City police may enforce helmet rule once again. Addressing road safety workshop Additional commissioner traffic police Mr. Amit Garg told that we are trying to convey the message to the citizens that use of helmet is for their own safety. It is said that only one out of 10 people in Hyderabad uses helmet. Thus the percentage of helmet user is only 10 to 15 percent.
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According to the report of officials of Russian Consulate in Hyderabad, the consulate will from now on work at Shah Villa, Row 1-86, house no 1, Palam County, Dargah Husain Shah Wali, PO, Golconda Hyderabad.
Concerned coordinator will be available at the above mentioned place during office hours. For further details contact on 040-65222052 or 9440887504.
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Maqbira Fatiha is located at Fateh Darwaza. Some people have illegally constructed houses on the said maqbira land. Despite objection by local youth, Waqf Board and GHMC were evading demolition of illegal constructions.
According to local youth they have been trying to remove unauthorized constructions on the 1000 sqyd land of the maqbira for the past 6 years but Waqf Board and GHMC were deliberately paying no heed to it.
The father of Ibragim Todashev, the man who was shot dead last week by US authorities while questioning him about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, said Thursday that his son was killed with a point-blank shot to the head.
The allegation raised even more questions about an already murky case.
“He was questioned for eight hours,” Abdulbaki Todashev told reporters in Moscow. “Then they shot him, six times in the body and once in the head.”
Russia has sent 38 tonnes of humanitarian aid for over half a million Syrian refugees staying in Jordon.
A Russian plane laden with assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan arrived in the kingdom Thursday, Xinhua reported.
According to the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation, the aid is the third batch of assistance from Russia to the Syrians in Jordan. It includes cooking materials, electricity generators and food material.
The aid is to be distributed soon among the Syrian refugees to help Jordon in reducing the pressure of hosting such a large number of refugees.
Chinese defence ministry Thursday described the US report, alleging Chinese hackers of having obtained designs for US weapon systems, as erroneous.
The report underestimates the Pentagon’s security capabilities as well as the Chinese people’s intelligence, reported Xinhua citing defence ministry’s spokesperson Geng Yansheng Thursday.
“China already has the ability to build the weapons needed for national security. China’s aircraft carrier, fighter jets, large transport aircraft and Beidou satellite navigation system have clearly demonstrated this,” he said.
President Bashar al-Assad has said Syria “will respond in kind” to any future Israeli air strike on its territory and expressed confidence in the victory over the foes of the Syrian state.
The Syrian government has been criticised for its muted response to recent Israeli air strikes on several facilities in Syria in alleged attempts to stop shipments of missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group.
“We have informed the relevant states that we will respond in kind (next time),” Assad said in a televised interview with Lebanese al-Manar TV Thursday.
The Maharashtra government is reviewing security for state Home Minister R.R. Patil following an open threat issued by Maoist guerrillas, a top official said here Friday.
“We have taken the threat seriously as it has been issued by the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of the Communist Party of India-Maoist,” Special Inspector General of Police (Law & Order) Deven Bharati told IANS Friday morning.
In a bizarre incident, a bride in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh refused to marry, saying the groom was too dark-complexioned. The incident took place in Fursatganj, about 80 km from the state capital, Thursday.
The bride’s family and other villagers gathered for the wedding were shocked by the woman’s response, on seeing the man she was to marry for the first time. According to information available, the ‘baraat’ had come from Naseerabad Jamalpur Harayyiya village; all was well till the bride laid eyes on the groom just before the ‘phere’.
Sexual advances or touching private parts of a patient by a doctor during clinical examination are “grave breach of trust” and unacceptable, the Delhi High Court has said.
The court’s observations came while dismissing a plea of a homoeopathic doctor against the award of 18 months jail term, besides a fine of Rs 20,000, for touching private parts of a girl who had gone to seek medical help for insomnia, headache and skin disease on May 23, 2007.
Five days after an unprecedented attack by Naxals, which wiped out the the top Congress leadership in the Bastar district, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde will on Friday visit Chhattisgarh.
His own party has expressed reservations over his extended stay in the US following the Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh. On his arrival in New Delhi on Thursday, Shinde explained he was consulting an eye doctor.
Iran has amended its internationally condemned law on stoning convicted adulterers to death to allow judges to impose a different form of execution, according to the revision seen today.
The controversial practice, in which stones are thrown at the partially buried offender, has provoked outcries from human rights organisations, international bodies and Western countries urging Iran to abandon it.
Moves appeared to be afoot to call a special Parliament session in July to pass two key bills, including the National Food Security bill.
A final decision on the issue will be taken after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returns from his foreign tour tomorrow, sources said.
While the dates for the session are being talked about as July 1-5, the government sources said that no schedule has yet been finalised.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said Congress should stop “misusing” constitutional institutions such as CBI.
“Congress should see the clear writing on the wall. You will not succeed in capturing the country by misusing CBI. Stop misusing constitutional institutions like CBI,” Modi said at a function, where a large group of Youth Congress and NSUI workers joined BJP.
“Today people have lost faith in Delhi….In coming days we have by-elections in the state and next year there will be general elections. Congress will pay the price for its misdeeds then,” he said.
A 19-year-old Indian student was killed and six others were injured when a car they were travelling crashed into a 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 an employee of Al Jazira Cold Store Company.
Unfazed by the move of three Congress leaders to quit the party and join Telangana Rashtra Samiti, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today said saying people were free to join any political party but a deadline to resolve the vexed Telangana issue cannot be set keeping in mind its sensitive nature.
He refused to comment on the decision of Congress leader K Keshava Rao and two party MPs G Vivekanananda and Manda Jagannatham to join TRS, saying people were free to join any political party in a democracy.
CBI today summoned the chief public prosecutor of the sessions court here for the third time and questioned him in connection with the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.
Sudhir Brahmabhatt was questioned for almost seven hours, said CBI sources.
Now speculation is rife that some high-profile politicians may be summoned for questioning.
Brahmabhatt was earlier questioned on May 27 and 28 at the CBI’s Gandhinagar office.
He was the special public prosecutor in Akshardham terror attack case of 2002, serial bomb blasts case of 2008 and hooch deaths case of 2009.
According to a press note issued by Iqbal Academy Hyderabad Prof. Abu Sattar Dalvi’s new book on “Iqbal and Mumbai” would be released by Prof. Anwar Mozzam, former Head of the Department of Islamic Studies, New Delhi at 7 p.m. on Tuesday 4th June at lecture hall of Iqbal Academy at Gulshan-e-Khaleel third floor opposite Garden Tower Masabtank. Prof. Abu Sattar Dalvihas also published some important books on the life and poetry of Dr. Iqbal. The book releasing function would be presided by Mr. Mohd Abu Rahim Quraishi, President of All India Manlis-e-Tameer-e-millath.Mr.
A man who admitted that he plotted to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States was sentenced today to 25 years in prison.
Manssor Arbabsiar, a US citizen who was born in Iran, pleaded guilty in October to two conspiracy charges and a murder-for-hire count. He admitted he was directed by Iranian military officials to go to Mexico on multiple occasions in 2011 to arrange the assassination attempt, which never occurred.
Arbabsiar lived in Texas, working in real estate and automobile sales since moving to the United States in 1977.
Many changes have taken place in the field of Education which are giving rich dividends. It is a welcome guesture if the hidden talents of the students are highlighted after evaluatioin in VI class his future career could be made brighter. A scheme of Merit class was started in 1998 with the efforts of Dr. Hasanuddin Ahmed, IAS retired. Due to which many intelligent students made their careers brighter by seeking admission into higher and professional courses. A screening test is schduled to be held on 2nd June at New Model High School, Dood bowli, Hyderabad. Prof. Anwar Mozzam, Mr.
NALSAR Univeristy of Law Hyderabad has anounced MBA program in Legal Education which is a unique course. There are 60 seats available in it. Candidates below 30 years of Age are eligible to seek admission. A graduate with 50% marks is eligible for admission. Admissions through this course will be made on the basis of an entrance test, a group discussion and then Interview. The entrance test would be conducted on Sunday 30th June 2013 from 2 to 4 p.m. Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Cuttak,Delhi, Gawhati, Hyderabad, Kolkatta, Lakhnow, Mumbai and Vishakapatnam are the test centres.
Attacks in Iraq, the deadliest of which struck Baghdad, killed 32 people today, pushing the death toll for this month above 600 and sparking fears of all-out sectarian conflict.
The United Nations has called for Iraq’s leaders to urgently hold talks to resolve wide-ranging political disputes that have been linked to the surge in unrest.
But the government’s public response has so far largely been limited to speeches, a shakeup of senior security officers and announcing a series of vague new measures relating to security.
Department of Arabic of University College of Science, Osmania University, Siafabad is conducting a two days seminar on the 18th Century noted islamic scholar, Hazrath Shah Waliullah and his works on 29th and 30th June 2013. Justice Mohd Sohail Ajaz Siddiqui, Chairman, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, New Delhi will be the Chief Guest. Maulana Mohd Kaleem Uddin Siddiqui, Chairman, Shah Waliullah Trust, Phulith, Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, President of Jamat-e-Islami of India, Mr. Syed Vikharuddin Quadri, Chief Editor of Rahnuma-e-Deccan, Mr.
Injecting a new element in the 2G spectrum allocation case trial, CBI Thursday asked a Delhi court to “summon” Reliance ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani and his wife Tina Ambani as prosecution witnesses to “arrive at the truth” and for a “just decision” in the case.
CBI moved an application in the court saying Anil Ambani, his wife Tina and 15 other persons are required to be examined as witnesses in the case as “some new facts”, including some bank documents pertaining to money transaction of Rs 997 crore in October 2007 between DB Group Company and Reliance ADA Group companies, have surfaced.
Suspended cricketer Ankeet Chavan, an accused in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, was today granted interim bail for a week by a Delhi court to solemnise his marriage scheduled for June 2.
“By denying accused to solemnise marriage which was already fixed, not only he but also the would-be bride and other relatives would also suffer because of no fault of theirs,” Additional Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Khanna said while granting interim bail to Chavan, with a condition that he will have to surrender on June 6.