Month: November 2012

India has said the U.N. Security Council in its present structure is “completely out of tune” with global realities and serves “no one’s purpose”, asserting that an expansion in the 15-member body should have permanent representation from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

India, which assumed this month’s Presidency of the Security Council ahead of the expiry of its two-year term as a non-permanent member on December 31, 2012 said the U.N. body has remained “polarised and politically divided” on key issues like Syria and this strengthens the need for its reform.

Hundreds of people paid their last respects to Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and former union minister K. Yerran Naidu, who was cremated in his native Srikakulam district Saturday.

The last rites of Naidu, who died in a road accident Friday, were performed with state honors at his Nimmada village in Srikakulam district of north coastal Andhra, about 700 km from here.

Yerran Naidu’s son K. Rammohan lit the funeral pyre, while the police presented a gun-salute.

Let Terrorist and 26/11 Mumbai attack key handler Abu Jundal was today ordered to be produced before it by a Delhi court on November 26 as he could not appear before it after expiry of his judicial custody period.

District Judge (DJ) I S Mehta issued a production warrant against Jundal for his appearance in the court after jail authorities told it that he was in the custody of Gujarat ATS, court sources said.

Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu today alleged that the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre was planning to conduct early general elections to escape from its failures, saying no amount of “make-up” (reshuffle) can prevent its “pack-up” in 2014.

“There were indications that the UPA government might go for vote-on-account, announce populist schemes and then dissolve the Parliament in March next year as it has miserably failed on all fronts and is steeped in several scams,” the former BJP President said in a press conference here.

Answer the following questions and post your answers in comments section with your email ID.

1) Which Surah begins with “Say O disbelievers?”.

A) Al-Nasr

B) Al-‘Asr

C) Al-Kafirun

D) Al-Ma’un

2) One of the contributions of Abu Bakr (r.a.) was ..…

A) Collections of coins

B) Building lots of mosques

C) Collection and collation of Al-Quran

D) Bringing the whole of Egypt under Islamic rule

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Gujarat governor Kailashpati Mishra died here Saturday, party leaders said. He was 86.

Mishra, one of the founder members of the BJP, was suffering from asthma for a few months. He breathed his last at his house.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar offered his condolence and visited his residence to pay his respect. Mishra will be cremated Sunday, his family said.

—IANS

Indian doctor Rajan Daniel’s throat was slit inside a hospital in Abu Dhabi by a Pakistani man who blamed him for his relative’s death, a media report said Saturday.

The Pakistani was armed with a big knife when he stormed the private hospital Thursday. He grabbed the Indian urologist and fatally stabbed him after the death of his relative, reported web site Emirates 24/7.

Daniel, who hails from Kerala, had been working in the hospital since 2007. He is survived by his wife Geeta George, who lived with him in the United Arab Emirates, and daughter Junu.

Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia Saturday met President Pranab Mukherjee and discussed the two neighbours’ long and lasting relationship.

Zia, who is the leader of opposition and chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, met Mukherjee Saturday morning, according to a statement issued here.

The president enquired about her visit to the Sufi shrine at Ajmer Sharif, it added.

“He (president) said India admires Begum Zia’s contribution to the development of Bangladesh both as the prime minister and leader of opposition,” the statement said.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today surrendered two ‘extra’ gas connections in his name, a day after a media report highlighted the issue.

“As promised two of the three LPG connections surrendered this morning,” Omar wrote on social networking site Twitter today.

Reacting to the reports of having three active gas connections under his name, all of them in Srinagar, Omar had yesterday promised to surrender two of the three this morning.

Indore-based woman industrialist Akansha Rathi died due to strangulation but it is to be probed whether it was suicide or murder, one of the doctors who did the post-mortem said Saturday.

“Whether she had strangled herself or it was by someone else is a matter of investigation,” Komal Singh, head of the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital doctors panel which conducted the post mortem, told IANS.

Asked whether any drugs had been found in Akansha’s viscera, he said: “It is yet to be examined.”

Two Maoists, who tried to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her residence today to surrender, were detained by the police.

The two Maoists were taken to the Kalighat police station.

The two ultras wanted to meet the Chief Minister with an offer of surrender as they were unable to get the rehabilitation package meant for Maoists.

—PTI

Long after it has crossed the coast, cyclone Nilam continues to make its impact felt as torrential rainfall under its influence threatens to inundate outlying areas of two cities – Vijayawada and Eluru – in Andhra Pradesh.

Vijayawada received 17 cm of rain since Friday evening, constituting nearly 20 per cent of its annual rainfall. This has forced the authorities to suspend train and bus services.

Recognising the need to address complex challenges in the health sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said allocation for it has been enhanced by about three times in the 12th Plan Period with enhanced thrust on nutrition and sanitation.

He also noted that free generic drugs will be made available through all public hospitals in the country to help in “reducing out of pocket expenditure of the poor” on health.

President NTR Telugu Desam and wife of late NT Rama Rao, Laxmi Parvathi, has said there was no comparison between TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu’s padayatra and YSRCP Chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s sister Sharmila’s padayatra.

She reached Anantapur to meet Sharmila who is busy in her walkathon. Later speaking to the media she claimed that Sharmila’s padyatra is getting massive response. Children, youth and elders alike are voluntarily coming out of their houses and acknowledging her with their problems. She asked how can the people sitting in AC room know the problems of poor?

The 571st session of History of Islam lecture will be held on November 3, at Conference Hall, Jama Masjid, Gunfoundry, after Asr prayers.

Mr. Iqbal Ahmed Engineer will deliver the lecture on the topic of ‘Belief of rebirth’.

Siasat news

Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has told that dialogue on Telangana is on, but not decision has been taken yet. He informed that he was unaware of the letter sent by TDP president regarding convening of an all party meeting.

Besides TRS, Telangana Political Joint Action Committee and other pro Telangana organizations have intensified Telangana movement. Observing betrayal day, black flags were hoisted in Telangana districts on the occasion of Andhra Pradesh Formation day.

Youth attacked at Engine Bowli

(Siasat News): Situation turned tense after a youth was attacked at Engine Bowli near Falaknuma.

After the attack rumour mongers did overtime in spreading the news that the attack was of communal nature.

However, the Falaknuma police immediately came into action and shifted the slightly injured youth to his residence after providing first-aid. It is said that the youth Harish Kumar, 25, was attacked by some unidentified miscreants.

Mr. Abdul Hameed Executive Officer State Hajj Committee took additional charge as chief executive officer Waqf Board. He took the charge from Mr. M A Ghaffar after Friday prayers.

Government issued Ghaffar’s termination order on Thursday and gave additional charge to Abdul Hameed in his place. Thus Abdul Hameed will, at the same time, serve in State Hajj Committee and Waqf Board.

As the election campaign in Gujarat heats up, the state Congress, which has been out of power since 1995 when it lost to the BJP, is confident of ousting the three-term Narendra Modi government in the December polls.

“The people of Gujarat are fed up with the Modi government. Modi claims Gujarat is vibrant and he has well-oiled machinery to propagate his lies. But the people of Gujarat have realised and exposed his fake claims. The Gujarat voter will give a befitting reply in December. Modi will be defeated,” said a confident Leader of Opposition Shaktisinh Gohil of the Gujarat Congress.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said the 12th Five Year Plan will enhance spending on health up to three times and that more medical and nursing colleges were needed to overcome a shortage of trained human resources in the sector.

Speaking at the foundation stone laying of the Lady Hardinge Medical College project here, the prime minister also said that health indicators reflected a country’s overall well-being.

In recognition of the cultural and literary achievements, the Siasat daily has decided to give away Lifetime Achievement Awards on the occasion of release function of ‘Aks-e-Hyderabad’.

Even as the tension prevails in the city, police allowing special puja at the illegal temple at the foot of historical Charminar and gathering of hundreds of miscreants at the place, indicate that police is backing the efforts to disrupt peaceful atmosphere of the city. These views were expressed by MBT corporator Amjadullah Khan Khalid after reviewing the situation at Charminar, Kotla Alijah, Khilwat Shah Ali Banda and surrounding areas.

Bodies of all five sailors, who went missing after an oil tanker ran aground off the city beach hours before cyclone Nilam made landfall on November 1, have been recovered. While four bodies were recovered on Friday, one more was found washed ashore near Minjur coastal area early this morning, police said.
The five went missing after their lifeboat capsized in choppy waters while 16 were rescued by local fishermen and one drowned on Wednesday. Fifteen sailors were rescued on Thursday from the ship, which had a crew of 37 on board.

Two days after announcing the annual New York Marathon would take place Sunday as scheduled, Mayor Michael Bloomberg reversed course and cancelled the event.

“While holding the race would not require diverting resources from the recovery effort, it is clear that it has become the source of controversy and division,” he said late Friday in a statement.

The race typically features tens of thousands of runners and attracts some 2 million spectators.

(Siasat News): “Muslim students should pay attention towards getting scientific knowledge along with the modern technology. This is indeed a tragedy that Muslim families, right from the beginning infuse the thoughts into the minds of their wards that they have to pursue engineering or Medicine in their future course of education.”

These were the words of Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, editor Siasat while inaugurating Genius Scholars Academy situated at Masab Tank. Mr. Amer Ali Khan, news editor Siasat and Mr. Khaliq Imran, CEO, Scantech and others were also present.