Andhra Pradesh government has urged the centre to exempt the students belonging to the state from the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). Sending a letter to the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Chief Minister requested the Centre to issue an order exempting the State from the proposed NEET-2013.
‘Science Exhibition-Biodiversity Special’, a mobile Exhibition Train will arrive in Secunderabad on October 9. The train will be kept for public viewing at Secunderabad Railway Stations from October 9 to 19, a press release from SCR said here today.
A treasure trove of knowledge, the special train which had already halted at Vijayawada and Nellore in August this year, is scheduled to arrive Kazipet on October 4 and it will be kept for public viewing upto October 8, The Science Exhibition will be open for public viewing from 1000 hours to 1800 hours.
National president Ambedkar National Congress Mr. Mohammed Kazim Ali Khan handed over a cheque of 1 lakh rupees to news editor Siasat Mr. Amer Ali Khan for Assam riot victims. Besides this Rs 25000 each were also given by president South India Small and Medium News Papers Association and United Journalists Trust. A donation of Rs 1 lakh was also given for Millat Fund.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President N Chandrababu Naidu today claimed TDP alone could provide a sustainable and efficient government in the state.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) workers and leaders have been offering prayers in churches, darghas and temples for the success of party Chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu’s padayatra beginning tomorrow, in a bid to revive the electoral prospects of the party. A large number of women activists led by party’s Mahila Wing President Shobha Hymavati leaders have offered prayers at the Dargah located at Nampally. Later speaking to the media, TDP leader said her party president was under taking the ardous task at the age of 62 for the betterment of the peoples welfare.
India was one of the 51 countries which signed the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP MOP 6) protocol and was in the process of ratifying it. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties which began here today , the Conference of Parties serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COPMOP-5) Mr Farooqui said the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress was adopted at the last meeting of the Parties in Nagoya Japan in 2010.
At the mega medical camp organised at the Ideal PG college premises here today to mark the voluntary blood donor’s day, Dr Paramahamsa donated blood for the 101st time and S Sekhar 84th time.
Over 200 students also donated blood at the camp jointly organised by the Kakinada voluntary blood donors club, Rotary blood Bank and district AIDS control society. Dr P Chiranjivini Kumary presided over the camp.
Jyothula Venkateswerarao Blood donors club chairman who was the chief guest said their club during the last ten years had supplied 16,500 blood units to the needy patients.
(Pervez Bari): If Muslims remain negligent as the 12th Five Year Plan unfolds and continue to remain in the same mode while the 13th Plan also comes and goes then they would be pushed to the rock bottom of the social structure. From there it would take hundreds of years to retrieve and extricate themselves to place them higher up in a respectable position in the social order.
Kingfisher Airlines tonight declared a partial lock-out with immediate effect and suspended till Thursday flight operations which came to a grinding halt following a strike by a section of its employees.
In a statement, the Vijay Mallya-owned private carrier said it has been forced to declare a “partial lock-out” following a series of “protracted and unabated incidents of violence, criminal intimidation, assault, wrongful restraint and other illegal acts” including refraining from attending work, by a small section of “recalcitrant” employees.
Telangana Political JAC Chairman Prof. Kodandaram has said that the Sunday’s Telangana March has succeeded in mounting pressure on the Centre on the Telangana State issue.
Speaking to the media here on Monday, Kodandaram said that unfortunately the State and Central Governments were in a feeling that they had succeeded in suppressing the “miscreants” during the March and it was painful that both the Governments have failed to talk on solution to Telangana issue.
Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu has failed to attend the Telangana MPs’ meeting with the Telangana Ministers held at Deputy Chief Minister Damodara C Rajanarasimha’s residence at the Ministers’ Quarters here on Monday, though the former was present at his quarter during the meeting.
Besides Sridhar Babu, ten other ministers from the Telangana region have failed to attend the meeting, which decided to go to Delhi and prevail upon the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other Central leaders to expedite the process for formation of Telangana State.
Former minister Dr P Shanker Rao on Monday deplored that the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government failed to initiate action against the vandals, who destroyed the statues of late Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and former chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy during the September 30 Telangana March.
Alleging that there was no democracy in the State, Telangana Congress MPs have strongly felt that it would be impossible to make the AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi as Prime Minister after 2014 elections if the situation in the Telangana region remained unchanged.
The review petition filed by IT Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah challenging the High Court’s verdict on his election was on Monday dismissed by the Supreme Court.
Perusing the petition, the Apex Court stated that the appellant should seek redressal in the High Court only as the petition was pending before it.
Minister for IT and Communications Ponnala Lakshmaiah and Bharani Kumar Aroll, Vice-President India Operations, inaugurated “Butler India”, a BPO Company at Madhapur on Monday.
During the interaction with the Industry representatives at the inaugural function, Ponnala said that Hyderabad has emerged as No. 3 most cost-effective outsourcing location in the world (quoting the reference to the survey conducted by International Property Consulting firm).
A former Pakistani lawmaker on Monday offered a $200,000 bounty for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film during a protest against the movie in Peshawar. The latest offer comes days after a federal minister announced a reward of $100,000 for eliminating the person behind the video.
Retd Lt General K S Brar, who led Operation Bluestar against Sikh terrorists holed up inside the Golden Temple in 1984, was stabbed by four turbaned Sikhs outside his hotel in London on Sunday night, reports said.
The general, who is 78, was on a private visit to London and was staying in a hotel.
He was rushed to a hospital, where he underwent surgery and was in stable condition.
According to Indian High Commission sources, several senior attaches went to the hospital and brought Lt Gen Brar back. The general will return to Delhi on Tuesday, sources said.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday admitted a petition filed for imposing a ban on the sale of Gutka in the State.
The Court directed the State government to submit a report on sales of Gutka within two weeks. (NSS)
GITAM University is offering Engineering and MBA admissions for this academic year at its newly established Bengaluru Campus at Nagadena Halli, Doddaballapur Taluk, Bangalore Rural District, Prof. G. Subrahmanyam, Vice-Chancellor stated in a press release on Monday.
TDP senior leader Dadi Veerabhadra Rao here on Monday accused the Congress of dumping Telugu people’s self-respect in the river.
Releasing a songs CD of “Mee Kosam…..” of party president N Chandrababu Naidu in NTR Trust Bhavan, Dadi said all political parties were now admitting that administration of Nara Chandrababu Naidu Government was good. As the people of the State were yearning for a capable leader, the TDP president has decided to take up the marathon, he added.
Telangana TDP Forum convenor Errabelli Dayakar Rao has demanded that the Congress MPs of the region stage dharna in front of AICC president Sonia Gandhi’s residence if they were really sincere on Telangana statehood.
Speaking to the media, Dayakar Rao alleged that the Congress leaders were misguiding the Telangana people on formation of separate Telangana State. He announced that the TDP would support a Telangana Bill if it was introduced in Parliament. (NSS)
Telugu Desam Party State secretary Ajmeera Raju Naik, TDP State ST Cell president K. Bilya Naik and general secretary M. Deeplal Chouhan on Monday said that the life of the poor, weaker, tribal and downtrodden sections has become unbearable due to the anti-people policies and corrupt practices of the State and Union governments during the last eight years.
A Trade Mission led by the Governor of State of Washington, United States of America, Christine O. Gregoire will call on the Chief Minister Mr. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy tomorrow here at Camp Office.
The visiting Trade Mission to our country was visiting Andhra Pradesh only to create new ties between the Governments and Communities to boost trade and tourism.
In tomorrow’s meeting, MoUs will be signed for collaboration of joint interest in the sectors of Bio-technology, Agriculture, Horticulture, IT and Clean Energy.
On the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy reiterated his commitment to ensure the benefits of all the welfare and developmental programmes initiated by the state government reach the poorest of the poor, as advocated by Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
The Chief Minister Mr N Kiran Kumar on Monday wrote to the Government of India that Andhra Pradesh be exempted from the NEET-2013.
In a letter to Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad today, the Chief Minister, in the best interest of the students of Andhra Pradesh, requested to issue order exempting the State from the proposed NEET-2013.