On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, Dr Ashish Chauhan of Olive Hospital Nanalnagar here has appealed to the NGOs, youths and people to create awareness against smoking among the people and make the society smoking-free.
Telangana Gangaputra Seva Sangham state president Pusa Balakishan Besta will go on 36-hour hunger strike for ‘Protection of Water Resources’ from 10 am on June 2 to 4 pm on June 3 at Indira Park Dharna Chowk here.
After releasing a poster relating to hunger strike here on Wednesday, Balakishan Besta said that the fast program was aimed at protecting ground water by repairing lakes, construction of new lakes and renovation of old lakes.
The Christian Disciplinary Committee of India has demanded that the Union government order an inquiry into the affairs of all the Christian NGOs, which were receiving funds from foreign countries. It also demanded that the Centre get the financial accounts of the NGOs audited every three months.
Secondary Education Minister K Parthasarathi on Wednesday made it clear that the students have no other option than to prepare for NEET for admissions into engineering courses.
Speaking as the chief guest at Apprenticeship Awareness meeting held in Vanitha Maha Vidyalaya, Parthasarathi said that the problems about in NEET would be sorted out by the next year. The State government would soon take a decision on re-examination of Physics paper of Intermediate as directed by the court.
Irrfan Khan, who had his first solo hit in Bollywood with “Pan Singh Tomar”, says he is in no hurry to sign new films.
“Big bucks can entice anyone but I don’t want to end up doing films just for monetary reasons. When you do a film for money, the cash flow does look good but the journey is really a painful experience. I would rather earn less than accept such films where I stay frustrated and irritated on the sets,” Irrfan told PTI.
Secondary Education Minister K Parthasarathy on Wednesday stated that the new liquor policy would be likely to be announced by July 1.
Talking to media persons after emerging out of Cabinet Sub-committee meeting being convened at Secretariat, Parthasarathy said that a decision on modalities for framing new liquor policy would be taken in one or two days.
He said that the process was being delayed as the Cabinet Sub-committee has received too many suggestions and complaints from people’s bodies and voluntary organizations over the liquor policy.
The CBI court at Nampally on Wednesday adjourned the hearing to May 31 on the bail petition of YSR Congress president and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy, who was arrested by the CBI in connection with disproportionate assets case.
In the bail petition, Jagan’s counsel stated that he has to campaign in the ensuing by-elections as the YSR Congress party president and requested that the court grant him bail. He also stated that his arrest was illegal and appealed to court to grant bail to enable him to campaign for his party candidates.
Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana on Wednesday criticised YSR Congress party honorary president Y S Vijayamma for leveling baseless charges against the Congress party to get people’s sympathy over her son Jagan Mohan Reddy’s arrest.
Talking to media persons at Gandhi Bhavan, Botsa Satyanarayana said that Vijayamma has been leveling baseless charges against the ruling party to save the illegal properties of Jagan Mohan Reddy. He said that he never expected that Vijayamma would stoop to such level to save YSR Congress party’s image.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday asked the Discoms to ensure seven hours of power supply to farmers, under any circumstances.
The Chief Minister issued these instructions during a detailed review meeting on the power sector he held with Chief Secretary Pankaj Dwivedi and other officials at the State Secretariat. He asked them to look into the complaints being received in this regard. This should be strictly adhered to and there should be constant monitoring on this, he told the Discom officials.
The State Government on Wednesday extended the last date for submitting applications for the State Level Eligibility Test (SLET) for lectureship to June 1.
In a media statement, the SLET spokesperson informed that the last date for submitting online application forms for SLET has been extended by one day to June 1. This was done following appeals from many aspirants.
The State Level Eligibility Test for lectureship will be held on July 27 from 9.30 am to 4.30 pm. (INN)
In a major setback to Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana in his native Vizianagaram district, the ruling Congress MLA from Bobbili constituency Venkata Sujay Krishna Ranga Rao on Wednesday switched loyalty towards the YSR Congress party.
TDP leaders Revanth Reddy and Anagani Satya Prakash have questioned the Chief Minister as to why he was still hesitating to cancel allotment of the assigned lands to Vanpic, though there was a High Court direction to do so.
(NSS): TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu has called upon the people to participate in the proposed Harthal (closure) on Thursday and make it a big success, so that the Central government would roll back the price of petroleum which it hiked recently.
(NSS): Telugu Desam Party MLC Babu Rajendraprasad has lashed out at the Congress government for arrest of party MLA Paritala Sunita. He has alleged that the Sonia Congress and Jagan Congress have colluded to arrest Sunita, who was preparing to launch hunger strike demanding fresh CBI probe into her husband Paritala Ravi’s murder.
(NSS): Osmania University Teachers’ Association (OUTA) has demanded that the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee withdraw its decision of support the Telangana Rashtra Samiti in Parakala by-election.
(NSS): The Christian Disciplinary Committee of India has demanded that the Union government order an inquiry into the affairs of all the Christian NGOs, which were receiving funds from foreign countries. It also demanded that the Centre get the financial accounts of the NGOs audited every three months.
A maternity and nursing home here was today ransacked and its doctors were manhandled by an angry mob following the death of a woman, police said.
A pregnant woman was admitted to Maher Maternity Home at Vartak Nagar but she died due to complications during
delivery. Her relatives ransacked the hospital alleging negligence by the doctors and other staff, they said.
The mob bashed up Dr Ujwala Mahajan, who had attended to the woman, Jyotsana Belose (32), they said.
They also resorted to a spontaneous `rasta Roko’ in Vartak Nagar locality and disrupted road traffic for about an hour.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has written to Mamata Banerjee thanking the Chief Minister for the hospitality extended to her during the recent visit and expressed hope that the US’ partnership would help
West Bengal achieve its full potential.
“I look forward to see the US partner with people of West Bengal to help the state achieve its full potential,”
Hillary said in her letter, secretariat sources said today.
“It was a pleasure meeting you and I enjoyed our conversation about the shared history of Chicago and Kolkata
Striking Air India pilots today suffered another blow with the Delhi High Court holding that the protesters’ view on the issue of training on Boeing 777 to be used in international flights will be heard only after they call off their over three-week agitation.
Let them call off the strike, we will then hear the matter,” a bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice
Rajiv Sahai Endlaw on an appeal by Air India against a stay order on the training of more pilots on Boeing 777.
A day after he made his first public apology for spying on his homosexual roommate, Indian student Dharun Ravi appeared in a New Jersey court to tell a judge he will begin his 30-day prison sentence tomorrow and is waiving his right not to be punished twice for the same crime.
Ravi was handed down a month-long prison sentence after he was convicted on hate crime and bias intimidation charges for spying on his gay roommate Tyler Clementi’s sexual encounter with another man in his Rutgers dorm room in September 2010.
Panchayat prez among 4 held for throwing slipper at N’anda car A Panchayat president was among four persons arrested today for reportedly throwing slippers at the car in which self styled godman Nityananda and the Madurai Adheenam were travelling.
Police said the incident occured when the two of them along with some disciples were passing through a street in
this town, on their way back to Madurai after offering worship at Agneeswaraswamy temple at nearby Kanjanur.
They said the Adheenam, Arunagirinatha Gnanasambanda Desika Paramacharya, stepped out of the car and demanded to
Recent failures and scuffles have not only taught Shah Rukh Khan many lessons but the superstar has also apologised for his high-handed attitude. He confesses to have learnt to accept both brickbats and appreciation.
“In the last five years, I have changed and realised I can also fail,” Shah Rukh told reporters Wednesday when he was asked what he has learned from failure and controversies.
The CBI Special Court at Nampally on Wednesday remanded Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkataramana, who was arrested by the CBI in connection with irregularities in allotment of lands for VANPIC project, to judicial custody till June 7.
The court took this decision when the CBI officials produced him in the court following expiry of his five days CBI custody. The court also directed the Chanchalguda Jail officials to treat Mopidevi Venkataramana as ‘special category prisoner’ and allot a special cell in the jail.
The police on Wednesday arrested Telugu Desam Ratpadu MLA Paritala Sunitha for sitting in fast-unto-death at Ambedkar Statue in Anantapur district demanding re-opening of murder case of her husband and former Penugonda MLA Paritala Ravindra.
She has been alleging that her husband Paritala Ravindra was killed in 2005 at the behest of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and Kadapa MP Jaganmohan Reddy. However, the police took Sunitha into custody on the grounds that she did not take prior permission to stage hunger strike and Election Code of Conduct was in force in the district.
The Election Commission on Wednesday issued notices to Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao for making religious comments in the by-election campaign violating the model code of conduct.
While serving notices, the Commission asked KCR to file his explanation over the religious comments by May 31 at 3 pm.
According to reports, KCR made controversial comments violating code of conduct during the by-election campaign at Parakala Assembly constituency on May 27.
The Election Commission issued notices to KCR based on the complaint lodged by Bharatiya Janata Party.