Showing posts with label fast-unto-death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fast-unto-death. Show all posts

26.6.10

Viveka Babajee, once among India's top models and the face of the Kamasutra campaign, died a tragic and lonely death.

Mumbai:  Viveka Babajee, once among India's top models and the face of the Kamasutra campaign, died a tragic and lonely death.

The 37-year-old hung herself from the ceiling fan in her flat in the posh suburb of Bandra on Friday. The police suspect she was depressed after a recent break-up with her boyfriend.

The police have recovered her diary; its last entry reads "I Kill". The diary is now being treated as a suicide note.The police say she had a fight with her boyfriend on 24th of this month, just two days earlierHer last two calls were to a woman friend and to her family in Mauritius. She had told her family that she was going far, far away.Police have also recovered her laptop and a polythene bag containing sleeping pills.The police are examining Babajee's diary which they say could reveal whether she committed suicide of her own accord or was pushed to the edge, though police sources say she had tried to commit suicide at least once before.The family and friends say they are shocked. The case is a throwback to the suicide of another to model Nafisa Joseph in 2004, also the result of love gone awry. These are the cases which underline the dark side of the glamour world where people and relationships may be much more fragile than they seem.

8.12.09

TRS stalls Assembly

As their leader K. Chandrasekhara Rao's fast-unto-death entered the 10th day on Tuesday, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) legislators repeatedly stalled proceedings in the Andhra Pradesh assembly demanding a resolution on a separate state of Telangana.

Speaker Kiran Kumar Reddy had to adjourn the house twice as TRS legislators rushed to the podium after he rejected their adjournment motion. The TRS wanted the house to pass a resolution for a separate state of Telangana.

As soon as the house met for the day, TRS legislators were on their feet demanding that their adjournment motion be taken up and that an official resolution to carve out a separate Telangana state be moved.

Pandemonium prevailed in the house as TRS workers raised slogans of "Jai Telangana" and rushed towards the speaker's podium after he rejected the adjournment motion and tried to go ahead with the listed agenda.

Even after the speaker adjourned the house for 15 minutes, TRS legislators remained where they were raising slogans of "Jai Telangana". Ruling Congress party legislators from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions countered them with slogans of "Jai Andhra" and "Jai Rayalaseema" respectively.

After the house reassembled, TRS stuck to its demand while the other opposition parties supported it. Amid the din, the speaker adjourned the house for half-an-hour.

TRS, the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and all other parties except Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) are demanding that the house pass a resolution on Telangana while the ruling party said it would abide by the decision of its central leadership.

The parties expressed their views at an emergency all-party meeting convened by Chief Minister K. Rosaiah Monday night on the direction of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The MIM sought two days to take a decision.

Congress Legislature Party (CLP), at its meeting last evening, authorised Sonia Gandhi to take a decision. Party legislators from three regions of the state expressed divergent views over the Telangana issue.

Rosaiah reported the outcome of both the meetings to Sonia Gandhi, who went into a huddle with senior party leaders like Pranab Mukherjee, Veerappa Moily and Ahmed Patel.

She is likely to take a decision Tuesday to resolve the ongoing Telangana agitation triggered by the TRS chief's indefinite hunger strike.

Meanwhile, after a 48-hour shutdown, life is returning to normal in Hyderabad and nine other districts of Telangana.

State-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) buses returned on the roads after two days while shops, business establishments and educational institutions have reopened.

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