Hyderabad: భర్య చేతిలో భర్త హతం.. మియాపూర్ లో ఘటన

మియాపూర్ లో దారుణం చోటు చేసుకుంది. భార్య చేతిలో భర్త హత్యకు గురయ్యాడు. కుటుంబ కలహాలతోనే హత్య చేసినట్లు గుర్తింపు. పోలీసుల కథనం ప్రకారం. భార్యాభర్తల మధ్య తరచూ గొడవలు జరిగేవవి. అస్సాంకు చెందిన రుక్సానా(35) భర్తతో కలిసి హఫీజ్ పేట్ ప్రేమ్ నగర్ లో నివాసం ఉండేవారు. భార్యాభర్తలు కూలీ పనులు చేస్తూ జీవనం సాగించేవారు. భర్త రోజూ తాగి వచ్చి భార్యను వేధిస్తుండేవాడు. ఇంతటితో ఆగకుండా భర్త బుధవారం పిల్లలపై కత్తితో దాడికి యత్నించాడు. పిల్లలను కొట్టడంతో భార్య రుక్సనా విసిగిపోయింది. భార్య తీవ్రంగా ప్రతిఘటించడంతో భర్త తలకు తీవ్ర గాయమైంది. అధిక రక్త స్రావంతో భర్త మృతి చెందాడు. పోలీసులు మృతదేహాన్ని పోస్ట్ మార్టం నిమిత్తం గాంధీ హాస్పిటల్ కు తరలించారు. కేసు నమోదు చేసుకుని దర్యాప్తు చేస్తున్నారు.

8 Congress LS AP MPs suspended over Telangana

The ruling Congress on Tuesday had eight of its own members from Telangana region hangs down from the Lok Sabha for four days for repeat disrupt the work of the house over the requirement for a separate state, the first time in parliamentary history that the ruling party members have been suspended in a group.

The action came on the first day of the second part of the Budget Session. The last week of the first phase, which ended March 30 vanished over the same issue. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal moved the motion seeking their suspension, which was adopted by a voice vote. Previously warned Francisco Sardinha, who was in the chair, agitating MPs of action if they do not return to their seats. Ponnam Prabhakar, Goud Yaskhi Madhu, M. Jagannadham, Komatreddy Rajagopal Reddy, G. Viveknanda, Balram Naik, gutta Sukhender and S. Reddy Rajaiah was suspended MPs.

Hyderabad: Curfew on in old city

HYDERABAD: Curfew continued in the riot-hit areas of the old city of Hyderabad for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, with the situation remaining tense but under control.

People in curfew bound areas under Madannapet and Saeedabad police station limits are reeling under the shortage of essential commodities. Daily wage earners are the worst hit.

Though police on Monday night announced that there would be relaxation in curfew between 12 noon and 2pm on Tuesday, the same was withdrawn.

The indefinite curfew was imposed on Sunday after communal clashes broke out following the desecration of a place of worship at Madannapet.

Police remained on high alert following the desecration of three more places of worship at Narayanguda and Kachiguda, both outside curfew-bound areas. A tense situation prevails across the old city due to sporadic incidents of violence.

An uneasy calm prevails in the densely populated neighbourhoods around the historic Charminar and Mecca Masjid as a sense of fear grips people. Business in the centuries-old markets in the old city has been badly hit.

Many people are apprehensive to go out for work and their daily chores outside the old city. Most of the buses of state-owned Road Transport Corporation are off the roads and only a few auto-rickshaws are plying.

Police Commissioner AK Khan has announced that prohibitory orders, banning the assembly of four or more people, would continue till April 14 in the city. Pillion riding on motorbike has also been banned during night hours.

Residents in the interior areas of old city are complaining that they are facing a tough time due to barbed wires erected by police on many roads. 

Osmania University students want beef in hostel mess

HYDERABAD: The politics of food is now breaking out on the 'T' struck Osmania University campus. Asserting their food culture, a large bunch of Dalit students have asked the administration to serve beef in their hostel mess. In a petition submitted to university's vice chancellor, S Satyanarayana, the students have stated that their food habits were ridiculed and insulted on the campus as members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) disrupted an attempt to cook beef in New Research Scholars' Hostel on March 11.

Challenging the 'casteist food culture', the students will also hold a beef festival in front of Osmania University (OU) Arts College in April. During the festival, cooked beef will be served and is being conducted as part of the birth anniversary celebrations of national leaders like B R Ambedakar (April 14), Jyotiba Phule (April 11) and Babu Jagjivan Ram (April 5), who were anti-caste ideologues. The university administration, though aware of the petition has not given permission to conduct such a festival.

The Dalit students form the second largest caste group with 2,000 members on OU campus. The campus which has a total student strength of 8,000 has about 4,000 OBC and 1,000 tribal students. "We decided to conduct such a public meeting as there have been several instances in the past where we were humiliated because of our food habits. Dalit PG students were rebuked and even roughed up by others when they cooked any non-vegetarian food in hostels during certain festival days," said Sudarshan, a research scholar enrolled in Arts College. Observers said that this is the second time that the Dalit students of OU have come together to assert their identity. In 2011, students had organised a unique Dasara celebration on campus, where Ravana, the mythical character symbolising Dalit identity, was glorified.

When asked whether the OU administration will give permission for beef festival, OU vice chancellor said that the matter is sensitive and hence a decision cannot be taken in haste. "We have asked some faculty members to talk to the students. We are trying to get things under control," said S Satyanarayana, vice chancellor, OU. He said that the issue came to his notice when some sections of the student community on campus complained about the same. "On March 11, I requested some senior teachers to get in touch with them and asked them to stop the exercise as this would create tension on campus," said Satyanarayana. Experts said the beef festival will face serious opposition on campus.

Two hour power cut in Hyderabad from March 8

Andhra speaker disqualifies 16 Jagan loyalists

Hyderabad: Ending the long suspense, the Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker on Friday disqualified 16 rebel lawmakers belonging to the ruling Congress party who were loyal to YS Jaganmohan Reddy.

The speaker has also accepted the resignation of another Jagan loyalist Shoba Nagi Reddy of Praja Rajyam Party (PRP).

A statement about the disqualification was released from the office of speaker Nandendla Manohar on Friday night.

Congress had sought the disqualification of the legislators for violating the party whip and voting in favor of opposition Telugu Desam Party's no-confidence motion against the government in the assembly last December.

With the speaker's move, 17 seats in 294-member house have fallen vacant. The election commission will now initiate the process to fill the vacancies by holding by-elections within six months.

Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has asked for a status report on the probe into the liquor racket in the state to be submitted in three weeks from now. This has come after CNN-IBN reported that there was a nexus between the excise officials, the police and the accused in the racket.

Meanwhile, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders met Governor ESL Narasimhan on Monday demanding resignation of all the ministers who are alleged to have stakes in the scam.

The developments come almost a week after top Congress leaders in the state were probed by the police in connection with the issue.

Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister M Venkata Ramana, four MLAs and several excise officials have already been named in case for receiving bribes.

Sources have further said that state Congress chief Botsa Satyanarayana and Roads Minister Dharmana Prasad are also known to have a stake in the liquor business.

Notably, Satyanarayana had publicly admitted that he owns 31 liquor shops.

'Race' to stop flight of birds from city

HYDERABAD: After a two-year hiatus, the Birdwatchers' Society of Andhra Pradesh (BSAP) is back with the third edition of 'Bird Race' , which is being held in the city on Sunday. Aimed at spreading the message about the need for a healthy environment , the event will see over 100 city birdwatchers (amateur and professional ) participating in it and showcase the various species of birds found in and around Hyderabad. The race will be flagged off at Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet.

"We have identified certain areas such as Icrisat, Sanjeevaiah Park, Lotus Pond, Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad Central University and Narsapur forest where participants can spot birds. The team (27 people have registered so far) that logs the highest number of sightings will win the race," said M Shafaat Ulla, secretary , BSAP. He pointed out how this event was crucial for the city to take stock of its fast disappearing bird population.

"There was a time when we could spot 15-20 species of birds at any given time in the Banjara Hills area. Now, one sees none," Ulla said, expressing concern over the rapid concretization of Hyderabad which was taking a toll on its environment.

That the poor health of the city environment , due to pollution and deforestation , has driven away most of Hyderabad's birds is a claim that no one would dispute. Talking about the ongoing return migration season, they say how Hyderabad, over the last few years, has seen a sharp drop in the number of migratory birds that earlier visited from central Asia and Eastern Ghats. Right from ducks and warblers to storks, falcons and even harriers, the visits by these species , experts say, has dropped drastically , thanks to indiscriminate deforestation and encroachment of water bodies. "In such a scenario, it is very important that events like the bird race are held for people, especially the younger generation, to realise how essential it is to care for our environment ," said Rajeev Mathew, a wildlife expert.

"Another reason why it is so important to track the 'bird wealth' of Hyderabad is because the city sits in the middle of the central flyway (for migratory birds) and has a huge chunk of birds coming every season. We need to find out how many of them came this year and whether there has been a further drop in those numbers so that we can take corrective measures."

The last edition of the 'Bird Race' , which, too, was supported by the Great Hyderabad Adventure Club, was held in 2009.

Junior doctors' stir leaves 24 dead

The 50-day junior doctors' strike has claimed a heavy price , with as many as 24 deaths that occurred between Friday night and Saturday morning across the state ,being attributed to the paralysed emergency services at staterun hospitals . Seventeen deaths were reported from three tertiary care hospitals in Hyderabad __ six each from Gandhi and Osmania General Hospital (OGH) and of five new-born babies at Niloufer Hospital .

Five deaths were reportedin Kurnool .Visakhapatnam and Bhadrachalam accounted for one each . However , state health authorities , as expected , termed the deaths as routine' and said they were no way related to doctors' boycott of emergency duties.

There were heart-rending scenes of patients suffering in front of emergency wards at government hospitals as doctors stayed away from emergency duties even as patients , most of them poor , were being turned away to private facilities . Chaotic scenes were witnessed at the casualty wards andintensivecareunitsofvarious departments at the hospitals in Visakhapatnam , Vijayawada , Guntur , Kakinada , Tirupati , Anantapur , Kurnool and Warangal . Vital casualty wards , intensive care units of various departments , in-patient and outpatient wards at all the teaching hospitals were badly hit due to the strike . Victims of accidents and burns were the worst hit with no doctor available in the emergency wing .

Pavan Singh , a Dhoolpet resident was at OGH trying to find a doctor for his relative . "We were referred from the Chest Hospital . My brother-inlaw developed severe swelling on his left leg and had other complications . He was unable to walk . We brought him in an ambulance to the hospital but were told that doctors had left for theday ."

Also at OGH was a 12-member group that had met with an accident near Mahbubnagar while returning from Tirupati . Thevictimswithbleedinginjurieswere rushedtoOGHon Saturday afternoon . Of the 12, an old couple, Narsamma and Narsi Reddy , were lying on stretchersoutsidethecasualty .

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PM to lay foundation of Hyderabad metro project

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Hyderabad on February 4 to lay the foundation-stone of the Rs 12,000 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail Project, state Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana said on Saturday night.

The Prime Minister would also hand over appointment letters to some of the unemployed youths who have been placed in private jobs as part of the 'Yuva Kiranalu' programme launched by the state government, Botsa told reporters after a meeting of the co-ordination committee chaired by AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad here.

The PCC chief said Azad wanted the party to propagate the 'subsidised sanitary napkins' scheme for girls. "Both the state and Central governments introduced a slew of welfare schemes in the last few years which need to be propagated vigorously. The cadre will be asked to verify whether the benefits of these schemes are reaching the eligible beneficiaries upto the village level," Botsa said.


The committee also discussed the issue of pending elections to local bodies and co-operatives in the state and the steps to be taken to overcome legal hurdles to complete the election process at the earliest.

"We discussed about the impending by-elections to various assembly seats and gear up the party rank and file. We also discussed the implementation of the promises made in the election manifesto in 2009 and the pros and cons of implementing the subsidised rice scheme and nine-hour free power supply to farm sector," Satyanarayana added.

Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, Deputy CM Damodara Rajanarasimha, MLA Chiranjeevi were among those who attended the meeting

  source:Znews