Hyderabad, October 09: Infrastructure and investment principal secretary Ajay Mishra has replaced industries and commerce principal secretary BP Acharya as a director in the Board of AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC).
The State government issued orders reconstituting the APIIC Board of Directors.
All the directors except Acharya have been retained on the Board.
S Siva Rama Subrahmanyam will continue to be the chairman of the board.
Bhadrachalam, October 09: Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha said the Koti Bathukamma festival celebrations in Bhadrachalam was being organised to prove that the Bhadradri Ramudu belongs to Telangana. The celebrations began at Midhula stadium near the temple here today under the aegis of Telangana Jagruthi.
As many as five thousand women across the district took part in the festival. Speaking on the occasion, K Kavitha said Bhadrachalam division is part of Telangana and nobody can divide it. She also played Bathukamma for some time with other women participants.
Hyderabad, October 09: In yet another case of a government official giving a slip to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths after he was caught taking bribe, an additional assistant engineer of AP Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (APSPDCL) escaped from the ‘custody’ of the ACB officials today.
The officer complained of chest pain soon after his arrest yesterday night and fled from the hospital he was admitted.
Kakinaeda, October 09: TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu demanded that the government repeal 2009 Marine Regulation Act immediately because it is creating problems to the fishermen.
Interacting with the fisherfolk here today, he said the demand of fishermen to treat them under ST category or at least under the most backward class is justified and the TDP will support it, he said.
Hyderabad, October 09: The family members of those who laid down their lives for the T cause staged a dharna at Telangana Bhavan under the banner Telangana Amaraveerula Kutumbala Ikya Vedika under the leadership of one Raghuma Reddy here today.
Hyderabad, October 09: The Department of Posts, Andhra Pradesh Circle, is organising a series of programmes to mark the National Postal Week Celebrations to be held from October 9 to 15.
The week-long celebrations will begin with the ‘World Post Day’ tomorrow which will be inaugurated by governor ESL Narasimhan at the Jubilee Hall here, chief postmaster general (AP Circle) Karuna Pillai told reporters today.
Hyderabad, October 09: Rights activist K Balagopal would be an inspiring force as along as there is suppression of human rights, said several speakers who felt that carrying forward Balagopal’s ideals would be a real tribute to him.
Hyderabad, October 09: The Andhra Pradesh coast escaped being battered as a rain-causing depression over west-central Bay of Bengal moved northeastwards and lay centred 270 km off in Orissa, weatherman said.
According to Visakhapatnam cyclone warning centre, the depression may have more impact on Orissa and West Bengal compared to north coastal Andhra.
The India Meteorological Department predicted that the system would move in north-northeasterly direction and cross West Bengal coast near Sagar Island by Friday evening.
Hyderabad, October 09: Justice Nooty Ram Mohan Rao of the AP High Court on Friday kept ajar the doors of private professional colleges to run the second shift.
Hyderabad, October 09: By March next year, about 3.11 crore people residing in seven districts of the state will get the unique identification (UID) numbers under the Centre’s flagship programme, the Aadhar project. Chief minister K Rosaiah is likely to launch the project in the state on November 1 and issue the unique identification numbers to the beneficiaries.
Hyderabad, October 09: Public distribution system (PDS) is all set to go hi-tech. Probably for the first time in the country, the civil supplies department will interlink its Smart Cards project with the Central government’s Aadhar project being implemented by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). This will not only prevent bogus ration cards but also ensure that the beneficiaries get their share of ration every month.
Hyderabad, October 09: Winds of change are blowing across the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on the separate Telangana demand.
While Telangana TDP leaders are aggressively promoting T, the Andhra leaders have suddenly started speaking in favour of Telangana, as evidenced by the admission of Srikakulam leader K Yerran Naidu.
Hyderabad, October 09: Alleging large-scale irregularities by the Andhra Pradesh Bhoodan Yagna board, members belonging to opposition parties and the ruling Congress today demanded dissolution of the board and ordering of an inquiry into the ‘illegal’ allocation of Bhoodan lands to corporate companies and industrialists.
The government had assured them of an inquiry into the issue and placing the action taken report before the public shortly, the opposition members claimed.
Hyderabad, October 09: SKS Microfinance Ltd, the country’s largest and only listed Micro Finance Institution (MFI), which recently sacked its CEO and managing director, on Friday received a fresh salvo from the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
Following a petition filed by an SKS shareholder Lekha, Justice G Bhavani Prasad passed an interim order directing SKS to retain Gurumani on the company’s board. He also directed SKS’s newly-appointed CEO MR Rao not to take any major policy decisions without prior approval from the board and until further orders.
Hyderabad, October 09: Balladeer Gadar is all set to to form the Telangana Praja Front tomorrow which has already set off alarm bells ringing in established political parties.
The guiding principle of the front will be: force the Centre into introducing a bill in Parliament for creation of a separate state for Telangana on or before December 6, coinciding with the day last year when Union minister for home P Chidambaram made the historical announcement that the ‘process for formation of Telangana state is being initiated’.
Nellore (AP), October 09: Congress MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s ongoing ‘Odarpu yatra’ (tour for consoling) would enter Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh on October 11.
Jagan is presently touring Prakasam district and he will begin his yatra in neighbouring Nellore district on October 11, Nellore MP M Rajamohan Reddy told reporters.
–PTI
Hyderabad, October 08: Balladeer Gadar who is launching Telangana Praja Front (TPF) on Saturday said that his outfit is radically different from a political party as its objective would be to bring pressure on people’s representatives in Parliament to ensure introduction of bill for formation of a separate Telanana state.
The manifesto of the new front would be announced after the delegates’ meeting, Gadar told mediapersons here today.
Hyderabad, October 08: The mother of Srikanthachary, who set himself ablaze at L B Nagar for separate Telangana during the peak of the agitation, today created a mild flutter by threatening to end her life at the place where her son ended his life.
Srikanthachary was the first to end his life for the cause of separate Telangana. A native of Nalgonda district, Chary set himself ablaze on the traffic island at L B Nagar crossroads raising slogans of ‘Jai Telangana’.
Today, his mother Sankaramma reached the traffic island and threatened to die in the same manner her son ended his life.
Hyderabad, october 08: Members of the Congress Action Committee For Telangana (CAFT) today asserted that their programme (martyrs’ memorial meeting) to extend financial assistance of Rs.One lakh each to family members of those who died for Telangana cause was neither an ‘Odarpu nor a political Yatra’, but an ‘assistance yatra’.
Hyderabad, October 08: Buoyed with public response to the fiveday ‘Palle Pilupu’, the state unit of the BJP is planning to organise second phase of the programme.
The fiveday mass contact programme which concluded yesterday received tremendous response from the people and they complained about lack of basic amenities in their villages, state BJP president, G Kishan Reddy told reporters here today.
Accusing the state government of failing to provide basic facilities to the people, he demanded that government should give top priority to provide facilities like
Hyderabad, October 08: Nearly 6,000 gram panchayats in the state will be computerised with internet facility within a year for implementation of ePanchayat programme. The remaining 5,920 gram panchayats will be equipped with computers in a phased manner. The ePanchayats will facilitate issuing of trade licenses, birth and death certificates, and facilitate house tax collection among other works.
Guntur, October 08: A woman was allegedly raped by her father-in-law here in Sitamma Colony because the accused wanted an heir to the family. Though the incident occured on October 1, a complaint was filed only today.
Reportedly, the accused, Bandari Yedukondalu, has two sons who are both childless.
His elder son Venkateswarlu married seven years ago and younger son Srinivasa Rao married two and half years ago.
Kanigiri, October 08: While the case of a mother’s torture on her daughter Nartana in Nellore district is still afresh in the minds of people, a stepfather tortured a eight year old boy at Kanigiri.
The boy, Saleem, was admitted to the government hospital here. Reportedly, Saleem’s mother Sk Bibi of Kanigiri married SK Fareed Basha after her first husband Madarvali died three years ago. Basha, a welder at Pamuru, had two children from his earlier marriage.
Allegedly, Basha took to harassing Saleem and beat him on his head with a stick.
Hyderabad, October 07: The Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) will hold the re-examination for Group-I prelims on October 25. The re-examination will be held at three centres in Nampally here — the M.A.M Government Model Junior College for Girls, the M.A.M. Government Model Junior College for Girls (Urdu Medium) and the Indira Priyadarshini Government Degree College for Women.
Visakhapatnam, October 08: In order to clear the extra rush of passengers during Dasara puja season, East Coast Railway (ECR) will run weekly special train services between Puri and Hyderabad.
In a press release here, ECR Waltair division senior divisional commercial manager H L Luwang said the train number 0863 from Puri to Hyderabad and train number 0864 from Hyderabad to Puri would make eight trips each in a week.
The train number 0863 would also make eight trips a week from October 9 to November 27.