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Union Minister Mahesh Sharma had yesterday clarified BJP’s stance on the issue of construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya, saying his party and government had already given their opinion on the issue, that people of the country want the temple to be constructed as soon as possible.
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Sharma had yesterday clarified the BJP’s stance on the issue of construction of Ram Temple, saying his party and the government had already given their opinion that people of the country want the temple to be constructed as soon as possible.
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On the other hand, the opposition TDP, in alliance with the BJP, contested for Ranga Reddy and Mahaboob Nagar seats, while the YSR Congress has fielded candidate only for Khammam seat.
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Pro-Pakistan Dukhtaran-e-Milat (DeM) leader Syedah Asiya Andrabi is under fire.Three Hyderabad youths, who were arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) last week at the Nagpur airport, have told the Telangana police that they were on their way to Srinagar to meet Andrabi, who would have facilitated their onward journey to join the Islamic State (IS).The three cousins, Mohammad Abdullah Basit, Syed Omer Farooq Hussaini and Maaz Hasan Farooq, are in their 20s.They told the police that Andrabi was to have helped them cross over to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) for their onward journey to the Middle East.The Hyderabad police had said that the youths were motivated by IS propaganda online and were caught and counselled last year. The three were planning to join IS by crossing over to PoK en route to Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.The police have booked the trio under Sections 121 (waging or attempt to wage war against the state), 121-A (conspiracy to wage war), 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code, and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.The police said the three are related to former Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) president Syed Salahuddin, who was killed in a road accident in Hyderabad last year.Andrabi, however, denied any links with the trio, claiming an attempt is being made to tarnish her image and implicate her in fabricated cases. “My name is being dragged unnecessarily. I do not know any of the persons in Hyderabad. A concerted effort is being made to tarnish my image. I came to know about the arrest of the three youths through newspaper reports,” Andrabi told dna.Andrabi, however, admitted that she knew Syed Salahudin and had attended his programmes.She said if the state government orders a probe, her innocence would be proved. “Let them probe and it will prove that I stand nowhere in the picture,” she saidInspector general of police, Kashmir Zone, Syed Javid Mujtaba Gillani, said that they have officially got no intimation about the arrest of the threes youth and their revelations about Andrabi. “They (Hyderabad police) have not communicated to my office. I am not sure if they have communicated to the director general’s office,” he said.The arrest of the youths come in the backdrop of several incidents of IS flag-hoisting in Srinagar, particularly after Friday prayers in old city.The police had picked up several youths since the hoisting of flags last year, but investigations have not revealed any organisational structure of the outfit in the valley. A top army commander had last month said that the IS was a live threat.<!– /11440465/Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>
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The Taliparamba police is investigating into the case and closely monitoring the members of the Whatsapp group where Rafeeque expressed his views.
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Sunday is the last day of the ritual. The ritual, which reportedly cost Rs 7 crores and is being attended by many dignitaries including President Pranab Mukherjee, has been heavily criticised at a time when the agrarian crisis in Telangana is severe and farmer suicides a major issue.
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Earlier this year, Som was accorded ‘Z’ category security by the Centre after intelligence inputs that the BJP MLA from Sardhana could be targeted by extremist elements.Apart from his alleged involvement in the 2013 riots, Som was in the thick of controversy on being felicitated by senior BJP leaders at a rally in Agra during the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election just before Narendra Modi arrived on the dais.
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Modi also attended a marriage function of Sharif’s grand-daughter Mehrun Nisa (who is the daughter of Mariam Nawaz Sharif) at the latter’s Raiwind home on the outskirts of Lahore.
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A few rounds of meetings have taken place since October, when the idea was mooted for the first time by the prime minister. IIT Delhi which has one of the first industry incubation centres will be amongst the first one to get a research park on its campus. “We already have a very successful incubation centre. The process of setting up a research park has already been initiated. We will be able to set up a research park early next year,” said Professor Kshitij Gupta, officiating director at IIT Delhi.
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“I was upset with Rahul Gandhi who always promised to bring honest and young people and qualitative change in the polity of India. Unfortunately, he compromised on his own principles and ideology by forming new Punjab Congress team including Amarinder Singh, Ambika Soni and Lal Singh just to win polls in Punjab,” Khaira said.
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He added people now tend to watch serious live debates of the Parliament and that Gandhi needs to ensure they understand the reasons behind the Congress party’s stand on various issues.
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The agency, which had taken over the case in May, had arrested two hardcore NSCN(K) cadres and has charge sheeted them in connection with the case, the release said.
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Barely 10 kilometres from the venue lies the Pirlapally village, where farmer Nalla Kishtaiah had lost his crop on two successive seasons and was unable to face debtors or his own family. Therefore, he committed suicide.
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Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao has created controversy by holding a religious ceremony costing Rs 7 crores, even as farmers in the state continue to suffer.According to an NDTV report, the chief minister has admitted that the cost of the yagna will come to Rs 7 crore, but claimed that the state government will not foot the bill.”Some relatives and friends have come forward and I am spending from my account,” he said. “Not a single paise from the government is being spent. Even for generators and RTC bus, we are paying.”<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>The five-day ritual is to be conducted near his farmhouse at Erravelli in Medak district. It will involve 108 yagna platforms and 1500 priests, says the report. What’s more, President Pranab Mukherjee and several other dignitaries will be part of the guest list, which numbers around 50,000 people.But some farmers are feeling terribly anguished at the actions of the CM.Barely 10 kilometres from the venue lies the Pirlapally village, where farmer Nalla Kishtaiah had lost his crop on two successive seasons and was unable to face debtors or his own family. Therefore, he committed suicide.His son, Raju, a student of Class 9, says he feels let down by the government.”As the chief minister, he should help families like us who are really suffering. Did he not promise homes and pensions? We have neither of that,” said the boy who has started working as a labourer to make the ends meet.”We live so close by. He must have come here so many times. He should come at least today and help us. Otherwise how will my children survive, how will I educate them?” said his mother Renuka. “Will he agree to see me if I go and tell him about the terrible situation in which I and my children are? Will they let me in?” she asks, in tears.
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BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had earlier filed a Public-Interest Litigation (PIL) before the High Court to extend the stay of the juvenile.
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday asserted that the juvenile convict should not be released as a free person till management committee decides whether he is mentally sound and whether he has been socially main streamed. “The High Court judgment is correct that the law says three years and no way that any High Court or Supreme Court can change that. But the issue is that there are other provisions that have to be acted upon before he is formally released as a free man. According to the rules, he can”t be released till a management committee decides whether he is mentally sound”He was supposed to release yesterday but he has not been released, Management committee has up to two years to decide. So, he will be under controlled movement for two more years,” Swamy told ANI in Delhi.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>Related Read: Nirbhaya case: DCW chief Maliwal writes to Juvenile Justice Board asking them not release convict “DCW has filed the petition at night, why so late ” I don”t think there is any way in the present laws to keep him in custody of the juvenile justice board. He has to be kept under chains in some forms by using the rules. That the best I can say,” he added. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had earlier filed a Public-Interest Litigation (PIL) before the High Court to extend the stay of the juvenile, claiming that there was no proof he had been “reformed” and that intelligence reports had said he was being “radicalised” while in detentionDelhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal late on Saturday filed a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court against the release of the juvenile convict in Nirbhaya gangrape case. The apex court has decided to hear the petition on Monday.The convict in Nirbhaya gang rape case is now 20 years old. He was a juvenile in 2012 when he committed the heinous crime along with his friends in a moving bus in the capital. The court found him guilty of raping and assaulting the victim, who later died in hospital, along with five accomplices. Due to being a juvenile when the crime was committed, he was tried under the Juvenile Justice Act and was ordered to be kept in a remand home for three years. The convict, to be the most brutal of the attackers, has been taken to an undisclosed location from a correction home in North Delhi amid concerns that there was a threat to his life. He is scheduled to be released today.Meanwhile, K Kavitha of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) said the juvenile’s release could not be stopped.
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Governor ESL Narasimhana and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao along with some of his ministerial colleagues and senior officials received the President at Hakimpet Air Force base
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President Pranab Mukherjee today arrived here for his 14-day southern sojourn upto December 31, at the Rashtrapati Nilayam.Governor ESL Narasimhana and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao along with some of his ministerial colleagues and senior officials received the President at Hakimpet Air Force base. During the sojourn, the President will attend the convocation of Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME), Secunderabad on December 19, an official release had said earlier. The President would attend the second convocation of the Central University of Karnataka on December 22 at Gulbarga in Karntaka. On the same day, he will inaugurate the Magneto Encephalography Equipment and renovated heritage building of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>He will also dedicate NIMHANS to the nation as an institute of national importance. On December 23, the President will attend the 150th anniversary of Bishop Cotton Boys’ School and lay the foundation stone of the State Cancer Institute at the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bengaluru.On December 25, the President will inaugurate the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam’s Veda-Patasala at Ai Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh. On December 27, Mukherjee would deliver the inaugural address at the Indian Economic Association’s Annual Conference at Prof Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad. On the same day, he will also attend the ‘Purnahuthi’ of ‘Ayutha Chandi Maha Yagam’ being organised by the Telangana Chief Minister at Erravelli village in Medak in Telangana for ‘Lok Kalyanam’ (universal prosperity) and ‘Vishwa Shanthi’ (universal peace).ESL Narasimhan, Governor of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will host a dinner in honour of the President on December 29. The President will host a reception for senior dignitaries of the state, Ministers, officials and others at the Rashtrapati Nalayam, Secunderabad on December 30. The Nilayam is one of the Presidential Retreats. It is customary for the President to visit the Nilayam at least once a year and conduct official business from there.
Although, the agency officials are tight-lipped about the country where he came under the scanner of law enforcement agencies, sources pointed out that he was moved to a third country from where his deportation has been planned.
The craze to fight for Islamic State seems to be on the wane among Indian youths who in their zest to serve the terror organisation headed for Iraq and Syria taking enormous risk. The latest example is of a youth from Tamil Nadu. Suspected to have been in touch with IS recruiters and propagandists, he is set to be deported back to India on Friday, said sources in central intelligence agencies.Although, the agency officials are tight-lipped about the country where he came under the scanner of law enforcement agencies, sources pointed out that he was moved to a third country from where his deportation has been planned.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>”This is good news for us as it shows that the youth are getting disenchanted and disillusioned from the ISIS after seeing its actual character from close quarters. They are also feeling the pain of extreme racism at the hands of their Arab handlers that goes totally against the egalitarian approach of Islam. We hope to see more such desertions,” said sources.Law enforcement agencies in India are not registering case against youths, who have been deported from abroad on charges of radicalisation. Instead, they are put under 24X7 surveillance and counselled by officials if they are not highly radicalised and could be de-radicalised and brought back into the mainstream society. But, before that any suspected radicalised youth is questioned at length to ascertain about the level of involvement with the IS recruiters and propagandists.So far 23 Indian youths have joined IS of which six have reportedly been killed in IS territory. They include Athif Vaseem Mohammad, 25, resident of Adilabad, Telangana, Mohammad Umar Subhan and Faiz Masood, 28, of Bangalore, Saheem Farooque Tanki from Kalyan (Thane) in Maharashtra and two Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists Maulana Abdul Qadir Sultan Armar, 29, from Bhatkal in Karnataka and Mohammad Sajid, 30, from Azamgarh, UP.
Eight organisers of the controversial ‘beef festival’ on Osmania University campus were detained while BJP MLA T Raja Singh, who was opposing the the event, was arrested in Hyderabad this morning, police said.
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Eight organisers of the controversial ‘beef festival’ on Osmania University campus were detained while BJP MLA T Raja Singh, who was opposing the the event, was arrested in Hyderabad this morning, police said.A ‘curfew-like’ situation prevailed on the campus with heavy police security being deployed to prevent any untoward incident.A students’ group had earlier declared that it would hold a ‘beef festival’ on the campus on Thursday, coinciding with the World Human Rights Day, while another group also announced its plan to organise a ‘pork festival’ the same day, which raised the possibility of confrontation.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>”We detained last night eight key members of the group which announced the beef festival today. As per court order, we will not allow any festivals on the Osmania University campus,” a police official told PTI. Assistant Commissioner of Police K Ram Bhupal Rao told PTI that they arrested BJP MLA from Goshamahal, T Raja Singh, as a preventive measure to maintain law and order.Related Read: Telangana BJP MLA Raja Singh Lodh says ready to kill people for eating beef, threatens Dadri-like incidentThe legislator had vowed to stop the ‘beef festival’ and also announced that he along with other groups would perform a “Gau Puja” (cow worship) on Thursday. Earlier, he had also shown willingness to kill whoever consumes beef. A city civil court had passed the status quo order three days back, which amounts to staying the holding of the festivals, on a petition filed by an advocate.The petition contended that these events are in violation of Cruelty Towards Animal Act and Cow Slaughter Act, and hurt the religious sentiments of the people. Large scale violence was witnessed when beef festival was organised on the campus by a section of students in 2011, 2012 and 2014, said the petition.On the University premises, police imposed restrictions on movement of people and vehicles. Barricades were put up at all the vantage points of the institution and heavy police security was deployed. Police did not allow even regular morning walkers in the university on Thursday. Osmania University, one of the oldest educational institutions of higher learning, has already clarified that activities unrelated to academics, including ‘beef festival’, ‘pork festival’ and ‘gau-puja’ would not be permitted on the campus.
The DCP also sought the co-operation of students to enusre peace, adding all possible steps would be taken to maintain tranquillity in the campus.
Seeking to avoid a showdown between rival camps of students at Osmania University by holding “beef” and “pork” festivals on the same day, police on Friday stepped in saying they would not permit any event that would mar peace in the campus. “In order to maintain peace and tranquillity on the campus, with regard to proposed festivities in the Osmania University campus in next 8 days, it is decided not to permit celebration of any festivities on the campus by any students/ organisations/groups,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (East Zone) A Ravinder said.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>The DCP also sought the co-operation of students to ensure peace, adding all possible steps would be taken to maintain tranquillity in the campus. While Leftist student organisations have declared that they would hold a ‘beef festival’ on December 10 in the campus, coinciding with the World Human Rights Day, another group of students announced plans to organise a ‘pork festival’ in parallel on the same day, setting the stage for a confrontation.Escalating the row, BJP MLA Raja Singh had said that he would stop the proposed ‘beef festival’ and called for a ‘Chalo University’ march on that day. The university authorities had earlier said that activities such as ‘beef festival’ and ‘gau (cow) puja’, which are not related to academics and research, will not be permitted in the campus. Meanwhile,Chairman of the Minorities’ Commission for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Abid Rasool Khan, said he will write to Telangana government seeking action against Raja Singh for his alleged “provocative statements” on the issue. Asked about the MLA’s reported statement that he would “kill or be killed to protect cows” to oppose the beef festival, Khan said “Telangana government has to seriously look into this matter and we will also write to government in this regard.”The Commission, following complaints over Singh’s speeches, had called for reports from the state government and the police. The minorities panel serves both the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
After working with various NGOs for three years, Hans, along with his wife Avantika Chandra, decided to start their own NGO called Prowl.
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“I love tigers,” he says when asked to describe himself. Hans Dalal, a tiger conservationist, says that passion is all you need to work in this field.A sound engineer by profession, Hans first saw a tiger in 2007 when he was on a forest safari at the Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh. “The moment I saw the handsome animal, I fell in love and wanted to pursue a life around it. But I had my own music studio back in Mumbai then and needed to sort that out first. So I returned to Mumbai and in a year’s time, shut the studio with help from my wife,” Hans tells iamin.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>He then took up a course in wildlife conservation with Tiger Watch, an NGO at Ranthambore and volunteered with a few other such NGOs post completing the seven-week course. “You meet a lot of like-minded people at the course. They acclimatize you with wildlife and its conservation at the course and that’s all you need. What is important is your passion for working in this area,” says Hans, who always had an interest in the outdoors, even as a child, when he was involved in a number of treks and expeditions.Hans, who has also been battling cerebral palsy, initially worked as a community conservation officer in Ranthambore. As a part of his job, he worked with villagers living close to the forests. “The nearby villages are highly affected by wildlife and vice versa. We work with these villagers in terms of educating them about the importance of conserving wildlife. There are many poachers among these villagers since that is their livelihood. We rehabilitated these poachers in different jobs. Some of them I also pulled into the music industry after stumbling upon a few singers among them. I thus combined my two passions – music and tiger conservation,” he says.Hans also went on to shoot a music video with some of these villagers and later made a 20-minute long documentary ‘With a little help’ on their life and work.After working with various NGOs for three years, Hans, along with his wife Avantika Chandra, decided to start their own NGO called Prowl. It was his wife’s dream to start their own venture and it was done in 2013. Prowl which tracks the movement of tigers with the help of camera traps between Maharashtra and Telangana and trace conflict tigers for the Maharashtra forest department. In coordination with local NGOs, it also conducts training programmes for forest guards as well as for villagers.“We teach the villagers about composting for manure and have recently also begun to tell them about organic farming so that they end up improving the soil quality in their locality. We want to reduce their forest dependence. They go to the forests for almost everything – from wood to food. We want to minimise man-animal conflicts,” said Hans, adding that the aim of Prowl is to involve local communities in tiger conservation.Hans narrates an incident he experienced in a forest in Maharashtra earlier this year. “It was right there, in front of me – a giant living tiger. I was on my feet and so was he. For the first couple of minutes I was blank – scared, numb, shocked and elated for being in such close proximity with him,” he recounts.“After a while, once I was stable, I told the others not to run,” he describes, adding that they were almost 18 of them including a team of the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF), one of whom then fired a couple of shots in the air and the tiger ran away.“It was one amazing experience,” exclaims Hans, who doesn’t sound like he is anywhere close to regretting choosing this way of life.Prowl is funded by donations from wildlife lovers and enthusiasts. But that is not enough, he says. “We are therefore building a resort near the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur, Maharashtra. That way we will be able to live in the forests, continue to work for tiger conservation and at the same time have a source of income,” he said.(Hans Dalal will be speaking at the TEDxGateway, Mumbai, on December 5, 2015 at NCPA)
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The organisers of the beef ‘festival’ had said that it was being planned as a means to “save democratic principles” in the wake of alleged attempts to curb dietary habits of certain groups, coinciding with International Human Rights Day on December 10.
A showdown appears to be on cards on Thursday with the defiant students’ group deciding to go ahead with its plan to conduct a ‘Beef Festival’ on December 10 in Osmania University campus here despite university authorities’ refusal of permission and a BJP MLA vowing to stop it.Another group of students had announced plans to organise a ‘Pork festival’ in the university campus on December 10. “In fact, we did not apply for permission. Permission is not required for what we eat in our college and our hostel. We will definitely go ahead with the event,” Shankar, an organiser of the ‘Beef Festival’, said.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>Noting that Ganesh festival and “Nagula Chavati” celebrations, among others, do take place at the campus, he asked how come these religious events are taking place in the university premises with people from outside coming in. Meanwhile, BJP MLA Raja Singh, who had vowed to stop the ‘Beef Festival’, said he would go ahead with his plan if the organisers tried to conduct the event even after refusal of permission.”101 per cent, we will stop it, if they go ahead with the Beef Festival even after the government saying so (denying permission),” Raja Singh said.He had earlier said a ‘Gau puja’ should also be allowed on December 10 if the ‘Beef Festival’ is permitted. Raja Singh had also hit out at Telangana BJP President G Kishan Reddy for “not speaking in favour of stopping the “Beef Festival” and demanded his resignation, saying his action amounted to “stunting the growth of BJP in Telangana”.The organisers of the beef ‘festival’ had said that it was being planned as a means to “save democratic principles” in the wake of alleged attempts to curb dietary habits of certain groups, coinciding with International Human Rights Day on December 10.They said they have also complained to the State Human Rights Commission against Raja Singh for his “provocative comments”. Pork has been a nutritious food choice and “pig-rearing provided livelihood to certain communities” in the country, said Solanki Srinivas, a leader of the students’ group in the varsity planning to hold ‘Pork Festival’.OU authorities said yesterday the university has been established for the purpose of imparting higher education and conducting research in various disciplines. “The primary objective of the University is purely academic and research oriented. It is, therefore, informed to all the concerned including the teachers, students and staff of the university that activities such as “Beef Festival” and “Gau-Puja” which are unrelated to academics and research will not be permitted on the campus,” they said.
The current state of Chennai, the floods in Uttarakhand, Kashmir, the heat waves in Telangana, are all such events caused by these changes, explained Dholakia.
Looking at how to deal with the fallout of climate change in India, at the damage done and the changes already underway, a new report estimates that the country will need $1 trillion from now till 2030, to adapt to these adverse effects. The study carried out and released by IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Gandhinagar and Council on Energy, Environment and Water, also sees how 800 million people in India, across 450 districts out of the 636 in the country, are living through a temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius.Using high-resolution data from climate models that are specifically about India, the kind used by NASA, as Dr Hem Dholakia from CEEW told dna, the study closed in on the kinds of adverse effects different parts of India will be facing. Using current government expenditure on development and relief projects, it projected what the expenditure in adaptation — to enable people to deal with such changes — and in loss and damages — in cases of extreme, unpreventable events — will be.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>Thought the global target is to limit the temperature rise to 2 degree Celsius by 2100, as the study pointed out, such changes are already happening in India along with shifting rainfall patterns, another marker of climate change.”We’re facing a deadly combinations of temperature rise, reduced rainfall and erratic monsoons in certain areas, with a threat of drought,” said Dholakia, the co-author of the study. This will mostly occur in central and north eastern parts of the country. Other areas, such as the coasts, will see “extreme precipitation events”, giving rise to floods.”The current state of Chennai, the floods in Uttarakhand, Kashmir, the heat waves in Telangana, are all such events caused by these changes,” explained Dholakia.This will affect farmers, fishermen and all those who live off the coast. “The night time temperatures are also set to rise by 1-1.5 degrees Celsius, which will lead to crop failures,” said Dholakia.He added that the money India needs to spend and the efforts it needs to make for development will be put under acute strain because of climate change. “The climate change negotiations for the past 20 years have been about reducing carbon emissions,” he said, “but what about what’s already happening. Already we’re losing $5-6 billion annually due to loss and damage.” This is what gave rise to the study, which the CEEW reckons is the first of its kind in India, looking at the cost of adaptation and the loss and damage, and the gap in between. If we continue on our current path, with the temperature increase, we will rack up a cost of a trillion. However, the finance is also policy dependent, as Dholakia admits, and such decisions could either bring this number up or down. Globally countries have to work towards the 2 degrees limit. India could also invest in adaptation measures, such as early warning systems for example, to reduce loss and damage.”There is still a knowledge gap in the country, as there isn’t enough data available on what technological measures work and what don’t,” he added, which hobbles these efforts.
The car apparently rammed in a milk truck and the bonnet went under the truck.
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The nephew and two small grandsons of the Telangana Tourism Corporation chairman Pervaram Ramulu died in a car crash on the Outer Ring Road about 20 kms from Hyderabad near Kokapet.A report in The Indian Express stated that the accident happened early on Wednesday morning. Three of Ramulu’s grandsons were travelling in a Skoda car along with his nephew when the accident occurred. The car hit a milk truck and the bonnet went under the truck apparently. The report states that Amit Pawar and Varun Pawar were killed instantly and P Gnanadev; son of Pervaram Ramulu’s brother; who was sitting in the backseat, died later at a hospital. Rahul Pawar, another grandson of Ramulu, is said to be in a critical condition in the hospital. <!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>Eyewitnesses have reported that the car was running at a high speed while the truck was at a slower speed. The force with which the car rammed in the truck was high as the bonnet got crushed and the engine reportedly was pushed into the car front seat. The truck driver is said to be absconding.
Sources said that those surveyed included students as well as those who have settled in foreign countries for work in the last two years.
The growing tentacles of IS (Islamic State) are prompting Indian intelligence agencies to keep a tab on the Indian diaspora, including students. In fact, the Union home ministry has specifically asked agencies to keep the diaspora under surveillance and has advised all states and Union territories to follow suit. Sources say that a massive ‘survey’ of more than 500 Indians living in foreign countries had already been undertaken, much before the deadly terror attacks in Paris on November 13. The government believes that at least 40-50 of the youths ‘surveyed’ over a period of time, have close links with the IS. Agencies claim that they have not been in touch with their families for over a year. Most of them are from south Indian states.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –> Sources said that those surveyed included students as well as those who have settled in foreign countries for work in the last two years. “Between 2014 and 2015, more than 500 persons, who were either travelling to foreign countries or have gone there for permanent settlement, were kept under surveillance. We have also been keeping a tab on persons who have extended families abroad,” said a source. In September, UAE had deported a 37-year-old woman, Afsha Jabeen alias Nicky Joseph, for allegedly recruiting youths for IS through social media. Another 17-year-old girl from UAE was sent back from Turkey when she was on her way to join IS. Already 23 Indian youths are reported to have joined the terror group and more than 70 have been prevented from being its part. Six youths, according to intelligence officials, have died while fighting along with IS. They are Athif Vaseem Mohammad (Adilabad, Telangana), Mohammad Umar Subhan (Bengaluru), Maulana Abdul Kadir Sultan Armar (Bhatkal, Karnataka), Saheem Farooque Tanki (Thane), Faiz Masood (Bengaluru) and Mohammad Sajid alias Bada Sajid (Azamgarh, UP). “We have found out that 40-50 youths have communicated with members of IS through social media. There is high possibility that they might be in contact with the Indian diaspora as well,” the official added. The home ministry has held a meeting with senior officials of state agencies last Friday. The ministry said the recent multiple attacks in Paris clearly indicate the intention of the IS to expand the area of terror beyond its core area of Iraq and Syria. “Though the IS has not been able to establish any significant presence in India, its success in radicalising some youth, attracting certain sections of local population or Indian diaspora to physically participate in its activities or the possibility of piggy-backing on terrorist groups operating in India have opened up the possibility of IS-sponsored terrorist attacks on Indian territory,” reads the advisory sent to Director Generals of Police.
New Delhi: Twenty-three Indians have so far joined the Islamic State of which six were reportedly killed even as it emerged that the dreaded terror outfit considered South Asian Muslims, including Indians, inferior to Arab fighters in the conflict zone of Iraq and Syria.
According to an intelligence report prepared by foreign agencies and shared with Indian agencies, fighters from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh as well as certain countries like Nigeria and Sudan are considered not good enough by IS and often tricked into suicide attacks.
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The report said that a total of 23 Indians have so far joined the IS of which six were reportedly killed in different incidents.
The dead were identified as Athif Vaseem Mohammad (Adilabad, Telangana), Mohammad Umar Subhan (Bangalore, Karnataka), Maulana Abdul Kadir Sultan Armar (Bhatkal, Karnataka), Saheem Farooque Tanki (Thane, Maharashtra), Faiz Masood (Bangalore, Karnataka) and Mohammad Sajid alias Bada Sajid (Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh).
The intelligence report suggests that there is a disproportionately high level of casualties among the South Asian and African foreign terrorist fighters since they are forced to the frontlines of battle as foot soldiers.
The Arab fighters with better battle experience are mostly positioned behind these fighters and hence their casualties are proportionally less in terms of their total numbers. This explains why so many Indians from a small Indian contingent have died, it says.
There appears to be clear hierarchy wherein the Arab fighters are preferred as officer cadre and provided better arms and ammunition, equipment, accommodation and salaries.
“The fighters from South Asia are usually housed in groups in small barracks and are paid less than the Arab fighters and are provided inferior equipment,” the input says.
There are reports that the so-called inferior fighters are also, at times, tricked into suicide attacks. Usually they are given a vehicle loaded with explosives and asked to go near a targeted destination and call a certain number, who would purportedly come and meet them to explain the mission.
However, as soon as the number is dialled, the car explodes due to a pre-set mechanism aimed at destroying a specific target.
The intelligence report says there is information that foreign fighters of Chinese, Indian, Nigerian and Pakistani origin are housed together and are monitored closely by the IS Police.
Incidentally, only Tunisian, Palestinian, Saudi Arabian, Iraqi and Syrian are allowed to be in the IS Police force, which is barred for fighters of all other nationalities.
Hence, there is a clear trust deficit between the dominant Arab fighters from other nationalities, who are mostly attracted to IS through its sophisticated propaganda techniques on the Internet.
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Citing information available till around 6 PM, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Bhanwar Lal told PTI that the final voting figure in Warangal would be more than 65 per cent.
Women wait in a queue to cast vote for Warangal Lok Sabha bypoll in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday.
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Voting in bypolls to Lok Sabha seats of Warangal (SC) in Telangana and Ratlam (ST) in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday recorded over 65 % and 59 % turnout respectively. Congress and BJP are pitted against each other and also the regional parties. The polling in both the constituencies was by and large peaceful, election officials said.Citing information available till around 6 PM, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Bhanwar Lal told PTI that the final voting figure in Warangal would be more than 65 %. Polling started at 7 AM amid tight security and voters who were in queue at 5 PM (closing time for balloting) were allowed to exercise their franchise.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>In the morning, polling officials welcomed the first voters at several booths by giving them flowers to encourage the electorate to turn up in large numbers. He said the polling passed off peacefully without any untoward incident reported from the constituency, about 130 km from Hyderabad, which witnessed a multi-cornered contest among the ruling TRS, Opposition Congress, BJP-TDP combine and YSR Congress Party (YSRCP).Though 23 candidates are in the fray, the main contest is considered to be among the TRS candidate P Dayakar, former Union Minister Sarve Satyanarayana (Congress), BJP’s P Devaiah on behalf the BJP-TDP combine and N Suryaprakash of YSRCP. Keen on retaining the seat, the TRS appointed State Ministers as in-charge for campaign in the Assembly segments falling under the Lok Sabha constituency. TRS President and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao also addressed a rally.The by-election in Warangal was necessitated following the resignation of TRS MP Kadiam Srihari after he became Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana.Meanwhile, the Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency, about 240 km from Bhopal, recorded 59.46 % polling, Chief Electoral Officer Saleena Singh said. By-election was also held in Dewas Assembly segment, where the voter turnout was 62.03 %, she said, adding barring a few incidents, both by-elections passed off peacefully amid tight security. In Ratlam, eight candidates, including Kantilal Bhuria of Congress and Nirmala Bhuria of BJP, are in the fray.Though the main fight is considered to be between ruling BJP and main Opposition Congress, the JD(U), buoyed by the success of grand alliance in Bihar, put up its candidate Vijay Haari with support from CPI, CPI-M, Gondwana Gantantra Party and Bahujan Sangarsh Dal.The Ratlam bypoll was necessitated due to the death of BJP MP Dilip Singh Bhuria, the father of Nirmala. Counting of votes will take place on November 24.
Telangana is conducting the exams separately and hence they will announce the dates separately.
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The Board of Intermediate Education Andhra Pradesh has finally announced the exam dates for those doing their Intermediate. Both the first and second year exams were announced on November 14. The exams will be conducted in March 2016 for both years. The exam time table has been attached below. Telangana is conducting the exams separately and hence they will announce the dates separately. All the exam centres will be given when the exam hall tickets are being issued to students. .In case you want more information and want to download the time table for AP inter exam 2016, log on onto their official site www.bieap.gov.in.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>
Three grandchildren and daughter-in-law of former Congress lawmaker Siricilla Rajaiah were burnt alive after a fire broke out at their residence in Warangal in Telangana early Wednesday morning.
Three grandchildren and daughter-in-law of former Congress lawmaker Siricilla Rajaiah were burnt alive after a fire broke out at their residence in Warangal in Telangana early Wednesday morning.”Four persons including Rajaiah’s daughter-in-law (S Sarika) and his three grandchildren, all boys, died in the fire incident,” a senior police officer said, adding, all of them succumbed to burn injuries on the spot.Asked on the cause of the fire and reports of cooking gas explosion leading to the mishap, the police officer said, “Most probably the fire was due to gas expolsion…it is too early to come to a conclusion…it will take some more time…there is no clarity.”<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>The fire occurred on the second floor of Rajaiah’s house in Hanamkonda area of Warangal city where the members were staying.Sarika and her three sons – Abhinav, Ayan and Sriyan were in the bedroom when the fire broke out.Sarika had filed a case of dowry and even staged a sit-in outside her father-in-law’s house in April 2014. She married Rajaiah’s son in 2002, reports NDTV.Rajaiah Siricilla had on October 31 filed his nominations for the November 21 bypoll to Warangal (SC) Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana.The bypoll was necessitated following the resignation of Kadiam Srihari (TRS) who became the deputy Chief Minister of Telangana.
The APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Ahaar Yojna, to be rolled out in the state on Nov 15, will benefit over 1.9 lakh women in the first year
To tackle severe malnutrition among children in the vast tribal belt spread across 16 districts, Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced the launch of the ambitious APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Ahaar Yojna, that will benefit all pregnant tribal women. The scheme, mooted by the tribal development department, aims to ensure that every carrying tribal woman gets atleast one full meal a day, free of cost, to take care of her nutritious needs. To be rolled out on November 15, the Rs 22-meal will cost the eschequer Rs 75 crore an year. Besides, the women and child welfare department will spend Rs 10 crore in stipend to anganwadi workers.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –> The “hot cooked” meal, which will take into consideration the beneficiary’s food preference, will be provided for six months – beginning from third trimester of pregnancy and continuing for three months after delivery – to ensure that the babies benefit during the lactation period. To be projected as a flagship project of the Fadnavis government on completion of its one year in office, the scheme will benefit over 1.9 lakh women in the first year. “The scheme is unique in the sense that the government role will be as a funding agency. It will be the tribal women and the local ‘meal committees’ who will be implementing the scheme. This is an experiment…the government, while aiming to ensure healthy and hygienic food, don’t want any corruption to happen in such a big welfare scheme,” said Rajgopal Deora, secretary, Tribal Development Department. It seems, the alleged chikki scam has forced it to shun the controversial rate contract and tenders for the first time and think out of the box as far as the implementation of the welfare schemes are concerned. As per the plan, a four-member meal committee would be constituted in every tribal village across 16 districts having tribal population. The committee would be headed by a woman panchayat member. Two other members would be pregnant or lactating mothers and an anganwadi worker. “The meal fund for every village, based on registration of pregnant women, would be transferred to the joint account of the meal committee chairperson and the anganwadi worker. The committee would decide what to purchase and cook based on choice of pregnant women. The committee will not only execute the scheme, but also procure the grains, vegetables, eggs and fruits at local level. The move will empower tribal women as well,” said Deora. The local-level procurement will not only curb malpractice, but also break the nexus between politicians, babus and dubious firms, feel experts. To monitor the scheme’s effective implementation and curb any fudging of numbers at local level, the government is also collaborating with an NGO to bring in an app. “Through the app, the anganwadi worker has to click the pictures of beneficiaries which will directly be accessed at the district headquarter,” said the official. The proposed scheme will replace the ‘take-home ration (THR) scheme’ that provides packets of sheera or upma to expectant or lactating mothers at a cost of Rs 7.92. Though this is the first such experiment of direct funding by the Maharashtra government, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have similar direct intervention schemes for tribal women. What’s in the menuThe hot meal will be served at anganwadi centres and will include bhakri/roti, rice, pulses, green vegetables (cooked in iodized salt), jaggery, groundnut laddus and boiled eggs/banana/nachni halwa and soyamilk. Why new scheme?A government study found that 23.1% children born in tribal areas are underweight. It also found that the average BMI of women living in the tribal region is less than 18.5, pushing the government to come up with the scheme.
The state police in Telangana have booked around 6300 cases of alleged dowry harassment and domestic violence against husbands and their relatives in one year. A report in Deccan Chronicle states that men’s rights activists claim that that Section 498A (dowry harassment and domestic violence) is being exploited by women to extort money from their husbands. Meanwhile, defence lawyers for men claim the wife has a mental illness when such cases are filed.
The state police in Telangana have booked around 6300 cases of alleged dowry harassment and domestic violence against husbands and their relatives in one year. A report in Deccan Chronicle states that men’s rights activists claim that that Section 498A (dowry harassment and domestic violence) is being exploited by women to extort money from their husbands. Meanwhile, defence lawyers for men claim the wife has a mental illness when such cases are filed. While women take to filing dowry harassment cases as grounds for divorce, men reportedly cite the wife with having mental illnesses like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia as cause for divorce. The report quotes human rights lawyer Gulam Rabbani as saying,“It’s common that the woman filing a complaint against cruelty of her husband is accused of having mental problems. Defence lawyers use this as an easy way out for their clients to win the case.”<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>The report quotes lawyers as saying that men cite mental illness to get away with not paying alimony and compensation, take custody of the children and take the property as well.“The women suffer a lot due to the false allegations. What will they have if they are divorced on the grounds of insanity?” asks Rabbani.
Both government and private schools will have to follow the new school uniform code.
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The Telangana state government has come up with a new solution to tackle mosquito bites that cause dengue and malaria.A report in Deccan Chronicle states that from next year girls will wear full sleeve shirts and salwars to school while boys will wear full sleeve shirts and trousers. Right now school students can wear short sleeve shorts and skirts but this leaves them exposed to mosquitoes.Health and family welfare officials have apparently felt that changing the school uniform would help prevent school students from getting malaria and dengue. Both government and private schools will have to follow the new school uniform code.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>
In a broad daylight murder, Faisal, Aijazuddin and Mohammed Aslam had shot dead the constable in Khandwa and minutes later killed two more people.
The court had on Friday held Faisal guilty of murder, criminal conspiracy, unlawful activities and illegal possession of arms in this case.
A Bhopal Court on Saturday awarded life imprisonment to SIMI activist Abu Faisal in connection with the murder of Special Armed Force (SAF) constable Ghisiram Yadav at Khandwa in 2009. The court had on Friday held Faisal guilty of murder, criminal conspiracy, unlawful activities and illegal possession of arms in this case. In a broad daylight murder, Faisal, Aijazuddin and Mohammed Aslam had shot dead the constable in Khandwa and minutes later killed two more people. Aijazuddin and Aslam were killed in an encounter in Telangana in April this year. Faisal was also the mastermind of jailbreak in Khandwa after which six SIMI activists escaped in October 2013. <!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>
On October 24 last year, the Hyderabad police had set up SHE Teams to crack down on eve-teasers and stalkers, which was subsequently extended across Telangana districts.
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The ‘SHE Teams’, which was set up to keep a hawk’s eye on eve-teasers, caught as many as 281 offenders in Hyderabad, including 129 minors, since October last year, an official said on Wednesday.On October 24 last year, the Hyderabad police had set up SHE Teams to crack down on eve-teasers and stalkers, which was subsequently extended across Telangana districts.”The SHE Teams were launched with the sole aim and objective of curbing eve teasing/street harassment and providing a safe and secure Hyderabad city for women,” Additional Commissioner of Police (Crimes and SIT) Swathi Lakra said.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>Various types of modus operandi were seen, including stalking and teasing, passing lewd comments, trying to touch inappropriately at crowded places, sending abusive messages to the victims on their mobiles, making calls and talking indecently during late nights. Harassment through social media like Facebook and e-mails and using previous friendship or proximity, photos, videos and trying to blackmail the victim online were some of the ways seen, she explained. Cases were also booked for public nuisance using bikes, four wheelers, etc to attract the attention of the ladies near colleges, schools, etc.”12 cases were booked under the Nirbhaya Act, besides 10 IPC cases in different police stations were registered apart from 126 petty cases. 19 persons were jailed, 101 persons were fined, 39 were warned and let off,” the officer said.”Till now, a total of 883 complaints were received through various means and attended to,” Swathi Lakra said.Apart from counselling by the officers, for minors caught in eve-teasing, professional counselling sessions were conducted along with their parents in order to guide them for the career and mould their behaviour in a proper way to become good citizens, she said adding services of six member panel of professional psychologists and NGOs were taken.The juvenile offenders are counselled and made to participate in anti-eve teasing campaign, she said.Apart from catching the accused and booking cases, to change the mindset of the people and to create awareness regarding SHE teams more than 100 colleges, 70 schools, 160 private and working women hostels, government schools, social welfare hostels etc were covered. All major crowded areas like bus stops, railway stations, parks, shopping malls, labour addas, slum areas, cinema theatres, RTC buses, MMTS trains, seven seater autos etc were covered, she added.”Volunteers from all age groups, reformed accused, NGOs, and eminent persons from all the fields, including the print and electronic media, are doing their best possible to help in taking forward the programme as a people’s movement to change the mindset of the people as a whole gradually,” the Additional CP said.The officers of a SHE Team, who are in civil dress, are deployed near colleges and other public places. A single SHE Team consists of a male or female sub-inspector, a woman police constable and three police constables, who carry hidden cameras for video recording.
The apex court also referred to a body of judgments, asking government authorities to refrain from relaxing the eligibility criteria basing it on various kinds of reservations.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday called for the end of the reservation system in all institutions of higher education, regretting that ‘some privilege remains unchanged’ 68 years after Independence. It urged the Modi government to take steps to remove reservations in ‘national interest’.According to Indian Express, a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and PC Pant noted that despite several reminders to the central and state governments to make merit the primary criteria for admissions into super-specialty courses, the reality is that reservation is given preference over merit.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>”The fond hope has remained in the sphere of hope… The said privilege remains unchanged, as if (it is) to compete with eternity,” the bench remarked. The court said it agreed with two of its own judgements from 1988. The two cases refer to reservations in super-speciality medical courses, wherein the Supreme Court had stated that ‘there should really be no reservation’. The rationale given was that improving higher education was in the general interest of the country, and quality of medical services needed to be good.“We hope and trust that the Government of India and the state governments shall seriously consider this aspect of the matter without delay and appropriate guidelines shall be evolved…” these judgments had stated.The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it was ‘inclined’ to convey the same message it did 27 years ago, according to Indian Express. “Therefore, we echo the same feeling and reiterate the aspirations of others so that authorities can objectively assess and approach the situation so that the national interest can become paramount,” the court said. The apex court also referred to a body of judgments, asking government authorities to refrain from relaxing the eligibility criteria basing it on various kinds of reservations, since it would defeat the very purpose of imparting the best possible training to selected meritorious candidates.These observations were made by the Supreme Court while delivering judgement on a slew of petitions which had challenged an eligibility criteria for admissions into certain super-specialty medical courses in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu. The bench said it could not interfere with the admission process in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana since a Presidential Order had been created and the constitutionality of the order not challenged.Recently, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had caused a controversy by opining that the reservation system in the country needed to be reexamined, sparking protests from across the political spectrum. Even the BJP had disagreed with Bhagwat and stated that there were no plans to scrap reservations.Read: RSS Mohan Bhagwat pitches for review of reservation policy, Amit Shah thinks otherwise
The Centre had asked the state government to have meeting with millers, wholesalers and retailers to make pulses available in retail markets at reasonable prices.
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To give relief to common man from skyrocketing prices of pulses, four state governments including Gujarat have started selling tur dal at a lower price of Rs 120-145/kg at retail points.Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are distributing one kg of tur dal at a highly subsidised rate of Rs 50 through ration shops, while Tamil Nadu is selling urad and Canadian lentils at Rs 30 per kg to all consumers.”Besides continuing enforcement measures to check hoarding of pulses, state governments have taken proactive steps to make pulses available at reasonable prices… these initiatives by states will help in keeping prices of pulses at affordable rates,” an official release issued by the Consumer Affairs Ministry said.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>According to reports received from the states, tur dal rate for retail distribution has been fixed at Rs 140/kg in Gujarat, Rs 120-140 in Chhattisgarh, Rs 145 in Uttarkhand.The Centre had asked the state government to have meeting with millers, wholesalers and retailers to make pulses available in retail markets at reasonable prices, it added. In Gujarat, millers have agreed to supply tur dal at Rs 135/kg, wholesaler will charge 1 per cent commission on it, while in Chhattisgarh, 1-2 kg of tur dal is being distributed at Rs 120-140 per kg in 17 districts through 150 outlets. In Uttarkhand tur dal is being supplied at Rs 145/kg in Dehradun, Haridwar as well as Udhamsingh Nagar and instructions have been given to all districts to provide pulses at this rate via ration shops in the state.Stating that some states already distributing pulses through public distribution system (PDS), the ministry said, “Both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are distributing one kg of tur dal at Rs 50/kg for BPL and AAY families.”In Haryana under the Dal Roti Scheme, 2.5 kg of chana is being provided for BPY and AAY families via ration shops. The state government has directed cooperative Hafed to procure pulses from the market and sell at Rs 50 per kg through its 70-80 centres, the statement added. In Himachal Pradesh too, chana and masoor dal are being sold at Rs 40-50 per kg through PDS outlets.Dal prices have risen across the country due to a shortfall in domestic output by two million tonnes in 2014-15 hit by poor rains. There is also global shortage of lentils. Nearly 75,000 tonnes of pulses were seized from hoarders in raids across 13 states till last week as part of the measures to control retail prices.As per the Consumer Affairs Ministry’s data, retail prices were still ruling high at Rs 200/kg today, while Urad is selling at Rs 190/kg, moong dal at Rs 130/kg, masoor dal at Rs 110/kg and gram at Rs 85/kg.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has become the target of criticism from political rivals for his failure to push for the special status category with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Though Naidu, at a press conference on Friday, said he had mentioned “special package” instead of “special status” just “by mistake”, it has not impressed anyone.
There were widespread protests and attempts by the Congress, the YSR Congress and the CPI to burn effigies of Modi and Naidu in several districts on Friday. They say though Naidu made it a point to raise the issue of special package, he deliberately camouflaged the special category status. Modi did not even respond to the first one.
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However, experts believe Naidu could not push too hard on either for a variety of reasons. Several political compulsions and strategic reasons stopped him.
Here are the five reasons why Naidu did not press for special status or a package for Andhra Pradesh at the Amaravati foundation-stone laying ceremony.
1. Naidu played to the gallery by making an appeal to the prime minister for a special package. Though he said that the same was promised in Parliament while adopting the AP Reorganisation Bill 2014, what was promised orally was a special category status to the survivor state, after bifurcation was effected. Since it is not enshrined in the Act, Chandrababu Naidu conveniently avoided speaking about it.
2. The BJP had already promised a Rs 1.25-lakh crore package for Bihar. Now it would embarrass the prime minister if he was pestered over the package, especially when the ruling party at the Centre is engaged in a fierce electoral battle in Bihar. The timing would be wrong to push his political pals to a corner.
3. The Centre has been liberal in allocating funds for important structures in the core Capital and also doling out largesse to Andhra Pradesh in terms of numerous premier educational institutions and funds for the backward area development schemes. Naidu doesn’t want to displease the BJP leadership and lose whatever the state is already getting in terms of project-specific and program-specific aid or assistance or grant.
4. Most importantly, Chandrababu Naidu, who roped in Singapore from the very level of preparing a blueprint for the Capital construction and drafting the masterplan, has also entered into some agreements for different projects with Japan. Naidu is pinning hopes on external borrowings (foreign aid) for different development works, which would form part of the daunting task of making a dream capital. Hassle-free clearances for these mega projects would be needed for them to see the light of the day. Against this background, Naidu doesn’t want to displease Modi or anyone who matters in New Delhi.
5. Last, but not the least, if for any reason Naidu’s act of omission or commission causes a rift with the Centre and widens the chasm between the BJP and the TDP, his immediate rivals – YSR Congress in AP and Telangana Rashtra Samithi in Telangana – are ready to join the NDA formation at the Centre and turn the tables against Naidu. With his four-decade-long political experience and dexterity, Naidu would be the last man to let things go from his grips at any cost.
Therefore, package or not, he will still sail with the BJP, unless he strongly assesses that an association with the BJP is turning out to be detrimental to the TDP.
To control skyrocketing prices, the Centre has taken several measures such as creating a buffer stock of 40,000 tonnes, sale of imported pulses at cheaper rates and imposition of stock limits on traders as well as departmental stores, licensed food processors, importers and exporters.
Congress workers distributing Tur Daal packets to slum dwellers during their protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over price hike of pulses, in Bhopal on Tuesday.
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The Centre on Wednesday said over 35,000 tonnes of pulses have been seized from 10 states in two days after the state governments intensified crackdown against hoarding and black marketing of the commodity.”De-hoarding operations have been further intensified by the states to check hoarding of pulses. More than 35,000 tonnes of pulses have been seized in 10 states,” the Consumer Affairs Ministry said in a statement.The state governments were exhorted to carryout surprise inspections and raids to prevent hoarding. As a result, a total of 35,288 tonnes of pulses have been seized during 2,704 raids carried out in 10 states, it said.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>A maximum quantity of 23,340 tonnes was seized in Maharashtra, followed by 4,525.19 tonnes in Chhattisgarh, 2,546 tonnes in Telangana, 2,295 tonnes in Madhya Pradesh, 1,168 tonnes in Haryana, 859.8 tonnes in Andhra Pradesh, 479.6 tonnes in Karanataka, 68.47 tonnes in Rajasthan, 4.32 tonnes in Tamil Nadu and 2.44 tonnes in Himachal Pradesh, the statement added. The Centre has also asked Haryana state cooperative Hafed has been asked to procure pulses from the market and sell thought its outlets in the state.In Uttarkhand, mandi samitis have opened retail outlets in Dehradun, Haridwar and Udhamsingh Nagar for selling tur dal at Rs 145/kg. The state government has also been directed to distribute pulses at decided rate via ration shops, it added. In Delhi, tur dal is being sold at Rs 120/Kg through outlets of Safal and Kendriya Bhandar, while in Tamil Nadu, the government is selling 1 kg urad at a highly subsidised rate of Rs 30 per kg. Whereas the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments are distributing one kg of red gram at Rs 50 per kg to provide relief to consumers.Following action against hoarding in some states, tur prices on Wednesday declined marginally to Rs 205 per kg from Rs 210 yesterday in retail markets. Prices of moong, masoor and gram (chana) also showed a slight decline to Rs 130, Rs 110 and 82, respectively, while urad rates remained unchanged at Rs 198 today from over yesterday’s level, government data showed. Prices have shot up due to a fall in output by two million tonnes in 2014-15 on deficient and untimely rains.To control skyrocketing prices, the Centre has taken several measures such as creating a buffer stock of 40,000 tonnes, sale of imported pulses at cheaper rates and imposition of stock limits on traders as well as departmental stores, licensed food processors, importers and exporters.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has personally invited the Prime Minister, several Union ministers, Governor ESL Narasimhan and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, among others.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Andhra Pradesh’s capital city Amaravati at a village in Guntur district on Tuesday, in a mega event for which the state government has made elaborate arrangements.About four to five lakh people are expected to attend the function to be held at Uddandarayunipalem village on the banks of river Krishna, Parakala Prabhakar, Advisor (Communications) to the state government said.The Prime Minister would spend about 90 minutes at the event during which he will perform the ‘shila nyas’ for the capital city, about 40 kms from Vijayawada, the commercial capital of Andhra Pradesh.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>Modi is expected to be shown a presentation on the ‘past, present and future’ of Amaravati, a place of immense historical, mythological and cultural significance.Amaravati, situated in Guntur district, was once the seat of power of Satavahana rulers.The state government has invited several Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, important political leaders from across the country, eminent personalities, top industrialists and also foreign dignitaries for the event.Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has personally invited the Prime Minister, several Union ministers, Governor ESL Narasimhan and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, among others.Ministers and delegations from Singapore and Japan are also expected to attend the event.As per a call given by Naidu, soil and water from 16,000 villages in the state and prominent pilgrim centres in the country have been brought to the capital region to be used in the construction of the capital city. The idea is to promote a sense of belongingness among the people.Singapore government agencies have prepared the master plans for the three-layered capital — seed capital, capital city and capital region.While the Centre would provide funds for construction Of legislature buildings as per the Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Act, the state government has plans to set up hubs of sports, entertainment and in other fields to promote economic activity, an official release said earlier.More than 8,000 police personnel have been deployed as part of security arrangements for the grand event.
New Delhi: The Centre today said action against hoarders and blackmarketeers has been stepped up and the state governments have seized over 5,800 tonnes of pulses in five states over the last few months.
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This is basically aimed at boosting supply and bringing down prices of tur dal that have shot up to Rs 200 per kg.
The Cabinet Secretary today reviewed the prices, production, procurement and availability of pulses in a meeting with secretaries of Consumer Affairs, Agriculture,
Commerce and other ministries.
The meeting also reviewed the action taken by state governments to prevent hoarding of pulses, besides discussing about progress of sale of imported pulses at subsidised rates in Delhi and other states.
“We had directed state governments to enforce the Essential Commodities Act more stringently. As a result, some state governments have carried out surprised inspections and seized large quantities of pulses,” Consumer Affairs Secretary C Vishwanath told PTI after the meeting.
According to the Consumer Affairs Ministry, over 5,800 tonnes of pulses have been seized in five states in the last few months.
Of the entire amount, 2,549 tonnes have been seized from Telangana, 2,295 tonnes from Madhya Pradesh, 600 tonnes from Andhra Pradesh, 360 tonnes from Karnataka and 10 quintals from Maharashtra, the ministry’s data showed.
“Raids are being carried out even today at places like Mysore and Gulbarga in Karnataka and also in Tamil Nadu.
These measures have started showing results,” the official said. Stating that the Centre is closely monitoring the steps being taken against hoarders by state governments, the official said, “All these measures are expected to improve supply of pulses and moderate prices.”
Besides de-hoarding measures, state governments have started withdrawing stock holding limit exemptions given to pulse importers, exporters, licensed food processors and large departmental retailers, following the central government’s direction.
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu have already issued orders in this regard, another Consumer Affairs Ministry official said.
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Prime Minister’s favourite programme ‘Digital India’ will be the theme for this Festival and a series of events have been planned for the same.
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Children’s Film Society and the Government of Telangana will host the 19th International Children’s Film Festival (ICFFI), also known as Golden Elephant, in Hyderabad commencing on November 14. The week-long 19th ICFFI has many innovations and firsts to its credit like previous editions, according to a release issued by Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI) here said on Sunday. This edition of ICFFI will feature a special section on Asian Films known as Asian Panorama. The festival will open on the Children’s day at Shilparamam – the arts, crafts and cultural village in Hyderabad and will have screenings of children movies in multiple theatres across Hyderabad, Dr Shravan Kumar, Festival Director, 19th ICFFI, Golden Elephant, said.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –> “In one of the many firsts, we have received international entries for our Little Directors concept that was introduced as an innovation in the previous edition of ICFFI,” said Dr Kumar. The edition aims to involve government, bureaucracy, film fraternity, celebrities and other eminent people of media and arts from India and abroad towards enhancing children’s participation in film making and thereby exploiting their creative faculties in nation-building, he said. Prime Minister’s favourite programme ‘Digital India’ will be the theme for this Festival and a series of events have been planned for the same. Chairman of CFSI, Mukesh Khanna said, “I am sending my best wishes to the participating Children in 19th ICFFI. They are the future of our nation and such events allow them to receive exposure to global culture.” In the festival, many International Award winning films have been received by CFSI such as “Maya: The Bee” (feature Film from Germany), “Celestial Camel” (from Russia), “Pim & Pom- The Big Adventure” (from Netherlands), “Birds of Passage” (from Belgium), “My Skinny Sister (from Sweden), “Rainbow” (from India) , Dr Kumar said.
A 28 year old youth from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh is the latest ISIS renegade wanting to escape back home from the war torn Syria-Iraq axis.Sources said the family of the youth shared the information with security agencies after the youth contacted them through phone and showed his willingness to come home. He was in the logistics department of the ISIS based at al Raqqah and later shifted to ISIS held areas in Iraq close to Syria and, perhaps, got frustrated with the inhuman and anti-Islamic activities of the outfit. <!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>“The immediate catalyst that prompted him to contact his family seems to be the recent bombing by western forces in ISIS-held areas,”said sources. If the youth gets back, for which the Indian agencies are trying hard to accomplish, he would be the second youth after Kalyan youth Areeb Majeed to get out of the clutches of ISIS and return home. If agencies succeed in bringing him home, the youth would be questioned at length to know about the level of his involvement with the ISIS and quarantined before a proper rehab. The youth, whose name agencies do not want to disclose, was attracted towards ISIS through internet. Agencies suspect his handler to be an Indian based in UAE. He is a class 12th pass out and was involved in small business of handloom before leaving to join ISIS and does not have record to any criminal activities, officials said. With this new disclosure, the list of Indian youth who are said to be fighting for ISIS have gone up to 20 which is far less than the number of people who have joined ISIS ranks from the western countries. These include two youth from Mumbai outskirts Kalyan, an Australia-based Kashmiri, one youth from Telangana, one from Karnataka, one Oman-based Indian and another Singapore-based Indian. Among the six Indians, who fought alongside the ISIS and got killed were three Indian Mujahideen terrorists, including Sultan Ajmer Shah and Bada Sajid, who had joined its ranks after being in Pakistan, two from Maharashtra and one from Telangana. On September 15, UAE deported four Indians suspected to have links with ISIS and it is expected to send back the same number of people soon. About a fortnight ago, the UAE had sent back a 37-year-old woman, Afsha Jabeen alias Nicky Joseph, who was allegedly involving in recruiting youths for ISIS. Earlier in January, Salman Mohiuddin of Hyderabad was arrested at that airport when he was preparing to board a flight to Dubai on way to Syria via Turkey. So far, 17 young men, mostly from Telangana, have been prevented from traveling to Syria, ostensibly to join ISIS.
“Please tell me, is there any one person out here who has Rs 15 lakh in his account?… he has not fulfilled even one promise,” Gandhi said at an election rally in Bihar’s Sheikhpura district.
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Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not keeping the promises made to voters ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that the NDA government was working only for the “rich” while the poor and weaker sections continue to suffer.”A year ago, Narendra Modi-ji won the elections and you all are aware of the promises he made. He had made several promises, including of bringing back black money and depositing Rs 15 lakh in every Indian’s bank account, employment for youth hiking minimum support prices for the farmer’s produce.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>”Please tell me, is there any one person out here who has Rs 15 lakh in his account?… he has not fulfilled even one promise,” Gandhi said at an election rally in Bihar’s Sheikhpura district.Modi has all along only supported his corporate “friends,” Gandhi alleged.He claimed that while farmers were committing suicide in states like Punjab, Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the “prime minister has kept quiet on the issue of compensation to distressed farmers”.Taking a jibe at the prime minister over his frequent foreign tours, Gandhi said that Modi is always going on world tours, but he had not seen him standing even once with a farmer or an unemployed youth.Expressing confidence about the Grand Alliance of JD(U), RJD and Congress winning the upcoming Bihar polls led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Gandhi said, “We will be with you, be seen with you and fight with you.”The Gandhi scion also questioned the timing of the move by Modi to announce a Rs 1.25 lakh crore special package for Bihar when Assembly polls was round the corner in the state.
Akbaruddin, younger brother of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, referred to the 2002 Gujarat riots, when Modi was the chief minister of the western state, and said “had Congress acted swiftly with an iron fist against Modi and filed a charge sheet against him… he would not have become prime minister”.
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AIMIM accused Congress on Sunday of being “responsible” for the demolition of Babri Masjid and blamed its “inefficiency” for Narendra Modi’s ascent to power.”It was the Congress’s inefficiency due to which Modi could reach the post of prime minister,” All India Majlis-e- Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Akbaruddin Owaisi said at a rally in Kishanganj in Bihar.Akbaruddin, younger brother of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, referred to the 2002 Gujarat riots, when Modi was the chief minister of the western state, and said “had Congress acted swiftly with an iron fist against Modi and filed a charge sheet against him… he would not have become prime minister”.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>Further targeting Congress on the Ram Temple issue, he charged, “The party was responsible for opening the lock of the temple and subsequent demolition of the mosque (Babri Masjid).” However, he did not elaborate on the matter.Akbaruddin also took potshots at Modi, saying, “Fifteen months have lapsed, where is ‘achhe din’. Modi has become a non-resident PM. He is beating drum at one place while at another, he is giving Gita… Our country’s holy book is the Constitution of India.”The Telangana MLA was addressing an election meeting at Sontha Haat under Kochadhaman Assembly constituency in Kishanganj district from where AIMIM’s Bihar unit chief Akhtarul Iman has entered the poll fray.Training his guns on the grand secular alliance of Congress, JDU and RJD, Akbaruddin said that although they sought the votes of Muslims, these parties had done nothing for the betterment and uplift of the community. He also slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying that “he does not have any problem with BJP; rather he has personal animosity against Modi”.”If BJP declares LK Advani as prime minister, Nitish would not think twice about joining hands with the saffron party,” claimed Akabaruddin.Bihar Assembly elections will be held over five phases between October 12 and November 5. The results will be announced on November 8.
Hyderabad: As if deriding the self-proclaimed pro-poor credentials of the Telangana government, a 15-year-old schoolboy and son of a small farmer threw himself before a running train in Karimnagar district of Telangana after he was insulted by his teacher for not paying school fees.
Before killing himself, the boy, Santosh Reddy, made his dying declaration one that won’t be easily forgotten by recording his last message as a video on his mobile phone.
In the video addressed to his mother, Santosh, from Abbapur village of Dharmaram mandal, urged her not to wait for him and declared that he was “leaving”. He specifically mentioned that the teacher had asked him about the fee and kept many students outside the classroom over it. He was yet to pay up Rs 7,000 to the school. He was afraid of losing out the upcoming quarterly examination because of it.
A screengrab from the video. YouTube
Santosh said that he considered all options and that he was aware of “everything”, meaning the financial situation of the family. He recalled, in the video, that the family had paid Rs 5,000 as fees recently. He mentioned that his teacher had beaten him up on 30 September. He declared twice in the video that he was dying.
He came home from school for lunch on Wednesday and left a small note about the ‘selfie video’ he had recorded for his mother and his father Srinivas Reddy, who is a poor farmer.
The boy’s body was spotted on Thursday night.
On finding the note, the stunned parents frantically searched their relatives’ houses and lodged a complaint with the Dharmaram police. The railway police at Peddapalli, some 50 km from Dharmaram, meanwhile, received a complaint about an unidentified body on the railway tracks. The details of the missing boy matched with the recovered body.
Santosh’s father Srinivas Reddy said on Friday that he had informed the school management that he would pay the remaining fees to the school as soon as possible and he had told his son the same even on Wednesday.
District Collector of Karimnagar Nitu Kumari Prasad has ordered an enquiry into the incident. The police inquired with the students, who also told the probe panel led by Regional Joint Director of Education Balaiah, District Educational Officer K Lalitha Devi and Mandal Education Officer Rajamallaiah that 11 of them were beaten by the teacher for failing to pay.
The Deputy Superintendent of Police N Malla Reddy said that the Dharmaram police has booked a case of abetting suicide against the school management. Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana, Kadiyam Srihari, has asked DEO Lalitha Devi to initiate action against the institution.
The state, where more than 10 poor farmers are killing themselves daily, surprisingly continues to remain out of the media glare. The story of this boy should make the country take note.
The training and subsequent job help inmates get back on their feet and ensures employment after the release.
As Indian prison system seeks more and better jobs for the swelling ranks of inmates, Tamil Nadu’s effort to provide vocational training has made the state highest gross earner. In 2014, Tamil Nadu had reported the highest gross value of sale proceeds of Rs 36.97 crore followed by Kerala where inmates produced goods worth Rs 21.43 crore. Bihar was on third position with Rs 15.74 crore and Maharshtra was ranked fourth with Rs 14.34 crore.The training and subsequent job help inmates get back on their feet and ensures employment after the release.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>However, when it comes to meaningful employment that resulted in highest earning per inmate (value of goods produced per inmate) Kerala was on top of the chart with Rs. 30,285 followed by Tamil Nadu at Rs 23,291 as compared to all-India average of Rs 3,628 during the year 2014.According to Prison Statistics of India 2014 report, prisons across the country were housing 4,18,561 inmates as on December 31, 2014. Of the total, 1,31,517 (31.4%) were convicts and 2,82,879 (67.6%) were under trials. Interestingly, highest annual expenditure per inmate Rs 85,193 was reported from Delhi followed by Telangana Rs 81,551, Nagaland Rs 75,886, Arunachal Pradesh Rs 71,878 and Bihar Rs 57, 507 during the financial year 2014-15.According to the report, highest numbers of 11,344 inmates in Punjab followed by 8,251 in Rajasthan were provided with vocational training last year. Tamil Nadu’s prisons trained 3,043 inmates, including 116, in weaving.Tamil Nadu has 15,874 inmates in its prisons across the state. The report has highlighted seven types of vocational training -? Agriculture, Canning, Carpentry, Handloom, Soap and Phenyl making, Tailoring and Weaving.Report says a total of 63,256 prison inmates were provided with various vocational training last year with maximum number 6232 (9.85%) trained in weaving followed by 4916 (7.8%) in tailoring, Agriculture 4556 (7.2 %) and Carpentry 3303 (5.2%).”The training facilities available in jails depend on the local conditions. The availability of raw materials, local market needs, demands and marketing of finished products mainly decide the vocational training facilities available in any jail premise,” the report stated.Crowded PrisonsThe report recorded 4,18, 536 jails inmates till 2014 against the capacity of 3,56,561 in the country. The highest number 88,221 inmates including 3,572 female were reported from Uttar Pradesh followed by Madhya Pradesh 36,443, Bihar – 31, 295, Maharashtra -27,868 and Punjab – 26,007 at the end of the year 2014. Dadra & Nagar Haveli reported the highest overcrowding in prisons — over 331% of the capacity — followed by Chhattisgarh – 258.9% and Delhi – 221.6 %. Murder alone accounted for 60.9 % (69,773 out of 1,14,584) of the total convicts under IPC crimes.”A total of 390 women convicts with their 457 Children and 1,172 women under trials with their 1,320 children were lodged in various prisons in the country at the end of 2014,” report further stated.
Osmania University, once the hotbed of Telangana agitation, turned into a battle zone again with the police launching a midnight swoop on the campus on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.
The raid happened hours before the ‘Chalo Assembly’ call given by Telangana Democratic Forum (TDF), an umbrella body of 375 people’s organisations.
The police descended on the campus around 11 pm and began knocking the doors of hostels. It focussed specifically on Maneru hostel, where the students allegedly discussed and drew up plans for the Chalo Assembly rally. The police conducted raids simultaneously the hostels of Nizam College too. The president of the Student’s Federation of India’s Osmania University unit Murthy and secretary Musafir were arrested at the Arts College.
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The call for the march to the Assembly followed the killing of young CPI-Maoist activists Sruthi and Vidyasagar near Tadwai mandal of Warangal district by the police on 16 September. The TDF alleged that the police had killed them in fake encounters after torturing them.
The rally was supposed to have commenced at Sundarayya Vignana Kendra and move towards the assembly, which is currently in session. However, the police forces thwarted it by taking hundreds of people into preventive custody. In all, the TDF leaders and Left parties claimed, over 6,500 people were arrested by the police across the state.
Professor G Haragopal, renowned rights activist and president of People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), told Firstpost that the students, who were the backbone of the separate statehood movement, had lost faith in the Telangana government. “The government has failed to create jobs for the youth and meet their aspiration. They feel let down,” he said.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had irked the students earlier by his decision to construct houses for weaker sections on land on university campuses. He remained adamant despite protests. Besides, political science professor in Osmania University M Kodandaram, who was the chairman of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (T-JAC) during the agitation, has distanced himself from the TRS. KCR’s party, thus, has been losing support in Osmania University for sometime now.
The Tuesday night’s swoop by the police on the campus has only widened the rift between the students and the government.
Revolutionary writer Varavara Rao, who was the first to condemn the midnight swoop on the campus, was arrested on Wednesday. Civil Liberties Committee joint secretary Raghunath said that it was an attack on freedom of expression. Describing the preventive arrest of people, who are descending on Hyderabad for participating in the Chalo Assembly, as undemocratic, he said that the police behaved in a highhanded manner with students.
National Highway 44, which connects northern India to the south, has been blamed for the deaths of an alarming number of south Indian tribal villagers who live alongside it.
The Telangana government recently increased the ex-gratia payment for farmers’s suicide deaths from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 6 lakh.
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The Telangana government has roped in sportspersons from Hyderabad as ‘Farm Ambassadors’. According to a report in Deccan Herald, Sania Mirza, Jwala Gutta and Pragyan Ojha have agreed to help the families of farmers who committed suicide because of crop failure and debt.The ‘Farm Ambassadors’ are required to highlight the situation faced by the farmers in the state. The report states that Sania’s mother Naseema Mirza gave a cheque of Rs 3 lakh to Telangana Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha who runs the NGO ‘Telangana Jagruthi’.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>Jwala Gutta gave a cheque of Rs. 1 lakh and said that it was time for people together to help the farmers in the state. Ojha has also promised to do his bit for them.According to Kavitha, many NRIs have come forward to adopt the farmers’ families as well, the report adds. Her NGO supports the farmers’ wives and children.The Telangana government recently increased the ex-gratia payment for farmers’s suicide deaths from Rs. 1.5 lakh to Rs. 6 lakh. This came into effect from September 6. This year the failure of the Kharif and Rabi crops have added to farmers’ woes in the state.
More youngsters in India seem to be shunning engineering as a career choice.
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More youngsters in India seem to be shunning engineering as a career choice. All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, during his visit to Chennai last month, said that nearly 40% of the engineering seats were vacant in India as students seemed to prefer other courses.According to a report in Deccan Chronicle, one of the issues faced is the shortage of faculty in government as well as private colleges, Sahasrabudhe said. The AICTE is now going to scale down the number of seats by 40% over the next few years in India. As a result, 40,000 engineering seats each in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will be cut. The report states that as of now Telangana has 1.85 lakh seats and Andhra Pradesh 1.8 lakh seats. <!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>As fewer students opted for engineering, the management of colleges in Telangana cut down the number of seats to 1.5 lakh while Andhra Pradesh cut it down to 1.45 lakh respectively. Now, the number of seats in both states will be further reduced by another 30,000 next year, the report says. The total number of seats in each state will then stand at 1 lakh.
Across five districts in Telangana, 13 farmers committed suicide on a single day. A report in Deccan Chronicle states that this is the highest number of farmer suicides on a single day.
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Across five districts in Telangana, 13 farmers committed suicide on Sunday. A report in Deccan Chronicle stated that this was the highest number of farmer suicides on a single day.Four of the 13 suicides took place in Warangal district. Heavy rainfall destroyed the crop in some areas of the state. The Telangana government had recently issued an order to help farmers, increasing the ex-gratia from Rs.1.5 lakh to Rs.6 lakh.According to the Deccan Chronicle report, the irrigation minister T Harish Rao has asked farmers to approach the district administration for any help. All the alleged suicides will be probed.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>The Telangana government meanwhile has said that it is taking all necessary steps to help the farmers in the state.
A day after BJP MLA in Telangana urged VHP to reach out to more people like A R Rahman, controversy-courting BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has said that they would welcome AR Rahman to their fold under Ghar Wapsi.
A day after BJP MLA in Telangana urged VHP to reach out to more people like A R Rahman, controversy-courting BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has said that they would welcome AR Rahman to their fold under Ghar Wapsi.Yogi Adityanath’s comment comes in a backdrop to a fatwa issued against Rahman for composing the music for a film on Prophet Mohammad.Mumbai-based Raza Academy had objected to the film- “Muhammad: Messenger of God” made by Iranian director Majid Majidi and issued a fatwa against Oscar-winner Rahman and Majidi, calling the movie against Islam.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>Also read: Majid Majidi defends his movie ‘Muhammad: The Messenger of God’, composer AR RahmanAccording to a leading daily, Adityanath said, “The fatwa is ridiculous and Rahman could do a Ghar Wapsi if he wants and we are ready to welcome him wholeheartedly. This culture of fatwas should be stopped in the country.”Few days ago, Vishwa Hindu Parishad asked A R Rahman to re-convert to Hinduism, saying it was time for his “ghar-wapsi”.VHP joint general secretary Surendra Jain said Hindus will “welcome” the noted composer with open arms and alleged that he had converted to Islam for commercial reasons.”I will appeal to Rahman he should return, he should do ‘Ghar Wapsi’. The Hindu society is waiting for its son. We will not only welcome him with open arms but also ensure that no harm is done to him irrespective of how many fatwas are issued,” Jain had told reporters on Wednesday.Also read: Iranian government extends support to AR Rahman and Majid Majidi’s work; slams fatwaReacting to the fatwa, AR Rahman was quoted saying by ANI, “I am not a scholar of Islam. I follow the middle path and am part traditionalist and part rationalist: AR Rahman on Fatwa against him. I didn’t direct or produce the movie “Muhammad (PBUH), Messenger of God. I just did the music My decision to compose music for this film was made in good faith and with no intention of causing offence.”
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The state cabinet, which had met yesterday, reviewed the situation arising from the spate of farmers? suicides and decided to enhance the ex-gratia. Besides Rs 5 lakh, the government will provide Rs 1 lakh to clear the crop loans obtained from the banks, as one time settlement.
The Telangana Government on Saturday announced a relief package of Rs. 6 lakh to the kin of farmers who had committed suicide, increasing it from Rs. 1.5 lakh that was fixed by the then combined Andhra Pradesh Government in June 2004.The state cabinet, which had met on Saturday, reviewed the situation arising from the spate of farmers? suicides and decided to enhance the ex-gratia. Besides Rs 5 lakh, the government will provide Rs 1 lakh to clear the crop loans obtained from the banks, as one time settlement.The Telangana Government has paid ex-gratia of Rs 1.5 lakh each to families of 141 farmers who had committed suicide during the last 15 months.<!– Dna_Article_Middle_300x250_BTF –>
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