Month: September 2012

Lashing out at TDP Chief N. Chandrababu Naidu for addressing a letter to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh demanding all-party meet on Telangana issue, PCC Chief Botcha Satyanarayana has said that the former addressed the letter only for political gain.

Speaking to the media here on Thursday, Botcha said there was no clarity in Chandrababu Naidu’s letter. He alleged that Chandrababu Naidu has the habit of changing colors in tune with the changing times. (NSS)

Rural Development Minister Dokka Manikya Vara Prasadsa Rao has welcomed Union Minister Kishore Chandra Deo’s decision on scrapping Bauxite Mines lease.

Speaking to the media here on Thursday, Dokka said that “Thurpu Kanumalu” (Eastern Ghats) were like heart to protection of the environment. He asked the Union government to consider the issues with regard to legal aspects and abolish all the Bauxite mines agreements. He said that he was expecting a historical decision in case of Vanpic too. (NSS)

Kurnool district senior leader and TDP general secretary Byreddy Rajashekar Reddy has tendered his resignation to the primary membership of the party in protest against TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu’s letter to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.

State secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) B.V. Raghavulu has criticized the State government for denying permission to the Telangana March on pretext of law and order problem.

Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy here on Thursday appealed to the Telangana Political JAC to postpone the Telangana March planned for September 30 keeping in view the prestige of the State and brand image of Hyderabad.

Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Rajanarsimha on Thursday appealed to Telangana activists not to give scope for violence during Telangana March on September 30.

Speaking to the media in his chamber in the Secretariat, Rajanarsimha said that they (Telangana ministers) would convey their opinion to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Telangana March. He appealed to the Telangana activists not to resort to violence and vandalism during the March.

TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu’s letter to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on the Telangana issue was creating differences among the party leaders. Thamballapally TDP MLA Praveen Reddy on Thursday lashed out at Chandrababu for addressing the letter to the Prime Minister and demanded that the latter in favor of Telangana be withdrawn immediately. “Otherwise, Chandrababu has to change the party’s name as “Telangana Desam”, he warned.
Praveen Reddy said that organizing Telangana March on September 30 was meant to attack Seemandhra people.

Legislators belonging to the TRS, BJP and Telangana Nagara Samithi met in-charge Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy here on Thursday and requested him to give permission for the proposed Telangana March on September 30. (NSS)

Tension prevailed when the Telangana protagonists squatted on the roads in protest against the arrest of Korutla MLA Vidhyasagar Rao in Korutla on Thursday. Later, the police released the MLA. The TRS leaders have alleged that the police arrested the MLA when he was going to meet Governor ESL Narasimhan.

CPI State secretary Dr K. Narayana has asked the Centre whether it would resolve the Telangana issue before September 29 or would it give permission for Telangana March on September 30.

Speaking to mediapersons here on Thursday, Narayana said the Telangana March would be organized on unprecedented scale. He also demanded that the Congress convene an all-party meeting and declare its stand on Telangana. He also said that the strategies of TRS president K. Chandrasekhara Rao did not work. (NSS)

Horticulture Minister Ramreddy Venkat Reddy has said that the decision of the party high command would be final on separate Telangana issue.

Speaking to the media here on Thursday, he exhorted the people of the region to patiently wait till the high command took a decision on Telangana. He appealed to the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee to postpone ‘Telangana March’. (NSS)

Tension prevailed on the Osmania University Campus on Thursday when the OU Students JAC tried to organize ‘Student March’ to extend support to the Telangana March on September 30.

Telangana ministers here on Thursday said they would take a decision on Telangana March on Friday.

The Telangana ministers today met at the residence of Major Irrigation Minister P Sudarshan Reddy and held discussions. Ministers K Jana Reddy, Sabita Indra Reddy, Basavaraju Saraiah, D K Aruna and Sunitha Laxma Reddy attended the meeting.

Air warriors were asked to be vigilant and take steps to thwart the cyber security threats, which were posing challenges for both civil and military domain. To create awareness on these challenges, an interactive seminar on “Cyber Security Dynamics: Its implications for India” was conducted on Thursday at the College of Air Warfare, Secunderabad.

“Vastunna Mee Kosam” padayatra by TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu will enter Kurnool district on October 14, according to party district president Somisetty Venkateswarlu and senior leader V. Rambhupal Choudary.

Telugu Desam president Nara Chandrababu Naidu is all set to take up one of the longest ‘Padayatras’, lucidly titled “Meekosam Vastunna’, in a bid to win back people’s confidence, from October 2, the birth anniversary of Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, from Hindupur in Anantapur district.

Now the message is loud and clear. Neither the Congress nor its UPA government is least bothered about the decades’ old Telangana demand in spite of trouble looming large following the call given by the Telangna JAC for Telangana March on September 30, posing a serious threat to law and order situation in the State capital.

Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today announced the sanction of super specialty block to the government general hospital here, at a cost of Rs 70 crore, expansion of Air Port and a mango market yard at Nuzvid and cattle market yard at Nandigama. Announcing the sops at a press conference here today, Chief Minister said that the super specialty block would be constructed in two phases at a cost of Rs 70 crore. Fifty crore rupees was sanctioned for acquirement of land for the expansion of Gannavaram ‘air port’.

US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday welcomed the agreement reached by Sudan and South Sudan on a number of outstanding issues that roiled ties between the two neighbours.

“I welcome the historic agreement that was reached today between the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan on a number of critical issues,” Xinhua quoted Obamaas saying.

The US Army put normal operations on hold Thursday in a service-wide “stand-down” for a day of mandatory suicide prevention training to try and combat record numbers of suicides among active-duty troops.

“The nation has asked our soldiers to carry a heavy load over the last 11 years, and they have not failed,” Sgt. Maj. Raymond Chandler told a news conference Wednesday on the eve of the training. “But suicide is an enemy we have yet to defeat.”

According to army figures, a record 26 soldiers died in probable suicides in July.

(AFP) The Afghan government will collapse and Taliban insurgents are likely to retake power
after the US and NATO pull their troops out in 2014, a respected international scholar has predicted.The withdrawal of international forces will in some respects leave the country worse off than it was before a US-led invasion toppled the Taliban nearly 11 years ago,Afghan expert Gilles Dorronsoro of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace said.

The Gurgaon District Magistrate Thursday banned Hookah (hubble bubble) Bars in the district, an official said.

“Hookah Bars are serving tobacco molasses containing nicotine which is injurious to the health of the people, especially college students and youth. The people, especially young generations were being spoilt by these illegally running Hookah Bars,” District Magistrate (DM) P.C. Meena said.

“Taking the health hazards of tobacco and nicotine into account, the operations of Hookah Bars have been prohibited in the entire district with immediate effect,” Meena added.

(IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee, now on a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, Thursday went on a boat ride in the famed Dal Lake in Srinagar.

State Governor N.N. Vohra, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and senior civil and police officials accompanied President Mukherjee.

During the boat ride, officials briefed the president on the conservation of the famous lake and the rehabilitation programme launched by the state government for displaced people. The measures undertaken for conservation of the lake, including dredging and laying the sewer lines, were explained.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) said Thursday that it was against the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) opening a branch anywhere in the country.

“ABVP is against an AMU branch anywhere in the country including Bihar,” its general secretary Umesh Dutt told the media here.

Dutt said ABVP had been opposing the Bihar government’s plans to set up an AMU branch in Kishanganj. The Bihar government has given 250 acres for the proposed AMU campus.

The three-day 58th national conference of ABVP will be held here Dec 26-28.

The aunt of a British man who killed Indian student Anuj Bidve has won one million pounds in lottery.

Mandy Burgess, 42, was among 100 people who won the jackpot in a special EuroMillions Olympic draw, the Daily Mail reported.

Her 21-year-old nephew Kiaran Stapleton has been jailed for life for shooting 23-year-old Bidve on Boxing Day last year.

He shot Bidve at point blank range and stood over his body laughing.

Burgess is a mother of three and was married to Damian Noonan, a major figure in Manchester’s underworld before his death in an accident in 2003.