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SNIPPETS
TS allots 3.5
acres to Kaloji
Foundation
Hyderabad: The Telangana
government on Tuesday sanctioned the allotment of 3.5
acres of land to Kaloji Foundation for the construction of
Kaloji Kala Kendram and
Kaloji Cultural Centre in
Warangal district. The allotted
land is located in Survey No
1066 situated in between in
33/11 KV Sub-Station and existing Municipal Vehicle
Depot of Warangal Municipal
Corporation. The State government had earlier sanctioned Rs 17 crore for
construction of Kaloji Kala
Kendram and Kaloji Cultural
Centre by Kaloji Foundation.
Talasani to
take out
padayatra today
Hyderabad: Commercial
Taxes Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav is organising a padayatra in Sanathnagar
division in Hyderabad from
10 am on Wednesday. Talasani, along with officials of
various departments, will
begin his padayatra from
Sanathnagar Bus Stand and
interact with people to understand their grievances. The
Minister had earlier conducted a similar padayatra in
Bhoiguda division in Secunderabad.
Army recruitment
rally from Feb 2
in Sec’bad
Hyderabad: An Army recruitment rally will be held at
the 1 EME Centre, Secunderabad from February 2 to
March 1 for sons of war widows, ex-servicemen and servicemen and their own
brothers including wards of
Territorial Army personnel
from any State/Union Territories. The vacancies are available for the posts of Soldier
(Technical), Soldier (General
duty), Soldier (Tradesmen)
and Soldier (Musician category) under X class pass standard. Eligible candidates have
been asked to report at the
Milkha Singh Stadium of 1
Training Battalion, 1 EME
Centre, Bolarum, Secunderabad, at 6:00 am on February
2 along with necessary documents.
Sharmila to
resume
Paramarsa Yatra
Hyderabad: YSR Congress
Party leader YS Sharmila will
resume her ‘Parmarsa Yatra’
on Wednesday. During the
600 km Yatra, Sharmila proposes to cover six Assembly
constituencies in Nalgonda
district and console 30 families that lost a member each
due to the shock on hearing
the death of her father and the
then Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. “Sharmila
along with party Telangana
president P Srinivas Reddy
and other State leaders will
start from Lotus Pond at 9 am
and will be accorded a warm
welcome at Mall from where
the Paramarsa Yatra begins,”
party spokesperson Konda
Raghava Reddy told reporters
in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
OU distance
B Ed entrance
on Feb 1
Hyderabad: Osmania University’s Director of Admissions Prof Ch Gopal Reddy
on Tuesday informed that all
those candidates who have
applied for entrance test and
admission into B Ed (distance
mode) for the academic year
2014-15 that the entrance test
would be conducted on February 1 from 11.00 am to
12.30 pm. The downloadable
hall tickets would be made
available in the website
‘www.osmania.ac.in’ by January 22. Candidates without
hall tickets would not be allowed to appear for the entrance test, Prof Gopal Reddy
said.
NEWS
HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY 2015
Congress exodus to TRS irks AICC chief
Digvijay Singh urges Telangana Congress leaders to strive to revive the party
OUR BUREAU
Hyderabad: Telangana Congress
in-charge and AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday
pulled up the party senior leaders including TPCC president P
Lakshmaiah and working president N Uttam Kumar Reddy over
their failure in stopping migration of Congress MLAs, MLCs
and leaders to the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
Digvijay along with AICC (SC
Cell) chairman K Raju and AICC
secretary R Kuntia held TPCC
coordination committee meeting
at the party head office, Gandhi
Bhavan, here on Tuesday. Senior
leaders K Jana Reddy, J Geeta
Reddy, R Damodara Raja
Narasimha, D Sridhar Babu and
Mohd Ali Shabbir attended the
meeting.
In the meeting, the party incharge is learnt to have taken serious note of the switching loyalties of nine MLCs and three
MLAs of the Congress to TRS
AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh being received by Congress leaders from Telangana at
Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Tuesday
Naini promises vehicles
to all PSs in a week
OUR BUREAU
Hyderabad: Telangana Home
Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy
announced that the government
will be providing Tata Sumo and
Bolero vehicles to all the police
stations in the State within a
week.
While launching the ‘Cashless
Enforcement Scheme’ at the city
police commissionerate, he said
police stations in all districts in
Telangana would be given vehicles for making the State police
provide their best services to the
citizens. Further, he said change
of dress for police would give an
impression of being working for
a developed country.
The Minister further added the
top experts from across the world
were studying Hyderabad for
improving traffic conditions.
While recalling Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao’s words,
Naini said the government was
working in the direction of making the city without signals, where
ﬂyovers would provide a freeway
for traffic in all directions.
E-tickets to traffic violators soon
H
yderabad Traffic police, which has adopted the ‘non contact
enforcement’ for all kinds of violations, will be completely shifting to issuing e-ticket instead of roadside challans by cops. The
police will provide a period of seven days to enable the violator to
pay. If such cases cumulatively exceed three, then police will detain
the vehicle and its documents.
Video footages and photographs of violation recorded by 355 CC
cameras in the city and Speed Laser Guns would be preserved for
any attempt by violator to disprove the claims.
The traffic violator, who receives e-challan, should make payment
through e-seva, Mee-Seva, net banking, post office, SBH, ICICI or
Andhra Bank. Information of payments for paid challans will be immediately updated on the database maintained by traffic police. The
police have also opened helpline 9010203626.
TS Minister
visits sugarcane
farms in Maha
Hyderabad: Telangana Agriculture Minister Pocharam
Srinivas Reddy, MLAs Bajireddy Govardhan and
Vidyasagar Rao and Director
Sugars Badru Naik interacted
with around 200 sugarcane
farmers and scientists at Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Baramathi in Maharashtra on
Tuesday. The visiting delegation was briefed with a presentation on the modern
methods of cultivation and
high-yielding varieties of sugarcane. The Minister, along
with his delegation, had also
inspected the ﬁelds where
sugarcane farming has been
taken up by Dr Pramod Bhagath, National Best Sugarcane Farmer Awardee Rajender at Someshwar. They have
also visited the Someshwar
Sahakari Sugar Factory during the visit.
City docs stumble upon ‘TB of the heart’
OUR BUREAU
Hyderabad: If you think TB is a
disease of lungs only, you are
mistaken. Doctors at Care Hospitals have identiﬁed active TB
infection of the heart muscle,
which is called as ‘Myocardial
Tuberculosis’ in medical terminology. TB of the heart is found
in patients suffering from another heart abnormality called
Ventricular Tachycardia (VT).
VT is a serious rhythm abnormality of the heart. VT is known
to cause faster heartbeats, which
sometimes can lead to death.
According to doctors at Care
Hospitals, it is difficult to suspect
‘heart TB’ which is present in a
patient, because common symptoms of TB like fever and weight
loss are absent in such patients.
Findings of myocardial TB in
13 patients by doctors at Care
Hospitals, has been published in
Though TB can affect any organ
in the body, the heart muscle is
usually considered safe. Left
untreated, these patients get
hospitalised repeatedly
undergoing expensive medical
procedures or may get into
worsening heart failure.
the Journal of American College
of Cardiology, a reputed international journal in cardiovascular
medicine.
Their ﬁnding acquired added
signiﬁcance because 13 is the
highest number of myocardial
TB cases in the world reported
so far. Five more cases have been
diagnosed recently and this takes
the total number to 18.
Dr C Narasimhan, Chief of
Electrophysiology services said
that this was an important report
as TB affecting the heart was new
knowledge in the ﬁeld of medicine. Though TB can affect any
organ in the body, the heart muscle is usually considered safe.
Left untreated, these patients get
hospitalised repeatedly undergoing expensive medical procedures or may get into worsening
heart failure.
Apart from heart rhythm disorders like VT, myocardial TB
patients can present with heart
failure or heart blocks, depending on the area of the heart muscle affected.
within four months after 2014
election. Digvijay also was reportedly taken aback when the
leaders informed him of the
spate of migration of district
level leaders and local body representatives to the TRS in the recent months.
He told the leaders it was the
responsibility of senior leaders
to keep the party cadre intact and
shed differences among themselves. The AICC chief wanted all
leaders to fight united against the
TRS government by raising people’s issues. Digvijay instructed
the TPCC chief to prepare a
roadmap to launch the party’s
mass contact programme from
March this year. “Now, the honeymoon is over. Leaders should
go to people and expose the failure of the TRS government,” he
instructed.
Party sources said the party
high command set target to the
TPCC in the ensuing GHMC,
Warangal and Khammam municipal corporation elections. The
HIGH COURT ADJOURNS
DEFECTION CASE
LEGAL CORRESPONDENT
Hyderabad: Justice Vilas
Afzalpurkar of the High Court at
Hyderabad called upon the Advocate General of Telangana to
be in court to appear in the case
ﬁled by Congress whip complaining that the Chairman of
the Legislative
Council, Swamy
Goud, was not
acting on a complaint made by
the party. The controversy was
about the non-initiation of proceedings to disqualify the congress leaders from Legislative
Council who joined ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi party.
Jandhyala Ravishankar, counsel
appearing for M S Prabhakar
Rao, the whip of Congress party
in Legislative Council informed
the court that a complaint was
ﬁled in June 2014, seeking disqualiﬁcation of ﬁve MLCs who
Contempt
case against
Narsapur MLA
Hyderabad: A two-judge
Bench of the High Court at
Hyderabad on Tuesday ordered notices to Narsapur
MLA B Madhava Naidu to
show why proceedings under the Contempt of
Courts Act should not be
initiated against him. The
Bench comprising Chief
Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar initiated these
proceedings suo motto on
a report of Additional District Judge, Narsapur. The
report pointed out that the
MLA had interfered with
the demolition of some
structures which were being demolished as per orders of the court. The
Bench adjourned the case
to February 3 for the response of the MLA.
A majority of Sabarimala pilgrims use boating facility during return journey
Nearly 15 per cent increase in tourists using house boats, mostly Sabarimala pilgrims
Hyderabad: In what can be
termed as a new trend, Sabarimala pilgrims from Telangana
and Andhra Pradesh are now opting to stay in houseboats in Kerala
before making their journey back
home, adding to 15 per cent jump
in Kerala tourism.
It is a case of sheer coincidence.
Thanks to the Sabarimala season
coinciding with the tourist season, Kerala has witnessed a 15 per
cent growth in domestic tourist
arrivals. The tourist season starts
from November and continues till
January when a number of pilgrims head for Kerala. This has
helped the business especially of
houseboat owners in Alleppey
district. Rojes Joseph, assistant
general manager sales & marketing, Carmelia Haven Plantation
Artistes from Kerala staging a fusion dance item organised by Kerala Tourism department in Hyderabad on Tuesday
Resort & Spa says, “In the last
four months we have a lot of
Sabarimala pilgrims using one of
our six houseboats. It is a new
trend never seen before. Earlier,
pilgrims would just return but
now are spending a day or two in
the backwaters before returning
to their home State.”
While Kerala Tourism has gone
on an overdrive in the last two
years by projecting the State in all
possible tourism and trade fairs,
the Sabarimala pilgrims from
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
have boosted the tourism in the
tiny State. P Muraleedharan,
tourism information officer, De-
crossed over to TRS. The petitioner named KR Amos, V
Bhoopal Reddy, N Rajalingam, T
Bhanu Prasad Rao and S Jagadiswar Reddy as respondents who
were elected as MLCs of the
Congress party but later joined
TRS. The counsel lamented that
the anti-defection law is being
made redundant
by the Chairman
who has not taken
up the case. The judge adjourned
the case to next Tuesday and
asked for the appearance of AG.
It is learnt that even the TDP has
ﬁled a writ petition complaining
that the complaint ﬁled by them
against the leaders who defected
to TRS was not being taken up
by the speaker of Telangana Legislative Assembly. They wanted
the disqualiﬁcation of T Srinivasa Yadav, T Krishna Reddy and
Dharma Reddy from the
Assembly.
LEGAL NOTES
Sabarimala pilgrims boost Kerala tourism
T P VENU
leaders were asked to take up a
mass campaign against the TRS
government and its failure in delivering promises made during
elections. In view of the elections
for MLCs to graduate and local
body constituencies, Digvijay enquired about the aspirants and
the winning prospects of the
Congress. As part of strengthening the party in Telangana, Digvijay suggested the TPCC to rope
in intellectuals and academics in
this endeavour and set up a
strong back office with professionals to give feedback and provide vital information to the
Congress leaders on people’s issue.
The six teams constituted by
the TPCC submitted reports to
Digvijay on the TRS government’s failures and waning Chief
Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s
image. The party’s failure in
countering K Chandrashekar
Rao was also discussed in the
marathon meeting held throughout the day.
partment of Tourism, Government of Kerala said, “The hardselling of Kerala is paying. We
have showcased the State in 44
domestic trade and tourism fairs
and in 19 international fairs.” He
was speaking at the trade partnership meet held in the city on
Tuesday.
The number of hotel rooms in
the State has also gone up. There
are 60,000 rooms and 800 home
stays spread across the State. Reji,
a marketing manager with Alex
Homes, says he is looking to tieup with tour operators in the city
to boost domestic tourism in Kerala. There are 60 hoteliers and
houseboat operators who are interacting with 150 tour operators
from the city.
In 2013, about 3.5 lakh people
visited Kerala from Telangana
and Andhra Pradesh.
Andhra Bank
questions
IT dept action
Hyderabad: A two-judge Bench of
the High Court at Hyderabad comprising Justice R Subash Reddy
and Justice Dr B Shiva Shankara
Rao admitted a writ plea ﬁled by
Andhra Bank questioning the action of the authorities in imposing
tax on money recovered by it from
a defaulting company. The bank
ﬁled a petition questioning the order of the Commercial Tax Officer,
Tirupati imposing tax of Rs 4 crore
on recovery of Rs 57 crore on sale
of plant, machinery and vehicles
belonging to Sri Venkateswara
Sponge and Power Pvt Ltd. The
bank, in its writ petition, contended that the authorities mechanically divided the recovered
amount of Rs 57 crore as from sale
of vehicles and plant and machinery. Senior Counsel Narender
Reddy argued that no tax was leviable on either heads.
YSRCP fires at
Naidu for remarks
on more kids
Hyderabad: YSR Congress Party
on Tuesday took strong objection
to the remarks of the Andhra
Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu that couples
should go for more number of children and comparing TDP founder
president NT Rama Rao with Lord
Venkateswara.
Addressing the press here, party
senior leader Ambati Rambabu
said the CM’s comments were insane and unbecoming of the responsible position he held. “The
remarks coming from a person
who is boasting of building a capital on the lines of Japan and other
developed nations has stunned the
nation. Naidu telling that giving
birth to more number of children
will increase the youth power and
turn the nation young is ridiculous,” he said. The YSRCP leader
pointed out that the country already passed a legislation barring
people having more than two children from contesting elections.