Hyderabad, March 30: Leader of the Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday accused the State government of creating neo-landlords out of corporate houses and capitalists by snatching lands from the poor at low cost and handing them over to projects, industries and special economic zones enabling them make huge earnings.
Vizianagaram, March 30: MP Botcha Jhansi Lakshmi has released the annual credit plan for priority and non-priority sectors for the fiscal 2011-12 at the District Consultative Committee/District-Level Review Committee meeting with bankers.
The plan outlay has been put at Rs. 1,552.77 crore as against Rs.1,320 crore last fiscal.
Hyderabad, March 30: A Division Bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Nissar Ahmad Kakru and Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar, on Tuesday, ordered notices on a writ petition filed seeking stay on reconstruction of ‘Thousand pillar mantapam’ in Tirumala.
Hyderabad, March 30: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has faulted the State government for its inaction in cancelling allotment of 1,122.38 acres of land near Visakhapatnam to the Hinduja National Power Corporation Limited (HNPCL), which had failed to set up a power plant.
The CAG questioned why the government did not take back the land in Devada village and allot it to other parties willing to supply power at competitive rates in view of the severe power shortage.
Unutilised land
Sangareddy, March 30: Ramavanth Rajput is in his early 30s. A native of Borde village in Kalhandi district of Orissa, Ramavanth and his four-member family migrated to Begumpet tanda in Sangareddy mandal of Medak district in search of greener pasture. But his dreams were shattered and instead he landed in a debt trap after taking an advance of Rs. 28,000 while working at a brick kiln.
New Delhi, March 30: The Gangaraju theatre in Amalapuram which is going to show India-Pak World Cup match on Wednesday.
Vijaywada, March 30: “Students should invest their time working towards charting out their career rather than only thinking about it. But the problem with most youngsters these days is that they do not work towards a career goal and face problems on entering the job market,” opined K.V.S.M. Sudhakar, senior vice-president and circle head, Axis Bank, while delivering the keynote address on ‘Career Planning’, at a programme organised by The Hindu Business Line Club for MBA students of Koneru Lakshmaiah University near here on Tuesday.
Hyderabad, March 30: Even as the current financial year is coming to an end, the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) is on the threshold of achieving its annual production target well in time, notwithstanding the interruption caused to the coal production due to frequent floods, two-day strike by coal workers, disruption in power supply, and other reasons in the current fiscal.
Narsapur, March 30: A. Prasanna Kumar, Director, Centre for Policy Studies, Visakhapatnam, on Tuesday expressed anguish over several disciplines falling under the schools of social sciences and humanities getting eclipsed by the ‘market-driven’ courses in the post-globalisation era in the country. Speaking at a seminar on ‘Human resource development and good governance’ held here under the aegis of the Gandhian Study Centre, an arm of Sri. Y.N. College, Mr.
Hyderabad, March 30: The past decade of Internet usage saw users leaping from 400 million to two billion, but the next decade will belong to mobile users, said N. Chandrasekharan, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services.
Moderating a panel discussion on ‘Universal, Inclusive World World Web (WWW) – The Next Frontier’, as part of the 20 {+t} {+h} International World Wide Web Conference here on Tuesday, he said that focus will be on bridging the gap between those using internet on desk and laptops and those accessing it on their mobiles.
Hyderabad, March 30: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has expressed concern over the inordinate delay in the completion of irrigation projects that had resulted in huge cost over-run of Rs. 27,140.46 crore.
The non-completion of projects in the stipulated time has not only escalated the cost of the projects, but resulted in blocking Rs. 35,886 crore invested so far in 34 projects depriving the intended benefits of the projects.
Hyderabad, March 29: Mayors of Municipal Corporations, Chairpersons of Municipal Councils, Zilla Parishad and Mandal Parishad Chairpersons and other elected members of all these local bodies will now come under the purview of Lok Ayukta.
The Assembly passed three Bills, including the Lok Ayukta (Amendment) Bill 2011, for bringing the local bodies under the purview of Lok Ayukta on Monday with a voice vote.
Other bills passed
Vizianagaram, March 29: Former MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, who began his nine-day ‘Odarpu Yatra’ from Kothavalasa in the district from Monday, condemned what he called “the mudslinging” by the TDP “in collusion with the Congress” against his father and former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
“They are casting aspersions on YSR even after his tragic death about two years ago, which is unfortunate.”
Vijaywada, March 29: YSR Congress leader Ambati Rambabu on Monday appealed to Agriculture Minister Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy to “understand the reality”, identify his family’s detractors within the Congress and maintain a distance from them.
Hyderabad, March 29: Karnataka Minister for Tourism Gali Janardhana Reddy and Health Minister B. Sriramulu had a miraculous escape when one of the tyres of their chartered flight burst while landing at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Monday morning.
Air operations were disrupted for sometime. The chartered flight, Hawker-400XP, was on its way from Vidyanagar airport near Bellary in Karnataka to Delhi with the two Ministers, two crew members, and another person. The private plane was landing in Hyderabad for refuelling at 11 a.m.
Adilabad, March 29: The issue of unauthorised layouts and alleged land grabbing in Adilabad is likely to turn into a major scandal with the government insisting on an inquiry into the ‘misuse’ of about 300 acres of assigned lands.
Vishakhapatnam, March 29: The CPI (Maoist) is experiencing ups and downs; it is strong in some States and weak in some, which is a normal feature of an armed struggle, said Ponnojula Parameswara Rao, alias Nandu, a top Maoist leader, who surrendered to the police here on Monday.
“The party is facing some problems in the east division (Andhra-Orissa border area). The steps being taken by the Government, surrenders, and drop in strength are some reasons,” he said.
Hyderabad, March 29: Leader of the Opposition in the Council Dadi Veerabhadra Rao said that if only the Government had taken serious action against those who disrupted the Governor’s address, caused injury to the Council Chairman and attacked Lok Satta MLA Jayaprakash Narayan, things would not have come to such a pass in the Assembly.
Sangareddy, March 29: Tension prevailed for some time at the district headquarters as some tribal people held a ‘dharna’ in front of the District Education Officer’s (DEO) office on Monday. They demanded that the in-charge DEO be suspended for allegedly ‘manhandling’ a student at an examination centre.
According to sources, in-charge DEO Mr. Raghavender visited a class ten examination centre at Saint Anthony School in the district headquarters.
Copy paper
Hyderabad, March 29: Secondary Education Minister K. Parthasarathy said that the Government will do its best to protect the spirit of GO 330 and continue the benefits given to language pundits.
The language pundits appointed in Grade II category were given benefits of Grade I based on their eligibility under the Act 1/2005. But later, the Government decided to recover the additional increments, which was opposed by the teacher unions.
Hyderabad, March 29: At last, the Assembly took up the debate on land allotment issue on Monday, nine days after it was first raised in the House. Members of the TDP, CPI, CPI (M) and BJP, who got the opportunity to speak on the issue, reiterated their demand for an inquiry into the land deals by setting up a Joint Legislature Committee (JLC) or a House Committee.
Hyderabad, March 29: Union Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation M.S. Gill has promised that the Centre will do everything required to promote research and development in statistics, mathematics and computer sciences.
He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the Mathematical Sciences block in ‘Ramanujan’, the new building of the C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences (AIMSCS), at the University of Hyderabad (UoH), here on Monday.
Great respect
Hyderabad, March 29: The 20 {+t} {+h} international World Wide Web conference began here on Monday bringing together researchers, technologists, practitioners, and other experts from 50 countries. With the theme ‘Web for all’, the conference would discuss the web’s future direction and help it become all-inclusive.
Being jointly hosted by the International Institutes of Information Technology Bangalore and Hyderabad and the Institute of Information Technology, Mumbai, over 700 delegates were attending the five-day event.
Nellore, March 29: Lack of coordination between the officials of the Education Department and the Police Department has led to the latter writing to the SSC Board officials seeking the original answer script in connection with the investigation pertaining to a case of impersonation in the class X public examination.
Chief invigilator Y. Narasimha Raju Sharma of Government Veda and Sanskrit High School, Mulapeta, had caught a second year engineering student Md. Yaseen Nazam while he was writing the SSC Telugu Paper-I on behalf of the original student, Shaik Kaleem, on March 24.
Hyderabad, March 29: Leader of the Opposition in Assembly N. Chandrababu Naidu on Monday said he had never seen during his 32-year- long political career a Minister, who is also the leader of the Legislative Council, assaulting members in the House.
Addressing a press conference, Mr. Naidu said the Minister Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy, by his behaviour, has plunged the Andhra Pradesh Assembly’s record to a new low. Even States that have witnessed violent scenes such as Bihar, Karnataka and Orissa look much better than Andhra Pradesh now. What is this rowdyism, he sought to know.