At last, EAMCET counseling began on Monday. Verification of certificates would be done from the first to 15,000 rank. For this purpose, 53 counseling centers were set up.
Activists of Students Federation of India (SFI) staged protest at the counseling center at Nagarjuna University, Guntur demanding implementation of uniform free structure in all colleges.
The SFI activists also staged dharna at counseling center at Masab Tank, Hyderabad on the same demand. (NSS)
CPI State secretary Dr K Narayana on Monday said that there was no truth in the argument that CPI was weakened after taking up the issue of Telangana statehood.
The PCC President Botcha Satyanarayana condoled the sad demise of Ram Rao Doke, a veteran freedom fighter and former Deputy Mayor of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, who passed away last night at the age of 95 years.
Botcha, in a condolence message today, said that Rama rao Doke had taken active part in the Hyderabad State Liberation Movement in the year of 1947-48, sentenced to death in Pochampalli bomb case, and he was saved from death due to the Police Action in September, 1948 by Central Government.
Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) president Manda Krishna Madiga here on Monday called on PCC chief-cum-Transport Minister Botcha Satyanarayana and requested him to help solve the problems of the handicapped.
Manda Krishna met PCC president at his residence and submitted a memorandum in this regard.
The present-day development model is highly energy intensive and calls for excessive consumption of fossil fuels, which has endangered the environment and ecological balance with disastrous consequences to natural resources. It is presumed that before the end of this millennium, the world will run out of all its conventional sources of energy.
With about 19 per cent share in the total foreign direct investment (FDI) proposed in 2011-12, Andhra Pradesh has emerged as the second most favorite investment destination for overseas investors across India, apex industry body Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India
(ASSOCHAM) said today.
YSR Congress party leader and Allagadda MLA Shiba Nagi Reddy alleged that the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and ministers were making rounds to New Delhi to protect their posts.
Minister for Civil Supplies Sridhar Babu has warned the officials and ration shop dealers of stern action if they failed to cooperate in weeding out bogus ration cards.
Speaking to the media here today, the Minister said that three laklhs of bogus ration cards were identified in the State. If the officials and dealers failed to cooperate in weeding out bogus rations from now on, stringent action would be taken against them, he said.
TDP legislators protested at the chief minister’s office after allegedly failing to get a concrete assurance from the government on steps taken to address current power shortage in Andhra Pradesh.
TDP MLAs met chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy this evening over the ongoing power shortage at his office in the secretariat, but reportedly insisted on an assurance from him on addressing the issue, TDP sources said.
However, they continued to stay put in the conference hall at the CM office after they allegedly failed to get the assurance, even as Reddy left the Secretariat.
Rampachodavaram Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Navin Kumar has accused the SP of East Godavari C M Thrivikram Varma of harassing him.
Navin Kumar, an IPS officer and subordinate to the East Godavari SP, claimed there was a threat to his life and alleged that Varma was obstructing him from carrying out his duties of checking “illegal” ganja smuggling in Rampachodavaram area.
A Dubai-based consortium of NRIs from various countries around the world propose to invest over Rs 2,000 crore in Kerala to set up IT/ITES enabled Business Parks and Life Spaces projects.
The investments would primarily be through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Sebastian Joseph, Chairman of the Consortium, told reporters here.
The proposed ‘Emerging Kerala’ initiative of the state government here next month and its investment friendly policies have given the NRIs confidence to start their project in Kochi, he said.
A group of Togolese women have commenced a week-long sex strike in an unusual attempt to oust the west African nation’s president and end decades of family rule.
Women members of the civil rights group – Let’s Save Togo – are withholding sex from their husbands and partners for a week. Their aim is to cause the resignation of Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe, Daily Mail reported.
Isabelle Ameganvi, leader of the women’s rights division of the group said the strike will put pressure on Togo’s men to take action.
Based on a complaint lodged by Hyderabad MP, the Central Crime Station has registered a case against Nowheera Shaik, the managing director of Heera Group of Companies, who has allegedly cheated a large number of investors.
According to the FIR, Nowheera Shaikh who claims to be the managing director of Heera Group Companies has published an advertisement in a Urdu daily in which she said her company, that deals in the buying and selling of gold bars, has branches in various parts of the country, Africa and Dubai.
Two sadhvis at the Maharshi Mehi Ashram here were allegedly gangraped by its in-charge and his associates, police said today.
The sadhvis, who were sisters, were gangraped by the Ashram in-charge Swami Aryanand and his associates in a field inside the premises last night.
The accused were identified as Aryanand, Ghanshyam Mandal, Vivekanand Sinha, Pankaj Kumar, Prem Yadav, Ratna Paswan and three other unidentified persons, police said.
A case has been registered against various sections of IPC but no one has been arrested, they added.
Often at the receiving end of opposition’s silence jibe, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today invoked an Urdu couplet to hit back at his critics.
“Hazaron jawabo se achchi hai khamoshi meri, na jaane kitne sawalo ki aabru rakhe. (My silence is better than a thousand answers, it keeps intact the honour of innumerable questions),” Singh said reciting the couplet, asserting this has been his “general attitude”.
“It has been my general practice not to respond to motivated criticism directed personally at me,” he added.
Don’t write off the tri-nation Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline as yet. When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinjead meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Tehran Wednesday, he is expected to pitch for fast-tracking the project, ahead of a meeting of energy officials of the three countries in Islamabad.
The joint working group on hydrocarbons comprises officials of the energy ministries of the three countries.
The meeting is expected to revive the stalled negotiations over the ambitious $7 billion pipeline proposal that seeks to bring Iranian gas via Pakistan to India, reliable sources said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday attacked the official auditor for suggesting huge presumptive losses from coal blocks allocation and said allegations of impropriety hurled against him were baseless.
But a combative Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) insisted that the prime minister should take moral responsibility for the presumptive Rs.1.86 lakh crore ($37 billion) loss and resign.
With parliament paralysed for a week, Manmohan Singh sought to defend himself and his government in both houses of parliament, but the BJP again shouted him down. He then laid a statement on the table.
A teacher died Monday after being thrown off a moving train in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
Ganga Sharan was allegedly pushed out of the coach by some co-passengers near the Gajraula station at Amroha, 370 km from here.
The victim was travelling by the Kashi Vishwanath Express and was going from New Delhi to Moradabad.
According to a railway official, Sharan had a fight with some co-passengers following which he was overpowered and thrown out of the train.
His body was spotted by railway employees who were checking the tracks, he said.
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The Civil Services Examination Coaching Academy of Moulana Azad National Urdu University has invited applications from the eligible minority and women Graduate candidates for one year Integrated Extensive Residential Coaching programme for Prelims-cum-Mains of Civil Services Exam 2013.
The coaching will commence from October 8. The Entrance Test for admission will be held on September 23 at Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Srinagar. Short listed candidates will be interviewed at the MANUU Campus in the city on October 3 for final selection.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi has accused Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal of misleading the farmers of Krishan Delta by holding Telangana leaders responsible for the non-release of water from Nagarjuna Sagar Dam.
With about 19 per cent share in the total foreign direct investment (FDI) proposed in 2011-12, Andhra Pradesh has emerged as the second most favorite investment destination for overseas investors across India, apex industry body ASSOCHAM said on Monday.
With FDI proposals worth about Rs 33,936 crore, about 70 FDI proposals were filed by the foreign investors in Andhra Pradesh, according to a state-wise analysis of the proposed FDI and the number of FDI proposals filed in India during 2011-12 carried out by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM).
Former minister Dr P Shankar Rao on Monday advised the Congress leaders to restrain themselves from leveling allegations against former chief minister Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
Talking to media persons at Assembly’s media point, Dr Shankar Rao supported the statement of YSR Congress party honorary president Y Vijayamma wherein she said that the ministers who are now leveling allegations could not even look into the eyes of YSR if he would have been alive. It is unethical and immoral to target a person who is not alive, he said.
The Communist Party of India has accused the Members of Parliament from the Telangana region of being inefficient to pressurise the Centre on the statehood issue.
A far-right Swedish politician Par Norling called for banning Islam in Sweden and deporting Muslims from the country. The Local newspaper reported Sunday, August 26.
Fueling the anti-Muslim sentiments of far-right groups, the Swedish politician said in an interview with National Broadcaster TV “Ban Islam in Sweden and deport those who persist in believing in the religion”.
The BCCI has decided to recommend the former India captain Rahul Dravid and opener Gautam Gambhir for the Padma Bhusan and Padma Shri awards respectively.
“Dravid and Gambhir’s names were discussed earlier and president and secretary were to take a final call in this regard. The last date for filing nominations was August 15 and the names have been sent” a BCCI official reportedly told a news agency.