HYDERABAD: Students belonging to weaker sections could seek admission in educational institutions without paying fee, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy said here on Friday. “Any student belonging to SC, ST, BC and minorities ...
NEW DELHI: The Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA), under the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development, on Friday, has recognised the Andhra Pradesh Department of Women Development and Child Welfare (DWDCW) to place children for ...
The two-day inter-district cricket tournament got off to a start at Rajaram Stadium at Nagaram in Nizamabad on Friday morning. Several teams representing all districts in the State are taking part ...
VIZIANAGARAM: Congress and TDP councillors at the Vizianagaram Municipal Council meeting on Thursday did not accept transfer of maintenance of sewage treatment plant from Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority that it had executed and ...
MAHBUBNAGAR: The last rites of Mohd. Salahuddin (24), a Junior Commando who lost his life in the Maoist attack in Chitrakonda recently, were performed in his native village of Annasagar, 15 km from here. Before the funeral, the body was taken ...
Murari (East Godavari dt.): TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu said he would completely waive the loans taken by farmers, DWCRA groups and housing loans if the TDP comes to power in the elections next year and asserted that his party was fully ...
VIZIANAGARAM: Three women labourers – V. Vinod Kumari (20), A. Janaki (19) and P. Chinnammi (20) – were killed on the spot and two others were injured when the front wheel tube of the tractor in which they were returning home from ...
VIZIANAGARAM: Andhra University Vice-Chancellor B. Satyanarayana on Friday lighted the lamp to mark the formal inauguration of two new courses -- M. Sc (bio-technology) and MHRM -- introduced in Maharajah’s Post Graduate College from ...
Kakinada: Adarsh Engineering College (AEC), an institution of Adarsh Educational Society at Chebrolu, is commencing admissions to the first batches of CSE, ECE, EEE and IT courses from this academic year 2008-09. The college which was just ...
Kakinada: Collector Gopalakrishna Dwivedi suggested that surrendered Maoists be provided employment on the basis of their qualifications by upgrading their skills, which facilitates proper rehabilitation. Maoists who eschew violence would be ...
Kakinada: Joint Collector G.S.R.K.R. Vijay Kumar ordered the District Panchayat Officer to pay Rs. 80 lakh library cess due to the Zilla Grandhalaya Samstha (ZGS), in seven days to help it overcome the funds crunch. He instructed the municipal ...
Sangareddy: Two women complained to the police today that their husband Narsimulu, has married six women. The issue came to light only with the latest marriage of Narsimulu to a teenager. One of the complainants said he married her in 1993 ...
Sangareddy: Girl students belonging to the backward classes interested in joining college hostels in the three divisions of Medak district should file their applications on or before July 31. According to a press releas, those whose annual ...
ADILABAD: Siddipet MLA (TRS) T. Harish Rao on Friday exhorted students to create awareness among their parents and neighbours about the injustices meted out to the Telangana region. He said that students must influence their elders to ...
Sangareddy: Police used mild force to disperse students who were on the verge of rampaging the District Education Officer’s office here today. Many students, particularly girl students, were brought to the DEO’s office by the ABVP ...
After a dashing role of a police officer in ‘Evadaite Nakenti’, Rajashekar makes a subdued appearance in ‘Gorintaku’, the remake of a Kannada hit ‘Anna Thangi’. ‘Gorintaku’ is a sentimental drama ...
If Imran resembles Aamir, and the resemblance is natural and understandable, it is quite the opposite here. Newcomer Harman Baweja seems to have cultivated similarity to Hrithik Roshan to evoke interest in his debut film. He seems to make a ...
Max Events is conducting Hyderabad Consumer Expo - 2008 at Exhibition Grounds, Nampally, from July 5 to 27 between 3 and 10 p.m. For enquires contact on 09701550247. ...
His uncle is still at it: wowing admirers across generations, reinventing himself with every new venture. Now comes Aamir Khan’s nephew, Imran, whose face does nothing to make you question his genes. He resembles Aamir in more than a ...
Ministers Mohd. Ali Shabbir and Mukesh Goud will take calls (23222018, 23221978 and 23261330) on civic issues on July 5 between 6 and 7 p.m. at GHMC head office. ...
The 45th municipal division corporator Pilli Lakshmi Tulasi distributed notebooks, slates, pens and pencils to students of T. Ramadevi Municipal High School students on the 61st birth anniversary of former MLA Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga Rao. ...
Krishna Milk Union is going to conduct a free rabies vaccination camp for pet dogs on Sunday, the World Zoonosis Day. Milk union MD T. Babu Rao in a press release said the over 200 zoonotic diseases were transmitted from animals to human ...
Delhi Public School inducted new members in the School Supreme Council on Friday. VSP’s Finance Director K S Shankar administered the oath of office to the president, the head boy, the head girl, the sports captain and all the council ...
MLC M.V.S. Sarma has urged the Chief Minister to make changes in the building penalisation scheme (BPS) and extend the last date to December 31, 2008 and allow payment in easy instalments. In a memorandum submitted to the Chief Minister, the ...
APSRTC (Greater Hyderabad zone), in a press release, has requested general bus pass holders as also general commuters to cooperate with its officials who would be conducting a feedback survey shortly and offer their suggestions to enable ...
Visu International Limited is organising a free seminar on business study, work and immigration services on Sunday at Anmol Continental, opposite Secretariat, from 10 a.m., according to a release. For details contact 6613-5502/ 6663-2865/ ...
The A.P Transco will be holding ‘Lok Adalat’ on Saturday at Mint Compound at 11 a.m. Consumers of the Central Power Distribution Company of A.P. can avail themselves of this opportunity to settle their cases, a company press ...
Activists of the All India Youth Federation (AIYF) will stage a dharna in front of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) demanding that medical camps be conducted in rainy season to prevent the spread of infectious fevers. AIYF ...
HYDERABAD: The National Mazdoor Union, the recognised body of workers in the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, on Friday served notice for a two-day strike on the management, demanding abolition of contract system and ...
HYDERABAD: Hyderabad will be adding another feather in its cap, when it hosts the third Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting in December. More than 1,000 delegates from world over will meet here to hold deliberations on a wide range of ...
HYDERABAD: M. Lakshminarayana, First Additional and District Sessions Judge, Kurnool, on Friday took over as Registrar of the Andhra Pradesh State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (APSCDRC), thus filling the post which was lying vacant ...
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh State Haj Committee has made elaborate arrangements for administering polio drops to the selected Haj pilgrims throughout the State, in all district headquarters. Minorities Welfare Minister Mohd. Ali ...
HYDERABAD: Nearly 200 representatives of various industrial units attended a seminar on ‘Important labour laws’ organised by FAPCCI here on Friday. R. Koteswara Rao, Director of Factories, who inaugurated the seminar, dwelt at ...
HYDERABAD: The Secunderabad-Vijayawada-Secunderabad special train with the Train Number 0714/0713 stands cancelled with effect from July 7, a press release from South Central Railway informed on Friday. – Staff ...
HYDERABAD: Come July 7, an army of volunteers and active campaigners for actor Chiranjeevi’s party will fan out across the State in a week-long drive to collect names in households and to help register voters. The campaign is ...
HYDERABAD: The U.S. Pharmacopea (USP) Convention appointed K.V. Surendra Nath as vice-president of USP India, Ltd., (located in Hyderabad) effective July 1. Dr. Surendra Nath joined USP-India as laboratory director in January 2006. Dr. ...
HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy has called upon people to join hands with the government to root out corruption. Stating that the government had already launched a massive drive against the corrupt by reviving the ...
HYDERABAD: The State committee of the All-India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) has called for dharnas before the Excise Department offices on July 14 to protest the Government targeting excise earning as its main source of ...
HYDERABAD: The three-day ‘Teej and Rakshabandhan Mela’ organised by Mahila Jagruti, was inaugurated on Friday by Naveen Mittal, IAS, Hyderabad District Magistrate and Collector. The organisation which aims to impart training in ...
HYDERABAD: Minister for BC Welfare M. Mukesh Goud, during ‘Praja Pratham’ in colonies under Maharajgunj constituency on Friday, released Rs. 15 lakh for laying a drinking water pipeline at Ayesh Takdia Colony. The Minister, ...
HYDERABAD: The Association of Schools for the Indian School Certificate (ASICE), the country’s biggest body of principals of ICSE and ISC schools, is conducting eight-day workshop for principals in the city from July 10 to 17 at Ramoji ...
HYDERABAD: Speed limit of water tankers, vehicle movement and more importantly, the misuse of free trip water tankers by the crew will be monitored with the installation of Global Positioning System (GPS) by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water ...
HYDERABAD: Hitech Institute of Advanced Pharmaceutical Sciences is conducting a short-term industry-oriented course for pharma graduates and science post-graduates from July 12 at the NATCO House. The nine-week course, supported by NATCO ...
HYDERABAD: The State Government has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with 13 firms to train one lakh rural youths this year. The Employment Generation and Marketing Mission (EGMM) of the Rural Development Department ...
HYDERABAD: The issue of clubbing of schools has landed in the High Court with the State Teachers’ Union seeking the withdrawal of the move that resulted in the closure of 282 schools in the twin cities. The High Court admitted a ...
HYDERABAD: A farmer who killed two leopards after trapping them using snares and his associate through whom he tried to sell the two hides were arrested by the police on Friday. Two hides of leopards were seized from B. Rami Reddy, 38, ...
HYDERABAD: The Commissioner’s Task Force (West) officials on Friday busted a ‘hawala’ racket with the arrest of six persons and seized Rs. 23.06 lakh from them. The arrested persons were acting as agents for the ...
HYDERABAD: The government on Friday issued a set of 10 orders to include 10 different castes in the State list of Backward Classes to extend reservation facility to them in employment, education etc. The Cabinet decision to include them in ...
HYDERABAD: The APSRTC, which will be introducing e-ticketing on its website next month, is expecting to do a business of Rs. 350 crore through sale of tickets on the portal. The corporation has handed over the project to Bharat Electronics Ltd ...
ELURU: Acharya Nagarjuna University has awarded Ph.D to K. A. Rama Rao, lecturer in chemistry, Sir C.R. Reddy College for his thesis ‘Deflouridation and detoxification of copper using various carbons prepared from plant materials as ...
ELURU: Infotech Enterprises will hold campus interviews here on Saturday and Sunday in association with the management of Sir C. Reddy College, according to college correspondent N.V.K. Durga Rao. The campus interviews are meant for ...
GUNTUR: The supplementary examination of Bachelor of Education course in Acharya Nagarjuna University will be held from July 29 as per the detailed programme to be announced and the last date for payment of fee is July 18. The fee (Rs.415 for ...
GUNTUR: The District Employment Office here will organise a recruitment drive for the post of sales executive in Vijayawada-based Siva Shakti group on Saturday at its office opposite the Collector’s Office. District Employment ...
GUNTUR: Representatives of student unions barged into Patibandla Seetharamaiah High School here on Friday to disrupt a meeting of headmasters of Zilla Parishad schools in the district organised by District Education Officer Y. Chandramohan. ...
GUNTUR: The last date for payment of Vacant Land Tax in Guntur Municipal Corporation area has been extended till July 31. The GMC Standing Committee meeting chaired by Mayor Rayapati Mohan Sai Krishna on Friday decided to extend the ...
GUNTUR: There will be no political mileage accruing to the ruling UPA or the Congress in Andhra Pradesh from the loan waiver scheme, said former Rajya Sabha MP Yelamanchili Sivaji. He, however, congratulated the government for taking the ...
GUNTUR: The Indian Flue-cured Virginia Tobacco farmers never had it so good, with additional income generated from auctions totalling Rs. 616 crore in Andhra Pradesh alone. The domestic average price realised for a kg of tobacco crossed the ...
KADAPA: Kadapa Zilla Parishad Chairperson D. Jyothi Reddy expressed concern at the scanty attendance of members to the ZP standing committee meeting on Friday. Farmers are all set to take up farming work but are perturbed at lack of ...
KADAPA: Bogus votes are being enrolled in large numbers in Kadapa district at the behest of ruling party leaders and the Telugu Desam Party would complain to the Chief Election Commissioner at New Delhi, TDP leaders asserted on ...
KADAPA: A belt shop owner Sooramreddy Narayana Reddy (45), on Porumamilla main road, was hacked to death by unidentified persons while he was asleep in the shop late on Thursday night. Police quoted locals as saying that five unknown ...
KARIMNAGAR: The Karimnagar district police and the residents of Godavarikhani town bid a tearful adieu with full State honours to Greyhounds constable Parupalli Kiran Kumar (23) on the shores of river Godavari on the outskirts of Godavarikhani ...
KARIMNAGAR: Minister for Endowments J. Ratnakara Rao has said that the government has sanctioned Rs. 6 crore for taking up various drinking water schemes in the Raikal mandal. He said that the government would take measures for the ...
KARIMNAGAR: On the World Zoonosis day on July 6, the district Animal Husbandry Department will conduct an awareness programme about the spread of infectious diseases through domestic and wild animals. The Department will distribute free ...
KHAMMAM: Punem Gaderaju alias Bhadaranna alias Ashok, (50), district committee secretary of the Godavarai Loya Boggughani Karmika Sangham (PPG) was shot dead by a member of his own dalam in the forests near Bangaru Chalaka village in the early ...
KURNOOL: Hindu religious leaders decried the interference of the government and others in the affairs of temples across the State. A meeting on ‘Maintenance of Temples’ was held here on Friday. Sri Vidyaranya Bharati, seer of the ...
KURNOOL: CPI State secretariat member K. Ramakrishna urged the government to pay attention to rising prices of essential commodities. Talking to reporters here on Friday, he said because of inefficiency, lenience and corruption in ...
KURNOOL: Nayi Brahmins closed shops in the city on Friday to protest against ransacking of a shop on Thursday during VHP bandh. The leaders lodged a complaint with the police saying that a group of VHP supporters led by Kapileswaraiah carried ...
KURNOOL: Collector G. Balaramaiah sought Rs. 74.26 crore from the government for conducting Tunghabhadra pushkaram in December this year. In view of the approaching monsoon, he underlined the need for releasing the grant immediately so that ...
NIZAMABAD: Assembly Speaker K.R. Suresh Reddy has said that the Jalalpur drinking water scheme taken up at an estimated cost of Rs. 80 crore, to provide a permanent solution to the drinking water needs of Balkonda constituency, will be ...
Rajahmundry: Two children J.S. Maheswara Rao (11) and D. Ravi (10) drowned in a water-filled pit at quarry area on Thursday. They got down into the pit for bathing and met with the watery grave while another boy who too ventured into the pit, ...
Srikakulam: As many as 1.41 lakh farmers in the district would benefit from the agricultural loan waiver scheme of the Union Government. The amount involved is Rs.210.59 crore. Disclosing this, the Lead District Manager, Ch.Rajarammohana Ray, ...
Srikakulam: The issue of availability of paddy seed, fertilizers and other agricultural inputs for the present kharif season evoked heated arguments between the representatives of the TDP and the Congress, the former arguing that there was ...
TIRUMALA: The five-day ‘Varun Japam’ being conducted by the TTD took off on a ceremonial note on Friday at Gogarbham Theertham near Parveti Mandapam, here. It is being organised to please God Varuna to shower copious rain. ...
N.St.Mathew’s Public School: Investiture Ceremony of primary school cabinet, G.Venkata Narayana Rao, District Fire Officer, is the Chief guest, school grounds, 9.30 a.m. National Child Labour ...
Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam chapter of the Institution of Engineers (India) will conduct coaching classes for students appearing for AMIE examinations in December 2008 at nominal fees, according its honorary secretary S. Narayana Rao. ...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The train no.2841 Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express leaving Howrah on Friday and arriving Visakhapatnam on Saturday and the train no. 2842 Chennai-Howrah Coromandel Express leaving Chennai on Sunday have been restored, according ...
VISAKHAPATNAM: A free eye screening camp for diabetics will be conducted at L.V.Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) here from Sunday to July 8. The camp, sponsored by Symbiosis Technologies, is being organised in connection with the second ...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Satyam Foundation, the corporate social responsibility (CSR) wing of the global IT services provider giant Satyam Computers, opened its sixth chapter here on Friday. “Satyam Foundation opens its chapter in all the ...
