Twin blasts occurred at Dilsukhnagar are unfortunate in which many human lives were lost and more than 100 injured. God knows how many families have been crippled by the blasts. Who is behind the explosion? It is satisfying that government, police and other national agencies are not pointing fingures towards any direction. Surely the culprits must be announced only after the investigation.
A couple allegedly forced their teenage daughter to have sex with a person as repayment of a loan of Rs 50,000 they had availed, police said today.
Three people, including the 16-year-old girl’s parents, have been booked by the police after the incident came to
light on a complaint by the school administration to a local NGO which took the girl’s case to the police.
The father of the class VII student had taken a loan of Rs 50,000 some time ago, police said.
Following Dilsukhnagar blast people are apprehensive over shortage of police force in the state. One would be surprised to know that that Andhra Pradesh’s police personnel to population ratio is 1: 953.
A 23-year-old engineering student was arrested today from Gujarat for allegedly sending a fake e-mail in the name of his former friend and her kin to some electronic media houses in the state claiming responsibility for the twin bomb blasts in Hyderabad.
“The youth, Shivam Vyas, was arrested tonight for allegedly sending a fake e-mail in the name of some persons with whom he had to settle personal scores,” Kheda SP Makarand Chauhan told PTI.
According to the police, Vyas, who appears mentally deranged, had also tried to implicate the girl, her father and
Taiwanese-American Ang Lee beat master directors like Steven Spielberg and Michael Haneke to take home the best director Oscar for “Life of Pi”, his visually stunning 3D tale of an Indian boy adrift in the ocean for months with a Bengal tiger.
With his second Oscar win, Lee brings focus back to India, whose culture and ethos are an important part of the narrative and unlike previous Academy-winner “Slumdog Millionaire” which earned some brickbats for promoting slum porn, Lee has presented Pondicherry and Munnar beautifully through his 3D lenses.
Potentially threatening asteroids can be deflected from colliding with earth using a novel technique – spraying a thin layer of paint on the approaching space rock, experts claim.
According to Dave Hyland, Texas A&M University aerospace and physics professor, the science behind the plan is absolutely rock solid so much so that Nasa is getting involved and wants to know much more.
A natural antibiotic created from human sweat could fend off deadly strains of tuberculosis and other dangerous superbugs, researchers claim.
Dermcidin is produced by our skin when we sweat, and it fights off germs when skin is injured by a cut, scratch or bug bite.
Scientists have uncovered the atomic structure of the compound, enabling them to pinpoint for the first time what makes dermcidin such an efficient weapon in the battle against dangerous bugs.
India were all out for 572 in their first innings on the fourth day of the first cricket Test against Australia here today.
Brief Scores:
Australia 1st Innings: 380 all out
India 1st Innings: 572 all out in 154.3 overs (Mahendra Singh Dhoni 224, Virat Kohli 107, James pattinson 5/96, Nathan Lyon 3/215). PTI PM PM 02251025
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Telangana Joint Action Committee’s proposed ‘Road Blockage’ will be held in the third week of March. In a meeting of Telangana JAC it has been unanimously agreed. The road blockade which was scheduled to be held on March 2 has been postponed following blasts in the city.
Committee chairman Prof. M Kodandaram told this and said that Chalo Assembly programme will be organized after announcement of Assembly session schedule.
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With the fear of implicating Muslim youth in blasts recently occurred in Hyderabad, the national level human rights activists are keeping eye on the activities of Hyderabad city police.
On Sunday evening when the series of arrest of Muslim youth began, national level human right activists started seeking information regarding the arrests.
Three separate teams are expected to arrive at Hyderabad to seek information regarding arrests and harassment of Muslim youth on the pretext of investigating Dilsukhnagar bomb blasts.
Lakhni village and surrounding areas in Maharashtra’s Bhandara district observed a spontaneous shutdown on Sunday to protest the kidnapping, gang-rape and killing of three minor sisters earlier this month, officials said.
An all-party procession was also taken out in the village with participants carrying placards and banners demanding the arrest of the perpetrators of the heinous crime, who are still untraced 10 days after the incident shocked the nation.
Rajita eldest daughter of a Bidiworker of Nizamabad Anjaiah is also among the injured in Dilsukhnagar blasts. She is the student of MBA final year. On the evening of February 21, Rajita had gone to Dilsukhnagar along with her hostel warden Swapna to purchase some books, where she lost her leg in the blast and the blast claimed her warden’s life.
Security was today stepped in and around India Gate, the war memorial which attracts thousands on Sundays, with police restricting entry into the area.
The move comes three days after twin blasts rocked Hyderabad killing 16 people and leaving 117 injured rpt injured.
Indian Mujahideen terrorists are suspected to be behind the blasts and those arrested in connection with Pune blasts have claimed to have told police that they had recceed Hyderabad and other cities.
Investigations into Dilsukhnagar blast case is on from different angles. National Investigation Agency and other security agencies are busy collecting concrete proofs. Even 3 days after the blast the security agencies could not bring the outfit behind the heinous incident to the fore. As a result several Muslim youth are being interrogated for hours in the name of investigations.
A 25-year-old woman died after being shot thrice by two bike-borne youths here Sunday night, police said. Both the attackers have been arrested.
According to a police official, the woman, identified as Pooja, resident of Bhajanpura in east Delhi, was standing near the Sarai Kale Khan inter-state bus terminal in south Delhi when she was shot. She was taken to the AIIMS Trauma Centre where she died of her bullet injuries.
The two youths were apprehended by the people at the spot and handed over to police. They are said to be residents of Abu Fazal Enclave in Jamia Nagar.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday said that the Lokpal Bill to be introduced by the Centre in the ongoing Budget session would not be acceptable to them in the present form.
“The Jan Lokpal Bill, which will be introduced by the Central government in the Parliament during the budget session, will not be accepted by the party”, AAP national executive member Manish Sisodia said.
He was talking to reporters after holding AAP’s first conclave for Gujarat and announcing formation of the State Executive Committee.
Social activist Anna Hazare on Sunday said he has decided to renew his movement against corruption in about one-and-a-half month.
Addressing a public meeting here after receiving the “Basava Shree” award, he urged those wishing to join his anti corruption movement to SMS him on 99234/99235 upon which he would interact with them.
He lauded 12th century social reformer Basaveshwara for striving to create a casteless society.
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Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Sunday said the culprits involved in the Hyderabad blast, which killed 16 persons and left several injured, would be booked soon.
“We have got some materials there (at the blast site) and tests are being done in the forensic laboratory. Soon we will get the results and the culprits will be booked soon,” Shinde told newspersons here.
The UAE and Kenya have held discussions on ways to enhance cooperation between the two countries in livestock development.
UAE Minister of Environment and Water Rashid Ahmad bin Fahad met Kenyan Minister of Livestock Development Mohammed Abdi Kuti in Nairobi.
The two officials also discussed safety of foodstuff and meat products imported to the UAE.
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The UAE’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Lt. Gen. Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan met US Ambassador Michael Corbin to discuss ties of cooperation and friendship.
The two officials also held talks on issues of mutual interest between the two countries.
Maj. Gen. Nasser Lakhraibani Al Nuaimi, secretary general of the office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Brig. Ali Khalfan Al Dhahiri, director general of the Headquarters Affairs of Abu Dhabi Police and Col. Saud Al Sa’edi, director of the Secretariat of the Minister’s office were also present.
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who Sunday reviewed coastal security of West Bengal said the BSF would get six new floating border outposts (BOPs) for enhanced surveillance of the riverine India-Bangladesh border in the state.
“I have been visiting India’s borders with the neighbouring countries and today I reviewed the coastal security here. We will be giving six new BOPs to the BSF in addition to the existing three,” Shinde told the media here.
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Sunday urged people to reduce their electricity consumption if they cannot afford high power bills.
“If any family feels that electricity bill is out of their income (limit) and can’t bear it, then use one bulb instead of two. In place of two fans or coolers use one,” Dikshit said here at a political rally.
The chief minister also said consumers should not expect low power bills if their usage was high.
“If you use electricity for 24 hours, you will not pay the bill only for five hours,” she said.
Over 200,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City to hear Pope Benedict XVI’s final public blessing before he retires.
“The Lord is calling me to ‘climb the mountain’, to devote myself to prayer and meditation,” the 85-year-old Pope told the crowd Sunday as he appeared at the window of his apartment overlooking the square.
A 25-year-old woman was shot dead allegedly by a “drunk” man in a busy area in south Delhi on Sunday night when she objected to his misbehaviour, an incident that again raised questions on women’s security in the national capital less than three months after the brutal gangrape case.
Police said the incident took place when the victim identified as Pooja was with her husband Mohan Prasad on the Ring Road in Sarai Kale Khan close to the busy Inter State Bus Terminal and near Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station.
The victim was a resident of Bhajanpura in Outer Delhi.
Delhi Police Sunday launched an intensive search for Raju Bhai, an alleged Indian Mujahideen operative linked to the Hyderabad blasts which killed 16 people and injured over 115.
“We have launched a search to trace Raju Bhai, who can provide vital leads in the Hyderabad blasts case,” a senior official of Delhi Police’s Special Cell told IANS.
Raju Bhai, in his early 30s, has been on the radar of the special cell since his name figured in the August 2012 Pune serial blasts probe.