Month: November 2012

The Congress Friday said it had done its duty in supporting The Associated Journals Limited, publisher of National Herald and other newspapers, in the form of an interest-free loan from which no commercial profit accrued to the party.

“The Indian National Congress (INC) has done its duty in supporting The Associated Journals Limited to help initiate a process to bring the newspaper back to health in compliance with the laws of the land,” Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said in a statement issued here.

Away from the mining dust-lined bowels of the Goan hinterland, the fight against mining will now be fought in the stately interiors of the Supreme Court of India. This is a battle that promises to be gritty.

Nearly a month after imposing a month-long ban on mining in Goa, the Supreme Court Friday began to hear arguments that will go towards deciding the fate of mining in Goa, which has been beset with controversy for the last few years.

A bust of Noor Inayat Khan, the Second World War secret agent of Indian origin, will be unveiled here next week by Britain’s Princess Anne.

Noor was the first woman radio operator to be infiltrated into occupied France and did crucial work for the allies. She was eventually captured and killed in Dachau Concentration Camp.

Mohd Ghayaz, Mohd Basith Ali and Ahmed Bin Ali of Nawabsaab Kunta in Old city of Hyderabad have urged the State government to initiate action against three brothers Shaik Abdul Rahmath Quadri, Shaik Abdul Rafee Quadri and Shaik Abdul Riyaz Quadri, who deceived 52 Muslims and siphoned of Rs 1.2 crore from the Minority Welfare Department.

Union Home Minister Susheel Kumar Shinde has said that the Telangana issue will be solved at an appropriate time.

YSR Congress leader Sharmila has expressed her sadness over the sudden death of TDP senior leader K Yerrannaidu, stating that they know what uch a grief meant to a family to lose the head. Stating that she was still passing through that grief, Sharmila said she was praying God that his soul may rest in peace. (NSS)

Late NTR’s wife 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.

Speaking to the media here on Friday, Laxmi Parvathi demanded that Chandrababu Naidu explain what he had done to the people of the State during his nine-year rule. She said that the people won’t believe Chandrababu’s words now.

Army Recruitment Rally under the Unit Headquarters’ Quota will be held at 1 EME Centre, Secunderabad from November 5 to November 25 for enrolment of outstanding sportsmen (Open Category) into Soldier (Techncal), Soldier (Techncal) (Aviation) and Soldier (General Duties) category in addition to the standard Unit Headquarters recruitment. Eligible candidates are required to report at the Golden Jubilee Stadium 1 Training Battalion, 1 EME Centre, Secunderabad at 6 am on November 5.

Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy will launch the 6th Phase of Land Distribution at a public meeting near the Ganesh Circle, Puttaparthy, Anantapur district on November 3, at 2.10 pm.

In an age where few marriages endure the test of time, a centurion Indian couple have lived in wedded bliss for 87 years making them the world’s longest married couple. 107-year-old Karam and his wife Katari Chand, 100, who have eight children and 28 grandchildren together, say that the key to success is looking after each other in every way possible. “My trick is to make Katari laugh. I like to tell jokes and make her smile. Being funny is my way of being romantic,” says Karam.

India today made it very clear that its decision to resume cricketing ties with Pakistan was not a “dilution” of its demand for action against perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack and said Islamabad must deliver on its “frequently indicated promise” in this regard. Articulating India’s expectation from Pakistan in the 26/11 case, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, “We do hope this (resumption of cricketing ties) will be seen more of an attempt to persuade those people that this is collaborative effort and what was a conflict must be put to an end.

In a tragic incident, a 30-year-old woman today committed suicide by jumping into a well, along with her two children at Dhageboregaon in Jalna tehsil. Police sources said that dead bodies of Pushpa alias Usha Sunil Tarashe and her children Sheetal (9) and Yogesh (5) were found floating in a well. With the help of villagers, the police fished out their bodies and sent them for postmortem. Police suspect domestic reasons behind the suicide. The deceased’s husband Sunil, who is farmer, is being interrogated, the police said. PTI

A sessions court today granted bail to 14 accused, arrested for their alleged role in the Azad Maidan violence in south Mumbai on August 11. The bail order came a week after the Bombay High Court granted bail to four other accused. Five of the 63 accused had been earlier discharged after police found that there was no case against them. Two youths were killed and 52, including 44 policemen, injured on August 11, when a rally called to protest the alleged atrocities on the minority community in Assam and Myanmar turned violent.

For the first time in the campaign for the December assembly elections, Gujarat Congress leaders today targeted Chief Minister Narendra Modi over his personal life, asking him to clarify his marital status. At a rally here this evening, Congress leaders also slammed Modi for his comment on the wife of Union minister Shashi Tharoor. “Why does Modi not fill up the column on marital status in his election forms?

Prashant Pandurang Patil, the husband of the estranged female police constable who allegedly killed and left her body naked, committed suicide in Nashik district on Friday. Nanalpeth police said that constable Chitra Madhukar Patil (27) was killed and her body was left in the police quarter in Parbhani. Her sister Ranjana Ravindra Warale informed the police about the incident. Police said that her husband was working in a Nashik-based company. He was missing after the incident and was later found hanging from a tree, in a field in Nashik, the police said. PTI

A 11th Standard girl was found dead, reportedly after consuming poison, in the toilet of a private school at nearby Tirupur, today, police said. Other students noticed the body of the 15-year-old girl, and informed the management who in turn called in police. The body has been sent for post-mortem and further investigation was on, police said. PTI

Former India coach John Wright today disapproved the ICC intiative to host day/night Test matches, saying the purists like to play under the sunlight. Promoting the Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) as its Brand Ambassador here, Wright who coached team India from 2000 to 2005, said the day-night Tests were meant to benefit television. “As a cricketer, I am a traditionalist and like to play under sunlight. The idea might attract lot of crowd but then I do not like it,” Wright said.

Taking exception to former Army Chief General V K Singh’s recent demand for immediate dissolution of Parliament, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav today said it was an affront to elected members of the Parliament. “By making such a demand, the General (Singh) has insulted MPs who were elected representatives of the people of India,” Prasad told reporters here at the 55th birthday celebrations of Haryana’s Power, Forest and Environment Minister Ajay Singh Yadav.

7th International Congress of Medical-Cosmetic Acupuncture and 312 Meridian Exercise will be held at the hotel Ajanta Ambassador International from Saturday. The two-day conference organised by the Indian Academy of Acupuncture Sciences would be inaugurated at the hands of senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde tomorrow morning. Addressing a press conference here, chairman of the Conference Doctor P B Lohiya said that the academy had organised several camps on acupuncture in the nation and abroad in the last 30 years.

After 32 missions and more than 125 million miles in space at speeds around 17,500 miles per hour, NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis covered its final journey Friday.

This time, however, it was travelling over land at speeds as slow as 2 mph (3.2 kmph) to its final resting place at the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex in Florida state.

“I think that the shuttle was a great book, it really was, and this little part is like the epilogue,” said Chris Ferguson, commander of the last Atlantis mission, which blasted off July 8, 2011, the final flight in NASA’s shuttle program.

India plans to produce about 20,000 mega watt of nuclear power keeping safety features in mind, former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday said as he certified the Kudankulam atomic plant as safe. “India has plan to produce 20,000 mega watt of nuclear power. It is important because it is clean energy. We have lot of thorium reserves. Of course we are now using uranium based nuclear reactors. Another decades time we will be thorium based.

A total of seven people in China’s Hebei province have been awarded jail terms up to 15 years for manufacturing and selling “gutter oil”, a recycled oil made from kitchen waste.

Four managers of a cooking oil firm in Xingtai city and three other employees were convicted for selling about 238 tonnes of dirty chicken salad oil for over 2 million yuan ( about $328,000) in 2011, Xinhua quoted the Nanhe County people’s court as saying in its verdict Friday.

The unsafe edible oil was made from substandard chicken oil and animal oil used in animal feedstuff, the court said.

Hyderabad, Nov 2 (INN): The Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL) on Friday informed that the last date for submission of required documents by the eligible candidates who have applied for the posts of Scientific Assistants and Laboratory Technicians has been extended till November 10.

Army Recruitment Rally under the Unit Headquarters’ Quota will be held at 1 EME Centre at Secunderabad from November 5th to 25th. The Rally will be held for enrolment of outstanding sportsmen (Open Category) into
Soldier (Technical), Soldier (Technical) (Aviation) and Soldier (General Duties) category in addition to the standard Unit Headquarters recruitment. Eligible candidates have been asked to report at the Golden Jubilee Stadium-1 Training Battalion, 1 EME Centre,Secunderabad at 6.00 am on November 5.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will organise the Job Mela of Central Zone on November 19th and 20th at Banjara Function Palace at Banjara Hills.
GHMC Mayor Mohammed Majid Hussain on Friday held a meeting with the senior officials to review the arrangements for Job Mela. He said that the first job mela conducted in the month of June this year got tremendous response and most of the people have secured the jobs. The GHMC is striving hard to give more opportunities to the unemployed youth to get the jobs from the top most corporate sectors, he said.