Month: July 2014

Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan, who is part of Salman Khan’s next film ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, says she shares a good rapport with the superstar and they make a “lovely pairing” on screen.

Salman and Kareena, who were last seen romancing each other on screen in ‘Bodyguard’, will be seen together in the Kabir Khan-directed movie.

“I loved the film (script) and my role. While Salman will play the title role of Bajrangi Bhaijaan, I am playing a Brahmin girl,” Kareena told PTI, without divulging any further details.

Gaza residents today used a 12-hour humanitarian truce agreed to by Israel and Hamas on a UN request to pull out several bodies from mounds of rubble and metal of bombed homes, as the Palestinian death toll climbed to nearly 1,000.

With the temporary ceasefire on, Palestinians frantically scoured through the rubble with medics saying 85 bodies had been retrieved across the Gaza Strip.

The discovery of the bodies under mounds of rubble had pushed the death toll to 985 Palestinians killed in the coastal enclave since the conflict began on July 8.

BJP senior leader and Secunderabad MP Bandaru Dattatreyya on Saturday assured that he would make representations with the Central Government to get adequate funds to make the railways network safe for the people of Telangana.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is planning to establish “Gourav Sadans”, the shelters for the beggars in GHMC area.

GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar, APIIC Vice-Chairman Dr Jayesh Ranjan, along with representatives of NGOs have discussed and reviewed the status of survey of beggars at various traffic junctions done by NGOs as a part of rehabilitation of beggars in GHMC area. The NGOs have informed that about 239 beggars were identified at 16 traffic junctions in GHMC area.

Nizamabad MP K Kavitha on Saturday consoled the kin of the victims of Masaipet accident at Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad.

Kavitha this morning visited Secunderabad Yashoda hospital where school students, who were injured in the Masaipet accident, getting the treatment.

Speaking to the media on the occasion, the Nizamabad MP said the government would extend all possible help to the victims of Masaipet. She assured that the government would take steps to prevent such accidents after getting the report from the Railways.

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The State Minorities Commission will conduct the conference of Moazams and Imams in Hyderabad on August 16.

GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar has informed that Bonalu Food Festival will be conducted in Night Bazar, Shilparamam on 27th & 28th July from 5PM to 12 midnight.

This programme will be jointly organised by the GHMC, Tourism Department and Telangana Hotels Association. The Commissioner said that there will be 25 food stalls which will provide Telangana Vantalu (Cuisine), Telangana Sweets, Biryani, Haleem, Kabobs, Chat, Tea and Coffee and Ice cream, bringing forth the beautiful, aromatic, delicious and mouth watering dishes of this land Telangana.

The Telangana Government has reportedly accepted the recommendations made by State Minorities Commission on providing relief to the families of those killed due to police firing during communal riots in Kishan Bagh recently.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh Saturday appeared in two trial courts here and secured personal bonds for exemption from personal appearance in two defamation suits against him.

The cases were filed by state Subordinate Services Selection Board former chairman S.M. Katwal.

Official sources said the chief minister appeared in the courts of Chief Judicial Magistrate Parveen Chauhan and Judicial Magistrate Divya Jyoti separately and secured bonds of Rs.10,000 each.

The former court listed the matter for next hearing Sep 5, while the latter Aug 12.

The Telangana Secretariat Employees Coordination Committee on Saturday informed that nearly 400 employees of Telangana, who were deployed for different departments of residuary Andhra Pradesh, have been sent back to Telangana State.

GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar has informed that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will inaugurate the Fathe Nagar bridge and Balkampet link road soon.

Information Technology Minister K Tarakarama Ramarao inaugurated a full day Seminar “Corporate Social Responsibility—from Invention to Implementation” at FAPCCI Hall, Red Hills here on Saturday. The Seminar was organised by Abhaya Foundation and was graced by 500 plus audience

Telangana Congress MLC Farooq Hussain on Saturday accused the TRS Government of ignoring the Muslims in the recent appointments of Public Prosecutors in the Telangana State.

At least 12 students fell ill in Bihar Saturday after eating their mid-day meal at a government school, officials said.

The children complained of uneasiness after the meal at the Dera Baba middle school in Buxar district, about 125 km from here, a district official said.

They were admitted to a government-run primary health centre at Simri and are said to be out of danger.

The official said some children informed the authorities that there was a dead lizard in the meal served to them.

Algeria’s Transport Minister Amar Ghoul is expected to arrive in Ouagadougou Saturday to visit the site where Air Algeria’s flight AH5017 crashed Thursday.

Burkina Faso’s Transport Minister Jean Bertin Ouedraogo Friday said that while in Ouagadougou, Ghoul would hold talks with Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, Xinhua reported.

Flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou to Algiers crashed Thursday in northern Mali with 116 people on board.

None of the passengers who were from 16 nationalities survived.

A 13-year-old boy of St. Aloysius School in Howrah, West Bengal was brutally beaten up by his school teacher during class hours for borrowing a pen.

The eighth standard student sustained severe injuries on his shoulder and is suffering from high fever.

Iran’s Ambassador to India, Ghulam Raza Ansari, has called on Muslims across the world to help Palestinians to have their own land, as death toll in the Gaza Strip passed 800.

Muslims in Agra in Uttar Pradesh staged a protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Gaza officials said Israeli strikes killed 33 people on Friday, including the head of media operations for Hamas ally Islamic Jihad and his son. They put the number of Palestinian deaths in 18 days of conflict at 822, most of them civilians.

Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Md Mahmood Ali here on Saturday opined that the elected representatives should stand as a model to the people by admitting their children in the government schools.

The BCCI Tours and Fixtures Committee has shortlisted Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad for India’s three-Test series against the West Indies during October and November this year.

The committee has allotted the five ODIs to Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Cuttack, Dharamsala and Kochi while Delhi’s Feroz Shah Kotla will be hosting its first ever T20 International.

The exact date-wise match-schedule will be finalised later on the basis of logistics.

Minister for Information Technology and Panchayat Raj K Taraka Ramarao here on Saturday exhorted the corporate houses to take part in social service activities.

BCCI vice president Rajeev Shukla reiterated today that the board will appeal to the ICC against its decision to penalise Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja for his altercation with England pacer James Anderson during the first Test at Trent Bridge.

Investigators were due on the site of the Air Algerie plane disaster in Mali today to try and determine why the jetliner came down with such force that it completely disintegrated.

Officials who had already reached the remote, barren area described a scene of total devastation littered with twisted and charred fragments of the plane that was carrying 118 on board, including entire families.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and other top diplomats from Europe and the Middle East held talks in Paris today to press efforts for a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Kerry met with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and their counterparts from Britain, Germany, Italy, Qatar and Turkey as a 12-hour “humanitarian” truce in Gaza entered into force.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was not present as she was attending her daughter’s wedding, but her deputy Pierre Vimont came in her place.

Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) Member of Parliament (MP) from Uttar Pradesh’s (UP’s) Unnao consultancy Sakshi Maharaj today, got bail by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court.

Maharaj alleged that the CBI had tried to mislead the court.

US President Barack Obama has spoken with the men vying to become Afghanistan’s next head of state, encouraging them to follow through with a plan to form a national unity government regardless of the outcome of the audit of ballots from the June 14 presidential runoff, the White House said.

The president commended Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani “for putting the interests of Afghanistan first and committing to working together as partners in governance”, the administration said in a statement Friday.