Month: August 2014

A engineering student from the district got washed away in a canal here following which an NDRF team has been pressed into service on Friday, police said.

The victim identified as Nitin, a resident of Sahibabad and a B Tech student had yesterday gone to Masuri canal in Gangnahar area along with a friend Nishu, they said.

Nishu fell into the canal and then Nitin jumped into it to rescue her, but he (Nitin) did not know how to swim and got washed away, police said.

Meanwhile Nishu was rescued somehow but Nitin could not be found.

Even though the current session of parliament is scheduled till August 14, the government has not listed any legilsative business for Monday in Lok Sabha which will just have a ‘calling attention’ and resumed discussion on flood and drought situation in the country.

The Monday agenda posted on Lok Sabha website this evening showed no legislative business is listed for the lower House.

A fire broke out in an 11-storey residential building in the western suburbs of Mumbai on Friday, though no loss of life has been reported as yet. According to fire brigade officials, the fire broke out on the fourth floor of Godavari building in suburban Versova, adjacent to the Versova telephone exchange.

“We got a call around 4 PM that a fire has broken out in a commercial building adjacent to the Versova telephone exchange. Four fire tenders, four water tankers were rushed to the spot and we have termed the fire as ‘Grade 1 fire’,” a fire brigade official said.

The Andhra Pradesh government plans to develop 14 ports and three international airports.

While the construction of Kakinada, Krishnapatnam, Gangavaram and Kakinada SEZ ports is underway, the government has sought a report within six weeks on development of 10 other ports, said an official statement.

The decision followed a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to review trade and investment opportunities in Andhra Pradesh.

The government said that there is a huge potential for trade and allied activities by developing ports.

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan said here today there is love and friendship between him and Salman Khan.

Asked if Salman, who is reportedly a good painter, has ever gifted him a sketch, Shah Rukh said “these questions are old (ask something different on Salman). I am bored now.”

“Now we meet…Hug each other. There is love, friendship and everything else between us,” SRK told reporters on the sidelines of an event.

SRK and Salman’s enmity and an eventual patch-up has been a fodder for gossip in Bollywood for many years.

Spiritual leader Asaram Bapu, who is lodged in Jodhpur Central Jail on accusations of rape, was rushed to the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital here after his health deteriorated.

During his check-up, Asaram told the Neurophysician that he is not able to sleep properly in the jail and that there is pain in his jaws.

After attending to him, doctor advised Asaram to get the X-ray and blood tests done. He was later sent back to the prison after receiving medical attention.

The BJP on Friday accused the Congress Government in Karnataka of trying to stall a report on the alleged scam of over Rs 2.30 lakh crore involving the Wakf Board land and said it should be tabled in the Assembly.

“It is compulsory. They have to table it on the floor of the legislative assembly,” former Karnataka Minorities Commission Chairman Anwar Manipaddy, who gave the findings, told reporters here.

Telangana State Director General of Police Anurag Sharma has said two Innova vehicles would be allocated to each police station in the State.

Speaking to mediapersons here on Friday, the DGP said the newly acquired vehicles would be linked to the Control Room. He also disclosed that the design of the police uniform would be finalized by August 15.

The DGP said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao would hand over two-wheelers and Innovas. Wherever the Innovas cannot ply, the two-wheelers would be used, he added. (NSS)

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday condemned “in the strongest terms” Hamas’s violation of a mutually agreed ceasefire in the Gaza Strip even as the toll in the ongoing Israeli offensive rose to 1,463

In a statement, Ban urged Israelis and Palestinians to exercise maximum restraint and return to the ceasefire which began earlier in the day, Xinhua reported.

Days after India rescued 49 nurses from Iraq, 58 Indian nurses from violence-hit Libya are on their way back to India, the government said Friday.

The 58 nurses, mostly from Kerala, reached the border post of Ras Jedir on way to Tunisia, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said here.

“We hope that by late night, all the nurses will be in Tunis. We have made arrangements for them to fly back to their home state,” he said.

He said that a smaller number of people will be travelling out of Libya on Saturday and also the day after.

Congress leader Amarinder Singh Friday said it was natural for Rahul Gandhi to be concerned about his mother’s security if she became the prime minister, and slammed Natwar Singh for sharing private information in public.

“Natwar Singh was wrong in going public with private information that was shared with him in confidence,” Amarinder Singh, the deputy party leader in Lok Sabha, said in a statement Friday.

The government has hired 40 men dressed as langurs to drive away monkeys after realising the agile simians cannot be stopped from spreading panic in the parliament premises.

Posing as black-faced langurs, these trained men are armed with rubber bullet guns to drive away the monkeys who fear their distant relatives.

Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu has already made a statement in parliament, saying the New Delhi Municipal Council has hired 40 young people for the job.

At least two soldiers were killed and several others injured in two separate incidents of firing and bomb blast in northwest and southwest Pakistan Friday, media reported.

Citing Express TV, Xinhua reported that one paramilitary soldier was killed when some unknown militants from the Afghan border opened fire in Pakistan’s northwest tribal area of Bajaur Agency.

The attackers fled the scene after the attack.

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares for a summit with US President Barack Obama in September, Congress today hoped that the NDA Government would continue with the policies of the UPA regime while engaging with strategic partners.

Deputy Leader of Congress in Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma said that relations between India and the United States of
America, Brazil, South Africa, China and Japan were strengthened during the 10 year rule of the UPA Government.

“During the UPA I and UPA II India’s relations with the strategic partners, which includes United States, Russia,

The RGIA Police arrested a notorious house breaking offender who was allegedly involved in various offences in different police stations limits.

The accused, R Shankar Naik, was arrested during vehicle checking drive at Kishanguda flyover bridge on Thursday night. Police recovered 70 tolas gold, 50 tolas silver and one stolen Activa bike from his possession. His associates – Yadaiah and Nagaraju, who used to mortgage the stolen items with different finance companies have also been arrested.

An 18-year-old student committed suicide after he was allegedly rebuked by his parents for chatting on mobile in his college.

A 23-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging to the ceiling in KPHB police limits.

The deceased, Prabalika, a dentist, took the extreme step at her residence in Pragati Nagar on Thursday night. She was married to one Niranjan about eight months ago. Family disputes are suspected to be the reason behind suicide. Further investigations are on.

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The US today blamed Hamas for the breakdown of a 72-hour humanitarian truce, saying the attack by the Palestinian militant group that left two Israeli soldiers dead in the Gaza Strip was an “outrageous violation” of the ceasefire.

“The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s attack, which led to the killing of two Israeli soldiers and the apparent abduction of another. It was an outrageous violation of the ceasefire negotiated over the past several days, and of the assurances given to the United States and the United Nations,” US Secretary of State John Kerry said.

The Banjara Hills police on Friday arrested a 55-year-old man on the charges of attempting to rape a 14-year-old girl.

According to Inspector P Murali Krishna, the accused, Prem Chand, a resident of Srinagar Colony, allegedly tried to rape the minor girl in his neighbourhood. Following a complaint received by the girl’s parents, police registered a case and took the accused into custody.

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After being suspected for stealing gold at her workplace, a 27-year-old woman committed suicide by consuming some unknown poison.

A engineering student from the district got washed away in a canal here following which an NDRF team has been pressed into service today, police said. The victim identified as Nitin, a resident of Sahibabad and a B Tech student had yesterday gone to Masuri canal in Gangnahar area along with a friend Nishu, they said.

Nishu fell into the canal and then Nitin jumped into it to rescue her, but he (Nitin) did not know how to swim and got washed away, police said.

Kerala today urged the Centre to immediately arrange a special flight for passage of the Indian nurses who had left strife-torn Libya to neighbouring Tunisia to come back home. In a letter to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said 58 nurses had already left for Tunisia from Libya by road.

The Andhra Pradesh government Friday decided to develop a mega Information Technology hub in Visakhapatnam, also known as Vizag.

This was envisaged in the IT policy 2014-2020 approved by the state cabinet Friday at its meeting, chaired by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.

The cabinet also decided to develop metro rail project in the coastal city.

IT Minister P. Raghunath Reddy said IT hubs would be created at Vijayawada, Kakinada, Tirupati and Anantapur with walk to work and cycle to work concepts.

A joint Palestinian delegation, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, is to travel to Cairo tomorrow for ceasefire talks despite the renewed fighting in Gaza, president Mahmud Abbas’s office announced.

“Abbas has formed the delegation, which will head tomorrow for Cairo whatever the circumstances,” his office said in a statement, giving the names of the 12-member delegation.

They included Abbas aide Azzam al-Ahmed, Palestinian Authority security head Majed Faraj, several senior Hamas officials including Mussa Abu Marzuq, and a leading member of Islamic Jihad, Ziad al-Nakhale.

Aam Aadmi Party will organise a musical event here to express its solidarity with the people of Gaza over Israel’s offensive. Saaz Band, Rahul Ram from the Indian Ocean band, Punjabi singer Harpreet Singh and Nandan Misra are expected to play at the event at Jantar Mantar here, said a party spokesman.

AAP leader Yogendra Yadav, Prof Kamal Mitra Chenoy and others will speak at the event, the spokesman said. PTI