Sunil Gavaskar today asked one and all to be a “bit patient with the three-member commission” that will be probing the spot-fixing and betting allegations levelled against BCCI president N Srinivasan’s son-in-law and CSK ‘Team Principal’ Gurunath Meiyappan.
The opportunity given to three Congress M.P’s by High Command is ending today, where as Congress High Command has not made its stand clear on Telangana issue. It may be noted that three Congress M.P’s , namely: Mr. M.Jaganndham(Nagar Kurnool), Rajaiah(Warangal) and Mr. G.Vivek(Peddapalli) convened a meeting at the residence of Dr. K.Kishava Rao to condemn the statement given by Mr. Chacko about the non-inclusion of Telangana issue in the agenda of UPA. They had given an ultimatum to Congress High Command to make its stand clear on Telangana, otherwise they had threatened to quit Congress.
Of late, illegal positions are being made on Wakf lands but A. P. Wakf Board has not being any action. This is encouraging illegal occupants. GHMC did not bother to initiate action under Land Acquisition Act, nor did it pay heed to the warning issued by A.P. State Wakf Board. GHMC started construction to expand the 100 meter road form Mogal Ka Nala to Puran Pul on the walf land belonging to Toli Masjid and Dargah Hazrat Darwesh Mohiuddin Quadri. On the representation of Mr. Osman Al Hajri, President of Deccan Wakf Properties’ society. A.P.
It was a terrifying sight: hundreds of angry, armed men on motorcycles advancing up a dusty street with no one to stop them.
Shouting at the top of their lungs, clutching machetes and iron pipes and long bamboo poles, they thrust their fists repeatedly into the air.
The object of their rage: Myanmar’s embattled minority Muslim community.
Mr. Mohd Mushtaqui Mohiuddin, President, Muslim Welfare Association of Shamsabad Mandal had presented a memorandum to Govt. of A.P. for establishing Junior and Degree Colleges in Shamsabad but there was no response after this he sent a fax to Mr. K.Rahman Khan, Union Minister for Minority Affairs reminding the establishment of Urdu and English Medium Junior and Degree Colleges in Shamsabad. Mr. Ujwal Kumar Under Secretary, Govt. of India sent a letter to the Secretary of the Dept of Minority Welfare instructing him to establish Junior and Degree colleges in Shamsabad.
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Under the auspices of Urdu writers and Journalists’ Association, Bazm-e-Ahbab-e-Jalees and Baghban Educational Welfare Society, poetic collection of famous Urdu poet Mr. Hasan Farukh “Doosri Dastak” will be held at 6:30 p.m. today at Abul Kalam Azad Oriental Research Institute, public garden under the chairmanship of Mr. Syed Vicaruddin, Chief Editor of Rahnuma-e-Deccan. Mr. Syed Shah Nurul-Haque Quadri, Mr. Rashid Azar and Prof. S.A.Shukoor, director Urdu Academy will be the Chief guests. Prof. Baig Ehsas, Mr. Mir Kamal Uddin Ali Khan and Dr. Ameena Tahseen will express their views.
DNA samples cannot be used as primary evidence in rape cases, an Islamic body that advises the Pakistan government today said.
The Council of Islamic Ideology, a constitutional body, ruled that Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sample is not acceptable as primary evidence in case of a rape. However, they can be used as secondary or supporting evidence.
The decision was made at a meeting of the Council chaired by Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani. The Council announced that Islamic law and teachings contained procedures to decide cases of rape.
Maoists and BJP are closely working in Chhattisgarh to serve each other’s purpose, Congress alleged today seeking to step up pressure on Chief Minister Raman Signh to resign in the wake of the audacious attack on party leaders that left 27 dead.
“Does the Chief Minister feel that he can absolve of his responbility after the action against the Superintendent of Police, IGP and Collector?”, party spokesman Bhakt Charan Das said posing more questions for Raman Singh.
The Madhya Pradesh State Waqf Tribunal has stayed the district administration’s order allowing some Hindu organisations to perform rituals at the Old Waqf Idgah land at Mandideep in neighbouring Raisen district. The Idgah management under the state Waqf Board had recently approached the Tribunal against the local administration’s order granting permission to some organisations to perform rituals at the Idgah land from May 29 to June 6.
An Indian-origin doctor in Malaysia is facing charges of assaulting his wife in 2009 in which a lower court had earlier acquitted him. P Mahendran, 47, was ordered by Shah Alam High Court yesterday to answer to the charge of assaulting his estranged wife, B Bhavani Devi, 41, after allowing the prosecution’s appeal against the lower court’s decision acquitting him without calling for his defence last December, the New Straits Times reported today.
An 18-year-old Indian student in Saudi Arabia has allegedly committed suicide after failing in his class 12 CBSE exams, results of which were declared on Monday.
Mir Ameer Ansari from Dammam in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province was an intelligent student but took his life after failing in Mathematics, the Arab News reported today.
“He just couldn’t come to terms with the fact that he could only score 17 out of 100 in mathematics,” the report quoted a community elder as saying.
“Our prayers are with the family in these difficult hours”, the elder said.
Jharkhand has decided to give special commando training to over 3000 police personnel to protect politicians and VIPs during their visits to Maoist-affected areas.
“The proposal has been pending for some time, it has been reviewed and decided that between 3000 and 4000 personnel will be given special commando training like the Special Protection Guards (SPG),” Director General of Police Rajiv Kumar told PTI here today.
After completion of training, their services would be utilized to protect VIPs and politicians,Kumar said.
Former great V V S Laxman today said the “credibility” of cricketers should not be “affected” just because of the presence of some greedy players who are lured into malpractices such as spot-fixing through use of big money and freebies.
“It is very important because just for some greedy players, the credibility of the rest of the players should not be affected. I think it is a very important issue and I am sure it will be cleaned up very soon,” Laxman told reporters on the sidelines of a promotional event.
A 30-year-old Briton died after he drank three litres of cola every day, causing his lungs to swell to four times the normal weight. His mother said the man “drank absolutely excessively since he was 10 years old”.
According to the Daily Mail, Paul Inman of Haworth, West Yorkshire, would go out to buy the drink up to three times a day, and would also drink glasses of water to quench his thirst, the Bradford hearing was told.
But the huge quantities of cola drinks caused his lungs to swell to four times the normal weight, and the man died in his sleep.
The Congress party has never used Muslims as its vote bank unlike many other political parties, asserted Mohammad Khaleequr Rahman, a Congress worker and member of the Andhra Pradesh Waqf Records Computerization Project.
In an interview with Saudi Gazette, he said that the Congress has always been treating Muslims as stakeholders.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday concluded his three-day visit to Japan. He will arrive in Bangkok later in the afternoon.
The prime minister attended a bilateral summit with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe during the visit.
In Bangkok, he will meet his Thailand counterpart Yingluck Shinawatra.
He will leave for India from Bangkok Friday morning.
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President Barack Obama appears to be a regular customer of a Chinese Internet cafe, reports said, after the manager forged an identity card in the US leader’s name to help surfers avoid China’s web rules.
The card has a full-face picture of Obama, lists his correct birthday and gives his address as “White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC”, while stating his ethnicity as “Kenyan”, pictures showed.
As part of their efforts to control the web, China’s Communist rulers require Internet cafes to register users’ identity numbers before letting them go online.
This Eid two superstars – Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar – will be clashing at the box office with their respective films, but the latter says too much should not be read into this and hoped both movies will do robust business.
“I don’t take it as Shah Rukh vs Akshay. Two films releasing together is a positive thing. Eid is a big day and both films will do well. One should not see too much into this,” Akshay said this evening.
He was speaking to reporters here at the first look launch of ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again’ (OUATIMA).
Ten people suffered burn injuries here after they were forced to touch a hot spade at a temple to convince a villager that they had not stolen cash from his residence, police said today. A complaint was registered today with the Anand rural police by Bhula Thakor, one of the ten people who suffered burn injuries, against Soma Thakor. A month and a half ago, Rs 3 lakh in cash was stolen from the residence of Soma Thakor, a resident of Nata village of Borsad taluka.
Highlighting the achievements of immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs, the White House today presented three Indian-Americans with prestigious Champions of Change awards.
The three Indian Americans among the 11 recipients are Shradha Agarwal from Chicago, Riddhiman Das from Kansas, and Amar Sawhney from Massachusetts.
Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar tonight said there is a possibility of involvement of an IPL team besides Rajasthan Royals in spot fixing but said no “breakthrough” has come in this regard so far.
“There is a possibility of involvement of another IPL team “, Kumar said when asked on the involvement of more IPL teams in the spot-fixing scandal.
He said Delhi Police were “hoping for a breakthrough but that hasn’t come as yet. So, we will be looking at wider ramifications of our case as well”.
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.
The relationship between the US and China is of both cooperation and competition, the White House said today, adding it has asked Beijing to investigate its concerns on cyber-attacks.
“We have an important and broad and complex relationship with China. We are the two largest economies in the world. And we engage with the Chinese on an array of issues — economic, political, cultural, military,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today.
Syria’s foreign minister laid out a hard line, insisting that Bashar Assad will remain Syria’s president at least until elections in 2014 and might run for another term, conditions that will make it difficult for Syria’s opposition to agree to UN-sponsored talks on ending Syria’s civil war.
Any deal reached in such talks would have to be put to a referendum, Walid al-Moallem said in a TV interview yesterday, introducing a new condition that could complicate efforts by the US and Russia to bring the two sides together at an international conference in Geneva, possibly next month.
The American economy continues to recover and strengthen from its deep recession but a lot more still needs to be done, the White House has said, noting that nation’s infrastructure sector urgently requires the boost of investments.
“We believe that the economy is continuing to recover and continuing to strengthen in the aftermath of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Indicators demonstrate that the recovery is continuing,” White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, said at his daily news conference.