Month: July 2014

The following is the list of Indians who will be seen in action at the 2014 Commonwealth Games here Sunday.

Athletics (Hampden Park Stadium):
Shot put: Om Prakash Karhana in Group B qualification round

Boxing (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre):
Men’s Round of 16 (64 kg): Manoj Kumar vs Arthur Biyarslanov (Canada)
Men’s Round of 16 (81 kg): Sumit Sangwan vs Mohamed Hakimu Fumu (Tanzania)

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre):
Women’s preliminary match: India vs New Zealand

Lawn bowls (Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls):

GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar informed that the identification of encroachments on lakes has been completed and marking of Full Tank Level (FTL) is almost over. He said that GHMC is writing ‘Illegal’ on the buildings which are constructed without any permission.

The Cyber Crime Police, CCS, DD, Hyderabad have arrested an accused person Muralidhar Tankala (32) an Associate of M/s Amazon Pvt. Ltd., Madhapur Resident of DEE Nagar, Chintal, Hyderabad Native of Gottamangalapuram village, Palakonda Mandal, Srikakulam District who is involved in sending abusive and vulgar messages and calling and harassing ladies with phone calls at odd times.

CCS Malkajgiri police of cyberabad apprehended three snatcher and House Breaking Offenders Muvva Abhilash @ Sunny (21) an Student, Caste: Kamma, Resident of Huda Colony, Chandanagar, N/o Appikatla (V), Bapatla (M), Guntur District (A2) Rajula Veera Vamshi Naidu @ Chinna @ Shandi @ Vai (26) Resident of AV Apts, Uttam Nagar, New Delhi, Native of Chandra Giri Colony, Thirumalagiri, Secunderabad (A3) Shakeer Khan (22) an Shoe Business Resident of AV Apartment, Uttem Nagar, New Delhi N/o Mangalooru (V & TQ), Haridwar Dist, Uttar Pradesh State and recovered about 30 Tolas of gold in different case

Six persons were injured when two groups clashed over a trival issue at Chandrayangutta on Saturday evening. The condition of one of the injured identified as Abdullah Sadi, MPTC member is stated to be critical, doctors told the police.

The clash began over an argument between Abdullah Sadi and a realtor Abdullah Jilani with associates of the both the persons attacking each other with sticks, stones and knifes.

The Chandrayangutta police received complaint from groups and sent the injured to hospitals for treatment and began investigations.

A 46-year-old woman died of burn injuries which she suffered after setting herself ablaze at her residence in Basheerabad of Ranga Reddy District.

According to Basheerabad police, the deceased Sabeel Unissa Begum (46) an Housewife W/o Imtiyaz, she had allegedly setting her ablaze at her residence on July 24, immediately she was rushed to Gandhi Hospital for treatment where she died on Friday late night hours.

Secunderabad Division of South Central Railway conducted a fortress check against ticketless and irregular travel at Secunderabad station on 25th July, 2014. The Check was conducted under the direct supervision of Shri B.Vijay Bhaskar, Chief Commercial Manager / Passenger Marketing, South Central Railway, Shri P. Ravi Padi, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, Secunderabad Division, SCR.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday hosted a farewell dinner in honour of the outgoing army chief, Gen. Bikram Singh.

The dinner, hosted at the prime minister’s 7, Race Course Road residence, was attended by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjeet Singh, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and others, an official statement said.

Lt. Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag will take over as the next army chief Aug 1.

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The Himachal Pradesh government has agreed to allotment of “nautor land” to those settled in tribal areas, a legislator said Saturday.

The allotment has been opened after a period of 16 years.

“Nautor Land” means the right to utilize, with the sanction of authorities, wasteland owned by the government outside towns, reserved and demarcated protected forests and such areas as may be notified by the state government.

Official sources said the decision would benefit thousands of people settled in Lahaul-Spiti and Kinnaur districts and parts of Chamba district.

The Samajwadi Party Saturday named Mulayam Singh Yadav’s nephew Tejas Singh Yadav as its candidate for the forthcoming Lok Sabha bypolls in Mainpuri, the constituency vacated by his uncle and party chief.

Tejas, the son of Mulayam Singh’s brother, has been active in the area for some time now.

There was speculation that the party would instead opt for Rajya Sabha member Ram Gopal Yadav to contest from the high profile constituency.

Many leaders had advocated that this was necessary to give “voice to the party” in the Lok Sabha, given its poor numbers in the house.

Delhi saw a warm Saturday with the maximum temperature being recorded three notches above the season’s average at 37.5 degrees Celsius. The met department has forecast light rain Sunday.

“The sky will be cloudy on Sunday and very light rain is expected,” said an Indian Meteorological Department official.

The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to hover around 36 and 27 degrees Celsius, respectively.

The minimum temperature Saturday was a notch above average at 27.6 degrees Celsius while humidity levels wavered between a high of 81 percent and a low of 51 percent.

China has vowed to upgrade the transport infrastructure in Tibet and expand the existing network of rail, road and air routes within the next six years.

China’s ministry of transport (MOT), in a guideline, said the country aims to expand highways in the Tibet Autonomous Region to 110,000 kms by 2020, Xinhua reported Saturday.

A primary railway network of up to 1,300 km till 2020 has also been set as a target by the government.

The country would also build more airports in Tibet, also known as the ‘roof of the world’.

While sending Eid greetings to Muslims this year, Taliban leader Omar Abdullah has reportedly said that Taliban does not want to interfere with the internal affairs of other countries.

Urging fighters to protect Afghanistan’s borders in a statement released on Friday, Abdullah assured the neighboring countries and the world that Taliban only aims to build an independent Islamic regime in Afghanistan and does not intend to harm any other nation, The Express Tribune reported.

T. Krishna Prasad, IPS, Additional Director General of Police, CID, has been transferred and posted as Additional Director General of Police (Technical Services) in an ex-cadre post.

According to the GO issued by the Government of Telangana State, Charu Sinha, IPS, Inspector General of Police, CID, Hyderabad, is kept in full additional charge of the post of Additional Director General of Police, CID, Hyderabad, until further orders.

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The toll in the 19-day Israeli offensive has climbed to 1,030, with the bodies of at least 130 more Palestinians being recovered from rubble across the Gaza Strip, officials said Saturday.

Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman of the health ministry in Gaza, told reporters that rescue teams, medical crews and paramedics pulled out the corpses from the rubble during a ceasefire on humanitarian grounds in Gaza Saturday, Xinhua reported.

Senior TDP leader Revanth Reddy today alleged that Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhara Rao has given more representation to north Telangana leaders in his cabinet.

The Chief Minister has neglected the south Telangana region and failed to give representation to his party leaders belonging to the South in his cabinet, Revanth Reddy said. It was not proper for the Chief Minister to give more representation to one region and neglect another region in Telangana State, the TDP leader said.

A freshman US lawmaker committed an embarrassing faux pas when during a Congressional hearing he mistook two top Indian-origin American officials as representing the Indian government, quizzing them about “your country” and “your government”.

Congressman Curt Clawson, who has now apologised for the gaffe, was giving his maiden speech during a Congressional hearing on India held by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.

“I am familiar with your country. I love your country,” he said during the hearing.

Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan said she is happy that her sister-in-law Soha Ali Khan is getting married to boyfriend Kunal Khemu.

“It’s great that she is getting married. Everybody in the family is very happy. The most important thing is whenever Kunal is around, Soha is always smiling and that is the ultimate thing in life. I am happy they have decided to settle down,” Kareena told PTI.

Visiting External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj today met with the top political leadership of Nepal during her official trip .

Swaraj held parleys with Nepal’s President and its Prime Minister, Ram Baran Yadav and Sushil Koirala respectively.

She earlier met Pashupati Shumsher Rana, the Chairman of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) upon her arrival in Kathmandu on Friday, Swaraj started parleys with leaders of other political parties since early morning today.

Biotechnology major Biocon Ltd has reported revenue of nearly 3.5 percent and a net profit of only 10 percent for the fiscal 2014-2015. Chairperson of Biocon Ltd, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, while addressing a news conference on Friday in Bangalore, said the biopharma sales were slow this quarter as compared to the previous quarters. “Consolidated revenues for the quarter stood at 742 crore rupees. Biopharma sales were relatively flat at 547 crore rupees and within this segment, the core biopharma revenues was 436 crore rupees,” said Shaw.

The West Bengal Government has taken preventive measures after three people died due to Japanese encephalitis in the state. Three deaths were reported from North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) in Siliguri district. The disease, which is spreading slowly across other provinces, has claimed more than 50 lives in West Bengal. However, NBMCH said the situation was under control. “The latest situation is that the problem is under control now, with less number of patients coming. Yesterday and today only three patients got admitted and three previously admitted are dead.

The guns were booming loud for India at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as Apurvi Chandila clinched the gold medal while compatriots Ayonika Paul and Prakash Nanjappa bagged silver medals at the Barry Buddon Shooting Range here Saturday.

India are now fifth in the medals standings with 13 – four gold, six silver and three bronze, behind England, Australia, Scotland and Canada.

It was an interesting battle in the women’s 10m air rifle event as Apurvi beat World No.8 Ayonika in an exciting battle to clinch the gold medal in the women’s 10m air rifle finals

Gitam university, hyderabad campus is offering spot admissions into b.tech programs for the academic year 2014-15. Prof. Ch.sanjay, principal, school of technology informed in a press release on saturday.

Few seats are available in ece, civil, mechanical, aeronautical, eee, eie branches and 5 year dual degree programs, he said.

The expert committee constituted by the central government to study various alternatives regarding the new capital for Andhra Pradesh, plans to submit its report by the middle of August.

Former urban development secretary K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, who is heading the five-member panel, Saturday said though they have time till September, they hope to submit the report by the middle of next month.

Talking to reporters after nearly two-hour-long meeting with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, he said Naidu had strong commitment for all-round development of Andhra Pradesh.

AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu today said he has fulfilled the promise given to the farmers during elections by waiving of crop loans.

Naidu was addressing a group of women, who came from Prakasam district, at Lake View Guest House. They met the CM to express their gratitude for waiving off farmers and DWCRA loans. Naidu said Hyderabad revenue has increased due to the development during the previous TDP government. He also alleged that the united State was bifurcated to checkmate the TDP.