key posts instead of appointing two different persons permanently on the major posts.
It seems that the communal elements have adopted anti-Urdu attitude and they are trying to wipe out Urdu with a well orchestrated plan. The anti-Urdu elements who have unfortunately crept into the government departments are discriminately wiping out the historical tablets.
Torrential rains continued to batter coastal Andhra Pradesh Sunday, claiming 17 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 17 people, said T. Radha, commissioner, disaster management.
Incessant rains in eight districts of Andhea Pradesh have damaged 480 houses completely and 766 houses partially. Standing crops in over 250,000 hectares were also damaged.
Accusing the opposition of spreading misinformation regarding policy initiatives taken by UPA, a combative Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said reform measures, including FDI in retail, will benefit the common man and create more jobs.
Addressing a Congress rally at the Ramlila Maidan here, he said Congress party and the government were committed to create a prosperous India but the people have to travel a long distance to achieve that goal.
“If we want to bring some changes in our policies for the benefit of the country, we will definitely do so,” he said.
Thousands of Congress party workers were still pouring in at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital where the party held a huge rally Sunday to support the government’s economic reforms and policies.
“Around 2,000 buses ferried party supporters at the gathering,” a party worker told IANS.
Party supporters converged at Ramlila Maidan for the rally from Haryana, Rajasthan and other nearby states.
Fearing congestion, traffic police specified routes to avoid till afternoon. This included National Highway-8, Dhaula Kuan Ring Road, Ashram Chowk and Sarai Kale Khan.
Actor Anupam Kher is on cloud nine after making it to the list of five best actors in Asia by an international magazine.
“Happy to share. Hollywood Reporter in its latest issue has listed me among the five best actors in Asia. I am the only Indian. Jai Ho!,” the 57-year-old tweeted Saturday night.
“Other four actors are – Li BingBing (China), Lee Byung-Hun (South Korea), Iko Uwais (Thailand) and Aaron Kwok (Hong Kong),” he wrote.
Banning the screening of a Bengali film ‘Teen Kanya’ evoked high-voltage controversy in the state. The film that portrays the controversial Park Street rape incident was banned at the state-run theatre in north Kolkata, 24 hours after its release, on the ground that it hurts the image of the state administrative machinery. The film directed by Agnidev Chattopadhyaya was released on Friday after Censor Board’s certification.
However state home secretary Basudeb Banerjee said the government played no role in banning the screening.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan describes cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar as one of the most entertaining people ever and says he is the pride of India.
“Just had the great honour of felicitating dear friend and sporting icon, Sunil Gasvakar… A great son of India… Privileged,” the 70-year-old actor tweeted.
“Sunil Gavaskar as gracious and as entertaining as ever. He is a great mimic among many other special attributes he possesses, and had the entire audience in splits,” he added.
The felicitation was held Saturday.
Arvind Kejriwal’s trust Public Cause Research Foundation has got huge funds from corporate bigwigs like Narayana Murthy who tops the list with a personal contribution of Rs. 12 lakh. The others include Vallabh Bhansali, co-founder and Chairman of Enam Financial Consultants Pvt. Ltd, who contributed Rs 2 lakh. A cheque of Rs 25 lakh came from Tata Social Welfare Trust, Vikram Lal, managing director and the chief executive officer of Eicher Motors, contributed Rs 3 lakh while Nimesh Kampani, founder and chairman of JM Financial Group, provided Rs 50000.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi Sunday challenged the corruption charges levelled against the UPA government, saying the truth and untruth in these needs to be understood well.
“The opposition is levelling several allegations of corruption against the government. What is the truth and untruth in these allegations needs to be understood well,” Gandhi said at the party rally here in support of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare will Wednesday address a national conclave here on the ways to tackle infiltration from Bangladesh, an activist said here Sunday.
While Hazare has confirmed his participation, former army chief Gen (retd) V.K. Singh has also expressed his desire to take part in the two-day event, Assam’s Right to Information activist and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) general secretary Akhil Gogoi said.
Eight minor girls who were to be sent to Mumbai as part of a trafficking ring were rescued from Sonitpur district this morning and a woman arrested for her alleged involvement in the incident.
All the girls, belonging to the Adivasi community in Barowa near Tezpur, were rescued from a house here after a tip off, police said.
Shakuntala Telenga was nabbed for allegedly trafficking the girls, they said.
—PTI
In a spectacular valley swept by centuries of Silk Road history, the hopes and fears of Afghanistan’s only female governor capture the mood across the country as Western troops prepare to withdraw.
Habiba Sarabi’s hope springs from the transformation of Bamiyan province from a place of massacres and oppression of women under Taliban Islamists to one where most people live in peace and young girls flock to school.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Sunday promised to get the Lokpal Bill passed in parliament in the coming months, even as he attacked the opposition for preventing the anti-corruption legislation’s passage earlier.
“We will get the (Lokpal) bill passed in parliament soon. Wait and watch,” Rahul Gandhi assured his party workers who had gathered in large numbers at the Ramlila Ground in the capital for the Congress party’s massive rally in support of the UPA government’s economic reforms and policies.
Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal Sunday tweeted that an old villager had donated Rs.15,000 to his campaign, after a leading daily targeted his campaign against politicians and big business houses for being “bankrolled by corporate bigwigs”.