Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana on Wednesday said that the Andhra Pradesh High Court verdict quashing 4.5 percent sub-quota for religious minorities from the 27 per cent Other
Backward Classes (OBC) quota in public employment and education would have no impact on the reservation extended to the Muslims by the State Government.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday urged the Centre to ensure that immediate action is taken in filing an appeal before the Andhra Pradesh High Court to protect the interest of the socially and educationally backward minority communities.
Bowing to the blackmail tactics of Telangana Rashtra Samithi, Bharatiya Janata Party president G Kishen Reddy on Wednesday stated the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee took `unilateral’ decision in extending support to TRS in by-election of Parakala Assembly constituency.
YSR Congress Party honorary president Y S Vijayamma on Wednesday accused the Congress party and government of hatching conspiracy to send Kadapa MP Jagan Mophan Reddy behind bars and out of by-election campaign.
Addressing a massive rally for the first time after the arrest of Jagan Mohan Reddy by the CBI at Narsannapeta constituency in Srikakulam district, Vijayamma stated that the Congress party after damaging the image of former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, now hatched conspiracy to send Jagan out of campaign fearing of losing in the by-elections.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Wednesday and offered the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s support to help improve health services in the state.
It was decided that a memorandum of understanding (MOU) shall be signed within two months between the UP government and the Foundation, an official said.
The Foundation shall provide technical, management and programme design support in the maternal, neonatal and child health, vaccination and other health and agriculture related programmes.
A man in Russia has been sentenced for 15 days in prison for spitting on President Vladimir Putin’s portrait, RIA Novosti reported.
Dmitry Karuyev, an opposition activist who is a member of the Other Russia movement, was detained as he staged one-man protest outside the offices of the ruling United Russia party in Cheboksary city on the eve of Putin’s May 7 inauguration for a third term.
Police said Karuyev’s actions could have triggered disorder.
Veteran lyricist Gulzar will turn narrator for “Bhindi Baazaar” producer Karan Arora’s new film “Kya Dilli Kya Lahore”.
In “Kya Dilli Kya Lahore”, he will give a gist of the story and it will be used in the promos as well as film.
Made under Arora’s banner High Ground Enterprises Ltd, the film talks about a unique bond between an Indian and a Pakistani soldier stationed along the India-Pakistan border.
Gulzar was impressed with the fact that it talks about human relationships in a very humorous way and decided to become the mentor of the film also.
Taking pot shots at the prime minister, firebrand BJP leader Uma Bharati Wednesday said if Manmohan Singh quits public life over allegations of corruptions she would gift him saffron robes.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leader was commenting on prime minister’s statement that if charges of graft levelled by Team Anna members were proved, he would quit public life.
“If the prime minister is serious about his statement, I will welcome him to ‘political sanyas’ by gifting him a set of saffron robes,” Bharati said on the sidelines of a programme she had come to attend in this temple town.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says he is ashamed of his behaviour at the Wankhede Stadium after an Indian Premier League (IPL) match earlier this month and feels he is not at all a role model.
“I abused but I had a reason for it…how much angry or disturbed you are, you cannot subject it to your audience or children…I don’t think I am a role model…,” Shah Rukh told reporters Wednesday when he was asked about the run-in at Wankhede with the security staff and Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) officials May 16.
A prankster in Brazil landed himself in deep trouble after the colour he painted his body with failed to come off — he realised then that the paint was one used for painting ballistic missiles and nuclear submarines.
Enrique dos Santos,35, a swimming pool attendant, was trying to look like superhero The Hulk, reported The Sun. As the comic book fan tried to scrub off the glossy green in the shower, the substance stained his skin.
An umbrella body of 21 medical institutions Wednesday asked Bollywood star Aamir Khan to apologize for accusing doctors of malpractices in his TV talk show “Satyamev Jayate”.
Medscape India said the representation of malpractices supposedly perpetrated by doctors was “rather sad” and Aamir Khan should offer his apologies.
“It is rather sad that doctors should be made the object of such shameless, unilateral scrutiny,” Himanshu Mehta, co-founder and advisor to Medscape India, said.
A special court here Wednesday sent former Andhra Pradesh minister Mopidevi Venkataramna to prison in YSR Congress leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s corruption case.
Venkataramna was produced in the CBI court after his five-day CBI custody ended Tuesday. He was shifted to the Chanchalguda Central Jail, where Jaganmohan Reddy and two other accused are lodged.
The court accepted his plea to treat him as a special category prisoner. Venkataramna also moved a bail petition, the hearing on which was adjourned to Thursday.
DMK president M. Karunanidhi Wednesday threatened to pull out of the UPA government over the hike in petrol prices but later did a quick U-turn.
Shortly after he made the threat while leading protests against rising prices, the former Tamil Nadu chief minister told reporters that he had not threatened to quit the Congress-led UPA.
“I never said anything like that,” Karunanidhi clarified, adding that his party would continue in the UPA and would not like to put any pressure on the central government ahead of presidential polls.
Chief minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday faced increasing attack from dissidents and former state BJP leaders who were brought together by his predecessor Keshubhai Patel, as they said Emergency was “better” than the Gujarat strongman’s rule. Patel, a known rival of Modi, hosted the
meeting of former chief minister Suresh Mehta, former union minister Kanshiram Rana, former Minister of State for Home Gordhan Zadafia and other disgruntled BJP leaders to discuss their strategy for the state elections, scheduled to be held later this year.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand retained the World Chess Championships title, his fifth crown and fourth in a row, after beating Israel’s Boris Gelfand in a tense rapid game tie-breaker in Moscow on Wednesday. Anand beat Gelfand 2.5-1.5 in rapid chess tie-breaker at the Tretyakov Gallery here after the two Grandmasters ended the 12-game championship match with a 6-6 stalemate.
Pradesh Congress Media Committee Coordinator Feroz Khan declared Congress party leaders as enemies of the party itself and said that arrest of Jagan Mohan Reddy before bye elections gives an impression to the public that it is an act of vengeance against Jagan. He said the wrong decisions of Congress party will harm the Congress itself. Presently Congress is facing many challenges and instead of deriving serious solutions for each issue, abrupt decisions are being taken.
Providing comfort to worried foreign investors, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said the Income Tax Department will not reopen cases where assessment proceedings had been finalised before April 1, 2012.
Bald men may be more at risk of developing prostate cancer, according to new research.
Scientists found men who underwent prostate biopsies were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer if they had lost significant amounts of hair.
The reasons why are not clear, but researchers think it may be connected to higher levels of testosterone, the hormone which can trigger the development of cancerous cells but also inhibit hair growth.
At risk: Scientists found men who underwent prostate biopsies were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer if they had lost significant amounts of hair
Jagan’s mother Y S Vijayamma is trying to sway voters through her tears after the arrest of Jagan Mohan Reedy. The drama which Jagan’s mother is playing by bursting into tears will not help YSR Congress in bye elections. These views were expressed by TDP MLA Mrs. D Sita and TDP spokesperson Mrs. Shobha Rani while speaking to media.
TDP leaders dubbed the grief of Jagan Mohan Reddy’s mother as drama and said that Y S Vijayamma is shedding tears to gain public sympathy to ensure victory of YSR Congress in the forthcoming bye elections.
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PCC Chief Botcha Satyanarayana has said that the reservations offered to Muslim minorities in the State will not be affected by the High Court verdict. There was no link between the State reservation to the Muslims (4%) and minorities’ reservations (4.5%), he said.
Addressing the media at Gandhi Bhavan on Wednesday along with former minister Shabbir Ali, Botcha said that the Centre would knock the doors of the Supreme Court with regard to High Court’s verdict.
He said that the State will request the Centre to make required changes in the reservations for the minorities.
Pakistan Army commandos raided cricketer Umar Gul’s house in Peshawar and arrested his brother on charges of harbouring a wanted militant, according to a media report on Wednesday.
The fast bowler’s brother, Meraj, was arrested with two other men on charges of providing shelter to
his uncle, Haji Daly, believed to be an active member of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam, The Express Tribune reported.
A local resident told the newspaper that a team of commandos raided the house yesterday.
A RECORD number of smokers tried to quit the habit last year, according to official figures.
About one in ten looked for help from the NHS smoking cessation services, the Scottish Government said.
Women, including those who were pregnant, and older people were more likely to try to stop, with the largest number of people coming from “deprived” areas.
The number of quit attempts increased by 29 per cent from 83,952 in 2010 to 108,268.
APCC Chief Botcha Satyanarayana has said that party MLAs were deserting the Congress with selfish motives like YSRCP Chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. Like Jagan, who amassed thousands of crores of rupees within a short time illegally, some Congress MLAs wanted to grow speedily in politics and hence they were switching their loyalties to YSRCP, he added.
Addressing the media at Gandhi Bhavan on Wednesday, Botcha said that the MLAs, who were leaving the Congress would
With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declaring that he will quit public life if corruption allegations are proved against him, Team Anna on Wednesday demanded an independent probe into the charges, saying they will be most happy if these are proved wrong. Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal said it was not they who came up with charges against him but it was in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on coal bloc allocations.
As a part of the system of streamlining of Post Matric Scholarship disbursal, the State government has released total amount of Rs 1402.01 crores towards RTF and MTF as a part of the II and III installments during May.
This would cover the total verified demand of applications available with the State.
This is the first time that all scholarship arrears up to 2011-12 has been released by May.
It is expected that the disbursement of all the amount of Rs 1402.01 crores will be completed by June 30.