Maranthen Mannithen' is the Tamil version of Telugu film 'Gundello Godari', which has music by maestro Illayaraja. ...
04:17 PM, Mar 22, 2013
New Delhi: Jubilant Energy on Tuesday said it won the KG Deendayal gas block through international competitive bidding and did not get participating stake of 10 per cent as "gift" from the Gujarat government. "Jubilant Energy (subsidiary of Jubilant Enpro) won this block under international competitive bidding under the third round of New Exploration Licensing Policy of the Government of India. Jubilant Energy is a partner in the block and...
09:58 PM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday took on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over the Tehelka report alleging irregularities in the sale of stake worth Rs 20,000 crore in Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation's (GSPC) gas exploration project in the Krishna Godavari Basin (KG), which the report alleged, was sold to a foreign company for virtually nothing. "In August 2002, two companies bid with government for the...
05:22 PM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: State-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) Krishna Godavari basin well that had been leaking natural gas for over two months now, has stopped flowing, the government said on Friday. An uncontrolled flow of gas started from the Well G-1-9 in the Krishna Godavari basin on August 30 and the gas leakage stopped on November 7, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Panabaka Lakshmi said. "Only...
05:55 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Nashik: The urn containing ashes of Shiv Sena chief late Bal Thackeray was brought to Nashik and will be kept at the party office for 'darshan' till Thursday, official sources said on Wednesday. On Friday, the ashes would be immersed in Godavari river, they said. The urn was kept for darshan at Ghoti, Igatpuri Tuesday and Wednesday it will keep at Nashik Road, Sinnar, Trimbakeshwar, Dindori, Niphad, Yeola, Manmad, Nandgaon...
02:46 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Jilla Venkata Narayana, the father of music director Chakri, breathed his last today morning. The musician is currently in Hong Kong, working for his up-and-coming movies, and he is expected to arrive in the country very soon. Narayana was recently seen in the films like 'Gopi Gopika Godavari' and 'Jai Bolo Telangana'. Earlier in his life, he worked as a school teacher and also sang a few songs in the...
02:50 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Rajahmundry: A woman and her two-year-old daughter were killed when they fell on a railway track and run over by a train at Samalkota railway station in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, police said. Another daughter of the deceased woman received severe injuries in the accident, police added. According to Railway Police, the woman had come to the railway station along with her daughters to catch a...
04:50 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Telugu director Sekhar Kammula says he has nothing against working with big heroes, and admits he loves working with newcomers as his story demands them. "I love working with newcomers because my story demands it and moreover they're fun to work with. It's easy working with them because I can effortlessly connect and extract the best out of them," Sekhar told IANS over phone from Hyderabad. "The bigger responsibility is...
03:24 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: Reliance Industries has slashed natural gas reserves in its main production gas fields in the Krishna Godavari basin D6 block by 70 per cent to 3.10 Trillion cubic feet (Tcf) due to "unforeseen geological surprises". Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas RPN Singh told the Lok Sabha in a written reply that RIL had estimated 10.3 Tcf of recoverable reserves in the Dhirubhai-1 and 3 (D1&D3)...
01:37 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Rajahmundry: The YSR Congress party on Sunday called for three-day bandh in East Godavari district from Monday, in protest against the arrest of party Chief and Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. YSR Congress Party district convenor Bommana Rajakumar said that "the party has called for a three-day bandh in East Godavari Godavari district to protest against arrest of Jagan Mohan Reddy. We are requesting all institutions, commercial establishments to...
10:16 PM, May 27, 2012
Hyderabad: A 12-year-old boy, kidnapped four days ago while he was on his way to school, was on Friday found murdered in Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district, police said. The body of Naga Vivek, a Class 7 student, was recovered by police from Korangi Lake in Tallarevu mandal near Amlapuram town, about 500 km from here, a senior police officer told IANS from the Amlapuram police station. According to police,...
02:28 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: Thousands of commuters were stranded on the Central Railway (CR) stations after a midnight fire in a signal cabin. It will take three to four days to fully restore the traffic, a CR spokesperson said adding that services on the Harbour line were also hampered. Only 70 per cent of the normal suburban services would be operated on Wednesday, he said, adding that 4 long distance trains coming from...
08:18 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Rajahmundry: Two students died and 13 others were missing after a school bus fell into a river canal near in Rajahmundry in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, police said. The bus was carrying 45 LKG and UKG students of Sai Teja Public School when it rolled into the Godavari river canal near Ganti Pedapudi village. Thirty children were rescued by the locals, they said. Two bodies have...
07:36 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood's evergreen star Dev Anand's ashes will be immersed in the Godavari river in Nashik on Wednesday afternoon. Dev Anand's son Suneil has come to India from London to immerse his late father's ashes in the holy river. "He (Suneil) is coming to Mumbai. From here, we are going to Nashik to immerse Dev saab's ashes in the holy river - Godavari," Mohan Churiwala, a close aide of Dev...
01:22 PM, Dec 14, 2011
A Vellayan (Murugappa group) Age: 58 Profile: Chairman of Chennai-based Murugappa Group Rank: 55 Family wealth: $ 1.02 billion Insights: - Wants to stick to values such as integrity and trust - But says decision making will have to be faster Sometime in 1945, AMM Vellayan, the second son of AM Murugappa Chettiar, went back to Burma to take stock of the wealth his family and his community left behind...
11:38 AM, Nov 02, 2011
Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is considering filing a case or multiple cases against Reliance Industries over its operations of its gas block in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, the Mint reported on Tuesday. CBI is likely to name officials in the country's upstream regulator and the petroleum ministry in the case, the newspaper said, citing officials at the federal agency who declined to be named. Earlier this...
10:31 AM, Sep 20, 2011
New Delhi: A video purportedly showing PNS Babur brushing against INS Godavari in the Gulf of Aden has surfaced on the Internet. The 'brush' happened during the hostage rescue of hostages on board the merchant vessel MV Suez in June. The video could reignite the India-Pakistan diplomatic tussle. The video apparently shot by a sailor on board PNS Babur has a clip of the Pakistani ship brushing against INS Godavari...
08:01 AM, Aug 04, 2011
Mumbai: The Indian Navy on Saturday successfully foiled a piracy attempt on a Greek ship MV Elinakos in the Gulf of Aden. INS Godavari responded to a distress call by MV Elinakos after eight Somali pirates attempted to hijack the ship in the early morning of July 16. INS Godavari was escorting four other ships at the time in the Gulf of Aden, when she received the distress call. The...
05:07 PM, Jul 19, 2011
New Delhi: It's likely to be three days before the Indian sailors of the MV Suez released last week by Somali pirates after a $2 million ransom was paid come home. But the Suez saga has been a series of mis-steps. India failed to negotiate the sailors' release, failed to protect them once they were free, and failed to bring them home. And it culminated with a row with the...
08:53 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi/Islamabad: Ahead of their talks, India and Pakistan were on Saturday locked in a nasty spat and lodged protests against each other over their naval warships allegedly resorting to 'risky' and 'dangerous' manoeuvres after hijacked MV Suez was freed by Somali pirates. India lodged a protest with Pakistan against the violation by Pakistan Naval Ship (PNS) Babur of relevant regulations on navigational safety by its "risky" manoeuvres jeopardising the...
08:43 PM, Jun 18, 2011
