Month: January 2012

Hyderabad, January 26 (INN): The notification for Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine Common Entrance Test (EAMCET-2012), being conducted by JNTU – Hyderabad on behalf of Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education(APSCHE), will be issued on February 10.

According to the APSCHE, the Eamcet-2012 will be conducted on May 12.

For the first time, the applications will be accepted online from February 12 to March 30 from the candidates. The candidates can file their application online with a fine of Rs 1,000 up to April 19, Rs 5,000 till April 25 and Rs 10,000 fine up to May 9.

Hyderabad, January 26 (INN): The State Government has withdrawn as many 657 cases booked against students during the Telangana agitation.

Making the announcement at the State Secretariat here on Wednesday, Home Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy said that the decision would benefit nearly 8,000 students. She said another 133 cases, which are now sub-judice, would also be withdrawn by this month-end.

Hyderabad, January 26 (INN): Government Whip in the Legislative Council Y Shivaram Reddy on Wednesday denied the allegations leveled by YSR Congress party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy that the State Government was targetting his party workers.

Hyderabad, January 26 (INN): Congress MLC Rudraraju Padmaraju on Wednesday condemned the statement of senior leader G Venkataswamy wherein he accused Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy of being anti-Dalit.

Addressing a press conference at the Congress Legislature Party here on Wednesday, Radraraju said that Venkatswamy’s allegation was far from truth and it would damage the party’s reputation. Being a senior leader in the party, Venkatswamy should have restrained from making such a statement, he said.

Hyderabad, January 26 (INN): Former Minister T Jeevan Reddy on Wednesday criticised the yatra taken up by the Telugu Desam Telangana Forum demanding national status for Pranahita Chevella project.

Hyderabad, January 26 (INN): The CBI special court on Wednesday extended the judicial remand of Koneru Prasad, the key accused in the APIIC-Emaar scam, to February 2.

The court extended Koneru’s custody after he was produced before it through video-linkage from the Chanchalguda Central Prison at the end of his custody.

Visakhapatnam, January 26 (INN): Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu has assured that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy would do justice to Telangana region by allotting suitable berths in the next cabinet expansion.

Talking to media persons after launching `Subhojanam’ programme at Gosha Hospital in the district, Sridhar Babu expressed confidence that Chief Minister would do justice to SC/ST communities by giving them proper representing them in the Cabinet and remove the perception in their minds that his government was adopting anti-Dalit policies.

Hyderabad, January 26: Chiranjeevi said that fans of cine stars should not clash over trivial issues. He was referring to the clash between his fans and those of actor Balak­rishna in Tirupati on Tuesday over contesting the future elections. “Creating unhealthy atmosphere in the State is not good,” he advised the fans.

Soon after attending the minister Ghanta Srinivasa Rao assumed charge in his chambers at the State secretariat, Chira­njeevi was accosted by the press. He said he was against fans fighting for their stars.

Pune, January 26: Following is the blow-by-blow account of Wednesday morning’s panicky half an hour during which the killer bus driver Santosh Mane was on his deadly rampage: (it is based on accounts of eyewitnesses)

1. 30-year-old driver Santosh Mane  of Nashik had brought the bus from Gangapur last night to Swargate bus depot. He stayed there last night.

2. He came out of the rest room at around 7:15 am and took his seat in bus no MH14 BT 1532  bound for Satara.

Tehran, January 26: UK Defense Secretary Philip Hammond says Britain could send military reinforcements to the Persian Gulf in the wake of a military confrontation with Iran.

Speaking at a press conference in London on Tuesday, he said two British and French warships and the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln had entered the Persian Gulf on Sunday.

Hammond added that the decision to send British HMS Argyll sent a “clear signal” to Tehran, The Telegraph reported.

America’s elites seek to control the entire world. To help enable this agenda, America lets small client powers take control over a group of nations in a region. India tries to control South Asia with collusion from big powers like USA, Russia, Germany, Japan, and the UK. These days America seeks strategic military ties to court even China which is considered to be the chief “foe” and most important competitor in Asia.

Ahmedabad,January 25:Ahead of the Special Investigation Team probing the 2002 riots finalising its report, Suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt on Wednesday again demanded that it should seek to prosecute Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his ‘complicity’ in the Gulburg society riot case.

Hyderabad, January 25: Observing that frequent bypolls in many parts of the country hampered development, Andhra Pradesh Governor ESL Narasimhan on Wednesday holding all the bye-elections at once every year.

Conducting all by-elections in the country at one go during the year would ensure that the process of development continued unhindered, he said, addressing a function organised on the occasion of the National Voters’ Day.

New Delhi, January 25: The Congress Wednesday refuted remarks by Salman Rushdie that the party’s desire to garner Muslim votes in Uttar Pradesh elections was the reason for
his not being able to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival or address it via video link and said the author on his own decided not to come to India.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the Rajasthan government could not ignore intelligence inputs regarding threat to Rushdie’s security.

Hyderabad, January 25: The Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) today produced Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s close aide Sunil
Reddy, arrested in connection with the Emaar properties case
yesterday, before CBI special court at Nampally here today.

The CBI, which picked up Reddy from his residence
yesterday, questioned him throughout the day.

The agency also conducted searches at his residences in
the city and seized some important documents.

Though media had reported that he was arrested in the
disproportionate assets case of YSR Congress Party President

New Delhi, January 25: Three Delhi Police officials were suspended for leaving a body unattended in a morgue for six months and not bothering to inform the dead person’s kin, police said Wednesday.

A body of a 36-year-old man, Saroj Poddar was left unattended at a hospital mortuary in west Delhi for the past six months. The post-mortem was also not carried out.

New Delhi, January 25: The Congress Wednesday hit out Anna Hazare for justifying slapping as a means of expressing anguish against corruption and said the whole country would like to be educated on “this new definition of the Gandhian path”.

Reacting to Hazare’s remark that an individual is left with no option but to slap when his power of tolerance of corruption runs out, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that it was not appropriate for the social activst to say so.

New Delhi, January 25: In an apparent reference to the civil society movement for a strong Lokpal, President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday said one has to be cautious in bringing about reforms so that the tree of democratic institutions does not come down.

“While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself”, she said in her address to the nation on the eve of 63rd Republic Day.

Hyderabad, January 25: The CBI special court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of a petition to January 30, wherein the Central Bureau of Investigation has sought permission to conduct Narco analysis test on Jagathi Publications vice-chairman Vijay Sai Reddy in the disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress party president Jagan Mohan Reddy.

The court adjourned the hearing after Vijay Sai Reddy’s counsel sought time to file a counter petition in this connection.

Hyderabad, January 25: The State Government has withdrawn as many 657 cases booked against students during the Telangana agitation.

Making the announcement at the State Secretariat here on Wednesday, Home Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy said that the decision would benefit nearly 8,000 students. She said another 133 cases, which are now sub-judice, would also be withdrawn by this month-end.

New Delhi, January 25: A 51-year-old woman who cheated several people by posing as an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), landed in the police net when she approached the civil aviation regulator to intercede on behalf of a suspended pilot, said police Wednesday.

Sumangali Francina Easther Charles alias Suman Singh, resident of Hyderabad, was arrested from Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport Tuesday when she arrived here from Chennai.

A 39-year-old vice-chairperson of a local women’s self-help group was allegedly taken out of her home in Aakash Nagar, Kirugampakkam in Mangadu on early hours of Tuesday by two men in khaki uniform and murdered.

Ambika, the mother of two teenaged boys, was the wife of Ravi, the manager of a vegetarian restaurant in George Town.

Bhopal, January 25: A Madhya Pradesh Waqf Board member Wednesday accused the Minority Welfare Minister Ajay Vishnoi of seeking sexual favours to cancel his transfer. The minister has denied the charges.

S.M.H. Zaidi, secretary of the board, said that he has moved the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court against the minister.

Zaidi, a veterinary doctor, alleged that when he contacted Vishnoi to get his “unfair” transfer order reversed, his aide Shaukat Khan asked him to bring his wife to the minister’s bungalow.

Mumbai, January 25: Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a prime accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, got a small relief today as the Bombay High Court said she does not have to travel to Bhopal until February 6, to appear in a murder trial there.

The division bench of Justices V M Kanade and M L Tahaliyani was hearing a petition filed by Sadhvi, seeking direction to the authorities that she be taken to Bhopal either by plane, or in an AC compartment of train. She said she was ready to bear the expenses of travel.

New Delhi, January 25: With the Supreme Court issuing yet another direction to Narendra Modi-run Gujarat today, Congress said the Chief Minister should have resigned by now in the wake of several strictures, observations and inquiries against his government on diverse matters.

“It is not going to happen given the fact that “obduracy and insensitivity is the norm of the Chief Minister (Modi) ….who is thick-skinned and greedy for power” Party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters.

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