Hyderabad, March 17: About 5,000 village servants under the aegis of the Andhra Pradesh Grama Sevakula Sangham took out a massive rally from Sundaraiah Park to dharna chowk here yesterday demanding enhancement of wages, dearness allowance and other issues on which an agreement was reached between the revenue minister and AP Village Servants Union on February 5, 2009.
Hyderabad, March 17: Six persons, including a woman and her one-year-old son, were killed in separate road accidents on the outskirts of the city yesterday.
Four contract workers of electricity department were killed after a tractor in which they were travelling turned turtle at Yacharam while a mother-son duo were killed after hit by a RTC bus at Balanagar. Rash and negligent driving by the drivers of the vehicles led to both the accidents, police said.
Hyderabad, March 17: Maize production in the state has gone up with the government supplying seeds to the farmers at the appropriate time, said principal secretary, Agriculture and Cooperation, V Nagi Reddy.
He released the report on Maize and Maize-based industrial opportunities in Andhra Pradesh by the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FAPCCI) here on Wednesday. The comprehensive report indicates various suggestions, recommendations and action plan.
Hyderabad, March 17: It’s common to see passengers and bus conductors arguing over a few ‘coppers and currency.’ Most passengers leave it at that. But a 62-year-old man took it further by fighting for his “change” of Rs 44 for a little over three years.
Hyderabad, March 17: City-based IT companies on Tuesday said that the on-going nuclear catastrophe in Japan would have little or no impact on their business. While the country’s top three software exporters namely TCS, Infosys Technologies and Wipro have offered to evacuate employees from the trouble-hit Japan, home grown companies including Mahindra Satyam (MSat) and Infotech Enterprises Ltd said a majority of the employees operating out of their Tokyo facilities are locals.
Hyderabad, March 17: While city denizens are making plans to celebrate Holi in various ways, a special programme Khelo Holi is going to be organised to raise funds for social issues like polio eradication drive and providing basic infrastructure in government schools. The event will be held at the Sanjeevaiah park on March 20 from 9 a.m to 2 p.m.
Hyderabad, March 17: A day after registering a case against Sirish Bharadwaj and his mother on a complaint from Chiranjeevi’s daughter Srija, police started investigation into the allegations of dowry harassment against them even as efforts were reportedly on to settle the matter amicably.
Hyderabad, March 17: A special CBI court here today convicted 11 persons, including six bank officials, for cheating the State Bank of India’s Secunderabad branch here of Rs 12.57 crore that was taken as loans through forged and fake documents. The court sentenced the then branch manager of SBI (Secunderabad branch) GVLN Shastri, five bank officials and five others for a jail term ranging between five to seven years and also imposed a total fine of Rs two lakh against all of them.
Hyderabad, March 17: Five government officials were caught by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials while taking bribe in separate instances across the state while unaccounted cash was found during surprise checks on two sub-registrar offices in East Godavari district.
Hyderabad, March 17: Main opposition Telugu Desam Party stalled the proceedings of Andhra Pradesh Assembly for the second consecutive day Thursday demanding that the government constitute a Joint Legislative Committee to probe into the “indiscriminate land allotments” in the last six years.
The House was adjourned twice this morning as the TDP members stormed the Speaker’s podium and demanded that the JLC be constituted to probe the land deals.
Also, the ruling Congress legislators from Telangana once again raised pro-statehood slogans leading to a din in the House.
Kadapa, March 16: Former state minister Dr. Khaleel Basha was severely injured in a road accident yesterday night. His car rammed into a stationary tractor at Sambe palli mandal of Rae choti in Kadapa district. Khaleel Basha suffered serious head injuries and hand fracture in the accident.
Chirala, March 16: A 19-year-old girl was allegedly raped by five youths in a moving car in Chirala town of Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh, police .
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Four of the accused have been taken into custody, police said.
On the night of March 13, Srinivas Rao, the main accused, phoned the girl and told her that her father had asked him to pick her up from an internet cafe where she worked, police said. The girl believed him and got into the car.
Rao allegedly gave her some sedatives, and raped her. Then he called his friends, who too raped her, police said.
Hyderabad, March 14: Denizens reeling under heat wave conditions with soaring day temperatures are expected to get some relief soon. The Meteorological department has predicted light showers in a week. The day temperature reported in the city on Sunday was 35.2 degrees Celsius. Met officials informed that cool nights would prevail in the next few weeks due to cold winds blowing from the east towards Telangana.
Hyderabad, March 14: He says that he loves telling stories no one dares to bring on the big screen and that his next will be a political thriller. “No, I never faced any obstacle because of my sexual preference. Delhi High Court had declared it as legal and now it’s being debated in the Supreme Court. In India it’s still taken as a crime by the law of the land. One reason to bring it up in my films is it’s a human rights violation,” he said.
Hyderabad, March 14: The devastating earthquakes and tsunami that rocked Japan is likely to impact ongoing and proposed projects in Greater Hyderabad and the state.
Andhra Pradesh Central Power Distribution Company Limited (CPDCL), Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) and Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) are unsure about the fate of their projects as they fear that the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is funding many of them, may withhold the release of further funds.
Hyderabad, March 14: Two illicit liquor transporters were arrested and large quantity of liquor seized from them by police on Sunday.
On information, Task Force sleuths nabbed the duo and seized 1,200 illicit liquor sachets and two scooters. The arrested are Surender Singh o f Puranapul and Babloo Singh alias Babloo of Lower Dhoolpet.
The duo were transporting the liquor f rom Puranapul, Jummerat Bazar to NTR Nagar in LB Nagar, Kothapet and selling the liquor at a higher price, Task Force additional deputy commissioner of police M Srinivasulu said.
Hyderabad, March 14: Four persons were killed and two suffered injuries in separate road accidents in the city outskirts yesterday.
A woman was killed and two injured after the jeep in which they were travelling rammed into a RTC bus on the Outer Ring road at Shamshabad. A houswife, Manjula (28) of Mamidipalli in Saroornagar, her motherin- law Eshwaramma and brother-in-law, Babu boarded a jeep to go to Shadnagar to attend a marriage of their relatives today around 11 a.m. Four other passengers were also present in the vehicle.
Hyderabad, March 14: In order to highlight its presence on the web and connect with the public, the US Consulate today officially launched their own social media platform at a mall in the city.
The consulate is already active on networking sites like Facebook and blogging sites twitter and blogger to provide information to its followers on issues of mutual interest to USA and India.
Hyderabad, March 14: Members of the family of city lad K Sunil Kumar Yadav, who was found dead in his residence at Boul Cott in London on Saturday night (local time), find themselves helpless not knowing how to bring the dead body to Hyderabad in the absence of any communication from the London authorities till now.
The family said none of them had a passport nor can they afford to go to London to bring the body.
They are knocking on the doors of political leaders for help at this trying time.
Hyderabad, March 14: Assuring the Indian exporters that the government was working towards increasing the country’s exports in the coming few years, Anup K. Pujari, director general of foreign trade informed that such a move would also help in bringing down the trade deficit.
Vijayawada, March 14: Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar has said development of a state is dependent on its size. If a state is divided into pieces yielding to the demand of regional forces, development will certainly take a back seat, he said.
Participating in a Meet the Press programme organised at the Press Club here yesterday, he said bifurcation of Punjab was a big mistake. Both Punjab and Haryana could not achieve any major development after the bifurcation of the state.
Hyderabad, March 14: The family members of Sunil Kumar Yadav, who died mysteriously in London recently, are keeping their hopes on local political leaders to help in bringing back his body to Hyderabad.
As the last two days were holidays both in London and India, the officials of both countries have made no effort to shift the body to the city. However, Sunil’s family members said that Secunderabad MP Anjan Kumar Yadav and Rajya Sabha MP V Hanumantha Rao are flying to New Delhi on Monday to pursue the matter with the officials of External Affairs ministry.
Hyderabad, March 14: As people from all walks of life made a beeline for the Tank Bund to participate in the ‘padayatra’ organised by the Jana Chaitanya Vedika (JCV), emotions began swelling high.
The rally was organised to seek pardon from the iconic leaders and poets of Andhra Pradesh whose statues were vandalised on March 10. Labelling the day on which 17 of the 26 statues of the leaders and poets that stood along the Tank Bund road were vandalised by protesters as a ‘dark day’, many who gathered there said March 10 would remain a blot in the history.
Hyderabad, March 14: Polling in the elections to the State Legislative Council from three Graduates and three Teachers constituencies in the state passed off peacefully yesterday.
Chief electoral officer Bhanwar Lal said that polling began on a dull note and picked up momentum in the afternoon. Counting of votes would take place on March 15 at the district headquarters, he said. An average of 46.53 percent of votes were cast in the three Graduates constituencies and 77 percent in the Teachers constituencies.
Hyderabad, March 14: Congress nominees seeking election to the Legislative Council from local bodies’ constituencies in Anantapur and Nellore are finding the going tough.
If former minister JC Diwakar Reddy’s supporters are giving official candidate and DCC president Patil Venugopal Reddy sleepless nights in Anantapur, it is YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s men who are making life difficult for Congress nominee V Narayana Reddy in Nellore.