Australian cricketer Fawad Ahmed won the prestigious Australian Muslim Sportsperson of the Year award at the 8th annual Australian Muslim Achievement Awards.
Cricket Australia (CA) Monday congratulated Ahmed on winning the prestigious award.
Ahmed expressed his joy at being named the sportsperson of the year, which caps off a great year for him.
Majlis Bachao Tahreek (MBT) today called for ‘Black Day’ and State bandh on December 6 to mark the 21st anniversary of demolition of Babri Masjid.
Demanding that the State government immediately announce support price for sugar and clear outstanding arrears, a large number of sugarcane farmers staged a dharna in front of “Shakkar Bhavan” here on Monday.
The cane growers, belonging to Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, bemoaned that they were put to severe hardships due to the increased rates of fertilizers, diesel, labour wages and other incidental expenses. They also complained that the government was fleecing them with five per cent VAT and several crores of rupees in the form of taxes on molasses.
A delegation of all-parties’ farmers’ associations’ leaders today called on Major Irrigation Minister Sudarshan Reddy in the Secretariat and urged him to consider the issue of approaching Supreme Court against the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal verdict on sharing of surplus waters of river Krishna.
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, strongly underlining India’s concerns at the G-33 meeting here on the eve of the 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and said that food security must be protected from all challenges as it is not only a sensitive issue for India, but also a critical social imperative.
A 28-year-old Private employee died after accidentally falling into the lake in Shamirpet police limits.
According to police, the deceased, S Vinod Kumar of Neredmet, went to the Shamirpet lake with his friends on Sunday for celebrity. However, he was tried to swim in lake, accidentally slipped and was drowned into the lake. The body has been retrieved from the lake and handed over to the relatives after an autopsy was conducted at the Gandhi Hospital mortuary. (INN)
While several Congress leaders from the Rayalaseema region are speaking in favour of formation of Rayala Telangana, senior leader and Vice-Chairman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Marri Sashidhar Reddy has opposed the move.
India’s current account deficit declined to $5.2 billion in July-September quarter of the current financial year as compared to $21 billion recorded in the corresponding quarter of last year, on the back of rise in exports and decline in gold imports, government data showed Monday.
As proportion of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), the current account deficit during the quarter under review is 1.2 percent, sharply down from 5 percent recorded in the corresponding quarter in 2012-13, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Popping up the Rayal Telangana issue at this crucial juncture is the conspiracy of Congress to scuttle the Samiakyandhra agitation and a meek effort stop the groundswell of popularity YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is getting throughout the region, YSR Congress has said.
Denver-based Manick Sorcar has been honored for introducing the younger generation in India and viewers in the West to Indian heritage through laser displays.
Sorcar was given a Special Achievement Award for Cultural Enlightenment, at the International Laser Display Association (ILDA) conference held in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The outgoing High Commissioner of Pakistan to India, Salman Bashir on Monday said that Pakistan does not believe in a nuclear arms race or any arms race with India or any other nation, and added that strategic restraint is the answer
“Pakistan does not believe in a nuclear arms race or any arms race with India or with anybody else. We certainly do not want to see the nuclear threshold being lowered. We believe that strategic restraint is the answer,” he told media here today.
He further said that Pakistan would continue to make constructive proposals to India for strategic stability.
A 78-year-old man injured after he was hit by a train while he was trying to cross the track near lalaguda railway track on Saturday.
The accident occurred on Saturday evening. The Secunderabad Railway police later identified the deceased as R M Kannabhiram, a retired railway employee and resident of Lalaguda and he was died on Dec 2 early hours at Gandhi Hospital.
The buzz in Andhra Pradesh political circles is that the Congress high command has tactfully floated the idea of creating “Rayala Telangana” state, rather than Telangana, to checkmate leaders on both sides of the regional divide.
The union cabinet is expected to consider the Andhra Pradesh State Re-organisation (draft) Bill within a couple of days.
That Rayala Telangana was not a mere teaser became apparent with AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh saying in New Delhi today that “I will not rule out anything” when asked if the proposal was being considered by the Centre.
In a shocking incident, a 19 year-old boy committed suicide by hanging at her residence in B S Maqta of Panjagutta police limits.
The deceased, M Srinath, S/o Ramulu was a student and committed suicide on Sunday night. He was taking the extreme step due to personnel problems. Panjagutta police said.
In a similar incident, 32-year-old Ch Amar Upendra committed suicide by hanging at his residence in Achaiahnagar on Sunday night. Amar was a private employee, He was taking the extreme step due to family disputes. Musheerabad police said. (INN)
Contending that Article 370 of the Constitution cannot be abrogated “without the Jammu and Kashmir constituent assembly’s consent”, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti Monday said it was “no Babri Masjid to be demolished by communal forces”.
The director of a hotel management institute under Maharishi Dayanand University (MDU) in this Haryana town was critically injured Monday when a former student allegedly shot him from close range, police said.
Ashish Dahiya, director of the Institute of Hotel and Tourism Management (IHTM) and an associate professor in the university, was admitted to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) here where doctors said his condition was critical. Dahiya received two bullets in the stomach.
Police later arrested the assailant, Varinder Kumar.
YSR Congress Party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said there is an imperative need for the nation to know the need for a united Andhra Pradesh and the undemocratic and authoritarian way in which the division is taking place. Jagan Reddy said that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister has been deceiving the people while the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief Chandrababu Naidu has been speaking of packages, and is not willing to withdraw the letter he has given to the Centre accepting the division. “People of the Kuppam should mount pressure on Naidu to change his mind and take the Samaikya slogan.
Lok Satta Party national President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan will be taking part as chief guest in the 10th anniversary celebrations of NRI medical college at 6 PM on Tuesday, December 3 at Chinakakani, near Guntur.
Earlier in the evening Dr.JP will be visiting the Lok Satta Party office at Guntur and interact with party leaders. He will also be inducting new members into the party. (INN)
The Shiv Sena Monday sacked senior leader Mohan Rawale, at five terms its longest serving Lok Sabha MP, for dissidence, a party spokesperson said.
The expulsion was ordered shortly after Rawale addressed a press conference in which he launched a no-holds-barred attack on the party leadership and alleged that the Shiv Sena was becoming “a party of touts”.
The developments came just four days after a stern Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray made it clear that all those who did not like his leadership were “free to leave the party”.
A 40-year-old man was today thrashed by public at Rajendranagar area before being handed over to police after he allegedly tried to rape a minor girl, police said today. Bajrang Singh, a laborer, a resident of Erraboda of rajendranagar, where the 12-year-old girl also lives, took her to a toddy shop this afternoon and purchased the drink.
He then gave it to her and consumed the same himself and allegedly attempted to rape her while she was in an intoxicated state, police said quoting locals.
A young Muslim girl wearing hijab was attacked by a group of teenagers in Wantirna South, a suburb in Melbourne.
The high school student was walking home from Westfield Knox along Stud Road when she was set upon by a group of teenagers, Herald Sun reported Monday.
Knox councillor Joe Cossari, condemning the attack, said it was a racial attack.
Cossari said the teenager was punched to the ground and kicked, but did not report the assault to police because she feared reprisals.
The Indian economy is on the path of recovery. Growth will accelerate in the coming quarter and is expected to be around five percent for the current financial year, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said Monday.
The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth rose to 4.8 percent in the quarter ended September as compared to 4.4 percent in the previous quarter, according to latest data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Average growth in the first two quarters of the current financial year stood at 4.6 percent.
Questioning the rationale behind the talk of Rayala Telangana, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has hit back at the Centre as to why does it not merge all the 23 districts and call it Telangana State.
“We have no objection if all the 13 districts are merged with Telangana and call it a State but splitting Rayalseema into two is irrational and impractical. This shows the arrogance of Delhi which thinks that it can act according to its whims and fancies and people will remain mute spectators.
The Jubilee Hills police on Monday arrested one driver who allegedly raped a 19-year-old girl working as a sales executive in private firm.
The accused – G Kondal (21) S/o Ramchandraiah of Film nagar Jubilee Hills were arrested on Dec 2, Raped the girl from resident of road no 10 Banjara Hills on few days back. A manhunt was launched to arrest the accused after police registered a case based on a complaint filed by the victim’s parents. The accused are being been sent to judicial remand, Jubilee Hills Inspector D V Pradeep Kumar said. (INN)
Nearly a year after the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old girl here, the Supreme Court today sought the Centre’s stand on criminal courts’ power to decide ‘juvenility’ of an offender, who are between the age of 16 to 18 years, in heinous crimes.
A bench headed by Justice B S Chauhan issued notice and asked the Ministry of Women and Child Development to respond within four weeks to the plea that a criminal court cannot be “ousted” from judicial function to try juveniles for offences covered under IPC.