Month: February 2013

An engineering student on Monday attempted suicide reportedly in protest against delay in formation of separate Telangana.

According to police, Niraj Bharadwaj, a student of Bits College at Gudepparu, set himself ablaze at his residence in Yadav Nagar of Hanumkonda mandal. He was immediately rushed to MGM Hospital where his condition is said to be critical. His friends claimed that Niranjan resorted to the extreme step for the cause of Telangana. (INN)

PCC General Secretary G Niranjan on Monday ridiculed MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi’s contention that media has distorted the speech of MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi.

Talking to reporters at Gandhi Bhavan here, Niranjan said that the Hyderabad MP was neither defending Akbar’s speech nor condemning it. He said Akbaruddin Owaisi speech was shown live by their mouthpiece 4TV and a report was also published in Etemaad Daily. However, he said now Asaduddin Owaisi was trying to escape from the same by blaming the media.

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.

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A Class III girl student was allegedly raped by a guest teacher in a school toilet at a village in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh, police said today.

On February 2, when the girl was sitting alone in the class room of Naveen Government Primary School at Lato village here, the guest teacher – Prem Kumar (22) – asked her to go to the toilet for cleaning her running nose, police said.

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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.

“Punit wants me to look stylishly different in his film.

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A youth allegedly tried to rape a mentally-challenged teenaged girl at Surbra village in the district’s Narwana subdivision, police said today.

Mahavir dragged the victim to his house while she was passing the area and tried to rape her, police said.

But her mother, who was nearby, heard the victim’s cries and rushed to her rescue, they said, adding, the accused fled from the spot.

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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.

The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to the Congress and the BJP on a plea seeking directive for a CBI or SIT probe for allegedly taking donations from subsidiaries of Britain-based Vedanta Group.

A division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Indermeet Kaur sought response from both political parties within three weeks and posted the matter for March 19.

The court earlier sought response from the home ministry and the Election Commission saying it will go through their responses before asking the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to respond.

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Opener Kieran Powell said he was disappointed at not being able to deliver a victory for the West Indies in the second One-Day International against Australia here.

The left-hander carved out a career-best 83 off 90 balls in a 126-run, fourth-wicket stand with Dwayne Bravo (45) but the West Indies, chasing 267 for victory, faltered for 212 off 38.1 overs, to slip to a 54-run defeat at the WACA Ground Sunday, reports CMC.

Any of eight leaders in the BJP, including Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, could be the prime ministerial candidate, party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Monday.

“The parliamentary board will choose one from among the eight top leaders at an appropriate time as the prime ministerial candidate,” the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice president told reporters.

He said there was no confusion or disagreement within the BJP on this issue.

A day after the two-week ban was revoked on the controversial film “Vishwaroopam”, Kamal Haasan Monday announced that his film will hit theatres Feb 7.

“The film will release all over Tamil Nadu on Thursday, Feb 7,” said Kamal in a statement.

Following the tripartite talks on Feb 2 in the presence of Tamil Nadu Home Secretary R. Rajagopal, Kamal had agreed to edit a few scenes from his controversial film, paving the way to ending of the protests by Muslim organisations.

Three persons were trapped under the debris when a wall of a dilapidated building collapsed in P & T Colony of Dilshuknagar here this morning.

The mishap took place while a dilapidated building was being demolished for reconstruction when a wall suddenly collapsed trapping three persons. On information the police swung into action and with the help of the local people could retrieve one of the trapped persons and efforts are still continuing to rescue the two others still under debris. The person who was rescued was rushed to the hospital for treatment.

With tax revenues doubling over the last five years, the financial status of Karnataka is sound, Governor H.R. Bhardwaj said Monday.

“Tax revenue is 10 percent of the gross state domestic product (GSDP), which is among the highest in the country,” Bhardwaj said in his customary joint address to the state legislature.

Noting that the plan size had increased by 2.5 times during the rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, Bhardwaj said per capita plan expenditure of Rs.6,810 was among the highest in India.

Acting swiftly after government lifted the ban on his Tamil movie “Vishwaroopam”, Kamal Haasan on Monday withdrew his petition before the Madras high court challenging the ban, a move that could see the early release of his mega-budget movie.

Justice S Rajeswaran before whom the matter came up allowed the actor and government to withdraw pleas after they expressed their desire to do so following a compromise between Haasan and Muslim outfits, which had opposed it claiming some scenes offended their sentiments.

Kashmir lost its only all-girls rock band on Monday as its three teenage members decided to call it quits, a day after the Grand Mufti issued a fatwa terming singing as un-Islamic and asked them to abandon it.

Although the girls have maintained silence over the issue, sources close to them said, they have decided to quit singing and music.

The girls had defied convention by stepping into the male-dominated field but faced online threats and abuses from conservative sections of the society.

The Grand Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad on Sunday issued a decree terming singing un-Islamic.

Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who arrived here on Monday met Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is in-charge for state affairs.

It is understood that Azad expressed unhappiness about the style of functioning of the State Government.

Delhi was unhappy particularly the way manner in which the state government dealt with the cases of Akbarudin Owaisi and Dr P Shankar Rao.

There is growing feeling that minorities and Dalits being distanced from the party. Should there be a snap poll the support of these two sections is essential to keep the challengers TDP and YSRCP at bay.

The political equations in the state are changing and changing fast.

Friends and are foes are being redefined and realigned.

BJP, which wants to carve a place for itself in Telangana has lost ground after winning Mahbubnagar by-election and TRS is not prepared to be in its fold for two reasons.

First there must have been an understanding with Centre about the merger with Congress or at least an understanding to that effect. TRS cannot afford to have a multiple contests in Telangana as BJP has is a formidable force in the region. It has to opt either of the national parties.

Researchers have reversed aging in old mice by injecting them with a longevity gene and rejuvenating their stem cells’ regenerative potential.

The study by University of California-Berkeley biologists represents a major advance in understanding the molecular mechanisms behind aging, paving the way for the development of targeted treatments for age-related degenerative diseases.

The found that SIRT3, one among a class of proteins known as sirtuins, plays an important role in helping aged blood stem cells cope with stress, the journal Cell reports.

National Convenor of INTACH, General A.K Gupta(rtd) told that it is the responsibility of every citizen to preserve historic heritage. Hr told that in the name of developmental activities, historical monuments are being destroyed.

He was talking to media persons after the meeting of the A.P Chapter of INTACH . Because of the presence of tanks, lakes. Natural resources of forests and water, historical palaces, the conservation experts are forced to accord this state a special status.

A delegation led by former speaker Mr.K.R Suresh Reddy met the C.M of A.P Mr.N.Kiran Kumar Reddy and apprised him of the long pending issues pertaining to Minorities. They hoped that sufficient funds would be provided to Minorities for their Welfare Schemes. The delegation also told the C.M that due to non-availability of funds, many welfare schemes pertaining to Minorities have been kept in the abeyance.

Perennial water shedding from eyes is no longer incurable. It was considered that there is no cure for this complaint.

This defect arises due to not functioning of the canals of tears in the eyes.
Earlier, it was thought that the canals of tears, which open in nose and throat are not formed right from the beginning.

Mr. Ram Shanker Naik, Secretary, Board of Intermediate Education told that Govt. won’t allow any private college management to conduct entrance test for admission into the first year of its intermediate course for the year 2013-14.

He warned such managements and told that Govt. would take action against them.

He desired the students to bring it to his notice if any college is notifying to conduct entrance test for admission into its first year of intermediate course.

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After the announcement of the dismissal of nine MLA’s from Congress Party by its President, Mr.Bosta Satyanarayana, a cold war has been started between him and the C.M of A.P Mr.N.Kiran Kumar Reddy. There is a talk that Govt. has lost majority in the Assembly.

Pressure is mounting on Mr.Chandrababu Naidu for moving ‘No Confidence Motion’ against the Congress Govt. of A.P.

Govt. is making attempts to bring back the troubled workers in the Middle- East.
It would also make arrangements to bring back those workers, who have fallen prey to the treacheries of fake travel agents.

Mr. Sreedhar Babu told that it while talking to newsmen yesterday at the news point at Secretariat yesterday. All those workers whose job permits are not in order can submit their applications till 5th February.

Reviewing such applications, arrangements would be made to bring them back at Govt. expenses.

A Delhi court today framed charges against sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and nine others for allegedly cheating, conspiring and causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer in a Games-related corruption case.

Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur framed charges under various provisions of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act against Kalmadi and other accused, including OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot, in the case.