Month: July 2014

Muslims of Hyderabad will offer mass prayers at Eidgah Meer Alam, Eidgah Ujala Shah Sahab (Saidabad), Old Eidgah (Madannapet) and various other places imploring the God Almighty to shower rains in the State.

Mr. Mohammed Mahmood Ali, Dy. CM will also participate in the prayer. He has appealed to the Muslim Ulema to offer special prayers for rains. The entire month of June was without rains. The farmers and the livestock are put to a lot of inconvenience due to lack of rains.

–Siasat News

Secretary of Bar Council of A.P. Ms. A. Renuka presented the certificate of recognition of A.P. State Wakf Tribunal Bar Association to its officials yesterday at the office of A.P. Bar Council at High Court. Present on this occasion were Mr. Ajaz Ali Quraishi, Vice President of A.P. Bar Association and other members. Mr. Quraishi told that so far this association was not recognize. He also assured that very soon Housing Scheme for its members would be implemented. Mr. Mohammed Basheer Hasan thanked the office bearers of the A.P. Bar Council.

–Siasat News

Transco is adopting discriminatory attitude which is causing a lot of inconvenience to the Muslims in Koratla of Kareem Nagar district. They are cutting down electricity just before Iftar time. Many residents of Koratla telephoned to Siasat Office and complained about it. The current is switched off exactly before Magrib prayer and it is restored after the Azan is called. This speaks of the discriminatory attitude of the officials of Transco. At the sunset, the Muslims break fast for which announcement is made through Siren. For Siren and Azan, loudspeaker is used.

Minorities Development Forum and Siasat Urdu Daily will organize Du-ba-Du (Face-to-face) matrimonial alliances program on 13th July at Towlichowki from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at S.A. Imperial Garden. Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily and Chief Patron of MDF will preside over the function. Mr. Abid Siddiqui, Chairman of MDF has requested all the parents and guardians who want to finalize the matrimonial alliances of their sons and daughters may avail of this opportunity. They should bring Bio-data of the boys and girls with two photographs. For further details, please contact Mr.

The Supreme Court has referred the petition of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seeking the dissolution of the Delhi assembly and conducting fresh polls, to a Constitution Bench. The AAP had moved the top court to direct the central government and the lieutenant governor to dissolve the Delhi assembly and order fresh elections. Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) counsel Aman Sinha, said a five-member bench would hear the petition on August 5. “The Supreme Court heard our objections on a preliminary basis.

Govt. of Telangana has sanctioned Rs. 271 crore for purchasing 2069 vehicles for Hyderabad City Police and 1814 vehicles for Cyberabad Police. These vehicles will be fitted with the latest communication facilities, making use of them, the police will become alert to stop crimes.

–Siasat News

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the self-claimed “Islamic State”, made his first public appearance at a mosque in Iraq’s Mosul city, according to a video clip posted on the Internet Saturday.

The video appearance came a few days after the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), an Al Qaeda breakaway group, proclaimed the establishment of a “caliphate” straddling Syria and Iraq, crowned its leader Baghdadi as the “caliph”, and changed its name into the “Islamic State (IS)”, Xinhua reported.

Eleven people died in a plane crash Saturday afternoon in Topolow, near Czestochowa, in southern Poland, authorities said.

Only one person survived the crash of the private airplane belonging to a parachuting school close to Czestochowa, some 207 km southwest of Warsaw, Xinhua reported citing a fire services official.

Eleven parachutists and a pilot were on board, according to media reports. After the crash the aircraft burst into flames. Sixteen fire brigade units rushed to the scene and the fire was put out quickly.

News of a back injury that has ended Neymar’s FIFA World Cup campaign prompted a national outpouring of grief in the streets of Brazil Saturday.

But in his office at the Selecao’s training base in Teresopolis, about 100km north of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Felipe Scolari had no time to wallow in pity, reports Xinhua.

The Brazil coach has a problem. And with a semifinal against Germany less than 72 hours away, he has little time — let alone resources to — to solve it.

There can be no mistaking that this Brazil team is built around Neymar.

Jordan Saturday slammed Israel for preventing thousands of Palestinian worshippers from entering al-Aqsa Mosque Friday, media reports said.

Jordanian Minister of State for Media Affairs Mohammad Momani condemned Israel, saying it’s “a stark violation and provocation of the feelings of the Muslims, especially during the holy month of Ramadan,” Xinhua reported citing a state-run Petra news agency report.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is a holy place for Muslims in east Jerusalem, where Jordan oversees all Christian and Islamic holy sites.

The Supreme Court has referred the petition of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seeking the dissolution of the Delhi assembly and conducting fresh polls, to a Constitution Bench.

A 30-year-old fitness centre employee has been arrested for raping his childhood woman friend here after promising to provide her a job, police said Saturday.

Faizal, resident of Shahdara, raped the woman June 19 inside his gym in Jagatpuri area of east Delhi.

“Faizal had threatened the victim to kill her husband and children if she told police or anyone else. The woman somehow mustered courage and informed police Friday night about the incident,” said a police official.

The accused was arrested after the victim’s medial report confirmed rape, he said.

Argentina reached the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup, for the first time in 24 years, after a hard fought 1-0 win over Belgium at the Estadio Nacional de Brasilia here Saturday.

Gonzalo Higuain scored his first goal in this year’s tournament with a brilliant first time volley in the eighth minute and that turned out to be the difference between the two teams.

Argentina, who had last qualified for the World Cup semis in 1990 Italia where they lost to Germany in the finals, became the second South American to reach the last four after Brazil.

Israeli fighter jets carried out three airstrikes on targets in the southern Gaza Strip Saturday in response to rockets being fired into its territory, witnesses and paramedics said.

Israeli war jets carried out three successive airstrikes on targets in the southern town of Rafah and the village of al-Garara, Xinhua reported.

No injuries have been reported so far.

Paramedics said that following the explosions in southern Gaza Strip, ambulances and rescue teams rushed to the bombed area, but no injuries were reported.

Welcoming the hike in railway fares initiated by the Narendra Modi government, RLD leader Amar Singh Saturday said the raise was needed for sustainable growth and said the central government’s stance that the rich should voluntarily give up cooking gas subsidy is a mark of “good governance”.

“The hike has been criticised by many but I feel it is necessary…we need to have to have sustainable growth to have world-class facility,” he told reporters here on the sidelines of an event organised by MCC Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He also batted for privatisation of railways.

Two children were killed and as many injured when the wall of a house collapsed at Mujhera village under Miranpur police station in the district, police said on Saturday.

The incident took place last evening when the children were playing near the house, they said.

Karin (5) and Farin (3) were killed on the spot while the injured were shifted to a nearby hospital, they said.

PTI

Two vessels patrolled the waters around the Diaoyu Islands on Saturday, the authorities said.

According to the State Oceanic Administration, two China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels – CCG 2151 and 2101 – conducted a routine patrol of China’s territorial waters around the Diaoyu Islands, Xinhua reported.

China has been conducting the patrols on a regular basis. The islands are called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan.

Japan claims to be occupying the islands since 1895, while China maintains the islands were recognised as Chinese territory as early as 1783.

IANS

Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai Saturday called upon the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the election result according to schedule.

“As per the timetable, the Election Commission should announce the preliminary result of the election July 7, the final result July 22 and the power transfer inauguration Aug 2,” Ahmadzai told a press conference here.

Terming the condition of Indian economy as “serious”, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said though the new government is working to bring the situation back on track, it will take some time to do so.

“The economy has derailed and its in a bad shape and serious condition. The government is taking measures to bring it back on the track,” Rajnath told reporters on a question regarding economy and inflation during a programme here.

He said the government was working in this direction and it would take time for the economic condition to improve.

Two persons sustained bullet injuries when police opened fire to quell violent protests against a 2000 Megawatt thermal power project coming up at Kudagi, about 40 kilometers from here, on Saturday.

The protesters set afire half a dozen vehicles. The fire also gutted some shops and sheds, a senior police official said, adding, five persons were injured in the violence.

Muslims in Myanmar’s second-largest city accused police today of standing by as a Buddhist mob went on a rampage, torching a school and other buildings.

Angry mourners, some carrying crude weapons, rioted in Mandalay after the funeral of a 36-year-old Buddhist victim of the country’s latest eruption of religious unrest, witnesses said.

A school and dormitory in the Muslim area of a cemetery on the outskirts of the city were seen charred and damaged on Saturday.

Ending a tense period, 183 Indians stranded in strife-torn Iraq, including 122 nurses – 46 from Kerala freed by Iraqi insurgents, 52 from Telangana and 24 from Andhra Pradesh – arrived home Saturday to a grand welcome while 200 more were on their way.

A special Air India flight from Erbil, capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, carrying the 183 landed in Kochi close to noon with Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his cabinet colleagues, legislators, Lok Sabha members and state government officials waiting to receive them.

Terming the condition of Indian economy as “serious”, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said though the new government is working to bring the situation back on track, it will take some time to do so.

“The economy has derailed and its in a bad shape and serious condition. The government is taking measures to bring it back on the track,” Rajnath told reporters on a question regarding economy and inflation during a programme here.

He said the government was working in this direction and it would take time for the economic condition to improve.

Onion prices in retail markets of the National Capital Region continue in the range of Rs 35-40 per kg due to fears of drought and fewer supplies from key states.

Wholesale traders said there is a substantial fall in supplies from two major producing states — Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

BJP today accused Samajwadi Party of communalising the atmosphere in Uttar Pradesh in the wake of the violence in Moradabad and charged Congress with adding fuel to the already-charged atmosphere.

BJP also demanded removal of the SSP of Morababad, whom it charged with working at the instance of the Samajwadi Party government, and asked the state administration to act fairly without favouring any particular community.