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Tuesday, Feb 17, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Briefly

Passport forms in eSeva

TIRUPATI: The eSeva counters in Tirupati, Chittoor, Madanapalle and Srikalahasti in the district will hereafter sell passport application forms.

According to the Joint Collector and additional director of eSeva,

B. Janardhan Reddy, the passport applications can be had on payment of Rs. 10.

YSR puts off Cuddapah tour

Cuddapah: The former Congress Legislature Party Leader, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who was slated to tour Cuddapah district on February 17 and 18, has postponed the visit to February 20 and 21.

Dr. Reddy left for New Delhi on the AICC's invitation, for holding talks with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi on striking an electoral alliance, according to party sources.

Seminar on unemployment

Cuddapah: The Democratic Youth Federation of India(DYFI) will hold a seminar on `election manifestos - employment - stand of political parties' here on February 19, according to the DYFI district convenor, B. Manohar.

Fellowship for Kurnool doctor

KURNOOL: P. Chandrasekhar, head of the department of Cardiology, Kurnool General Hospital, was awarded the Fellowship of Indian Academy of Echocardiography. He received award from the Director of Medical Education, Orissa, Gopal Chandrakar, at the annual meet of the organisation in Bhubaneswar on February 15.

Plea to bankers

KURNOOL: The Project Officer, Micro-irrigation, Y.V. Prasad, has called upon bankers to actively the support the project being implemented at a cost of Rs. 1,200 crores in the State.

Addressing a meeting of bankers here on Monday, he said about 50 per cent of funds were being utilised in Kurnool, Anantapur and Mahabubnagar districts. Out of two lakh farmers applied for the scheme, about 1.45 lakh were from the three districts.

Stone laid for colony

Cuddapah: The Minister for Housing, P. Ramasubba Reddy, laid foundation stone for a colony of 69 houses for handloom weavers and an SC Colony with 30 houses in Dattapuram village in Kondapuram mandal on Monday.

The Minister also inaugurated an overhead tank built at a cost of Rs. 10 lakhs and laid stone for construction of compound wall for a burial ground for Muslims at Thallaproddatur.

RTC staff dharna

NELLORE: The Nellore regional unit of the APSRTC Karmik Sangh has decided to stage a dharna before all RTC regional offices, in support of their demands, on Tuesday.

These include payment of leave encashment for the years 2003 and 2004, giving up of one-man services and time bound promotions.

Parvatipuram ex-MP withdraws resignation from TDP

VIZIANAGARAM: The former Lok Sabha member of Parvatipuam, D.V.G. Sankara Rao (Telugu Desam), on Monday said that he had withdrawn his resignation following pressure from supporters and well-wishers. He decided to continue as an active member of the party. He clarified that his earlier decision to resign from the party was not out of dissatisfaction but because of his penchant for medical practice.

Dr. Sankara Rao had announced his resignation at a press conference on Saturday night at his residence in Parvathipuram but had decided against his own will after the party president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, talked to him on Sunday night.

He said on Monday that he had withdrawn his resignation and added that if given ticket he would contest the coming elections from the constituency decided by the party president.

Naxals blast TDP flagpost

KARIMNAGAR: On the concluding day of the Telugu Desam Party's `janda panduga' on Sunday, naxalites belonging to the People's War blasted the TDP flagpost in the interior Mahamutharam mandal headquarters.

Police sources said that about four naxalites went to the village and planted some explosives and detonated the flagpost. The naxalites left a note at the site asking TDP and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders to resign from their posts. They also hanged effigies suspected to be of TDP and BJP leders.

A woman protestor of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) shouts outside the Ranga Reddy Collectorate in Hyderabad on Monday demanding `pattas'. Photo: P. V. Sivakumar

Call for maritime treaty in Indian sub-continent

HYDERABAD: The West Bengal Fisheries Minister, Kiranmayi Nanda, has favoured a treaty among India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka for release of fishermen arrested for crossing maritime borders of one another's countries.

Speaking to newsmen here on Monday, Mr. Nanda, who has been holding the fisheries portfolio for the last 24 years, also demanded a national policy on fisheries. He said the country has the longest coastline of 8,000 km. in the world and yet there was no allocation of funds for fishermen by the Planning Commission. The country earned foreign exchange of Rs. 6,000 crores from fisheries.

Mr. Nanda maintained that the Central Government had appointed the Murari Committee to go into the welfare of fishermen but its recommendations are yet to be implemented. Contrary to a recommendation of the committee not to allow foreign vessels into the maritime territory of the country for reasons of declining sea catch, the Centre issued licences to 43 vessels as a joint venture and another 43 vessels independently. This spelt disaster to maritime activity and also to biodiversity.

Simhadri unit rejoins grid

Hyderabad: The first unit of the Simhadri Project which tripped on Saturday, resumed generation late last night, placing the Transco on a better plane with 500 MW.

A senior Transco official said, with this, load relief imposed in some areas of the State was lifted today. The energy met for the day was about 140 million units.

NIMS acquires new equipment

Hyderabad: The department of cardio-thoracic surgery at the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) has acquired a sophisticated heart-lung machine and versatile electronically-run operation theatre table, according to a press release. This new equipment, purchased at a cost of Rs. 75 lakhs, has increased the total number of heart lung machines to five and OT tables to four.

BSNL in-house journal bags prize

Hyderabad: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's in-house journal, "Connecting India" , has bagged the first prize for in-house journals in a competition conducted by the Hyderabad Chapter of the Public Relations Society of India, according to a press release.

College Principal held

on graft charge

HYDERABAD: Three Government employees, including a Junior College Principal, were arrested by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths in two separate cases in the State on Monday.

The Principal of Government Junior College in Santhipuram of V.Kota in Chittoor district, Mahalingamaiah, and th eSenior Assistant, P.N. Jayaram, were held on the charge of accepting Rs. 500 and Rs. 400 as bribe from a Junior Lecturer of the same college to clear his wages for three months, according to a press release. Both of them tested positive during a chemical test. They would be produced before the Special Court for ACB Cases, Nellore.

In another case, a Senior Auditor of the Medak District Audit Office, Tallapalli Venkateswara Rao, was arrested after he received Rs. 1,000 bribe from a retired Head Constable to process his revised pension file. The tainted amount was recovered from him. He would be produced before the Special Court for ACB Cases, Hyderabad.

Lowest night temperature at Tirupati

Hyderabad: Tirupati on Monday recorded the State's lowest night temperature of 15 degrees C.

The minimum temperatures were below normal at many places in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema and normal in Telangana. Weather was mainly dry in the State. A bulletin released by the State Met oOffice says the weather will be sunny on Tuesday.

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