Month: May 2012

The State Teachers Associations Joint Council (JACTO) has warned that they would launch indefinite strike if the state government failed to concede their demands.

The State has been allotted a Haj Pilgrims quota of 5764 in 2012.

A press release said that over 1,418 pilgrims who are above 70 years and have applied for forth time, have been selected. Qurrah for the remaining 4,346 units will be held on May 10. There is a short fall of 373 seats in quota. Last year, State had got more quota after redistribution of leftover quota from other states.
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The Andhra Pradesh State BC Welfare Association president R Krishnaiah urged the Union Law and Justice Minister to fill up the 19 vacant High Court Judge posts immediately, giving 50 percent posts to the BCs. The Association also threatened to sit on hunger strike at Jantar Manter in New Delhi if social justice was not meted out in filling up of judges.

The main Opposition party in the State- TDP- has demanded the UPA government to make a suitable Backward Class person as the 13th President of the nation.

Speaking to the media at NTR Trust Bhavan here on Sunday, Opposition Party leader in the Legislative Council, Dadi Veerabhadra Rao alleged that the Congress was contemplating to propose the name of veteran leader Pranab Mukherjee as the presidential candidate, not with love on him, but to remove obstacles in making Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Minister in future.

The scheduled tour of Macherla in Guntur district by Telugu Desam party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Monday was postponed.

However, Chandrababu Naidu held a meeting with Kapu leaders of Guntur district here this morning. The TDP chief reportedly discussed about the disgruntled leader Ummareddy Venkateshwarlu. During the meeting, the Guntur district party leaders pleaded with Naidu to give more importance to the Kapu leaders, for which he reportedly agreed.

Alleging that late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had adopted softer attitude towards construction of Babli project by the Maharashtra government, TDP senior leader and newly-elected Rajya Sabha member Devender Goud has reminded that his party alone had successfully obstructed the construction of the controversial project.

Speaking to media persons in NTR Bhavan here on Sunday, Devender Goud proclaimed that his party would extend all out support in bringing national status to the Chevella-Pranahitha Irrigation project. Accusing the ruling party of conveniently converting

Having getting all the MLAs supporting YSR Congress chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy disqualified, the ruling party was keen on showing the door to the MLCs pledging support the Kadapa MP.

NTR TDP President Lakshmi Parvati has predicted that TDP would vanish from the political scene shoerly.

Lakshmi Parvati, wife of the late TDP founder N T Rama Rao, has on Sunday visited Kotappakonda and performed special pujas to the Trikuteswara Swamy. Speaking to the media later, she said people were not in a mood to trust the TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu. She said they were now reposing their confidence on Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, president of the YSR Congress party. Stating that Jagan was like her elder son, she said as a mother she would always be behind him. (NSS)

A partially burnt body of an unidentified person was found near the Musi nala at Golnaka here on Sunday morning.

Residents of the area, who happened to see the partly burnt body, immediately alerted the police, who rushed to the spot and inspected the body.

The police strongly suspect that the culprits might have tied the hands and legs of the victim together and set afire after wrapping the body in a blanket. They also did not rule out the possibility of the culprits killing the victim elsewhere that dumped the body at the Musi nala in the early hours.

Niloufer Hospital Assistant Professor Dr V. Janaki has appealed to the State government and NGOs to create awareness on Anemia among the women in the State.

Speaking at an awareness program on Anemia conducted by Merck Serono Pharma Company here today, Dr Janaki appealed to the State government and NGOs to come forward to conduct screen tests at high schools and junior colleges to detect Anemia among girls at an early stage. She also appealed to the women and girls to voluntarily come forward to undergo Hemoglobin test to detect Anemia.

Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) Chairman Rechal Chatarjee has announced that the Paper I and Paper II examinations for recruitment of Degree Lecturers, slated to be held today, have been postponed. She informed that the next examination date would be declared shortly.

Mr. Konda Lakshma Reddy, former MLA from Chevella (Cong) has, complimented the Chief Minister Mr N Kiran Kumar Reddy on the agreement signed by him with his Maharashtra counter part on the Pranahita-Chevella Irrigation project, and said it is indeed a Great Landmark in the History of Andhra Pradesh, more so of the Backward Telangana region.

The Scholl Education Minister Dr S Sailajanath has alleged that the YSRCP Chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was giving his party’s label to the Congress government’s welfare and developmental schemes.

City police on Sunday busted a kidney transplant racket by arresting two touts who allegedly connived with a government doctor to sell donors’ kidneys to the needy and extracted money from them, police said.

The duo, identified as Rajendra Prasad and Venkatasrinivas used to lure people in need of money to part with their kidneys by promising them around Rs 5 lakh in return, they said.

Pranahita, means dear to life. The Rs 38,500-crore Pranahita-Chevella project for which the chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra signed a memorandum of understanding (M0U) is expected to bring not only life to the parched lands of Telangana region but also relief to the beleaguered Congress party in the region.