Hyderabad, Nov 27 (IANS) A YSR Congress Party MP was booked on Friday for allegedly slapping an official of Air India at Tirupati airport, police said. The MP has denied the charge. A case for assaulting a public servant on duty was booked against P. Mithun Reddy and 15 others at Yerpedu police station at Renigunta near the temple town in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district. However, no arrests have been made. Police said they were investigating.

A police official said the case was registered on a complaint by Rajasekhar, Air India’s station manager at the airport. The incident took place on Thursday when Mithun Reddy allegedly entered into an argument with Rajasekhar, after getting angry when the latter declined to issue boarding passes for him and his relatives as the boarding was already closed for the Air India flight to Delhi. According to the complaint, the MP, who represents Rajampet constituency in Kadapa district, shouted at the Air India manager before slapping him. The official alleged that Mithun Reddy along with some others again barged into his cabin and misbehaved with him. He said the MP’s supporters also manhandled him

Patna, Nov 27 (IANS) In a bid to keep up another election promise, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has directed officials to provide free electricity connection to everyone in Bihar by November 2017. Providing free electricity connection to all the households was one of the seven promises Nitish Kumar made ahead of the assembly elections which his Grand Alliance won. The connections would be free, but users would be charged for the power consumed, officials said on Friday.

The government is expected to incur an expenditure of Rs.1,500-1,800 crore on this project. Free electricity connection was earlier promised only for Below Poverty Line families but now it will also cover 50-60 lakh families coming in the Above Poverty Line category. A total of 2,719 of the 39,073 villages remain to be electrified in Bihar. In November 2005, average availability of power was six to eight hours in urban areas and two to three hours in rural areas. But in 2015, the average availability of power in urban areas is 22-24 hours and 15-16 hours in rural areas

(27 Nov) Birgunj : The Nepali Congress headed by former prime minister Sushil Koirala is believed to join hands with the Madhesi Morcha, which has been protesting against the newly adopted Constitution. Sources close to Nepalese Congress leaders believe that staying away from the Madhesis would not help the party in the elections. While speaking to ANI, the sources from Nepali Congress said that Madhes region from southeast to southwest of Nepal is dominated by member of constitute assembly belonging to the Nepali Congress party. Nepali Congress party chief Koirala conceded defeat to UML chairman KP Sharma Oli, who was elected as the new Prime Minister in the recently held election. The growing protest and blockade at the Indo-Nepal border by Madhesi parties and protestors have cut down the supply line of Nepal which has hit the hilly areas as well as the Terai region. Nepal is facing a huge crisis of petroleum products due to the blockade at the borders. The attempt to import petroleum products from Nepal has not been successful in fulfilling the need of the government, said sources close to UML. Facing the crisis of basic amenities, the locals of the hill region have started raising voice against the existing communist government. The Nepali Congress party is forced to join the Madhes groups to sustain its politics in the country. Sources said that announcement of an alliance between Madhesi Morcha and the Congress would come in a week’s time. It can be a major setback for the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) due to the anti-government sentiment among the people.

The driver of a van transporting Rs 22.5 crore in hard cash for refilling Axis Bank ATMs across south-east Delhi disappeared with the booty on Thursday evening in one of the Capital’s biggest heists, police said.
A hunt was launched after SIS, the private security agency hired by Axis Bank to transport cash, rang up police control room around 5.30pm to inform that one of its drivers fled with a Mahindra pick-up van stashed with money on the way from Vikaspuri to Okhla.
An hour later, police traced the van fitted with a GPS tracker system near the Okhla industrial area. The bag inside a metal box containing the cash was missing.
South East district DCP MS Randhawa said several teams were working to catch driver Pradip Shukla, who is from Uttar Pradesh and had joined the agency recently.

Shukla had left the bank’s Vikaspuri office along with armed guard Vinay Patel around 3.30pm. When they reached Captain Gaur Marg near Govindpuri around 5pm, Patel asked the driver to stop as he wanted to go to the washroom.
As he got down, Shukla told him that he would keep driving and return because parking the vehicle there might cause a traffic jam. “Patel said the van never came back and he called the bank after waiting 10-15 minutes,” an officer said.
Police were scanning CCTV footage to check if Shukla got into another vehicle after abandoning the van in Okhla. They suspect the driver alone could not have pulled off such a crime. Or was he waylaid by robbers when the guard left him alone?
Axis Bank assured that the cash was “fully insured” and “neither the bank nor the customer would get affected”. It said the van didn’t belong to the bank and the driver was not its employee.

(25 Nov) As the year 2015 comes to an end, we decided to take you through a list of 10 Hollywood movies that made it really big worldwide and you must watch. No doubt, this year had some brilliant Hollywood movies for us. Among all the Hollywood movies made till date, some were too good to be watched just once, and the others weren’t even worth a watch. While the movies that fall in between acted as a mediocre factor and entertained us. A movie is either highly appreciated or highly criticized. Though, the opinions vary from one critic to the other, the storyline or plot remains the same. Isn’t that what actually matters? The kind of impact a movie has on us. A while ago, we told you about Hollywood romantic movies that are just too beautiful to ignore. The year 2015 witnessed Hollywood movies from varied categories. There was action, romance drama, comedy, thriller, science fiction and many more. Film-makers experimented with their movies.

Be it from choosing a different set of cast to re-creating the old movie stories with new twists. One such movie was ‘Boy Next Door’ starring the singer Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer Lopez’s acting in the movie was highly appreciated. The movie wasn’t a super hit though. But the story had a raw touch added to it that made the movie stand a little different from the usual mainstream Hollywood movies. Another movie with very high expectations was ‘Minions’. After the ‘Despicable Me’ series, people globally fell madly in love with the Minions. But the character seemed bright in ‘Despicable Me’. The movie ‘Minions’ failed to impress the viewers. Another movie that failed to keep up to viewers’ expectation was ‘Furious 7’. Maybe the loss of Paul Walker overpowered the success of the final series of ‘Fast & Furious’. The other not so great 2015 Hollywood movies include, ‘The Walk’ and ‘San Andreas’. But, don’t you feel bad. Below is a list of 10 brilliant Hollywood movies of 2015 you must watch:

News24 Bureau New Delhi:As per the directives of the Indian government, hand-written passport of Indian citizen will no longer be valid from today. Government’s decision to discontinue hand-written passports comes as a part of the recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to incorporate biometric data in the machine-readable travel documents. Earlier, the government had asked people with hand-written passports to get machine-readable ones, deadline for which had been set to November 24. The new machine-readable passports have been implemented as they offer greater protection against fraudulent practices and tampering.

US President Barack Obama pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey during the 68th annual presentation of the turkey in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington November 25, 2015. Reuters President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans they were safe as millions of travelers set off for the long Thanksgiving weekend on Wednesday and authorities stepped up security at airports in response to the attacks in Paris two weeks ago. In New York City, record-breaking crowds were expected on Thursday for the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and Police Commissioner William Bratton said the city was deploying more officers at the annual event than ever before. “Right now, we know of no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland,”

Obama told reporters at the White House, two weeks after suspected Islamist militants killed 130 people in a series of coordinated attacks in the French capital. “We are taking every possible step to keep our homeland safe,” he said, flanked by his FBI director and other top security officials on the day before Thanksgiving, when many Americans travel to be with their extended families for a traditional turkey dinner. Nearly 46.9 million Americans will travel over the long Thanksgiving weekend – the busiest US travel holiday of the year – with 3.6 million going by plane, according to the AAA, a motorist advocacy group. Most US airports reported flights delays of less than 15 minutes, according to tracking websites. Passengers at airports from Washington to New York said they saw heavier than normal security, but that travel was flowing smoothly. Americans have become more concerned about threats since the Paris attacks and now identify terrorism as the most important problem facing the nation, Reuters-Ipsos polling shows. “We have to live our lives right? We’re having a good time. We did a cruise and now we’re doing New York City,” said Karen Damaschino, 47, of San Francisco after landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport to spend the holiday in New York. The US response to Islamic State has become a top issue in the race to succeed Obama in the November 2016 presidential election.

In his statement, Obama tried to allay Americans’ concerns. “I know that families have discussed their fears about the threat of terrorism around the dinner table, many for the first time since September 11th,” he said, referring to the 2001 attacks by al Qaeda on New York and Washington. But he told Americans they should “go about their usual Thanksgiving weekend activities” while remaining vigilant to any suspicious activities. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio echoed that sentiment at a news conference on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where crews were inflating the giant balloons that highlight the Macy’s parade, the traditional start to the holiday shopping season. “One thing I always say, there are some people trying to intimidate New Yorkers. Well, New Yorkers don’t get intimidated,” he said. “They’ll be out tomorrow in droves.” Stay vigilant To underscore Obama’s message, his Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson held a photo op at Washington’s Union Station just before boarding an Amtrak train to Newark, NJ, on the heavily traveled Northeast corridor, en route home for the holiday “It should be obvious to the public that there is a heightened presence” of law enforcement officers at train stations, airports and other public places, Johnson said.

“We are working overtime to protect the homeland.” Some travel analysts expected airport delays as a result of heightened security. But at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, one of the country’s busiest, Kirsten Bohling, 27, said she was pleasantly surprised by how painless her check-in went. “Lines are way shorter than I thought they would be and moving 10 times faster than I thought,” she said. “I think they were really really prepared.” The FBI sent a bulletin earlier this week to police departments across the country warning of possible copycat incidents after the Nov. 13 Paris attacks and sharing intelligence on how the attacks were carried out. The US State Department also issued a worldwide travel alert on Monday warning American travelers to remain vigilant, particularly when visiting foreign countries. As many as 3.5 million people were expected to line the 2.5-mile (4 km) route of the Macy’s parade in New York, according to organizers. City officials have made numerous public appearances in recent days seeking to reassure New Yorkers and tourists.

Mumbai, Nov 26 (IANS) The heroes and victims of the 26/11 terror attacks that left 166 people, including 28 foreigners, dead were solemnly remembered at various commemorative events held here on Thursday. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis led the main commemoration at the 26/11 memorial in the Police Gymkhana on Thursday morning, along with his cabinet colleagues and senior police officers. He paid homage to the policemen who lost their lives during the 60-hour long operation that began on the night of November 26, 2008 when 10 Pakistani gunmen laid siege to south Mumbai. Besides Fadnavis, DGP Pravin Dixit, Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmad Javed and other police officials, families of the martyrs and others who were killed in action were present.

Similar memorial services are being held during the day at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), the Hotel Taj Mahal Palace, Cama Hospital and at Girgaum Chowpatty where braveheart Tukaram Ombale was killed while helping nab one of the terrorists – M. Ajmal Kasab – alive early on November 27. To mark the seventh anniversary, Mumbai Congress president and a local municipal corporator named a square after home guards officer, Mukesh Jadhav, who fell to a terrorist’s bullet near St. George Hospital on 26/11. Jadhav, 23, was on patrol duty between the main and local railway lines at CST when he suddenly came face-to-face with one of the terrorists who shot him in the chest. Despite being shot, he stumbled to inform the police about the attacks which resulted in saving lives of hundreds of unaware commuters.

On Wednesday evening, as part of the Global Peace Initiative, celebrities joined a Walk For Peace along with children in central Mumbai and paid homage to the heroes and victims of the 26/11 attacks. Ten Pakistani terrorists sneaked into Mumbai from the Arabian Sea late evening on November 26, 2008 and targeted 12-odd prime locations in south Mumbai spread barely over a five-km area and created mayhem for 60 hours. The targets were: Colaba, CST, Leopold Cafe, Chabad House, Hotel Taj Mahal Palace, Hotel Trident Oberoi, near Metro Cinema, Cama and Albless Hospital, behind the BMC headquarters, Mazagaon Docks area, a taxi bomb near Vile Parle, and at Girgaum Chowpatty. Among the security officials martyred in gunfights with the terrorists included then ATS chief Hemant Karkare, shootout specialist Vijay Salaskar, Additional Police Commissioner Ashok Kamte, API Tukaram Ombale, Senior Inspector Shashank Shinde, commandos Major Sanjeep Unnikrishnan and Gajendra Singh, a trooper, both of the elite NSG.

Now Mumbai Police act 1951 section 110 has been abolished. The Mumbai police which had come into heavy controversy where under moral policing they had made random raids at Madh islands in a hotel. In a major embarrassment they has lined up 40 couples from the hotel.

Couples moving around isolated areas have been harassed many time by Mumbai cops. It is the right of any citizen to move around anywhere provided he does not create public nuisance.

The ex commissioner of Police Mr. Rakesh Maria had issued a strict orders to not punish people in public places. In spite of this order the raids continued and young couple were paranoid with such acts of the Police.