Minorities Development Forum of Siasat Urdu Daily is conducting a meeting at its office at 10 a.m. tomorrow 20th January to discuss about payment their salaries.
All the Imams and Mozins are requested to obtain the application forms and fill in the particulars so that they could be communicated to Wakf Board for further action. For further details, please contact Mr. Mohammed Abdul Qadeer at his cell phone number 9394801526.
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Minorities Development Forum of Siasat Urdu Daily will conduct a consultative meeting of the managing committee to finalize the arrangements in connection with Du-ba-Du (Face-to-Face) Matrimonial program to be held on 26th January at Sadia Function Palace and Rose Garden Function Hall, Sagar Road, Champapet.
The consultative meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. on 21st January at MDF office, Siasat Office Complex. All the members of the executive are requested to attend the meeting to finalize the arrangements.
–Siasat News
Siasat Urdu Daily is conducting a mock test for the benefit of candidates appearing for Village Revenue Officer and Village Revenue Assistant tests. Today at 2 p.m. at Mahboob Husain Jigar Hall, Siasat Office Complex, opp. Ramakrishna Theater, Abids. Candidates can get model test paper and test material. Govt. is conducting this examination on 2nd February.
Teachers’ Eligibility Test will also be conducted by the Govt. on 9th February. The mock test will be useful to these candidates also.
–Siasat News
Thousands of mourners attended the funeral procession of 102-year-old Muslim spiritual leader Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, on Saturday. The procession started at Burhanuddin”s residence amid tight security arrangements. The body of the leader was placed in a casket draped with the Indian National Flag, escorted by policemen, family members and community heads. He is succeeded by his 70-year-old son. Earlier on Saturday, at least 18 people died when a stampede broke out amongst mourners. (ANI)
India and Pakistan have agreed to allow round-the-clock trade through the countries” Wagah-Attari border on Saturday. Trade ministers of the two countries meeting in New Delhi also approved a liberalised visa policy for businessmen to help expand two-way trade, which was barely $2.5 billion in 2012/13 fiscal year against a potential $10 billion. Both sides hope closer integration of India and Pakistan which would help lay the ground for a lowering of political tensions between them. .
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday expressed his “shock and deep sadness” to junior HRD minister Shashi Tharoor over the demise of his wife, Sunanda Pushkar, saying “we are with you in this hour of grief”.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is ready to work with like-minded parties like Lok Satta in Andhra Pradesh, party leader Prashant Bhushan said Saturday.
Bhushan, who inaugurated the AAP office here, also hinted that Lok Satta, led by former bureaucrat Jayaprakash Narayan, may merge with AAP.
He told reporters that there were discussions between the two parties in this regard but declined to comment further, saying it would be too early to say anything.
The Congress Saturday expanded its election coordination committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power Jyotiraditya Scindia and former Youth Congress chief Randeep Singh Surjewala are the new panel members, a party release said.
The committee already has eight members, including party vice president Rahul Gandhi.
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Andhra Pradesh Saturday approved six major investment proposals involving a total investment of Rs.6,500 crore.
The proposals cleared by the State Investment Promotion Board (SIPB) at its meeting, chaired by Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, would employ 18,500 people.
The projects cleared include those of large multinational companies like PepsiCo, Cadbury, Colgate, Johnson & Johnson, Gerdau Steels and ITC, said a statement from the chief minister’s office.
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Saturday set a target of reaching 10 crore homes for party workers for the party to win the Lok Sabha polls.
“Whoever gets 20 crore votes in Lok Sabha will form the government. If you reach 10 crore homes, we will win,” Modi told district chiefs and co-ordinators and caretakers appointed for the polls.
“A huge social group is ready to fulfill its role. Ask them how they can contribute. Try to strike an emotional chord with them,” Modi said.
Modi also said party workers should approach women, as they don’t watch news and are unaware.
Syria’s main opposition bloc announced here it would attend the Geneva II peace conference after it held a secret vote on its participation Saturday.
The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) said that 58 out of the 75 members voted in favour of the bloc’s presence at the peace talks, 14 voted against it, two abstained and one cast a blank ballot, Xinhua reported.
“This was the toughest decision. The absolute majority voted in favour of going to Geneva and being part of the sides on the negotiating table,” Louay Safi, a SNC spokesperson said during a press conference.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and asked New Zealand to bat first in the first One-Day International here Sunday.
India brought in Ajinkya Rahane in place of Yuvraj Singh, who was dropped for the tour, and not cap Stuart Binny.
New Zealand preferred to play Adam Milne instead of veteran Kyle Mills in a four-pronged pace attack.
Corey Anderson, who the coachMike Hessen last week had said fatigued last week stays in the side.
The teams:
Singer Selena Gomez, 21, says she was tired of feeling “defeated” and of doing “things for other people” before she turned 20 and when she was dating Justin Bieber. But it was when she split from him that she found the right focus in her professional life.
Gomez and Bieber split in January 2013. She says it motivated her to re-evaluate and come back with pop hit “Come & Get It”.
Actress Malaika Arora Khan, who is busy judging “India’s Got Talent”, says on the big screen she will next be seen in Farah Khan’s “Happy New Year”. However, it will merely be a cameo.
“It’s literally just a cameo and nothing more to it. I have always been part of Sajid (Khan) and Farah’s film purely because they are friends. I have always enjoyed it. But I would like to clarify it’s only a cameo in Happy New Year.”
“Happy New Year” features Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood and Vivaan Shah.
India and Pakistan Saturday decided to take a few more steps by the end of next month to normalise trade. This includes opening of bank branches in each other’s countries.
City police today began interrogation of the Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal on his alleged involvement in the Chinnaswamy cricket stadium blast case.
“We have begun Bhatkal’s interrogation in Chinnaswamy stadium blast case and he will be in our custody till January 28,” City Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar told PTI.
Bhatkal, under judicial custody in Tihar Jail in connection with various terror attack cases, was brought to the city yesterday. “He was handed over to us by National Investigative Agency last night,” Auradkar said.
A winding-up petition has been admitted in the Karnataka High Court against Vijay Mallya’s grounded carrier Kingfisher Airlines Limited.
Justice Ananda Byrareddy admitted the petition filed by a consortium of banks led by State Bank of India after he determined that the claim of the creditors that the company was commercially insolvent is bonafide and hence unable to pay off its dues.
Kingfisher Airlines has been sued in various courts for non-payment of dues to its creditors. The consortium of 17 banks have claimed an outstanding of over Rs 7,000 crore from the carrier.
Indicating that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is in favour of separate Telangana state, its senior leader Prashant Bhushan today said the outfit supported smaller states as it believes in decentralisation of power.
Bhushan also said the AAP was averse to having any pre-poll alliance with any political party.
He, however, said like-minded parties like Lok Satta in Andhra Pradesh, led by former bureaucrat Jayprakash Narayan, was welcome to AAP fold.
Smoke billowing out from under an AC coach of the Howrah-Mysore Express here this morning caused panic among passengers, Railway officials said.
However, no casualty was reported.
The smoke from the 3rd AC bogie was noticed when the superfast train was near Tuni station, about 120km from here in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari distract, they said.
Some train passengers and the guard noticed the smoke and authorities at Tuni were immediately alerted, Rajahmundry Station Master B V Sastry told a news agency.
After announcing that he would not contest coming Lok Sabha polls, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has said he would do so if his party asks him to but he won’t be in the race for the top post.
He said the coming elections would see a fight between BJP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
In separate interviews to news channels, Kejriwal, when asked whether he would contest Lok Sabha elections if the party asks him to do so, responded in the affirmative.
“If the need arises, then I will contest elections. Personally, I don’t want to contest elections,” he said.
Congress today ticked off party leader Manishanker Aiyar for his controversial remarks that the party would welcome Narendra Modi to sell tea at AICC meetings.
“The party does not approve of the statement,” Congress general secretary Ajay Maken, who is in charge of the media department, told PTI.
Aiyar had mocked Modi’s Prime Ministerial ambitions and said a place will be identified for the Gujarat Chief Minister to distribute tea here.
26/11 mastermind David Headley is a “extraordinary maverick chameleon character” who only served himself despite professing multiple allegiances, says an author who has written on the 26/11 Mumbai attack.
“Headley only served himself,” said Adrian Levy, who has written “The Siege: Three Days of Terror Inside the Taj” along with co-author Cathy Scott-Clark, at a session at the Jaipur Literary Festival 2014 on Saturday.
Extending support to formation of separate Telangana State, Lok Satta Party chief and MLA Dr Jayaprakash Narayan here on Saturday urged the Centre to accord special status to backward areas in the Rayalaseema region or form it as a State.
Acrimonious scenes were witnessed between members of TDP and YSRCP in the Assembly during the debate on Telangana bill.
As the members indulged in allegations and counter allegations, the Speaker adjourned the House for ten minutes.
YSRCP member Bhumana Karunakar Reddy continued his speech targeting TDP chief and Leader of the Opposition Nara Chandrababu Naidu while Congress and TDP members criticized the YSRCP members. At this stage, the YSRCP members rushed to the Speaker’s podium and staged protests.
A free orientation seminar on Manasarovar Yatra will be held here on Sunday. All those interested in knowing more about the spiritual journey to Manasarovar are welcome to attend the Free Orientation seminar to be held from 4 pm at Hindi Maha Vidyalaya, Nallakunta, O.U. Road, Hyderabad.
In a pressnote here, organizer of the seminar Dr P. Uma Venkatesh said Dr P.V. Rao, Coordinator will take the introductory session and spiritual guru Dr Muralidhar Acharya will address the seminar.