Kakinada, February 28: Marking the ‘World Science Day,’ city-based Kuchibhotla Vasanthi Foundation is arranging lectures on science by eminent professor Rayaprolu Ramakrishna in the city on Monday. Prof. Ramakrishna, who retired from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will address students of Asram Public School from 11 a.m. to 12. 30 p.m. and students of Zilla Parishad High School, Ramanayyapet, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Adilabad, February 28: The Lok Satta Party’s Adilabad district unit on Sunday demanded that the Railway Ministry include at least a few train extensions in its Budget for 2011-2012. In a representation to the Ministry, the party maintained that extending a few trains to Adilabad railway station and elsewhere will benefit passengers from Adilabad, Nizamabad and Sangareddy Lok Sabha constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and Nanded, Hingoli and Yavatmal constituencies in Maharashtra.
Kadapa, February 28: Kadapa One Town police registered a case of criminal intimidation and kidnap against former Kadapa Mayor P. Raveendranatha Reddy and Kadapa Market Committee Chairman P. Balamalla Reddy and some former municipal corporators, owing allegiance to former Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy group and arrested five of them around Saturday midnight.
Kakinada, February 28: Stressing the need for joint initiative by the government and non-governmental organisations to eradicate polio, district Collector M. Ravi Chandra on Sunday called upon the youngsters to create awareness among the parents of children below five years of age about pulse polio immunisation programme. Inaugurating the Pulse Polio Immunisation programme here at the municipal school in Endowment Colony, Mr. Ravi Chandra said the immunisation would protect children from polio.
Ongole, February 28: “All sections of people are disappointed with the Congress-led UPA government. They are waiting for an opportunity to get rid of it,” said State BJP official spokesman Sannapareddy Suresh Reddy on Sunday.
Mr. Reddy, who was here to campaign for MLC candidate from graduates’ constituency A. Venkata Subba Reddy, told a press conference here that corruption had reached unmanageable levels as evidenced by a series of scams, including 2G scam, CWG and Adarsh Housing society.
Prices
Nellore, February 28: Speakers at a function in SPKM Indian Institute of Handloom Technology (SPKM IIHT) have said the textile and garments experts will have good demand in the market in the coming years as many companies are setting up textile and apparel parks in the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Andhra Pradesh.
The management of Sri Pragada Kotaiah Memorial Handloom Institute has organised a certificate presentation function for the students who successfully completed diploma in handloom technology, at Venkatagiri in the district on Saturday.
Nalgunda, February 28: Seven students of the Backward Classes Hostel here were affected by food poisoning on Sunday after they consumed rice with tomato and egg curry, instead of regular breakfast. They are being treated at the Government Headquarters Hospital after suffering from stomach pain and vomiting and are said to be out of danger.
District Medical and Health Officer Dr. Narasimlu deputed a medical team to the hostel to treat the other inmates of the hostel. The students hospitalised were Bhavani, J, Pushpalata, Dhanalakshsmi, Mamata, E. Pushpalata, S.Manjula and E. Lakshmi.
Mehboobnagar, February 28: A blood donation camp was organised by Working Journalists Co-operative House Building Society of Palamoor here on Sunday. Over 50 Journalists donated blood on the occasion.
Highlighting schemes
Inaugurating the blood donation camp, District Collector M. Purushotham Reddy exhorted the media persons to highlight the various welfare and developmental schemes taken up by the district administration apart from writing about failures of the administration.
Vijaywada, February 28: The Commissioner’s Task force busted a gang that was allegedly involved in cricket betting here on Sunday.
Addressing a press conference here, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) M. Ravindranath Babu said that they arrested five persons who were organising cricket betting from a house in Madhura Nagar. The police seized Rs. 2.10 lakh cash, a laptop, a portable colour television set, 12 cell phones, voice recorder amplifier and bookie balance sheets from their possession.
Visakhapatnam, February 28: While the elusive panther that struck terror in the heart of the city was finally captured on Saturday night and brought to Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, the fate of the animal continues to hang in balance.
Hyderabad, February 28: The Telugu Desam Party has advised Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhar Rao not to resort to criticism of the TDP legislators as it would help in diverting the attention of the people from the ongoing movement which reached its peak.
At a press conference here on Sunday, TDP MLA S. Venkata Veeraiah took objection to TRS’ claims asking TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu to turn an approver so that people could pardon him.
Clarification sought
Hyderabad, February 28: A conference of poets from Telangana here on Sunday witnessed differences of opinion on boycotting their counterparts from coastal districts for not supporting separate Telangana.
The issue came up when Juluri Gowrishanker, general secretary of Telangana writers’ forum, mooted the idea of not sharing literary platforms with poets from coastal districts since they neither wrote in favour nor supported the movement for separate State despite residing in Hyderabad. He suggested that all of them and their meetings should be boycotted.
Toronto, February 28: Supplementing diet with fish oil may prevent muscle and weight loss that commonly occurs in cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy.
The process can cause cancer patients to lose muscle mass and become malnourished, leading to fatigue, a decreased quality of life and shorter survival.
Researchers believe that supplementing the diet with fish oil – which contains omega-3 fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic acid – may help patients maintain or gain muscle, the journal Cancer reports.
Vijaywada, February 28: Redgram production remained sluggish because farmers chose to raise the crop mostly on poor and neglected soils under rain-fed conditions on one hand and due to lack of suitable varieties on the other.
New Delhi, February 28: In a move to provide better access to affordable loans to the farming community, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the general budget for 2011-12 Monday said the government was increasing credit flow to farmers by Rs.1 lakh crore.
“For the year 2011-12, I am raising the target of the credit flow to the farmers from Rs.375,000 crore to Rs.475,000 crore,” Murkherjee said, emphasising that farmers need access to affordable credit.
New Delhi, February 28: Indian equities markets Monday continued to rise well after Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presneted the general budget as investors gave their thumbs-up to decisions like allowing foreign investment in mutual funds, and raising the cap on foreign institutional investment in corporate bonds.
Mukherjee raised the limit for funds to be invested by foreign investors in the Indian infrastructure sector and also allowed mutual funds to accept foreign funds.
Kathmandu, February 28: A controversial Indian businessman who enjoyed monopoly over Nepal’s multi-billion rupee casino industry but had to flee the country after growing disputes with the government has sought a truce, his lawyers and trade union groups said.
Rakesh Wadhwa, whose Nepal Recreation Centre once owned seven of the 10 casinos in Nepal but who fled to New Delhi last year to avoid being arrested for non-payment of royalty to the government, says he is ready to return if the warrant is dropped and a conducive environment created for negotiations.
Nandyal, February 28: The Nandi Drama festival, which started on February 19 at the Town Centenary Hall in Nandyal, concluded on Sunday.
Commissioner of Information and Public Relations and Managing Director of Film, Television and Drama Development Corporation C. Pardhasaradhi announced the prizes.
However, the awards would be distributed formally after the conclusion of the election code.
Hyderabad, February 28: Chairman of Telangana Joint Action Committee M. Kodandaram on Sunday met Congress Working Committee member K. Keshava Rao in wake of the threat held out by pro-Telangana protagonists to burn the effigies of Congress leaders.
A day after the open announcement by the TJAC that they would target Congress leaders from the region and burn their effigies, Prof. Kodandaram spent over an hour reviewing the Telangana agitation with the senior Congress leader and Peddapalli MP G. Vivekananda. Mr. Kodandaram later met APCC president D. Srinivas to discuss the same issue.
New Delhi, February 28: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has “done a good job” by presenting a growth-oriented and inclusive budget.
“The finance minister deserves congratulations for maintaining a high growth rate despite the adverse international economic climate,” Manmohan Singh said in an interview to the national broadcaster Doordarshan.
He did not agree to the observation that there was not much for the corporate sector in the budget.
Hyderabad, February 28: The State made a giant leap in the industrial map of the country, when Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy cleared industrial investment worth Rs. 25,672 crore on a single day last week at the State Investment Promotion Board meeting.
Employment potential
He cleared 25 units with an employment potential of 41,406 that is expected to bring revenue to the Government through the Value Added Tax (VAT) of Rs. 878.30 crore annually.
Dubai, February 28: Dubai Customs at Dubai International Airport has foiled bid to smuggle 51 counterfeit bank credit cards valued at Dh1million by an Asian passenger who intended to smuggle them to the local use. Ali Almaghwai, Senior Manager of Airport Passenger Operation Department, explained the details of the scam saying the international cooperation for information exchange and high efficiencies of Dubai Customs inspectors led to successful seizure of the smugglings.
—–Agencies
Washington, February 28: The US was weighing options of declaring a no-fly zone over Libya in response to its growing unrest, media reports said.
US officials Sunday talked to European and NATO allies about the measure, which would aim to prevent airstrikes against the civilian uprising, The New York Times said.
A UN diplomat was quoted as saying that such a move would require backing from the UN Security Council, which was unlikely to approve it unless such an aerial attack happened first.
Toronto, February 28: Supplementing diet with fish oil may prevent muscle and weight loss that commonly occurs in cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy.
The process can cause cancer patients to lose muscle mass and become malnourished, leading to fatigue, a decreased quality of life and shorter survival.
Researchers believe that supplementing the diet with fish oil – which contains omega-3 fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic acid – may help patients maintain or gain muscle, the journal Cancer reports.
Kundapur, February 28: Does Kondapur, one of the well-known, early, historic Satavahana sites in Medak district, also represent the Brahmanic culture in addition to Buddhist culture? This is what recent excavations at the site, approximately spread over 81 acres, suggest.