Suresh Raina’s splendid century enabled title favourites Chennai Super Kings to post a commendable total of 186 for four against Kings XI Punjab in a Pepsi Indian Premier League match here today.
Raina batted magnificently to strike exactly 100 off only 53 balls with the help of seven fours and half a dozen sixes.
The UP left-hander became the third batsman after Chris Gayle and Shane Watson to score a century in the current edition.
Pakistani police today arrested and interrogated beleaguered former President Pervez Musharraf over the killing of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation, one of three high-profile cases that have dogged him since he returned to the country from self-exile.
A team of Balochistan Police arrested the former military ruler and grilled him for nearly four hours at his farmhouse on the outskirts of Islamabad, which was declared a “sub-jail” by authorities.
Describing Sarabjit Singh as a “national martyr”, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said that the Indian death row prisoner, who died in Pakistan, will be given a state funeral.
49-year-old Sarabjit’s death was an “entirely avoidable tragedy”, Badal said while strongly condemning the “inhuman treatment and brutal murder” of the prisoner right under the nose of the Pakistani authorities.
The body of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died early on Thursday following a brutal assault by other inmates of a jail here, was handed over to officials of the Indian high commission by Pakistani authorities.
The body will be flown from Lahore to Indian this afternoon, Indian and Pakistani officials said.
Earlier, Pakistan gave clearance for a special Indian flight to take back the body.
Two officials of the Indian high commission received the body. They will accompany the body on the special flight to India.
Medical and Health Minister Kondru Murali came to the defence of Chief Minister saying that the decision of the launch of Bangaru Thalli scheme was taken with the available ministers.
It is but natural for one or two persons to have reservations on the cabinet decisions and it is not a new thing, he said.
The Osmania University on Thursday informed that the B.A./B.Sc. examinations of Osmania University which were supposed to be held on 09-04-2013 and earlier postponed to 03-05-2013, have been postponed to May 4 (Saturday).
The Telugu Desam Party on Thursday ridiculed the new schemes that were recently launched by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
Addressing a press conference at NTR Trust Bhavan here, TDP Poliburo member Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy said that the Chief Minister’s schemes were sounding like the names of Tollywood movies. Accusing Kiran Kumar Reddy of acting like a dictator, he said that the cabinet ministers themselves were not even aware of the schemes launched by the Chief Minister recently.
The YSR Congress party on Thursday demanded that the government take immediate steps to conduct local polls as per the 2011 census.
Addressing media persons at the party headquarters here, YSR Congress party Political Affairs Committee coordinator Konatala Ramakrishna said the Congress leadership should show some respect to the 1973-74 constitutional amendment and conduct the local polls immediately.
The talks between the State government and the Private Hospitals Association ended on a cordial note and the hospitals will implement the scheme in the hospitals from tomorrow.
Chief Minister had talks with the representatives of the private hospitals who were demanding 30 per cent hike in charges for treatment under Aarogyasri while there were many complaints of misappropriation and irregularities in implementing the scheme.
Heat wave conditions prevail in the State with temperatures hovering around 44 degrees in some places.
The highest temperature of 44 degrees was recorded at Rentichinthala followed by Nizamabad (43), Hanakonda, Medak and Ramagundam (42).
Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda and the city recorded 41 degrees.
Kavali in Nellore district was hot at 40 degrees and the steel city of Visakhapatnam was relatively coolest at 33 degrees. (INN)
Lok Sabha on Thursday failed to pass because of din the much-hyped National Food Security Bill which seeks to ensure access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people.
Food Minister K V Thomas moved the bill for passage and consideration but prevailing uproar over issues like Sarabjit Singh’s death, Chinese incursion and domestic issues including coal block allocation and other scams forced adjournment of the House for the day without passage of the measure.
An unidentified man on Thursday threw acid on the face of a 25-year-old woman at the crowded Bandra Terminus railway station soon after she arrived here from Delhi to take up a job, police said.
The victim, identified as R Preeti, was attacked at around 8.15 AM by the accused, who had covered his face with a handkerchief, they said.
Preeti, along with her father, uncle and aunt, had arrived here today by Garib Rath from the national capital, they added.
Bollywood star Salman Khan, who had launched an online petition asking for Sarabjit Singh’s freedom in 2012, Thursday mourned the death of the Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan.
“Freedom at last. Hope they give him to his family. We all tried, guess not hard enough. May god give his family strength and his soul rests in peace,” Salman posted on Twitter.
Last year, Salman had urged his fans and the public to join an online petition that he planned to give to the Pakistan government in a bid to free Sarabjit.
Tremors on Thjursday shook Bhaderwah Valley and adjoining areas of Doda district, triggering panic among locals rattled by a series of quakes. The quake, measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale shook the area at 6.04 am, the MeT Department official said. Two aftershocks of lesser intensity were felt till 9.36 am in the belt. However, there was no immediate report of any casualty or injury, officials said.
Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died in Pakistan early Thursday, will be cremated in his hometown Bhikhiwind in Punjab’s border district of Tarn Taran, amid great anger in the town.
Sarabjit’s family, which was in New Delhi, reached Bhikhiwind, 50 km from Amritsar, by helicopter Thursday evening. Scores of local residents gathered at the helipad to meet them and walked with them to their house.
A series of protest demonstrations were held in Phagwara over the death of Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani hospital, leading to diversion of international buses running between Delhi and Lahore in the neighbouring country.
Activists of Shiv Sena, led by its state unit vice-president Inderjit Karwal, took out a protest march from Hanumangarhi temple and converged on National Highway 1 at Sugar Mill crossing.
They blocked the traffic briefly in protest against the failure of Indian government to save Sarabjit.
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A special aircraft has left for Pakistan to bring back the body of India prisoner Sarabjit Singh who died in a Lahore hospital Thursday, an official said.
“Aircraft to bring back Sarabjit Singh’s body has left for Lahore at 3.46 p.m. We expect aircraft to reach there in about 45 minutes,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told reporters here.
“It is an Air India aircraft… Regarding its flight back, it will fly from Lahore to Amritsar and two officials of Indian High Commission will accompany the body,” he said.
A diet low in grains, beans and certain vegetables — combined with “anti-ageing” supplements — improves blood vessel function, a new study has found.
The blood vessel abnormality, or endothelial dysfunction, occurs when cells lining the interior wall of blood vessels malfunction.
It’s a serious condition that’s often one of the first signs of heart disease.
Of the 200 51- to 86-year-old people in the study presented at the American Heart Association’s Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2013 Scientific Sessions, 40 percent were women.
Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid Thursday said the mantra for a team’s success is to “play your part well”, “be adaptable” and “do things not in your comfort zone”.
“When you are a part of the team or any organisation, it’s very important to ensure that you play your part well. When you play in the team, it’s not only about yourself, it’s also what success you can give to your team and how well the team does,” said Dravid, during a felicitation ceremony organised by Rupa and Company Ltd. here Thursday.
There were 215 fishermen and 55 other Indian nationals in Pakistan jails as of Jan 1 this year, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) announced here Thursday.
The figures were according to the lists exchanged between India and Pakistan on Jan 1 each year, MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said at a press conference on a day that Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital after being attacked by his fellow inmates.
Imagine what would have happened if Ajmal Kasab, the ruthless foot-soldier of the 26/11 terror strikes, had chosen Goa instead of Mumbai as his terror target, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said Thursday.
Parrikar was asking the Goa opposition members in the assembly to be calm instead of taking a belligerent stand on the Indian Navy’s stand over taking control of islands near the Goa coast for security reasons.
Parrikar’s comments came even as opposition legislator Mauvin Godinho accused the Indian Navy of threatening local residents from visiting three islands off Goa’s coast.
A shutdown was Thursday observed in Andhra Pradesh’s Nalgonda town to protest the rape and murder of a minor girl in the town two days ago.
Shops and business establishments remained closed on a call given by all the major political parties besides several non-political organisations to condemn the incident in the town, about 110 km from here.
An 11-year-old girl, missing since April 28, was found murdered April 30.
The daughter of an automobile mechanic, she had gone out to buy milk.
A former Indian marketing manager of an event management company here has been charged with embezzling 500,000 dirhams from his employer using forged documents.
The 44-year-old man, identified only by his initials, AK, is said to have embezzled the amount by handing over 15 forged purchase receipts to the finance department of the company that organised nightlife events, the Gulf News reported Thursday.
He then sought urgent medical leave saying he had cancer in a bid to abscond.
Prosecutors have now charged him with abusing his former job and embezzlement.
Confirming this, BCCI sources said that today was the last date for recommending the awards to the sports ministry.
Virat Kohli
The Cricket Board (BCCI) has recommended the names of young batsman Virat Kohli for the prestigious Arjuna award and former captain Sunil Gavaskar for the Dhyanchand lifetime achievement honour to the sports ministry.
Confirming this, BCCI sources said that today was the last date for recommending the awards to the sports ministry.