Month: November 2012

At least one in five Australian adults experiences a mental health difficulty in any given year, said a government report released Tuesday.

An estimated 7.29 million Australians aged 16 to 85 have suffered mental illness, Xinhua quoted the study by the National Mental Health Commission as saying.

Commission chairperson Allan Fels called on the Australian federal and state governments to reaffirm their commitment in dealing with mental health issues.

A delegation of Minorities’ leaders belonging to Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Parsi communities on Tuesday called on Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy in the Camp Office at Begumpet and profusely thanked him for granting Rs 15 crores for carrying out repairs to the mosques, churches, gurudwaras and so on.

The ongoing demolition of illegal structures by the GHMC authorities in Siddiqui Nagar and Anjaiah Nagar in Gachibowli heightened tension in the area on Tuesday.

The irate victims in the two colonies went on the rampage obstructing the demolition squad and damaging earth moving machine (JCB) by raining stones.
On the other hand, local legislator Bhikshapathi Yadav resorted to road blockade in support of the residents and brought the vehicular traffic to a standstill. (NSS)

The BSE benchmark Sensex on Tuesday surged by 305 points the biggest gain in over two months on across-the-board buying after Moody’s said India’s rating outlook is stable.

Stock brokers said investors were also optimistic that the government will be able to push through economic reforms. The Sensex soared by 305.07 points, or 1.65 per cent, to 18,842.08, its biggest rally after September 21.

Reliance Industries shot up by 1.66 per cent to Rs 786.20 and software exporter Infosys by 2.17 per cent to Rs 2,469.15.

TRS leader and Sircilla MLA K Tarakarama Rao (KTR) on Tuesday challenged TDP president Nara Chandrababu Naidu to come for an open debate with his father and party supremo K Chandrasekhara Rao.

Bemoaning that no investor was coming forward to invest in the State due to rampant corruption in the Congress government, TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu here on Tuesday reiterated that his party alone could provide clean and flawless government in the State.

TDP senior leader Motkupalli Narasimhulu has alleged that the TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao was born only for drinking.
Talking to the media at the NTR Trust Bhavan here on Tuesday, he has described KCR as an egoist. He said apart from amassing wealth and his personal comforts KCR had no interest in achieving Telangana. He said if 800 students laid down their lives for Telangana, the sin was KCR’s. he also said that it was KCR who was responsible for watering down the Sakalajanula Samme that rocked the entire nation and would have surely led to achievement of Telangana.

Alleging that Raj Bhavan was converted into Gandhi Bhavan (State Congress headquarters), TDP senior leader Revanth Reddy has claimed that Governor ESL Narasimhan has not given an appointment when they went to Raj Bhavan to complain against the decision of the Kiran Kumar Reddy government on the Dharmana Prasada Rao’s issue.

The Congress Legislature Party on Tuesday cautioned the opposition parties from moving a No Confidence Motion during the special session of the Legislative Assembly to be held from November 30.

Elaborate security arrangements are being made for the special session of the State Legislative Assembly to be held from November 30.

The most important and major festival of the Sikh Community, Prakash Utsav, the birthday celebrations of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji will be celebrated at a grand scale in the city on Wednesday.

Five teenaged girls from the same family were gang raped by two landlords and their aides in Pakistan’s Punjab province after a relative of the girls asked a landlord to pay him his wages, according to media reports on Tuesday.

Landlords Mara Jat and Zaheer Jat and their aides tied up labourer Mohammad Boota and his wife and raped the girls, aged between 13 and 18 years, at Kitro in Sheikhupura district yesterday.

Members of Boota’s family told the media that the girls were abducted by the landlords and taken into the fields, where they were gang raped.

The London Olympic Games opening ceremony has won a special award in the annual London Evening Standard theatre awards.

The opening ceremony earned Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle and his team the Beyond Theatre Award, presented by British cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, at an awards evening held in the Savoy Hotel here Monday, reports Xinhua.

Three years into the probe, the CBI has not arrived at any loss figures in the 2G scam which its outgoing chief A.P. Singh considers as the “biggest scam” of his tenure.

After an eventful two-year tenure which saw some big corruption scams such as the 2G spectrum allocation scam, the Commonwealth Games scam, Tatra BEML scam, Adarsh Society scam and the coal block allocation scam among others as Mr. Singh will be demitting office on November 30, 2012.

LeT terrorist and 26/11 Mumbai attack key handler Abu Jundal was on Tuesday remanded to judicial custody till December 10 by a Delhi court in connection with a case lodged by the NIA against him for allegedly conspiring to launch terror strikes across the country.

Jundal was produced before District Judge I.S. Mehta, who had on Monday directed the Tihar Jail authorities to produce the accused before him, and the court sent him to jail under judicial custody for two weeks, the court sources said.

Terming his suspension from the BJP as “ultravires,” Ram Jethmalani on Tuesday mounted fresh attack on the party leadership accusing Nitin Gadkari of treading on the path of suicide and dragging the party with him.

In a strongly worded letter to Mr. Gadkari, Mr. Jethmalani also alluded to the alleged role played by Arun Jaitley in the CBI director appointment row.

Bangladesh police on Monday arrested two factory employees, including a woman, for allegedly setting on fire a readymade garments unit, a day after another inferno killed 112 workers of a nearby textile unit.

Two employees of Debonair factory in Ashulia area of suburban Savar identified as Sumi Begum and Zakir Hussain set ablaze the stockpiled cotton yesterday, but other employees doused the blaze before it could to other parts of the garment unit, a senior police official told PTI.

Crib deaths are back in West Bengal’s hospitals. Ten babies have died in the Malda Medical College and Hospital, taking the toll to 25 since Saturday.

While families of the dead claimed negligence led to the deaths, the hospital authorities asserted that ailing children were brought in critical condition from far away places.

“Since Monday night, 10 more babies have died. The total such deaths now stand at 25 since Saturday,” hospital official Uchhal Kumar Bhadra told IANS Tuesday.

He rubbished claims of negligence in the hospital.

Popular reality show “Bigg Boss” is now headed for the big screen — as a horror comedy!

Endemol India, producers of “Bigg Boss”, along with Select Media Holdings Pvt. Ltd’s film production arm, Moving Pictures, will jointly produce the horror comedy, based on the experiences of the people in the “Bigg Boss” house. The movie will go on the floors next year.

Three students of nursery class were killed and 14 others sustained injuries when their school bus collided with another bus at Navsari here this morning, police said.

The mishap occurred at around 8 AM today when the school bus carrying children, in the age group of 3 to 7, from adjoining Walgaon, Khartalegaon and Kund Sarjapur villages, collided with a MSRTC mini bus coming towards Amravati from Paratwada at Navsari bypass intersection.

(Siasat News) Special Investigation Team of Hyderabad City police has succeeded in tracing out the culprits responsible for setting ablaze motor vehicles in the city.

According to police reports, in Mitti Ka Shair area, two motor Vehicles were set ablaze on the night of 16th November. Police was successful in catching the miscreants with the help of the close circuit T.V. camera fitted in the house of a businessman in Ghansi Bazaar. Many such vehicles were burnt out in Ghansi Bazaar area earlier.

BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday accused the UP Government of mishandling the case of suspected dishonour killing of a youth in Bulandshahar district last week.

“You people have yourself said that the issue has been mishandled. What is your feeling is what I am feeling,” she told reporters outside Parliament.

The former UP Chief Minister was asked if the UP Government and administration had mishandled the case.

The wife of 29-year-old Abdul Hakim, who was shot dead on Thursday last, yesterday alleged that her family members were behind the death of her husband.

Regular and private students of intermediate 1st and 2nd year who could not pay the examination fee in time and are interest to join Arts group (without college study) can avail the opportunity of “Tatkal Scheme”. Under the scheme the candidates have to submit application form along with the fee at their respective colleges only. Tatkal fee is Rs 500 and fee for attendance exemption is Rs 500.

A vegetable trader was killed and two others were injured when some eve-teasers hurled a grenade at an industrial estate after some locals objected to their activities, police said on Tuesday.

The accused indulged in eve teasing the girls of the area when local youths objected to their activities last night.

Angry over opposition to their activities, the miscreants hurled the bomb last night, police said, adding Bauribandhu Choudhury (28), a vegetable trader, who was standing nearby was killed and two others sustained injuries.

Unfazed by the humiliating defeat in the second Test against England, the national selectors on Tuesday persisted with the same squad giving under-fire star players another chance to prove their worth in the third match starting December 5 in Kolkata.

The selectors refrained from making major changes to the team barring the inclusion of pacer Ashok Dinda for an injured Umesh Yadav. Dinda had been called as a cover for Ishant Sharma in the first Test and Yadav in the second Test though he did not get to play.