Month: August 2005

Maoists on Monday killed Andhra Pradesh Congress legislator Chittem Narsi Reddy and five others in an attack in Makthal in Mahbubnagar district, officials said. However, unofficial reports said 10 persons were killed. A state police spokesman told rediff.com that an action team shot dead Narsi Reddy and seven others, including his son Chittem Venkateswar Reddy and a […]

The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to file a review petition in the Supreme Court on the judgement of the 7 member bench doing away with reservations for admissions to minority and non-minority unaided professional colleges. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, who reviewed the implications of the recent Superme Court judgement with […]

President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday suggested that the national programme on proteomics should be accelerated with partnership from industries and Research & Development laboratories. Inaugurating the Center of Excellence in Medical Bio-informatics jointly promoted by the Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Sun Microsystems and the Andhra Pradesh government in Hyderabad, […]

President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday exuded confidence that India would become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Responding to a question at an interactive session with students at Hyderabad, the President said “we are a billion people, that is, one-sixth of the world’s population. We have got the […]

Dr A P J Abdul Kalam finds continuity in the work he is doing as President of India after a long career, spanning over over decades, as a space and defence scientist. During his interaction with students at the Jubilee Hills Public School in Hyderabad on Friday morning, Dr Kalam was asked which part of […]

In a setback for the Andhra Pradesh government, the elected body of the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad on Thursday shot down its proposal to form a Greater Hyderabad by merging 12 adjoining municipalities and the MCH. At a meeting, convened to ascertain the view of MCH’s elected members, all parties, barring the Congress, opposed the […]