Hyderabad, January 01: In what seems to be a New Year resolution, the Andhra Pradesh Industrial and Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) has decided to take its case against Emaar Properties to its logical conclusion. At its board meeting here on Thursday, APIIC decided to initiate criminal proceedings against the company for defrauding it of an estimated Rs 500 crore.
Hyderabad, January 01: Governor ESL Narasimhan today greeted people of the State with hearfelt wishes on the occasion of the new year. He wished that the new year bring happiness, health, success and prosperity to every citizen. As a customory practice, the Governor will exchange pleasantries with people and leaders of the civil society at Darbar Hall in Raj Bhavan between 11 am and 1 pm tomorrow.
–Agencies
Hyderabad, January 01: Releasing the results of the SSC exams conducted by the Andhra Pradesh Open School Society (APOSS), Minister of Primary Education S Sailajanath said that the results for the open school education have been consistently improving over the last few years.
A total of 4146 students qualified for the SSC (APOSS) exams held in November/ December 2010. The pass percentage for the examination increased from 52.45 % in 2008-2009 to 61.15 % this year.
Hyderabad, January 01: The eight parties from AP want to send more or less the same set of representatives who had attended the earlier meet (on Jan 5, 2010) for the Jan 6 meet called by Chidambaram in Delhi.
New Delhi, January 01: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is at par with other national and international institutions of higher learning, Vice-Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai said Saturday.
Pillai said that IGNOU has established itself as a national resource centre and a provider of quality education through its high-quality self-learning material and innovative programmes.
Hyderabad, January 01: Depressed after her husband’s death and her poor financial condition, a 35-year-old woman committed suicide after giving poison-laced soft drink to her three children at Neredmet yesterday night. One of the children died along with her mother.
Neredmet police said that Jyothi (35), who has been under depression since her husband Srinivas died seven months ago, bought a soft drink for her three children — Meghana (14), Varshita (12), Nanda Kishore (10). But she poisoned it before making them drink it.
Hyderabad, January 01: Two persons, including a charted accountant (CA), died when a lorry hit the two-wheeler in which they were travelling near Trimulgherry today.
Trimulgherry police said that Suman (22), a charted accountant, was travelling on the two-wheeler along with her aunty Rajeshwari (30). The victims were on their way to RK Puram from Jeedimetla when the accident took place around 4.p.m. The lorry driver was reportedly taken into police custody.
Patna, January 01: Three days after a businessman was abducted in Bihar’s Banka district, his brother based in California in the US appealed to the abductors to free him as police failed to make any breakthrough.
‘I appeal to the abductors to release my brother,’ Sanjeev Kumar said via e-mail to mediapersons Friday night.
He said he has also approached top police officials and the media via telephone for his brother’s safe recovery.
Jammu, January 01: Two soldiers were killed by militants in Gool area in Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday, an army officer said.
‘The army has launched an operation to trace the militants,’ the officer told IANS on Saturday evening.
Territorial Army personnel had launched an operation against militants in Gool, a mountainous area Saturday but hidden militants opened fire on the approaching soldiers and killed two of them. The slain soldiers have been identified as Mohammad Khalid and Mohammad Shariq.
New Delhi, January 01: Delhi will have to pay more for Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as the rates of the fuel have been revised upward to Rs.29 per kg in the capital with effect from midnight of Jan 1, an official said Saturday.
The price was currently Rs.27.75, an official of Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) said.
‘We are constrained to revise the prices of CNG because of increase in overall input cost of gas, its corresponding taxes & duties and marginal increase in operating expenses,’ Rajesh Vedvyas, Managing Director, IGL said.
Bangalore, January 01: Indian scientists, research scholars and students Saturday began celebrating 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry (IYC) for the achievements and contributions made by this important branch of science to the well-being of humankind.
Chennai, January 01: India has to address three major deficits – governance, regulatory and ethical- if the country has to progress, the economy continue to log nine percent growth and the gains of last two decades are not lost, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Saturday.
‘We were slow to realise that when the economy grows at nine percent it cannot have huge deficits in power, road, shipping and air transport. These sectors have to keep pace so that the economic growth could be sustained,’ he said here at the centenary celebrations of The Southern India Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Chennai, January 01: Vishnu Vardhan, the 23-year old from Andhra Pradesh, ousted third seeded Conor Niland of Ireland 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the qualifying tournament of the Aircel ATP Chennai Open tennis here Saturday.
Vardhan, ranked 386 as against 29-year old Conor’s 129, came up with a fine rearguard action to save two match points in the second set after losing the first, and then fought back from 2-4 in the decider third for a splendid victory in two hours 41 minutes.
Chennai, January 01: Top seed and title favourite Tomas Berdych, the World No.6 from the Czech Republic, will take on Portuguese journeyman and 101 ranked Frederico Gil in the first round of the Aircel ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament commencing here Monday.
Berdych, the 2010 Wimbledon finalist, is the highest ranked player in the 32-man singles main draw that has defending champion and second seed Marin Cilic of Croatia taking on Japan’s Kei Nishikori, ranked 98, in his lung-opener.
Kolkata, January 01: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Saturday said his cabinet colleague and Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s letters to West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee were part of the former’s duty to write to states where the law and order situation deteriorates.”What is the controversy in this issue? Union home minister has given a letter and the chief minister should answer it. There can be no controversy on this,” Mukherjee told mediapersons here.
Srinagar, January 01: Two soldiers were killed by militants in Gool area in Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday, an army officer said.”The army has launched an operation to trace the militants,” the officer told IANS on Saturday evening.
Territorial Army personnel had launched an operation against militants in Gool, a mountainous area Saturday but hidden militants opened fire on the approaching soldiers and killed two of them. The slain soldiers have been identified as Mohammad Khalid and Mohammad Shariq.
Gandhinagar, January 01: Hitting a New Year jackpot, the National Textiles Corporation (NTC) has sold through an e-auction two closed mills in Gujarat for a combined price of Rs.145.93 crore ($32.6 million) against a total reserve price of Rs.68.74 crore, a statement said here Saturday.
In a keenly-fought three-day auction that went on nearly till the dawn of the New Year, Ahmedabad Advance Mills Ltd. bagged the coveted 33,222 sq metres plot of New Manekchowk Textile Mills in Ahmedabad for Rs.118.40 crore, nearly 2.5 times the reserve price of Rs 41.27 crore.
Sydney, January 01: Australian vice-captain Brad Haddin Saturday admitted that the team’s performance in the ongoing Ashes series will remain unacceptable irrespective of whatever happens in the final Test starting here Monday.
Haddin said the results have been disappointing for the team as well as the fans. Australia are trailing 1-2 in the series against arch-rivals England and have lost the chance to regain the Ashes urn for the third consecutive time.
“No it does not,” Haddin told the Sydney Morning Herald when asked whether a win in Sydney would suffice for the Ashes loss.
New Delhi, December 01: The union Ministry of Tourism and Culture has cleared night landing of flights at Agra’s Kheria airport, according to an industry source, who also said flights will begin landing at night within a month or two.It has been a long-pending demand of the tourism industry to allow flights, particularly international flights, to land at night in Agra, which is among the most sought after tourism destinations in the country.
The Kheria airport, which is under the Indian Air Force, is currently partially used for civilian flights to the city of the Taj.
Islamabad, January 01: The year 2011 “will be crucial” for Pakistan, a leading Pakistani daily said, adding: “It will also be a year of Pakistan’s correction of its unrealistic and unjustified opposing of China befriending India and the US in its strategic thinking.”
An editorial in the Express Tribune Saturday said: “In 2011, Pakistan’s number one crisis will not be corruption, inflation or political instability, but the ongoing violence inflicted by the Taliban and the war in Afghanistan that is winding down to its final date in 2014.”
Haryana, January 01: Police Saturday arrested two men among the six accused of raping a management student from Rajasthan in this Haryana town.The four other accused are still at large and police is conducting raids to nab them.
Ghaziabad, January 01: The Aarushi Talwar murder scene was heavily dressed up, which could only have been done by her parents, the CBI has said, closing as unsolved case the sensational killing of the teen-ager. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) closure report, a copy of which is with IANS, says that a bottle of Scotch whisky was found on the dining table. But according to the probe agency, any intruder would not have had sufficient time to consume liquor on the night of murder May 16, 2008.
New Delhi, January 01: A traffic advisory was Saturday issued as a religious procession on the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh would be taken out in the capital Sunday by the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee. “The annual procession will begin from Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib in central Delhi and is likely to terminate late in the evening in Hari Nagar in west Delhi,” a police officer said.
New Delhi, January 01: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is at par with other national and international institutions of higher learning, Vice-Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai said Saturday.Pillai said that IGNOU has established itself as a national resource centre and a provider of quality education through its high-quality self-learning material and innovative programmes.
Gandhinagar, January 01: The Gujarat High Court has pulled up the state government for its inaction in recognising the scheduled tribes living in the forest areas of Gir, Alech and Barda. The first bench of the court comprising Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice K.M. Thaker directed the state government to form committees in this regard within a month, according to an order made available Saturday.