Maqdoom Society, Progressive Writers’ Association AITUC, INSAF organization and Anjuman-e-Taraqui-e-Urdu, Greater Hyderabad will celebrate 105th birthday of famous revolutionary Urdu poet Late Maqdoom Mohiuddin today.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy reached Delhi on Monday to meet the central leadership and is expected to hold a discussion on the Telangana demand.
Reddy came to the national capital by a morning flight.
The Chief Minister might take up the Telangana issue with the top leaders of the Congress and the Centre.
A Delhi court has fixed February 4 to frame charges against sacked CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, for allegedly cheating, conspiring, abusing his official position and causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to public exchequer in a games-related graft case.
Special CBI Judge Ravinder Kaur is slated to frame charges against Kalmadi and nine others, including former OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot, under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act.
The Srinagar-Jammu highway was closed on Monday morning following fresh snowfall in the Bannihal sector of the over 300-kilometre road.
Officials of the Border Roads Organisation said on Monday that there was fresh snowfall during the night in the Bannihal sector of the strategic Srinagar-Jammu highway.
“The highway has been closed for vehicular traffic because of snowfall in Bannihal. It is snowing at this time too. Road clearance operation would start once snowfall stops,” an official said.
Reports said many vehicles carrying passengers and goods have been stranded on the highway.
Concerned over mismatch in he export values declared by exporters and those registered by banks providing them forex services, the Reserve Bank (RBI) is planning to set up an automated and unified data processing and monitoring system for all exports from the country.
The new system would also be used for reporting of serious cases of default by exporters and other entities and to forward these cases to the customs and excise departments for for further action, a senior official said.
Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise, who is filming in the UK, has offered to lend his luxury privateplane to David Beckham to commute between London and Paris.
Cruise has told his soccer star friend he could use his 20 million pound Gulfstream IV jet and pay him only for fuel,
reported Mirror online.
Beckham, 37, who signed for French team Paris Saint-Germain last week, had been considering shelling out
35,000 pounds a week on a hired plane so he can easily get back to wife Victoria and their four children.
Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina has blasted her grandmother’s tell-all book claiming it’s ‘disrespectful’ to her superstar mother’s memory and has urged fans not to buy it.
The ‘I Will Always Love You’ singer’s only daughter Bobbi Kristina, 19, has said in a scathing attack on Twitter that she and her boyfriend Nick Gordon, who was also raised by the star, don’t support her grandmother Cissy Houston’s book ‘Remembering Whitney’, reported TMZ online.
“Anything concerning my grandmother’s book, I and @nickgordon of course personally have nothing to with. I
A 19-year-old girl was allegedly
kidnapped from Kidwai Nagar area here and a ransom of Rs 5 lakh demanded from the parents today, police said.
The girl, a resident of Kidwai Nagar, was kidnapped while she was returning home after attending her coaching class in Govind Nagar area, Circle Officer Babupurva Pavitra Mohan Tripathi said.
On the complaint made by the girl’s father, a case of kidnapping was registered against the unidentified kidnappers, he said.
Pregnant star Kim Kardashian says she hopes to do more than just reality shows.
The 32-year-old ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashian’ star will be seen in Tyler Perry’s “Temptation” and she says she
wants to try out different things now, reported Digital Spy online.
My character is pretty light throughout the film, so it’s fun. It was interesting to work with people that I’ve
liked for so long, and just to work with Tyler Perry was amazing and such a good experience.
I definitely do see myself branching off and maybe doing a sitcom or something other than reality,” Kim said.
Actress Emily VanCamp will be playing the female lead in superhero movie “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”.
VanCamp’s casting is quite a surprise since the actress’ name was not mentioned in the list of candidates that was
shared online last year.
Though her role is still kept secret, it is believed that she will indeed play the new love interest of Chris Evans’
titular superhero, reported Aceshowbiz.
A number of Hollywood beauties including Jessica Brown Findlay, Emilia Clarke, Alison Brie, Teresa Palmer, Imogen
Actor Zac Efron has been signed on to play the lead in thriller movie “The Falling”, which will be directed by Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman.
Efron will not only star in it but will also serve as a co-producer alongside Goldsman, Tory Tunnell and Joby Harold.
The project itself is developed at Warner Bros Pictures, said The Hollywood Reporter.
The logline of the project is kept under very tight wraps by the studio, but it is said that the project will be an edgy thriller centering around an other world being.
Singer-actress Miley Cyrus is sporting new skin art which she has got done from celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D.
The 19-year-old has over a dozen tattoos, including a dream catcher across her rib, an anchor on her wrist, and a quote from former American President Theodore Roosevelt on her forearm, and now she has added a friendship symbol to her growing collection of body art.
Von D tattooed the piece on her new friend’s right elbow at her High Voltage Tattoo studio in LA, and the artist says
she had a blast working with the pop star.
Singer Adele has reportedly bought her mother a 600,000 pound apartment to say thanks for helping her become a star.
Penny Adkins, who brought up her daughter alone in a cramped flat above a shop in North London, held down two jobs
while encouraging Adele to become one of the biggest-selling artists in the world, reported Mirror Online.
But Adele’s devotion to Penny, 44, is in stark contrast to her relationship with estranged dad Mark Evans, 49, who
admitted he had been “a rotten father”.
Local MP Lagadapati Rajagopal today created sensation by trying to meet TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who was on his ‘Vasthunna Meekosam’ padayatra here.
Tension prevailed when the police and TDP activists obstructed Lagadapati, who rushed towards Chandrababu Naidu from BRTS Road at Budameru Bridge. Consequently, vehicular traffic came to a halt for sometime due the huge rally of students along with Lagadapati. The police detained Lagadapati and brought the situation under control.
TDP Politburo member Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy has asked PCC Chief Botcha Satyanarayana, who had announced suspension of nine MLAs, who were inclined to join the YSRCP, to answer why he was ignoring Anakapalle MP Sabbam Hari, who openly defended YSRCP Chief Y S Jagannohan Reddy.
Speaking to the media here on Sunday, Somireddy said it was wrong on the part of Sabbam Hari to speak in favour of Jagan being in the Congress. He asked the Congress as to why it was not suspending Sabbam Hari from the party fold.
Amalapuram MP G V Harsha Kumar has said there would be no loss to the Seemandhra region with the formation of separate Telangana State.
Speaking to the media here on Sunday, Harsha Kumar said it was not time to discuss on the Samaikyandhra in case the Centre decides to divide the State. “Discussions must be held only on Hyderabad City, he said, adding that Hyderabad City does not belong to people of a particular region. He opined that the Telangana issue could be solved by discussing Hyderabad City.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy today approved the file relating to conduct of elections to about 56,000 Territorial Constituencies (TCs) of some 11,000 Water Users Associations (WUAs), 342 Distributory Committees (DCs), 61 Medium Project Committees and 25 Major Project Committees (PCs) in the State.
The city police here on Sunday foiled hunger strike by the BJP corporators on the premises of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation by taking them into custody and shifting them to the nearest police station.
In the wake of the High Court setting aside the election of an MIM corporator, the BJP corporators demanded that the defeated BJP candidate be administered oath as corporator as directed by the High Court. They also demanded that the Standing Committee of the Corporation discuss the burning problems of the citizens.
Known for some of the classic movies like ‘Yaadon Ki Baaraat’ (1973), ‘Don’ (1978) and ‘The Great Gambler’ (1979), yesteryear actress Zeenat Aman, is all set to tie the knot for the second time.
The 60 year old actress Aman was married to Mazhar Khan who passed away in 1998 and has two sons Azaan (26) and Zahaan (23). Both were thrilled with her decision to marry but gave her all the best wishes.
Zeenat hasn’t revealed the name of the lucky guy but she confirms that he is from India.
Well we congratulate her in advance and wish a wonderful life ahead.
Fearing oil refineries will be hit hard by the Finance Ministry’s move to change the way petrol and diesel are priced, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to constitute an expert committee to decide on the issue.
The Finance Ministry has informed the Petroleum Ministry that auto fuel needs to be priced at export parity rather than import parity as the 2.5 per cent customs duty was adding to the under-recoveries of the state-run oil marketing companies without contributing any revenue to the exchequer.
In yet another instance of a Trinamool Congress leader making provocative comments, party MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Sunday compared Union minister of state Deepa Dasmunsi to a painted dancer, saying none can become a leader by just applying make-up.
“By dancing and applying make-up, you can’t become a leader. She can never become a leader by applying make up,” Ghosh Dastidar said in an obvious reference to Dasmunshi and challenged her to bring down TMC’s MP tally from 19 to 1 in the next General elections as the Union minister had vowed to do so on some occasions in the past.
Pakistan’s main opposition PML-N has stepped up its demand for creation of an independent judicial commission to probe the Kargil conflict of 1999 following revelations by retired army officers that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf had masterminded the operation. “A judicial commission on Kargil should be established without any further delay to bring the facts before the people,” said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, a senior leader of the PML-N.
A car bomb detonated by a suicide attacker followed by gunmen storming a police headquarters in the north Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed 30 people and wounded 70 others today, a police general said. Militants had apparently sought to take control of the compound, but were unsuccessful, Brigadier General Natah Mohammed Sabr, the head of the city’s emergency services department, told AFP.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has assured of initiating steps to allot a flat at Dwarka and a job for one of the family members, the brother of the Delhi gangrape victim has said. He said on the request of his mother, Sonia assured to initiate steps to get a flat allotted at Dwarka and job to him when she visited the family along with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi yesterday. The Congress president told them that charges had been framed against the accused in court and justice would be done soon, he said.
Ruing that a film’s success in Bollywood nowadays is judged by the Rs 100 crore benchmark, veteran actor Farooq Sheikh feels that the contemporary trend has diluted the focus on quality of the movie. “I think if we begin with the aspiration of making Rs 100 crore, then it is sad. We should rather think that our film should be so good that people will watch it againa and agian and remember it,” Sheikh told PTI. “This should be given a thought and not that it should be released in some 3,000 odd prints and make Rs 100 crore in two weeks.