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G-1 exams to go ahead on schedule
Hyderabad, Sept 3 : The State government on Friday said that it will not bow down to calls from Telangana protagonists and conduct the AndhraPradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) Group-1 preliminary exams on the earlier announced schedule.
According to sources, the government decision came in the wake of the APPSC saying that all arrangements have been put in place for conducting the examinations.
Director General of Police K Aravinda Rao had earlier in the day put the police department on alert and had directed officials to ensure that the examinations are conducted peacefully.
Earlier on Friday the APPSC convened an emergency meeting after Telangana students called for a bandh demanding that the government gives a clarification on their demands of a 42 per cent quota in recruitments for G-1 qualifiers from the region.
According to sources, APPSC members complained at the meeting that, "Only the government can intervene and take a decision on the quota in jobs for Telangana people. It is not under the jurisdiction of APPSC. Till further orders from the government over the quota issue, we cannot take a decision on the postponement."
Meanwhile, students' organizations affiliated to Telangana Joint Action Committee region on Friday picketed the APPSC office at Nampally and staged a dharna demanding postponement of Group-1 examination until the uncertainty over the quota issue is addressed.
SCR announces 16 weekly special trains
Hyderabad, Sept 3 : In order to clear extra rush of passengers, South Central Railway on Friday announced that it will run sixteen weekly special trains during September.
According to the SCR, Train No 0701A Secunderabad-Kakinada Town Weekly Special Train will depart Secunderabad on September 5, 12, 19 and 26, (Sundays) at 11:00 PMand arrive at Kakinada Town at 8:50 AM the next day.
In the return direction, Train No 0700A Kakinada Town-Secunderabad Weekly Special Train will depart from Kakinada Town on September 4, 11, 18, and 25, (Saturdays) at 9:00 PM and arrive at Secunderabad at 8:00 AM the next day.
Enroute, these special trains will stop at Kazipet, Warangal, Khammam, Madhira, Vijayawada, Eluru, Tadepalligudem, Nidadavolu, Rajahmundry, Anaparti and Samalkot in both the directions.
These special trains will have one AC III Tier, eight Sleeper Class, three General Second Class and two Second Class Luggage Cum Brake Van Coaches totaling to 14 coaches.
In addition, SCR will run Train No 0700B / 0701B Secunderabad - Kakinada Town- Secunderabad Weekly Special Train to the timings and halts of Train No. 0701A / 0700B Secunderabad-Kakinada Town-Secunderabad Weekly Special trains. Train No. 0700B Secunderabad -Kakinada Town Weekly Special train will depart Secunderabad on September 6, 13, 20 and 27 (Mondays,).
Train No 0701B Kakinada Town-Secunderabad Weekly Special train will depart from Kakinada on September 7, 14, 21 and 28 (Tuesdays).
These special trains will have one AC II Tier, one AC III Tier, ten Sleeper Class, two General Second Class and two Second Class Luggage Cum Brake Van Coaches totalling to 16 coaches.
ISKCON's Janmashtami
celebrations from
tomorrow
Tirupati, Aug 31 : 'Sri Krishna Janmashtami' will be celebrated as a three-day festival at Radha Govind Mandir run by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).
More than two lakh visitors are expected to converge at the glittering temple at Alpiri known as ''lotus temple''.
Addressing a press conference here yesterday, temple President Revathi Raman Das said the festival would be celebrated for three-days from September 1 and ISKCON members from various countries will be arriving here to take part in the festival.
The temple, which is only the second in the country to show Radha and Krishna surrounded by 'Ashtasakhis' (their eight imaginary companions), is also famous across the globe for having the largest altar (Sannidhi) in South India, he said.
As part of festival, interesting episodes from Lord's Krishna's life will be displayed through colourful dioramas. Artists have already finished painting the three-dimensional dioramas, which will be installed at vantage points leading to the temple. Cultural programmes will be conducted at the sprawling ground adjacent to the temple complex, he added.
A musical dance drama would be performed by International troupe on the Krishnashtami day Prabhat Kalavidaru, while the 114 birth anniversary of Sri Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the ISKCON movement, will be observed on the last day, he added.
Attack on Prof in OU :
JAC calls bandh in north
Andhra Pradesh
Visakhapatnam, Aug 30 : Educational Institutions in north coastal district and the Port City were closed here today responding to the call given by the Seemandhra students' Joint Action Committee (JAC).
The JAC has demanded bandh of educational institutions protesting against the attack by Osmania University (OU) JAC members on Seemandhra lecturers who went there for evaluation of examination papers.
Seemandhra JAC members visited the government and corporate colleges and asked the students to boycott class and participate in the protest.
Speaking to media Seemandhra JAC convener A Kishore Kumar said the teacher should be revered and given high respect.
He said the attack on the lecturers was wrong and it should be condemned. The JAC members demanded the government to arrest the students
who attacked them.
They decided to sit on dharna in front of all the collectorates to press their demand to arrest the OU Students involved in the violence. They have also demanded the State Government to give protection to the north Andhra people in Telangana region.
''OU JAC members by resorting to this type of attacks are tarnishing their own image,'' he said and added that if the they did not change their attitude, they would face the ire of all students.
Protesters forced to close the Government women's college, NRI, Samata, Narayana and Chaitanya colleges along with Little Angeles and M V P Public schools.
Jailbird extortionist posing as naxalite
held along with two
Hyderabad, Aug 22 : A 39-years-old mimicry artist from Jagtial who extorted huge amount from more than 1,500 persons over the last 10 years blackmailing them or posing as naxalite was arrested by the Task Force along with two associates.
Mohd Rafiuddin alias Jakir who was in jail for three terms after having failed to make a mark in Dubai had been extorting money posing as Ramesh Anna alias Sathosh of the defunct people's war group.
Between 2001 and 2008 along with Shakheela, a married woman whom he had trapped and later married partnered him in about luring 1,000 persons and blackmailed them using their photographs in compromising position.
After returning from his second sentence from jail, Rafiuddin along with Mohd Jaffer (47) an electrician and Mohd Majid Ali(42) a driver all formed a Jagtial gang and extorted huge amount from 300 doctors, contractors, bureaucrats and politicians as ''Ramesh Anna PWG district Commander'' and threatened them of dire consequences if they informed the police.
The trio were caught by the Task force, according to police relase here today.
10 Africans held in Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Aug 22 : At least 10 Ugandans and Nigerian nationals were held by the Hyderabad city police today during the drive agaist the drug peddlers in various parts of the city.
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As the Hyderabad police launched a hunt to track the drug trail , they found many Ugandans and Nigerian nationals in Towlichoki, Humayunnagar, Mahidipatnam, and other adjourning areas of having over stayed more than 10 years beyond their visa permit.
Atleast 10 of them have been taken into custody after the raids and police claimed that they have got substancial information of drug peddling in the Hyderabad city.
Hyderabad police chief Mr Khan had said last week atleast 60 persons in tollywood, children of politicians, contractors and actors were reportedly hooked to drug which was exposed with the arrest of two brothers of the popular telugu actor Raviteja along with the Negerian and Ugandan drug supplier.
The police is trying to track the trail in a bid stop the flow of drug into the city.
PRP president to act in films again
Hyderabad, Aug 22 : Actor-turned-politician and Praja Rajyam Party(PRP) President Chiranjeevi will act in films again two years after his debut in politics.
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The announcement was made by his son, actor Ramacharan Teja, on the occasion of the Telugu megastar's 55th birthday celebrations here today.
Chiranjeevi is to act in his 150th film which will be completed by his next birthday, his son said before a large gathering of fans.
The former megastar had expressed his desire to act again in the presence of Tamil super star Rajnikant at the recent audio release function here, after watching the promos of "Robo".
He had stated that the artist him self desired to do a film again.
Chirajeevi had launched PRP in August 2008 from Tirupati. He was elected MLA from Tirupati constituency in the Assembly Elections in year 2009. His party won 18 seats.
Telugu Desam Party(TDP) founder N T Rama Rao who had also launched his party from Tirupati in 1981, came to power in a record nine months, and had also acted in a film when he was the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
Expedite introduction of bio-metric
smart cards for PDS: CM
Hyderabad, Aug 13 : Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah today asked Civil Supplies Department to expedite the introduction of bio-metric Smart Cards for Public Distribution System in the state so that only real beneficiaries would get rations.
''It is a good project. Without exploitation by middlemen and other unscrupulous elements, only real beneficiaries will be able to draw rations and duplication could be avoided,'' the Chief Minister said while reviewing the functioning of the Civil Supplies Department and the latest price situation with the concerned minister and officials at the Secretariat.
Civil Supplies Commissioner Sanjay Jaju informed the Chief Minister that the department would complete the enrollment of over three crore people in the seven districts of Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Adilabad, East Godavari, Srikakulam, Chittoor and Anantapur through bio-metric system with the coordination of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
The Chief Minister also directed the department to constantly monitor the situation and control the prices of essential commodities.
The department should see to it that prices do not go up and resort to market internventions and other measures, whenever and wherever needed.
The Civil Supplies Department, which has been nominated as the Registrars for UIDAI in Andhra Pradesh, has launched the Smart Cards Project which envisages multi-pronged benefits including guaranteed delivery of rations to all eligible beneficiaries, ration shop-wise online stock position reports, reduction of costs by preventing malpractices at root level, saving of money and time, online inventory monitoring, gaining confidence of citizens, accountability and transparency in ration distribution, display of stocks status at shops and complete control of distribution.
Junior NTR gets injured during 'Brindavanam' shooting
Hyderabad, Aug 13 : Telugu film actor Junior NTR was injured today while shooting the climax scene of his latest film 'Brindavanam'.
The popular actor sustained head injuries while shooting the scene which required him to enact a fight.
Doctors at a private corporate hospital put six stitches to close the wound. His condition was stable, doctors attending on him said.
The film 'Brindavanam' which also stars Prakash Raj, is being produced by Dil Raju under the banner of Matinee Entertainment.
Kajal Agarwal and Samantha are playing the female leads in the film being directed by Vamsi Padipally.
16 weekly Hyderabad-Howrah-Hyderabad special trains
Hyderabad, Aug 13 : South Central Railway(SCR) will run sixteen weekly special-trains from Secunderabad to Howrah during the Durga Pooja and Winter Season to clear the extra rush of traffic.
The trains will leave Hyderabad at 2150 hrs.on Mondays from October 4 and from Howrah at 1525 hrs. on Wednesdays from October 6, a SCR release said in a release here today.
Train No. 0746 Hyderabad-Howrah Weekly Special train will depart Hyderabad on Mondays at 21.50 hrs and arrive/depart Secunderabad at 22.10/22.15 hrs. on 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th October, 2010 and on 1st, 8th 15th and 22nd November and arrive in Howrah at 03.20 hrs. the next day.
In the return direction Train No. 0745 Howrah-Hyderabad Weekly Special train will depart Howrah on Wednesdays at 15.25 hrs on 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th October, 2010 and on 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th November and arrive/depart Secunderabad at 19.30/19.40 hrs.and arrive Hyderabad at 20.30 hrs. the next day.
Resolution in Parliament can only solve Ayodhya temple issue : VHP
Tirupati, Chittoor district, Aug 13 : Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) International President Ashok Singhal today said the long pending Ayodhya temple issue can be solved only through legislation in Parliament.
Addressing a press conference, Mr Singhal said the construction of Temple in Ayodhya has been pending for 40 long years at various courts and the final judgment was likely to be announced by Allahabad High Court next month.
The courts can not solve the problem as the temple issue depends on the ''faith'' and is a national issue, he said adding a resolution in Parliament by passing an Act in favour of Ram temple construction was needed and all members in the House should support the issue.
Earlier, Mr Singhal accompanied by VHP leaders offered prayers to the Lord Venkateswara Swamy at Traumata hills.
Later, Mr Singhal addressed VHP activists from various places in Rayalaseema districts.
TRS leader Harish Rao wins by record margin
Hyderabad, July 30 : Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader T. Harish Rao Friday set a record in Andhra Pradesh's electoral politics by retaining his Siddipet assembly seat in the by-elections by a margin of over 95,000 votes.
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He was elected with a margin of 95,858 votes, breaking the record of late former chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who was re-elected from Pulivendula constituency in Kadapa district last year with a margin of 68,681.
Harish Rao came second in last year's elections in terms of victory margin with 64,677 votes.
The candidates of both the ruling Congress and main opposition Telugu Desam Party in Siddpet constituency in Medak district lost their deposits.
Harish Rao is the nephew of TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao and has been winning the seat ever since the latter moved to the Lok Sabha after the 2004 elections.
TRS leading in Telangana by-polls
Hyderabad, July 30 : The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) is leading in 11 constituencies and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in one as the counting of votes in the by-elections to 12 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region began Friday morning.
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At the end of the first round of counting, TRS candidates were leading over their nearest rivals in 11 constituencies. BJP's Lakshminarayana was ahead of state Congress chief D. Srinivas in Nizamabad Urban segment.
The results from seven constituencies, where electronic voting machines (EVMs) were used, are likely to be announced before noon while it may take some more time in the remaining five constituencies where ballot papers were used.
The Election Commission said 66.67 percent of 23.60 lakh voters in the 12 constituencies spread over five districts cast their votes in the elections held Tuesday.
The by-polls were necessitated by the resignation of all 10 legislators of the TRS and one each of the BJP and the TDP on the issue of a separate Telangana state early this year.
As many as 435 candidates are in the fray for the by-elections, seen as a referendum on the issue of a separate Telangana.
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