Committee of officials submitted its report regarding the scam of Minorities Finance Corporation last week itself. The delay in implementing the recommendations of this report raises many doubts. It is reported that this delay is caused due to non-availability of the permanent Principal Secretary of the Dept. of Minorities Welfare.
US President Barack Obama has vowed to find out the motives behind Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and left about 180 injured in the first major terror attack on American soil after 9/11.
“Obviously, tonight, there are still many unanswered questions,” Obama said speaking from White House briefing room after 10 p.m. Friday, just over an hour after the remaining suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured after a massive manhunt.
In the event of TDP resuming power after the general elections of 2014, loans of farmers and the Muslims would be waived. Subsidies given to Minorities for bank loans would also be waived.
The lovers of Hyderabadi Culture and Civilization are found everywhere in the world. Siasat Urdu Daily has played an important role in maintaining the identity of Hyderabad eversince its inception. It published “Glimpses of Nizam’s Dominion” “Hyderabad – Shaher-e-Nigaraan” and later an album consisting of more than 600 photographs. Both the editions of these books have already been sold out. Only 20 volumes of these books have been preserved for the Hyderabadi NRI’s.
In the colony in East Delhi where a five-year-old was brutalised, residents were reluctant to speak when asked about the house where the child was found.
“Humein nahin maloom hai” (We don’t know) is what most have to say.
Amid a street cluttered with kiosks and kaccha houses, is a lane leading to a nondescript building in the corner.
Hindu activists and the members of Hindu Vahini tried to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere of Bhainsa Town yesterday on the occasion of Sri Rama Navami.
Hindu Vahini activists fixed DJ sound boxes on a taxi car making a loud noise. They tried to take out a procession without police permission.
Regional News Unit of All India Radio of Hyderabad got two Akashvani national awards for 2011.
Mr. Baquer Mirza, Deputy Director of AIR (incharge of news) got the best regional news event award. Ms. Supra Shanthi Devi got the award of best news editor. The regional news unit of Hyderabad got these awards for the first time.
Hindu outfits took out Shobha yatra rallies in connection with Sri Rama Navami. The participants shouted inciting slogans. Shobha yatra started at 11:30 am from Rani Avanti Bai Community Hall, Dhoolpet, Mangalhat and it reached Huanuman Vyayam Shala, Sultan Bazar at 11:30 pm. Police had made elaborate arrangements for shobha yatra in view of Friday prayers. DCP of West Zone, Mr. G. Sudheer Babu stopped rally at Dhoolpet. Raja Singh Municipal Corporator of Mangalhat tried to take the rally further but the DCP blocked the rally by putting his car in front of it.
Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he wanted to “correct the system” within Congress as problems of grassroots level workers did not reach its top brass and assured partymen that he was available to them at any time.
In a closed-door interaction with delegates as part of organisation building exercise here, the fourth such meet in Punjab, the Congress Vice President told partymen that he wanted to “correct the system” within the party.
At least 11 people were killed and 45 others injured on Friday when a bus they were travelling in overturned in Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab.
The over-speeding bus turned turtle after hitting a roadside tree in Bahawalpur city, dunya tv quoted eye witnesses as saying.
The driver lost control over the bus as he tried to save a motorcyclist, witnesses said.
The injured have been shifted to Bahawal Victoria Hospital, where several of them are said to be in critical condition.
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Police on Thursday booked Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) corporator Mohammed Murtuza and a marble businessman for trespassing into a government property near the Chanchalguda women prison. They removed a signboard declaring the 200 square yard plot as ‘government property’.
Saidabad tehsildar N Radika Ramani and other staff on Wednesday visited the site to re-errect the board on the plot. The marble businessman Nadeem prevented them from doing so, while the MIM corporator threatened her over the phone.
Beijing: At least 72 people were killed and over 600 injured when a powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Saturday, CCTV News reported, a news agency reported.
The quake hit Lushan county of Ya’an city in southwest China’s Sichuan Province at 8:02 AM local time.
The epicenter of the earthquake was reported to be at a depth of 13 Kms and was monitored at 30.3 degrees north latitude and 103.0 degrees east longitude.
Pictures on the state-run CCTV showed extensive damage to buildings.
When some 400 years ago Qutub Shahi romantic poet king Mohammad Quli dreamt of building a new city about 15 km from his decaying Golconda he discussed his plan with prime minister Mir Momin. Working vigorously with a team of planners, designers and artisans from India, Iran and Iraq Mir Momin presented the idea of Charminar as the centerpiece of the new city of lakes, gardens, palaces, public utility buildings and business centres. The dream became a reality in 1591 and since then the monument has remained irreplaceable in the heart of every Hyderabadi, nay, every beholder.
Wipro Chairman Azim Premji has said he has already given more than 25 per cent of his personal wealth to charity, but acknowledged it’s not easy to use money well in philanthropy.
“I have very clear views on what I intend to give to charity and today more than 25 per cent (of my personal wealth) has already been given to charity,” Premji said.
The IT czar had donated 8.7 per cent from his personal stock-holding in Wipro for philanthropy in 2010. This had formed the endowment for the Azim Premji Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation set up in 2001.
Pakistan has urged all concerned stakeholders including the US to ensure Afghanistan turns a peaceful, progressive, prosperous and stable country after NATO-led coalition forces’ withdrawal.
It has expressed concern about the possible direct impact of any hostility in the war-torn neighbouring country, Xinhua reported.
Pakistan is in contact with all concerned in this regard and is monitoring the evolving situation, the foreign ministry said Friday.
Singer Rihanna has sparked rumours that she is pregnant, after she cancelled some of her Diamond World Tour dates.
The 25-year-old is dating on and off boyfriend Chris Brown, and she is said to have made a number of visits to the doctor recently, reports thesun.co.uk.
She was seen wearing a loose hoody jacket here as she made an exit from a visit to the doctor. The singer had earlier revealed that has started feeling broody.
She hadn’t even ruled out having a kid with Brown in a past interview.
Singer-actress Selena Gomez was seen arriving here from Los Angeles, where ex-boyfriend is also staying. This has led to speculations of a patch-up between them.
Gomez came here Thursday.
Bieber, 19, was going to perform the same night as part of his Believe Tour, reports contactmusic.com.
The duo were together for two years before calling it quits in January this year.
Post the breakup, they have been captured together. It was earlier reported that Bieber wanted to get back with Gomez, but the latter showed no interest and even partied with his friends to annoy him.
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China has said that an oil pipeline project in Myanmar will serve the mutual interest of both the countries.
The Chinese foreign ministry Friday also said the oil pipeline project in Myanmar could boost the local economy in that country, Xinhua reported.
“The oil pipeline project has undergone scientific study and strict examination and conforms with local regulations and laws,” spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily press briefing.
She said it when asked about a Chinese-invested oil pipeline to be built in Myanmar.
Five people were killed as a powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale jolted south China’s Sichuan province Saturday morning.
The provincial seismological bureau confirmed five deaths.
According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the temblor hit the province’s Lushan county of Ya’an city at 8.02 a.m., Xinhua reported.
The epicentre, having a depth of 13 km, was monitored at 30.3 degrees north latitude and 103.0 degrees east longitude. And, it was strongly felt by residents in Sichuan’s capital city of Chengdu, about 140 km from Ya’an.
Burma’s Muslims are still having a pretty awful time of it. Last year, the country’s Buddhist majority launched a series of attacks on the minority Rohingya Muslim population, supposedly because they’re not “ethnically pure”. The attacks have continued this year and now include the general Muslim population, as well as the ethnic Rohingyas.
Bollywood actor and UNICEF goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra today said she hopes to create a safer environment for girls in the country. “I hope I help create an environment where girls could be safe. With UNICEF, we are trying to create actual physical environment for girls where they could be safe, especially in villages,” she said. The actor said this at an art and cinema memorabilia auction organised by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and IPL team Delhi Daredevils, in association with auction house Osian’s, as part of the “dare-to-care” campaign.
Delhi Police has slapped attempt to murder section against the person who allegedly raped a five-year-old girl and holding her hostage for at least two days here. Prabhakar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East), told reporters tonight that they have slapped sections 307 (attempt to murder), 376 (a) (rape), 362-A (kidnapping) among others of IPC and 6 and 9 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act, 2012. “The accused has been identified and a team is already on its way to arrest him,” Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar told PTI.
Two accused in the case relating to planting of a pipe bomb allegedly targeting BJP leader L K Advani during his “Jan Chetna Yatra” in 2011, today moved the Madras High Court bench here for bail. A Judicial Magistrate court had remanded Syed Sahabuddin and Darvish Moideen, who were booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Explosives Substances Act, to custody last month. Syed Sahabbudhin alleged he had been falsely implicated in the case.
A 25-year-old youth allegedly involved in the rape of the five-year-old girl in the national capital was arrested here early this morning, police said. Manoj Kumar was apprehended from Chiknouta, his in-law’s village, at around 2.00 AM from here in Bihar, about 50 Kms from Patna. The youth was arrested by a team from Delhi with the help of local police. The accused, who has come here by a train from Delhi, was traced after tracking his mobile phone location, police sources said. Kumar had married recently and his wife had come to her parent’s place two days back.
Former premier Nawaz Sharif had a narrow escape when his chartered aircraft made an emergency landing in this eastern Pakistani city on Friday after one of its windows developed a crack. The PML-N chief was flying from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, to Hasilpur district in Punjab, 400 km from Lahore, when the Challenger aircraft’s window was damaged.