March 19, 2016
March 19, 2016
Hyderabad: Finance Minister Eetela Rajender made a special allocation in the Budget 2016. On Monday, Eetela Rajender introduced Telangana state budget for 2016-17 in the Assembly. Allocations for various government programs in the Budget is mandatory, keeping in view of the expenditure. However, it is difficult to anti...
Describing the index of industrial production (IIP) numbers as “disappointing”, Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan today said the economy is recovering, but the process of recovery is volatile.Reserve Bank Governor and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley were speaking to the media after Reserve Bank’s Boa...
Chandigarh: At least 10 people have been killed and 150 injured as protests by the Jat community in Haryana demanding Other Backward Classes (OBC) status entered the seventh day on Sunday.Fresh incidents of violence were reported with protesters in Bhiwani and Sonipat districts setting afire two police chowkis, shops a...
NEW DELHI: The national capital has run out of water and all schools are to remain closed, the Delhi government announced today.The violent agitation carried out by Jats in Haryana, who want to be included in the Other Backward Class (OBC) category, has hit the water supply for neighbouring Delhi, with the capital runn...
The Opposition parties in one voice protested against the pressing of sedition charges against Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in the matter.At an all-party meeting called by Mr. Modi, the Opposition on Tuesday was assured that the ...
Oppoistion YSRCP MLA Roja criticized that chief minister Chandrababu Naidu was trying desperately to turn the people’s attention away from the crisis his party landed in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states.Stating that Naidu’s MLAs were leaving the party to join TRS in Telangana because of his leadership fa...
The Supreme Court, examining the powers of Governors, on Thursday took strong note of a submission that all decisions of the Governor are not open to judicial review and said it cannot be a mute spectator when democratic processes are "slaughtered"."If democracy is slaughtered, how can the court remain s...
Karimnagar: Congress MLA from Jagityal T Jeevan Reddy demanded the State government that they sanction Rs 100 crore for solving the drinking water problem in the district. He also wanted the government to allocate another Rs 10 crore to construct water tubs and dig bore-wells to provide water to cattle. Speaking to the...
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A succession of disclosures against him in a corruption scandal have left Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy precariously placed ahead of state elections. Here are the 10 latest developments in what has been dubbed the "solar scam".A court has ordered that the Chief Minister, who be...
A National Green Tribunal’s order to Andhra Pradesh not to allow sand mining in the river beds without environmental clearance is all set to pose a trouble for it ahead of its grand plans to construct the new state capital of Amaravati.Hyderabad: The National Green Tribunal’s order to the Andhra Pradesh gov...
AP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Monday participated in 'JanmaBhoomi' and 'Maa Vooru' programme held at Markapuram mandal in Prakasam district. Speaking on the occasion, Chandrababu assured the people that the government would solve the water crisis at any cost. The Chief Minister also added that irrespective of ...
Growing farmers’ suicides all over the country symbolise the deep agrarian crisis. With over two lakh farmers committing suicides over the past two decades, India’s farmers are giving a call to the nation’s conscience.Ultimately, this remains as an indictment of new-economic policies initiated in 1991...
Former Congress Chief Minister and Jai Samaikyandhra Party president N Kiran Kumar Reddy has participated in silver jubilee celebrations of Rajiv Gandhi Degree and PG College in Rajahmundry on Monday. Speaking to the media, Kiran said both Telugu states would face severe water problem. He suggested to both Chief Minist...
When a residential complex near Bellandur Junction recently drilled a borewell, they found water at a depth of 1,050 ft. "This is the sixth borewell we got drilled in 10 years. And we are not sure how long water would last in this one," said Ajith Kaverappa, a resident of the complex that has 60 apartments.Mo...
Hyderabad: The water scarcity that is affecting entire state and city has recently disrupted the academics on the prestigious University of Hyderabad. And now the students of the university have developed an app to tide over until the drinking water situation improves. The University of Hyderabad, one of the premier ed...
Hyderabad: Police on Thursday detained 16 students for planning the controversial 'beef festival' on Osmania University campus, while BJP MLA T Raja Singh, who was opposing the event, was also arrested. A 'curfew-like' situation prevailed on the campus with heavy police security being deployed to prevent any untoward i...
London: Greek austerity has driven young women to the point where they are selling $ex for the price of a sandwich, a study has found.Sociology professor Gregory Laxos and his team at Panteion University in Athens found that young Greek women had now overtaken Eastern European women as the dominant group in the prostit...
After struggling to contain the spiraling prices of yellow gram, fine rices and other essential commodities, now AP and TS jump to source and supply tomatoes.Hyderabad: After struggling hard with skyrocketing prices of yellow gram and fine rice, now Andhra Pradesh and Telangana government are trying hard to sources and...
Hyderabad: Financial crisis in Andhra Pradesh is aggravating with each passing day. The government is opting for overdrafts and loans as the gap between income and expenses is widening further. Due to the grim financial situation prevailing for the past two months, government imposed caps on payment of bills. Every mon...
The Andhra Pradesh government which has commenced its journey with the ground-breaking ceremony at Amaravati on October 22 is in deep financial crisis according to the Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu who sought Centre's help to tide over the crisis. However, instead of reducing the graveness of the crisis, the governm...
Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government is staring at financial crisis in the third quarter of this fiscal and it has stopped all the payments since the last four days. According to reports, Finance department has ordered all treasury and pay and account offices not to release any bill until further orde...
Hyderabad: Flaws in the TRS government’s crop loan waiver scheme implementation, its refusal to acknowledge the seriousness of the agrarian crisis, failure to instill confidence among farming community and to come up with timely steps to provide relief has led to a spate of suicides by farmers in the state, opine...
The Telangana Legislative Assembly on Tuesday took up an in-depth discussion on the farm crisis, with senior members of several political parties expressing their disenchantment at what they termed, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi Government’s ‘refusal’ to acknowledge the seriousness of the crisis and c...
Vijayawada: The cash-strapped Andhra Pradesh is staring at serious financial crisis. In this connection, the finance depart had issued orders to all treasuries in the state not to make payments to bills dated after September 8.The government is said to be finding it difficult to even meet expenses related to staff sala...
The disturbances began midafternoon after several hundred migrants frustrated at Hungary’s closure of its frontier this week — previously a major entry point into the EU — began shouting slogans, reported AFP correspondents.The situation escalated and clashes raged for over four hours, with black-helm...
NEW DELHI: Confronted with the worst outbreak of dengue since 2010, Delhi has been forced to take urgent action to combat the crisis.Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's government today ordered 1,000 extra beds in hospitals to treat dengue patients. Doctors at state-run hospitals have been told to cancel their leave...
SURUC (Turkey): The father of a drowned Syrian toddler whose fate shocked the world returned home on Friday to bury his family as European ministers tried to thrash out differences on binding refugee quotas to ease the crisis.Britain said it would take thousands more from refugee camps on the Syrian border as the heart...
ANKARA/ISTANBUL: A failure to handle the migrant crisis effectively could adversely affect the "idea of Europe", Germany's labour minister said on Thursday, calling for a fairer distribution of refugees within the European Union.Speaking at a briefing ahead of the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central ...
Visakhapatnam: With the monsoon playing a truant and water levels plummeting in various pockets of the state, Andhra Pradesh seems to be heading towards an impending water crisis. AP State Development Planning Society (APSDPS) in its recent report indicated that the groundwater table in around 284 wells (25 per c...
Congress MLA Jeevan Reddy said that bankers are not sanctioning fresh loans to farmers after collecting farm waiver loan amount. He said farmers are in distress that they might lose crops with scanty rainfall. Jeevan said that irrigation projects have reached to dead storage levels. The Congress leader expressed surpri...