Former Minister J C Diwakar Reddy on Wednesday termed the on-going consultation on Telangana state formation as 'waste of time’.
Talking to media persons at Congress Legislature Party Office, Diwakar Reddy said that the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has clearly announced that the Andhra Pradesh would not be divided without reaching consensus on the controversial Telangana statehood issue. Even after the Prime Minister's statement, he said there was no point in continuing the discussion on Telangana.
The former minister said that the discussion on whether or not the Centre would constitute second States Reorganization Commission has become irrelevant now, especially after the Prime Minister's statement. He expressed confidence that the Congress leaders, who quit the party on Telangana issue, would rejoin soon.
Diwakar Reddy also said that there would be no impact on the State even after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati introduces a resolution in the assembly to divide her State into four parts. He said the decision of the Prime Minister was important for the division of a state. (INN)
Hero Nagarjuna is happy with the success of his latest film Gaganam. Nagarjuna is open to experiment and he has given a chance to many new directors by agreeing to act in their films.
Nagarjuna said that he is not interested in acting in Hindi films. He said that acting in Bollywood was a waste of time!
For someone like Nagarjuna who has achieved so much in his two decades plus career it is a wise and correct decision.
Hospitals warned to ensure proper bio-medical waste disposal
2011/6/17 9:04:03 The state government has warned the authorities concerned in the government and private hospitals and directed them not to neglect the disposal of the bio-medical wastage.
Minister for Health and Family Welfare DL Ravindra Reddy told media persons on Friday that the state government had already entered into an agreement with a Japanese company for effective disposal of the contentious bio-medical waste said to be piling up in the hospitals. “The improper disposal of bio-medical waste is a cause of concern to all,” the Minister said.
Any hospital management found neglecting the said disposal of the bio-medical waste would be dealt with seriously, he warned.
Despite special tenders invited for specific clearance of the bio-medical waste material it came to the notice of the government that irregularities were found which stalled the process, the Minster told media persons at the state Secretariat.
“Following such irritants in the tenders the government has begun the investigation and enquiry into the whole issue to arrive at a decision,” he added.(INN)
2011/10/27 10:48:45 New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Torn gift wrappers, heaps of burnt out firecrackers, empty sweet boxes --- the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Thursday said the waste generated in the city on Diwali was 1,000 tonnes more than on other days.
"The average quantity of waste generated in Delhi is approximately 6,500 to 7,000 metric tonnes; the waste generated on Diwali day is 8,000 metric tonne," MCD spokesperson Deep Mathur told IANS.
The civic agency claimed its sweepers work night and day during Diwali to minimize the waste.
"The safai karamcharis work day and night around Diwali to ensure that the roads are clean," Mathur said.
Besides, burnt firecrackers, and gift wrappers, waste is also generated due to construction and renovation work as people tend to renovate their houses or complete construction work before the festival.
The MCD is India's largest civic agency. It handles 96 percent of Delhi's land area and provides services to 98 percent of the national capital's over 16 million population.
(IANS) Torn gift wrappers, heaps of burnt out firecrackers, empty sweet boxes --- the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Thursday said the waste generated in the city on Diwali was 1,000 tonnes more than on other days.
"The average quantity of waste generated in Delhi is approximately 6,500 to 7,000 metric tonnes; the waste generated on Diwali day is 8,000 metric tonne," MCD spokesperson Deep Mathur told IANS.
The civic agency claimed its sweepers work night and day during Diwali to minimize the waste.
"The safai karamcharis work day and night around Diwali to ensure that the roads are clean," Mathur said.
Besides, burnt firecrackers, and gift wrappers, waste is also generated due to construction and renovation work as people tend to renovate their houses or complete construction work before the festival.
The MCD is India's largest civic agency. It handles 96 percent of Delhi's land area and provides services to 98 percent of the national capital's over 16 million population.
2011/12/11 8:20:42 Shimla, Dec 11 (IANS) Worried over the environmental hazard posed by discarded CFL and fluorescent lamps, the Himachal Pradesh government is working on a policy to make firms manufacturing and trading in them to buy back used lamps from consumers for their safe disposal.
The firms have been told to put in place a policy by Dec 27 to buy back used lamps from consumers.
"We are trying to develop a policy for safe disposal of discarded CFLs as they contain toxic mercury and, of course, they are a waste management challenge," Additional Chief Secretary (Forest and Environment) Sudipto Roy told IANS.
He said with obsolete CFLs and fluorescent tubes finding their way into the municipal waste, there is a threat of entry of carcinogenic chemicals into the soil, water and air.
The government Friday held talks with CFL manufacturers and traders for framing guidelines in this regard.
As per government estimates, there are over one million CFLs in use in the state and the volume is increasing every year.
As part of an energy saving drive, the state launched the Atal Bijli Bachat Yojana in November 2008 in which a pack of four CFLs - two each of 15 watt and 20 watt - were provided to 1.65 million consumers free of cost.
Superstar Rajanikanth is not happy after watching the rushes of 'Sivaji'. He disclosed this to director who immediately arranged for the re-dubbing work. Rajanikanth has accordingly re-dubbed for the film all over again.
He has now left for the Himalayas. He will stay there for a couple of weeks. 'Rajanikanth will come back in time for the release of 'Sivaji' which is set for release on May 17.
2011/10/27 8:09:25 The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will make elaborate arrangements for the smooth conduct of Eid-ul-Zuha, Bakrid festival to be celebrated on November 7.
GHMC Mayor Banda Karthika Reddy on Thursday convened a meeting with the senior officials to review the arrangements. As thousands of Muslims sacrifice animals on the Bakrid, Deputy Mayor Jaffer Hussain Meraj has asked the officials to take up the measures for prompt lifting of the animal waste.
Accordingly, in addition to the regular fleet, it has been decided to engage five front-end-loaders, seven skid-steer loaders, 18 JCBs and 25 tonner, 10 tonners and 6 tonner tippers at an estimated cost of Rs 20 lakh.
Further, a trenching ground has been prepared at Jawaharnagar dumping yard for disposal of the animal waste. The additional lifting of waste will be done for three days from November 7. (INN)
Jeyamkondan, directed by R. Kannan and starring Bhavana and Vinay (Unnalae Unnalae) for the first time, is in its final phase of shooting, which is taking place currently in Uzbekistan and Russia.
Bhavana has done many films in her native Malayalam and has always dubbed for herself. However, she has continued not to dub in Tamil films. But for Jeyankondan, she has dubbed for her own and says that she has taken maximum care to ensure that her Tamil diction is proper and flawless.
2011/10/13 8:38:17 he State Government will resume the talks with the Telangana employees who are on strike demanding statehood for the region.
The government has invited the Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee leaders for talks on Friday at 12 noon at the State Secretariat. However, the government has imposed a condition that only 10 representatives from the JAC would be allowed to participate in the talks. Besides, the Cabinet Sub-Committee, Chief Secretary Pankaj Dwivedi and Service Secretary will also participate in the talks.
It may be mentioned that the talks between the government and Employees JAC have failed on Wednesday with the JAC members imposing some pre-conditions to hold the deliberations. The striking unions have demanded that the government revoke ESMA, cancel GO 177, lift cases booked against the employees participating the in the strike and order probe into the alleged attack on JAC chairman Swamy Goud. Similarly, talks have also failed with the Teachers and Lecturers' JAC on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the government has renewed its appeal asking the employees to end the strike which completed 31 days on Thursday. (INN)
2007/12/20 5:31:40 The film ‘Don’ would have warmed the cockles of late N T Rama Rao was he to be alive today. The film talks about Teluguvaadi atma gouravam, pourusham, Teluguvaadi tadaka etc. etc. Hero Nagarjuna mouths this dialogue several times in the film.
The talk about Telguvaadu and Telugu nela comes in the film from the beginning to the end. The TDP that talks about championing the cause of Telugus all the time should be happy with the film.
2011/7/27 10:54:51 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Commissioner MT Krishna Babu on Wednesday visited the RDF Power Project site which is proposed to commence its operations by the end of October, 2011.
The GHMC Commissioner’s visit came about on the request of RDF Power Projects Ltd. The company is working power project which would use 700 MT of Municipal Solid Waste per day of GHMC and produce 11 MW of Power.
The plant to produce 11 MW power is being constructed near Chinnarevulapally, Bibinagar, Nalgonda District. This is at a distance of 44.5 KM from Hyderabad.
GHMC Additional Commissioner (Health and Sanitation) Aleem Basha and Solid Waste Management Executive Engineer D Sudhakar accompanied the Commissioner during the visit.(INN)
2012/2/2 15:51:57 The junior doctors have decided to continue the strike following the failure of talks with the State Government.
The cabinet sub-committee comprising Health Minister DL Ravindra Reddy and other ministers - Anam Ram Narayana Reddy, Dr J Geetha Reddy and K Sailajanath held talks with 18 representatives of junior doctors at the State Secretariat here on Thursday evening. However, after discussing the demands for more than two hours, the State Government categorically stated that it would not increase the stipend as being demanded by the junior doctors.
Following government's refusal, the junior doctors boycotted the talks. Later, the junior doctors announced that they would intensify their agitation. However, they said that they would attend to emergency services.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Ravindra Reddy warned that the government would take stern action if the junior doctors continue the strike. He said alternate arrangements were being made to ensure that the strike do not affect the medical services in public hospitals. (INN)
The release of Jimmy has been pushed back from April 18 to mid-May. The trade buzz is that Sahara, which was supposed to release Mimoh
Chakraborty's debut film, backed out at the last minute. But producer Nawman Malik denies this, saying the film was postponed to avoid a clash with the star-studded Tashan, set to open on April 25.
"We would have been sandwiched between a trio of biggies, U Me Aur Hum and Krazzy 4 which released last week, and Tashan and weren't getting the right chain of theatres," informs Malik.
He admits that he was in talks with Sahara and the deal didn't work out.
"I was getting a better offer from another corporate house," he asserts but refuses to name it saying he will make an official announcement in a couple of days.
Too busy Quiz him on why Mimoh didn't come for the music release and he points out that even Harman Baweja stayed away from the unveiling of Love Story 2050.
"What's the big deal," he shrugs. "Today, youngsters don't want to waste time attending parties. Mimoh was shooting for Loot in Bangkok. But the rest of the cast, including his father Mithun was there."
Nawman is planning another film with Mimoh titled Mausam but he won't be repeating his Jimmy director Raj N Sippy. He says, "I've couple of names in my mind. It'll have one more actor besides Mimoh."
Hema Malini's role has been scrapped from Milan Luthria's film, Hat Trick
Hema Malini who was supposed to be part of Milan Luthria's forthcoming film Hat Trick, opposite Naseeruddin Shah will not be part of the film after all.
The decision was taken by Luthria when he developed the script and realised that the role fell short of the actress' calibre.
"When the final script was complete, I realised that the character was not an integral part of the story. We wanted to develop the character more and give it a proper shape. When the scriptwriter and I discussed the issue we decided to edit the entire character from the film," says Luthria.
When he informed Hema about the development, the actress did not seem to mind. "She appreciated the fact that I didn't waste her valuable time and came clear on what the film demands," he says.
But doesn't it reflect badly on him to sign and then drop an actress like Hema Malini from his project? "I object to the term 'drop' when it comes to Hemaji. She is far too big to be dropped from any project. When you sign Hemaji, people expect to see more of her on screen. I didn't want to waste her. I spoke to her at length about the problem and she understood my situation. Moreover, we had not announced Hemaji presence in the film formally," says Milan.
AVM Studio has spent millions on producing the Rajini Stared Sivaji. Shreya is pairing with Rajini for the movie.
Shreya does not know Tamil (That is the basic qualification to succeed in Kollywood) and only speaks Damil, so afraid about her knowledge of her on Tamil, AVM decided to dub her voice.
They searched for few voices and finally ended up with the voice of Kanika.
2011/10/13 3:33:42 The talks between the striking employees of Telangana Teachers and Lecturers Joint Action Committee and the State Government has failed with the employees alleging that the atmosphere was not conducive for talks.
Emerging out of talks with the State Government at the State Secretariat here on Thursday, the JAC members said that they would continue their agitation until the government announces a decision on formation of Telangana state. The JAC also demanded that the government lift all police cases foisted against the striking employees and scrap GO No 177.
Holding talks with the JAC members, Minister for Higher Education K Parthasarathy appealed to the teachers to call off agitation and open the schools as parents are worried about career of their children. He asked the managements of educational institutions to open the schools and colleges considering the interests of students’ community and valuable academic year.
The Minister made it clear that the issue of Telangana state formation was not into the hands of state government and decision has to be taken by the Centre. He said that the government would consider their demands if they withdraw general strike and join duties immediately.
However, the JAC members did not agree to government's pre-condition of joining duties and decided to continue with the agitation.
Later talking to reporters, the Minister warned of serious action if the striking unions oppose teachers who are ready to join their duties. He said the regularization of apprentice teachers’ services, who participated in the general strike, would be considered based on their performance.
MLC Mohan Reddy also participated in the talks. (INN)
2011/8/5 7:42:43 Representing over 1.70 lakh teachers in Telangana, the Joint Action Committee of 24 Teachers' Unions, also boycotted the talks with the Group of Ministers and urged the government to first cancel the controversial GOs 165 and 166.
Speaking to media persons on Friday the leaders of the JAC; Pula Ravinder, PRTU Chairman and Punna Kumar, STU secretary general and others demanded that talks be held in the backdrop of a good atmosphere.
They resented the carrot and stick policy employed by the government and threatened to go on strike if the government did not respond to their notice served on July 31, for solving their demands.
Slogans in support of the Telangana were also raised on this occasion.
At a separate press conference, the Joint Struggle Committee of the Unions of Telangana Officers, Employees, Teachers and Workers told newsmen that they were displeased with the government and boycotted the talks as the climate was not favourable.
Criticising the government for creating such atmosphere which was not conducive, they alleged that the government was trying to invoke ESMA and deployed paramilitary forces.
This was not the way the talks should be held they said and added that government would be held responsible for any eventualities.(INN)
2012/2/6 13:57:32 The talks between the striking junior doctors and the State Government have failed after both the sides stick to their stand on stipend.
The talks were held on Monday at the State Secretariat between the representatives of junior doctors and Primary Education Minister K Sailajanath, who is also a member of cabinet sub-committee on junior doctors.
Later, briefing the media Sailajanath said that the doctors were insisting for stipend of more than Rs 30,000 and were not willing to reduce the figure. He categorically stated that the government might not consider an increase of more than 15 per cent. However, he said he would discuss the issue with other members of cabinet sub-committee before arriving at a conclusion.
Meanwhile, junior doctors' representative Aditya said that the junior doctors were earlier demanding payment of Rs 31,000 - Rs 33,000. However, in view of additional financial burden that the State might have to suffer, the demand has been reduced by Rs 2,000 for all the MBBS students. The junior doctors also denied that their agitation was political in nature. They accused the government of being non-responsive to their demands and also to the public health.
The Junior Doctors said that they were willing to work anywhere in the State, including rural areas, if the government provides them a permanent job after the Post Graduation.
The talks between the junior doctors and the cabinet sub-committee are likely to be resumed on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the junior doctors said that they would continue the strike till all their demands are met. (INN)
2011/5/30 22:18:37 Chandrababu Naidu for the first time has come to ABN News Channel studio to face its MD Vemuri Radha Krishna questions. Brief details of his interview:
“Indeed, I had been misguided with former US president Bill Clinton, Britain PM Tony Blair and Bill Gates patting for my vision-2020. I thought that I am going in right direction, but it is proved wrong later. My aim is to make our state as role model for other states in the country. That’s why, I have ignored the suggestions of my party and proceeds with my own plans.”
“I have never stated that agriculture is waste. Some sections of media have misinterpreted my statement. Actually, I suggested the farmers to see their children go for higher studies to improve their living standards and of course many of them have understood my suggestion and that’s why, several software engineers are seen in their families now. Indeed, we have concentrated on education than on agriculture. We have opened hundreds of Engineering and Medical colleges across the state with which the state scenario has changed positively.”
“I know, some people from my relatives-circle got employment in Congress Government only because they speak against me all the time. But, we won’t spare them if they do the same to our party.”
“Lokesh has never shown interest in joining active politics. He has his own businesses to do. Jr.NTR also is too young to talk about politics and he also has his own career. I am physically and mentally healthy. So, discussing about my successor at this point is just waste of time. More over, whoever likes to take the party reins certainly need the people’s approval otherwise, merely being the family member will not be a special qualification.”
“We are going move no-confidence motion against Kiran Kumar Reddy Government in the coming Assembly sessions. Hence, it is Jagan to make his stand clear. Several times he has told the media that, the Government is running on his mercy and he can bring it down any time he wants to. So, I demand him to show his strength and submit a letter to Governor withdrawing support to Congress Government, if he is really honest with what he says to people.”
Lawyers urge police personnel to join general strike
2011/8/6 3:38:56 Telangana Lawyers Joint Action Committee on Saturday urged the police personnel to join in the proposed general strike from August 17 to push for a separate Telangana state.
The appeal by the lawyers comes at a time when the state government is engaged in talks with the various employees’ unions’ leaders, trying to get them to reconsider their decision of going on the mass strike across the region.
The Telangana Lawyers JAC appealed to the police personnel from Telangana to join the strike and express solidarity with the people of the region. The TL JAC members visited every police station in Hyderabad and presented roses to the police personnel and requested them to join the strike.
Besides this, the ‘carrot-and-stick’ policy of the government can be gauged by the threat of invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act.
The talks with the Telangana employees Joint Action Committee failed on Friday as the TE JAC boycotted the meeting with the group of Ministers alleging dual standards of the state government.
The employees demanded with drawl of ESMA and security forces from the region as a precondition for the talks.(INN)
Former Minister J C Diwakar Reddy on Wednesday termed the on-going consultation on Telangana state formation as 'waste of time’.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will make elaborate arrangements for the smooth conduct of Eid-ul-Zuha, Bakrid festival to be celebrated on November 7.
he State Government will resume the talks with the Telangana employees who are on strike demanding statehood for the region.
Chandrababu Naidu for the first time has come to ABN News Channel studio to face its MD Vemuri Radha Krishna questions. Brief details of his interview:
