Month: July 2013

KCR’s Niece Meets CM For Protection

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TRS Chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao’s brother’s daughter Regulapati Ramya has alleged that she was facing a threat to her life from KCR.

Speaking to the media here on Friday, Ramya said TRS leaders were resorting to physical attacks as she opposed the TRS in the past. Along with TRS former leader Chinta Swamy, Ramya met Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and urged him to provide security to her. She also said she would meet Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy soon to ask for protection from TRS chief. (NSS)

Aadhar Cards To All In Four Months: Ponnala

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Minister for Information Technology Ponnala Laxmaiah on Friday informed that the process of issuance of Aadhar Cards to all would be completed in next three or four months.

Speaking to the media after visiting Khairatabad “Mee Seva” centre where Aadhar cards services were offering along with UNIC ID Chairman Nandan Nulekhani, Ponnala Laxmaiah stated that two crores people in the State were getting various services using Aadhar cards. The Aadhar cards should be issued to all within three or four months.

How Can Kodanda Meet Sonia: Revanth

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TDP senior leader Revanth Reddy has questioned how Telangana Political JAC chairman Prof. Kodandaram could meet Congress leaders, when he held the Congress men responsible for the suicides of Telangana students.

Speaking to the media here on Friday, Revanth Reddy said the present statements of the Congress on Telangana were part of a political drama for votes. He said even the recent Telangana Sadhana Sabha was also a part of that drama.

PM Keeps Mum On Looting Of Gas Resources By Reliance: CPI

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CPI State secretary Dr K Narayana has alleged that the ruling Congress party was in the clutches of the Reliance Company.

Speaking to mediapersons at the State party office “Maqdoom Bhavan” here on Friday, Narayana alleged that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh remained a mute spectator even though Rs 1lakh crore scam has been detected in Krishna-Godavari Basin. He also alleged that Dr Manmohan Singh was dancing to the tunes of contractors and Reliance Company.

Telephone Booth Opened In Chanchalguda Jail

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Deputy Inspector General of Jails Department Chandrasekhar on Friday inaugurated a telephone booth in the Chanchalguda Central Jail in order to enable the prisoners to talk to their family members.

Speaking on the occasion, Chandrasekhar said the telephone booth was set up in the jail to enable the prisoners to talk to their family members twice a week for about five minutes.

Chanchalguda Jail superintendent Saidaiah and higher officials of the Jails department were present on the occasion. (NSS)

TDP Urges Sec To Issue Revised Notification For PR Polls

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Telugu Desam Party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Friday urged the State Election Commissioner to reconsider the gram panchayat election schedule of July 3 and issue revised notification duly fixing separate schedule for the nomination and election process for the second and third phases of gram panchayats.

Ahmedabad: cycle shop owners asked to record buyers’ details

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In the wake of twin blasts in Hyderabad four months ago where bombs had been planted on bicycles, the police here have made it mandatory for bicycle shop owners to maintain record of buyers.

The notification, issued by Ahmedabad Police Commissioner S K Saikia yesterday, is also applicable to sellers of battery-run motorbikes.

The buyers of bicycles and battery-run motorbikes will have to produce documents such as driving license, PAN card, voter ID, identification letter of the employee organisation, etc.

My hardwork has been rewarded, says Rasool

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Parveez Rasool was modest yet honest in his admission that he did expect a national call-up after his seven-wicket haul against the mighty Australians earlier this year.

“I am very happy that my name has been included in the Indian team. I did a lot of hard work this season, performed well in the domestic cricket where I took 33 wickets and scored 594 runs. I also did well against Australia, so I was expecting a call up for the Zimbabwe tour,” an ecstatic Rasool told reporters here.

92-year-old Iraqi weds woman seven decades junior

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A 92-year-old Iraqi farmer married a woman 70 years his junior in a village north of Baghdad, he said today, voicing happiness at getting hitched alongside two teenage grandchildren who also tied the knot.

Musali Mohammed al-Mujamaie married 22-year-old Muna Mukhlif al-Juburi yesterday evening, three years after the death of his first wife of 58 years, with whom he raised 16 children in his home village of Gubban, which lies just south of the central Iraqi city of Samarra.

“I am so happy to get married with my grandsons,” Mujamaie told AFP after the ceremony.

Sharif vows to crackdown on Islamic militants active in China

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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today assured the Chinese leadership that his country would crackdown on an Islamic militant group carrying out a separatist movement in China’s restive Xinjiang province.

On his maiden foreign tour to China after taking over power in June, Sharif told his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang that his administration “regard East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as our common threat and stand united in combating this menace.”

BJP names Amit Shah to mobilise youth through social media

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In a bid to tap the sizable youth population of the country ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, BJP has given the task of mobilising them through social media to general secretary Amit Shah.

BJP President Rajnath Singh, in consultation with the party’s Parliamentary Board which met yesterday, decided to give the responsibility of reaching out to potential voters, especially the youth, through social media to Shah.

Half the ‘babus’ will go to jail if scams are probed: Goa CM

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Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said today that half the government officials in the state administration would go behind bars if the “scams committed during the former Congress-led government” were to be investigated.

“There is virtually no local (government) officer who is not involved in the illegalities (during the former government). They were involved in the scams like recruitment, where they have signed the documents,,” Parrikar told an annual general meeting of Goa Small Industries Association (GSIA) here today.

Woman given wrong blood, dies in govt hospital

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In a tragic incident, a 24-year-old woman died after she was allegedly transfused with a wrong group of blood at a government-run hospital here.

Rajeshwari B G, an anaemia patient who was ‘O’+, died yesterday after being given B+ blood.

Her family has lodged a police complaint blaming the blood bank technician at the hospital.

The government has ordered an inquiry into the episode, official sources said.

The patient, who died early yesterday, was suffering from anaemia for the past few years, officials said.

——PTI

Doctors rejected turning off Mandela life support

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Nelson Mandela’s doctors have rejected the idea of turning off the ailing icon’s life support unless he suffers massive organ failure, a close family friend said today.

Denis Goldberg — an anti-apartheid activist who has been Mandela’s friend for more than half a century — said the issue of turning off life support was discussed and ultimately dismissed.

“I was told the matter had been raised and the doctors said they would only consider such a situation if there was a genuine state of organ failure,” Goldberg said.

Bombings targeting Shiites kill 19 in Iraq

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A suicide attacker and a car bombing killed at least 19 people and wounded 38 in separate attacks today targeting Shiites north of Baghdad.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, the latest in an increasing wave of violence across the country.

Iraq has been facing its deadliest outburst of violence since 2008, with more than 2,000 people killed since the start of April.

The bloodshed appears to be largely the work of resurgent Sunni militants such as al-Qaeda’s Iraq branch, feeding off Sunni discontent with the Shiite-led government.

Kohli savours bonus point for team more than his own century

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For Virat Kohli, India earning a bonus point with win over the West Indies was more satisfying than scoring his 14th One-day century.

Kohli’s century was crucial in India’s big 102-run win as it helped the side score a huge 311 for seven.

Kohli said the knock was important for him since his inability to convert the good starts into big ones was haunting him but India getting a bonus point was more crucial.

“More than that (century), I am happy we won with a bonus point,” Kohli, who was adjudged Man-of-the-Match, said after India’s resounding win.

Vanzara said he had Modi’s clearance: for Ishrat encounter

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Advocate for one of the victims of Ishrat Jahan encounter case has claimed a retired Gujarat police officer had heard his suspended senior D G Vanzara, main accused in the case, telling another officer that he had the clearance of Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the encounter.

Israel debates ‘price-tag’ attacks on Muslims

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Ibrahim Hamza was up before first light. When he went out to his truck, he thought it was a simple flat tire. But it didn’t take long for Hamza, from one of the founding Muslim families who settled this village west of Jerusalem centuries ago, to realize that the tires had been slashed on 28 vehicles on his street.

Iran ready to send aid shipments to help Myanmar Rohingyas

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Iran deputy foreign minister says the Islamic Republic is prepared to dispatch humanitarian aid consignments to Myanmar in order to help with the relief of the Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country.

In a meeting with Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Zin Yaw in Naypyidaw on Wednesday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia and Pacific Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi elaborated on Tehran’s principled policies towards the developments in the Muslim World.

In Burma, monks accused of stirring up anti-Islamic violence

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In Burma, when monks speak, people listen. And with violence targeting minority Muslims on the rise, some senior members of Burma’s Buddhist monkhood, the revered Sangha, are counseling their peers to choose their words wisely.

That’s because some of the men accused of stirring up anti-Islamic violence hail from their own ranks, presenting a jarring counterpoint to the image normally associated with Burma’s crimson-robed monks — meditation, good works and brave resistance to the country’s former authoritarian regime.

Auto driver held for rape

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A married woman was allegedly raped by an autorickshaw driver and an Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) constable here in Badshahpur area. The driver has been arrested while the constable is on the run, police said Friday.

Auto driver Mahinder, 26, allegedly raped a 28-year-old woman after taking her to a house on the pretext of providing her a loan from a firm.

Mahinder took her to a room in a house and raped her Thursday evening. After that, IRB constable Balkrishan raped her, police said.

I’m an English girl at heart: Emma Watson

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Actress Emma Watson is so accustomed to the rainy weather in her native Britain that finds it difficult to adjust to the sunny climes of Los Angeles on a permanent basis.

“I’m an English girl at heart, and it’s just such a different world – it’s so different. Everybody drives everywhere in a car and I like walking around. And it’s really hot all the time. I like a bit of rain, you know,” contactmusic.com quoted the 23-year-old as saying.

Post hte success of “Harry Potter”, she became one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood.

Muslim Brotherhood chief vows sacrifice to defend Morsi

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Mohamed Badie, the chief or general guide of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has vowed that he and millions of supporters of Mohamed Morsi would sacrifice their lives and “souls” for the ousted president.

“We will sacrifice our souls for him,” Xinhua quoted Badie as telling supporters during a sit-in at Rabia al-Adawiya Square in Nasr City, Cairo.

“We and these millions will remain at all squares across the country to protect our elected president,” the general guide said.