MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is facing a slew of cases for his alleged hate speeches, will be arriving here on Monday.
Akbaruddin, who left for London for medical examination, was asked by DGP V Dinesh Reddy to return and reports say that the Majis leader will be coming to city on Monday night.
Meanwhile, BJP leader Bandaru Dattatreya has demanded that Akbaruddin should be awarded life imprisonment in the cases that he is facing. (INN)
A day after calling off his visit to the capital in the wake of a controversy over the Indian government giving him visa, former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad today said that he should be seen just as a sportsman and not as a relative of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
Miandad, who was to watch the third and final ODI in Delhi tomorrow, yesterday cancelled his visit to avoid further
controversy.
I should be seen just as a cricketer, a sportsperson. Being related to somebody does not mean anything. What is the
problem in me getting a visa (to be in India)?” Miandad asked.
Police recovered two live grenades from fields at Khatiwaas village here today.
A bomb disposal squad took over an hour to defuse the grenades on the spot.
The grenades were spotted by some villagers when they were on a morning walk. They informed the village Sarpanch who
called the police.
Later, a seven-member bomb disposal squad led by Sandeep Dalal reached the spot from Rohtak and defused the explosives after working on it for over an hour.
Police have started investigation how the grenades reached here.
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) today formally arrested key accused in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, Lokesh Sharma, in connection with the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case.
Sharma, who is already under judicial custody, was produced before a special court here, which remanded him in
NIA custody till January 19, police said.
Sharma was produced before the court which remanded him in NIA custody till January 19″, said special NIA
Prosecutor Rohini Salian.
With Sharma’s arrest, the number of accused held in connection with the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts has reached 4.
Bahawal Khan, the new chief of a Taliban faction in Pakistan’s South Waziristan region after the killing of Mullah Nazir in a US drone strike, is a militant who fought Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir.
Khan was named the head of the faction shortly after Nazir and 12 other militants were killed in the drone strike in Angoor Adda area on Thursday.
He fought as a militant in Jammu and Kashmir, sources were quoted as saying in Pakistani media reports.
A member of the Kakakhel sub-tribe of the Ahmedzai Wazirs, Khan is an illiterate former bus driver.
Internet, video and other cloud services, which comprise information communications and technology (ICT) industry, spews out more than 830 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, researchers found.
Carbon dioxide is also the main greenhouse gas; and the emissions from the information and communications industry alone accounts for about two percent of global CO2 emissions, the same proportion as the emissions from the aviation industry.
The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) sees a conspiracy by the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh to target its leader Akbaruddin Owaisi by slapping serious charges of waging war against the nation.
Police in Hyderabad, Adilabad and Nizamabad districts, during the last two days, registered three cases against Owaisi for allegedly making hate speeches last month.
The courts in Hyderabad and neighboring Ranga Reddy district directed the police to book Owaisi under Section 153 (A) of the Indian Penal Code for promoting enmity between different groups.
A Delhi court today took cognisance of the charge sheet filed by police in the case of December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student who died in a Singapore hospital 13 days later.
Metropolitan Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal took cognisance of the charge-sheet saying a case of various offences
including those of murder and gangrape are made out against the accused.
I have perused the charge sheet and other documents. Prima facie offence under sections, 302 (murder), 307 (attempt
BJP today slammed the Delhi Police for filing a case against a news channel which aired the interview of the 23-year-old gangrape victim’s friend, saying this is unacceptable and an attack on press freedom.
Speaking at a party programme, BJP General Secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “Such behaviour from the police is
unacceptable. This is an attack on the freedom of the press,” he said.
Prasad criticised the Delhi Police for causing undue delay in taking the victim and her friend to hospital.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today threatened to take her battle to New Delhi for a three year moratorium on interest payments to bail out the debt ridden state, but did not give a time-frame for it.
Dwelling on the huge loan burden of over Rs 2 lakh crore left behind by the previous CPI(M)-led Left Front
government, Banerjee told a public meeting in junglemahal, “We will wait.
If our request for granting a three-year moratorium on interest payment and a debt restructuring plan as sought by
A major fire broken out today at storage tanks of Indian Oil Corporation’s terminal at Hajira port here, fire brigade officials said.
Fire brigade personnel from Surat and nearby cities were trying to bring the fire under control.
Hazira facility of IOC has nine storage tanks, five of petrol and four of diesel.
One of the tanks caught fire this afternoon, and it spread.
There were no reports of any casualties as yet, while all the staff members have been shifted out.
The Hazira terminal includes a deep water multi-cargo port, situated 25 km from Surat.
At least 1.15 lakh `swayam-sevaks’ (volunteers) would be attending the one-day congregation of RSS here tomorrow,an RSS functionary Vinod Birla said today.
Sangh supremo Mohan Bhagwat would also be present.
RSS workers from Malwa region’s fifteen districts including Indore and Ujjain would attend the congregation,
Birla said.
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Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was today rendered a doubtful starter for tomorrow’s third and final One-dayer against Pakistan due to a sore back, forcing the team management to call up Dinesh Karthik as the back up.
Dhoni said at the customary pre-match press conference that he developed soreness on his back during the morning
practice session at the Feroze Shah Kotla ground here.
A professor of the Barkatullah University here has been suspended after he was allegedly found drunk on duty.
S P Sanyal, Head of Department (HoD) of physics, has been suspended and departmental inquiry ordered against him,
University Registrar Sanjay Prakash Tiwari told PTI today.
The HoD was found in an inebriated condition when a group of girl students, along with some mediapersons, went to
his office on Thursday to complain about sexual harassment in the university campus, he said.
Sanyal’s conduct was found to be bad and his suspension was ordered yesterday,” Tiwari said.
The rival presidents of Sudan and South Sudan met for face-to-face talks to push forward stalled security, oil and border deals, and to discuss the fate of the contested Abyei region.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his Southern counterpart Salva Kiir met alongside African Union mediator
Thabo Mbeki, today while tensions remain high after the latest in a string of accusations that Khartoum had bombed South Sudan.
Senior BJP leader L K Advani has rued that contributions of sages and seers have been ignored in history teaching in schools on the pretext that anything to do with religion was a taboo in a secular state.
He found fault with the teaching of history in schools entirely focusing on kings and dynasties largely ignoring the contributions of sages and seers to the nation.
“It is indeed unfortunate that in Indian schools, the teaching of history is almost entirely focused on kings, their dynasties, their wars and exploits,” he said.
Delhi Police on Saturday refuted allegations levelled by the friend of the December 16 gang-rape victim that policemen argued over jurisdictional area, losing precious time that might have proven crucial in saving her.
In a short explanation, Delhi Police said that the Police Control Room van got the first call at 10:22pm that night, of two people including a woman lying on the road in a pool of blood.
Police claimed that two rescue vans reached the spot within minutes and took the victims to hospital 33 minutes after receiving the first distress call.
Controversies surrounding Kamal Hassan’s upcoming ‘Viswaroopam’ refuse to die down with some Muslim groups demanding that the film be screened to them prior to its January 11 release, expressing concern over the depiction of the community in the movie.
The brother of the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim on Saturday said delay in providing medical assistance to his sister led to complications which perhaps led to her death.
“She told me that after the incident that she had asked passers-by for help but to no avail and it was only after the highway patrol alerted the police that she was rushed to hospital but it had taken almost two hours”, her brother told PTI in their village in Ballia.
Model-turned-actress Nargis Fakhri has dismissed buzz about her marriage after reports emerged that she is set to tie the knot with actor-producer Uday Chopra.
The 33-year-old, who made her Bollywood debut with Imtiaz Ali`s 2011 film ‘Rockstar’ opposite Ranbir Kapoor, took to Twitter to clear the air about her relationship status.
“Happily single and totally into my work. I am not getting married anytime soon to anyone. Who started this rumour?,” Fakhri posted.
Reports had claimed that the actress and Chopra are set to marry in March this year.
A 24-year-old married woman was allegedly raped by a youth, who lured her on the pretext of providing her a job, police said on Saturday.
The victim, a resident of a village in Karnal district, said in her complaint that she had come into contact with the accused on phone, who assured her a job.
When she came to Jind, the accused, identified as Sunny, with the help of another youth took her to a hotel and allegedly raped her, she said.
The accused has been arrested, while his accomplice is still absconding, police said. A case has been registered in this connection, they said.
Indo-American Education Summit & Expo 2013 will be held in collaborations with foreign universities at Marigold Hotel (5 Star), Begumpet, Hyderabad on February 2 & 3, 2013.
Saif al-Islam, the second son of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will go on trial within the next month, Libya’s Justice Minister Salah Maraghni said on national television.
“Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi and Gaddafi’s former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi will be put on trial as soon as questioning is completed within the next month, as expected,” Maraghni said.
Senior Congress leader Mr. Shahed Peeran refuted the criticism leveled by some Telugu Desam leaders on the conduct of Muslim Convention saying the Convention is being organized to mull over the important issues confronted by Muslim minorities and to prepare a comprehensive strategy on national level to resolve them.
Eminent personalities from across the country will attend the convention. He said
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Three shops were destroyed in an explosion Saturday in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, media reports said. There were no casualties.
The blast took place inside a medical store in the SITE Metroville area, Dawn News reported.
Police said the explosion was carried out using a hand grenade. But the bomb disposal squad which examined the site said the explosives were planted.
The explosion also damaged hand-carts and makeshift shops in the vicinity.