The smugglers of ganja are eyeing on Nalla Malla Forests these days. Krishna River passes through five districts. On the banks of this river, ganja is cultivated in Mahboobnagar and Kurnool districts. Ganja is being transported to various areas through small wooden boxes.
The civilization of India is exemplary and Urdu is associated with it. The community should realize the importance of the language.
Language and Literature could be promoted by the poets and writers of a language because they possess sensitive temperament . There is less development of Urdu in Anantapur but there has been an awareness among the people here and they are planning for the development of Urdu in this district.
They are arranging literacy sessions. They have decided to set up a branch of Anjuman-e-Taraqui-e-Urdu.
Shivajinagar, Shaikpet has 100 percent non Muslim population. It is said that there is a Qutub Shahi masjid and graveyard in the area which are spread over 3 acres of land. However it is being tried to obliterate the mosque and hide it from the sight of Muslims, besides demolishing the graves. Sadly this has not been done by any land grabber or anti social elements or miscreants, but has been done by government’s water department, Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board.
Amid logjam in Parliament, Finance Minister P Chidambaram sought support of the Opposition in pushing through economic reforms, saying economy is not a football that can be kicked around by political parties.
“Economic welfare of the country is bipartisan and must be kept above politics…economics is too important and economic future welfare of this country is too important to become a football to be kicked around by political parties”, he said, while releasing a book on the history of HDFC Bank by financial journalist Tamal Bandyopadhyay here.
Authorities Sunday decided to continue for the second consecutive day the curfew imposed in this Haryana town after violent clashes between followers of the controversial Dera Sacha Sauda sect and the Sikh community.
Although no violence has been reported in the past 12 hours, tension continues to brew between the two sides, police officials said.
The bodies of five people, including two women, were found Saturday inside a vehicle in Guatemala.
A Volunteer Firefighters’ spokesperson told reporters that the five bodies were bound hand and foot, showed signs of torture and that “they were possibly suffocated inside the vehicle” that was parked in a poor neighbourhood in the city of Escuintla, 45 km south of Guatemala City.
The victims have not yet been identified and, according to a National Civil Police report, small amounts of cocaine, credit cards and cash were found inside the vehicle.
Government has asked the Indian Mission in Berne to get in touch with banking authorities of Switzerland for obtaining details of businessman Hasan Ali Khan’s Swiss bank accounts in connection with the probe into one of the biggest tax evasion scams in the country.
At least 13 members of a marriage party were killed and 40 others injured, when the bus, in which they were travelling, skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge at Dudu in Udhampur district this evening, police said.
The mishap occurred when a bus carrying members of a marriage party was returning from Basantgarh to Marothi belt skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge at Dudu, they said.
According to police, 13 persons were killed and 40 others injured in the mishap. The injured passengers have been shifted to hospitals in Udhampur and Chenani belts.
England were 298/4 at lunch on the third day of the second cricket Test against India at the Wankhede Stadium here Sunday.
Skipper Alistair Cook (122) and Kevin Pietersen (138 batting) scored centuries for the visitors, who currently trail India by 29 runs.
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Having been part of the film industry since 1995 and rendering memorable movies like ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, ‘Yuva’, ‘Black’ and ‘No One Killed Jessica’, actress Rani Mukherjee says she treats herself as a learner in front of senior actors Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan.
Rani, 34, has done two films with Aamir – ‘Ghulam’ and ‘Mangal Pandey’ – so far and will next be seen with him in ‘Talaash’, while she has done ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’,’Chalte Chalte’, ‘Veer Zaara’, ‘Paheli’ and ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’ with Shah Rukh.
Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar Sunday as part of the precautionary security measures for Muharram.
The restrictions were imposed in the Lal Chowk and Abi Guzar areas and from Hawal Chowk to Aali Masjid in the city, a senior police official here said.
Eyewitnesses, however, said that police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were not allowing pedestrians and vehicular movement in the Jehangir Chowk area and some other areas in the old part of the city, where no restriction orders were imposed.
Faced with a deadlock in Parliament over FDI in retail, Government has convened an all-party meeting here tomorrow as the Left and the Right have remained adamant on discussion under a rule that entails voting.
Convened by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath, the meeting comes at a time when the first two days of the winter session last week saw Parliament being paralysed on the issue.
The stalemate has continued since the start of the session on November 22 with the government showing no signs of yielding to the opposition demand.
Indian Railways has been asked by a consumer forum here to pay compensation of Rs 60,000 to a woman whose purse was stolen in 2009 during her journey from Secunderabad to Delhi on Andhra Pradesh Rajdhani Express.
The New Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum referred to a 2004 order of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) to hold the Railways responsible for compensating the woman for the loss.
Over 100 people were killed overnight after a fire engulfed a multi-story garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, officials said today.
The fire broke out in the ground-floor warehouse of the multi-storey Tazreen Fashion factory, 30 km north of Dhaka, last evening, trapping hundreds of workers on the upper floors.
“The toll exceeded 100, I fear toll could rise as bodies are still being retrieved,” an army official told reporters.
At least fifty-two buildings, including houses and granaries, were gutted in an overnight blaze in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said here Sunday. No loss of life was reported.
“Fifty-two structures including residential houses, granaries and cowsheds, were gutted in a fire in Frisal village,” a senior police official told IANS.
The village is located near Pahalgam in Anantnag district.
As many as 17 fire tenders were rushed to the village to douse the fire. The authorities are trying to ascertain the cause of the blaze.
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Life imprisonment given to a man for murdering his wife in 2003 has been upheld by the Supreme Court on the basis of circumstantial evidences.
A bench of justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi upheld the man’s life term saying that although there was no eye witness in the case, the circumstantial evidence and the fact that the husband had fled from the house and remained untraced for 15 days, leaves no doubt that he had committed the crime.
There was no utilisation certificate provided for expenditure of over Rs 400 crore by various government civic agencies between 2008-11 under Member of Legislative Assembly Local Area Development (MLA LAD) scheme here, according to an RTI reply.
The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi had framed a plan scheme ‘strengthening and augmentation of infrastructure facilities in each Assembly Constituency’ commonly known as MLA LAD scheme.
Mumbai terror attack conspirator David Headley, who had surveyed most of the 26/11 targets, had also conducted a recce of Bal Thackeray’s heavily-guarded residence ‘Matoshree’ in suburban Bandra in 2008, and found that Shiv Sena chief was a “sitting duck”.
In his soon-to-be-released book, ‘Headley and I’, about filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt’s son Rahul’s unusual friendship with Headley during the latter’s stay in Mumbai, author-journalist Hussain Zaidi has revealed how the LeT operative scanned Thackeray’s residence with the help of Shiv Sena activist Vilas, a gym instructor.
The Bombay High Court has acquitted a man and his parents who had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the lower court for murdering his wife for dowry.
The Aurangabad bench of the High Court acquitted Kiran Patil and his parents Dinkar and Ushabai Patil last week, rejecting the prosecution’s case that they murdered Kiran’s wife Dipali by setting her afire after she failed to bring dowry.
A national level general knowledge test is being organized by Knowledge Olympiad Society. General knowledge test is being conducted at Iqra Mission High School, Nawab Saheb Kunta, for the students of 1st to 10th class. Hundreds of students will participate in the test, under the supervision of Mr. Sajid Ali Principal. Each student has been given a general knowledge book for preparation.
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Dr. Javeria Ahmedi PhD scholar under the supervision of Dr. Vasiya Naveed Principal and Dr. Mohammed Maqsood Ali MD will provide free treatment for fatty liver at Nizamia Govt. Hospital Charminar.
Patients having symptoms of fatty liver such as, obesity, fatigue, general weakness, lack of appetite can approach along with the previous reports from 9 am to 12 noon on Monday and Tuesday at room no 3.
Medicines will be given free of cost.
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Taking its opposition to FDI in multi-brand retail a step forward, the Trinamool Congress today said the government’s decision on the issue went against the basic tenets of the Constitution and was “illegal”.
Russian military inspectors will begin a survey flight this week above the US under the international Open Skies Treaty, according to Russian defence ministry.
Russian experts will conduct the survey flight over the US territory in a Tupolev Tu-154 M/LK-1 aircraft between during the period from Nov 25 and Dec 3, a spokesman said.
The flight will start from the Travis Air Force Base, California. Its maximum range will be 4,250 km.
Slamming Egyptian President’s move to assume sweeping powers as an “unprecedented attack” on the judiciary, the country’s judges on Saturday called for a nationwide strike to protest against Mohammed Mursi’s decree.
Meanwhile, tensions flared up in the country where courts went on strike and tear gas was fired to disperse protesters.
The presidential decree issued on Thursday brought pro-democracy protesters back to Cairo’s Tahrir Square as unrest spread to all corners of Egypt over Mursi’s attempts to assume what many see as absolute and pharaoh-like powers.
Senior IPS officer S Asif Ibrahim is tipped to be the new Intelligence Bureau chief, the first Muslim to head the organisation, official sources said on Saturday night.
Asif, a 1977 batch IPS, made it to the top slot because of his wide range of experience in covering various departments of the organisation which mainly deal with intelligence pertaining to internal security, they said.
He succeeds Nehchal Sandhu who retires on December 31.