Month: February 2013

A teacher ran away after allegedly misbehaving with girl students of Class X in the capital city.
According to the information, the teacher of Santiniketan school in Jeedimetla was misbehaving with Class X girl students. Five students stopped going to the school because of the misbehavior of the teacher.

On knowing about it, parents staged a protest at the school and damaged the furniture. The teacher went into a hiding to save his skin. (NSS)

The State Police said that former minister Dr P Shankar Rao is not cooperating in the incident of him being taken into custody for investigation of Greenfield lands scam.

CID Additional DG Krishna Prasad said that Dr Rao has not been cooperative in the investigation of the case. There was all round criticism on police about the way in which he was taken into custody and the Chief Minister had ordered a high level inquiry into the incident.

International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Dave Richardson Tuesday praised the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) and the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) for their hosting of the ongoing Women’s World Cup.

The CPM has said that it will intensify the agitation against hike in power charges and will be joined by various organizations.

“We will intensify the agitation and take it forward with the help of various people’s organizations,” CPM State Secretary BV Raghavulu said after releasing a book that has full data and details on the hiked power charges. The book reveals that the burden on lower and middle class people is over 110 per cent but it the hike was nominal on big industrialists and wealthy.

Sharmila will resume her Maro Praja Prasthanam padayatra from tomorrow in Ranga Reddy district.

Sharmila’s second round of padayatra will begin from Turkayamjal in Hayat Nagar, where it was suspended following a knee injury.

Governor ESL Narasimhan will visit Delhi on February 9 to attend the two-day Governor’s conference convened by President Pranab Mukherjee. The two day conference will be held at Delhi on February 9 and 10.

The Governor’s visit comes at a time when hectic discussions are going on at Delhi with Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy getting a call and having discussions with party president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders and people back home are keeping their fingers crossed on the Telangana issue.

Telangana Jagruti president and TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao’s daughter Kavita today questioned what business the YSR Congress Party of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has in the Telangana region.

India cricketer Yuvraj Singh had tears rolling down his cheeks as he recalled his successful battle with cancer on a day, which is named after the dreaded disease.

On the occasion of World Cancer Day, Yuvraj spoke about the time after he was diagnosed with a rare germ cell cancer between his lungs a few months post India`s World Cup triumph in 2011.

MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi reportedly changed his voice when he was examined by forensic experts in the presence of the Nirmal magistrate.

Akbaruddin was taken to Nirmal for voice test. Forensic experts took the sample of his voice to compare it with the voice in his Nirmal hate speech of December 22, 2012. It is learnt that when forensic doctor reportedly asked Akbar if he was changing his voice, he said it was due to his ill-health that his voice had changed. With this, forensic experts are likely to test his voice once again after his health improves.

The Petroleum Ministry is likely to extend the deadline for furnishing Adhar card number for supply of subsidized cooking gas to domestic consumers by two months following a request of Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy in this regard. A communication in this regard might come from the Centre by Wednesday.

A Delhi court on Monday framed charges against former Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and nine others for forgery, cheating and conspiracy in a corruption case related to the 2010 Delhi Games.

The 10 accused were present in the special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court when judge Ravinder Kaur framed the charges.

Defending champions England became the first team to enter the Super Six stage from Group A in the ICC Women’s World Cup when they recorded a six-wicket victory over the West Indies here today.

England shot out the West Indies for a paltry 101 in 36.4 overs after the latter opted to bat first at the BKC ground and then made heavy weather of the chase by making 103 for four in 35 overs to finish the league with four points from three games.

Europol has revealed that 380 football matches across the globe are under suspicion of match-fixing, following a lengthy investigation into what it considers a criminal network within the sport.

A total of 425 players, officials and other individuals are suspected of being involved in an organised crime syndicate based in Asia, which is thought to have been organising the operation to rig the results of matches.

All those behind the Dec 16 gang-rape here should be hanged, said the father of the 23-year-old victim stressing that he would pursue the case till the end.

As the case against the five accused in the gang-rape of the young woman, who succumbed to her grievous injuries on Dec 29, began in a Delhi court, her father addressed a press conference Tuesday to assert that he would approach the courts to ensure justice was done.

“I want all six of them to be hanged. We will go to the court and pursue the case till the end,” he said, with his son by his side. The sixth accused is a juvenile.

A new kind of pterosaur, a flying reptile from the time of the dinosaurs, has been identified by scientists from the Transylvanian Museum Society in Romania, the University of Southampton in the UK and the Museau Nacional in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

An influential US daily has hailed India’s new laws against sexual violence, saying the political system can respond to urgent demands for change, and wondered if the US would respond the same way to the massacre of innocent children in schools.

“India has a reputation as a place where needed government action comes slowly, if it all,” noted the Washington Post Editorial Board in an editorial titled “India’s government, impelled to action on rape.”

The high-resolution stereo camera on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express, which completes ten years since launch this June, has mapped nearly 90 percent of Mars’ surface.

The mosaic comprises 2702 individual swaths of the Martian surface, up to and including the spacecraft’s 10 821st orbit of the planet, which it completed on 30 June 2012.

In total, 87.8 percent of the surface has been mapped at any resolution, with 61.5 percent mapped at a resolution of 20 m per pixel or better. The map is equatorially aligned, meaning that regions at the poles appear distorted.

If a wild animal like tiger or leopard strays into human habitat, impose Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) that prohibits assembly of more than four persons in a particular area.

This is part of the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) developed by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to prevent attacks with an aim of ensuring that such wild carnivores do not fall victim of mob fury as also not to cause injuries to people by the animal.

Fresh evidence rebuts the theory that an asteroid wiped out prehistoric humans known as Clovis, or caused abrupt climatic changes, says a new study.

Researchers from the Royal Holloway University, Sandia National Lab and 13 US and European universities, argue that other explanations must be found for the apparent disappearance of the prehistoric humans.

The digital revolution is spurring a slow transformation in the spiritual classrooms. More and more Muslims in India, South Asia and around the world are logging on to the internet to read the Holy Quran, which is moving to the digital domain keeping in tune with the proliferation of e-books.

Yester years Bollywood biggest superstar Zeenat Aman is planning to tie the knot with a 36-year-old business man from Mumbai.
The 60-year-old actress, who’s mother to two sons in their 20’s, is all set to inspire many Indian ladies to take bold decisions when it comes to being happy.

The ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ star, who married late actor Mazhar Khan in 1985, recently revealed that she is much happier now and is feeling younger again thanks to her new beau.

Flying Sikh Milkha Singh took just one rupee from Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra to allow him to make a film on his life. What`s special about the currency note is that it was printed in 1958, the year when the athlete won the first gold medal for independent India in the Commonwealth Games.

The biopic titled “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” features actor Farhan Akhtar in the lead role and is slated for a July release.

“Mai…”, “Listen…Amaya”, “Midnight`s Children” and “Vishwaroop” – four films came in a cluster Feb 1. The result? Only “Vishwaroop” managed to get an audience while “Midnight`s Children” received a lukewarm reception and the other two are struggling for survival.

What is the rationale behind releasing as many as four to five films on one Friday? Is the audience expected to see so many films during the same week?

No, says trade expert Taran Adarsh.

One of the most sought after new entrants in tinsel town, Huma Qureshi has bagged a role in Vishal Bhardwaj`s “Dedh Ishqiya”. She says when she watched “Ishqiya”, she never even dreamt that she will be part of the movie`s sequel one day.

An excited Huma confirmed her presence in the cast saying, “Yes, but there will be an (official) announcement. I am glad because it will be a fantastic film.”

Mobile maker Nokia has been approved for a 1.35 billion dollars grant to develop “the world”s strongest material,” known as graphene.

Graphene is made up of pure carbon and is only one-atom thick.

Nokia claims that it is 300 times stronger than steel.

According to News. com, au, the substance has a number of applications and is theorised to have benefits in electronics, solar energy, medicine and water desalination.