Month: November 2012

India will issue 3,000 visas to Pakistani fans and an additional 300 visas to VIPs of that country to witness the upcoming Indo-Pak limited over cricket series beginning December 25.

For the first time, India has also agreed to issue multiple city visa to the cricket lovers of the neighbouring country provided they show tickets for the matches, travelling tickets and hotel reservation slips.

The decisions have been conveyed to Pakistan, Home Ministry sources said.

Hyderabad police on Thursday said they had received no alert about any faction of Pakistani Taliban planning to carry out attacks in the city as well as in Amritsar to revenge 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s execution.

Some media reports had suggested so.

“I would like to clarify… We have not got any such report, either from local, state or any other intelligence agency. However, it does not mean we are not alert. We are alert to any such threat,” Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma said here.

The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has criticised the State Government for trying to legislate the SC-ST Sub-Plan without putting the draft into the public domain for suggestions and objections.

Yielding to public protests on the recent controversial arrest of some persons for their Facebook posts, Government today came out with guidelines where a police officer no less than the rank of DCP can sanction prosecution.

In metropolitan cities, such an approval would have to be given by officers at the level of Inspector General of Police(IGP).

Only officers of these ranks will be allowed to permit registration of a case for offences under the Information Technlogy(IT) Act relating to spreading hatred through electronic messages in a bid to prevent the misuse of the legislation.

A 15-year-old girl in Afghanistan was beheaded by a relative after she and her family turned down the man’s marriage proposal, a British daily reported.

The victim named Gisa was decapitated with a knife in Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province, police told the Daily Mail.

Police said two men, Sadeq and Massoud, were arrested after the murder. They are close relatives of the victim and live in the same village.

Police said the men wanted to marry the girl, but their advances were turned down by the victim’s father.

A 58-year-old woman of Indian origin, who was bitten by her son’s pet dog when she was visiting him in India in March, has died of rabies infection in Britain.

Sharanjit Ubhi went to Darent Valley Hospital, Kent, complaining of pain in her right arm, but she was turned away, the Daily Mail reported.

Ubhi had not mentioned being bitten by a dog and her observations appeared “normal”, but when she developed hydrophobia the family doctor recognised the symptoms and sent her for specialist treatment.

Sacked Uttarakahnd minority panel chief Sukhdev Singh Namdhari has been booked on charges of murder in liquor baron Ponty Chadha’s shootout case, the Delhi police today told a court, which extended the police custody of the politico by three more days.

Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav extended Namdhari’s police custody till December 2 saying the Crime Branch has to unearth the conspiracy behind the November 17 shootout, in which Ponty and his brother Hardeep had lost their lives.

The Delhi Police today sought expeditious court proceedings in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, involving Haryana minister Gopal Kanda, but failed to ensure the presence of its investigating officer in the court for the purpose.

In an application to Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate D K Jangala, police said the proceedings in the matter should be expedited as it has been over three months since the case was registered.

Yesteryears’ glamorous actress Zeenat Aman, who walked for designer Riyaz Gangji at the India Resort Fashion Week (IRFW) Thursday, says all the current breed of Bollywood actresses are multi-faceted, especially Priyanka Chopra for her “inspiring” singing talent.

“All the girls today in the industry are multi-faceted and multi-talented. They are doing everything with confidence. Each one has their own style statement. I like Vidya Balan in a Sabyasachi Mukherjee sari or Katrina Kaif in western garments.”

The last batch of Haj pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh will return to the City at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad on Friday at 8:25 AM.

Meanwhile, with the arrival of 25th batch of the Haj pilgrims on Thursday, so far a total of 7,650 Haj pilgrims have returned to Hyderabad after performing Haj 2012.

A delegation of Hyderabad Forum for Peace and Communal Harmony, led by Siasat Urdu Daily Editor Zahed Ali Khan on Thursday met Governor ESL Narasimhan seeking his intervention to ensure that heritage monuments including Charminar were not exploited by communal elements.

Anath Ashram Manager to Bania:
Sethji, aap hamare anath ashram ke liye kya kar sakte ho ?

Funny Bania: Mein anath ashram mein apne 4 bachhe bhej sakta hu.

The Oil Ministry will raise the cap on supply of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) to 9 cylinders per household in a year provided the Finance Ministry agrees to give an additional Rs 3,000 crore in 2012-13.

Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily today first met Finance Minister P Chidambaram and then held a two-hour long brainstorming with heads of the three PSU fuel retailers on the issue of raising the cap of 6 subsidised cylinders per household in a year.

Amidst the growing clamour for Sachin Tendulkar’s retirement, former India skipper Anil Kumble today hit out at critics questioning the veteran batsman’s place in the team, saying he should be left alone and given the “emotional space” and respect he deserves.

Tendulkar’s prolonged lean patch led many people to question his place in the Indian team but Kumble says it’s not the time to point fingers at him but support him.

India will issue 3,000 visas to Pakistani fans and an additional 300 visas to VIPs of that country to witness the upcoming Indo-Pak limited over cricket series beginning December 25.

For the first time, India has also agreed to issue multiple city visa to the cricket lovers of the neighbouring country provided they show tickets for the matches, travelling tickets and hotel reservation slips.

The decisions have been conveyed to Pakistan, Home Ministry sources said.

Ingredients
•Boneless chicken ,cut into small pieces 4
•Cream 1 cup
•Ginger paste 1 teaspoon
•Garlic paste 1 teaspoon
•Nutmeg powder a pinch
•Green cardamom powder 1 teaspoon
•Black pepper powder 1/4 teaspoon
•Juice of 1 lemon
•Salt to taste
•Processed cheese,grated 1 cup
•Cornflour/ corn starch 1 tablespoon
•Oil to cook
•Silver warq for garnish
Method

The logjam in Parliament over FDI in retail ended today with a discussion on the issue allowed with voting but key UPA supporter Samajwadi Party kept kept everyone guessing on its stand in Rajya Sabha where the government is in a tight position on numbers.

While SP leader in Rajya Sabha Ramgopal Yadav, whose party has 9 members in the House, said his party would vote against FDI in retail, party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav was not that fortright.

Ingredients
•For murgh tikka
•Boneless chicken,cut into 16 pieces 400 grams
•Ginger paste 11/2 teaspoon
•Garlic paste 3 teaspoon
•Kashmiri red chillies,paste 3 tablespoons
•Salt to taste
•Black salt (kala namak) 1/2 teaspoon
•Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon
•Yogurt 2 tablespoons
•Garam masala powder 1/2 teaspoon
•Carom seeds (ajwain) 1/4 teaspoon
•Lemon juice 3 1/2 teaspoons
•Gram flour (besan) 1/2 tablespoon
•Red chillies,crushed 1/2 teaspoon
•Oil 3 tablespoons
•For gravy
•Onions 4 medium
•Oil 5 tablespoons

The United States today came out in support of India and other neighbours of China on the issue of Beijing issuing passports having a map of disputed territories and that of parts of other nations.

The State Department officials are formally scheduled to convey to the Chinese its opposition to such a passport, which it believes is causing tension in the region. The US would continue to accept these passports as travel documents.

The number of foreign students coming to Britain, particularly from countries like India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, has fallen by around 19,000, says a new British government report.

However, the number of foreign students coming from Pakistan rose from 20,000 to 30,000, the Telegraph cited the report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as saying.

Drops across other countries, in particular from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, saw the overall number of foreign students fall from 232,000 to 213,000, the report said.

It will be mandatory for sleeper- class train passengers to carry identity proof from December 1, this year as Railways firmed up steps to prevent misuse of tickets by touts and facilitate hassle-free travel by bonafide people.

From Saturday (December 1), passengers failing to produce original identity proof in sleeper class, as and when asked for, will be treated as “without ticket” and charged accordingly, said a senior Railway Ministry official.

Maharashtra Police are likely to file a closure report in the case of arrest of two girls for questioning on Facebook the Mumbai shutdown following Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray’s death, the state police chief said here Thursday.

“No charge sheet will be filed in the case of arrest of two girls from Palghar. There will be a closure report,” Director General of Police Sanjeev Dayal told reporters.

Jewish rabbis, Christians and Muslims shall speak at a two-day meet on Palestine opening here Saturday as part of the 65th anniversary of the International Day of Palestine.

The International Conference for Peace and Justice for Palestine will attract a galaxy of speakers from India and abroad. It will be inaugurated by Mumbai University Vice Chancellor Rajan M. Welukar.

Mazin Qumsiyeh of Bethlehem, Palestine, and Rabbi Weiss, a prominent Jew from New York, called for “a peaceful solution to the occupation of Palestine” where Muslims, Jews and Christians have lived for generations.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday ordered a judicial probe into the recent police firing in Nadia district, and admitted police action in Birbhum district’s Loba village which resulted in a clash leaving 33 injured was “a mistake”.

“I didn’t like the incidents which occurred in Tehatta of Nadia district and Loba in Birbhum. My government has never been and will be anti-people,” Banerjee told media persons at the state secretariat, Writers’ Buildings.

The Oil Ministry will raise the cap on supply of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) to 9 cylinders per household in a year provided the Finance Ministry agrees to give an additional Rs 3,000 crore in 2012-13.

Oil Minister M. Veerappa Moily on Thursday first met Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and then held a two-hour long brainstorming with heads of the three PSU fuel retailers on the issue of raising the cap of 6 subsidised cylinders per household in a year.