The House on Saturday witnessed a war of words between chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and MIM leader AkbaruddinOwaisi during the discussion on home minister SabitaIndra Reddy’s statement on the arrests of Telangana leaders in connection with the SadakBandh.
Minorities Development Forum offers ‘Summer Vocational Course’ for women and girls during summer holidays. The first batch will begin on April 15, which will continue for 45 days. The second batch will run from May 1 to 31. It was decided in a special advisory meeting held by MDF on Saturday.
Siasat daily offers EAMCET (Engineering and Medicine) coaching classes by expert and experienced lecturers, from 8 to 11 am at two centres, one at New Holy Fatima School, Brindavan colony, Tolichowki and other at Rahmani Junior college, Panch mohalla road, Charminar Makkah Masjid Kaman.
Admissions are in progress. Focus is given on securing good rank and time management.
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One person was killed and another was injured when a small biplane crashed in Russia’s southern Krasnodar territory.
The civil defence and emergency situations ministry said the Antonov An-2 plane, converted for agricultural use, lost engine power three km from Vostochnaya village.
The An-2 first flew as long ago as 1947 and hundreds are still flying in Russia and abroad, powered by the same nine-cylinder radial engine and four-blade propeller as was used in the initial design.
According to Mr. Mohammed Habeebur Rahman Incharge Urdu Dani Section, the results of Urdu Dani, Zaban Dani and Insha exams conducted by Idara-e-Adabiyat-e-Urdu Panjagutta, on January 27, 2013, have been announced and certificates are ready.
In charges of all the centres of Hyderabad, Secunderabad, districts and other neighbouring states are hereby informed to collect the certificates during office hours.
As the financial year 2012-13 is coming to an end, Principal secretary Minority Welfare Rani Kumudini has focused her attention towards speedy release of remaining budget of minority institutions. She has contacted officials of the finance department in this connection and requested them to immediately release the 4th quarter towards minority institutions, because due to holidays in the next week only three working days have left in this month. If the time lapses the minority budget will go waste.
MS Rahmani 30 has announced free IIT-JEE coaching programme for interested Muslim students in 4 southern states of India i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. MS Group of Institutions in collaboration with Rahmani-30 has started free residential and coaching programme at its campus in Malakpet, Hyderabad.
Mr. Mohammed Amanullah Khan, Mr. Mujahid Hashimi and other leaders of Awami Majlis-eAmal in a joint statement said that with pronouncing the judgment on Bombay Blast case, the supreme court opined that religious fanatics and terrorist organizations should not be allowed to tarnish the image of India by destroying the basic structure of the Indian Constitution.
In order to tackle such issues the best option would be to present a model of good governance. Law implementing agencies should ensure that the rules and regulations are being followed by the people.
Top Maoist leader Sudershan was Saturday arrested in Andhra Pradesh’s Khammam district bordering Chhattisgarh, police said.
Sudershan alias Sriramulu Srinivas, a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of India-Maoist, was arrested near Vyra in Khammam district.
A key figure of Andhra-Orissa Border committee of CPI-Maoist, he was carrying Rs 20 lakh reward on his head.
Hailing from Andhra Pradesh, Sudershan is a key accused in the assassination bid on then chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in 2003 at Alipiri near Tirupati.
At least four of a gang involved in a fake currency racket were arrested in Odisha’s Bargarh district and counterfeit notes with a total face value of Rs.49,000 were seized from them, police said Sunday.
Based on a tip off, police conducted raids Saturday in the Kendubhata area of Bargarh district. The district headquarters town of the district is about 380 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.
Police initially arrested one person after he was found possessing some fake notes.
Delhi Police claimed that it has foiled a terrorist attack for distributing the peaceful atmosphere of Delhi. It also announced that it has arrested the mastermind of this conspiracy from Haji Arafat Guest House of Jamia Masjid area two days back.
The claim made by Delhi police is full of many contradictory statements, which raise suspicion.
Delhi Police suspected Liaquat Ali Shah (40) a native Kashmir to be the plotter.
Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon returned with career best 7/94 to bowl out India for 272 runs in the first innings on the third day of the fourth cricket Test at the Ferozeshah Kotla here Sunday.
Resuming at 266 for eight, India added four runs before Lyon picked up Ishant Sharma and Pragyan Ojha in two consecutive deliveries.
India now have a lead of 10 runs.
Australia were bowled out for 262 in the first innings.
—IANS
Social activist Anna Hazare on Saturday said the general public has lost faith in the ruling Congress Party, as it has always “misused” administrative machinery, including the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for its own selfish needs. Asked about the CBI raid on DMK leader M K Stalin”s Chennai residence immediately after the party had withdrawn its support to the UPA Government over the Sri Lankan Tamil rights issue, Hazare said: “Everybody knows that the CBI is under government”s control.
A 50-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a 13-year-old girl in Fatehpuri village, police said on Saturday.
The accused, Madan Lal Yadav, was arrested yesterday and has been sent to 14-day judicial custody by a local court here, they said.
Yadav, in an inebriated condition, had barged into the victim’s house on March 21 and attempted to rape her while she was alone at home, police said.
When the girl raised an alarm, some neighbours rushed to her rescue but Yadav managed to flee, police said.
A constable of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl in Dharamsala.
The constable was here as a member of ITBP contingent to take part in the 61st All India Police Games that concluded here on Friday.
The victim in her complaint alleged that she was returning to her home after watching the closing ceremony of the police games on Fridayevening when the incident took place, police said.
She alleged that the accused first asked her phone number and when she refused he forcibly took her to an isolated place and raped her.
After weeks of hard work, Jay Bhanushali and Mahhi Vij won the fifth season of TV reality dance show ‘Nach Baliye 5’.
The couple has been the most consistent performers. The judges had said they were the most deserving couple out of the four finalists.
The winning jodi of ‘Nach Baliye-5’ was announced by the three judges – Shilpa Shetty, Terrence Lewis and Sajid Khan – after the finale week got nearly 50 lakh votes, taking the overall voting numbers to nearly two crore for the season.
The Delhi police on Saturday night found eight bags containing bomb-making material outside Delhi Secretariat.
The bags reportedly were full of iron pellets. A patrolling team found the bag last night.
The security has already been tightened in Delhi in the wake of the recovery of an AK-56 assault rifle, three hand grenades, two magazines each carrying 30 rounds (cartridges), 220 gm explosives, a map of Delhi, dry fruits and a memory card during a raid from a guest house in Jama Masjid area in Old Delhi.
A senior police officer attached with Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) llegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in front of his family
members in a hotel at neighbouring Thane today, police said.
Though the motive behind Sanjay Banerjee (45), a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), taking the extreme step is being ascertained, police suspect that he was facing some domestic issues in recent months.
Banerjee, who had joined police force as Deputy Superintendent of Police through Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC), is survived by his wife and two sons.
Indo-Canadian actress Sunny Leone says she wants to romance Bollywood biggies Salman Khan and Ranbir Kapoor on-screen and also try her hands at comedy.
Sunny first made her appearance in TV reality show ‘Bigg Boss 5’ in 2011 and this led to her entry in Bollywood.
She made her debut in Hindi films with ‘Jism 2’ and will be next seen in ‘Ragini MMS 2’.
Moved by the plight of an orphaned girl who was sexually exploited by her uncle and gave birth to a child in a hospital here, the Himachal Pradesh High Court Saturday directed the state to take care of the duo.
“Ours is a welfare state and it’s the duty cast upon the state to take all necessary steps towards the welfare, care and protection of the mother and baby since she is unable to protect herself,” said a division bench of Acting Chief Justice R.B. Misra and Justice Rajiv Sharma said.
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav Saturday publicly heaped praise on Lal Krishna Advani here, saying the senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader “does not lie”.
“Advani ji told me that if law and order was not taken care of immediately, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav would be labelled as a failed administrator… I have known him for long and I know that he does not lie,” the SP chief said at a function here to commemorate the 103rd birth anniversary of socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia.
Suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Sayyed Liyaqat Shah, arrested for allegedly planning a suicide attack here, was not going to surrender under the Jammu and Kashmir government’s rehabilitation policy, theDelhi Police said Saturday.
Denying reports that Shah, 47, was going to surrender himself in Jammu and Kashmir, a senior Delhi Police officer clarified that he was to stage a suicide attack here very soon, not return to Kashmir.
Special courts would be set up soon for Muslim youth accused of various offences, including terror-related charges, Minister for Minority Affairs K. Rahman Khan said here Saturday.
He said that his ministry had written to the home ministry in February asking “cases against Muslim youth who have been arrested should be reviewed. We had also specified that special courts should be made for them”.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal Saturday began an indefinite hunger strike to protest increased power and water bills in Delhi. The BJP too held a separate protest on the issue.
“In order to take the fear out of the minds and hearts of the people and to unite them, I’m sitting on an indefinite fast. This time, we are not demanding anything from the government. My appeal is directly to the people of Delhi,” Kejriwal said in a statement.
He said he would stop paying his electricity and water bills and asked others to also do the same.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan, a media report said.
The meeting was part of America’s renewed efforts to revive direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Xinhua reported.
The meeting took place Saturday in Jordan’s capital city Amman, where Abbas stopped on his way to Qatar, a Palestinian source said.
Kerry was in Amman with US President Barack Obama, who visited Israel and the Palestinian territories earlier this week.