Month: July 2014

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu today inspected J-block building in the Secretariat and inquired about the facilities available to the employees.
Andhra Pradesh Secretariat Employees’ Association president Murali Krishna brought to notice of the Chief Minister on lack of minimum facilities available to the employees, who were working in the Secretariat. He explained the Chief Minister about the situation in the Secretariat was not allowing to take up works to renovate the offices.

Emphasizing the need for catching the big fish involved in irregularities of government lands, Congress senior leader V Hanumantha Rao today suggested the TRS Government to take necessary steps.

Strongly opposing the design of Polavaram Project, the CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Friday urged the government to modify the design to minimize the loss to the tribal.
Speaking at a meet-the-press programme here, Prakash Karath reminded that strong objections were arising on the present design of Polavaram projects. It would also create problems to thousands of tribal, he added. The present design was irrelevant and not in suit with the requirements, he felt.

GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar reiterated that the preparation of ‘Monsoon Action Plan’ is the responsibility of Zonal and Deputy Commissioners.

A 50 year old woman killed allegedly by her son at Karmanghat on Thursday late night hours.

According to Meerpet police, the deceased Ch Sarojamma (50) an Labourer W/o Late Ramesh Resident of Nandanavanam of Karmanghat Meerpet was killed allegedly by her son on inebriated condition after his mother refused to give money for liquor, threw a boulder on her head resulting on her death on Thursday late night hours when she was asleep.

A 15 year old Girl died of burn injuries after set her ablaze at her residence in Jalpally of Pahadishareef while undergoing treatment she died on Friday afternoon hours.

A-55-year-old Laborer died of injuries which he suffered after falling from fourth floor of under construction building in Rajendranagar police station limits.

According to Rajendranagar police, the deceased K Parmeshwarrao (55) an Labourer S/o Lakshmi Narayana R/o Rajendranagar, native of Krishna district, deceased while working at attapur area under constructioin building accidentally he fallen from fourth floor of a building on Thursday evening hours due to which he was died on the spot.

A 48-year old car driver committed attempt to suicide by hanging himself at his residence on June 30, undergoing treatment he died on thursday night hours.
According to Banjara Hills police, the deceased – G Srinivas Reddy (48) an Car Driver R/o Yousufguda, took this extreme step of attempt to suicide by hanging at his residence on June 30, immediately he was rushed to nearest private hospital for treatment where undergoing treatment he was died on Thursday night hours due to financial problems he was facing from last few days.

Telangana Panchayat Raj Minister K Tarakarama Rao on Friday informed that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was keen to revive the Bangaru Talli scheme.

Speaking to media persons here, KTR said that the Bangaru Talli scheme has remained defunct for the last six months and it could be revived soon. He said that the scheme could benefit girl children if properly implement and a report has been sought from the officials on their proper implementation. He said that the TRS Government would introduce several new schemes to benefit the people directly.

The controversy over a Goa cabinet minister’s demand to ban mini-skirts and bikinis in order to “protect Goan culture” refuses to die down, with ace fashion designer Wendell Rodricks asking him to to wear a loin cloth to work, skip chillies, tomatoes, potatoes, and stop using a table and chair at work if he believes in shunning Western influences and culture.

Thirty-nine people were injured Friday in two road accidents in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district, police said.

Both the accidents took place at Sumbal in the north Kashmir district.

“Thirty-four people were injured when a bus, bearing registration number JK02C-5491, they were travelling in, overturned at Dangerpora under police station Sumbal. All the injured have been shifted to hospital for treatment,” a senior police official said here.

Blaming hoarders for the recent spike in prices of onions, potatoes and other food items, the government Friday said it will take tough action in collaboration with states to reign in speculative volatility in prices.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley along with senior cabinet colleagues Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan and Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh, discussed with state food ministers measures to check the rising prices.

Addressing the ministers’ conference, Jaitley said there are enough food stocks in the country and the rise in prices is speculative.

Six members of a family allegedly committed suicide in Chakrayapet mandal here apparently due to financial problems, police said today.

Y C Miravali (45) along with his wife and four children ended their life by consuming poison at a room of a state-run tourism guest house in Gandi area last night, they said.

According to Pulivendula (Rural) Circle Inspector Maheshwar Reddy, the family was staying at the guest house since July 1 evening. As they did not turn up for lunch this afternoon, the staff of the guest house grew suspicious and opened the door of the room and found them dead.

Exactly six months and 18 days after he had called time on his illustrious career, Sachin Tendulkar will once again step out in white flannels on the hallowed Lord’s turf leading the MCC XI against Shane Warne-led World XI in a bi-centenary celebrations match here tomorrow.

On his admission, world’s highest run-getter in both Tests and ODIs has been enjoying the retired life and is still to find the “centre of the bat” during the knocking sessions for the past 10 days.

Air India is sending a Boeing 777 aircraft to bring back 46 nurses and other Indians stranded in strife-torn Iraq.

The Boeing 777 (Long Range), with a seating capacity for about 300 passengers, would shortly take off from Delhi’s IGI Airport to Erbil in north Iraqi region of Kurdistan and is likely to return to Kochi on its way back, Civil Aviation Ministry officials told PTI here.

Air India, which had kept three wide-body planes and crew on standby for evacuation of Indian nationals from Iraq, was awaiting government’s instructions to launch the flights.

Terming pollution of Ganga a serious challenge, Uttar Pradesh government today said it would cooperate with Central government for cleaning the river.

The issue was raised in the state Assembly by BJP MLA Shayamdev Roychaudhary who moved a resolution to immediately stop all drains falling in the river.

Referring to the bad condition of Ganga ‘ghats’ in Varanasi, Roychaudhary said Uttar Pradesh has the maximum course of the river. The state benefits the most from the river and because of this it also pollutes it the most, he said.

The European Union Election Assessment Team (EU EAT) has hailed the decision of the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) to launch an additional, ongoing audit of a number of polling stations in the second round of the presidential election, said a EU EAT statement received here Friday.

Brazil football star Neymar’s father is reportedly involved in a FIFA World Cup ticket blackmarketing network.

Newspaper reports said that Neymar Sr. is involved with a network led by Algerian businessman Mamadou Lamine Fofana, which pumped 300,000 euros to buy tickets and sell these at a higher price in the black market, reports EFE.

Police investigations involved names like Carlos Alberto, who won the 1970 World Cup with Brazil, and Roberto de Assis, Ronaldinho’s brother.

Neymar Sr.’s company said that he does not have anything to do with the network.
(IANS/EFE)

Pakistan on Friday called upon India to release all of its nationals who have already completed sentences but are still languishing in Indian jails.

The foreign ministry said currently 477 Pakistani prisoners (346 civil prisoners and 131 fishermen) still remain lodged in Indian jails, Xinhua reported.

“Out of these, 22 civil prisoners have completed sentence and await repatriation,” a ministry statement said.

“It is our hope that the government of India would release all Pakistani prisoners who have completed their sentences,” the foreign ministry said.

Congress MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy on Friday advised the party’s High Command to retire all the leaders who had lost recent elections and have crossed age.

In a letter written to AK Antony Committee, Ponguleti reportedly asked the party to encourage youth by giving them party posts and responsibilities. He said that the youth should take over the reins of Congress party in the State. He said all those who lost elections more than once should be denied posts and party tickets in future. Further, the youth should be appointed on important party posts, he said.

AS Monaco FC vice-president Vadim Vasilyev has said that his club will not sign former Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes due to his knee injury.

The 32-year-old keeper tore the anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee in March, reports EFE.

“We negotiated with Valdés but he’s injured, he can’t join us,” Vasilyev said.

-IANS

India has the potential to become one of the top five countries in the chemicals and petrochemicals industry, Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers Ananth Kumar said Friday.

“The chemical industry is the backbone of the country and adopting forward looking policies and following the right approach, it can aspire to rub shoulders with the likes of China, Japan, Germany and the US,” he said.

The minister was speaking here Friday at the launch of the forthcoming three-day India Chem 2014 International Conference, to be held Oct 9-11.

There is a lull in the southwest monsoon that hit Himachal Pradesh just three days ago and similar conditions will continue till this weekend, a weather official said here Friday.

“Precipitation occurred at a few isolated places in the past two days. With this, the maximum temperatures rose by three to four degrees,” an official of the meteorological department told IANS.

However, there was no appreciable change in the minimum temperatures.

Samajwadi Party has termed the BJP leaders’ attempt to defy a ban on holding a ‘mahapanchayat’ in Kanth area in Moradabad district as a “cheap and dirty act” and alleged that they were hell bent on spreading violence in Uttar Pradesh.

“Since BJP has come to power at the centre, its people are hell-bent on spreading violence and flaring up communal passion in the state,” SP’s state spokesman and Cabinet minister Rajendra Chaudhary told PTI.

A benchmark index of Indian equities markets Friday touched a new record high of 25,981.51 points as oil and gas and bank stocks surged.

The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) ended the day at a new closing high of 25,962.06 points by gaining 138.31 points or 0.54 percent from its previous close at 25,823.75 points.

The Sensex had hit a record high of 25,864.53 points Wednesday on the hopes of a fiscally prudent and growth oriented budget expected on July 10.