The Board of Intermediate will announce the results of Intermediate Second Year exams on April 26 (Friday) at 4 PM.
A total of 10,10,915 candidates appeared for the Inter Second Year exams held at 2,633 examination centres last month.
The Union minister of state for HRD rued that schemes related to the development of Urdu have failed to provide job opportunities to the people.
“For the government, success of scheme lies in creation of employment opportunities… If schemes related to development of Urdu do not provide jobs and livelihood it clearly means that they are not achieving their target,” the minister said at a programme organised by National Council for Promotion of Urdu language here.
Film star Anjali has been courting controversies of late.
Director Kalajiyam complained to the Nadagar Association (Artistes Guild) that Anjali was not attending the shooting and not honouring the dates given to them.
She created a sensation by vanishing form a posh hotel in the city and was not heard for two days. Her aunt has moved the court earlier.
The court has directed Anjali to appear before it on Friday. (INN)
Taking objection to the State Government’s decision to impose the Fuel Surcharge Adjustment (FSA) to the tune of Rs 609 Cr, the YSRCP accused Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy of administering the State going by the tenets of a feudal system.
“Kiran Kumar Reddy, who is presiding over a feudal system, doesn’t know the people’s problems and has been hiking the power charges every quarter unconcerned to the people’s woes,” YSRCP spokesman Janak Prasad told a press conference here.
The State Government has cancelled the land allotments to Brahmani Steels Limited.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today signed on the papers cancelling the allotment of 10,700 acres of land in Kadapa district to Brahmini Steels. The land, spread over Tugutapalli, C Bommavalli, Kothaguntapalli, Veguntapalli villages, was taken back by the government.
The order to take over the lands will be cleared by Thursday. (INN)
The High Court has reserved its judgment and post the Dharmana Prasada Rao prosecution case to April 29.
The CBI contended that Dharmana had misused his official position as Revenue Minister and he has become a hindrance to the investigation process due to his present stature as minister. As his portfolio has changed there need not be any permission to prosecute him, the CBI said adding that his resignation was not accepted by the government.
Senior IAS Officials Samuel and IVR Krishna Rao today met Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy at his chambers.
The two officials who called on the Chief Minister separately are understood to have pleaded their respective cases for the post of Chief Secretary. The present incumbent Minnie Mathews will be retiring on April 30.
There were reports that PK Mohanthy was tipped as the next Chief Secretary. (INN)
K Chandrasekhar Rao was unanimously elected president of TRS.
On the last day of the nomination today, KCR was the lone person to file his nomination papers which made his election unanimous. The announcement will be made on April 27 at a public meeting at Armoor in Nizamabad district. (INN)
It appears that the Nagar Kurnool independent MLA Nagam Janardana Reddy is preparing to join the BJP and fight on that party’s ticket I the 2014 elections.
Nagam who is camping in the capital met the BJP president Rajnath Singh here on Thursday. He is likely to announce his decision officially later.
Talking to the media after his meeting with Rajnath Singh along with state BJP chief Kishan Reddy, Nagam expressed confidence that only NDA would be able to make the Telangana dream a reality.
Three people were killed and several injured when an expired army bomb exploded in a scrap dealer’s shop in this city’s Taj Ganj area early Thursday, police said.
Taj Ganj police station officials said that an enquiry has been ordered.
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Pradesh Congress spokesman and Greater Hyderabad Congress party leader Mr. Feroz Khan demanded that the chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy convene a high level meeting to ensure effective implementation of minority development schemes.
In a blistering attack on TDP for continuing with the Goebbels campaign linking Rakshana Steels to Brother Anil Kumar and YSR family, YSR Congress on Wednesday warned the TDP leaders to stop the malicious campaign forthwith or face the consequences of ending up as a political scrap in the state.
Former Chittoor MP D K Adikesavulu Naidu passed away at Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangalore after a failed bypass surgery.
He was 71 and is survived by wife, a son and two daughters. He was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition on Tuesday night.
Initially a liquor baron, Naidu joined the Telugu Desam Party and was elected from the Chittoor Lok Sabha constituency in 2004 elections. Later, he switched his loyalties to the Congress in July 2008. He also served as the Chairman of Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam for two terms.
The examinations of Osmania Entrance, Pre-Degree-Course-I Year, B.A. (Languages) – I Year (YWS) and M.A. (Languages) that are scheduled to be held on Thursday afternoon have been postponed.
According to Controller of Examinations, the new dates will be announced in due course. The remaining examinations of these courses will be held as per the schedule. (INN)
The United States is engaged with India to help it become a member of four multilateral export control regimes, a senior Obama Administration told lawmakers, insisting it is important New Delhi should be made part of these key international groups.
Testifying before a key Congressional committee, Thomas Kelly, the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, told lawmakers on Wednesday that the US is working very closely with India to make it a member of four export control regimes.
Taking strong exception to a police officer slapping a young girl during a recent protest against rape of a minor, the Supreme Court today sought explanation from the Delhi Police chief on the incident.
A Bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi directed the Police Commissioner to file an affidavit to explain why a young girl was beaten up during the protest against the rape of five-year-old here.
Secretary Pradesh Congress Committee Syed Yousuf Hashmi has appealed to name the Urdu Hall constructed by Urdu Academy after Siasat founder Mr. Abid Ali Khan. He had laid foundation stone of a building for conducting various programmes for the promotion of Urdu in the old city. The construction of the building is still incomplete. However when asked about it authorities of the Urdu Academy told that the construction work has been completed. Inauguration of the building has to be done.
Mumbai Indians’ Rohit Sharma, who stood in as skipper in their win over Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, has lauded Ricky Ponting’s decision to step down from captaincy in the interest of the side.
Ponting, who has been struggling for runs in the tournament, had to sit out in order to accommodate fellow countryman and pacer Mitchell Johnson in the squad.
A heartrending report about victim of domestic violence was published in Siasat daily. Bibi John’s husband cut off her hands. The tear-jerking report evoked huge response from across the world and philanthropists sent funds. Rs. 4.77 lakh was deposited into the woman’s account. On the direction of editor Siasat Mr. Zahed Ali Khan, Rs. 1.5 lakh each were deposited in the bank accounts of Bibi John’s daughter and son’s account. Rs. 70 thousand were given to the family to open a Kirana store.
Rapist in judicial custody
(Siasat News): Bahadurpura police had arrested a youth for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl, has sent him to judicial custody.
DCP, south zone, Mr. Tarun Joshi said that Arun Kumar, 20, has been working at water works in Golnaka. He was the resident of Kishanbaug. He had called the 9-year-old girl, his relative, to an abandoned house and committed the crime.
Mr. Tarun Joshi further said that any crime against women would be viewed seriously and women would be provided foolproof security.
The death toll in the collapse of an eight-storey commercial building in the Bangladeshi capital today rose to 164, as rescuers raced against time to save nearly 1,500 people still trapped under tonnes of debris. “According to the latest count 164 bodies were retrieved and over 1,400 people were rescued alive,” Deputy Commissioner or Administrative Chief of Dhaka district Yusuf Harun said.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will go ahead with his visit to China on May nine notwithstanding the ongoing standoff between Indian troops and Chinese forces which intruded deep inside Depsang Valley in Ladakh ten days back. Khurshid’s trip comes ahead of the visit by newly-elected Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to India later next month. A lot of significance is being attached to Li’s visit, his first abroad after becoming Prime Minister last month. “I am going on May nine,” Khurshid told reporters when asked about his proposed visit to China.
After his successful maiden production venture in Marathi film Balak Palak, reports are that actor Riteish Deshmukh will step into Salman Khan’s shoes and is going to produce and host Marathi version of popular reality show Bigg Boss.
“It is too premature to talk about Marathi Bigg Boss. We will talk about it when anything concrete happens…when the time is right,” Riteish said in an interview.
Riteish Deshmukh, who will be next seen in Sajid Khan’s yet-to-be-titled comedy film with Saif Ali Khan and Jacqueline Fernandes, said he is not playing a negative role in the movie.
US officials say the surviving suspect in last week’s attack on the Boston Marathon has told investigators he and his brother were angry about US wars in Muslim countries.
Two officials said that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev acknowledged the anti-US motive while being questioned by investigators last weekend.
One official today said Tsarnaev cited the US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan as the motive for the Boston attack. The official was briefed on the investigation by the FBI.
Three decades after “Midnight’s Children” catapulted Salman Rushdie to literary glory, a film of the novel feels like “closing the circle” after his dark years in hiding, he says.
But while fatwa-free life is now “pretty good,” he admitted there are occasional “slippages” – including during a trip last year to India, the land of his birth, while promoting the movie.
In an interview timed with its US release, he discussed hopes for more film adaptations, Quentin Tarantino’s unlikely influence on “Midnight’s Children” – and his feelings about Margaret Thatcher as a mother-figure.