The State Energy Conservation Mission has crossed a major milestone. The SECM, set up to achieve the targeted goals of Energy Efficiency & Energy Conservation (EE&EC) programmes taken up in the State, will now be an independent body to coordinate with the Government in enforcing energy conservation measures rather than confining its role as an advisory body. The Govt.
The Andrha Pradesh Public Service Commission has decided to hold the Departmental Tests, November – 2013 Session Examinations from February 10th to 15th.
These exams were earlier scheduled to be held from February 9th to 14th. However, they have been postponed by a day in view of conduct of Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) examination on February 9.
With the national parties cold-shouldering the tabling of State Reorganisation Bill, the divisive design of Congress is under scanner and YSR Congress view point has been endorsed by the nation, the theatrics of Kiran Kumar Reddy and N Chandrababu Naidu notwithstanding.
Ignoring the mild warnings by the Congress High Command, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has reportedly decided to participate in the protest in New Delhi against the proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
The Chief Minister along with his supporters will leave for Delhi on Tuesday morning. He will lead the other Seemandhra leaders in a silent protest at Shakthi Sthal, the memorial of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on Tuesday. He will also meet President Pranab Mukherjee on February 5.
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GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar said that the GHMC is preparing an action plan to resolve the grievances in a time bound frame basing on the importance of the issue of the grievance. The Commissioner has interacted with media after the Prajavani Programme held in GHMC Head Office on Monday.
Congress MLA Sridhar Krishna Reddy on Monday took light of a possible disciplinary action against him by the party.
Sridhar said that he actively took part in the Samaikhyandhra agitation and therefore, he was not worried about any action by the Congress party. He said that he had resigned from the Congress party, but the same was not accepted. Therefore, he said that any show cause notice served by the party would be answered by the people in his constituency.
Congress rebel candidate Adala Prabhakar Reddy on Monday claimed that he enjoys the support of over 50 MLAs from Seemandhra regions for his candidature in the Rajya Sabha elections.
Speaking to media persons here, Adala said that nearly 175 MLAs were in favour united Andhra Pradesh and over 50 of them have assured to support his candidature. He said that the decision to contest the Rajya Sabha elections was individual and he was not enjoying the support of Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma today hit out at Narendra Modi saying the BJP prime ministerial candidate would have to be kept away from power to maintain social harmony in a developing country like India.
“Modi says Congress sows and spews poison. But everyone is aware of who sows and spread poison,” Verma said, referring to Modi’s comments at a rally in Meerut yesterday.
Modi had accused the Congress of putting one religion against another, one caste against another and one state against another.
More than 20 lakh persons have been provided employment under the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) which is being implemented by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. The Government has released Rs 5381.63 crore under the scheme since 2008-09 and more than 2.33 lakh projects have already been assisted.
Even as the who’s who of the film fraternity came together at the wedding of veteran Bollywood actors Hema Malini and Dharmendra’s younger daughter Ahana, the bride’s half brothers Sunny and Bobby were conspicuous by their absence at the celebrations.
Ahana got married to Delhi-based businessman Vaibhav Vora in a part-South Indian, part-Punjabi ceremony at a five star hotel here yesterday. The wedding was preceded by an intimate ‘mehndi’ and ‘sangeet’ function.
Vinay Kumar, who led Karnataka to its seventh Ranji Trophy title, today said his team’s goal is to dominate Indian cricket for the next ten years.
“We have a great bunch of guys who are very young and hungry to perform. I feel we have it in us to keep winning and our goal is to dominate Indian cricket for the next ten years,” Vinay told reporters at felicitation ceremony of his team members for bringing home the coveted trophy after a 15-year gap.
Government employees in Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions of Andhra Pradesh Monday decided to go on indefinite strike from Feb 6 to oppose the central government’s efforts to table the Telangana bill in parliament.
The employees, who had gone on strike for nearly two months last year to protest the central government’s decision to bifurcate the state, announced a protest plan to coincide with the parliament session beginning this week.
US President Barack Obama will visit Saudi Arabia in March and meet with King Abdullah in a bid to reassure the key ally about the administration’s policies in the Middle East.
This is part of “regular consultations” between the two countries, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.
Obama would meet the Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, he said.
The Supreme Court will Friday hear two petitions seeking the quashing of the draft Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill for carving out Telangana on grounds that it was violative of the principles of federalism and the basic structure of the constitution.
The petitions are filed by K. Raghu Ramakrishnan Raju and advocate Satish Gala and another by Delhi-based PIL lawyer M.L. Sharma
Some believe cancer is incurable, quite a few think it is contagious and many others feel it can be caused by hair-dyes and anti-perspirants – myths like these expose our little knowledge about the much-feared disease which, if addressed timely, can be cured, doctors say.
According to health experts, many myths are associated with cancer, but adapting a healthy lifestyle can help people keep it at bay. India has more than three
million cancer patients, and these figures paint a pale picture of our understanding of the disease.
A drug trafficking racket, associated with terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, has been busted here and three traffickers were arrested with 10 kg heroin valued at Rs.35 crore, police said Monday.
One of the three arrested men was identified as police constable Khurshid Alam from Jammu and Kashmir.
Alam and two men from Tamil Nadu – B. Ganesh and M. Senthil – were arrested with the heroin from Nizamuddin area in south Delhi.
Police said the drug syndicate’s kingpin is based in Kuwait and is known as Ali.
India is considered a religious country, but a lot of corruption is taking place in this country, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama rued Monday.
“This country (India) is considered a religious country, but a lot of corruption is taking place. There are many corrupt people, and I think, the corrupt people are also highly educated,” the Tibetan spiritual leader said while addressing the sixth convocation ceremony of the Martin Christian Luther University here.
Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi today asked Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to order a judicial probe into the death of a student from Arunachal Pradesh allegedly after assault by a group of people here.
According to Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Ninong Ering, Rahul asked the Home Minister to order the probe into the death of Nido Tania and provide justice to the family.
Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Monday reiterated that no government would be possible at the Centre without the support of his party. He said the SP would play the kingmaker after the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Addressing a “Desh Bachao, Desh Banao” rally in Gonda, 100 km from here, the SP leader also referred to the alliance in Tamil Nadu between the AIADMK and the CPI, saying UP had 80 seats in the Lok Sabha while Tamil Nadu had just 39.
Legendary golfer Tiger Woods arrived here Monday for his first visit to India. He will be playing an exhibition match Tuesday that has been organised by leading motorcycle company Hero Motocorp.
Tiger, World No.1, arrived here from Dubai, where he took part in the Dubai Desert Classic, and was whisked away from the VIP area at the airport amidst tight security.
With the process for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh entering the final phase, Telugu Desam Party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu Monday urged President Pranab Mukherjee to intervene and settle the issue amicably.
Naidu told reporters after meeting the president at Rashtrapati Bhavan Monday night that as the central government was violating the Constitution, he requested him to evolve a mechanism to find an amicable solution.
In a first, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday found mention in a speech by Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav who said he did not want to slap a case on the former, else he would have got Kejriwal arrested for making baseless remarks.
Speaking at a public rally in Gonda, 100 km from here, Mulayam Singh vented his ire on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader for including his name in the list of corrupt politicians.
“This country (India) is considered a religious country, but a lot of corruption is taking place. There are many corrupt people, and I think, the corrupt people are also highly educated,” the Tibetan spiritual leader said while addressing the sixth convocation ceremony of the Martin Christian Luther University here.
“They (some educated people) pray to God but the purpose of their prayer is to make their corrupt life more successful,” he added amidst thunderous applause from the audience at the Soso Tham auditorium.
The Taj city has been battling a water crisis with supply hit since the last 10 days and whatever quantity trickling in into homes highly contaminated, say people. Officials on Monday however said the situation was set to improve in the next two days.
Complaining that the water supplied from the century-old Water Works is contaminated and stinking, people have taken to the streets to protest the authorities’ failure to repair a sluice gate at Hindon river leading to industrial effluents flowing into the Yamuna.
Slamming the Congress for enacting a “political drama” over the Telangana issue, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday asserted his party would certainly support the statehood bill in Parliament but with certain riders.
BJP would support the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill “without compromising on the basic principles” and only after securing “justice to all” (regions), he said here.