Month: August 2014

Forty children from northern Iraq’s Yazidi minority are reported to have died as a result of a jihadist attack on the Sinjar region, the United Nations Children’s Fund said today.

“According to official reports received by UNICEF, these children from the Yazidi minority died as a direct consequence of violence, displacement and dehydration over the past two days,” a statement said.

On Sunday, fighters from the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group that controls much of northwestern Iraq took over Sinjar, which had been under the control of Kurdish troops.

Congress Legislature Party leader K Jana Reddy on Tuesday appointed the other office bearers of CLP.

Dr J Geetha Reddy, T Jeevan Reddy and Komatireddy Venkat Reddy have been appointed as Deputy CLP leaders in the Telangana Legislative Assembly. While Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and T Ram Mohan Reddy were made Secretaries. Ajay Puvvada has been made the CLP Treasurer and SA Sampath will be the party Whip. (INN)

First Solar Inc. (FSLR), the world’s biggest thin film solar module manufacturer and one of the largest developers of utility scale solar projects worldwide, with a global project pipeline of more than 2500 MW, on Tuesday announced its first development project in India.

Deputy CLP leader in Telangana Assembly Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Tuesday warned of protests if the Telangana Government registers cases against farmers.

At least seven students were injured when the school bus there were travelling in turned turtle in Nellore district on Tuesday.

According to information reaching here, the accident occurred on Lingasamudram Road in Saidapuram mandal of Nellore district while the bus was going from Vemulachedu to Gudur. The bus driver lost control after trying to avoid hitting a tractor coming from the opposite direction. The bus cleaner also got injured in the accident. The injured children were immediately rushed to Gudur Hospital through 108 Ambulance. (INN)

In a gruesome incident, a 60-year-old woman was brutally murdered by her own son.

The incident took place in Vidhyuth Nagar of Weaker Sections Colony in Sanathnagar police limits on Monday morning. According to police, the deceased, Laxmi’s son Shiva intercepted her near the railway track close to their residence and asked her to handover Rs 60,000 cash which she was carrying to some place. On refusal, he allegedly beat her up and smashed her head with a boulder leading to her instantaneous death. He later fled from the scene by snatching away the cash.

An unidentified woman snatched away gold ear-rings from a school girl in Vanasthalipuram police limits.

According to police, they received a complaint from one Srinivas of Harihara Colony stating that his children – Durga Bhavani (8) and Arvind (7) went missing from the Zilla Parishad School. Srinivas dropped both the kids in front of school gate on Monday morning. However, before they could enter the school, they were allegedly taken away by one unidentified woman.

BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today expressed his displeasure over the deteriorating law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh by claiming that the state government had been kidnapped by criminals.

Naqvi said, “The UP government has been kidnapped by criminals. It’s a government of crime and oppression. All these incidents that are happening one after the other, are a cause of concern.”

Earlier today, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Mamta Sharma said on Tuesday that the Meerut gang rape incident should be taken seriously by the Uttar Pradesh Government.

With another season of hectic cricket in progress, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today invited title sponsorship bids for its international and domestic matches.

“The Marketing Committee of the BCCI met at Mumbai to finalize the ITT (Invitation to Tender) for title sponsorship rights for BCCI international and domestic matches for the period between September 2014 and April next year,” BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said in a statement.

In this period, India will be playing three Tests, five one-dayers and one Twenty20 with West Indies.

The Obama administration hopes that Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent visit to India will “melt the ice” in the ties and start an important relationship with the new Indian government that has great “strategic value” to America, a top US official has said.

Kerry visited New Delhi last week to co-chair the fifth annual India-US Strategic Dialogue with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

He was the first cabinet minister from the Obama administration to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Solar power projects developer First Solar Inc (FSLR) today said it plans to build 45 megawatt (MW) capacity of solar power generation in Telangana.

The power generated will supply electricity through the grid to the Southern Power Distribution Company of
Telangana State Limited, at a levelised tariff of Rs 6.49/kwh for a period of 20 years, FSLR said in a statement.

The project will include construction at two different sites in the Mahabubnagar district, and is expected to be in
commercial operation by May 2015, it said.

60-year-old Shaikh Mohammed works hard to earn livelihood. He hails from Bider, Karnataka. Son of a farmer Shaikh Mohammed shifted to Hyderabad in the year 1972. After settling in Hyderabad he started working as a porter and continued it for 20 years. But a day came when he fell down while lifting the luggage. His feet got hurt. Since then he left that work.

Oman is likely to become a preferred destination for Indian weddings as it is close to India and offers a blend of modern infrastructure and old world charm, an Omani official with the tourism promotion body has said.

As per industry estimates, the wedding market in India is about USD 25 billion, growing at a rate of 25 to 30 per cent annually, a Times of Oman report said.

According to the newspaper, Indians are constantly on the lookout for new wedding destinations, something that has
become a trend.

The 34th Du Ba Du programme will be organised by Siasat Daily and Minorities Development Forum on Sunday, August 10 to 4 pm, at Mahboob Husain Jigar Hall, Siasat premises, Abids.

Matches of Muslim boys ad girls having qualifications like B.E, B.Tech and post graduate, engineering, B.Sc., B.com and BA will be available. The programme is being conducted on the fervent appeal made by parents and guardians. Matches with other qualifications will not be available.

According to Qari Mohammed Zaheeruddin, Secretary Sharfia Qirat Academy, the famous book of Qari Mohammed Naseeruddin Almanshavi “Hajj ke Musafir” is his own travelogue in which he has pen down his experiences and observations in a very beautiful manner. He has compared the Hajj pilgrimage of today with that of the past through citations from the travelogues written nearly 1000 years ago. He has also mentioned brief history of Kaaba, Maqam-e-Ibrahim, Zam Zam, Mina, Muzdalifa, Arfat and other sacred places. Issues pertaining to Hajj and Umar have been presented in a simple way.

Mr. Intezar Nayeem Assistant Secretary Jamat-e-Islami Hind stressed the need for development of both the states and mutual coordination and goodwill between the two states formed after the bifurcation of united Andhra Pradesh. He welcomed that chief minister Chandrasekhar Rao has appointed Mr. Mohammed Mahboob Ali from Muslim community on the post of Deputy Speaker.

Deputy floor leader of Telangana Congress, Mr. Mohammed Ali Shabbir strongly condemned police lathi-charge on farmers in Medak district and asked the government whether this was the golden Telangana state promised by TRS?

He demanded that the chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao seek unconditional apology from the farmers and supply uninterrupted power supply to farmers for 7 hours; otherwise Congress party will join the protest with farmers.

President State Urdu Teachers Association Telangana (SOTA) Mohammed Anwerul Baqi and General Secretary Mohammed Abdul Nayeem sent a written memorandum to Director SCERT stating that handbooks training, video conference, modules of 9th and 10th class have been supplied in Telugu language while Urdu medium teachers have been ignored.

Senior MLAs J Geeta Reddy, T Jeevan Reddy, and Komatireddy Venkata Reddy have been elected as Deputy leaders of the Telangana Congress Legislature Party (CLP).

CLP Leader and Leader of Opposition K Jana Reddy has conveyed the election and list of office bearers to Telangana
Legislative Assembly Speaker Madhusudhana Chary, an official statement said today.

MLAs Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and T Ram Mohan Reddy are the Secretaries of the Legislature Party, while V Sampath
Kumar has been elected the Whip. Puvvada Ajay Kumar is the Treasurer.

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Deputy chief minister of Telangana state Mr. Mohammed Mahmood Ali has appealed old city people to cooperate in the survey to be done by Telangana government on August 19 and to furnish all the details such as names, occupation, details of children etc. On the occasion of Eid Milap party hosted at TRS office located at Riyasat Nagar, he told that Muslims have suffered huge loss during the past 60 years and the schemes provided by the rulers of united Andhra have also not reached Muslims substantially; as a result a large part of old city’s population remained deprived.

A local court today rejected a plea seeking CBI probe in the 2008 death case of two cousins staying at self-styled godman Asaram Bapu’s city-based ashram.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate M V Gohel rejected the plea filed by the parents of the deceased on the ground that
the probe agency – state CID – has already filed the charge sheet after investigating the case.

Cousins Dipesh Vaghela (10) and Abhishek Vaghela (11) went missing from Asaram’s gurukul, a residential school
situated in Motera ashram of the city, on July 3, 2008 under mysterious circumstances.

The Gujarat High Court today granted temporary bail to Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Babu Bajrangi, convicted in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case.

A division bench of justices A S Dave and Sonia Gokani granted temporary release from jail to Bajrangi for treatment of an eye disease, from August 9 to 16.

In his plea before the HC seeking temporary bail, Bajrangi, presently lodged in Sabarmati Central Jail, said
that there is 50 per cent blockade in his eye veins and he needs to be out on bail for the treatment.

A new study has revealed that 20 percent of married Brits hide big secrets from their spouses.

The survey conducted by UK family law firm Slater and Gordon established that 1 in 5 people are keeping a major secret from their partners and about one in four of those people admitted that the secret was so big, that it could end their marriage, the Huffington Post reported.

These marriage-ruining secrets include money troubles, pornography, infidelity, and contact with a former partner and past relationships, among others.

An Indian-origin dealer has been barred for life by Hong Kong’s securities and futures commission from accessing the capital markets for misleading his clients and causing them losses of US$ 8 million (about Rs 49 crore) with respect to certain trades.

Mizoram police arrested seven youths, including four minors, for gang raping a minor girl, police said in Aizwal on Tuesday.

“The accused youths gang raped a 14-year-old girl at Leite village (in Lunglei district) in southern Mizoram Sunday night,” a police official said.

He said the victim had eloped with her lover, who was accompanied by his seven friends.

“When the girl’s friend returned home to get his wallet which he had forgotten while leaving his house in a hurry, his friends gang raped the girl,” the official added.