Month: July 2014

A 12-year-old girl student was allegedly raped by father of her classmate today at Attur near here, police said.

The seventh standard student went to her classmate’s house this morning as they go to school together daily. When the girl reached the house, her classmate’s father took her to an isolated place and raped her, Attur All Women Police Inspector Kannan said.

The girl returned her house and narrated about the incident to her parents, who lodged a complaint to police.

Saudi King Abdullah has appointed a new spy chief, giving the job to the former deputy defence minister days after sacking him from that post.

Prince Khaled bin Bandar bin Abdul Aziz had been unexpectedly removed from his post on Saturday at the request of his boss the defence minister, after only 45 days on the job.

There was no reason for his sacking but today the state-run news agency SPA reported that Prince Khaled had been appointed “head of the General Intelligence with a minister rank” by royal decree.

A Specially designed Three-Week Skill Development Programme (SDP) on Synthetic School Bags” will be organized from July 14 to August 4, 2014 for unemployed youth at M/o Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME-DI,) Balanagar, Hyderabad.

Another spokesperson of YSRCP Ambati Rambabu demanded that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu fulfill his promise of waiving farmers’ crop loans immediately. He also warned that the people of the State would rebel if the TDP government failed to keep its promise to the toiling farmers. He also alleged that Chandrababu Naidu was cheating the farming community by saying that he would reschedule the loans.

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YSR Congress Party officials spokesperson Vasireddy Padma has lashed out at AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for making false promises and taking the people of the State for a ride.

Speaking to the media in the party headquarters here on Tuesday, Padma alleged that Chandrababu Naidu, who made tall promise of making Seemandhra region into another Singapore, was only transforming the residual AP into the African nation Somalia.

The YSRCP leader also described the murder of Giddaluru YSRCP leader Bhaskar Reddy as a political murder.

Concerned over reports of infighting between the administrations of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today directed the Union Home Secretary to mediate between the two states and resolve the issues.

The Home Minister’s intervention follows reports that the two states were allegedly fighting over a host of issues, including drinking and irrigation water, power supply and municipal affairs, official sources said.

The lightning strike launched by junior doctors in Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad entered the second day on Tuesday. With the medicos abstained from duties, the patients were facing hardships since Monday.

While services to the out-patients remained stopped, tension prevailed in the hospital due to heated arguments between the in-patients and the striking medicos. The hospital authorities’ efforts to pacify the junior doctors ended in vain. With this, the hospital services remained paralysed for the last two days causing untold hardship to the patients.

The sluice gates of the controversial Babli project in Maharashtra were reopened on Tuesday after eight months.

When the Maharashtra government constructed the Babli project unilaterally, the united Andhra Pradesh government had approached the Supreme Court to stop construction of the project. After hearing the AP plea, the court passed orders directing the Maharashtra government to shut the sluice gates of the project from October 29 to June 30 every year and reopen the gates on July 1 till October 28 in order to ensure that there was no hindrance to the flow of river water.

Two nominations have been received for the post of chairman of the Telangana Legislative Council till Tuesday afternoon.

Leader of the Opposition in the Council Swamy Goud filed his nomination papers for the chairman’s post as official candidate of the ruling TRS at 10.30 am on Tuesday. Similarly, after 12 noon, Congress candidate Farooq Hussain filed his nomination for the post. Both the leaders were accompanied by their respective party members while filing their nomination papers.

Three cement companies having plants in Himachal Pradesh Tuesday agreed to reduce the price of cement from Rs.15 to Rs.35 per bag in the state, an official said.

“Ambuja, ACC and Jaypee have agreed in principle to reduce the price with immediate effect,” a government spokesperson told IANS.

He said a decision in this regard was taken at a meeting presided over by Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh where company functionaries were also present.

Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul, whose rape remarks sparked countrywide outrage, Tuesday tendered an unconditional apology to the party and the media, terming his comments a “gross error of judgment” and admitting they were “deeply insensitive”.

In a letter addressed to the people with copies to the Trinamool’s chairperson Mamata Banerjee, general secretary Mukul Roy, national spokesperson Derek O’Brien and the media, Pal pointed out “there was an attempt at provocation”.

Continuing with its proactive engagement with immediate neighbours, the new Indian government is preparing to meet up some of them later this month to catalyse subregional cooperation and build “productive partnerships” in areas such as energy and communications.

The talks would probably take place in the last week of July, provided all the partners agree to the dates India has suggested, says External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Junior doctors at the government-run Gandhi Hospital here continued their flash strike Tuesday causing severe inconvenience to patients.

Protesting the attack on a junior doctor by the relatives of a patient, over 400 junior doctors – as the post-graduate medical students are called – continued their strike paralyzing medical services at Telangana’s biggest government-run healthcare facility.

Moscow “deeply regrets” Kiev’s decision to call off ceasefire in Ukraine’s eastern regions, Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

The decision has undermined “important joint diplomatic actions” of Russia, Germany and France over the Ukrainian crisis, Moscow said following a phone conversation between foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France late Monday, Xinhua reported.

“There is an impression that the changing of Kiev’s position happened in contradiction with the position of the European Union’s leading members,” the statement said.

Lakhs of farmers in Andhra Pradesh may be declared loan defaulters while guidelines are awaited for a loan waiver scheme promised by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu during the election campaign, a top official of a public sector bank has said.

President Pranab Mukherjee today called for urgent steps to develop the textiles sector, saying its products are vulnerable to competition from cheaper imports and machine-made substitutes.

He said there should be “concerted and collective” steps to safeguard the interests of the handloom & handicrafts sector, including facilitation of easier access to credit.

Besides, he said, promotion of handloom and handicraft products in domestic and foreign markets and research for developing innovative technology will help the sector.

Trinamool Congress leader Arup Chakraborty has been caught on tape asking partymen to “sacrifice intruders”. He Tuesday justified his remark, saying he was talking about the right of self-defence.

Telecast by a Bengali news channel, a video clip shows Chakraborty, head of the party unit in West Bengal’s Bankura district, asking his partymen to “sacrifice whoever intrudes your homes”.

“If any outsider enters your house, cut him down, sacrifice him, I will take care of that, you don’t have to worry,” Chakraborty is seen telling his party activists in Bankura.

Police in Bahrain have launched a probe into the incident of stabbing and robbing of an Indian man by a group of assailants on a busy road, media reported Tuesday.

Riyas Povval, 28, was injured in an attack by a gang of eight men Sunday night who raided the mobile shop he worked in the busy Hoora area of Manama, Gulf Daily News reported.

The assailants managed to flee with cash and several mobile phones.

The victim told the newspaper that he suffered stab wounds in his stomach and a broken finger.

Condemning the killing of four Trinamool Congress activists in West Bengal’s South 24-Parganas, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday attacked the Left Front for resorting to violence with the help of “hired hooligans from outside” and asserted her government doesn’t endorse politics of bloodshed.

Speaking at a gathering in Raidighi after visiting the families of the victims, Banerjee, also the the Trinamool Congress supremo, warned the Left against fomenting trouble.

Popular TV actress Drashti Dhami has been roped in as the face of MATRIX India’s hair colour brand – SoColor – and she is excited about her association.

“I’m most excited to be part of creating and showcasing the latest cut and colour looks from the brand,” Drashti, known for her title role in the daily soap “Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon”, said in a statement.

Drashti will be seen in SoColor’s new campaign – Color with Confidence – which features her in a never before seen avatar.

As soon as the ‘good news’ has been delivered, it can take be pretty daunting to understand the responsibilities involved. Your partner carried the baby for 9 months, being a new father can be stressful as well, and we bring you tips for all you first-time fathers out there.

Learn the art of Time Management. Many organisations have policies that allow paternity leave. Even after one rejoins work, one has to divide his 24 hours so as to be there for the baby and the mother – as well as get some rest.

The Telangana Legislative Council is meeting tomorrow to elect its new Chairman in the backdrop of defection of MLCs from the Congress and the TDP to the ruling party.

Sewak Ram Sharma, secretary, Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), has been given the additional charge of the post of the secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT), for three months, an official statement said here Tuesday.

He succeeded M.F. Farooqui, who retired on June 30, 2014.
(IANS)

Goa’s Public Works Department Minister Sudin Dhavalikar has demanded a ban on young girls wearing short skirts to nightclubs, calling it a threat to “Goan culture”. His comment Tuesday triggered outrage in Goa as well as across the country.

Dhavalikar, a cabinet minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government, told reporters Monday night that women wearing revealing clothes to night clubs and beaches often led to crimes in society.

Several senior police officers of Goa were issued notice Tuesday by the state Human Rights Commission for ignoring the complaint of a woman who claimed three people beat her up and put chilli powder into her private parts.

The notice directed Director General of Police T.N. Mohan, Superintendent of Police Priyanka Kashyap and police inspector Tushar Vernekar to submit a written reply by August 4, as to why the police failed to register a first information report (FIR) for days after the woman filed her assault complaint.