Month: January 2013

Mr. Hamid Mohammed Khan, President, Movement for Peace and Justice regretted that Minorities convention is being proposed to be held in the hotel which has been constructed on Wakf land. He demanded the organizers of the convention to change the venue of the meeting, otherwise it would be construed that they are supporting the illegal possession of wakf land and the hotel owner.

Mr. Hamid Mohammed Khan told that holding Minorities Convention by Congress leaders is appreciable because by reviewing the issues pertaining to Minorities, effective representation could be made to the Govt.

Mr. Dana Kishore, Secretary, Depty. Of Minorities Welfare, Govt. of A.P. agreed to invite the attention of Mr. N.Kiran Kumar Reddy , C.M. of A.P. for convening the world Urdu Conference. Prof. S.A.Shukoor, Director, Urdu Academy met Mr. Dana Kishore yesterday and handed over the letter in which he proposed that a world level Urdu Conference could be sponsored by Govt. of A.P. He informed Mr.

CPI State secretary Dr K Narayana has found fault with MIM Floor leader and Chandrayangutta MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi for making hate speeches like a ‘terrorist’.

Speaking to mediapersons here on Friday, Narayana demanded that the government initiate stringent action against Akbaruddin Owaisi. Alleging that the government was keeping quiet on the issue, the CPI leader accused Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy of hesitating to initiate action against Akbaruddin afraid of AICC Chief Sonia Gandhi.

The AP Police may claim they have been tough and prompt in going about their job, but history says otherwise. MIM legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi has been booked in at least six cases by various police stations since 2005, but due to various factors like police inaction and the cumbersome legal process, has managed to get away from being punished till date. And police officials say that this time around too, despite the national outrage over what the MLA said in Nirmal and Nizambad a few days back, things would not be different than what happened in the past.

United Andhra supporter and Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal has claimed that he would not continue in politics if the State is divided on regional lines. Talking to media persons at Eluru he ruled out the possibility of State bifurcation and said if it happens he would no longer continue in politics.

‘There was no consensus among political parties on the formation of Telangana at the all party meeting held in Delhi recently, and the home minister has to say that Telangana issue cannot be resolved until there is a consensus. He said.

(Siasat News) Prof. Zeenath Kausar of the Dept. of Sociology of the University of Malaysia who is an expert in the field of education is in the city these days. She has written many articles on the deterioration of educational standards in the Muslim world. Iqbal Academy is organizing her lecture on “Educational crisis of the Muslim world and educational philosophy of Iqbal”, at 6.30 p.m. today at Gulshan-e-Khaleel, Masab Tank. Dr. Anwar Moazzam, former Professor and Head of the Dept. of Islamic Studies of Osmania University will preside over the function. Prof.

(Siasat News) The complaints of the Minorities that they are not included in the process of progress of the country still holds good. Even after 60 years of Independence of India. Minorities do not get opportunities of getting the welfare schemes of the Govt. Sometimes, Govt. announces certain schemes to please Minorities with an intention of getting their votes but these schemes are never implemented. This is the reason that every year the Ministry of Minorities Affairs is not in a position to spend all the amounts earmarked for the welfare of Minorities.

(Siasat News) According to a press note issued by Mr. Ahmed Basheeruddin Farooqui, former Dy. D.E.O, the question bank of S.S.C. (Urdu) is under preparation. It will be released at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday 10th January at Mahboob Hussain Jigar Hall, Siasat office complex.

Prof. Mohammed Suleman Siddiqui, former Vice Chancellor of Osmania University will be the chief guest. Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Editor of Siasat will preside over the function. Mr. P. Sunder Rao, retired DEO and Mr. I. Nehru Babu, Dy. D.E.O., of Bahadurpura Zone will be the guests of honour.

–Siasat News–

California physician Ami Bera, who has become the third Indian-American member of the US House of Representatives, has been named on three prestigious committees on foreign affairs, science, space and technology. Bera’s parents migrated to the US from India in the 1950s.

Democrat Bera,47, who represents California’s 7th Congressional district in the House, follows Amritsar-born Dalip Singh Saund, who represented a California district from 1957 to 1963, and Louisiana’s current governor Bobby Jindal, who was a member from his state from 2005 to 2008.

The death of the Delhi gang rape victim in Singapore (Dec 28, 2012) has created a massive wave of anger and protest. As such after this ghastly act, which took place nearly two weeks ago, the anger and protest of the people came to the streets and one witnessed the unfortunate police action. This gang rape was so horrific that the attention of the people from all the sectors of society was drawn to it, and the rage amongst people was limitless. One cannot describe enough the brutality of this act, which took place in the moving bus in Delhi.

Two legends of world cricket, Sunil Gavaskar and Imran Khan on Friday held IPL responsible for the Indian team’s recent downfall, with the former going on to say that for some Indian players national duty comes second to the cash-rich Twenty20 league.

Without naming anyone, Gavaskar questioned some Indian players’ complete focus on IPL.

The Delhi High Court today asked the city government and police chief to respond to a youth’s allegation that he was “illegally detained” for 10 days and was not allowed to take part in anti-rape protests.

Justice S P Garg also issued notices to the SHO and the ACP of Tilak Marg and Parliament Street police stations respectively and sought their replies by January 7.

If Pakistan gives clemency to Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, it could prove to be a turning point in bilateral ties, the prisoner’s Pakistani lawyer says.

Awais Sheikh is arriving in India Saturday to tell the people of India that Sarabjit Singh is an innocent man falsely chraged with crimes he never committed. Sheikh will tour India for a fortnight. His book, “Sarabjit Singh: A Case of Mistaken Identity” (Rajkamal Prakashan), will be released in New Delhi.

The US House of Representatives Friday passed a legislation that would make payments worth $9.7 billion to insurance claims related to Hurricane Sandy.

The bill to allow the National Flood Insurance Program to increase its borrowing authority was approved by the Republican-controlled House with a 354-67 vote, Xinhua reported.

The bill was the first of two steps House Speaker John Boehner said he would take to meet the demands of relief for those affected by Sandy.

He also promised a vote Jan 15 to provide over $50 billion dollars of aid.

The government today made it clear that the issuance of visa to former Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad, a relative of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, did not reflect any change in status of the Mumbai serial bomb blasts case mastermind as far as India is concerned. Miandad’s son Junaid is married to Mahrukh, the daughter of Dawood, who is wanted in India in connection with the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case. “There has not been any change as far as Dawood Ibrahim is concerned. His position remains exactly the same,” a top government source said.

The Chhattisgarh High Court resolved a dispute between two Sunni Muslim communities in Rajnandgaon over burial of the body of an elderly Deobandi Muslim woman, whose body was lying unburied, following denial of space to her at the burial ground belonging to the Barelvi Muslim community. Disposing of a petition filed by the deceased’s son Hasim Memon praying for space in the burial ground for his mother Zubeda Memon’s burial, the High Court directed the Barelvi Muslim mosque management to immediately provide space for the purpose, the petitioner’s lawyer Prakash Tiwari said.

Be unique and dare to imagine the impossible was former President A P J Abdul Kalam’s message to students keen on pursuing science as a career. Inaugurating the Children Science Congress on the sidelines of the 100th Indian Science Congress here, he said parents, teachers and society always cite examples of others and want students to emulate them. “Why do you have to become like someone when you are unique?” he said. Kalam said he had met 15 million youth across the country and abroad in the past decade and learnt that every youth wants to be unique.

A 13-year-old girl in Tinsukia district of upper Assam was allegedly gang-raped by four persons on suspicion that she had stolen a mobile phone of one of them, police said today. Five persons, including a woman, were arrested. The incident occurred at Sukanpukhuri tea estate under Makum police station on the intervening night of January 2-3 after one of the accused, Jogeshwar Mali, lost his cellphone. His wife Tusu suspected that the girl, who is from the same tea estate, had stolen the mobile.

Saudi doctors have rejected calls to set up hospitals exclusively for women, saying that the suggestion to rule out medical cross gender examination was highly unpractical.

The call, according to Gulf News, was issued by Saudi citizens who said that they wanted only women doctors to look after them whenever they needed to go to a hospital, local Arabic daily Al Sharq reported.

Khalid Al Ghadhiya, a social worker, said that women’s hospitals would help meet the health needs of Saudi women in a much more comfortable setting.

Senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and former Andhra Pradesh home minister Kodela Siva Prasad was granted bail after he voluntarily surrendered before a judicial magistrate. A case under six sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered against him for staging a dharna at a police station at Narasaraopet, Guntur district, on 23 January last year, It may recalled that the TDP had launched an agitation on 23 January last year, protesting against malpractices in the preparation of electoral rolls for the election to co-operative bodies.

A conductor of a private bus service was arrested today for allegedly raping a minor girl, police said. Praveen Singh, a resident of Sitarambagh, threatened and forcibly took the girl last night to a deserted place at Necklace Road and sexually assaulted her, Police said quoting the girl’s complaint. After committing the crime, the accused dumped the girl, who with the help of locals approached the Ramgopalpet Police and registered the complaint, police said. A rape case under section 376 of IPC has been registered, they said. PTI

A case has been registered against three policemen in the metropolis for allegedly harassing a young man after which he self-immolated last month and died of his injuries on January 1. Police sources said the family members of Mir Aminul Islam demanded action against the three policemen for harassing the young man who had taken a rape victim to Karaya police station to file a complaint. Chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission Ashok Ganguly told PTI here that the Commission has sought a report from the police within two weeks.

A court here today acquitted 48 accused in four cases of rioting and arson, related to post-Godhra riots of 2002. The cases had been tried together in the city civil and sessions court. Judge M K Dave, while acquitting the accused, held that prosecution failed to bring enough evidence, and the accused should get benefit of doubt. All of them were out on bail. During the riots following the train burning incident at Godhra on February 27, 2002, a mob set on fire some units in Vatva industrial area of GIDC here. Nobody was injured in the fire, but property was damaged.

Sirohi police in Rajasthan today set a new record by submitting charge sheet in a rape case in just four days. “The investigating officer completed his probe in 95 hours and submitted charge sheet in a local court,” SP Sirohi Lovely Katiyar said. “The victim lodged an FIR with Anaddara police station on December 31. She blamed that his known person Jagya, aged around 50 years, raped her in an isolated area in Dabali village on the night of December 30,” Investigating Officer Bahadur Singh said.

A 35-year-old woman has filed a complaint against her father-in-law and brother-in-law, accusing them of raping her repeatedly over the past three years, in Halvad taluka of Surendranagar district. Police Sub-Inspector A P Patel told PTI that both the men had been arrested and sent to judicial custody. The victim did not file a complaint earlier due to family pressure. She approached the police last evening, he said.