A Yemeni security official and witnesses say the bodies of dozens of illegal immigrants, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia, have been found on western beaches after their boat capsized in the Red Sea. Witnesses said today that about 50 bodies were found starting Friday and buried near the town of Zoubab.
Rajya Sabha member Rapolu Anand Bhaskar on Monday complained to Governor ESL Narasimhan that he did not get any intimation or invitation to attend the swearing-in ceremonies held at Raj Bhavan.
Rapolu said that he did not get the invitation for swearing-in ceremony of Narasimhan as Governor of Telangana and also the swearing-in of first Council of Ministers of Telangana. He expressed pain and anguish over being denied an invitation to participate in the historic occasions.
External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj accompanied by Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh today called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to an official release, Swaraj called on the Prime Minister in the afternoon at 7, Race Course Road. Eminent scientist Prof C N R Rao also called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at South Block today.
“It was a courtesy call,” an official statement said here. PTI
Buoyed by positive sentiment over the formation of a stable government at Centre, domestic car sales saw an upswing in May with major firms, Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Honda and Ford reporting good growth.
Yet, others such as Mahindra & Mahindra, General Motors India and Tata Motors reported decline in their domestic sales during the month.
The country’s largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said its domestic sales rose 16.4 percent during the month to 90,560 units as against 77,821 units in May 2013.
The king of Bahrain has congratulated Indian prime minister Narendra Modi for success in the elections and wished him success in his new role.
Bahrain’s King, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, lauded the strong long-standing Bahraini-Indian relations, adding that Bahrain is looking forward to strengthening its ties with India for the joint interests of the two friendly people, BNA reported Monday.
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After a two-day pause, the buoyant market flared up amid a slew of feel-good factors ahead of the RBI’s monetary policy review meet tomorrow with hectic buying in key infra, banking, energy, metal and realty counters rallied the index by 132.55 points to end at 7,362.50 at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) here today.
The investors sentiment bolstered by the positive momentum in country’s manufacturing sector by HSBC (PMI) survey to 51.4 in May, along with good FII buying and better than expected Q4 result led the market momentum.
A 100-year-old beggar in a threadbare coat, ‘Grandpa’ Dobri, is already celebrated as a saint in Bulgaria, a symbol of goodness in a country ravaged by poverty and corruption. For over 20 years, Dobri Dobrev has been begging on the
streets of Sofia, collecting alms worth tens of thousands of euros. And he has given it all to the Bulgarian Orthodox
Church.
This has made him the largest private donor of the golden-domed Alexander Nevski cathedral even as he maintains
Andhra Pradesh government employees working in offices in Telangana state will continue to hold their posts and offices in the latter state, the Centre has said. The Ministry of Personnel has come out with a series of directives to allocate a major chunk of Andhra Pradesh government employees to Telangana.
Seven soldiers and several other people were killed Monday in clashes between the Yemeni army and Shiite Huthi rebels close to the capital, tribal and medical sources said.
The clashes erupted after troops tried to expel rebels from a strategic position near Amran controling the road to Sanaa, local officials said.
The air force intervened to back the army and its allies from the Sunni Islah party, they said.
The council of ministers of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao held an “informal” meeting here on Monday after he assumed charge, sources said.
Rao took charge at about 1300 hours in his office in the Secretariat building here after priests performed a puja and blessed him.
The Telangana Legislative Assembly is likely to have its session from June 9, Telangana state finance minister E Rajender indicated.
Chandrasekhar Rao has also allocated portfolios to 11 ministers, who took oath along with him today.
Under attack from all quarters over gangrape and killing of two teenage girls in Badaun district, UP CM Akhilesh Yadav today directed authorities to launch a helpline in every district of the state to deal with women harassment complaints. “The helpline would be monitored by the SSPs and SPs themselves,” the Chief Minister said while issuing a directive to this effect to authorities concerned.
He said that inquiries into the complaints of harrassment made by women must be ensured through women cell, which will
also be overseen by the SSPs and SPs of the districts concerned.
Senior leaders from Andhra Pradesh met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi and discussed the reasons for its rout in elections in the state and ways to “revive” the party there. The leaders also said both have agreed to attend a conclave at a local level in July to boost the morale of the cadres and chalk out the roadmap for strengthening the party in Andhra Pradesh.
“Three things were discussed. Firstly, the reasons for our failure in recent elections. Secondly, how to revive the
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today congratulated the people of Telangana as it became the 29th state of India reminding them that it was her party which “finally decided to reorganise the state of Andhra Pradesh”.
In a message, she noted that the movement of creation of Telangana has had a long history and “it was the Congress that
finally decided to reorganise the state of Andhra Pradesh in 2013 to fulfil the democratic aspirations of the people of
Uttar Pradesh BJP today said that Akhilesh Yadav-led government in the state worked only in the “vote interest” and not in the “public interest” during its last two year tenure.
“In the last two years, SP government has worked only in vote interest and not in public interest,” party’s spokesman
Vijay Bahadur Pathak told reporters here. Pathak alleged that after its defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, the SP government was planning to close schemes which it had been highlighting as its achievements.
GHMC Mayor Mohammed Majid Hussain has congratulated all the citizens of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and more importantly the officers and staff of GHMC for achieving the long precious dream of separate Telangana State.
BJP may field Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar or the Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh, a source said.
By-election for the seat was announced by the Election Commission today. “The seat will go to either Javadekar or Sitharaman,” a BJP leader told PTI here.
Both, at present, are not members of either house of the Parliament.
The bypoll was necessitated by resignation of BJP’s Faggan
Singh Kulaste from Rajya Sabha, after he won the Lok Sabha election from Mandla.
The legislators of Telangana Congress party will elect their new leaders in the Legislative Assembly and Council on Tuesday.
The Telangana Congress Legislature Party has convened the meeting of MLAs at 10.30 AM while the party MLCs will meet at 1.30 PM on Tuesday in the Committee Hall of the State Legislative Assembly. The Congress MLAs and MLCs will be electing their leaders who eventually will become the Leader of the Opposition in both Assembly and Council.
The triumphant Kolkata Knight Riders returned to their base to a hero’s welcome with thousands of supporters lining up at the airport, shouting team slogans and waving purple flags.
It was KKR skipper Gautam Gambhir who was the first to come out of the exit door with the glittering IPL trophy in the 1B terminal, as the team members followed the left-hander to the team bus amid boisterous chanting from the fans.
Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana Mohd Mahmood Ali offerred thanksgiving prayers at historic Mecca Masjid here on Monday evening
Mohammed Mahmood Ali and T. Rajaiah have been appointed as deputy chief ministers of Telangana, which Monday came into being as India’s 29th state.
Ali and Rajaiah were among 11 cabinet ministers who were sworn in earlier in the day along with Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao.
A prostitution racket allegedly being run from a flat here owned by former Mumbai Police chief Satyapal Singh, now a BJP Member of Parliament, has been busted and the apartment’s caretaker arrested.
Two young women were rescued from the flat in suburban Andheri, which was raided on Saturday, police said today.
The flat had been leased out to a well-known business house for 33 months and Singh said he is taking legal action against the private company for breach of contract.
Marine engineer Devu Chodankar, who was booked for posting anti-Narendra Modi comments on his Facebook page, today appeared before Goa police for the first time and was grilled for over seven hours.
The 33-year-old arrived at Cyber Crime Police Station here at 10.45 AM and was quizzed by investigating officer (IO).
Superintendent of Police (Crime Branch) Karthik Kashyap, who is supervising the investigation, also interrogated Chodankar in presence of his lawyer, Jatin Naik.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan Monday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was treated like a schoolboy when he visited India to attend Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony last week.
By not meeting the representatives of the Hurriyat Conference in New Delhi, the prime minister had struck a bargain on Kashmir, Dawn online quoted Khan as saying.
Khan raised questions like if Sharif could meet Indian leaders in Delhi, then why could he not hold a meeting with those representing the Hurriyat Conference.
India has improved its ranking to emerge as the second largest textile exporter in the world beating competitors like Italy, Germany and Bangladesh in calender year 2013, with China retaining the top position, according to data released by UN Comtrade.
Currently, India exports textiles worth USD 40.2 billion, while the total global textiles exports stand at USD 772 billion, with India commanding 5.2 per cent of the share.
Congress MLA Asif Mohd Khan has been acquitted by a Delhi court of the charges of assaulting and obstructing MCD officials engaged in some construction work in 1999, as the witnesses turned hostile.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pritam Singh acquitted Khan, an MLA from Okhla here, in the case saying prosecution has failed to prove its case against him.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today appointed two Deputy CMs besides allocating portfolios. Senior TRS leader Naini Narasimha Reddy has been made the Home Minister, while E Rajender has got Finance. Along with Rao, 11 ministers were sworn in by Governor E S L Narasimhan today as Telangana, the 29th state of the country, came into existence.
Md Mahmood Ali and T Rajaiah were named as the Deputy Chief Ministers. Ali would handle revenue, while Rajaiah would
handle medical and health department, an official release said.