A special plane carrying the body of the 23-year-old gang-raped physiotherapist intern arrived in India from Singapore early Sunday.
The chartered Air India plane touched down at Delhi airport around 4 a.m. The parents of the woman were also accompanying the body.
Earlier in Singapore, the body was embalmed after a post-mortem and placed in a special casket for being flown to India.
Renowned writer and poet Prof. K R Iqbal Ahmed, Director Distance Education, Maulana Azad National University, Hyderabad has been appointed as president Kannada Sahitya Sammelana. The Sammelana will be conducted on January 30 at Nellore. Every year a number of writers, poets and intellectuals gather in the cultural and literary conference which is called as Sammelana in Kannada language. The programme is attended by numerous organisors, policy makers and political thinkers besides thousands of participants.
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Scores of people, mostly students, held a candle light vigil at Tank Bund here this evening condoling death of the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim.
Demanding justice, people from different walks of life participated in the march that started from Necklace Road
before it was culminated at Tank Bund.
The physiotherapy student was gang-raped in a moving bus in Delhi on December 16. She succumbed to her injuries in
a Singapore hospital today after battling for life for past 13 days.
A local court today granted 18-day police custody of Tej Ram, who was arrested in connection with the 2007 Makkah Masjid bomb blast case, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Tej Ram, believed to be a member of the right-wing group that is suspected to be behind the Samjhauta Express blast which claimed 68 lives on February 18, 2007, was arrested by NIA on December 25 from Delapur of Indore in Madhya Pradesh and produced before a court in Hyderabad on December 27.
India skipper Mahendra Singh rates the visiting Pakistani side, especially its bowling, quite high but feels the side which remains more consistent has better chances to do well in the One-day series, beginning here tomorrow.
“Overall, Pakistan is a very good team.
Its combination is such that they have specialist bowlers and have five bowlers for a match. In a way I feel they have complete bowling attack and they have experienced batsmen who can bat well in any conditions. Specialist spinners are also performing well,” Dhoni said at the pre-match press conference, here.
A local court today granted three-day transit remand of Manohar Lodhi, who was arrested in connection with the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast case, to National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Lodhi (31) was arrested by the premier investigating agency from Gurdakheri village in Hatod tehsil of Indore
district yesterday.
The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Priyadarshan Sharma granted three-day transit remand to NIA which has to
produce Lodhi in a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) court in Mumbai on Monday, said Lodhi’s counsel Ranjan Sharma.
Confusion prevailed over the stand taken by the ruling Congress party during Friday’s all-party meeting in New Delhi over the Telangana issue. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) said clearly that it was not against a separate Telangana.
Senior leader Gade Venkat Reddy, one of the two Congress representatives who attended the meeting, told reporters that the party voiced two opinions. While he opposed any division of Andhra Pradesh, his party colleague Suresh Reddy favoured a separate Telangana state.
National Commission for Minorities chairman Wajahat Habeebullah on Saturday expressed serious concerns over the non-implementation of Prime Minister’s 15-Point Programme meant for the welfare of minorities across the country.
Giving a new sign of the growing Islamophobia in the British community, a pig head was dumped at a mosque in Leicester, creates shockwaves among the Muslim community over the growing effect of far-right parties in the European country.
Two men and a woman have been arrested in Britain after a pig’s severed head was left at the doors of a Muslim place of worship, the Daily Mail reported Friday.
Police were called after the head was found at the entrance to the community centre in Thurnby Lodge area of Leicester. The centre is used by a local Muslim group.
Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu’s Vasthunna Mee kosam padayatra arrived in Warangal district on Saturday.
Naidu was received by women with the traditional bonalu as he began his padayatra at Vellaampalli. He crossed over from Karimnagar district yesterday and the padayatra will go on for 12 days in the district. He will trek along six assembly constituencies covering 150 km addressing wayside meetings and interacting with farmers, workers, women and other sections of people.
–Agencies
Panchayat Raj Minister K Jana Reddy has condemned the Telangana Rashtra Samithi for suspecting the intentions of the Centre in resolving the Telangana issue.
Talking to reporters at the Exhibition Society’s Office here on Saturday, Jana Reddy described the TRS call for Bandh as a hasty decision and said that the Centre should be given time to finalise the roadmap for Telangana.
There has been a significant increase in the crime cases registered in the limits of Hyderabad City Police this year compared to 2011.
The promise by the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) to move a resolution in the Uttar Pradesh assembly during the budget session in February 2013 to give Muslims a quota in government jobs and educational institutions has stirred a political storm in the state.
While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has threatened to launch a state-wide agitation against the move, many in the SP have aired their apprehensions over “such an overt minority appeasement move”.
The Hyderabad police chief’s remark Saturday that accused in almost all rape cases in the city were known to the victims has drawn the ire of women groups, who termed it “unacceptable” and contended that it amounts to justifying the heinous crime.
“What does he mean by that? You know me, so you have license to rape me?” asked Annie Raja, general secretary, National Federation of Indian Women, while talking to IANS here.
After weeks of wrangling over how to avoid what has been described as the fiscal cliff that may push America into another recession, President Barack Obama has turned to Senate leaders to work out a last-minute deal.
The task of working out a deal on avoiding the fiscal cliff, a combination of automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts due to take effect at the start of the new year, was left to the Senate leaders after a political summit at the White House Friday.
It is mentioned in a hadith that Nabi (sallalaahu alayhi wassallam) said, ” When a female child is born, Allah Ta’ala sends His angels to that house. They come to the dwellers of the house and pray that peace may be upon them, The angels then cover the newly born girl in the shadow of their wings and caressing the head of the baby with their hands they say that, this is a weak and frail person, whoever will bear the responsibility of cherishing her will go on having the blessing of Allah Ta’ala as long as that person remains alive.” ( Al-Mojam al – Saghir li Tabrani).
Terming the gang-rape of the 23-year-old girl as a “shameful incident” for her as an administrator, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today condoled the death of the victim and said one must ensure that such “ghastly” acts do not happen again.
She also appealed to people to maintain peace and calm against the backdrop of violent demonstrations last weekend over the gang-rape incident.
“Our heart goes to the family. My heart is burning over the incident. The passing away of the girl is a truly and terribly tragic incident. It shook our conscience,” Dikshit told PTI.
Observing that the 23-year-old gang-rape victim has been sacrificed to an environment in which women are not safe, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley today sought better laws and an environment where women are safe.
Condoling the girl’s death, Jaitley said, “All our heads must hang in shame today that a young girl has fallen a victim to brutal and beastly behaviour. She has been sacrificed to an environment in which women are not safe”.
He said the victim’s death has shaken the conscience of the whole society and urged it to introspect on the issue.
Ratan Tata, an iconic corporate leader, retired as Chairman of Tata Group after a 50-year run today but kept away from office on his last day at the helm of one of country’s oldest business empires.
Tata, who turned 75 today, is in Pune for his birthday, sources at Bombay House, headquarters of the salt-to-software conglomerate, told PTI, adding there was no clarity on whether he would visit his office later in the day.
Chairman-designate Cyrus Mistry, who made a visit to Bombay House today, will tomorrow take charge of the new assignment, sources in Tata Sons said.
Tests for sending India’s first manned mission into space are in “advanced” stages with the Indian Air Force (IAF) developing necessary parameters for selection of suitable candidates.
The tests will need another year to get fully validated and the selection process of the people for the manned mission will begin after that, Director General Medical Services (Air), Air Marshal Anil Behl told PTI here today.
Chairman National Minority Commission Mr. Wajahat Habeebullah will arrive at Hyderabad on Saturday, December 29, at 12 noon. He will address in India Education Conclave 2012 at Hotel Park, Raj Bhawan Road.
Mr. Habeebullah will leave for New Delhi on Sunday, December 30, at 6:40. He will stay in Lake View Guest House during his stay in Hyderabad.
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Police in New York are searching for a woman who allegedly shoved an Indian immigrant man to his death in front of a train on a New York City subway platform.
The victim was identified as Sunando Sen, 46, of Queens, who had been raised in India and who, after years of toil, had finally saved enough money to open a small copying business this year on the Upper West Side, media reports said.
It was the second time in a month that a man had been pushed under a train in New York.
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan defended his rival Shah Rukh Khan on Bigg Boss after Imam Siddique, a contestant on the show, claimed he was the one who made SRK a star.
Siddique, a casting director, got into an argument with host Salman last night after he nominated the house’s captain Niketan.
The actor told Siddique to nominate someone else as Niketan was the captain of the house but Siddique stood by his decision, saying he knew what the audience want.
A lecture will be conducted on Sunday, December 30, from 11 am to 1 pm, by Rahbar-e-Sanat-o-Tijarat monthly at office of the Rahbar-e-Sanat-o-Tijarat monthly, opposite Hindi Milap, old Kattal Mandi.
Mr. Mohammed Saleemuddin will deliver lecture on ‘self employment and small scale industries’, Mr. Shakir Husain on will address on ‘New techniques of marketing’ and Mr. Mohammed Siddique Tahir will deliver lecture on physiotherapy. Answers will be given to the questions All are invited. For details contact Mohammed Sajid on phone no 939054714.
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If we take stock of the situation at ration shops of old city we will find that obtaining essential basic items is like a Herculean task for the poor, as most of the ration shops remain closed and those which are open have no stock. Women, elders and small children have to wait for hours in queue.
A widow woman told that she can’t afford to buy rice from retail market so she has to totally depend upon 15 kg rice obtained from ration shop. If we don’t get rice we would starve.