The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee today objected to the flexes and banners containing advertisements of government flagship programs and schemes in Hyderabad city and surrounding areas and accused the TRS government of violating the Election Code.
Sticking to his word, Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy today filed a defamation case against senior Congress leader and former MP Ponnam Prabhakar for his alleged remarks.
According to the information, the minister filed the case at Suryapet Civil Court saying that the allegations leveled against him are baseless and defamed him as Education Minister regarding Fees reimbursement.
YSRCP president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy today said the “Aam Admi Party” had secured 67 out of 72 seats in the recent Delhi elections. Similarly, if elections are held in Andhra Pradesh now, the ruling TDP would not win and its candidates would lose their deposits.
The Musheerabad police on Thursday fished out the body of a 52-year-old man from a nala near City Mall.
The deceased, T Yadagiri, is suspected to have fallen into the nala during sleep on Wednesday night. He was a hotel worker and resident of Warsiguda. (INN)
A 14-year-old boy was found hanging to a tree under mysterious circumstances in Bhavani Nagar police limits on Thursday morning.
The victim, Mirza Ahmed Ali Baig, a 9th class student, went out of his house in Raja Nagar on Wednesday evening. However, he did not return home and his body was found hanging to a tree in Mohammed Nagar at about 8 AM on Thursday. Bhavani Nagar police began investigation after registering a case of suspicious death under Section 174 of IPC. (INN)
A 35-year-old man died on the spot after he was hit by a train between Begumpet and Necklace Road stations on Thursday morning.
The Nampally Railway Police later identified the deceased as Md Ahmed, an auto-driver of Borabanda near Habeeb Fatima Nagar.
In another case, Rajesh Bung, 42, died on the spot after he was hit by a train between Malakpet and Dabeerpura stations on Thursday. He was a businessman and resident of Happy Homes Apartments in Madannapet, according to Kachiguda Railway Police. (INN)
At least one person was killed and six others injured when five bombs hit a police station and two other places here while Egyptian police defused two bombs planted near the presidential palace.
A bomb exploded outside a police station in Waraq district in Giza, injuring six including four policemen.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health said in a statement that a person was killed in another bomb explosion that took place outside a restaurant in the residential district of Imbaba.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Thursday said a separate policy will be framed in the state to ensure that mining is done along riverbeds in a legally sanctioned manner so that the rivers and population living close to them are protected and the sector becomes an effective tool for revenue generation.
A special CBI court on Thursday discharged senior BJP leader and Rajasthan’s former home minister Gulabchand Kataria and marble trader Vimal Patni from the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter killing cases, citing “insufficient” evidence.
“There is no sufficient ground to proceed against the accused,” special CBI judge MB Gosavi said as he discharged the two from the case.
Kataria is the second top politician after BJP president Amit Shah who had been charge-sheeted in the two cases but will not stand trial after relief from the court.
In his attempt to find an out-of- court resolution to Ayodhya dispute, the main litigant in Babri Masjid case Hashim Ansari today said he will involve prominent members of the minority community for a peaceful conclusion to the matter.
Ansari recently met Akhara Parishad president Mahant Gyan Das to discuss a new proposal for resolution of Ayodhya dispute and they plan to put it before the Supreme Court.
Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said that the Railway Budget was a ‘revolutionary and people-centric budget’.
He said that steps initiated in this budget would not only improve safety, security and facilities for passengers but also enhance speed of travel on the Indian Railways.
“The budget will also address the problem of resource- crunch. Entrusting faith in the initiatives mentioned in the rail budget, the technology-oriented services would ensure transparency as well as user-friendliness,” Javadekar said.
Stating that accepting diversity has been a unique quality of Indians, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat today said, “We came to know that ‘puja’ (worship) is so important during the Islamic invasion of India.”
We never thought puja is important. We realised it is important during the invasion of Islam,” Bhagwat said.
We were shocked when we were introduced to those who wanted to force their ways of worship on us,” Bhagwat added
during a lecture here tonight on the death anniversary of freedom fighter and Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar who had passed away in 1966.
As many as 76.83 crore Aadhaar numbers have been generated as on February 15 and about Rs 5,512.18 crore has been spent until January this year on the project, government said on Thursday.
“A total of 76.83 crore Aadhaars have been generated as on February 15, 2015, out of a total population of 121.01 crore (Census 2011),” Minister of State for Planning Rao Inderjit Singh said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
Rahul and Dimpy Mahajan, who shot to fame after they tied the knot in a reality show, are divorced now, reports suggest.
According to reports, the former couple who had filed for divorce few months back following upheavals in their married life, have headed for splitsville.
Rahul’s Facebook post has confirmed now that they are nothing more than `just friends` now and have cleared any misconceptions regarding their relationship.
Dimpy, too has changed her last name from `Mahajan` to her maiden family name `Ganguly`.
Canada-based cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, who spearheaded an agitation against the Nawaz Sharif government, was on Thursday declared a “proclaimed offender” along with his two sons by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court for failing to appear in a case of arson and vandalism here.
The anti-terrorism court of Lahore also issued non- bailable warrants against 64-year-old Qadri, his sons and two other leaders of the Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) party.
The court gave the verdict in a case against PAT chief on charges of arson and vandalism during their protests in Lahore last year.
Pakistan said Thursday it will discuss all disputes with Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar when he visits the country between March 3 and 4.
“Kashmir, Siachin, Sir Creek and other issues would be discussed with the Indian foreign secretary,” said foreign office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam at the weekly media briefing, Dawn reported.
“We welcome this Indian initiative,” she added.
President Pranab Mukherjee, receiving a Parliamentary delegation from Russia at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, on Thursday said that the strategic partnership between New Delhi and Moscow is a reflection of the depth of cooperation between the two sides.
The Shiv Sena Thursday targeted the BJP-led NDA government, which it is part of, with a sharp criticism of the railway budget for 2015-16, saying it “completely ignored the aspirations and expectations of the people of Maharashtra”.
“We are totally dissatisfied with the railway budget. They have said so many things in the budget, but where will the funds come from?” wondered Mumbai North-West MP Gajanan Kirtikar wondered.
The masked Islamic State (IS) militant known as “Jihadi John,” who has appeared in several execution videos, has been identified as Briton Mohammed Emwazi of London, according to people familiar with the matter.
Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born Briton in his mid-20s from west London, was previously known to British security services, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
“I have no doubt that Emwazi is Jihadi John,” said one of his close friends who identified him in an interview with The Washington Post. “He was like a brother to me, I am sure it is him.”
The swine flu epidemic continued to rage in Rajasthan with six more deaths reported Thursday taking the total death toll over the 250 mark since the start of this year, an official said.
“Six more deaths were reported across the state on Thursday. Total deaths reported till Thursday touched 251 from Jan 1 in the state,” a medical and health department official told IANS.
Total positive cases as of Thursday evening were 5,262, out of which 2,039 are from Jaipur alone, the official said.
Jaipur also accounted for the maximum deaths at 51 followed by Ajmer at 29 and Jodhpur at 28.
Apex human rights panel, the NHRC has sought a report from Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi over steps taken to keep a check on the mushrooming placement agencies which are the “hubs and transit point for human trafficking”.
Taking suo motu cognizance of a media report that surging demand for domestic help in Delhi is encouraging human trafficking by unregulated placement agencies, the NHRC said that “hundreds of agencies are reportedly involved in the business of selling domestic workers”.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday called upon the opposition to accompany her in meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to press the demand for a debt-waiver for the cash-strapped state.
Speaking on the governor’s address in the state assembly, Banerjee said she would be “happy” if the opposition parties joined her.
“I will be going with my MPs. If you, including the leader of opposition, join us, we will be happy,” she said.
The Supreme Court Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of section 66A of the Information Technology Act and other provisions of cyber law on the grounds of their misuse/abuse by the authorities.
A bench of Justice J. Chelameswar and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman reserved its verdict after the central government told the court that a statutory provision could not be quashed just on the grounds of its misuse or abuse.
Authorities in Odisha’s Kandhamal district Thursday banned the proposed entry of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) chief Pravin Togadia on apprehensions that it might disturb peace in the area.
“He (Togadia) will not be allowed to enter the district. The ban is valid for next seven days,” Kandhamal’s Superintendent of Police Kanwar Vishal Singh told IANS.
Togadia is scheduled to address a gathering of VHP supporters at Phulbani, the district headquarters of Kandhamal Saturday. Singh said the organisers have been however given permission to hold the gathering but without Togadia.
Pro-Russian separatists have found at least 30 corpses of Ukrainian soldiers under the rubble of Donetsk airport, which was taken by the rebels last month after bloody fighting, according to the separatists’ DAN news agency.
“Forces of the ministry of emergency situations, militiamen and volunteers went to collect debris from the Donetsk airport, where they found at least 30 dead Ukrainian soldiers,” said a statement from the ministry of defence of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, DAN reported.