The Indian Institutes of Technology (popularly known as IITs) are institutions of national importance established through an Act of Parliament for fostering excellence in education. There are fifteen IITs at present, located in Bhubaneswar, Bombay (Mumbai), Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras (Chennai), Mandi, Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan and Roorkee. The Objectives Of Institutions [...]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested another person in connection with the Railway Recruitment scam. The accused was identified as Asheem Roy, a railway contractor. “We arrested Asheem on Friday and remanded him to judicial custody. He is a railway contractor and assisted S.M. Sharma, the chairman of RRB, Mumbai, in the [...]
The Telugu Desam president, Mr N Chandrababu Naidu, is all set to spring a surprise by campaigning in Telangana for the bypolls to 12 Assembly constituencies. “Mr Naidu will certainly campaign in the bypolls. The party politburo will meet after the Assembly session and finalise the tour programme,” Mr S. Venugopala Chari, MLA and TD [...]
The police seized a large quantity of gold that was found in a steel box by a farmer. The police suspects the gold belongs to the Maoists. The farmer, Mr T. Venkateswara Rao, is a native of Kothagudem that falls under the Pinapaka mandal, and found the box while he was ploughing his field. When [...]
Another swine flu case was reported in the city on Saturday. The patient is a 40-year-old man. 15 samples were sent to the Institute of Preventive Medicine for tests and of them, one turned out to be a positive case. As many as 31 swine flu positive cases have been reported in the state this [...]
The state government has decided to make one-year rural service compulsory for all MBBS students from the 2010 academic year to resolve the severe shortage of doctors in villages. With this, medical students of the State will have to spend six years to get a degree from this academic year. The Chief Minister, Mr K. [...]
The Congress high command has finally cleared the remaining two names for the July 27 bypolls to be held in 12 Assembly constituencies. Mr Ratnakar Rao has been named for Korutla and Mr Krishna Rao for Manchiryala. The names were cleared in three phases. In the first phase, eight names were cleared. And in the [...]
The director-general of police, Mr R.R. Girish Kumar, denied permission to the Revolutionary Writers’ Association (RWA) to hold a meeting opposing Greenhunt operations. Booker prize winning author, Ms Arundhati Roy was to attend the meeting. The RWA led by Mr Vara Vara Rao had made arrangements for the anti Greenhunt meet at Sundarayya Bhavan at [...]
Two motorcycle-borne offenders diverted the attention of a realtor and stole 22 tolas of gold from his car at the Nizampet crossroads under the KPHB police station limits here on Tuesday. According to the KPHB police, Mr K. Kishore, went to the Nizampet branch of the Andhra Bank at 11 am and withdrew gold ornaments [...]
The home minister of Andhra Pradesh, Ms P. Sabita Indra Reddy, on Monday said a probe would be ordered to find out if Hemchandra Pandey, killed along with Maoist leader Azad in a gunfight with police, was a leftwing rebel or a journalist as claimed by his family. Ms Reddy gave the assurance when Pandey’s [...]
