TDP Telangana Forum convener Yerrabelli Dayakara Rao has warned the TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao that his party would drive him out, if his party men burnt the effigy of their leader Chandrababu Naidu or TDP flags.
Talking to the media here on Sunday, he said his party’s stand on Telangana was clear and said they would not keep quiet if Naidu’s ongoing Pada Yatra was disrupted.
Two women and a child were charred and four other labourers seriously injured when a consignment of fire-crackers to be used in New Year celebrations exploded at a manufacturing unit in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday.
The condition of one of the injured women is critical as she has received 90 percent burns in the mishap that occurred at Sri Bhavani fire-cracker manufacturing unit in Kommarapalem village between 2-3 PM, they said.
TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu toured the Parkala constituency of Warangal district today. Speaking on the occasion Naidu said his party has always been clear on the Telangana issue and stated the same in the recent all-party meeting.
Meanwhile, Parliament Members Ponnam Prabhakar and Sircilla Rajaiah have demanded that the TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu should make a clear statement about his stand on Telangana. Talking to the media at Warangal today, Ponnam said the statement of the TDP that it was standing by its earlier letter of 2008 created confusion.
Two people have been arrested for allegedly abducting and gang-raping a student in a Bihar village, police said on Sunday.
Police said the intermediate student was abducted at gunpoint on Friday in Vasudevpur village in Samastipur district, around 100 km from here, when she was returning home on a bicycle from a coaching class.
“She said the accused threatened to kill her if she raised an alarm and gang-raped her first in a sugarcane field and later at a house,” Deputy Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar said.
Five out of ten metro stations that were closed down for an indefinite period were finally opened in the wake of the death of the gang-rape victim, were opened Sunday afternoon.
Rajiv Chowk, Pragati Maidan, Mandi House, Patel Chowk, and Barakhamba stations have been opened. However, Central Secretariat, Udyog Bhawan, Race Course, Khan Market and Jorbagh still remain closed.
Inter-change facility is available at Rajiv Chowk and Central Secretariat stations.
India Gate and its adjacent areas in the national capital remain out of bounds for public on Sunday, police said.
In the backdrop of New Delhi gang-rape case, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister R Ashok today said as many as 6,000 public transport buses will be equipped with CCTVs and GPS to provide protection to travelling women.
The state government has decided to install CCTVs and GPS in 6,000 public transport buses to protect women travelling in these vehicles,” Ashok, also the minister for Transport, told reporters here after inaugurating new fleet of city buses.
The greatest homage that the nation can pay to the Delhi gang-rape victim is to ensure that this kind of “horrendous” incident never happens again,BJP leader L K Advani said today.
It is all the more unfortunate that this had happened in a country that revers women as “mothers and sisters”, Advani said at a meeting held here to felicitate senior BJP leader O Rajagopal.
The sacred chant of the nation is Vande Mataram…In India, women are seen as mothers and sisters…Swamy
Vivekananda began his famed Chicago speech by addressing the gathering as sisters and brothers,” he said.
Two people were wounded when security forces opened fire to disperse protesters who attacked Iraq’s deputy premier today, forcing him to flee a rally he was addressing, an AFP reporter said.
The demonstrators, who have blocked a key highway connecting Iraq to Syria and Jordan for the past week over the
alleged targeting of their Sunni Arab minority by the Shiite-led government in Baghdad, threw water bottles, stones and shoes at Saleh al-Mutlak before grabbing and hitting him.
The chorus of protests across the country demanding speedy justice for the accused in the Delhi death-rape incident grew louder today after the girl’s death.
Prayers, candle-light vigils and rallies as part of spontaneous protests continued to be held in a sombre
atmosphere of grief in several cities amid demands for death sentence to the six accused. The protests went on even after dusk fell.
In Andhra Pradesh. college and school students took out protest marches and staged demonstrations in Hyderabad,
Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kurnool and Warangal, among other towns.
Foreign physicians in the UK will face a more rigorous assessment, after figures showed that the vast majority of doctors who have been struck off were trained abroad, especially in countries like India.
In the last five years, 669 doctors have been either struck off or suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC).
Of those, only 249 were British (37 per cent) while 420 (63 per cent) were trained abroad – whereas one-third of
doctors on the register were trained abroad, and two-thirds in Britain, the Sunday Telegraph reported today.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that some “outside third force” may be involved in the brutal killing of a tea estate owner and his wife in Tinsukia district last week, amid apprehensions about Maoist involvement in the violence.
I cannot say for sure but maybe some outside force is involved in the killing. I am not ruling that out. We have
ordered an inquiry and that will bring out the truth,” Gogoi told reporters here on the sidelines of a Congress party event.
Asked if Maoists elements are involved in the incident, he said “I do not have definite information regarding
A group of miscreants allegedly molested and tried to abduct a 23-year-old girl from a lonely stretch here last night, police said.
The girl was returning from her office at Bamunimaidam locality here around 8.30 PM last night when she was accosted by the youths on a deserted road, they said.
She fought back when the miscreants tried to forcibly take her away. Hearing her screams, locals rushed out of homes and managed to get hold one of them.
The remaining members of the group, however, managed to run away.
The State Minorities Commission has asked the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) to probe the “serious lapse” of terming the Santosh Bhuvan area of Nalla Sopara in Thane with the derogatory term ‘Chhota
Pakistan’ on its bills.
This is a serious matter. Please inquire into it and inform the Commission about your findings,” State Minority
Commission Chairman Munaf Hakim said in a letter to the MSEB chief.
Let us know at what level did the directive to term the area as ‘Chhota Pakistan’ emanated,” the letter said.
Pakistan win by six wickets, with 11 balls remaining. A stellar batting performance from Nasir Jamshed, who scored 101 runs off 132 balls, led Pakistan to its first victory on Sunday in the current Pakistan-India ODI series.
The team green won by six wickets, with 11 balls remaining.
Earlier, Jamshed and skipper Misbahul Haq took Pakistan to 172 score off 38 overs.
One of the key accused in 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case, Manohar Singh, has confessed to his role in the conspiracy, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) today claimed in a special court here.
Singh, arrested from Hatod in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh yesterday, was produced before the special NIA court here.
It was the first arrest in connection with Maharashtra’s 2006 Malegaon bombing after the role of right-wing groups came to the fore.
Special public prosecutor Rohini Salian told the court that Singh has provided many important leads in connection
with the blasts.
A 7-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by a ragpicker in Jehangirpur area, police said today.
In the complaint lodged at Jehangirpur police station, the boy’s father alleged that his son was playing on the
street when the man saw him alone.
On the pretext of giving the boy chocolate, the accused took him to a lonely stretch and sodomised him.
He fled when the child started bleeding, police said, adding that the accused is absconding.
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The Pakistani Taliban have brutally gunned down 21 security personnel at a cricket ground after abducting them from check posts near the northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said today.
The bullet-riddled bodies of the personnel were found in Frontier Region Peshawar, located a short distance from the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, shortly after midnight.
Their hands were tied before they were shot dead at the cricket ground.
Two other security personnel escaped and one of them was critically injured. One of these personnel alerted local
Imprisonment up to 30 years for rape convicts has been proposed by the Congress in a draft bill for a tougher law to check crimes against women which could also include chemical castration in rare cases.
The final draft of the Congress’ bill, which is to be submitted to the Justice J S Verma-led Committee set up by the Centre in the wake of the horrific gang-rape of the 23-year-old girl, who died yesterday, has however not been readied yet, sources said today.
Researchers for the first time have discovered a mechanism by which the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus colonises our nasal passages.
In a new study, researchers from the School of Biochemistry and Immunology and the Department of Microbiology
at Trinity College Dublin have shown that a protein located on the bacterial surface called clumping factor B (ClfB) has high affinity for the skin protein loricrin.
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a major human pathogen, with the potential to cause severe invasive
diseases.
A scrap dealer of Jharkhand who was abducted by six persons was rescued by police and the kidnappers arrested today from Bihar’s Sheikhpura district, a senior police officer said.
The kidnappers, after abducting the scrap dealer of Deogarh Chanchal Kothari from his business outlet in the
morning were travelling in a vehicle with Kothari.
Acting on a tip off, police stopped the vehicle at Sarwa village under Barbigha police station of Sheikhpura district and apprehended the kidnappers and rescued Kothari, Superintendent of Police Babu Ram said.
Four members of a family, including a woman and her two children, were killed today on GT road near Ambala city when their car rammed into a stationary truck.
Sachin Gupta (42), his wife Rakhi (38), son Pratyaksh (12) and daughter Vrinda (3), residents of Loha Mandi area of Naraina in New Delhi, were killed, police said.
Gupta along with his family was going to Amritsar from Delhi to celebrate New Year at one of his relatives house.
A case against the truck driver has been registered, police said, adding that a PAN card helped to established
identity of Gupta.
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As many as 36 youths were detained from various parts of the city for allegedly indulging in eve-teasing, police said today.
The youths were held from the New Market area, 10 number bus stop, Manisha Market among others last evening when they were caught passing lewd comments at women.
Acting on tip-offs, police reached the specific spots and nabbed the youths, some of whom are reportedly wards of senior government officials.
Curfew continued for third day today in Pulwama town of south Kashmir even as army and police kept passing the buck on to each other over the Friday’s firing on protesters.
A senior official of Pulwama district administration said restrictions were still in place as the sporadic incidents of stone-pelting have continued in the town since Friday.
He said the restrictions are likely to continue tomorrow as well in view of the strike call given by separatist groups.
Tom Cruise had to shoot some scenes of his upcoming movie “All You Need Is Kill” again after he could not stop smiling in them.
The 50-year-old actor was shooting for the movie in Trafalgar Square. Cruise was smiling a lot while shooting and
so he had to give many takes to get the right expression, reported Sun Online.
The actor was recently in news for blocking the key roads of the busy city because of his shooting location.
All You Need Is Kill” is directed by Doug Liman and also stars Emily Blunt and Bill Paxton. It is expected to release in 2014.
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Twenty-three years of insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir have seen security forces recover nearly 50,000 weapons, including 30,859 AK assault rifles, according to a recent report on militancy compiled by the state Home Ministry.
The list of 49,627 weapons recovered till November-end also includes 11,576 pistols and revolvers along with 1,028universal machine guns, 80 carbines, 2,264 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 221 light machine guns/self-loading rifles, 306,303 rifles, 394 sniper rifles, 69 general purpose machine guns and 2,830 rocket boosters.