Adilabad, March 27: Cricket has taken precedence over every other issue since the India-Pakistan clash was set up for the semi-final of the ongoing World Cup Cricket to be held on March 30.
Everyone seems to be discussing cricket and planning to make suitable changes to their regular schedule of work so as to be able to watch the televised version of the day and night match to be played at Mohali, Chandigarh.
Important match
Vizianagaram, March 27: Medical and health officials have been asked to take preventive measures to control outbreak of malaria and other seasonal fevers, particularly in the tribal region.
Hyderabad,March 27 Reserve Bank of India Regional Manager A.S. Rao has said that Financial Inclusion is the only method to reach out to interior villages and clear the disparities in the society. He said that with the help of lead banks in the districts, RBI wants to bridge the gap between banker and villager and see that all the banking services will reach to all villages.
Nalgonda, March 27: The first meeting of YSR Congress in Nalgonda got off to a flying start with the participation and crossing over of many Congress activists into the fledging organisation floated by former Kadapa MP Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy.
The meeting resolved to strengthen the party at the village level, install party flag posts in all villages across the State and to strive for ensuring that Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy becomes the Chief Minister in 2011 itself. Pulla Padmavati, MLC, was the chief guest.
Hyderabad, March 26: Police in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh today arrested two persons and seized 600 electric detonators from them.
Police initially nabbed one Raju while he tried to flee during a routine vehicle checking last evening and recovered 300 electric detonators from him.
Based on Raju’s confession, police raided a place in Anantapur town and apprehended another accused V Sina and seized 300 more electric detonators, they said.
Eluro, March 26:A couple of North Indian bird species — Greylag Goose and Greyheaded Lapwing — were spotted in Kolleru during a survey on Asian waterfowls undertaken by the Birdwatchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh, in association with the Wildlife Division of the Department of Forests.
Hyderabad, March 26: At last, some headway was made out of the deadlock over the land allotment issue in the Assembly on Friday as both the government and the Opposition softened their stands.
The government has agreed to consider appointing a House Committee, if the House was not satisfied with the debate and its response and if any prima facie evidence on irregularities was placed before the house.
Ongole, March 26: Hundreds of social forestry planters, led by the opposition TDP, CPI, CPI (M) and CPI (ML) New Democracy, laid a siege to the Agriculture Market Committee office here on Friday in protest against withholding of Rs.3 crore due to them.
Tension gripped the area for sometime when irate farmers locked up the AMC office after bringing out all the AMC staff members with no positive response to their various forms of agitation.
Hyderabad, March 25: A 25-year-old widow from Vemulawada in Karimnagar district, who came to the city with her brother on some work, was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by four persons at Chaderghat on Thursday.
The woman and her brother, Sanjeev, arrived at MG Bus Station in the early hours. As they were heading towards Malakpet, four persons stalked them and intercepted them near Chaderghat.
Hyderabad, March 25: The members of Progressive Democratic Front staged a walkout in the Legislative Council on Thursday when the Chairman A.Chakrapani turned down their adjournment notice for a discussion on the eighth chapter of Justice Srikrishna Committee’s report.
Chukka Ramaiah, Paturu Sudhakar Reddy, Dileep Kumar and K. Nageshwar demanded a discussion in view of High Court’s judgement on a petition seeking to make the eighth chapter of the report public.
s Mr. Ramaiah said that the observations of the committee belittled the four crore people in the region.
Adilabad, March 25: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday demanded Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrashekhar Rao to come clean on his relationship with Congress party.
The party accused him of mortgaging Telangana’s self respect to the ruling party as is evident by his latest statements.
“Seek people’s consent”
Vizianagaram, March 25: The progress on 20-point-programme till January was satisfactory when compared to other districts in the state, said Collector M. Veerabrahmaiah.
At a review meeting with officials on Thursday, Mr. Verabrahmaiah said that during 2010-11, 2.04crore man-days were created by spending Rs.260.60 crore under MGNREGP. Under RWS scheme 201 habitations were covered against a target of 209, but the achievement under ISL scheme was a mere 28 per cent. Against target of 34,000 ISLs, 8,761 were built and the Collector asked officials concerned to improve the percentage.
Hyderabad, March 25: The Andhra Pradesh State Cultural Council announced the “Ugadi Puraskaralu” for 2011 here on Thursday.
Presentation ceremony
The awards would be presented by Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy at a function to be held on April 4 to 25 persons from 13 fields.
Cash prize
Chairman of the Cultural Council R.V. Ramana Murthy told mediapersons that each award would carry a cash prise of Rs. 5,116 and a commendation certificate.
Hyderabad, March 25: A report on the question and answer sessions in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly and Council reveals that children’s issues have not been adequately discussed and represented in both the Houses of Legislature.
Hyderabad, March 25: GHMC would act firmly on building deviations and illegal constructions in the city, said Mayor B. Kartika Reddy on Thursday and also warned of taking up demolitions of such structures.
Reviewing the performance of the Town Planning wing with Additional Commissioner (Regulatory Planning) Rajendra Prasad, Chief City Planner G.V. Raghu and other officials, she did not mince words in stating that there were several illegal constructions taking place in several areas and this could not have happened without the “involvement” of town planning officials.
Vizianagaram, March 25: JNTUK will be introducing a paper on region-specific issues for engineering students from next academic year.
It is being introduced as part its responsibility towards society. This will enable students to utilise their ideas for the betterment of deprived classes, said Allam Appa Rao, Vice-Chancellor of the university.
Jainoor, March 25: Despite the good reserves in the ground, the sharp and steady rise in day temperature this month has alarmed experts over the possibility of water shortage as the season progresses. “It is better to curb wastage of water now than to rue later”, observes G. Kumaraswamy, Adilabad Deputy Director Ground Water, as he forwards the simplest theory to ward off even an unforeseen crisis.
Hyderabad, March 25: Telangana Telugu Desam MLAs have sought “criminal action” against Srikrishna Committee members for their “unconstitutional and undemocratic” observations against the people of the region in chapter 8 of their report.
Hyderabad, March 25: With just a week left for closure of the financial year, the role of banks in extending loans to the underprivileged and backward sections of society leaves a lot to be desired.
Most of the banks fall short of the target. In case of SC Service Cooperative Society, the banks are still 54 per cent behind the financial target. As against the financial target of Rs. 10.70 crore, only Rs. 10.27 crore has been disbursed.
The progress report of the Rajiv Yuva Shakthi programme is not encouraging either.
Hyderabad, March 25: On 25 {+t} {+h} March His Holiness Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin turns one-hundred years old and will spend the day as he always does on important occasions – in the midst of his followers the one million strong Dawoodi Bohra community to whom he has provided visionary leadership as a spiritual guide, as a moral compass, a pragmatic advisor and as a beloved father.
Hyderabad, March 25: The TRS Floor leader, Mr Harish Rao, cited the Fazal Ali Commission Report which he said reflected the true problems of Telangana and its people. “Chapter 8 of the Srikrishna Committee report proved beyond doubt that it was tailor-made to suit Seemandhra leaders and investors. The report lost credibility. It’s shocking that legal luminaries can stoop to this level to please a section of leaders,” Mr T. Harish Rao, said.
Hyderabad, March 24: The Andhra Pradesh Government today decided to introduce English as second language in government schools from first class itself to make the students more competitive.
“After careful examination and keeping in view the importance of English at primary education level, Government has decided to introduce English as second language from 1st Class itself in Government schools in Andhra Pradesh from the Academic year 2011-2012,” a Government Order (GO) issued by the School Education Department said.
Hyderabad, March 25: The Andhra Pradesh Government today decided to introduce English as second language in government schools from first class itself to make the students more competitive.
“After careful examination and keeping in view the importance of English at primary education level, Government has decided to introduce English as second language from 1st Class itself in Government schools in Andhra Pradesh from the Academic year 2011-2012,” a Government Order (GO) issued by the School Education Department said.
Hyderabad, March 24: A National Museum of Statistics– ‘Sankhya’– said to be the first of its kind in the world, is coming up at University of Hyderabad.
Disclosing it at a press conference here today, Dr Seyed E Hasnain, Vice Chancellor University of Hyderabad, Dr C R Rao, distinguished Professor Emeritus and Advisor CRRAO AIMSCS, and others, said that the museum will be located on a five acre plot in the campus of University of Hyderabad.
Vizianagaram, March 24: Arrangements have been made for conducting SSC examinations beginning Thursday. Some 35,817 candidates, including 6,856 students from private schools, will appear for the examinations at 150 centres in the district. According to official information, the district administration has appointed 150 sitting squads and 14 flying squads to check malpractice.