(Siasat News)Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education has allowed nearly 170 colleges, with below par facilities and infrastructure in the on-going EAMCET counseling on the promise made by the managements of these colleges. They ensured that they would rectify the deficiencies within three months.
The officials did not disclose the names of their colleges fearing that students would not opt for the colleges during counseling.
A total of 29 people were killed in a road accident in Nigeria on Friday, reported Xinhua.
According to Nigeria’s road commission, the accident occurred on the Potiskum-Kano road in Yobe state when two buses coming from opposite sides had a head on collision.
The buses went up in flames after collision, killing 29 passengers and charring nine of them beyond recognition, said an official with the Federal Road Safety Commission, adding reckless driving and over-speeding caused the accident.
–IANS
(Siasat News) Noted educationist Dr. Shukla recommended for a complete ban on guides used by the students while preparing for their examinations. He was talking to newsmen on the occasion of the workshop on Science and Mathematics held in the city.
Dr. Shukla told that due to the readymade answers of the guides, the creative faculties of the students are getting affected. Present on this occasion was the noted scientist Rentunath.
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(Siasat News) Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, President of TDP will proceed to New Delhi to muster support for the implementation of the reservation of seats in various state assemblies by different political parties in respect of backward classes. It may be noted that TDP has declared that it will give Assembly tickets to 100 candidates belonging to backward classes.
(Siasat News) People of the state are perturbed due to bad administration of Mr. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s Govt. Farmers are forced to commit suicide. TDP MLA’s blamed the Govt. in a press conference held yesterday. The press conference was addressed by Mr. M. Venkateshwarlu and Ms. Uma Madhava Reddy. They said that Govt. has failed not only in the field of energy but in every respect. Very soon the state would go bankrupt. They deplored that there is no effect of the suicides of the farmers on the Govt. Ms. Uma Madhava Reddy told that due to the decision taken by the Govt.
(Siasat News) Human Welfare Foundation of A.P. will organize a symposium on “Persecution of Minorities – Branding our own citizens as infiltrators” at 11 a.m. on Sunday, 2nd September 2012 at Madina Education Centre, Nampally, Hyderabad.
The topics for discussions in the said symposium are: ‘Why are we blaming our own citizens as infiltrators?”, “Are the Muslims of Assam Bangladeshis?”, “Will this tactics of the fascists be successful?”, “Will the people of India remain silent spectators?’.
President Barack Obama has appointed Romesh Wadhwani, an Indian American founder of several software and IT companies, on board of trustees of the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts.
Announcing his intent to appoint Wadhwani and nine other general trustees of the centre, Obama said, “These dedicated men and women bring a wealth of experience and talent to their new roles and I am proud to have them serve in this Administration.”
(Siasat News) “Muslims are worts than Dalthis”. These are the findings of the Sachar Committee which submitted its reprots after reviewing the status of the Muslims in all the states in the country. After the submission of this report, schemes were made for the upliftment of the Muslims, but it seems that Govt. of A.P. has no concern for the educational development of Minorities. The way the Govt. is dealing with the fees reimbursement of Engineering students, clearly indicates that it is more concerned with the other communities than Minorities.
The number of registered Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey has reached nearly 230,000, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
“In Turkey, the (UN) Agency said that two more refugee camps — which together can host 23,000 refugees — have been opened in the last week to accommodate new arrivals,” Xinhua quoted UN spokesperson Farhan Haq as saying during a news briefing here.
“Another three sites which can host 10,000 refugees each are set to open next month,” he added.
India on Friday said it will take a decision on the visit of another Pakistan judicial commission here to cross examine witnesses related to the trial of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks after completion of internal consultations.
“The Home Ministry is consulting judicial authorities in this and we will be in a position to reply once we get a response from the judicial authorities,” External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told reporters in New Delhi.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon has regretted that Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are yet to reach agreement on resolving Iran ‘s nuclear issue, and pressed for a “diplomatic and negotiated solution” to the prolonged problem.
“It is regrettable that Iran has [is] yet to reach agreement with the IAEA on a plan to resolve all outstanding issues,” reported Xinhua citing Ban as saying in a statement issued here Friday.
The secretary-general made the statement in response to the latest quarterly report by the IAEA on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme.
A defeated independent candidate who polled 625 votes in the March assembly polls has written to the Election Commission of India demanding his election expenses back.
Trajano D’Mello, a former general secretary of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), wants the Rs.3 lakh-odd spent on his campaign returned because his poll campaign was specifically targeted by a local bureaucrat who was functioning under the Election Commission for the purpose of the election. And he also wants an apology from the bureaucrat.
Pakistan national Mohammad Hussain, given death sentence for complicity in a 1997 bomb blast case which had claimed four lives, today got a reprieve from the Supreme Court which ordered his fresh trial after setting aside his conviction and capital punishment. “The matter requires to be remanded for a de novo trial,” said a three-judge bench headed by Justice R M Lodha, while setting aside his conviction and punishment saying he was denied the assistance of a lawyer during his trial in the lower court.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who will be seen with his wife Jaya Bachchan in Bhojpuri film `Ganga Devi`, says there is lot of restriction when your wife is on the sets and he gets conscious in her presence.
“When your wife is on the sets with you, then your behaviour also changes, there are lots of restrictions, there is always a discipline on the sets or else when you go back home, the situation goes out of control,” a laughing Amitabh told reporters during the music launch of the film here Friday.
“I hope you all will promote `Ganga Devi` and the audience likes it,” he added.
A 7.6 earthquake hit off the Philippine coast today, triggering a tsunami warning for the eastern part of the archipelago and Indonesia, US seismologists said.
The US Geological Survey said the quake had a depth of 34 kilometres and hit at 8:47 pm (1817 IST), 139 kilometres east of the city of Sulangan on Samar island.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday underlined the need for a “proper atmosphere” before he visited Pakistan in deference to repeated invitations extended by its leadership. There should be a general feeling in India that Islamabad was doing all it could to deal with terrorism directed against New Delhi from Pakistani soil, he said adding that a crucial test of Pakistan’s sincerity would be the court trial in Rawalpindi of the seven persons charged with plotting the Mumbai massacre.
Taking strong exception to Congress president Sonia Gandhi reportedly asking her party men to launch a counter-offensive against the BJP, former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha on Friday accused Gandhi of being “arrogant” as her party was trying to “dilute” the coal block issue through debate.
Pakistan has to “dispel the impression that the procrastination of the Mumbai suspects’ trial is on purpose”, said a leading Pakistani daily that described President Asif Ali Zardari’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Tehran as a mere ritual.
“Had there been no meeting between Zardari and Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the NAM summit, it would have been the news of the day,” Dawn said Saturday in an editorial titled “Mere ritual”.
Pakistan is keen to sign a new visa agreement during External Affairs Minister SM Krishna’s visit to Islamabad during September 7-9 for talks with Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, official sources said on Friday.
Krishna will visit Pakistan to review the last round of the bilateral dialogue process with Khar, the Foreign Office announced today.
He will visit Pakistan for “holding a review meeting with the Foreign Minister at her invitation”, an official statement said.
After the success of The Dirty Picture, actor Emraan Hashmi now wants to make a clean film for a universal audience.
“I guarantee that in the next year I will do a film which will be clean and universal and will be a blockbuster. I won’t be kissing in it. That’s my word,” Hashmi told reporters here today.
Confident that after staying for around a decade in Bollywood, he knows what would click at the box office, the 33-year-old actor, often termed as “serial kisser”, said, “A kiss isn’t enough to draw the audiences. Good story and performances are important”.
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu has assured his colleagues that he would give clarity on the Telangana issue by the second week of September.
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu has congratulated his colleagues for effectively fighting on the power problem.
Naidu who chaired a meeting of the Telugu Desam Legislature Party here on Friday has also said that party functionaries had acted effectively by taking active part in the dharnas, rasta rokos and other forms of agitation even in constituencies and mandals.
The meeting has discussed the power crisis and other problems of the people.
The TDP has alleged that the governor ESL Narasimhan was not giving appointment for the party leaders to meet him on pressing people’s problems.
Use the speaker option on your mobile handsets or if you have a choice dial the number on landline phone, says the precautionary guidelines for mobile users by the government.
The list advises mobile users to keep a distance between the body and the phone by either using the speakerphone option or headsets.
It also suggest limiting the length of calls and using text instead of voice.
“Use text as compared to voice wherever possible…Or if you have a choice, use a landline, not a mobile phone,” the guidelines say.
The brutal murder of two persons on the outskirts of Shadnagar in the district has created sensation on Friday.
The deceased whose throats were slit were identified as residents of Anantapur district. Police had identified them as Mallikarjuna of Krishnapuram under Bukkapatnam mandal and Lingutla Prasad of Tadipatri. They suspect old enmity to be the reason for the murders. (NSS)