Hyderabad, January 04: Talking to newsmen in secretariat, Mr. Ramnarayan Reddy, Finance Minister hinted that last year, Govt. had not imposed any new tax. This year also, care will be taken not to add any new taxes in the state budget. This year’s budget will be realistic. In the wake of the criticism of public, State Govt. intends to give more weightage to welfare and developmental activities.
Hyderabad, January 04: RTC authorities are starting to serve night meals in RTC night service on an experimental basis. Reduction of time for long distance buses is also being considered to the extent of two hours.
Mr. G. V. Ramana Rao, Secretary, operations told this yesterday to newsmen. Responsibility of maintaining security for the long distance buses is also receiving attention. More facilities and comforts will also be provided to long distance buses. Review meetings with the Depot managers and other officials will be regularly.
——Siasat News
Mumbai, January 04: With the wedding season on in full gusto, the stars are in more demand than usual.
Katrina and Shah Rukh Khan, who have been holidaying with their families in London and Dubai respectively, were reportedly invited to attend the wedding of Asma Rahman, daughter of Mir Shakeel-Ur-Rahman – owner of a Pakistani Entertainment Channel in Dubai. And while a source from the wedding revealed that SRK graced the occasion and stole the thunder of the newlyweds, Katrina decided to turn down the invite.
Bangalore, January 04: When autorickshaw driver Srinivas alias Srini walked into Banaswadi police station around 8 pm on Tuesday with a harried look on his face, inspector T Rangappa never expected him to come up with the words that he did. “Sir, I have killed a woman and her corpse is in my autorickshaw parked outside,” Srini said, almost throwing Rangappa off his chair.
Hyderabad, January 04: Govt. of A.P. will complete 30 irrigation projects including 15 in Telangana, 10 in Coastal Andhra and 5 in Rayalaseema.
While inaugurating the Departmental calendar for 2012, Minister for irrigation. Mr. P. Sudershan Reddy told the newsmen yesterday that Govt. released Rs. 3800 crore for clearing the previous bills of the contractors. He said problems are being created due to contractors’ approaching the courts. He also said that the demand of the contractors for EBS is being considered by the Govt.
Hyderabad, January 04: CPI (M) leader Gurudas Dasgupta yesterday demanded a special session of Parliament to resolve economic crisis so that a strategy could be evolved. The trade union leader told that there is a flow of foreign funds in large quantities and dollars are going out of the country.
Foreign investors are leaving this country. This is resulting in the flow of dollars outside India. This is the reason the Indian rupee has become cheaper. Our industrial production is also dwindling. It has come down by 2.
Hyderabad, January 04: A.P. United Teachers’ Federation has decided to organize state wide agitation for getting their long pending demand solved. Dharna programme will be organized on 6th January in front of Director of School Education Office.
Talking to newsmen yesterday, Mr. N. Narayana, President and I. Venkateshwara Rao, Secretary announced that in case problems are not solved after dharna programme, agitation would be organized in front of collectorates throughout the state.
Hyderabad, January 4: Of late 108 ambulance has assumed great importance in the city for medical emergency services. Earlier the 108 ambulance service was carried out by Satyam group but after Satyam group scandal GVK took over the operations from the Satyam group.
1-0-8 Emergency Response Service is a 24X7 emergency service for medical, police and fire emergencies. The service is available for the entire state of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Assam, Meghalaya and Madhya Pradesh.
Bhubaneswar,January 04: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday applauded the tribal community of Koraput for being chosen by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation for recognition under its Globally Important Agricultural Heritage sites programme.
In his inaugural speech at the 99th annual session of the Indian Science Congress, which opened here, Dr. Singh said: “I congratulate the tribal community of Koraput for the global recognition they have received [from FAO] for their contribution to conserving biodiversity and climate resilient farming systems.’
Cairo, January 04: Masr Al Jededa (Heliopolis) public prosecution ordered jail to four female students after they were found guilty of cheating, theft, fraud and facilitating prostitution, reported the Egyptian Arabic newspaper Al Youm Al Sabea’a.
The four girls formed a gang to lure their colleagues to an apartment and offering them marriage opportunity and to see grooms.
Hyderabad, January 4: Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind will is going to organise its second State-level convention on January 5 at Nizam College Grounds. Maulana Hafiz Peer Shabbir Ahmed president Jamiat Ulama-e-Andhra Pradesh and MLC will preside over. Jamiat’s national president Maulana Qari Syed Mohammad Osman Mansurpuri, President Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and Maulana Syed Mahmood Asad Madani general secretary Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and MP will be the chief guests.
Riyadh, January 04: Three Saudi nationals wanted for their involvement in unrest in the Eastern Province turned themselves in Tuesday and two others were arrested, the Interior Ministry said.
Ministry spokesman Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, quoted by Saudi Press Agency (SPA), also urged the remaining wanted people to give themselves up.
On Monday, authorities announced the names of 23 men wanted for involvement in trouble during the past few months in the Eastern Province.
Hyderabad, January 04: Hyderabad can soon boast of an exclusive Islamic Art Gallery. Work is on at the Salarjung Museum (SJM) here to put up a huge gallery which will have everything about Islamic art under one roof.
The 26,000 sq ft gallery is being readied on the second floor of the Museum’s eastern block at a cost of Rs.4 crore.
Riyadh, January 04: Saudi authorities foiled an attempt to market nearly seven tonnes of bad baby milk which could have poisoned thousands of children in the Gulf Kingdom’s second largest city, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
Municipal authorities in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah seized the shipments at a hideout, where owners were trying to change the expiry date on the milk cans, ‘Okaz’ Arabic language daily said.
Hyderabad, January 4: Despite repeated reminders, negligence is continued by the officials regarding Urdu language. It is not considered necessary to write Urdu in schools, offices, government schools, colleges and even picnic spots.
In the Golconda fort which owes much of its present grandeur to Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah, the founding father of Urdu poetry, the boards installed for the guidance of visitors are written in English and Telugu while Urdu has been ignored.
Islamabad, January 04: Pakistan’s Supreme Court today gave the government a “last and final opportunity” to implement its order to reopen graft cases against thousands of people, including President Asif Ali Zardari, that were closed under an amnesty that has been declared void.
A five-member special bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa said in its order that authorities were being given the “last and final opportunity” to implement its order scrapping the National Reconciliation Ordinance, a graft amnesty that was issued by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in 2007.
Ahmedabad, Janaury 04: Contradicting every claim made in the Ahmedabad crime branch’s first FIR, which was filed immediately after the Ishrat Jahan encounter in 2004, a 22- page report by the special investigation team ( SIT) revealed that Ishrat and her three companions were not only gunned down in a fake encounter, but the killing was a “ wellplanned, brutally executed murder”.
New Delhi, January 04: The government today directed the PSUs to ensure that its decision to carve out 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities out of 27 per cent for OBCs, is implemented in all recruitments from January 1, this year.
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has written to the administrative ministries of different Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) asking them to seek compliance from the CEOs of the PSUs on minorities’ sub-quota from the quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
Patna, January 04: The number of Bihar’s crorepati ministers has more than doubled since last year. Twelve out of 29 ministers, including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, are crorepatis. Last year, only five had made it to the crorepati list.
This year, 130 MLAs, including RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiquei, and two MLCs have failed to declare their assets within the December 31 deadline.
New Delhi, January 04: The health of anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, who was admitted to a private hospital in Pune after suffering from viral infection, is not improving.
Doctor Paresh Sancheti said, “Anna’s health has not improved, he is not feeling any better. He could not sleep properly in night due to cough problem.”
The doctor also said that Hazare’s discharge which was scheduled for Friday has been postponed till Sunday.
Anna was rushed from his village Ralegan Siddhi to Sancheti hospital in Pune late on Saturday night after complaining of chest congestion.
Dubai, Janaury 04: A woman rushing to leave a shopping mall in Umm Al Quwain hit the car in the back in the reverse gear. She was so confused that she abruptly changed gears and smashed into the mall itself.
Police described it as a “funny” accident, saying the woman was clearly confused and did not mean to cause that mishap.
“She just hit the car behind her…instead of pushing the brakes, she changed gears and pressed petrol only to hit the mall and smash through the wall,” said Captain Saif Salim, director of UAQ police centres.
Hyderabad, January 04 (INN): As part of security measures, assembly staff will have a dress code from the ensuing budget session.
This was announced by Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar on Tuesday while addressing the staff at a New Year gathering.
“The dress code will be implemented to distinguish our staff from others during the assembly session and as part of security measures,” he told reporters after the get together. He said the dress code would come into effect from next assembly session.
Hyderabad, January 04 (INN): A city court on Tuesday remanded till January 17 Jagathi Publication’s Vice-chairman, Vijay Sai Reddy.
CBI arrested him on Monday in connection with the alleged disproportionate assets case of Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Vijay Sai Reddy was taken into custody by a CBI team led by Superintendent of Police H Venkatesh after questioning him for about nine hours.
Hyderabad, January 04 (INN): Congress on Tuesday slammed the media reports that the arrest of Vijay Sai Reddy was the conspiracy hatched by the State and Central Governments.
“The reports are baseless which contend that Jagati Publication Vice President Vijay Sai Reddy was arrested to weaken YSR Congress party in the by-elections. There is no basis and they are far from truth,” Anam Vivekananda Reddy said.
Tehran, January 04: A US aircraft carrier currently deployed in the Middle East should “not return” to its base in the Gulf, the head of Iran’s armed forces declared on Tuesday, adding ominously there would be no repeat warning.
“We advise and insist that this warship not return to its former base in the Persian Gulf,” Brigadier General Ataollah Salehi told reporters, according to the armed forces website.
“We don’t have the intention of repeating our warning, and we warn only once,” he was quoted as saying.