Hyderabad, April 06: A woman identified as Pochamma gave birth to quadruplets at a private hospital at Kalvakurthi in Mahabubnagar district on Tuesday. Mother and all four babies are doing well.
This is the third delivery to Pochamma who gave birth to a baby girl in the first delivery and a baby boy in second delivery. Gynaecologist Anita, who assisted the delivery through caesarean section, expressed happiness over the health of the babies.
-Agencies
Hyderabad, April 06: This channel is known for its strong line-up of family dramas that are served one after another and viewers never feel surfeit of it. And here is more coming from the channel for those looking for still more.
Gemini Television is all set to air a new serial beginning April 18 and this one is produced by Reliance’s Big Synergy. Titled ‘Savitri’, the daily serial from Monday to Friday at 3 p.m. seeks to draw a modern day parallel to the mythological tale of Savitri.
Hyderabad, April 06: Bharti Airtel rolled out its 3G services in Hyderabad on Tuesday, making it the 21 {+s} {+t} city where the fast mobile internet services were launched by the company. Airtel also announced the launch of High Definition (HD) gaming for its 3G customers whose number touched the two million mark across the country.
Adilabad, April 06: Lack of proper packaging seems to have caused a tremendous adverse impact on the old system of medicine. The shabby manner in which traditional medicine men practice or dispense drugs hardly leaves any scope for reposing faith in the ancient system.
Take the case of the nomadic Rajput pahadi vaids or hill doctors from Rajasthan whose way of life defines the method of practicing medicine. Despite possessing precious knowledge about Ayurvedic drugs and about the intricacies of treatment, their ‘clientele’ has dwindled steadily.
Vijaywada, April 06: Firms executing the Krishna Delta Modernisation works have been told to complete them according to schedule.
Telugu Ganga Project Engineer-in-Chief B.V.S. Prakash Rao on Tuesday held a detailed review meeting with representatives of Patel Engineering Ltd., Progressive Constructions Ltd., and SEW Infrastructure Ltd., the three companies executing the works.
Vizianagaram, April 06: Superintendent of Police Navin Gulati has said that IG of Police (north coastal zone) V.K. Singh formulated guidelines for the betterment of police-public relationship under the purview of each police station. Accordingly, each constable has been attached to a village, particularly in trouble-prone one in plain areas. The constable concerned will stay and sleep in the village at least for two to three days, record problems of civilians and report to his higher-ups. Gram samitis with 15 members in each village have also been formed to assist the police.
Warangal, April 06: Inspired by the speech delivered by president of Gynaecologists Association of India P. C. Mahapatra at the 59th all-India conference, well-known gynaecologist in town P. Anjani Devi has decided to reduce the charges by 50 per cent for select patients.
Dr. Anjani Devi, who has been running Kalyani Hospitals for over three decades, has introduced the ‘Suguna Safe Motherhood’ card which enables even the poorest of the poor to afford an institutional delivery at 50 per cent of the cost.
Nalgonda, April 06: Nalgonda Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar on Tuesday produced before the media five of the 12 accused in the recent murder of Sambasivudu, Maoist leader and Telangana Rashtra Samiti Polit Bureau member, saying they had killed him at the instance of former naxalite Nayeemuddin, who was listed as the number 1 accused in the case.
Hyderabad, April 06: The chants of “Raghupathi Raghava Raja Ram Patita Pavana Sita Ram” echoed at the Sabarmati ashram on the dawn of March 12, 81 years ago heralding the historic Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi.
It was a march of the people, for the people and by the people which called for “Purna Swaraj”, complete independence from British Raj, in the year 1930 itself.
Puttaparthi, April 06: The condition of Sri Sathya Saibaba, who was admitted to hospital following lung and chest congestion, was improving but he continues to be on ventilator support, doctors attending on him said here today.
“Sri Sathya Sai Baba, who has entered his 10th day of treatment at this hospital, is in a stable state of health as he was yesterday. There are signs of improvement in the functioning of his kidneys although he is still on dialysis,” a health bulletin issued this morning by A N Safaya, Director of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, said.
Vizianagaram, April 05: Ugadi, Telugu New Year’s Day, was celebrated in a traditional way throughout the district on Monday.
The district cultural committee organised the celebrations at Collector’s Auditorium in which Minister for Transport Botcha Satyanarayana, Parliament member Botcha Jhansi Lakshmi, MLC Gade Srinivasulu Naidu, Collector M. Veerabrahmaiah and others participated.
Sangareddy, April 05: At least 15 branches of private banks failed to extend farm loans to farmers in Medak district.
As repeated appeals failed to yield any results in extending loans and reaching targets, the district Collector has reportedly recommended cancellation of licences of those branches.
A letter to this extent was forward to the head offices of those banks in addition to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) by Collector S. Suresh Kumar.
An officer involved in the process revealed these details on condition of anonymity.
Hyderabad,April 05: The State government is likely to contest the count in the tiger census carried out by the Wildlife Institute of India and the National Tiger Conservation Authority fixing the population of the big cat in the State at a maximum of 79 as it believed that the estimation was not properly done in parts of the eastern ghats and north Telangana districts.
Hyderabad, April 05: The Assembly elections scheduled in the five states are delaying the merger of the Praja Rajyam with the Congress, which in turn is pushing back the mega meeting planned by the parties. According to the Praja Rajyam sources, all the required formalities were completed and the documents had been submitted to the Election Commission in March, but the Election Commissioners have not met even once since then due to the impending Assembly elections in the five states.
Hyderabad, April 05: Every day, 42 people commit suicide in the state. This shocking statistic appears in the latest report of the State Crime Records Bureau. In the year 2010, more than 15,529 persons ended their lives in AP. An alarming figure, which was 1,702 higher than that in the previous year.
Telangana districts Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Ranga Reddy and Mahbubnagar reported the highest number of suicides.
Hyderabad, April 04: It appears that Pocharam Srinivasa Reddy who wants his resignation to the TDP MLA post be accepted at the earliest, will have to wait for some time for deputy speaker Nadendla Manohar to take a decision. A final decision whether to disqualify or accept the resignation of Pocharam is expected to be taken only after a week’s time.
Hyderabad, April 04: After a brief lull in the Telangana movement, there is going to be some action soon. The Telangana Journalists Forum (TJF) has decided to organise protest programmes for three days at Delhi from April 21. All the political parties, including the Congress, and all the people’s organisations of the Telangana region are likely to take part in the protests.
The TJF wants to raise a national discussion on the Sri Krishna Committee report on the state bifurcation issue.
Rajhmundary, April 04: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is constructing a multicrore Govardhana Giri Kshetram in twenty 22 acres of land at G Dontamur village of Rangampeta mandal in the district.
A Sri Krishna Balarama temple will be built in the Khestram. A Gosala will also be set up with an accommodation capacity of 100 cows. A residential school will be set up to provide free education to students. ISKON is also mulling over an old age home of 200 capacity in the Kshetram.
—Agencies
Hyderabad, April 04: The Telugu Desam is searching for a suitable candidate to take on YS Jaganmohan Reddy in the byelection for the Kadapa Lok Sabha seat. Though the principal opposition party is yet to finalise its candidates for the Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly byelections, the names of Rajya Sabha member MV Mysoora Reddy, party’s Kadapa incharge Kandula Sivananda Reddy and party chief N Chandrababu Naidu’s close aide CM Ramesh are doing the rounds for the Lok Sabha seat.
Guntur, April 04: Tobacco farmers of Guntur and Prakasam districts have threatened to boycott auctions if the Tobacco Board fails to ensure remunerative price for their produce when auctions resume on April 5.
Vijayawada, April 04: The Basic Research Education And Development (BREAD), an NGO set up byProf Nagulapalli Bhaskar Rao of Centre for Media Studies, New Delhi, will set up 50 more libraries in government schools across the state.
BREAD has been extending financial support to poor students to continue their studies since its formation in 1980. It has already set up 140 libraries in government schools across the state.
Hyderabad, April 04: While the two major parties in the state – Congress and Telugu Desam – are still searching for suitable candidates to contest the Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly byelections slated for May 8, YSR Congress Party founder YS Jaganmohan Reddy has decided to file his nomination from Kadapa on April 15.
YS Vijayalakshmi, his mother and wife of the late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, will file her nomination for the Pulivendula Assembly seat on the following day, ie April 16. The last date for filing nominations is April 18.
Karimnagar, April 04: Three more fawn in Karimnagar Deer Park died due to foot and mouth (Aphtae epizooticae) disease taking the toll to 14. The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad has confirmed that footandmouth disease claimed lives of 11 deer, which died three days ago.
Speaking to this paper, Karimnagar division forest officer (DFO) Priyanka Verghese said the dead animals included six adult Nilgais and seven fawn.
Bhadrachalam, April 04: Khammam district incharge collector MA Azeem, on Sunday, reviewed the arrangements for the Srirama Navami and Srirama Pushkara Patthabhisekham, to be organised on April 12, 13. Addressing a review meeting after inspecting ongoing arrangements, the incharge collector asked the officials to ensure drinking water supply to devotees. Priority should be given to sanitation, he said.
He asked the police officials to earmark separate parking places for RTC and private vehicles.
Hyderabad, April 04: After dilly-dallying for several years, the state government has finally decided to introduce high-security registration plates (HSRP) for over 95 lakh motor vehicles in the state in the next five months as per the Supreme Court’s directive.