Adnan gets 3-month visa extension
Mumbai: Pakistani singer-composer Adnan Sami, whose Indian visa expired last week, has been granted a three-month extension by the Ministry of Home Affairs, a senior police official said on Thursday. “Adnan was granted three months extension by MHA from October 6, the date when his visa has expired,” Deputy Police Commissioner (Special Branch) Sanjay Shintre told. Shintre’s office on Thursday received a fax from the MHA, informing about the three-month visa extension to the singer, said another officer.
Modi’s Chennai visit: Security tightened
Chennai: Police have thrown a tight security cover in the city for the visit of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Friday. More than 5,000 police personnel including from Armed Reserve wing have been deployed for the bandobust, police said. The Gujarat Chief Minister is delivering the 2013 Nani Palkhivala memorial lecture at the University of Madras’s Centenary Auditorium and will also be releasing BJP leader Arun Shourie’s book ‘Self-deception: India China policies.’
Gadchiroli naxal attack: 3 killed
Gadchiroli: Three police commandos were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists in a forest area on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border in the wee hours of Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, the anti-Naxal commando force jawans were conducting a combing operation in the Bada Zariya forest area in Dhanora taluka when the Naxals triggered a landmine blast. Three jawans of C-60 Commando Force were killed in the blast, police said.
AP divided to make Rahul PM: Jagan
Hyderabad: In a scathing attack, YSR Congress leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi of splitting Andhra Pradesh so as to make her son Rahul the Prime Minister. In one of his strongest criticism of the UPA Government’s decision to create Telangana, the MP said Sonia Gandhi was playing with “our lives and the lives of our children” to make her son the Prime Minister.