Archive for the Category ‘General NEWS’

Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a techie for allegedly opening a fake Facebook account of his former woman colleague and publishing obscene pictures.
T Satish, an engineer working with an MNC in Bangalore, was arrested on Thursday and officials
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Hyderabad Metro Rail project will be built in contentious sections across the three corridors only after a majority of affected property owners or businessmen are suitably rehabilitated, asserted Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development M. Maheedhar Reddy on Friday.
“There
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Thursday’s freak mishap at the City Center Mall in Banjara Hills has brought to the fore the safety of visitors using escalators in malls and multiplexes and the measures taken by managements to avoid such incidents.
A four-month-old infant died instantly
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The 12-hour bandh, called by a few trade unions on Thursday seeking a judicial inquiry into the death of M.S. Murali Mohan, a worker of Regency Ceramics Limited, following a standoff between the management and workers, evoked partial response.
A majority
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The infinite value that even a millisecond carries could not be manifested in a better fashion.
Competing with the precision of a stopwatch and typing the entire English alphabet in less that three-and-a-half seconds, a city-based student, Mohammed Khursheed Hussain, attempted
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Officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Sanjay Kumar, managing partner of the Ghanshyamdas Gems and Jewels, here on Thursday, based on a complaint of fraud lodged on behalf of the State Bank of India (SBI). Sanjay allegedly
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Officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Sanjay Kumar, managing partner of the Ghanshyamdas Gems and Jewels, here on Thursday, based on a complaint of fraud lodged on behalf of the State Bank of India (SBI). Sanjay allegedly
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HYDERABAD: It has been an endless wait of seven years now for the CBI to find out why IAS officer and then MD of APIIC L V Subramanyam did what he did in the Volkswagen scam. In early 2005, the
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New Delhi: After weeks of uncertainty, Jawaharlal Nehru University appears set for a February poll to elect its first students union in four years. Though the Supreme Court’s December 8 order lifted its stay on the elections, paving the way
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Hyderabad: Demanding that the probe reports over the Antrix-Devas deal be made public, BJP on Sunday said it would raise the issue in the Budget session of Parliament.
“The government must come clean. The BJP demands that the reports be made
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HYDERABAD: Nearly two years after a feasibility study was done on a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) for the Rethibowli-JNTU, Kukatpally route, a special purpose vehicle is yet to be created to take the project forward.
It appears that the Municipal
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HYDERABAD: More IAS officers were rapped by the CBI in the Emaar scandal with the investigation agency filing its first chargesheet on Wednesday. Other than principal home secretary Bibhu Acharya, his 1983 IAS batch mate and present executive officer of
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has denied that it was resorting to use of third degree methods to examine V. Vijay Sai Reddy, auditor of Jagati Publications, who is not in its custody, or any other persons accused in
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Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday extended his party’s support to the ongoing strike by textile traders and said the issue would be raised in the coming budget session of the Assembly.
Dharna held
Participating in the ‘dharna’ organised
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HYDERABAD: At long last, the names of eight new information commissioners including in-service IPS officer M Ratan were cleared by the selection committee that met under the chairmanship of the chief minister on Tuesday afternoon. The choice of candidates also
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HYDERABAD: Arrested IAS officer B P Acharya on Tuesday was sent to Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (Nims) after he complained that he had a heart pain. This will allow him to avoid going to Chanchalguda jail after his CBI
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Nalini Gangadharan, who started her work on empowering the youth through education in Andhra Pradesh in 2005, has now educated more than 10,000 students across the country. Lighting the lives of drop-out kids, Nalini Gangadharan is awakening the society. She
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The imposition of Value Added Tax on textile traders found its echo in the State Cabinet meeting on Monday when it caused heated exchanges between Ministers who were supportive of levy of VAT and those who wanted its withdrawal on
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