Month: September 2014

The city Water Board is set to single out big defaulters. Armed with powers to attach immobile and movable properties, the Water Board will first zero in on consumers yet to be paid more than Rs 50,000.

There are over 9,300 big defaulters who owe Rs 50,000-Rs 1 crore to the Board. These are majority consumers, whose connections have been severed for non-payment.

For this, a special team was formed by the Water Board that will specifically deal with the big defaulters. There are more than 70 defaulters who are indebted the board over Rs 1 crore.

Telangana Education Minister Jagadeshwar Reddy on Wednesday advised the teachers to become role models for their students.

Addressing the review meeting with different teachers’ association at the State Secretariat here, the minister asked teachers to improve their skills and adopt modernisation of education. He asked them to maintain good relationship with the students and encourage them to the extent that they should feel in adopting teaching as their career.

Information Technology Minister K Tarakama Rao on Wednesday said that the State Government was firm on waiving off weavers’ loan up to Rs 1 lakh each.

Speaking to media persons here, KTR said that the TRS Government would waive off the loans of weavers and it would cost nearly Rs 15-20 crore on the State’s exchequer. He said that the governement was taking all measures to support the weavers in the State. He said there were nearly 50,000 people are associated with about 36,000 power looms in Telangana.

Information Technology Minister K Tarakarama Rao said that the Telangana Government would introduce a people-centric and pro-development development budget for the State.

Deputy CLP leader in Telangana Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir has expressed deepest condolences on the death of Goolamhussein Essaji Vahanvati, the former Attorney General for India.

In his condolence message, Shabbir Ali said that Vahanvati has successfully defended the case of four per cent reservation for Muslims in Andhra Pradesh in the Supreme Court.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott today said he plans to sign a nuclear co-operation agreement with India that would allow Australia to sell uranium to the country when he meets his counterpart Narendra Modi this week.

Abbott said that he hoped the trip would strengthen Australia’s trade relationship with India in areas including mining, finance and education, while signalling a deal was in the offing to sell uranium and help India meet soaring demand for electricity.

A quick look through Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation files point out how the civic body has commissioned numerous projects.

More or less 250 projects of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation are pending in its office. The then Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy make the first move to launched these projects and his successors K. Rosaiah and N. Kiran Kumar Reddy continues it.

Each year, the GHMC allocates a chunk of its annual budget towards the city’s development, and every year it ends up spending only a small percentage of that sum

The Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will be meeting iconic cricketer Sachin Tendulkar tomorrow in Mumbai, from where he will be starting his two-day State visit to India.

Abbott will be meeting the legendary cricketer along with Aussie cricketing greats Adam Gilchrist and Brett Lee, reflecting the strong cricket connections India and Australia share, Joint Secretary (South) in External Affairs Ministry Sanjay Bhattacharyya said.

World No.1 Novak Djokovic will lead Serbia against India in the Davis Cup World Group playoff here Sep 12-14, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) confirmed on its website Tuesday.

Dusan Lajovic, Filip Krajinovic and Nenad Zimonjic complete the line-up for Serbia, the 2010 champions. Serbia will be without Janko Tipsarevic, a former top-10 player, who is recovering from a foot surgery.

The Indian team will include Somdev Devvarman, Yuki Bhambri, Saketh Myneni and Rohan Bopanna with Anand Amritraj as the captain.

The NDA government is scrutinizing ways to stem misuse of anti-dowry laws. The home ministry is planning to tweak the controversial Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code to put a stop to its blatant misuse. A new section is expected to be inserted to make offences under it compoundable with the court’s consent, which will permit an accused to escape jail by paying a penalty.

Indian shooter Sanjeev Rajput feels the experience of winning a gold medal in the 2011 Changwon World Cup will hold him in good stead when another South Korean city, Incheon, hosts the Asian Games from September 19.

“The 3-position gold I had won in Korea in 2011 will hopefully help. Asian Games is also being held in Korea, so that’s a plus point for me,” Rajput, who had clinched a silver medal at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, told PTI.

Controversial right wing outfit Sri Ram Sene’s chief Pramod Muthalik today said he would submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighting the need for providing licences for firerams for self-protection for leaders of Hindu outfits considering increasing incidents of attacks on them.

Accusing the RSS-BJP of trying to “indoctrinate young minds”, CPI(M) today said the government’s directive to schools to ensure students listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on Teachers Day was “unprecedented” and wanted it to be rescinded immediately.

“Such an instruction has never been issued in independent India even for the mandatory Addresses to the Nation by the Hon’ble President and the Prime Minister. Such an instruction is also never given for the Prime Minister’s Independence Day Address from the Red Fort,” the party Politburo said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has reportedly warned the European nations against making the same mistake in “appeasing” Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine as France and Britain did with Adolf Hitler before the beginning of the Second World War.

The British premiere made this statement during a heated debate at a European Union summit behind closed doors in Brussels on Saturday, reported The Guardian. Cameron said that Russia had already seized Crimea and needs to be stopped from annexing the whole of Ukraine.

Surging for the ninth straight session, the BSE Sensex gained about 125 points to close at fresh peak of 27,139.94 today as IT stocks led rally powered by positive economic data and continued overseas fund inflows.

The wide-based NSE Nifty index rose by 31.55 points to close at record 8,114.60 points. The index touched intra-trade record high of 8,141.90 points, surpassing previous record of 8,101.95 hit yesterday.

The 30-share Sensex opened on a strong footing and rose quickly to new intra-day high of 27,225.85 points as buying momentum picked up.

A day after budget carrier SpiceJet announced fares starting at Rs 499 across its domestic network, Jet Airways too jumped on the bandwagon rolling out Rs 500 fares for the economy class on its domestic flights for a limited period from Tuesday.

The all-inclusive fares of the city-headquartered Jet Airways , starts from Rs 500 excluding statutory taxes and customers will be able to enjoy these substantial discounts across all destinations on the airlines’ domestic network, the airline said in a release.

For women over age 50, daily exercise can be prescribed as medicine to reduce the risk of death, research says.

According to Australian researchers, in addition to conventional treatments for physical and mental health, doctors should prescribe tailored, moderate to high intensity exercise programmes for older women.

Jennifer Lopez feels she made many mistakes in her personal life after her three failed marriages, a high-profile broken engagement and recent split from Casper Smart.

The 45-year-old mother of two said she is self-aware enough to learn from her blunders, and is trying her best to not repeat them, reported People magazine.

A handsome face may actually indicate poor semen quality, scientists say.

Researchers studied 50 Caucasian male students from the University of Valencia, Spain, and found that facial masculinity is negatively associated with semen quality.

Male facial attractiveness has been considered an important predictor of female mating preferences because of genetic benefits for offspring – facial traits may signal several quality factors (indirect benefits), such as health and intelligence.

Top UN officials have warned that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa “will get worse before it gets better” as they called for international action to deal with the crisis, saying misinformation about the disease will only exacerbate an already fragile situation.

Russian photojournalist Andrei Stenin, who went missing in early August, has been found dead after an attack by Ukrainian troops against a column of refugees in eastern Ukraine, the Russian Investigative Committee reported Wednesday.

Stenin, 43, who worked for the Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya, was killed Aug 6 while travelling by road with refugees between the towns of Snizhne and Dmytrivka in eastern Ukraine, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.

A Tennessee-based inventor has come up with an odor-eliminating ‘Fresh Air’ toilet seat.

According to the Fresh Air Kickstarter campaign, inventor Adam Payz’s toilet seat has a built-in fan that immediately starts removing odors through a hose as soon as the user sits down, Mashable reported.

To install the seat, a user needs to place it on the bowl after removing the old one and drill a hole in the wall and on the outside of the house for the hose to dispel the odious stench.

Measuring the levels of sex hormones in blood may identify those likely to suffer a sudden cardiac arrest, a heart rhythm disorder that is fatal in 95 per cent of patients, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found.

Researchers found that lower levels of testosterone, the predominant male sex hormone, were found in men who had a sudden cardiac arrest.

Higher levels of estradiol, the major female sex hormone, were strongly associated with greater chances of having a sudden cardiac arrest in both men and women.

A UK online dating site that caters to married people has revealed that it is alright to lie to get a date.

A spokesperson for Illicit Encounters said that one should present himself as a person who he wanted to be, rather than who he was because people judged others on what they did and not on what they were, the Daily Star reported.

The spokesperson added that their members were “rarely disappointed” about the white lies when they met each other and that, the people who had or claimed to have exciting or interesting jobs were up to three times likelier to find a date.

A 32-year-old married woman was allegedly raped by a doctor at Miranpur town here, police said today.

The incident took place October 23 last year, and according to a complaint lodged by the victim, an FIR was registered yesterday against and the accused doctor, identified as Abdul Kalam, was arrested, they said.

While the victim, belonging to another community was produced in a court here, which recorded her statement under section 164 of the CrPC, the main accused Kalam has been sent to jail, according to SHO, Kamal Yadav.