THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Road works in connection with this years Attukal Pongala will be completed by March 4, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said here on Tuesday. He was addressing a review meeting on the Pongala arrangements. The Pongala festivities begin on February 28, the Mahotsavam is on March 7 and the festivities would close on March 8.On Tuesday, the State Government had issued orders for releasing Rs 12 crore for undertaking urgent...
09:14 AM, Feb 23, 2012
HYDERABAD: The sports fraternity in the city came together on Wednesday to join the campaign, Stop Kalmadi and Save Indian Sports.BVP Rao, former IAS officer, who is the man behind the Clean Sports India Movement, lauded the players and said the campaign was aimed at bringing pressure on the government to ensure that tainted sports officials were punished for their role in the Commonwealth Games scam.We fear that officials like...
08:51 AM, Feb 23, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The famed marble lotus at the Santhigiri Ashram, Pothencode, will be lit using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) on Tuesday in connection with the Poojithapeetam Samarpanam celebrations. The celebrations will commence with the pushpanjali ceremony at 5 am. The festival flag will be hoisted at 6 am. Finance Minister K M Mani will inaugurate the celebrations at 3 pm at the Spiritual Zone, Ashram officials said. Panchayats and Social Welfare...
11:33 AM, Feb 21, 2012
HYDERABAD: Even as struggling Kingfisher Airlines cancelled 20 more flights nationwide, Hyderabad remained insulated from any kind of disruptions on Monday. This after around 80 flights were earlier cancelled on Sunday across the country, which affected Hyderabad, among other five metro cities. Officials with the Kingfisher Airlines and the Shamshabad Airport, confirmed the same. Operations in Hyderabad went as per schedule. No flight of the airline, either departing or arriving...
09:32 AM, Feb 21, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The IT@School project has come up with a Resource Portal and YouTube channel to help with the preparations of the SSLC Examination for 4.50 lakh students in the state. A press statement here said that resource portal of IT@School Project www.resource.itschool.gov.in had been packed with contents of Science, Social Science and Mathematics for benefiting students appearing for the SSLC examination commencing next month.The portal has been designed to enable...
11:23 AM, Feb 20, 2012
HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti has promised 12 per cent reservation to Lambadas and other Scheduled Tribes in education and employment, and upgradation of all Tandas as gram panchayats if a separate Telangana state is formed.Speaking at a meeting organised to celebrate the birth anniversary of Sevalal Maharaj, Lambadas spiritual guru, at Telangana Bhavan here on Saturday, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao attacked all political parties in his inimitable style...
09:04 AM, Feb 19, 2012
Hyderabad: All the 16 Congress and one PRP MLA, who are in YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's camp, urged the Election Commission to hold the by-elections for the seven seats that had already fallen vacant and those for their own constituencies together. In a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner (EC), they alleged that though the Speaker had not declared them as disqualified though the proceedings were completed, under pressure from...
10:42 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Tiruchy: In an obvious response to DMK chief M Karunanidhi's criticism of the AIADMK government's rehabilitation package for districts hit by cyclone Thane, CM J Jayalalithaa on Monday said criticism with the intention of finding fault should be ignored. Taking a dig at Karunanidhi's statement asandhudhan ponaargal (really, they were stunned), she said those who had stunned the world with corruption (oozhalaal ulagaiye asara vaithavargal) were finding fault with the...
10:37 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday announced that major Japanese investment would be coming to Tamil Nadu very soon since the State has emerged as a key recipient of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in recent times. Inaugurating a super-critical steam turbine and generator manufacturing plant of Toshiba JSW at Manali near here, the CM said, "At present, some large Japanese companies are considering substantial investments in Tamil Nadu.My government...
11:46 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Hyderabad: With the speaker deciding against disqualifying the MLAs who are in the Jagan Mohan Reddy camp for the time being, all eyes are riveted on how they will behave in the Assembly session beginning on Monday. "We cannot sit as a single group.They will not allow it. We too cannot ask him (the speaker) to treat us as a separate group," said Pilli Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the...
09:28 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Bangalore: Sri Sri Ravishankar's Art Of Living Ashram looked like a conglomerate of foreign embassies on Friday as representatives from over 55 countries had assembled there to exchange their ideas and experience in various fields at the International Women's Conference. The discussion eventually boiled down to spiritual approach to the subject since the conference was held at the Ashram. Sri Sri Ravishankar who inaugurated the session along with other dignitaries...
08:17 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said she was ashamed of having allied with the DMDK for the 2011 Assembly elections. "As the people of Tamil Nadu had the conviction to get rid of the corruption-ridden DMK regime and vote back the AIADMK to power, the absence of the DMDK in the alliance would not have had made a difference to electoral prospects of AIADMK. The DMDK, on the other hand,...
11:28 AM, Feb 02, 2012
Hyderabad: The state government issued a go on Wednesday for withdrawing cases filed against students for taking part in the agitation for and against bifurcation of the state. The government issued the go in pursuance of a decision taken at the recent cabinet meeting. It may be noted that the government had already withdrew cases registered against 499 persons earlier. Now cases against 167 more persons would be dropped on...
10:53 AM, Feb 02, 2012
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Chennai: Governor K Rosaiah on Monday blamed the previous DMK regime and the lackadaisical attitude of the Central government for the present power situation in Tamil Nadu. "Despite the best efforts of the State government, the power scenario in TN continued to be a matter of concern. The non-addition of generating capacity by the previous government and the lackadaisical response from the Centre to our request for additional allotment of...
10:31 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Hyderabad: The state government on Sunday claimed that for the first time the the state power sector had attracted a lion's share of investments of around Rs 2.93 lakh crore and stood number two in attracting investments. Enthused with the success of CII Partnership Summit- 2012 in attracting substantial investments, the government directed all power utilities to fully gear up and re-double the efforts to meet the power requirements of...
09:24 AM, Jan 30, 2012
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