Month: September 2014

Dr. Sultan Sikandar Ali Khan son of Nawab Wajeed Ali Khan, former SP at Kotla Alija Hyderabad has been elected President of House Staff of Community Hospital, Brooklyn, New York for the years 2015-2017. Dr. Khan is the fellow of American College of Physician, American Society of Hypertension and New York Medical College. He has published many Articles in reputed medical journals. He has been getting top physician award since 2008 from Consumers’ Research Council of America. Hyderabad is proud of him.

–Siasat News

In a situation when road accidents have become routine, rash driving of motor bikes by youngsters could be fatal. It has become a fashion for the teenagers to drive bike on one wheel and to show acrobatics on roads. Mostly in the morning on the outer ring roads, many youngsters are found everyday driving motor bikes in a very rash way. Such stunts could take the lives of not only the bike riders but it may also cause fatal to other commuters. Parents should take care of their children.

–Siasat News

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said 1.5 lakh people are still marooned after the worst floods in a century devastated the state last week even as he said there was some concern over rising water levels in northern parts of the Valley.

As fears of possible outbreak of water-borne diseases mounted with flood waters receding, Mr Abdullah also said that Kashmir has a history that lives are not lost as much in floods as in the aftermath of this natural disaster.

Armed militant groups, including Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, advanced in Syria’s southern province of Qunaitera, as the Syrian troops stripped the rebels of key towns in the central province of Hama, activists said Saturday.

The Nusra Fighters and like-minded groups were advancing in Qunaitera, at the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that the various rebel groups were now in control of over 80 percent of that province after taking control over the towns of Rawadi and Hamidiyeh a day earlier.

NATO’s expansion by pulling more Russia’s neighbouring countries into the alliance is unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday.

“NATO expects to turn as many countries as possible into its member states, and expand to Russian borders — that’s unacceptable,” Lavrov said in an interview aired by Moscow’s TVC, Xinhua reported.

“We expect every country to comply with the agreements of ensuring indivisible and overall security in the Euro-Atlantic region, among which the assurances of NATO not expanding eastward play a decisive role,” he was quoted as saying.

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has directed that additional consignments of emergency medicines should be despatched to Jammu where the destruction of property and marooning of people has acquired great proportions.
After reviewing the situation in the region during a day-long tour today, the Minister said various kinds of antibiotics, oral rehydration solution sachets, anti- diarrhoeal drugs, chlorine tablets, bleaching powder, medicines for eye and skin infections, IV fluids and other essential drugs will be sent within the next few days.

The UK Foreign Office said late Saturday it was “working urgently to verify” a video purporting to show beheading of a British hostage by the Sunni militant group Islamic State (IS) in Syria, media reported.

The foreign office said that it was trying to confirm the authenticity of the video purporting to show the death of aid worker David Haines, who was kidnapped last year in Syria, Xinhua reported.

If true it was another “disgusting murder”, the Foreign Office said, adding that it was offering support to Haines’ family.

The Minister for IT and Panchayati Raj K Taraka Rama Rao today challenged the farmer Union Minister and senior Congress leader S Jaipal Reddy to prove with evidence how the Hyderabad image was damaged in 100 days of TRS government rule.

Speaking to the media here, Taraka Rama Rao reminded that during the period of earlier Congress government, the PCC president’s name was mentioned in a charge sheet of a case. In addition to this, some MPs, Ministers and IAS officers went to jails. He questioned as to whether the brand image of Hyderabad was not damaged then.

The Hussainialam police arrested five persons who helped the accused for allegedly kidnapped and raped a 17-year-old minor girl.

The accused – Pervez (27) a Auto Electrician at near a Budha Bhavan of Secunderabad R/o Delhi Darwaza of Charminar, were arrested on Friday at his friends house Yakhutpura, who allegedly forcibly took away or Kidnapped on Sept 1 near Charminar to Karnataka on Sept 9 they were return to Hyderabad of Yakhutpura, the minor girl resident of Bandlaguda of Chandrayangutta.

A 26-year-old woman died after committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence in Maheshwaram police station limits.

According to Maheshwaram police, the deceased R Dhana Lakshmi (27) an Housewife W/o Venkanna alias Anjaneyulu Resident of Maheshwaram, had allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence on Friday night hours.

Deceased Dhana Lakshmi married with Venkanna about nine years back, her husband allegedly being mentally and physically harassed for additional dowry for last few weeks, deceased taking extreme step of suicide and ended her life over it.

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president Ponnala Lakshmaiah on Saturday accused Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of preferring Tennis star Sania Mirza over debt-ridden farmers of the State.

Over 67 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the by-elections for Medak Lok Sabha constituency held on Saturday.

Similarly, 69.49% polling was recorded in Nandigama Assembly segment of Krishna district.

Narsapur Assembly segment of Medak Lok Sabha constituency registered the highest 77% polling, followed by 68% in Dubbak, 67% in Gajwel, 66% in Siddipet, 64% in Sangareddy, 63% in Medak and 52% in Patencheru Assembly segment.

Information Technology Minister K Tarakarama Rao has expressed confidence that the economy of Telangana State would witness a boom due to the comprehensive planning and effective implementation of development schemes of State Government.

About 50 per cent electorate today exercised their franchise in bypolls to 11 Assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh till 5 pm.

Around 53.2 per cent votes were polled in Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat where Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his MP wife Dimple Yadav cast their votes, while 49.78 per cent votes were polled in 11 Assembly seats, an official statement issued here said.

India has come a long way from being mere buyers of technology to a country which created its own technology with extensive scientific inputs of the indigenous origin, Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister and DRDO chief Dr Avinash Chander said on Saturday.

With the seat-sharing talks between coalition partners Congress and NCP remaining stuck ahead of October 15 Assembly elections, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said that parleys are on to decide whether a pre-poll or a post-poll alliance is suited for the ruling partners.

“The forthcoming Assembly elections will be the sixth election which Congress and NCP will fight. Discussions are on whether a post-poll or a pre-poll alliance is favourable for both Congress and NCP,” Chavan said at a function organised by a news channel here.

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Bikapur Kotwali police station area of Faizabad district, police said on Saurday.

The girl had gone missing on Thursday evening after she went to attend a birthday party in her neighbourhood, they said.

Her body was found the next day in a pond, they said.

“The postmortem report has confirmed that the girl was raped and then strangulated,” Faizabad Additional SP P R Shrivastava said.

A case has been registered in this regard, he added.

The girl was a student of Class 2.

–PTI

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have made a breakthrough that can lead to a cure for the deadly Ebola virus currently sweeping through West Africa, media reports said.

The university has said the experts stumbled across an existing drug used in the treatment of severe heart disease, which could be adapted to fight the contagious Ebola virus, Xinhua reported Saturday.

A team from the Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging Infections, based at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health, have been investigating new ways to treat Ebola.

US Secretary of State John Kerry Saturday said a global coalition was essential to defeat Sunni militant group Islamic State (IS).

Kerry also stressed that a concerted effort must be made to choke off financing for the militant group and prevent foreign jihadis from joining its ranks in Iraq and Syria.

“An international coalition is essential to defeating IS,” Kerry said at a joint press conference here with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukri.

Besides, Kerry hailed the support the US got from Egypt and the Arab League in its fight against terrorism.

At least 25 Taliban militants were Saturday killed in counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan.

“The Afghan National Police conducted several anti-terrorism joint operations with the Afghan National Army and the National Directorate of Security to clean some of the areas of terrorists and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan,” MENA quoted an interior ministry statement as saying.

The statement said at least eight militants were wounded in operations conducted in Ghazni, Badakhshan, Logar, Nangarhar, Kunar, Helmand and Kapisa provinces.

Cracking the whip, government has disconnected power and water supplies to the official accommodations in Delhi of former union ministers and ex-MPs including Ajit Singh, Jitendra Singh and Mohd Azharuddin who refused to vacate the premises.

NCP leader and MP Supriya Sule today said she was not in the race for the post of Maharashtra chief minister.

“I am not contesting the assembly elections and am not in the race for the Chief Minister’s post,” Sule said in an interaction at an event organised by a channel.

She downplayed a question about why a progressive state like Maharashtra hasn’t had a woman chief minister so far.

“That has nothing to do with working for women-related issues and their uplift. Domestic violence and dowry deaths will not stop if a woman becomes CM,” she said.

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Saturday asked builders to not shy away from their lawful responsibilities and said they were “lucky” to have a Prime Minister who believes that the underprivileged must get housing within their budget and not as a freebie.

The independence of judiciary is “sacred and sacrosanct” for the government, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today in remarks which came after Chief Justice of India R M Lodha asserted that efforts to take away judiciary’s independence will not succeed.

The pair of Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna kept India afloat with a stirring five-set win over Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac in the crucial doubles match of the Davis Cup World Group playoff tie here Saturday.

Down by two sets and by a break in the third, the Indians rallied to win 1-6, 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-3, 8-6, in two hours, 58 minutes as the Serbs lost their early flow after Zimonjic suffered neck spasms that restricted his movements.