As the YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy completed one year of his judicial remand on May 27, party leaders and cadres took to the streets and protested his year-long illegal incarceration on Tuesday by holding rallies and undertaking Deekshas across the state.
The Lok Satta Party has constituted an Election Committee to conduct supplementary elections to fill vacancies in the party at the constituency level on June 6 and 7 and at the district level on June 9.
Giving this information in a media statement here on Tuesday, State Lok Satta Party President Katari Srinivasa Rao said that the election committee comprises PV Gopalakrishna (Convener) and M Diwakar and N Janardhan (members).
Minister of State for Railways Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy and Secunderabad MP M Anjan Kumar Yadav flagged off two new Trains viz., Train No. 12774/12773 Secunderabad-Shalimar (Kolkata) Air Conditioned Weekly Superfast Express and train No. 17615 / 17616 Kacheguda-Madurai Weekly Express here on Tuesday.
Having witnessed a long spell of heat wave, several areas in the State got some respite due to rainfall.
While rainfall occurred at a few places over Rayalaseema, isolated rain occurred over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Meanwhile, the Met Department has predicted light to moderate rain or thunder showers at a few places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema. Similarly, rain or thundershowers were also predicted at isolated places over Telangana.
Rajya Sabha MP Palvai Govardhan Reddy on Tuesday accused Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Reddy of lacking commitment towards the Telangana cause.
Talking to reporters here, Palvai said that KCR lacked commitment and determination to achieve statehood for Telangana region. He said formation of Telangana State was possible only if KCR was defeated in the elections. He also accused the Telugu Desam Party leaders of lacking sincerity towards Telangana.
Telangana Political Joint Action Committee chairman Prof M Kodandaram on Tuesday condemned the statement of some Seemandhra leaders wherein they feared increase in naxal violence after formation of Telangana.
Talking to reporters after TPJAC’s bus yatra reached here, Kodandaram said that the Seemandhra leaders were wrongly trying to link the Maoist violence to Telangana issue. He said that Maoists’ presence was not confined to Telangana region. In view of strong presence of naxalites in the coastal Andhra region, will that area be merged with Tamil Nadu State? he asked.
Producer Rahul Agarwal of Sanjay Dutt starrer ‘Policegiri’ says he won’t play the sympathy card and insists it would be unfair to call family for promotions.
In March this year, Supreme Court pronounced Dutt guilty under the Arms Act in connection with the 1993 Mumbai
serial blasts case and sentenced him to five years imprisonment. Considering he was in prison earlier for
sometime, now Dutt has to serve three-and-half years in jail.
Dutt, 53, is currently in Yerwada jail.
Tainted cricketer S Sreesanth, who had been arrested a couple of weeks back for his alleged role in spot-fixing, was on Tuesday sent to judicial custody.
He will be lodged in Tihar jail till his bail plea which would be heard on June 3.
Sreesanth, along with two other Rajasthan Royals team mates Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, had been arrested for their involvement in spot-fixing. Several bookies were also arrested after they had been arrested.
Chinese hackers have accesed designs of many of America’s most sensitive advanced weapons systems, including programmes critical to missile defences, a US report has said.
According to a report prepared for the Pentagon, among more than two dozen major weapons systems whose designs were breached were programmes critical to US missile defenses and combat aircraft and ships.
A previously undisclosed section of a confidential report prepared for Pentagon leaders by the Defense Science Board did not accuse the Chinese of stealing the designs, Washington Post reported.
Rebel BJP MP Ram Jethmalani, who had been critical of the BJP leadership and had revolted against the then party chief Nitin Gadkari, was today expelled from the primary membership of the party for six years on
charges of “breach of discipline”.
The expulsion of 89-year-old Jethmalani, who is a member of Rajya Sabha, by the BJP Parliamentary Board comes weeks after he had barged into a Parliamentary Party meeting and questioned his continued suspension. He had also asked if he could be issued a whip when he has been suspended.
Two prison officers have been injured in an attack at a British maximum security jail, officials said today, with media reports claiming the assailants were Muslim inmates inspired by the brutal murder of a soldier.
The prison officers’ union told AFP one of the guards had been held hostage for nearly four hours at Full Sutton prison near York in northern England on Sunday, until riot officers managed to free him.
Officials did not confirm reports that the three attackers were Muslim prisoners inspired by the murder last
India today said “serious concerns” have “piled up” in Indo-Pak ties in the backdrop of recent incidents, including killing of an Indian prisoner, which Pakistan will have to address before the two countries pick up “strands” of the composite dialogue.
With various Indo-Pak interactions scheduled in past few months, including at the level of Water Secretaries, being cancelled in the aftermath of the beheading of an Indian soldier along the LoC in January, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, “We have a composite dialogue which will have to be picked up again”.
An engineering student slipped and drowned in a canal near Armapur here when he entered the deep waters trying to get his picture clicked, police said today.
Rahul Chauhan (19) had left with his five friends to Vijaynagar bazaar for shopping last evening. En route, the group of friends stopped at the Armapur Canal bridge, where Rahul entered the swift waters to get his picture clicked but he slipped and drowned, they said.
The police divers continued their search for the body till late yesterday but were unsuccessful, they said, adding the search is still on.
Former Indian cricketer Kirti Azad on Thursday questioned the silence of the politicians on the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scam, suggesting that there could be a united alliance with the BCCI which compels them not to speak.
“Well, this is exactly what I am asking, where are the political bosses, those who ask each other in parliament or in assemblies, ask for resignation? People who talk of morality, probity in public life, where are they now,” Azad said.
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has condemned a decision by local officials in Rakhine state to enforce a “two-child policy” on Rohingya Muslims.
The ban has been in place since 1994, but officials recently began enforcing it in areas where they say the high birth rate is fuelling ethnic tension, reports BBC News.
An advocate and two of his children were gunned down in Karachi Tuesday, a media report said.
Kosar Saqlain, an advocate of the Sindh High Court, and two of his children were shot dead by gunmen who opened fire at their car at Maripur road in Karachi, DawnNews reported.
The lawyer was on his way to drop the two children to school.
The dead were taken to Civil Hospital.
Shah Rukh Khan will undergo a surgery Tuesday at the Lilavati Hospital and reportedly the superstar’s son Aryan has come down from London to be with his father.
“Shah Rukh will undergo a surgery on his right shoulder today (Tuesday) afternoon at Lilavati. Shah Rukh had injured himself during ‘Ra.One’, but later he got busy with ‘Chennai Express’ and said that he will get the surgery done only after wrapping up the shooting for ‘Chennai Express,” a source close to the superstar told IANS.
Despite Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu’s claim that there is no power struggle in the family of party founder N.T. Rama Rao, the differences in the family once again came to fore Tuesday.
Popular Telugu actor and NTR’s grandson Junior NTR said he was not invited to ‘Mahanadu’ or annual convention of the party which began here Monday, while his father N. Harikrishna said he would speak about injustice being meted out to them at an appropriate time.
President Barack Obama urged his fellow citizens not to forget that the US “is still at war” in a Memorial Day speech he gave Monday.
Speaking at Arlington National Cemetery, on the outskirts of Washington, the president said that he is concerned that the sacrifices US troops are making will be forgotten now that the majority of Americans “are not directly touched by war”.
“Today, a transition is underway in Afghanistan, and our troops are coming home. Fewer Americans are making the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan, and that’s progress for which we are profoundly grateful,” he said.
The Maoist attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh was an announcement of war, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Tuesday and asked the ruling party at the centre to not politicise the issue.
“Congress should not do narrow politics on the attack. Congress should not try to indict the state government in this,” BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said. The BJP is the ruiling party in Chhatisgarh.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has expelled senior lawyer and MP Ram Jethmalani from the primary membership of party for six years over “breach of discipline”.
In a letter to Jethmalani, BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar Tuesday said the party’s parliamentary board had taken a unanimous decision Monday to expel him from membership of the party.
He enjoys a huge fan club and many would be idolising him, but for Sunny Deol his “protective” father Dharmendra, Bollywood’s ‘He Man’ of the 1960s and 1970s, is his all-time favourite hero.
“My dad is very protective about our family. In fact, we all are protective about each other, but he cannot bear if anything goes wrong to anyone,” Sunny told IANS.
Claiming responsibility for the deadly attack on a Congress convoy, Maoists today said their main objective was to “punish” senior party leaders including Nand Kumar Patel and Mahendra Karma for their “anti-people” policies.
The Naxals said they also wanted to avenge atrocities on innocent villagers and tribal women during ‘Salwa Judum’ (anti-Naxal vigilante movement).
In a release to the media, spokesperson of Dandkaranya Vishesh Zonal Committee Gudsa Usendi held both BJP and Congress responsible for “anti-people policies and hence senior politicians were targeted”.
Betting in cricket should be legalised, union Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah said here Tuesday said while coming out in defence of cricket board president N. Srinivasan.
“If betting is legal elsewhere why shouldn’t it be legalised in India as well,” the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and ruling National Conference patron told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Ganderbal.
28 year old Rukhsana Begum, wife of Mohammed Basheer, resident of Tolichowki, ended her life after a row with her husband.
According to Golconda police the woman poured kerosene over her body and set herself ablaze on May 24, she died yesterday while undergoing treatment.
According to police Rukhsana didn’t like Basheer’s habit of coming home very late and both had frequent quarrels over this issue. Dejected over this Rukhsana resorted to the extreme step. Police has registered a case and investigations are on.
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