Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy will be carrying a list of probables for possible induction into the state cabinet to New Delhi on Wednesday to seek the Congress high command’s nod for the revamp excercise which is likely this weekend.
The number of vacancies in the state Council of Ministers increased to seven following the resignation of two ministers and dismissal of another in recent days.
The CBI, probing the 2004 fake encounter case of Isharat Jahan and three others, today arrested suspended IPS officer D G Vanzara from Sabarmati Central Jail here.
The arrest was made after permission granted by a special CBI court earlier in the day, sources said.
He was already behind bars as an accused in the fake encounter cases of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsi Prajapati.
He is likely to be produced before the court tomorrow when CBI would seek his custody for further interrogation.
Vanzara was brought to Sabarmati Central jail yesterday from a Mumbai jail.
A British soldier has been fined and an officer demoted after admitting abusing civilians in
Afghanistan.
A 22-year-old serviceman who has since left the army admitted two charges of breaching service discipline during a
2011-12 tour.
In one incident he pulled the hand of an Afghan child toward his crotch while saying “touch my special place.” In
another he verbally abused an Afghan boy.
A judge accepted there was no sexual motive, and the soldier was cleared of more serious charges.
BJP workers today took out a protest march demanding martyrs’ status for a constable killed during a police operation.
Constable Satish Chand was killed following a May 30 raid in Hathia village where he had gone as part of a special team to arrest a wanted person.
Demonstrators led by former MLA Pranat Pal Singh walked up to the collectorate today where they submitted a charter of demands.
The (constable’s) next of kin should be paid compensation of Rs 50 lakh while two members of his family should be given government jobs,” Singh said, sharing some of the other demands.
A 30-year-old US national Tuesday alleged that she was gang-raped by three men in this Himachal Pradesh tourist resort, police said.
Police have constituted a special team to investigate. The woman reached Manali, some 250 km from the state capital Shimla, Monday.
The victim lodged a complaint with police that she was picked up by the men, aged between 18 and 25 years, in a commercial vehicle when she was going back to her guest house after visiting a friend early Tuesday, Superintendent of Police Vinod Dhawan told IANS.
The 358th annual ‘Urs’ celebrations of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan is all set to begin at Taj Mahal tomorrow with a host of programmes lined up as part of the three-day event here.
Elaborate arrangements have been made to mark the occasion with poetry reading and a qawwali recital among the highlights of the celebrations this year.
The Urs will also see a giant ‘chadar’ being placed on the Mughal emperor’s tomb on June 7.
It is learnt that entry to Taj Mahal will be free from June 5-7, the three days of the Urs.
Muslim religious leaders and scholars from around the globe have issued a joint statement condemning any attempts to deny or justify the Holocaust in which six million European Jews perished under Nazi Germany.
“We bear witness to the absolute horror and tragedy of the Holocaust where millions upon millions of human souls perished, more than half of whom were people of the Jewish faith,” said a statement signed by 10 leading Islamic figures including President of the Islamic Society of North America, Imam Mohamed Magid and India’s Chief Imam, Umer Ahmed Ilyasi.
Former Andhra health minister D.L. Ravindra Reddy Tuesday said the reason for his sacking by Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy was not clear.
DL, as Ravindra Reddy is popularly known, was in London when he was dismissed by the chief minister June 1.
A bitter critic of the chief minister, he returned Monday night. Talking to reporters Tuesday outside the office of Congress Legislature Party (CLP), he launched a scathing attack on Kiran Kumar Reddy.
Supporters of the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy raised their voice against the dismissed minister D L Ravindra Reddy.
Mayor Majid Hussain has appealed to the citizens of the twin cities to lend wholehearted cooperation to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation in the construction of 10,000 “Water Absorption Pits” at an estimated cost of Rs 6 crores this year.
The Mayor was speaking at a Water Absorption Pits awareness program held in the Mokshagundam Visveswaraiah Bhavan at Khairatabad. Deputy Mayor Raj Kumar and a large number of GHMC officials were present.
Senior Telangana Congress leader and Panchayat Raj Minister K. Jana Reddy has said he was called to Delhi by Union minister and State Congress Affairs Incharge Ghulam Nabi Azad to discuss about the conduct of Panchayat Raj elections in the State.
After a gap of five years, Andhra Pradesh Monday re-constituted the state women’s commission.
Former state minister and social activist Tripurana Venkataratnam will be the chairperson.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy also appointed six other women as members of the panel.
The members are Paruchuri Jamuna, Sunita Krishnan, Thoti Malleswari, Mukala Kasturi and L. Feroz Begum.
The Scheduled Tribe category member would be nominated separately, said an official statement.
Senior TRS leader and Sircilla MLA K. Tarakarama Rao has alleged that the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) has transformed into pro-Seemandhra organization.
Speaking to the media here on Tuesday, KTR demanded that the State government implement Presidential Order and Zonal System in the appointments in government departments.
Refuting the allegations that the TRS was anti-Dalit, KTR said if the allegation was true, senior Dalit leaders like G. Vivekanand, Manda Jagannatham and Kadiam Srihari would not have joined the TRS. (NSS)
TDP activists on Tuesday organized rallies in protest against the APSRTC Online Ticket Reservation Scam in Cheepurupalli represented by Transport Minister and PCC president Botcha Satyanarayana.
The Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today asked the bankers to issue the input subsidy to farmers without any link to previous dues or adjustments. He said the input subsidy is the capital for next crop as far as famers are concerned and the State Government has substantially increased the input subsidy. He said banks will have to substantially increase the loans for self-employment since the State Government decided to provide self-employment to 6 lakhs youth with Rs.2,000 crs.
The European Union (EU) Tuesday decided to impose provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese solar panels, cells and wafers, Xinhua reported.
EU imports of Chinese solar products would be subject to a punitive duty of 11.8 per cent from June 6 to Aug 6, from when on, the duty will be raised to 47.6 per cent, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said at a press conference.
Chief Minister N.Kiran Kumar Reddy directed the Officials of State Government to coordinate with the Officials of Bharat Dynamics Limited, and speed up the works related to BDL Ibrahimpatnam Unit which will enable to commence production from 2014-15.
The Election Commission of India has provided new facility for citizens to get information about Polling Stations. Electoral Rolls and Election Officers’ names and contact phone numbers on maps in the State on the website of the Commission www.eci.nic.in.
MV Foundation, in collaboration with United Federation on Residents Welfare Associations (UFERWAS) and Network for Protection of Child Rights (NCPR) is organizing a week-long sensitization and awareness campaign against child labour here from June 5.
The objective of the campaign is to create social responsibility and spread the message of “Say no to domestic child labor” among residential areas in the twin cities on the eve of ‘World Day against Child Labor’ on June 12.
The Lok Satta Party today welcomed in principle the verdict of the Central Information Commission (CIC) bringing political parties under the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The verdict may not be palatable to those who have converted political parties, which should strive for social good, into private estates. It will, however, make parties transparent and accountable and share details of their income and expenditure with people.
SPSR Nellore district senior Congress leader and MLA Anam Vivekananda Reddy on Tuesday said the “loose tongue” of former minister and Mydukur MLA D. L. Ravindra Reddy was only responsible for his dismissal from the Kiran Kumar Reddy Cabinet.
Speaking to mediapersons after having a darshan of Sri Venkateshwara Swamy at Tirumala this morning, Vivekananda Reddy said there was no place for corrupt leaders in the Congress. The motto of the Congress party was providing clean and transparent government, he added. (NSS)
Indian Open Beach Volley Ball competitions would be held in September on Visakhapatnam Beach. As many as 64 leading teams across the globe would be battling for four days for a prize of $1,50,000.
The event is sponsored by Federation Internationale De Volleyball (FIVB) at Ramakrishna Beach from September 5 to 8 which would be televised live by leading sports networks in India and abroad. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has agreed to become Chief Patron of the organizing committee to ensure successful conduct of the event.
Former minister and Telangana Nagara Samithi leader Dr Nagam Janardhan Reddy, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday, has severely responded to TRS president K. Chandrasekhara Rao’s remarks on the birth of Jharkhand State and role of Dr Nagam in the Telangana movement.
Dismissed minister D L Ravindra Reddy has alleged that the Chief Minister
Kiran Kumar Reddy was claiming only the old schemes of Dr. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy as his own
and had not introduced any new schemes.
DL who came back from a trip to London along with his family members, addressed the media at the ‘Media Point’ inside the Assembly premises. Earlier when he tried to address the media at the CLP office, he was not permitted by the CLP staff.
DL claimed that he had not indulged in any anti-party activity and questioned why he was dismissed.
Nawaz Sharif, whose party emerged victorious in the general elections, Tuesday submitted nomination papers to contest for the position of Pakistan’s prime minister.
The National Assembly, the lower house of the parliament in the country, will elect the new prime minister Wednesday following the May 11 general elections, reported Xinhua.
Sharif’s name was proposed by Chief of Pakhtunkhawa Milli Awami Party Mahmoud Khan Achakzai, an ally of the PML (N), and some party leaders.