The CBI informed the special court on Wednesday that it had also included the names of ministers in the illegal assets case against the YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
Both Jagan and his auditor Vijaya Sai Reddy filed memos in the court separately. Arguments were concluded on the memos on Wednesday. The court posted its decision to April 27.
Expressing anguish over frequent bedlam in the Assembly leading to loss of valuable time, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister today said some politicians, in spite of raising the issues for which they are sent, resort to boycott politics for gaining publicity.
Without taking name of any particular party, Omar, while addressing a rally in Kathua, said voters send public representatives to ventilate public problems and seek redressal of difficulties, but they do their politics by remaining absent from the right forums.
The unseasonal rains that lashed Andhra Pradesh over the last four days have claimed 25 lives and damaged crops over 70,000 hectares, officials said Wednesday.
The deaths, almost all due to thunderbolts, were reported from 11 districts.
Guntur accounted for seven deaths; four people died in Nellore, three in Prakasam, two each in Warangal, Krishna and East Godavari and one each in West Godavari, Khammam, Adilabad, Visakhapatnam and Mahaboobnagar districts.
Twelve people were also injured in various rain-related incidents in three districts.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday said that it was the teachings of Hindu seers had kept the country going forward.
He was speaking at the silver jubilee celebrations of the Sivagiri Mutt’s headquarters of the Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham, established by Sree Narayana Guru, who propagated the concept of ‘One Caste, One Religion, One God’.
Modi arrived at the mutt, 45 km from here, Wednesday evening.
His visit had been boycotted by both the Left opposition and the Congress led ruling alliance in Kerala.
In order to clear extra rush of passengers, the South Central Railway will extend the run of Train No.09735 / 09736 Secunderabad-Jaipur-Secunderabad Special train for four more services to the existing timings and stoppages.
Three workers of Nehru Zoological Park were injured by a Chimpanzee by name ‘Suzi’ which had set herself free from its enclosure for a few minutes on Wednesday.
As the intruding Chinese soldiers refuse to budge from their occupied position in Daulat Beg Oldi(DBO) sector in Ladakh, two Chinese military helicopters have violated Indian airspace at Chumar, several hundred kilometres southeast of Leh, adding to the prevailing tension. The Chinese choppers entered the Indian airspace on April 21 and hovered over the area for quite sometime and returned after dropping some food cans, cigarette packets and notes written in their local language, official sources said today.
The City Police on Wednesday issued a notification to fill up the existing vacancies of 384 Home Guards in Hyderabad City Police and 73 Home Guards on deputation. The notification and the application is placed at website www.appolice.gov.in and www.hyderabadpolice.gov.in under recruitment folder.
The CBI special court has reserved its verdict till April 27 on the petitions filed by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and Vijayasai Reddy regarding the multiple chargesheets filed by CBI.
The hearing in this case was completed on Wednesday and the court reserved its judgment
Jagan counsel had contended that there should be a single trial and a single charge sheet to a single FIR and quoted Supreme Court rulings.
Additional Solicitor General said that the government will file a final charge sheet soon. (INN)
Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal Wednesday said she was satisfied with her performance after she moved into the second round of the India Open Super Series badminton beating Belaetrix Manuputi of Indonesia.
Saina advanced to the second round with a 21-12, 21-15 win over the Indonesian here at the Siri Fort Sports Complex. It was Saina’s second victory over Belaetrix.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the Hanuman Jayanthi rally to be held on Thursday.
Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, City Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma informed that 20-km Shobha Yatra would be held from Ram Mandir at Gowliguda to Hanuman Temple at Tadbun. Certain traffic restrictions have been imposed in view of the rally and the people have been asked to take alternate routes to avoid inconvenience.
A 28-year-old man was arrested for killing his sister-in-law to hush up his illicit relationship with her. She had been blackmailing him for gifts to keep the relationship a secret, police said Wednesday.
The accused, Chetan Prakash, was arrested from Karol Bagh in central Delhi.
The incident occurred April 17 at the victim’s house in Swaroop Nagar in north Delhi.
On the fateful day, Prakash visited Rakhi, 28. She complained to Prakash that he had stopped giving her gifts after he married her sister, said a police officer.
The BJP Wednesday attacked Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for sharing the dais with Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi, an accused in the Israeli embassy car blast.
Dikshit had shared stage with Kazmi during the re-launch ceremony of Urdu newspaper “Qaumi Salamati” in the capital Tuesday. Kazmi is the editor of the paper and is on bail.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Jolly demanded explanation from Dikshit whether her Congress-led government has given a “clean chit” to Kazmi who is involved in the matter which concerns “nation security”.
Abu Jundal, an alleged operative of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and a key handler during the 26/11 terror attacks, has approached Bombay High Court seeking that he should not be kept in solitary confinement in the same cell where Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab once stayed.
Jundal has been lodged in Arthur Road prison in central Mumbai. His cell was earlier occupied by Kasab, the lone arrested terrorist of 26/11 attacks, before he was executed at Pune’s Yerawada jail.
BJP leader LK Advani on Wednesday accused the UPA government of trying to drag the name of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the 2G spectrum issue to “divert” the investigation and said it was an “irony” that his name had appeared in the draft JPC report.
Addressing election rallies in the second leg of his tour for the May 5 Karnataka assembly polls at Savadatti and Indi in north Karnataka, he said “it is an irony that Atalji’s name has appeared in the (Joint Parliamentary Committee draft) report”.
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Bollywood’s newest star Sunny Leone is a big draw here and so are MMS clips of various sex scandals and porn scenes and the newly available sex toys smuggled from China.
Even as Parliament Monday hotly debated rising rapes and “depravity” in society and demands to check spread of pornographic material, it seems porn was for the asking literally down the road.
Rape, molestation and incest… Reports of sexual abuse, particularly against minors, came in from several parts of the country Wednesday in another reminder of the increasing vulnerability of women and children.
Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) Airline major Jet Airways Wednesday said it would seek the approval of its shareholders through an extraordinary general meeting for issuing the company’s 2.73 crore equity shares to the Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways.
New York, where at least 20,000 teenagers in public high schools smoke, may become the first major city in the US to ban the sale of tobacco to anyone under the age of 21.
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has proposed a law that would raise the minimum age requirement to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.
“Too many adult smokers begin this deadly habit before age 21,” said Quinn.
Washington, Apr.24 (ANI): For most Americans, former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton remains the most popular political choice, according to a recent poll. More than six in ten Americans participating in a Gallup Poll favoured Clinton in comparison to President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden. The Gallup poll showed that Clinton exceeded President Obama by nine percentage points, Biden by nineteen percentage points and Kerry by twenty points, Politico reports.
As master blaster Sachin Tendulkar completed 40, his fans expressed their love and admiration for the cricketing icon through popular social networking site Facebook.
Facebook pages of Tendulkar fans sported a festive look with hundreds of posts and pictures wishing Sachin Tendulkar many happy returns of the day.
Most pages posted the picture of Sachin Tendulkar and his wife Anjali cutting a 5kg birthday cake at the ITC Sonar Kolkata Wednesday.
Sky gazers can look forward to a partial lunar eclipse that will take place Thursday and will be first of the three eclipses of 2013, officials said Wednesday.
Earth’s shadow will cover one percent of the moon and will just touch the moon’s limb. The moon will not disappear and turn red but will get slightly darker than usual.
Washington, Apr. 24 (ANI): American political commentator and analyst Bob Beckel has called for a ban on allowing Muslim students to enter the country for some time.
Beckel spoke on the Tuesday edition of “The Five”, which he co-hosts with Megyn Kelly, on the backdrop of Boston bombings. He accused the media of diverting from the main issue. The suspects of the bombings were Muslims.
The Fox News analyst favoured a restricted visa policy for students.
Afghan officials say at least 13 people have been killed in flash floods that hit northern Afghanistan.
The police chief of Balkh province, Shir Jan Durani, said today that the flooding took place in the remote districts of Kishindih, Sholgara and Nahri Shai. He says five people are missing.
The flooding late Tuesday also damaged many homes and livestock drowned. Many homes in rural Afghanistan are built of mud or stone and are easily washed away by flooding.
Rahmatullah Zahid, a local official in Balkh province, says seven people died in Sholgara and at least six in Kishindih.
Tehran, April 24 (Xinhua-ANI): Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold a new round of talks over Tehran”s nuclear program in May, Press TV reported Wednesday, quoting Iran” s ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog.
Ali-Asghar Soltanieh told Press TV Tuesday that the two sides would meet at the headquarters of Iran”s
mission to the IAEA in the Austrian capital of Vienna on May 15.
This confirms the IAEA”s Tuesday announcement that it would talk again with Iran on May 15 in a bid to