A gunman of Congress MLA Kottapalli Subbarayudu was arrested by the police, for filming secretly a woman taking bath in the guesthouse of APTransco on Monday.
According to the information, the woman guest observed that the gunman Siva Kumar was secretly watching her while taking bath and was shooting it with his mobile phone.
Police have taken the gunman into custody on a complaint from the woman and her husband.
State BJP president G. Kishan Reddy here on Monday announced that his party would not contest in the North Telangana Graduates Legislative Council seat.
Speaking to mediapersons, Kishan Reddy said his party has decided not to field its candidate against former president of Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers’ Union Swamy Goud. He also announced that his party would extend its support to Lakshma Reddy in the North Telangana Teachers constituency.
Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal on Monday exuded confidence that the State would not be divided as there was no consensus among the people of the three regions of the State. Curiously, at the same time, he admitted that the ruling party was not against creation of Telangana State.
Two Palamur laborers were buried alive and another escaped from jaws of death miraculously when the compound wall of a dilapidated building crashed on them in P&T Colony of Dilshuknagar here this morning.
The mishap took place while the labourers were digging earth for construction of a cellar beside the old building. While the three laborers were on the job, a wall of the adjoining building suddenly collapsed trapping the trio.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has decided to register a criminal case against the owners of the building at P&T Colony of Dilsukhnagar whose wall collapse killed two labourers while another was injured.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has slapped a penalty notice of approximately Rs 100 crore against IPL team Rajasthan Royals for allegedly violating forex laws in its business operations.
The agency, which issued the penalty notice after a two years of investigations under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), has sent out three separate notices to the IPL franchise totalling to Rs 98.5 crore plus some other similar notices earlier, sources said.
A Delhi court dealing with a CWG related corruption case today said two of the accused had paid Rs 71.73 lakh for cinestar Shilpa Shetty’s performance in the closing ceremony of 2008 CWG Youth Games at Pune “merely to fulfil the last moment wish” of Suresh Kalmadi.
It will take some time to implement Islamic Sharia in Egypt. People of Western ideology have started agitations against the Government but these protests won’t shake Egypt.
Government has imposed VAT on diesel motor vehicles which is a cruel act. Farmers are already facing a lot of difficulties. With the introduction of VAT on diesel vehicles, their troubles would be multiplied.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is set to entertain his fans in Muscat with a performance on the eve of Valentine’s Day.
The 47-year-old actor will perform to an audience of nearly 25,000 on February 13, a statement said.
In the nearly three-hour event titled ‘Temptations Reloaded’, SRK will be accompanied by Bollywood beauties
Katrina Kaif, Preity Zinta and Anushka Dandekar alongwith singer-actor Ali Zafar.
It will be a double whammy for his avid fans in Oman as Shah Rukh will be celebrating the Valentine’s Day eve in the
city.
Muslims in India are even less privileged than members of scheduled caste and scheduled tribes as they enjoy neither equity nor equality of opportunity, a noted British scholar claimed here today.
Delivering Sir Syed Memorial Lecture at Aligarh Muslim University here, Gordon Campbell, Professor of Renaissance
Studies at Leicester University in UK, claimed that the condition of Muslims, especially in the field of education,
had worsened “in the seven years since the Sachar Commit tee Report was published”.
The comments of a Congress leader that BJP veteran L K Advani should have stayed back in Pakistan to serve the Hindus there came in for sharp criticism from the main Opposition which said that this goes against all norms of propriety and decency.
Reacting to the comments made by Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed yesterday, BJP sought to know if this was the official line of the ruling party.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is among five to six BJP top leaders who can make a good Prime Minister, party MP Maneka Gandhi today said.
I will support the party in all its decisions (on the selection of its prime ministerial candidate),” the animal
rights activist told newsmen.
She was here in connection with a programme on cow protection.
Asked on JD(U)’s reservation on Modi, Gandhi said it was that party’s view and BJP should work hard to strengthen
itself.
Recently senior party leader Yashwant Sinha had triggered a debate in NDA after he said most party workers
Kareena Kapoor is set to don a leaner avatar for Karan Johar’s next home production film ‘Gori Tere Pyar Mein’, opposite Imran Khan.
The duo would be seen together for the second time after ‘Ek Main Aur Ek Tu’.Punit Malhotra of ‘I Hate Luv Storys’ fame will be helming the project and it will go on floors from March this year.
The Supreme Court today decided to examine the constitutional validity of the provision giving the definition of juvenile in the Juvenile Justice Act which treats a person as a minor till he attains the age of 18 years.
The issue assumes significance in the wake of the brutal gangrape and assault of a 23-year-old in Delhi on December 16 in a moving bus that shook the conscience of the nation. The victim died in a Singapore hospital on December 29. One of the six accused in the case is a juvenile.
Ticking off the Centre for “flouting the law” for the last five years, the Supreme Court today set a February 20 deadline to notify Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal award, saying it has no discretion or choice but to do so.
Mincing no words in its observations against the Centre for sitting on the award, the apex court said that the government is bound by the Act under which the Tribunal was set up in 1990 and directed it to notify the award as expeditiously as possible but not later than February 20.
The Congress will not move a no-confidence motion as it expects the BJP government to collapse on its own, Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly said here today.
“We will not move”, Siddaramaiah said, when asked if the Congress was planning to bring in a no-trust notice in the budget session, which commenced today. “We don’t have the numbers (to succeed)”.
Senior BJP and RSS leaders from Madhya Pradesh met NIA officials here following the arrest of a few persons, allegedly linked with the Sangh, in Malwa region including Indore division in recent days.
Leading the delegation, BJP MP Sumitra Mahajan along with with local MLAs and RSS leaders went to the Officers’ Mess of Police last night to meet the National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials, party sources said today.
It’s official! Researchers have found scientific evidence to confirm that chewing gum can speed up thinking and make you more alert.
A new study reported in the journal Brain and Cognition found that reaction times are up to 10 per cent faster while chewing gum, and that as many as eight different areas of the brain are affected.
One theory is that chewing increases arousal and leads to temporary improvements in blood flow to the brain.
A gunman of Narasapur MLA in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh was today taken into custody after he allegedly filmed a woman on his cell phone while she was taking bath, police said.
Shivakumar, the security guard of Narasapur MLA Kothapalli Subbarayadu, was picked up by police after he allegedly filmed a woman through his cell phone camera while she was bathing at a guest house in Narsapur town, they said.
Following a complaint, Narasapur police booked a case against Shivakumar under relevant sections of IPC.
Four persons were injured as avalanche hit mountainous belt of Banihal in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir Monday.
Ten persons, including four women, were trapped in the avalanche triggered in Mahoo-Mangit mountainous belt of the region, said Anil Magotra, Superintendent of Police Ramban.
An operation was launched by security forces with the help of civilians, and nine of them were rescued.
One person, Ali Mohammad, was missing, the SP said adding that operation to trace him was on.
Senior BJP and RSS leaders from Madhya Pradesh met NIA officials here following the arrest of a few persons, allegedly linked with the Sangh, in Malwa region including Indore division in recent days.
Leading the delegation, BJP MP Sumitra Mahajan along with with local MLAs and RSS leaders went to the Officers’ Mess of Police last night to meet the National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials, party sources said today.
TRS legislator K Tarakarama Rao on Monday appeared before the Railway Court at Secunderabad in connection with the cases registered against him during the two-day Rail Roko protests.
It may be mentioned that as many as 40 cases were registered against the Telangana leaders and activists for organising two-day Rail roko on railway tracks at Moula Ali, Ghatkesar and other places during Sakala Janula Samme protest in the month of September 2011. (INN)
Vijayawada MP Ladapati Rajagopal on Monday reiterated that the Centre would never divide Andhra Pradesh.
Talking to reporters at Gandhi Bhavan here, Rajagopal said that a few leaders were making speculative statements about Centre conceding the demand for formation of Telangana. He said the possibilities of division of Andhra Pradesh were remote. He said that no serious discussions were going on at the Centre over Telangana issue and some leaders have been making statements only to gain mileage from media. “They are trying to create Telangana State through statements in media,” he said.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday reportedly discussed with Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy some concrete options to resolve the Telangana issue.
Both the leaders are learnt to have discussed the possible outcome in case the Centre decides to announce its decision on Telangana. During the meeting that lasted for about 45 minutes, Kiran Kumar Reddy has apprised the party chief with the prevailing political situation in the State. He also submitted a report on party’s performance in the cooperative elections.