The city Wednesday reverberated with slogans of “Jai Telangana” as TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao arrived from Delhi to a hero’s welcome, his supporters celebrating the formation of Telangana state.
Thousands of Telangana Rashra Samithi (TRS) activists poured out into the streets to welcome Rao with slogans, dances, display of Telangana culture, bursting of firecrackers and showering of petals from rooftops.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Wednesday voiced his appreciation for the country’s new security policy after it was unveiled by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in the National Assembly.
Speaking after the presentation of the policy, Sharif said democracy was the only panacea to problems facing the nation and urged the country to stand united for a secure and bright future, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
The prime minister invited proposals and a discussion in the house on the policy to further fine tune it.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will not give tickets to any incumbent legislator for the Lok Sabha elections, former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said Wednesday.
“We will not give ticket to any legislator for the Lok Sabha elections,” Kejriwal told the media.
He, however, did not make it clear whether he was speaking about legislators of other parties or Independents, including from Delhi.
India Wednesday successfully test-fired its Akash medium-range surface-to-air missile from a defence base in Odisha, for the third time in less than a week, officials said.
The indigenously-developed missile, with a 27-km range and an effective ceiling of 15 km, was test-fired from the Integrated Test Range of Chandipur in the coastal district of Balasore, 230 km from Bhubaneswar.
All three tests were conducted for the army by scientists of state-run missile system manufacturer Bharat Dynamic Limited, and defence electronics company Bharat Electronics.
The CPI-M Wednesday expelled former West Bengal minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah for “serious anti-party activities”.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) West Bengal unit.
“It has been decided to expel Comrade Rezzak Mollah from the party for serious anti-party activity and for belittling the party’s image in public,” the party said in a statement.
Talented Delhi opener Unmukt Chand will be donning the Rajasthan Royals jersey in IPL this season but he has another reason to celebrate as he will be getting former India skipper Rahul Dravid as a “mentor’.
“Interacting with Rahul bhai is always a privilege as you become a better student of the game by simply picking his brains. It will be honour that he will be constantly present in the dressing room to guide youngsters like us,” Unmukt, who was bought for Rs 65 lakh lakh by Rajasthan Royals, told PTI today.
Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit said here today that she had not thought about joining politics.
“I have not thought about it. In any case, polling is secret and let my views also remain secret,” Madhuri told reporters at an event to promote her movie ‘Gulab Gang’, when she was asked about whether she had been contacted by any political party for contesting the Lok Sabha polls.
Madhuri, who plays the role of ‘Rajjo’ in the movie, has been shown slapping and hitting men.
However, Madhuri said that in her real life she has never slapped anyone.
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has revealed that her wedding to rapper Kanye West will be much more “small and intimate than people are imagining”.
The 32-year-old mother of one said she is excited about the ceremony, which will take place in France, reported MTV online.
“It’s in Paris but I’m not saying when. Its this year. We’re having a super, super small, intimate wedding. As we’re going along we’re realizing that we just want it to be small and intimate,” she said.
The division of Andhra Pradesh is unlikely to have a major impact immediately on the Telugu film industry based in Hyderabad, though tax structure would be a motivating factor, leading film personalities said here today.
“Our wish is to see that Telugu cinema industry grows. It depends on how the two governments act. Shifting (to another city) is not an easy thing. It involves several factors like taxes, infrastructure, incomes and children’s education.
A 19-year-old fashion designing student was allegedly raped by her uncle in Chanakypuri area of New Delhi a day before Valentine’s day, police said.
Police have registered a case in this regard on February 19 after victim approached them and a police team has been sent to Lucknow to nab the accused, identified as Sandeep Kohli who is a professional photographer and a businessman there.
Pakistan government today announced that it will set up a body to coordinate between its 26 security agencies and establish a Rapid Response Force backed helicopter gunships to fight terrorism.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the National Counter-Terrorism Authority will be revamped and made into a premier counter-terrorism authority while a Joint Intelligence Directorate will be set up for effective coordination among the country’s security agencies.
Pakistan has a total of six intelligence agencies and 20 security organisations.
An amount of Rs 520 crore has been allocated to the Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies department this year for new and ongoing projects under it,the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly was informed today.
J&K Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora said this while replying to a
question in the Legislative Council.
He also informed the House that about 14 projects costing Rs 823 crore were sponsored during 2013-14 for which an amount of Rs 109.38 crore stands released.
(Pervez Bari): Under the joint platform called “People’s Movement Against UAPA”, (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act), a convention is being held here on February 27 from 10 am in Acharya Narendradeo Library, near Kamla Park.
The Andhra Pradesh police Crime Investigation Department (CID) said here today that “faulty” design of Volvo buses is among the three major causes for a fire which engulfed a luxury bus and claimed 45 lives on October 30 last year, near Palem in Mahabubnagar district.
Shiv Sena city unit president Santosh Dhawale and his associates allegedly vandalised the Government Medical College dean’s office today.
The dean, Anand Dongre, was on his way to his office when he was told about the vandalism allegedly committed by Santosh Dawale and his associates, in protest against the lack of sanitation and other facilities in the medical college’s paediatrics ward.
Dongre summoned the police who reached the medical college and brought the situation under control.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday vouched for entrepreneurship among youth and said a bank needs to be created for finance related issue.
Interacting with students in Guwahati, Gandhi said that youth should not get disappointed by failures and should keep trying for fruitful results.
A close aide of Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, has confessed before a magistrate that he had assembled the explosives and had “guided” the members of the terror outfit while planting bombs at Hyderabad’s Dilsukhnagar area in February last year.
In his confessional statement recorded under section 164 of the CrPC in October last year, Asadullah Akhtar said the February 21, 2013 twin blasts at Dilsukhnagar area were executed by him on the instructions of another IM co-founder Riyaz Bhatkal who is now in Pakistan.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today accused Congress and BJP of running a government ‘in syndicate’ and gave a call for ‘parivartan’ (change) in the Congress-ruled Assam.
“Congress has a syndicate with BJP, they are just running the government in friendship. In the next election, we need a ‘parivartan’ (change). Assam will also have ‘parivartan’,” the West Bengal Chief Minister told a public rally here.
Attacking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a Rajya Sabha member from Assam, Banerjee questioned what he had done for the state.
Even as BJP is weighing its electoral options in Seemandhra region post bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, its local unit has proposed that the party go solo in the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
The Seemandhra BJP has appealed to the party’s Central Committee to contest 175 Assembly seats and 25 Lok Sabha seats in the residuary state without tie-up with any political party.
This was decided here in a meeting of presidents and general secretaries of 13 districts of Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra region.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday said BJP President Rajnath Singh should issue a public apology not only to Muslims, but to the entire nation for the Godhra riots of 2002.
“Rajnath Singh must be regretful; he is a man of character. He’s in a spot because his PM candidate isn’t accepting the blame,” Khurshid said.
“They must first list all the wrongs that they have done, then the apology can come… They can’t just apologise to the Muslims alone, they should apologise to the whole country,” he added.
The Delhi High Court Wednesday allowed a plea by the Aam Aadmi Party to withdraw a petition filed by the erstwhile Congress government against a trial court order for lodging a complaint against former chief minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly misusing government funds.
Justice Sunil Gaur also allowed an application of the former chief minister seeking impleadment in the case.
Indian Navy chief Admiral D.K. Joshi resigned Wednesday, taking moral responsibility for a series of accidents which have hit the naval vessels over the past few months.
The government has accepted his resignation with immediate effect, a defence ministry release said.
The city police today arrested two persons for accepting bets on the Sri Lanka-Pakistan cricket match of the ongoing Asia Cup.
“Two bookies, Bharat Thakkar and Prakash Thakkar, were arrested from Sola and Bopal areas of the city respectively,” said police inspector M A Patel.
“We have seized 17 cellphones, two laptops, an LCD TV, an Ertiga car and a motorbike from them, worth a total of Rs 10 lakh,” he said.
Rolls-Royce today unveiled its next generation of fuel-efficient plane engines to power civilian aircraft of the future.
Two weeks after announcing a shock profit warning with government cutbacks on defence spending impacting its military engines business, Rolls revealed plans to build on its successful Trent XWB engine used to power Airbus A350 passenger planes.
“These new designs are the result of implementing our ongoing technology programmes,” said Colin Smith, Rolls-Royce Director, Engineering and Technology.
Walking down memory lane, legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar today recalled writing letters to wife Anjali in the pre-mobile era and found her handwriting “beautiful,” which anyone would “watch and admire”.
But writing letters to his wife needed some effort from the former batsman.
“Hitting a cricket ball came naturally to me. But, while writing letters to Anjali, I have to doubly check what I was writing,” he said with a sheepish grin.