(Siasat News)Chief Minister N.Kiran Kumar Reddy said that the admission for the management quota would be done only online.
He also added that the admission done till now is not valid, as he said that Govt. will issue notification for management quota also so that student can apply online on the portal which will be maintain by the Andhra Pradesh State Counsel for Higher Education.
Over a million homes and businesses in Louisiana, the home state of Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal, and neighbouring Mississippi were still without power as a weakened storm began a slow trek northward.
Nearly half of Louisiana with some 901,000 homes and businesses was without power late Thursday as Tropical Storm Isaac now downgraded to tropical depression as workers started creating a small breach in a dam on Louisiana-Mississippi border to save parts of the state from flooding.
Overly shy preschool children show the slowest gains in learning skills as compared to chatty and boisterous peers, according to psychologists.
“Everybody wants his child to be ready for kindergarten, to know the ABCs and to be able to count, but we often don’t understand that having social-emotional readiness is equally important,” says Rebecca J. Bulotsky-Shearer, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and principal study investigator.
(Siasat News)Welcoming the demand made by the Muslim leaders of the Congress for allocating a separate budget provision under Minorities Sub-Plan, Mr. Feroz Khan, spokesman of the Congress told that all the leaders of Minority Community should unite together and impress upon the Govt. the need for allocating a Sub-Plan for Minorities on a par with Special Component Plan for S.C’s and S.T’s.
An NGO, party in the Bhopal gas tragedy case in the court and fighting for the rights of the victims, has said it will move an application in the High Court for setting up a special court to conduct a fresh trial against Union Carbide officials at that time.
This has become necessary after the dismissal of the CBI plea to change sections under which these officials should be tried, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangthan convenor, Abdul Jabbar told PTI.
Mohammed Khaja Moinuddin general secretary minorities Development Forum, Hyderabad, has hereby requested all the parents who have registered the biodatas of their sons and daughters a propos to their alliance, to collect back the photos and biodatas if the marriages have been settled so that the list of the prospective bride and groom can be revised.
Furthermore the bio-datas and photos which were registered two years ago will be disposed of and the office will not be responsible for it. For more details contact Mr. Mohammed Abdul Qadeer, secretary on phone no 9394801526.
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(Siasat News)Will the garbage vehicles of GHMC vanish from the roads or will there be new vehicles?
Standing Committee of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation rejected the proposal of buying garbage vehicles saying that instead of buying the new garbage vehicles of less capacity, it is better to use new technology for sweeping the city roads.
Standing Committee is of the opinion that instead of extracting works from the sweepers, it is better to deploy automatic machines for sweeping the roads. The employees’ Union opines that it will lead to unemployment of the laborers.
According to the report of Minority Welfare Department the last date to submit application (hard copies of online application) for pre-matric scholarship (GOI) scheme has been extended till September 3, 2012. Students who are applying for pre-matric are requested to submit the hard copies of the online registered application at the office of executive director APSMFC, 6th floor Hajj House, Nampally, Hyderabad through their respective educational institution along with the covering letter.
(Siasat News)Govt. is making lofty claims to promote education whereas Urdu Medium education in Adilabad District is counting its last days.
Although Urdu medium schools were established in the district but teachers were not recruited. Education of other languages is being encouraged but Urdu medium education is getting neglected.
Urdu was declared as the 2nd official language for the district ten years back.
Chief minister Mr. Kiran Kumar Reddy is serious on eliminating educational and economic backwardness of minorities and this is the reason he has agreed to sanction separate sub plan for minorities in the budget. Former state Minority Welfare Minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir told that the chief minister has directed the officials to convene a top level meeting on the issue of minority sub plan within 10 days in which the budget required for the development of minorities is assessed.
A group of conservative Christian activists have continued their spell of attacks on the Museum of Erotic Art in Moscow, the museum administration said.
The activists, who appeared shortly after midnight Tuesday, wielded a brick and threatened the manager, who fled fearing for her life, said Alexander Donskoi, a curator of the museum also known as “Tochka-G” or “G-Spot”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will address the United Nations General Assembly next month in order to condemn Iran.
In a statement from his office on Thursday, Netanyahu said he has decided to attend the assembly to tell world nations that Iran is a “terrorist regime” which poses the greatest threat to world peace.
Netanyahu said he decided to address the UN because diplomats currently in Tehran for a gathering were silent to what he described as Iran’s hateful speech against Israel.
An anti-Obama film by an Indian-American conservative author that has rocked the box office is set to make further inroads across the nation, thanks to the buzz created by Republican National convention.
Mumbai-born Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary “2016: Obama’s America,” that purports to show what the nation will be like should President Obama be re-elected, will expand to about 1,800 theatres Friday, entertainment trade site TheWrap reported citing Rocky Mountain Pictures.
Indians in Australia are ecstatic over India being crowned the world champions in under-19 cricket, a win that reassured them that Indian cricket has “a great future”.
India defeated defending champions Australia by six wickets to win their third Under-19 Cricket World Cup title Sunday. Captain Unmukt Chand scored an unbeaten 111. Chasing Australia’s 225, India got home in 47.4 overs.
The Indian community’s celebrations have added vigour as the Indian boys have given them a reason to smile after drubbing of the Test team in Australia earlier this year.
A Mumbai special court Friday sentenced mafia don Arun Gawli to life sentence for the 2007 killing of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar. According to special public prosecutor Raja Thakre, 11 others accused in the murder had also been given life sentences.
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(By Amaresh Misra – Part I) Swami Vivekanand called it the second most beautiful place on earth after Kashmir. Today, the wonder that was Assam is a mass of decomposing bodies, petty politicking, strewn hopes, unfathomable despair and a fear that says: only man is vile.
Putting up a third front on the coal scam, the Left parties, along with Samajwadi Party and Telugu Desam Party, Friday staged a sit-in protest at the main gate of the Parliament House building Friday morning.
Leaders from these parties sat at the gate from where MPs enter the Parliament House building, raising slogans demanding a fair probe and debate in parliament on the coal scam.
Mental tension led to suicide
(Siasat News): A man who had developed mental tension as he was away from home, wife and children in connection with employment, committed suicide.
This incident occurred in Meerpet police station limits where 40-year-old Radhakrishna, resident of Chilkalguda, hanged himself at his residence.
He has been living away from his wife and children since last three months. He was said to be an alcoholic and had developed mental tension due to the loneliness. Police has registered a case.
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Jitendra Singh on Thursday said that the government would do no delay in the matter of capital punishment to Ajmal Kasab, the Pakistani terrorist and the convict in the 26/11 attack case.
Singh, who was here to inaugurate newly constructed outpost of Shashastra Seema Bal on Indo-Nepal border, said that even if clemency plea was filed, it would be disposed off at the earliest.
Replying to a separate query, the minister said that after setting up of border outposts there would be check on the anti-national forces.
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Both houses of Parliament were again disrupted Friday as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) kept up the offensive and created a ruckus demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over coal block allocation.
The Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha were adjourned till 12 noon soon after proceedings began.
Outside Parliament, the Samajwadi Party, the Telugu Desam Party and the Left parties staged a demonstration. SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav demanded a probe into the alleged corruption involving the allocation of coal blocks.
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Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the record of the longest space flight (195 days) for a woman, has completed her fifth spacewalk lasting a near record eight hours and 17 minutes.
Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide set out from the international space station at 5:46 p.m. Thursday (India time) and returned at 2:03 a.m. Friday, the US space agency NASA announced.
The longest spacewalk of 8 hours and 56 minutes was undertaken by US astronauts Susan Helms and James Voss in 2001.
A number of YSR Congress leaders and workers in Vijayawada and Krishna district were today detained in view of the state-wide bandh call given by the party against the Andhra Pradesh government’s “failure” to resolve power crisis.
As the YSR Congress leaders came out on streets in the early hours to allegedly obstruct the movement of buses, police foiled their attempt by taking them into custody.
At some places, the leaders entered into arguments with the police over their detention.
Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, an anti-submarine warfare specialist, took over as the new Navy Chief on Friday.
58-year-old Joshi succeeds Admiral Nirmal Verma who retires today.
Joshi, who was the Western Naval Commander, has taken over the force at a time when it is set to operate two aircraft carriers and induct a large number of warships, long-range surveillance aircraft and submarines. He will have a three-year tenure.
Earphones or headphones on personal music players can reach noise levels similar to those of jet engines and can damage the coating of nerve cells, leading to temporary deafness, scientists from the University of Leicester have revealed.
Noises louder than 110 decibels are known to cause hearing problems such as temporary deafness and tinnitus (ringing in the ears), but the University of Leicester study is the first time the underlying cell damage has been observed.
Flu virus can be transmitted even before the appearance of their symptoms as experiments with ferrets (European polecat) have shown, according to a study.
If applied to human, it suggests that people pass on flu to others before they know they are infected, making it very difficult to contain epidemics.
Knowing if people are infectious before they have symptoms is important to help authorities plan for an epidemic, but it has been difficult to establish this from data collected during outbreaks, the journal Public Library of Science ONE reports.