Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today directed officials of the Prohibition and Excise Department to step up vigil and check illicit liquor trade in the state.The Chief Minister’s directive came after four persons died after consuming illicit liquor in Vijayawada this morning. Reddy has expressed grief over the incident and directed Excise Commissioner Sameer [...]
New Delhi: India has sought German expertise to develop green technologies and electric vehicles in order to cut carbon emissions.Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma met German Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development Peter Ramsauer in Berlin yesterday. Sharma said both the countries are committed to reduce carbon emissions.”We are also seeking a common [...]
Paris:Preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria claimed the lives of nearly five million children younger than five in 2010, a paper in The Lancet medical journal said today.A total 7.6 million children died in the first five years of their life that year, the authors said, and warned the world was not on track to [...]
Chandigarh: The Punjab government has decided to initiate action against private educational institutes charging heavy fee from the students without providing them quality education as promised at the time of admission.”Government will take serious action against institutes commercialising the education system. Institutes which admit students and charge heavy fees but do not provide placements are also under the [...]
New Delhi:There was no evidence to suggest that attacks on Indian students in foreign countries were increasing, the government today said, adding that such incidents had shown a “sharp” decline in Australia in 2011 compared to previous two years.This was stated in Rajya Sabha by Minister of State for Human Resource Development D Purandeswari in response to a question.During [...]
Scott Williams MADRID: Rafael Nadal went down in frustration as the second seed lost his first match of the season on clay, with Spanish compatriot Fernando Verdasco triumphing 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 on Thursday in the third round of the Madrid Masters. It was entirely another story for top seed Novak Djokovic, who needed two match [...]
With the Eamcet and physics improvement exam slotted within three days of each other, students are burning the midnight oil trying to strike a balance between the two Eamcet which is the most important exam for any engineering and medical aspirant in AP has given the students a bitter parting gift. For years this exams [...]
As spurious petrol sales pick up, the civil supplies department feigns ignorance It’s a sunny day, you’re driving in the midst of heavy traffic when you suddenly run out of fuel. There is no petrol bunk in sight and you’re terribly late. Just as you’re reaching the end of your tether you spot a man [...]
APSRTC is all set to conduct a trial run of three Chinese buses that will save money and reduce air pollution. Prospects are exciting, say corporation officials If you see a colourful, compact bus that emits no smoke in the crowded traffic of Hyderabad in the next couple of months, you are watching the future [...]
Former minister Shanker Rao has been relentlessly predicting the downfall of the chief minister. He is now set to lodge a breach of privilege against the party leadership with the Assembly secretary S hanker Rao former minister and MLA who threatened to break open the CLP office in the Assembly premises yesterday but was frustrated [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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