Month: January 2013

The 28th Congress of Asia Pacific Ophthalmology Conference will be held in Hyderabad from 17th to 20th January.
It will be inaugurated by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, President of India at International Convention Center at Madhapur, Hitech City, Hyderabad.

Mr.S.L Narasimhan, Governor of AP and Mr.N.Kiran Kumar Reddy, Chief Minister of AP would be the guests of honour.
It is the second time that this conference is being held in this city. Earlier, it was held in Hyderabad in1985.

It is alleged that Majlis and YSR Congress Party want to disturb the peaceful atmosphere of the state by organizing communal riots.

Jagan Mohan Reddy’s father, Dr. YSR had engineered communal riots in Hyderabad in 1969 by entering into secret deal with the Muslim leaders in order to dislodge. Dr. M.Chenna Reddy from the post of CM. Mr.K.Taraka Rama Rao, MLA of TRS told this in a press conference yesterday. He alleged that Akberuddin Owaisi is being exploited for engineering communal riots. There is a conspiracy of Jaghanmohan Reddy behind it.

Jamaat-e-Islami is organizing “Spring of Islam Conference” at Nizam College Ground from 11th to 13th January 2013. there will be three general sessions and 16 special sessions of the conference.

The campaign “Urdu in Every House” organized by AP Urdu Forum and Mazher Education Society is going on. In the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and around the city. The main purpose of this campaign is to make the parents and guardians of children realize that our association with Urdu as our mother tongue is very long. This language preserved our culture and our religious identity.

A protest meeting was organized in Sayeedabad under the Chairmanship of Mr. Mohammed Qamaruddin, retired Engineering-in-Chief. It was organized by Aiwan-e-Fankaar, Bazm-e-Farogh-e-Urdu and Radio and TV Artistes’ Guild.

MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi who is facing several cases for his controversial remarks on Hinduism arrived here during the wee hours of Monday amid tension and tight security. Police not only made tight security arrangements at the Rajiva Gandhi International Airport at Shamsbahad and Akbar’s Jubilee Hills Residence, but also in the entire old city of Hyderabad.

Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, booked for allegedly delivering a hate speech against a particular community today sought four days to appear before police citing medical reasons. Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi returned to Hyderabad from London early Monday and will appear before police in connection with a case against him for making alleged hate speeches last month.

Akbar Owaisi arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here around 3 a.m. He later drove to his house in the Banjara Hills area of the city.

A 23-year-old sailor of the Indian Navy allegedly committed suicide on board a frontline warship on Saturday night even as his family suspected foul play behind the incident.

Melvin Raj, hailing from Tamil Nadu, was found with a gunshot wound on his head on board INS Talwar anchored at dry dock here. He was rushed to INS Ashwini naval hospital but was declared dead on arrival, police said.

Melvin’s family, however, alleged foul play behind the incident and claimed that the victim was being harassed by his seniors since several months.

Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu of Greater Hyderabad in collaboration with Abid Ali Khan Educational Trust is organizing free coaching classes for the students of Urdu medium SSC course.

Coaching will be offered in science, Maths, Telugu and English subjects. The classes are being held from 4:30 to 8:30 pm at Madrasa Anwar-e-Hashmia School, near Bada Pahad, Farooq Nagar behind Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad. These classes would continue upto 20th March.

——Siasat News

Senior Congress Leader, Mr. V. Hanumantha Rao, MP (Rajya Sabha) told that all the weaker sections should get united and pressurize the Govt. to solve their demands.

UPA Govt. is making attempts for the welfare of BC’s and Minorities. It is necessary that all the backward classes and Minorities should be united.

These thoughts were expressed by Mr. Hanumantha Rao while responding to the felicitations offered to him by the OBC’s Intellectual Forum for Social Justice at Jubilee Hall yesterday. He was congratulated on receiving Veeramani award in Delhi.

A memorandum was presented to Ms. Jhansi Rani, Dy. DEO by the deputation of Awaaz organization of Nampally zone stating that many parents are facing a lot of difficulties in getting their children admitted in schools. When the students get admission, they come to know that the school is not recognized.

It was stated that there are 12 schools in Nampally zone which are not recognized. The future of the students who sought admissions in these unrecognized schools is at stake.

Dept. of Education is requested to take necessary steps for recognizing such schools.

Tension mounted in Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar area yesterday when the activists belonging to Sangh Parivar disturbed the prayer in the mosque.

According to the reports of the local residents, a group of 25 to 30 motor cyclists reached the mosque and started shouting slogans. They made an unsuccessful attempt to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere. The residents lodged a complaint in the S.R. Nagar police station.

——Siasat News

Two suicide bombers penetrated a government compound in the country’s south today, killing five people, Afghan officials said. There were no reports of foreign troops or civilians at the site.

In neighbouring Helmand province, a bomb planted at a bus station killed one policeman and wounded another person, a provincial official said.

The suicide attack was in the district of Spin Boldak in Kandahar province in one of the nation’s most violent areas. The district is a major infiltration corridor for Taliban fighters from Pakistan as well as a smuggling route for weapons and narcotics.

Six people were killed and 12 others injured in a market fire in China’s commercial city of Shanghai, an official said on Monday.

Fire fighters had extinguished the fire last night at a farm produce wholesale market in Pudong new district of Shanghai, the district’s official said. Rescuers have retrieved five bodies from the debris of the fire and all injured people have been hospitalized, said the microblog.

Rescuers are still searching for the casualties at the fire site, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

An eve-teaser was allegedly beaten up by a 20-year-old girl when he tried to harass her while she was returning home at Patun tehsil in the district, police said on Sunday.

The incident occurred on Saturday night on Balapur Road when the girl was returning home from a shop when the accused, identified as Vikas Nage, started harassing her, they said.

However, the gritty girl fought back, grabbed the accused and slapped him, police said. Later, after the girl lodged a complaint, the youth was arrested, police added.

A youth’s paternity suit to declare ND Tiwari as his biological father was ordered to be heard on a day-to-day basis by the Delhi High Court on Monday after the veteran Congress leader refused to settle the issue through mediation.

“The local commissioner is hereby directed to conduct, preferably, the hearing on a day-to-day basis,” Justice Manmohan said.

The direction came after the counsel for the 88-year-old Congress leader refused to settle the lawsuit out of the court through mediation, saying there was a possibility that the medical evidence was not hundred percent accurate.

The bill for establishment of an “Equal Opportunities Commission” recommended by Rajinder Sachar Committee is likely to be moved soon, Union Minister for Minority Affairs K Rehman Khan said here on Sunday.

“The bill for ‘Equal Opportunities Commission’ would be moved in two-three months and it will become a law,” he said at a convention organised by the ‘All India Minorities Forum’.

The commission will have many powers and address issues of any discrimination or injustice concerning minorities, he said.

The United States has rejected Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fresh proposal to end the civil war in his country, asserting his new road map is “detached from reality.”

The conference of state directors general of police and chief secretaries has suggested a slew of measures to combat crimes against women, an official press release said on Sunday.

These include increasing punishment in cases of gang-rape, fast-track courts for crimes against women, a dedicated helpline for women across the country and bringing down the age of juveniles to 16 from 18.

Chief Whip in the Assembly Gandra Venkatramana Reddy has lambasted TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu for continuously criticizing the State government during his ‘Vastunna Meekosam’ padayatra.

Speaking to mediapersons here on Sunday, Gandra took serious exception to Chandrababu Naidu calling the Congress as ‘dacoits party’ and branded the TDP as the real ‘dacoits party’. He said the TDP had only resorted to laying foundation stones to hoodwink the people forgetting development and welfare of the people during its regime.

Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, along with Union Minister Jairam Ramesh, here on Sunday launched the direct “Cash Transfer Scheme” at Gollaprolu in East Godavari district. This is the first time that the scheme was launched in the State on a pilot basis.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and some of his Cabinet colleagues are in the list of 60 candidates announced by the Congress for the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state. Elections for the 60-member state Assembly are expected soon.

As per the list, Sangma will contest from his constituency Ampati while former Chief Minister DD Lapang will contest from the Nongpoh seat.

Deputy Chief Minister Rowell Lyngdoh will contest from Mawkyrvat (ST) seat while Forest Minister R C Laloo is being fielded from Jowai (ST) seat.

——PTI

The teacher of a private school here was arrested today for allegedly molesting a minor girl in Lahunipara area of Odisha’s Sundargarh district, police said. “Sudarshan Munda, who teaches at Gulkhundi Private School, was arrested for molesting a student of class-III on January 2,” Inspector in-charge of Lahunipara PS R K Sahu said. On the evening of January 2, Munda took the 8-year-old girl on his motorcycle to drop her at the school where she studies, the police said. The teacher took her to a bush and molested her until two bike-riders arrived there and rescued the girl, the police said.

Indian actresses Archie Panjabi and Kajal Agarwal have revealed that they enjoyed their adventurous air-tour over Kuala Lumpur and looking at the Petronas Twin Towers from 457m above.

The two beauties, who were on a holiday, described the 20-minute air tour of the city on two Cessna 172 aircraft as a “liberating” experience and asserted that they had so much fun that now they want to get their own pilot’s licenses, the Star Online reported.

Panjabi, who has won an Emmy award winner, said that she was a little nervous initially but once she was in the air she loved it.

Three policemen, including a senior officer were injured during a Maoists” attack in Gariaband district of Chhattisgarh on Sunday.

The injured additional superintendent of police and two constables have been admitted in Raipur hospital.

According to police officials the incident took place when a bomb kept inside a bag by the rebels exploded. The injured are out of danger.

Later, police rushed to the spot and carried out a search in the area. (ANI)