Month: June 2012

The Environmentalist Foundation of India in association with the British Library has launched Climate Change Combat Conservation Projects at British Library here.

The climate change combat conservation projects will be classified under Climate Negotiations planks and further divided into: Ecosystem Economics, Green Cities, Beyond GDP, Food Security.

Public Garden Walkers’ Association is organizing Monthly Lecture series -200th lecture by Medical Superintendent, R.P Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi, Dr Shakthi Gupta, on ‘Patients’ Safety: A Public Perspective’ and presentation by Prof. Mohd. Masood Ahmed on ‘ Use of Electronic and Social Media: The Dark Side’ on June 3 at 7 am at Ravindra Bharathi Auditorium here.

A press release said that association chairman Ghulam Yazdani will preside over the function.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party National Spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Prakash Javadekar has asked the Congress party as to what it will lose if separate Telangana state was formed.

Speaking at a seminar organized by the party youth wing at Geesukonda mandal on Saturday, Javadekar said that they had carved out three states, and they were being developed now. Introducing a private bill on separate Telangana in the Rajya Sabha, the BJP had got the issue discussed for five hours in the house.

Commissioner of Board of Intermediate Education J S V Prasad on Saturday refuted a news item that appeared in a section of print media that certain sections were being closed in Government Junior Colleges for want of students in such sections.

The Lok Satta Party today expressed deep concern over the proposed new liquor policy under which the government seeks to allot shops by draw of lots among private bidders.

In a media statement, Lok Satta Party working president D.V.V.S. Varma has stated that the policy would once again spawn liquor syndicates along with benami bidders and lead to unbridled liquor sales.

Mr. Varma also took exception to the proposal to increase the number of shops in the name of preventing illicit liquor distillation.

The High Court has advised the YSR Congress chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy to cooperate with the CBI in its investigation into the disproportionate assets charges he was facing.

Nuzvid TDP MLA Chinnam Rama Kotaiah who has declared that he would not contest on TDP ticket in 2014 elections, has met the party chief Chandra Babu Naidu here on Saturday. After meeting Naidu, Rama Kotaiah has denied the media reports about him, which also said that he might join the YSR Congress.

Acting Chief Justice Eshwaraiah has appealed to the youth to strive for protecting natural resources instead of living for earning money only.

Mr Justice Eshwaraiah was the chief guest at the seminar on ‘Youth—Future’ organized by the Youth Cooperative Society here on Saturday. He said that though one earns huge money, there was no meaning in life without peace and happiness. He observed that those who have looting attitude would not develop in life. He also exhorted the citizens to serve the mother land by achieving goals with a planned manner.

The Election Commission has served notices on all the candidates in fray in the Parakala by-election.

The Returning officer has issued notices to TRS candidate Bhikshapati, YSRC candidate Konda Surekha along with six other candidates. The Returning Officer warned that the Commission would initiate action against them if they failed to submit details of election expenditure. (NSS)

The Bharatiya Janata Party national secretary Dr K. Laxman has said that his party had decided to give a call for nationwide ‘Jan Sangharsh Abhiyan and Jail Bharo Andolan” from June 7 to 22 in the country against the corrupt governance of the UPA government.

Andhra Pradesh Muslim Reservation Front has demanded the Central government to implement the Ranganath Mishra Commission report by making necessary constitutional amendments and laws in the Parliament to provide 10 percent separate reservation for backward classes of Muslim.

In a press release, front state president Mohd. Iftekharuddin Ahmed also demanded the State government to include all the 14 existing groups of backward Muslims under BC-E category of the state, into the central list of OBCs, and recommend it to the National Commission for Backward Classes.

The State government has accorded permission for continuation of 70 posts of LGS on outsourcing basis for further period from May 7 up to December 31 this year, subject to following outsourcing guidelines scrupulously.

Earlier, the State government sanctioned 70 posts of LGS on outsourcing basis to OCTOPUS for one year, subject to meeting the expenditure within the budget available under the H.O.A 300-OCS and follow outsourcing guidelines scrupulously. Their tenure expired by May 6.