The government has released Rs. 1.10 crores for the construction of underground water sump at historical Makkah Masjid. Minority Welfare Department issued orders in this connection. Secretary Minority Welfare Ahmed Nadeem decided to issue the amount after reviewing the pending works at Makkah Masjid. The construction work of the sump has been assigned to Water Works and Sewerage Board.
With the UPA government likely to concede the demand for creation of Telangana state, the call for carving out a separate Vidarbha state out of Maharashtra has started gaining heat.
Staunch protagonist of Vidarbha state, former BJP MP Banwarilal Purohit, who formed a political outfit for fighting for the cause, told PTI that his party had passed a resolution in its Bhubneshwar executive committee in 1992 supporting separate Vidarbha.
Now, the BJP should convince its alliance partner Shiv Sena to concede the demand, he said.
Union Minister of State for Agriculture and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Tariq Anwar on Tuesday said he expected the decision on the formation of the new state of Telangana to be taken with the unanimous consent of all members of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA)
Speaking to ANI TV, Anwar said: “We will see what kind of proposal the Congress Party will give. Only after that, will we (NCP) be able to comment. I am hopeful that the decision (on Telangana) will be taken with everyone’s consent.”
Weighed down by a weak rupee, the Reserve Bank today chose to keep all key interest rates unchanged and asked the government to take urgent steps to reign in the high current account deficit.
Lowering the GDP growth projection for the current fiscal to 5.5 per cent from 5.7 per cent, the central bank said the external sector is the “biggest threat” to economic stability.
Siasat editor Mr. Zahed Ali Khan has taken several measures to provide relief to the Muslim brothers, sisters and innocent children who have taken shelter in Hyderabad after having escaped from the Buddhists riotous mob. Faiz-e-Aam trusted has extended its full support towards Siasat daily in this yeoman service.
A man gunned down his mother and brother in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district before pulling the trigger on himself following a bitter property feud, police said.
The incident took place Monday in the Pradeura village of Mitauli area where the village chief Sanjay Verma was locked in a property dispute with his brother Sandeep Verma.
Two days back the duo had an ugly spat over the ancestral property but they were pacified by neighbours and other villagers.
All eyes are on two crucial meetings in Delhi scheduled Tuesday evening, which are likely to decide the future of Andhra Pradesh.
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coordination panel will be meeting at 4 p.m. and this will be followed by the meeting of Congress Working Committee (CWC) at 5.30 p.m. amid strong indications that the Congress has made up its mind to carve out Telangana state.
A formal announcement to meet nearly six-decade-old demand for Telangana state is likely to be announced after the two meetings, Congress sources said.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has denied reports that he has resigned in view of the Congress leadership’s decision to carve out a separate Telangana state.
The chief minister’s office has termed the resignation reports in a section of the media as ‘incorrect and baseless’.
Kiran Kumar Tuesday morning left for New Delhi on summons by the party leadership ahead of the meetings of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coordination panel and the Congress Working Committee.
Francisco Jose Garzon, the driver of the high-speed train involved in a derailment that killed 79 people last week, told investigating Judge Luis Alaez that he lost track of his position and did not know where he was on the evening the accident occurred, sources told EFE.
Garzon, who has been charged with 79 counts of homicide and numerous other crimes, admitted that he was going at double the 80 kph speed limit on the curve in A Grandeira.
The driver told investigators that he “managed to” hit the brakes but it was too late.
Actress Nargis Fakhri says she is “adapting” and “adjusting” in Bollywood by working on her Hindi diction every day, but she wishes she would have learnt Urdu during her younger days.
Nargis used to stay in New York before she got her big Bollywood break with “Rockstar”. Now she will be seen in “Madras Cafe”.
“I’m still learning everyday, and I’m learning to adapt and adjust. I work as much as I can. I have leant to read and write, I try to watch films without subtitles so that I can understand (Hindi) better. I wish I would have learnt Urdu when I was a child,” said Nargis.
A Chinese worker, who allegedly injected poison to frozen dumplings exported to Japan causing sickness to 10 people in 2008, went on trial today.
The Shijiazhuang Intermediate People’s Court in north China’s Hebei province began the trial of 39-year-old Lv Yueting, who was dissatisfied with his salary and working conditions and allegedly poisoned dumplings four years ago, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Polling started today in Pakistan’s National Assembly and four other provincial centres to elect a new president who will replace incumbent Asif Ali Zardari in September.
The polling started at 10.00 a.M. Amidst strict security arrangements at the National Assembly, the four provincial assemblies and the Senate.
The voting will continue without any break till 3.00 p.M.
Mamnoon Hussain, the India-born nominee of ruling PML-N, is likely to win the elections for the 12th President in the one-on-one contest with ex-judge Wajihuddin Ahmad of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party.
A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her stepfather on several occasions over a year in Ramgarh area of the district, police said today.
An FIR has been registered against the accused Abdul Sattar (40), a resident of Kashmiri Gate locality in Ramgarh.
According to a complaint filed by the victim’s mother, the accused was found raping the girl last night, Additional Superintendent of Police, Rakesh Pandey said.
The victim also told the police that she was being sexually exploited by her step father for over a year, Pandey added.
Fluctuating temperatures are to blame for Buddha statues with missing heads in Beijing’s famous Summer Palace park, officials said, dismissing speculation that they were vandalised.
Photos of Buddha statues, heads of which were missing, went viral on the internet over the weekend, sparking speculation that they may have been decapitated by vandals.
But the park’s management said temperature changes caused the heads to expand and contract, eventually loosening them from the statues.
Ten kg of ganja, worth about Rs 10 lakh in the international market, was seized by Customs and Excise officials today from Kambipadu coastal area near Dhanushkodi early this morning, police said.
The officials, acting on a tip off that some persons planning to smuggle the contraband to Sri Lanka, were on patrol when they spotted the ganja hidden behind some bushes, they said.
Nobody has been arrested so far in connection with the seizure, they said.
Normal life was disrupted for the second day today due to the 72-hour bandh called in the Darjeeling hills by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to demand Gorkhaland.
All shops, markets, school, colleges, government offices, banks and post offices were closed with GJM supporters gathering at Chowkbazar in Darjeeling as also in the two other hill subdivisions of Kurseong and Kalimpong, reports said.
Among offices closed were the district magistrate’s, Prasar Bharati, and the Gorkha Territorial Administration, which runs the affairs of the hills.
Breaking her silence on boyfriend Cory Monteith’s death this month, Lea Michele said her “Glee” co-star will “forever” be in her heart.
The grieving actress took to Twitter to thank her fans for supporting her since the sudden death of Monteith on July 13.
“Thank you all for helping me through this time with your enormous love & support. Cory will forever be in my heart,” Michele said.
The actress attached a photo of the couple hugging on a beach, both looking happily in love.
Having taken an unbeatable 3-1 led in the five-match ODI series against South Africa, Sri Lanka today decided to rest the senior troika of Mahela Jayawardene, Lasith Malinga and Rangana Herath from the final match here tomorrow.
Uncapped players Vimukthi Perera and Chaturanga de Silva have been drafted in while out-of-form opening batsman Kusal Janith Perera has been presented with another opportunity, replacing Upul Tharanga.
Vimukthi Perera, 23 is a left-arm medium pacer while Chaturanga de Silva is a left-handed all-rounder who bowls slow left-arm spin.
Army today foiled two infiltration bids along the Line of Control in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, killing two militants.
An infiltration bid was foiled by troops along the LoC in Macchil Sector of Kupwara district, a defence spokesman said.
Two militants have been killed in the operation, which was going on till reports last came in.
The spokesman said another counter-infiltration operation was in progress in Hafruda forests of nearby Handwara area in the district.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has denied reports that he has resigned in view of the Congress leadership’s decision to carve out a separate Telangana state.
The Chief Minister’s office has termed the resignation reports in a section of the media as ‘incorrect and baseless’.
Kiran Kumar Tuesday morning left for New Delhi on summons by the party leadership ahead of the meetings of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coordination panel and the Congress Working Committee.
The government which claims public welfare and development announces government schemes but due to lack of effective monitoring system the schemes benefit ruling party activists more than the general public. Even in the month of Holy Ramadan the ration shop dealers’ attitude towards poor public has not changed. Poor public is deprived of essential commodities on one pretext or other.
Four members of a family were gunned down over the weekend outside the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco by unidentified individuals, media reports said.
A man shot twice in the chest is listed in serious condition following Sunday’s shooting, the Novedades de Acapulco newspaper reported.
One of the dead is a 34-year-old woman who was six months’ pregnant, the daily said, adding that the motive for the killings has not been determined.
The murders occurred in Ampliacion Lazaro Cardenas, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Acapulco.
A powerful explosion damaged a controversial paraxylene plant in China’s eastern Fujian Province, officials said Tuesday.
No casualties have been reported, according to the county government. A fire that erupted after the explosion has been brought under control, officials said.
The controversial chemical plant was built in 2009 on Gulei Peninsula after the project was called off in the coastal city of Xiamen amid protests over potential pollution and health problems, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Damodar Raja Narasimha, deputy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, on Tuesday expressed confidence that the state of Telangana will become a reality.
“I am 100 percent positive that Telangana will be a reality,” Narasimha said.
“There is no dispute at all. There are no apprehensions,” he added.
He further expressed hope that Telangana will be formed with Hyderabad as its capital.
Authorities say five people have died, including three German citizens, after a helicopter crashed into a lake in northwest Romania shortly after takeoff.
Ovidiu Petru Oltean, the mayor of the town of Taureni where the crash occurred, said the helicopter crashed yesterday minutes after takeoff into a two-meter (6.6 feet) deep lake. He said three unidentified German businessmen, Romanian businessman Sorin Terbea, and the pilot died in the crash. They had been visiting a wood manufacturing plant in the area.