Information and Technology Minister K Tarakarama Rao today flayed the BJP for roping in Jagga Reddy, a hired candidate from the Congress. He said the BJP has now become ‘Babugari Jagga Reddy Party by fielding a non-party candidate.
Describing West Asia and the North African (WANA) region as turning into a “shatterbelt” , former foreign secretary and chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, Shyam Saran, expressed concern over the grave threat posed by The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which he said has rapidly acquired the attributes of a functioning state. He said that he was visibly worried about the recent developments in the West Asia and North Africa (WANA), adding that it could have far reaching consequences for the global order, and in particular for the Indian subcontinent.
Telangana Deputy Chief Minister handling Health portfolio T. Rajaiah on Tuesday appealed to the people to come forward wholeheartedly to donate eyes after death and help eradicate blindness in the society.
In connection with the National Eye Donation Fortnight celebrations held from August 25 to September 8 every year, the Deputy Chief Minister signed relevant documents at his Banjara Hills residence donating his eyes after his death. The program was organized by the Saroji Devi Eye Hospital this morning.
For the first time, the BJP and TDP leaders today joined to take on the TRS on Medak bypoll.
Addressing a public meeting along with BJP candidate Jagga Reddy, TDP leader A Revanth Reddy today fumed at the TRS leadership for luring the voters with false sops for votes.
Saudi Arabia has arrested 88 suspected extremists, more than half of them ex-Qaeda detainees who had previously been released, the interior ministry announced today.
The arrests come as part of the kingdom’s drive to “punish” those “belonging to or supporting” groups classified as “terrorist,” the ministry added in a statement on the official SPA news agency.
Saudi King Abdullah on Friday underscored the threat posed by jihadists unless there is “rapid” action.
A Delhi-based man has been arrested for selling kits to people to help them illegally decide the gender of their unborn child, officials said Tuesday.
State health department secretary and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Rakesh Gupta said Sanjay Khatana of Delhi was arrested after being caught red-handed by a three-member team of health officials.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao today held a high-level review meeting on World Mayors’ Conference to be held here in October.
The CM is said to have directed the officials to make world-class arrangements for the meeting which should be fool-proof.
The CM has discussed the issues relating to the international event and invited suggestions from the delegates.
Those who attended the meeting include a team of metro police delegates, two foreign delegates and GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar.
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Rural Electrification Corporation CMD Rajeev Sharma along with GENCO CMD D. Prabhakar Rao called on the Chief Minister at Secretariat today.
The REC CMD assured the Chief Minister to fund Rs 20,000 crores for the projects of Telangana GENCO, TRANSCO and distribution companies. To the suggestion from the CM, Rajeev Sharma agreed to fund all the GENCO Projects. The Chief Minister also discussed the power scenario with both of them.
Mayors and experts in urban management from 60 countries will attend the Metropolis conference scheduled here next month.
Around 2,000 delegates including commissioners, town planning Officers and experts in municipal administration will attend the four-day conference, beginning Oct 7. It has been called by Metropolis, the world association of major metropolises, is the leading international organisation that gathers cities and metropolitan regions with more than a million population.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday hard sold India to Japanese investors saying that his country offers only a red carpet and not red tape while dubbing his five-day trip to Japan that ends Wednesday as “very successful”.
“I’ve come to assure you there is no red tape but only red carpet that awaits you in India,” he said while delivering the keynote address in a seminar at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, co-hosted by Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro).
Education Minister, G Jagadish Reddy today held a meeting with Employees Associations at Secretariat here. The minister discussed on the preparation of service rules in the meeting.
The minister is learnt to have taken a decision to fill up the posts of MEOs and Diet Lecturers this month.
It was also decided to relieve those teachers in October who were transferred in August and timings of schools should be followed based on orders issued by the government.
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Olympic bronze medal winning boxer M.C. Mary Kom Tuesday said she badly missed being a part a Glasgow Commonwealth Games but she is ready to for the Asian Games that would be held in the South Korean city of Incheon Sep 19-Oct 4.
Mary Kom was present here to mark the new beginning of Artemis hospital’s campaign for cancer and cardiac problems in women. The initiative aims to spread awareness regarding these diseases all across the country including the unexplored North-East.
The AAP Tuesday slammed the Narendra Modi government on various issues, describing its first 100 days in power as “anything but landmark and emphatic”.
The Aam Aadmi Party termed the governance of the Bharatiya Janata Party “as an excellent public relations management and high-definition photographs on Twitter”.
“The fear with Narendra Modi’s government isn’t that they will do something radically different and crazy, but rather that they will end up being the UPA government,” the AAP said.
A local court has convicted a former tehsildar for taking bribe.
Additional special judge for anti-corruption cases here today sentenced R Govardhanachary, posted in Kasipet mandal in Adilabad district of Telangana at the time of the offence, to a rigorous imprisonment of one year under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The court also imposed fine of Rs 10,000 on him.
He had been trapped by Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 to issue proceedings for restoration of possession of a land.
The chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Shaharyar Khan has said that he will use his good relations with the Indian cricket board for the resumption of bilateral ties at the earliest.
Shaharyar, a career diplomat who was posted as Pakistan’s High Commissioner in New Delhi and also remained foreign secretary, said that he had always enjoyed good relations with the top officials of the BCCI.
“Whether it is Jagmohan Dalmiya, the late Raj Singh Dungarpur or Srinivasan I have good relations with them and I will soon talk to them about Indo-Pak cricket relations,” he said.
Known for his communicating skills, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today joined the ceremonial Japanese drummers here to perform a jugalbandi with them as he drummed up support for Indian business in Japan.
Modi tried his hands at drums while inaugurating the TCS Cultural Centre here.
The Prime Minister was inspired after watching the drummers and joined them, much to the amusement of the gathering.
On the occasion, he invited Japanese people to visit and explore India and spread the word about their experience.
An Indian man filed a case in a court in the UAE against his wife, who gave birth to a child in 2010 despite their not having sex for eight years, a media reported said Tuesday.
The man, who is identified only as R.J, 48, said he moved to a new job in Kuwait in 2006 and left his wife and only son in the UAE.
R.J said that last year his friends, who live in the UAE, told him that his wife had given birth to his child in 2010.
The much-awaited autobiography of batting icon Sachin Tendulkar will hit the stands on November 6 with a high-profile release of the book in his home city Mumbai.
The book, titled ‘Playing It My Way’, will be published worldwide by Hodder and Stoughton and by Hachette India in the Indian sub-continent.
The book has been co-authored by renowned cricket historian and media personality Boria Majumdar.
The ruling party members in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday providentially escaped from an accident.
While TDP member Kommulapati Sridhar was speaking during the Zero Hour in the House, a curtain iron rod suddenly fell down. However, the members escaped unhurt as the iron rod fell down at a little distance leaving the members benumbed. The Marshals of the House rushed in and removed the rod.
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Legal luminary and former attorney general of India Goolamhoossein Essaji Vahanvati died following cardiac arrest at a private hospital here Tuesday evening, official sources said. He was 65.
He is survived by his wife and son.
Vahanvati had been ailing with a lung infection since some time.
Solicitor general of India for five years from 2004, he was appointed the 13th attorney general of India, or the government’s top lawyer, in 2009 for a three-year term, which was extended by another two years in 2012.
Former Attorney General Goolan Vahanvati passed away here today following a cardiac arrest. He was 65.
The 13th Attorney General of India, Vahanvati was appointed to office in June 2009 after previously having served as the Solicitor General for five years.
In May 2012, Vanavati’s term had been extended by three years, before he resigned from his post on May 27 this year. (ANI)
Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy has said today that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a new impetus to foreign policy.
Speaking to ANI, Swamy said, “The Prime Minister has given a new impetus to foreign policy and all our neighbouring countries, with the exception of Pakistan, are happy with it.”
No, Priyanka Chopra is not talking about the box office competition, but about actually beating up someone physically! And the actress strongly feels that every woman should learn some form of self-defence.
Priyanka may have now lost all the muscle she built up for her role as five-time boxing champion M.C. Mary Kom in her forthcoming film, but she says she’s now fitter and stronger to give a tough fight to anyone.
Farah Abdel Megid from Egypt defeated Aparajitha Balamurukan 11-3, 11-5, 10-12, 11-4 in the quarter-finals to end the Indian challenge in the individual events of the World University Squash Championship at the Indian Squash Academy (ISA) courts here Tuesday.
Aparajitha scripted her own downfall with repeated unforced errors, mostly failing to judge the height of the tin. Although Megid eventually won, Aparajitha did raise some cheer by plucking one game against the run of play.
The Congress said Tuesday the first 100 days of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government were “disappointing” and the people of the country had been “misled”.
“Modi is a dream merchant, who came to power by selling false hopes,” Congress leader Anand Sharma said at a press conference here and dismissed the 100 days of Modi’s rule as high on rhetoric and low on performance.