CITY

HYDERABAD

THE HINDU

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2015

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AROUND THE CITY

Admission into MSU
The Missouri State
University (MSU) in the
US here on December 26
announced admissions
into its undergraduate and
post-graduate programmes
under its Department of
Communication. Any
student with an average of
60 per cent in their class 10,
11 and 12, and an SAT score
of minimum 1090 and an
IELTS score of 5.5 or
TOEFL-IBT score of 61
may apply. Admissions will
end in April 2016. For more
information log onto
http://international.
missouristate.edu/india.

App in vernacular
languages
Hike Messenger, a
messaging platform,
launched its app in eight
vernacular languages of
Hindi, Marathi, Tamil,
Gujarati, Bengali,
Malayalam, Kannada and
Telugu. The newly
launched android
application allows users to
choose their language
preference from the
moment they start using it.
Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO
and Founder of the freecost messaging platform,
said that a special
keyboard has been
designed specially for the
vernacular languages.

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HYDERABAD TODAY
RELIGION
Sri Desika Sabha: Annual Thrippavai
Festival, discourse in Tamil, by Sri.
Lakshimikumara Tatacharya, Keyes
High School, 6.30 p.m.

GENERAL
Amar Yoga: Inauguration of Aruna
Yoga, Phase-ll, Kavuri Hills Society
Park, opposite State Art Gallery, Madhapur, 3 p.m. onwards.
Annie Besant Womens College:
Second Annual Day Celebrations, Ravindra Bharathi, 9.30 a.m.

CULTURE
Anything Art: Exhibition Hyderabad
Art Invasion 4, Rainbow Art Gallery,
Balayogi Paryatak Bhavan, Begumpet, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Consulate General of Islamic Republic of Iran and Salar Jung Museum: Exhibition of Women in the
Iranian and Islamic Model, museum
premises, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

SIT to probe case of IS sympathisers

Beating the nip

All three youngsters caught at the Nagpur airport planning to join the ISIS
STAFF REPORTER
HYDERABAD: The city police are
likely to register cases against
the three youngsters all
cousins who were caught
at the Nagpur airport early on
Saturday for allegedly planning to join the ISIS Islamic
terrorist outfit.
Of the three, two are engineering students and were
among the four caught by the
police last September in Kolkatta while they were planning to sneak into Bangladesh
to join the Islamic State group
and were let off after counselling by the police and have
been on the radar of the intelligence agencies ever since.
The three went missing on
Thursday night from their
homes after coming to the
city from Nalgonda where
they went to attend a function. All the three are relatives
of a Students Islamic Move-

ment of India leader who died

in a road accident last year.
The families approached
the city police late on Friday
night following which the police swung into action and
alerted intelligence agencies.
They were caught at the Nagpur airport by the Maharasthra ATS and handed over to
the Telangana police who
brought them to the city.
While the Chandrayangutta police registered two missing cases following com-

were held earlier were not

given access to mobile
phones and computer.
We are questioning them
to ascertain the source of
money and about those who
radicalised them. Moreover, it
is important for us to know if
they attempted to rope in
their friends, the official said.
On the radar
1.Of the three, two are engineering students and were
plaint from the parents of the among the four caught by the
two youths, another case was police last September in Kolregistered at the Humayunna- katta while they were plangar police station.
ning to sneak into Bangladesh
All the three cases were to join the Islamic State group
transferred to the Special In2.They were let off after
vestigation Team (SIT). The counselling by the police and
SIT officials will take up fur- have been on the radar of the
ther investigation and probe intelligence agencies ever
the case, a senior police offi- since.
cial said.
3.All the three are relatives
The police also recovered a of a Students Islamic Movemobile phone from one of the ment of India leader who died
youngsters while their family in a road accident last year.
claimed that the two who

Helmet returns as a rule

Repeat offence could even lead to cancellation of licence
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Realtor stabbed
to death
STAFF REPORTER

A realtor was
stabbed to death by a group of
persons at Begumpet late on
Saturday night over property
issues. The man Mohd Riyaz
Khan of Sher Khan Basthi in
Begumpet went to his friends
house at Prakashnagar when
some unidentified persons attacked him. The man sustained serious stab wounds
and died on the spot. There
are disputes pertaining to a
land parcel and it could be a
reason for the killing, Inspector Begumpet, G Baswa Reddy said.

HYDERABAD:
HYDERABAD: In yet another as-

sertion of its resolve, the

Transport Department of Telangana launched another
drive to implement section
129 of the Motor Vehicles Act
that makes it mandatory for
two-wheeler riders to wear
helmet.
Over a period of four hours,
special teams of Transport officials branched off around
the busy Khairatabad traffic
junction on roads leading to
the Legislative Assembly,
Punjagutta and the State Road
Transport Department headquarters, catching two-wheelers sans helmets unawares.
Joint Transport Commissioner (Hyderabad) T. Raghunath
said 101 cases were booked,
including a challan for a fine
Rs. 100 and a warning that repeat offences could even lead
to cancellation of licences.
Mr. Raghunath said that although several attempts over
the years to implement the
MV Acts provisions on helmets had led to nought, it was
in the best interests and safety
of two-wheeler users that the
department was striving to
improve awareness. The
drive would be proportionate
to the disinterest that road users showed towards using helmets, he stated.

An RTA Officer trying to stop a biker for riding without a helmet

during a Special Drive at Khairtabad in Hyderabad on Sunday.
-PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

With the temperatures dipping drastically during the last two days in the city,
people are forced to use winter wear to beat the cold, at Hi-tech City on Sunday.
-PHOTO KVS GIRI

One killed in accident

An air conditioning technician died while his friend sustained serious injuries when
the motorcycle they were riding, rammed into a tipper at
Saifabad on Sunday morning.
The victim Mohd Waheed
(21) of Nacharam and his
friend Imran (19) were going
towards Mehdipatnam.
They were following a tipper and when it reached DSE
building the tipper driver
took a sudden turn. Waheed
who was riding the bike
rammed into it and the two
sustained injuries, Saifabad
SI Hari Advanth said. The police rushed them to a private
hospital where doctors declared Waheed brought dead.

Slum-free Hyderabad remains a slogan: LS

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
HYDERABAD: Promises of a clean

and slum free Hyderabad

have remained mere slogans
despite the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
(GHMC) spending close to
Rs.4,200 crore in the last few
decades, the Lok Satta GHMC
unit alleged here on Sunday.
Releasing information collected through the RTI and

According to a
government survey,
there were 1,476
slums in the year
2012, now there
are 1,504 slums
other sources, to the media
here, the Lok Satta Greater
Hyderabad Municipal Corporation general secretary, Sam-

bi Reddy said while spending

the funds all these years, the
civic body failed to improve
the slums and make the city
free of slums.
Funds
As per a government survey, there were 1,476 slums in
the year 2012, now there are
1,504 slums.
In fact, the number of slums
had gone up in the city, he

told the mediapersons.

The GHMC over the decades has received funds to the
tune of Rs.4,200 crore from
different sources including its
own funds, Central government funds and also from foreign agencies such as DFID
(UK) and World Bank, he
said.
Those living in government
constructed houses in Borabanda for the last two decades

HCA infighting takes ugly turn

V. V. SUBRAHMANYAM
HYDERABAD: The infighting in the
Hyderabad Cricket Association
took an ugly turn when two of
its three Executive Committee
members suspended from attending the emergency EC
meeting convened by president
Arshad Ayub on Sunday, staged
a rasta roko at the Rajiv Gandhi
Stadium (Uppal) forcing the
HCA chief to face embarrassing
moments outside the main gate
of the venue.
Three members Chitti Sridhar, Babu Rao Sagar and R.M.
Bhaskar were suspended by
the HCA.
When Sridhar and Babu Rao
tried their best to enter the
meeting hall they were prevented by the officials and the cops
from doing so. They later staged
a sit-in stating that the suspension itself was undemocratic as
they came to know about it from
the notice board on reaching the
venue. This is ridiculous and
we want to know what crime we
had committed other than seeking clearing of dues to the staff
who were not getting salaries

Two suspended EC
committee
members stage
rasta roko, giving
embarrassing
moments to the
HCA chief
for the last three months and also seeking transparency in the
financial transactions, Mr
Chitti Sridhar said.
One of the EC members who
attended the meeting stressed
that it was an emergency one
which was convened by the
president using his discretionary powers to discuss the minutes of the last meeting, pass the
accounts and other related subjects. But since the members
felt they did not have time to
study the statement of accounts
by internal auditors, they would
prefer another meeting to debate that and it was agreed upon
by the top brass, he said on condition of anonymity. These
three EC members were
warned against bringing disre-

pute to the HCA as they are also

part of the committee by their
actions like going to media and
abusing the officials. Since, we
had no other option, we suspended them yesterday within
the framework of the HCA constitution, insists Arshad Ayub.
Interestingly, the BCCI only a
couple of days ago released Rs. 8
crore as part payment of the annual grant due to the HCA for
the current financial year.
Meanwhile, a senior official of
the HCA insisted that they were
not bankrupt as was being projected reminding that for each
Board match it was to get Rs. 1
lakh per day and having hosted
200 match-days, they should get
that amount and also the IPL
amount also very soon.
Yes, it is a fact that the BCCI
will not release funds that easily
anymore but since we have submitted audited statement of accounts revealing the expenses,
we are confident of getting what
is due for us, he said. If some
disgruntled elements prefer to
make noise and try to grab attention, we can only pity them,
he said.

were yet to receive pattas

and the area turned into another slum for the city, the
Lok Satta leader said.
Housing units
Housing units promised
under JNNURM scheme ten
years back in Goshamahal
and in Phoolbagh have not
been completed and handed
over so far, the Lok Satta leader said.

52,347 applications
received for BRS
HYDERABAD: The GHMC till
Saturday received a total of
52,347 applications under
the building and layout
regularisation scheme. According to the officials, the
number of BRS applica-

tions received till yesterday stood at 36,228 while

16,119 were received under
the LRS. The last date for
submission of applications
under the scheme is December 31.

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