Month: July 2014

According to a press note issued by Hakeem Syed Ghousuddin, Former Advisor (Unani) Govt. of A.P. and member of Ibn-e-Seena Academy a three day international conference on the life and works of Ibn-e-Seena (Averroes) will be held from 25-27 October in Nalagonda.

Prof. Syed Zillur Rahman, President of the Academy and Chairman of Organizing committee, Professors from Unani Medical Colleges and other doctors are being invited for this conference. For further details, please contact cellphone number 9849076150.

–Siasat News

Jamia Nizamia is a 143 year old Islamic University of Hyderabad from which lakhs of Muslim scholars have graduated. It has 243 faculty members. It also runs a women’s college. Its certificates are recognized for admission into various courses of Osmania University, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, English and Foreign Languages University and many other Universities in the Middle East. Its decrees (Fatawa) are recognized by various judicial courses in India. It has no grant from Govt. or any other agency. Its expenditure are met only by the donations of the philanthropists.

Ms. Rashmitra Patro (23), an International Women Footballer from Odisha is facing financial difficulties these days. She represented India in 2008 at Kuala Lumpur in under 16 AFC Women’s Qualifying Contests as defender. Later she represented India in 2011 at Dhaka for Senior AFC contests. In the same year she participated in Bahrain in senior women’s team. India won this series by 2-1. After this, Ms. Rashmitra Patro was removed from the team. From that time onwards her decline started. Now she is forced to run a small pan shop in Kendra Pada in Odisha.

Siasat Urdu Daily collects waste newspapers and with the amounts obtained by the sale proceeds of these newspapers, many welfare activities are taken up. These includes financial aid to patients, widows and students. All those persons who have newspapers may donate to this fund. For further details please contact Mr. M.N. Baig at his cellphone number 9247172645.

–Siasat News

Mr. C. Vithal Reddy, President of Telangana Employees’ Union condemned the remarks of A.P. Govt. that Telangana employees are ready to work in Andhra State since the age of superannuation has been increased from 58 to 60 years in A.P. He further told that if Govt. of A.P. raises the age limit up to 120 years, even then Telangana employees are not prepared to work in A.P. He clarified that there is no truth in the statement that Telangana employees want to work in A.P. By making such remark the leaders of A.P. are making an attempt to humiliate Telangana employees.

The Narendra Modi government has outlined its legislative agenda, which includes bills for amending insurance laws and regulating the real estate sector, in the budget session of parliament beginning Monday even as the opposition plans to turn the heat over price rise.

The rail budget will be presented July 8 and the general budget July 10, revealing the economic priorities of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government which came to office in May.

The two leading Khans of Bollywood – Shah Rukh and Salman – hugged each other with warmth as they came face to face at an iftaar party here Sunday.

Both grabbed all the attention when they attended the annual iftaar party of Maharashtra legislator Baba Siddiqui here.

Salman’s father Salim Khan was also present at the event.

Shah Rukh and Salman fell out after they came to blows at Katrina Kaif’s birthday party some time back but however maintain a cordial relationship in public.

–IANS

BJP national spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain Sunday called for the scrapping of article 370 of the constitution that grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

Speaking at a programme marking the 113th birth anniversary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh – the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, Hussain said while he had the right to buy land in Kolkata, he could not do that in Kashmir.

“I’m a Muslim. But I don’t have the right to build a house in Kashmir,” he said.

Punjab Police Sunday said it had busted the supply line of a top drug cartel emanating from Pakistan, seizing 12 kg heroin which was in transit from the neighbouring country to New Delhi via Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, and arresting two smugglers.

Inspector General of Police (Amritsar border) Ishwar Chander said police teams were tracking the heroin consignment sent by Pakistan-based smugglers to their Indian counterparts which led to the recovery of the heroin valued at Rs.60 crore in the international market.

This was the second major seizure in recent days by Punjab Police.

At least nine people were killed by radical rebels in Syria’s southern province of Daraa, media reports said Sunday.

The Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda subgroup operating in the war-torn country, killed nine people of the same family after kidnapping them in Daraa province, Xinhua quoted the pro-government Sham FM radio as saying without giving any further details.

The Nusra Front currently controls several areas in Daraa, where the country’s three-year-old conflict first erupted.

So far, more than 100,000 people have been killed, while millions more have been forced to flee their homes.

Thousands of pro-Russian separatists Sunday gathered at a rally in regional capital Donetsk after government forces retook some of their main strongholds in eastern Ukraine, media reports said.

There were signs that rebels from Slovyansk were falling back on Donetsk to continue the resistance. Igor Girkin, the military commander of Slavyansk, told the Russian agency Life News that he had arrived in Donetsk, leading British daily the Guardian reported.

Two Palestinians were killed and one was moderately injured Sunday as the Israeli fighter jets launched air raids targeting central Gaza Strip, authorities said.

The two Palestinians were killed right on spot in the strike in the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of al-Maghazi, Xinhua quoted a Palestinian health ministry spokesperson as saying. The two are believed to be militants who were attempting to fire rockets into Israel.

Earlier in the day, Israeli drones carried out two raids in Gaza targeting Palestinian militants who were trying to launch rocket attacks against Israel.

The body of a 12-year-old boy, who had gone missing on Friday, was on Sunday found murdered in a saloon close to his house in Jamia Nagar area of southeast Delhi.

Arham Hussain, a Class 8 student, who had gone to a saloon for getting his hair cut on Friday, did not return home. His parents, who deal in construction material, then informed the police.

During investigation, police suspected the saloon as it was shut today despite being Sunday when many customers visit the saloon, a senior police officer said.

Fifteen workers from different villages of Navsari and Valsad district today returned home from Najaf in Iraq, where they were stranded after a terror group took control of several parts of the country.

The contingent of 15 Gujarati workers were part of 200 Indians, who landed at Delhi airport from Najaf early today. Later, they were brought to Navsari from Mumbai by a special bus arranged by the state government.

A Samajwadi Party leader has offered to donate his eye to the Moradabad district magistrate, who has sustained serious injury in his eye during recent violent protests in Kanth area of the district.

“There is no bigger donation then blood and eye donations in the world. If my eye can bring back vision of an honest officer like Chandra Kant, it will be an honour for me,” SP leader Amit Jani said in a letter written to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday asked the MPs from the state to make collective and coordinated efforts to get the promises made during bifurcation realised.

Naidu, who convened a meeting of MPs from all parties a day ahead of the Budget session of Parliament, told them that the Centre has to make some legislations and issue orders for the implementation of promises made during the bifurcation of undivided Andhra Pradesh, according to an official release.

BJP on Sunday reacted angrily to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad’s bid to revive “Mandal politics” and align with JD(U) after next year’s assembly elections.

“RJD supremo’s bid to revive Mandal politics and cobble together an alliance with JD(U) will be a non-starter,” senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi told reporters.

People of Bihar have made up their mind to give their verdict in favour of the BJP-led alliance in Assembly polls next year, he said exuding confidence that the RJD-JD(U) alliance, if it happened, would bite dust.

Hitting out at Congress, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today accused the party of indulging in mudslinging at BJP after suffering humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.

He termed Congress as “defeated, tired and piqued” while speaking to reporters during his visit at Mohankheda near here to meet top RSS leaders, including Sangh chief Mohan Bhaghwat.

The body of a 13-year-old boy, who was missing for two days after he went for a haircut, was found inside an iron trunk in a barber’s shop near his home, police said Sunday.

Arham Hussain, son of a businessman in south Delhi’s Jamia Nagar, had gone for a haircut to the shop near his home Friday evening, but did not return.

On Saturday, his father received a phone call demanding Rs.10 lakh as ransom.

A police team Sunday evening found Hussain’s decomposed body wrapped in a blanket inside the trunk in the same shop where the boy had gone for a haircut.

A woman passenger died while on board an Air New Zealand flight to the United States, the carrier has announced.

The non-stop flight, NZ2 landed in Los Angeles on July 4, after leaving Auckland.

A coroner was called and normal processes were followed, a spokeswoman said.

She was not sure how long into the over 12 hour flight the death occurred.

Sergeant Karla Ortiz from Los Angeles International Airport police said the woman who died was aged in her 50s.

It was not known if she was a New Zealander.

The militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has rousted as many as 30,000 people from an eastern Syrian town after capturing it, a human rights body said Sunday.

The people were forced out of their homes over the weekend and sought refuge in nearby areas in Deir al-Zour province, Xinhua reported citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Shahel, a town in eastern countryside of Syria’s oil-rich in the province, was a stronghold of the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, which has been deadlocked in battles against the ISIS, an Al Qaeda-splinter group.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday strongly condemned Haryana’s move on setting up separate SGPC for the state and accused Congress of “meddling” in religious affairs of the Sikhs.

When asked to comment on the announcement made by his Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Kaithal on constituting a separate committee for the management of Gurudwaras in Haryana, Badal said, “It was a cheap step aimed at scoring brownie points in the media.”

“It is unfortunate that Congress is irrelevantly meddling in the religious affairs of the Sikhs,” he said.

A 35-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Jaggampet police station of East Godavari district, the police claimed, though his family members alleged here on Sunday that it is a “lock-up death”, after his body was found hanging in the police station.

The police said that P Srinu (35), ran a private chit fund by collecting amounts daily from small businessmen and housewives in Jaggampeta.

He ended up with a debt of Rs 1.5 crore even as pressure has mounted for re-payment of the amount.

Heat wave conditions on Sunday revived in parts of Rajasthan as Kota and Chittorgarh were the hottest places where the maximum temperature was recorded at 41.9 degree Celsius, a met report said here.

Mercury was on an upward trend in most places by one to four degree C due to dry weather conditions in north-west of the state, the report said.

However, some parts of the state received moderate rains in the last 24 hours with Mahwa recording maximum rainfall of 4 cm, followed by Baswa 3 cm, Aligarh 2 cm.

Gujarat governor Kamla Beniwal, who had frosty relations with Narendra Modi when he was chief minister of the state, was sent off to Mizoram on Sunday evening in a reshuffle of governors effected by the government.

87-year-old Beniwal, whose tenure ends in November and who had a running battle with the Modi government over the appointment of Lokayukta and some legislations, will take over from Vakkom Purushothaman.

Rajasthan governor Margaret Alva, who will demit office exactly in a month, will shift to Ahmedabad to take additional charge.