4 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.
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