Continuing his tirade against TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao and YSRCP president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, TDP senior leader Revanth Reddy today demanded that the Centre and State government to order a probe on the institutions which conduct election surveys.
The institution which conduct wrongful election surveys, should be boycotted socially, Revanth Reddy said and alleged that YSRCP was influencing such institutions using its money power amassed illegally.
A 58 year old tailor was murdered allegedly by a group of persons at Doodhbowli over a civil dispute on Wednesday night hours.
According to Hussaini Alam police, deceased M Santosh Kumar (58) a tailor and proprietor of Sumangal Tailors at Begum Bazaar R/o Doodhbowli was returning home from his workshop on his two wheeler when he was attacked with sharp weapons near Kamatipura temple murdered allegedly by a group of persons at Doodhbowli in Hussainialam over a civil dispute on Wednesday night instantly he was died. The victim suffered around nine stab injuries in the attack.
A 28-year old Painter committed suicide by hanging at his residence on inebriated condition.
According to Banjara Hills police, deceased K Rambabu (28), resident of NBT Nagar, on Wednesday evening hours deceased Ram Babu used to visit the house in inebriated condition and creating nuisance for demanded her mother Shantamma to pay money, but her mother denied his words and deceased started beating his wife and sisters, later he was committed suicide by hanging at his room on Wednesday evening hours.
A 60-year-old woman committed suicide after she was allegedly humiliated in a local Panchayat.
A 36 year old man committed suicide by hanging at his residence in limits of KPHB police station.
According to police, deceased K Srinivas (36) a Cook S/o Venkatesh R/o KPHB, He was suffering from ill health and about one month back his son died, due to mental depression from last one month, deceased Srinivas On Wednesday night hours taking extreme step committed suicide by hanging at his residence.
KPHB Police registered a case and dead body shifted to Gandhi Hospital Mortuary, after autopsy deceased body handed over to his relatives. (INN)
A 25-year-old-man died of electrocution at Saidabad on Wednesday night hours.
According to the Saidabad police, Deceased identified as M Raju a salesman S/o Guru sidappa, resident of Old Santosh nagar while working on Wednesday night hours accidentally he got electrocuted and unconscious the police said. He was rushed to a nearest private hospital but he was declared dead by the doctors.
Saidabad police registered a case and dead body shifted to OGH Mortuary for postmortem. Sub inspector K Mutyalu said. (INN)
Union Minister Jairam Ramesh praised the loyalty and dedication of Muslims leaders from Seemandhra region towards the Congress party.
GHMC Mayor Mohammed Majid Hussain along with Deputy Mayor G Rajkumar and GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar, has formally launched SHE CABS Scheme at GHMC Head Office on Thursday.
Praising the scheme, the Mayor said that the GHMC was striving hard for women empowerment and such schemes would help the women living below poverty line. The scheme is aimed at improving women’s self confidence while helping them stand on their own feet.
Tandur Police Inspector Sudheer Reddy, who was accused of illegally detaining a local businessman, has been transferred.
The move came after Andhra Pradesh High Court directed the Tandur Police on February 25 to submit a report within two weeks on the alleged illegal detention and torture of a local businessman, Mohammad Amanullah Rizwan, by the Inspector.
Terming N Chandrababu Naidu’s tall promises on developing Seemandhra as unrealistic YSR Congress has said TDP is in no way in contention to win seats in the elections and cannot influence the Centre in any which way.
OMICS Group International, which operates from India and USA, observed the ‘National Science Day’ on Thursday across its offices all over the world. It is an annual feature at OMICS Group, informed Dr. Srinibatu Gedela in a press note issued here.
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan on Thursday said he is not shying away from politics, but that he was not interested in it.
“I am not shying away from politics. I am not interested in politics. I am interested in touching people’s heart,” he said responding to a query in this regard.
“People enter politics because they want to serve the country and serve the people. There are many other ways of doing it,” he said.
India and Pakistani officials are likely to meet in New Delhi next month to review Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for trade along the Line of Control in the wake of the row over arrest of a truck driver hailing from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) for allegedly smuggling ‘brown sugar’ worth Rs.100 crore.
Trading relations between the two countries had hit a new low following the incident at Kaman post in Uri of North Kashmir on January 17 and the traders were not allowed to cross over for over three weeks.
A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Kaliyar village of Roorkee, in the second such incident in Haridwar district in the last four days, police said on Thursday.
The girl was playing outside her house in the village on Tuesday when Islam, who lived nearby, took her to his place on some pretext and allegedly raped her, they said.
When the girl returned home, the family came to know about her ordeal and reported the matter to the police.
The accused, who has criminal antecedents, has been arrested and sent to jail following a court order.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal will hold a three-day road show covering 15 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.
“Arvind Kejriwal will be in Uttar Pradesh for Lok Sabha poll campaign from March 1-3 and undertake the Jhadu Chalo Yatra,” said party leader and Political Affairs Committee (PAC) member Sanjay Singh.
The rally will start on March 1 from party office in Kaushambi and proceed to Ghaziabad, Pilkhuwa, Hapur, Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur and Hardoi.
Hitting back at Finance Minister P Chidambaram for his postage stamp barb, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said he can enlist knowledgeable people to help him govern based on the principle of being a “trustee.”
“My knowledge about finance and economy will not occupy even a postage stamp. My whole knowledge can be confined to one word, that is trustee.
“…muhje koi bahut granthon ki zaroorat nahi hai. Granth walo ko mein rakh lunga apne paas (I don’t need a lot of bookish knowledge. I can enlist people with knowledge),” he said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday announced its first list of 54 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections and fielded former party president Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur.
The list was announced after a meeting of the party’s central election committee.
It includes candidates for Jammu and Kashmir, Arunchal Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, West Bengal, Odisha, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh and has several sitting and former parliamentarians.
Cine actress and TRS MP M Vijaya Shanthi on Thursday joined Congress at a time when the possibility of TRS merging with Congress seemed to have hit a roadblock.
Vijaya Shanthi, who is not on the best of terms with TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, today met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi after which the decision of her joining the party was announced.
AICC general secretary in-charge for Andhra Pradesh Digvijay Singh, who accompanied the MP, told reporters that Vijaya Shanthi, the Lok Sabha MP from Medak, Andhra Pradesh, had taken the “blessings” of Gandhi.
Severely critical of the Western powers in dealing with various problems facing the world, Iran today called for shunning their “zero some game” approach and pitched for a new paradigm based on principles of equality as propounded by Mahatma Gandhi.
Delivering the fifth R K Mishra Memorial Lecture, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said there was an urgent need to fundamentally change the existing approaches in resolving various conflicts and said India and Iran must join hands towards forcefully seeking the change.
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ramvilas Paswan Thursday returned to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.
The LJP agreed to contest seven Lok Sabha seats from Bihar in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The announcement was made in the capital by Paswan and BJP president Rajnath Singh.
–IANS
Unperturbed by his expulsion from the CPI-M, veteran West Bengal legislator Abdur Rezzak Mollah Thursday hit out at the party, saying it was run by managers.
Mollah, a former minister in the Left Front government, also denied getting any communication from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) regarding his expulsion, but said he has accepted it.
PSPB’s Sourav Kothari picked up his maiden senior billiards national title at the Manisha Billiards and Snooker Nationals after beating experienced Alok Kumar here today.
Sourav captured his maiden national billiards title by beating Alok Kumar 5-3.
Kothari clinched the title in great style, with an unbeaten break of 126, that left Alok stranded on three national titles.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead four persons, including a prominent India-born Shia scholar, in this Pakistani port city today in target killings.
Four gunmen opened fire on an auto-rickshaw in which Allama Taqi Hadi Naqvi was travelling, police said.
Naqvi succumbed to his wounds in hospital, police official Imran Shaukat said.
Renowned within academic circles, Naqvi was born in Moradabad district of India’s Uttar Pradesh state and moved to Pakistan with his family after independence.
BJP’s key ally in the NDA, the Shiv Sena castigated External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid here today for his remarks against Narendra Modi and said he should prove himself first.
“If he (Khurshid) calls Modi impotent, then he should prove himself,” Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray told reporters on the sidelines of an event here today.
The External Affairs Minister had stoked a controversy by calling Modi “impotent” and insisted that he did nothing wrong as there was no other appropriate word to describe him in the context of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Americans have become so enamored of the Internet, they would more readily forgo television than online access, a survey showed today.
The Pew Research Center survey released ahead of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web found 53 percent of US Internet users would find it “very hard” to give up Web access, up from 38 per cent in 2006.
Even when counting those who don’t go online, Pew said 46 per cent of all adults would find it hard to give up the Internet.