Hyderabad, July 28: The Met Department on Wednesday said that moderate to rather heavy rain or thundershowers would occur at many places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and may occur over Rayalaseema.
The Met departments further warned that isolated heavy rain would occur over Telangana and in the districts of Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam and Nellore of Coastal Andhra Pradesh and may occur over Ralaseema during next 48 hours.
Hyderabad, July 28: Telugu Desam Party MLA from Telangana Seethakka on Wednesday opined that it was very difficult for various parties to arrive at a unanimous opinion on the controversial separate statehood issue.
Talking to media persons at the Telugu Desam Legislature Party Office, Ms Seethakka wondered how Union Home Minister P Chidambaram was hoping that a consensus would be reached among all the leaders who were for or against the separate statehood demand.
Hyderabad, July 28: Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana on Wednesday appealed to Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee to reconsider its decision of resorting to a mass strike from August 17.
Talking to media persons at Gandhi Bhavan, the PCC chief said that the employees’ decision to go on a mass strike was not right since it was taken at a time when High Command was consulting Telangana and Seemandhra leaders to arrive at a consensus on the controversial separate statehood issue.
Hyderabad, July 28: Months after being underground, Sirish Bharadwaj, the younger son-in-law of actor-turned-politician and Praja Rajyam Party president K Chiranjeevi surrendered himself before the Nampally Criminal Courts on Wednesday.
After his surrender, Sirish was remanded to 14 days police custody. Following the Court directions, the police have shifted him to Chanchalguda Jail. Earlier, the City Crime Station police filed a petition in the court seeking his custody for five days.
Hyderabad, July 28: A day after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram sought unanimity and cooperation of all political parties in solving the controversial statehood issue, Telugu Desam Party Telangana Forum convener Errabelli Dayakar Rao on Wednesday stated that it was impossible to achieve unanimity on the Telangana state issue.
Talking to media persons at Telugu Desam Legislature Party Office, Mr Dayakar Rao said that, “it is very difficult to achieve consensus on the issue. The only possible solution before the Centre is to invoke Article 3 of the Constitution and solve the issue.”
New Delhi, July 28: Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that he has a fresh and open mind in resolving the Telangana crisis; Mr Azad is talking of a “specific dialogue”.
He even went to the extent of saying that it’s not just the Srikrishna Report that should be considered but a fresh mindset needs to be developed in finding a solution to this restive issue.
New Delhi, July 27: Bollywood’s Seductress actress and TV personality Rakhi Sawant expressed her willingness to marry Yoga guru Baba Ramdev. While addressing mediapersons on the sidelines of a promotional event in New Delhi, Sawant spoke of how she also admired Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi. The Drama queen admitted that Ramdev’s yoga sessions have made an impact on her life.
Hyderabad, July 27: At least four students, among the 5 who were left injured in a freak accident at the Government Girls High School, Barkas, were admitted to the Owaisi Hospital, Kanchan Bagh on Wednesday.
The doctors at the hospital said that the condition of the four girls was stable, but added that they were being monitored after receiving deep cuts on their heads.
Hyderabad, July 27: Police on Tuesday arrested a Microsoft software engineer in a domestic violence case.
Acting on a complaint lodged by 26-year-old Nishath Sultana, who is also a software engineer with Wipro, Bangalore, police arrested her husband Faisal Akhtar Mev, 38, of Al Hasanth Colony, Mehdipatnam, on Tuesday.
Nairobi, July 27: A 50-year-old woke up in a body bag after his family found him unconscious and thought he had passed away.
The man who spent about 21 hours on a corpse trolley, had had a severe asthma attack, reports The Sun.
He started screaming upon waking up and scared the lives out of the mortuary staff, who thought he was a ghost and fled from the scene. The man was freed later.
–Agencies
New Delhi, July 27: Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will visit the Sufi pilgrim centre of Ajmer in Rajasthan Thursday, official sources said.
Khar will leave New Delhi Thursday morning by a special flight to Jaipur. From there she will proceed to Ajmer to pay obeisance at the mausoleum of Sufi saint Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti, the sources added.
The shrine, dedicated to the Sufi saint who came to Ajmer from Persia in 1192, attracts thousands of pilgrims throughout the year.
On return to Jaipur after the pilgrimage, Khar will fly to Islamabad.
Andhra Pradesh, July 27:Epass Scholarships online submission present last date 31 July, 100% chances to extend another 10 days more…
July 27:NEET 2012 National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for undergraduates and Post Graduate and super speciality courses…
Medical Council of India-MCI in May 2012 will conduct the common entrance test for admission to undergraduate medical courses for the academic year 2012-13 in May next year. National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for undergraduates- NEET-UG for admission to MBBS, Post Graduate and super speciality courses. There are 42,000 seats for under graduate medical courses and 20,600 seats for PG medical courses in the country, including those from private medical colleges.
You are soon to become a father, have you become more responsible and mature?
I believe that till the time the child is not in your arms there will be no change in you. The minute your child is in your hands, the whole world changes for you. Recently when I spoke to my brother–in-law, Nikhil Nanda. He asked me the same thing, that do I feel mature, but I replied the same thing. If there has to be any change in me, then it will happen only after the birth of the child.
After this news, what is the atmosphere at home like?
Balasore, July 27: Entangled in the web of rising prices of raw materials, the fishing net weavers are finding it hard to make a living out of the profession in the northern parts of the State.
Families engaged in the profession of knitting nets suffer silently in the absence of marketing facilities. A piece of fishing net which was available for `200 a couple of years back, is now priced between ` 450 and ` 500. A decade ago the hand-woven nets were being sold for less than ` 100.
Bhubaneshwar, July 27: The Nandankanan Zoological Park is abuzz with activity. As the animal park prepares for putting in place its Herbivore Safari, it witnessed a slew of innovative methods adopted by the park officials and keepers.
Bhubaneshwar, July 27: The students of DPS-Kalinga on Tuesday visited the Mother Teresa Orphanage here to hand over donations to the inmates collected through their Good Samaritan Foundation.
The students interacted with inmates of the orphanage and provided clothes and food items to them. Sisters of the orphanage appreciated the initiative of Mala Mishra, trustee of the school, in setting up The Good Samaritan Foundation to help the underprivileged.
–Agencies
Bhubaneshwar, July 27: Artisans Micro Finance Pvt. Ltd. (AMFPL) has procured handloom and handicraft products worth ` 25 lakh from the the State during the last three months and has placed an order for items worth another Rs 75 lakh.
Sambalpur, July 27: With drought looming, three suicide cases of farmers have shaken the community sending a grim reminder of the impending situation.
On Sunday, Dhananjaya Pradhan (35) of Sarla village in Bargarh district allegedly attempted suicide. He was rushed to the district headquarters hospital only to be declared brought dead. A day later, another farmer, K Chakrabarty Rao (45) of Talpadar village in Dhankauda block of Sambalpur district consumed pesticide.
Bhubaneshwar, July 27: It was eye-catching for sure. A little past noon on Tuesday, a sparkling rainbow encircled the Sun drawing hundreds of denizens out of their homes and offices to watch the spectacle. Was it a rainbow or a celestial phenomenon? The morning was dry, though cloudy. With no rain in the past 12 hours or so, was a rainbow possible? Meteorologists explained it to be a solar halo, also called ‘sun dog’ or ‘parhelia’, in scientific terms. It is an atmospheric phenomenon which creates bright spots of light on the sky, mostly around the Sun.
New Delhi, July 27: The nature of entrepreneurship is no longer the same. A semblance of conscience, innovation and growing desire to impact the grassroots have crept into many young Indian businesses, adding a touch of heart to the aggressive pursuit of profit.
In the popular tongue of business board rooms, this growing tribe is known as social entrepreneurs whose business has a social objective.
Ishita Khanna was born and raised in Dehradun. From childhood, she wanted to know about environment, wildlife and animals.
New Delhi, July 27: Telecom service provider Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd Tuesday posted a net loss of Rs.119.32 crore for the quarter ended June 30.
The company had a net profit of Rs.557.88 crore in the like period of the previous financial year, the company said in a regulatory filing.
The net sales, however, stood at Rs.584.98 crore during the quarter under review as against Rs.552.2 crore during the like period last year.
At Bombay Stock Exchange, the shares of the company closed 3.07 percent lower at Rs.22.10.
–Agencies
New Delhi, July 27: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), a subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), Tuesday posted a six-fold increase in net profit at Rs.172.7 crore for the quarter ended June 30.
The net profit during the like period in the previous financial year was Rs.28.46 crore.
Net sales stood at Rs.13,369 crore in the quarter under review, up 70 percent as compared to Rs.7,877.5 crore during the corresponding period.
–Agencies
Chennai, July 27: Coimbatore based start-up venture Sara Cotton Fibres Private Ltd plans to cultivate cotton and soya in 25,000 acres in Ethiopia and also set up a cotton ginning facility in the African country.
“We will grow long staple cotton on the 25,000 acre land leased for 25 years in Ethiopia. The land in a single stretch is along the Omo river there. We have raised $6.4 million through a mix of debt and equity,” chief financial officer K.S. Sundhar Rajan told IANS over phone from Coimbatore.
Gandhinagar, July 27: Chennai-headquartered diversified infrastructure organisation MARG Ltd. has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work order valued at Rs.237.58 crore from Bhavnagar Energy Company Ltd. in Gujarat, an official said Tuesday.
The work order includes a sea water intake, outfall and circulating water system for the 2X250 MW lignite-based thermal power plant at Padva, in Bhavnagar district. The time frame for completion of the project is 24 months.