Khammam district court has directed the police to register a case against the TRS chief K CHandrasekhara Rao, for the reported remarks he made, demeaning the stature of the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh from a public platform.
The court responded to the petition of one Rama Rao of Khammam district.
The death of Wali-ur-Rehman, the deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban, in a US drone strike could hit the incoming PML-N government’s plans to hold peace talks with militants.
More details about Rehman’s death emerged today, with the media quoting security officials and sources in the tribal belt as saying that the top Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan leader was killed yesterday in a drone strike on a compound in Chashma Pul, a short distance from Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency. The US had offered a USD five million bounty for Rehman.
The AP power utilities have initiated several steps like purchasing additional 300 MW power from May 31 through short-term power purchase besides getting optimum power from APGENCO and Central generating stations. The short-term purchases are being carried out to minimize the inconvenience to the consumers in view of the prevailing shortage of power which is primarily due to inadequate supply of natural gas to the State. The APDISCOMs got approval from APERC for calling tenders for short-term procurement of power from May 31 to May 29, 2014 to overcome the shortfall.
Jails department DG Krishnam Raju has condemned the allegations of the TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu that prisoners were consuming liquor and watching blue films in jails.
He also denied that anything special was being provided to the YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in the jail. He said Jagan was being provided only the facilities allowed for a special class prisoner and not any extra facilities violating the rules. He said on Mulakhats, the TDP had already obtained information under the Right To Information Act.
The death of Waliur Rehman, the second-in-command of the Pakistani Taliban in a drone strike if confirmed to be true would be a big blow to the outfit, the White House said today, adding the US would continue to use the CIA-operated spy planes in the Afghan war till 2014.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney at his daily news conference did not confirm the death of Rehman today in a US drone strike in the tribal regions of Pakistan.
Days ahead of a new government assuming office in Islamabad, the US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan met Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Thursday and discussed the regional situation.
Ambassador James F Dobbins, who was recently appointed the US Special Representative, is visiting Islamabad with Lt Gen (retd) Doug Lute, Special Assistant to US President Barack Obama.
“During the talks, discussions on bilateral relations and the regional situation, including latest developments in Afghanistan, took place.
Panchayat Raj minister K Jana Reddy denied that he was lobbyinng for the home department, talking to the media here on Thursday, he said it was shameful on the part of some to state that I was lobbying for the home portfolio.
He said all the portfolios in the cabinet were good. He claimed that he
only talked about local body elections with the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and not on portfolios.
Afghan intelligence agents captured six militants with suicide vests and heavy weaponry who were planning a major attack in Kabul, an official said on Thursday. A seventh alleged plotter was killed in the raid on a hideout in the capital.
The raid came hours after militants hit a guest house used by the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday night, killing an Afghan in an escalation of high-profile attacks targeting international organisations. Afghan security forces rescued seven foreigners.
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif is expected to announce some populist measures, including steps to reduce power outages, in his first address after taking oath as Pakistan’s Prime Minister on June 5.
As a first step, the new government would end “unannounced” power cuts and take other steps to tackle the energy crisis, sources in the PML-N said.
The issues to be taken up in Sharif’s speech were discussed at a meeting of senior PML-N leaders and energy experts that was held in Lahore on Wednesday.
In the history of the IITs in the State, Hyderabad IIT is going to take shape with financial assistance from abroad.
According to the information, the Japanese government would be providing $174.8 million equivalent to Rs 870-crore assistance for construction of nine huge buildings for the IIT. With the Japanese aid, a Technology Center, Research Park and so on would be arranged. The student strength will be increased from 1,000 to 7,500 by 2018. Similarly, the strength of faculty will also be increased from 100 to 750. (NSS)
Rajya Sabha member and senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao has said there was nothing wrong in Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi aspiring to become chief minister.
Speaking to the media here on Thursday, VH said apparently the Telangana MPs were in a feeling of disgust over stoic silence of the party high command on Telangana issue. They were also disheartened as the party chief remained mum even as they set a deadline on Telangana issue. He also urged the Telangana MPs to wait patiently till he spoke to AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi on the decades old Telangana issue.
Aiming to strengthen the framework for checking unlawful interception of phones, the Department of Telecom has suggested a steep rise in fine for illegal phone tapping to Rs 2 crore, from Rs 1 lakh at present.
In its comments on the proposed Right to Privacy Bill that is being drafted by the government, DoT has said: “In Section 51, financial penalty for unauthorised interception of communication may be increased from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 crore.”
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was elected to Rajya Sabha for the fifth consecutive term today as Congress won both the seats to the Upper House from Assam.
Singh got 49 first preference votes, while the second Congress candidate bagged 45 votes in the 126-member state Assembly, its principal secretary and returning officer G P Das said.
All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF)’s Aminul Islam, who polled 18 votes, lost, he said.
AIUDF is a partner of the UPA at the Centre and its 18 MLAs gave their second preference vote to the Prime Minister.
The Board of Intermediate Education has extended the last date for the payment of inspection fee for starting of new private un-aided junior colleges for the academic year 2013-14 to June 3.
According to BIE Secretary Rama Sankar Naik, the date has been extended in view of the request by several managements/societies in the State. (INN)
As many as 152 candidates appeared for the Intermediate Public Advanced Supplementary Examinations held in two sessions across the State on Thursday.
While, 133 out of 165 candidates appeared for the Geography Paper-I and Modern Language Paper-I in the morning session, 19 out of 29 candidates appeared for the Paper – II. No case of malpractice was booked and the examinations were conducted peacefully without any untoward incident. (INN)
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday hailed the decision of Congress MPs G Vivek and Manda Jagannatham and former PCC president K Keshav Rao to join the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
Talking to reporters after meeting Peddapali MP Vivek at latter’s residence, KCR said that three Congress leaders have tried hard to exert pressure on UPA to take a favourable decision on Telangana State. However, he said that the Congress High Command did not react favourably to the MPs demand.
Children with disabilities are three to four times more likely to be victims of violence at home or outside, according to an Unicef report.
The Unicef State of the World’s Children report 2013 released here Thursday says that prevalence estimates of violence against children with disabilities was 26.7 percent across the world.
A total of 20.4 percent children with disabilities have faced physical violence while 13.7 percent have encountered sexual violence.
There is “some truth” in Cobrapost’s allegations of wrong doings by banks and RBI has issued notices to their managements, central bank Governor D Subbarao said Thursday.
“We have done study of those banks, investigated them … We have done a larger study of those banks and we have issued notices to the bank managements and shall take appropriate actions,” Subbarao said at a question answer session during the R L Sanghvi Endowment AMA Annual Lecture on Economics.
A new research reveals that probiotics found in natural yogurt could help boost a person’s mood because they affect brain function.
Previous studies have shown that beneficial bacteria affected the brains of rats but no research has confirmed that the same occurred in human brains.
The study found that those who ate probiotic yoghurt twice daily for a month showed altered brain function, both in resting brain activity and in response to an ’emotional attention task’, which was designed to monitor how the brain responded to certain emotions, reports dailymail.co.uk.
Homegrown auto major Mahindra & Mahindra on Thursday reported a marginal increase in its standalone net profit for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2013 at Rs 889.19 crore
The company had posted a standalone net profit of Rs 874.48 crore in the same period previous fiscal, Mahindra & Mahindra said in a filing to the BSE.
Standalone net income from operations during the period under review stood at Rs 10,486.53 crore as against Rs 9,380.84 crore in the year-ago quarter, the company said.
Washington, May 30: A US Army soldier intends to plead guilty in the killing of 16 Afghan villagers in March 2012, in order to avoid the death penalty, his lawyer said.
The plea deal by Staff Sgt. Robert Bales must be approved by a judge and a commanding general, the soldier’s lawyer John Henry Browne told CNN.
In addition to those killed, six Afghans were wounded in the March 2012 attack near a small US base in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province.
The US Army did not comment on any potential deal, CNN said.
A hearing in the case is scheduled for June 5.
A 19-year-old Indian student was killed and six others, including five Indians, were injured when the car they were travelling in hit the compound wall of a school in Bahrain.
Pratik Baldev Raj was killed on the spot Tuesday night when he was thrown out of the vehicle travelling at high speed, the Gulf Daily News reported Thursday.
A student of Ernst & Young Training Institute, Pratik was the son of Baldev Raj, an employee of Al Jazira Cold Store Company.
The Indian embassy in Riyadh will start the verification and delivery process of a third batch of 12,000 applications for emergency certificates sought by expatriate Indian workers in Saudi Arabia who want to leave that country for good.
The embassy has already issued 24,000 exit passes and the third batch will be processed from Monday, the Saudi Gazette reported Thursday.
Indian workers have been thronging the Indian embassy in Riyadh and the consulate in Jeddah ever since a new labour policy was implemented in that Gulf nation.
Researchers have discovered a new flying dinosaur in China – roughly the same size as a chicken – that lived about 150 million years ago.
The creature was about 20 inches long. It had teeth and probably fed on insects, researchers said.
The dinosaur from the Middle-Late Jurassic period is providing scientists new understandings of how birds evolved, they said.
The dinosaur species called Aurornis xui lived about 150 million years ago, said Pascal Godefroit, lead author and researcher at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.
At least 25 suspects were arrested and interrogated Thursday for their role in a communal riot in Lashio in Myanmar’s northern Shan state, in which one person was killed and five others were injured, officials said.
On Wednesday, two groups were involved in arson and destruction but were dispersed by security forces, Xinhua reported.
Lashio seemed calm Thursday morning, but a mob later attempted to destroy a house. At least 15 people were detained, officials said.