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Former minister Mohammad Ali Shabbir on Monday took oath as the member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council.

Shabbir Ali takes oath as MLC

Power Crisis Hits CM

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w e l l , C h i e f ERC.Minister N Kiran Cabinet minister K Jana Kumar Reddy said R e d d y a n d C that the hike in Ramachadnraiah and power charges will senior leader JC Diwakar be reconsidered. Reddy had expressed Speaking at the serious concern at the Indiramma Bata hike in power charges.programme here on The chief minister, who is

Nellore, April 1: Monday, the Chief on a three-day tour to the Under pressure from Minister said that the district, had earlier laid the opposition and government will review foundation stone for the Congress leaders as the tariff suggested by Somasila High level canal

Will review power tariff, says CM Hyderabad, April 1: Minister for R o a d s a n d B u i l d i n g s D h a r m a n a Prasada Rao on Monday attended the CBI court in the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s Disproportionate Assets case. D h a r m a n a ’ s continuance in the ministry has come

returned by Governor ESL under severe criticism N a r a s i m h a n f o r f rom many quar ters reconsideration but still he including a minister. continued in the cabinet Though he resigned and is being attending immediately after being official work.named in the case, it was The CBI has contended not accepted and the that there need be any cabinet has taken a permission to book the decision not prosecute minister and quoted a him.Supreme Court ruling. The cabinet decision was

Dharmana appears before court

Hyderabad, April 1 (INN): TDP leaders today met Governor ESL Narasimhan a n d s u b m i t t e d h i m a memorandum to ask the government to roll back the prices. A delegation of TDP leaders met the Governor and urged him to direct the government to withdraw the hike in power

held dharnas protesting against charges.the hike in power charges. Elsewhere, the party leaders

TDP leaders meet Guv on power charges hike

in the North India our state is reeling under acute power crisis. He also held YSR and Kiran Kumar Reddy responsible for the hike in power charges. The two

Kakinada, April 1 TDP leaders want to be in the leader N Chandrababu good looks o f h igh Naidu said that the power command and never think crisis arose due to the of people, he said.i n e f f i c i e n c y o f t h e “TDP has supplied power Congress government. even during drought, he While the power shortage said. Though there was i s n i n e p e r c e n t severe drought for four nationwide, it is 19 % in the consecutive years we had state and he accused the supplied quality power. Chief Minister of kickbacks Transmission loss can be in allotting power plants to curtailed if the lines are private parties. proper and the supply is Speaking at dharna in the closely monitored,” he course of his padayatra at said. Power sector has the JNTU here, he said, seen Rs 40,000 crore loss while the power is surplus in Congress rule, he said

Naidu slams Congress on power crisis

Co l l ec to r o f f i ce charges.X Hyderabad, April protesting against Raghavulu said that 1: The Left Parties the hike in power Congress leaders on Monday accused charges. Speaking should convince the Chief Minister N on the occasion, Chief Minister and Kiran Kumar Reddy CPM secretary BV roll back the prices.of telling lies on Raghavulu said that K Narayaana (CPI) power position.Chief Minister is and other leaders The Left Parties telling lies on the also participated in he ld a mass ive power position and the dharnad h a r n a a t t h e

CM telling lies on power: Left parties

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Congress will have to tariffs for five years Hyderabad, April 1 : pay the price for its anti- (2009-15). The present M a j l i s - e - I t t e h a d u l people measures in the Chief Minister shows no Muslimeen floor leader forthcoming panchayat remorse for going back Akbaruddin Owaisi raj and municipal polls on this promise of his condemned the latest as well as in the next predecessor Dr Y S power tariff hike in the elections to the State Rajasekhar Reddy.State.Assembly and Lok Akbaruddin Owaisi said Terming the power tariff Sabha, he said. Akbar t h a t t h e p o w e r h i k e a s t o t a l l y Owaisi pointed out that consumers in the state u n w a r r a n t e d a n d t h e C o n g r e s s could not bear the unacceptable, Akbar government in the State additional burden of Owaisi demanded that displayed scant regard tariff hikes and FSA the State Government to the demand of all the charges any more. In immediately withdraw opposition parties and this backdrop, the the ta r i f f h ike by also ignored the hue- AIMIM demands the doubling the subsidy for and-cry of the hapless government to roll back the power sector in the citizens of the State to the latest power tariff State.keep the power tariff hike. Our party also In a statement, the hike on hold. As a d e m a n d s t h e AIMIM floor leader result, power tariffs government to raise the decr ied the ru l ing have been hiked for all quantum of subsidy on Congress for burdening hike in the prices of all summer months. The c a t e g o r i e s o f p o w e r s e c t o r i n the people with frequent essential commodities, g o v e r n m e n t h a s consumers, barring the proportion to the size of hikes in Value-Added he said. Akbar Owaisi admitted that the power poorest of the poor and the State Budget. Tax (VAT) and Motor s a i d t h a t t h e crisis gripping the state the farming community, F o r t h e 2 0 1 3 - 1 4 Vehicle (MV) Tax and unprecedented price is the worst-ever in the from the new financial f inancial year, the other s tate taxes, rise, as well as hike in last 30 years. Power year, 2013-14. government should market values of lands taxes, bus fares and consumers, who are The MIM leader said doub le the power and properties, bus power tariffs had a subjected to power cuts that this was yet another s u b s i d y f r o m t h e fares and power tariffs. negative impact on the for longer durations, are breach of promise by budgeted Rs 5,700 T h e C e n t r a l poorer sections and the made to pay their hefty the ruling party which, at crore to Rs 11,400 crore G o v e r n m e n t w a s m i d d l e c l a s s e s power bills, he said.t h e t i m e o f t h e and this would help the resorting to hikes in adversely. Adding to "Where is the promise Assembly polls in 2009, Discoms financially and railway fares and petrol, their woes are the of the Congress to had assured in its the consumers would diesel and LPG prices. power cuts, which are ensure uninterrupted election manifesto that be spared the burden of The common man is making the lives of the and affordable power the people would not be yet another tariff hike already groaning under p e o p l e m i s e r a b l e supp ly?" the MIM burdened with power and FSA burdenthe impact of the steep d u r i n g t h e p e a k leader asked. The

Withdraw power tariff hike, demands MIM

Hyderabad, April 1:Describing the badly affect the image of the ruling hike in power tariff as a huge burden party while giving an opportunity to on common people, Congress MLC K the opposition parties to exploit the Yadav Reddy demanded that the situation. He said although several State Government immediately states in the country were facing withdraw the hike. power crisis, the hike in tariff in Addressing a press conference at the Andhra Pradesh was huge.Congress Legislature Party Office Senior leader and MLC KR Amos here on Monday, Congress MLC K was also present in the press Yadav Reddy said that the hike would conference.

Cong MLCs demands withdrawal of hike in power tariff

Hyderabad, April1: After Union Minister K Chiranjeevi writing a letter to AICC general secretary on the power charges hike in the State it is now the turn of minister C Ramachandraiah to express his disappointment on the issue. “Power charges hike should have been discussed in the party before taking any decision. Such unilateral decisions are not in the interest of the party,’ he said. Earlier TDP also took similar decision and lost the faith of people, he said. C Ramachandriah belonged to Praja Rajaym Party, formed by K Chiranjeevi, who later merged the party with Congress.

Minister flays govt on power charges hike

State PoliticsMonday, April 01, 2013 | Hyderabad

t o m i n o r i t i e s a n d o t h e r Hyde rabad , Ap r i l downtrodden people, Shabbir Ali 1 : F o r m e r m i n i s t e r made an indirect attack on the Mohammad Ali Shabbir Majl is leadership. Without on Monday took oath as mentioning any name, he the member of Andhra ridiculed the MIM leaders who Pradesh Legislative speak in English language in the Council.Assembly. Council chairman Dr A Shabbir Ali said that he took the C h a k r a p a n i oath in Urdu language, his administered the oath in mother tongue and the State's the presence of PCC second official language. He said P r e s i d e n t B o t s a the leaders should themselves Satyanarayana, Deputy speak the language in all forums Chief Minister Damodar besides teaching the language to Rajanarasimha and their children.other senior leaders. The former minister, who went to Talking to reporters Umra pilgrimage in Holy Mecca l a t e r, S h a b b i r A l i and Madina, reached the city on thanked the Congress Monday morning and directly l e a d e r s h i p f o r went to the Legislative Council to nominating him to the

take oath directly from the Shamshabad Airportpost. Assuring that he would continue to raise the issues related

Shabbir Ali takes oath as MLC

Secretary (Tourism) New Delhi, April 1: beautification of Beach Union Tourism Minister Corridor Circuit. An with a Member from the K Ch i ran jeev i has amount of Rs 3.2 crore Ministry of Tourism and a p p r o v e d C e n t r a l has been released as t h e i m p l e m e n t i n g Finance Assistance first installment of the agency to moni tor (CFA) to the tune of Rs CFA as an advance for physical and financial 45.88 crore for the starting the work. The p r o g r e s s o f t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f State Government shall sanctioned project and V i s a k h a p a t n a m make land for the project submit the progress B h e e m u n i p a t n a m available free of cost and report to the Ministry of Beach Corridor Mega also render all possible Tourism on quarterly C i r c u i t i n A n d h r a a s s i s t a n c e f o r basis. The Andhra Pradesh. completion of the project Pradesh Government The project will involve in time. No portion of the would get the work development of tourism sanc t ioned p ro jec t executed through the f a c i l i t i e s a t s h o u l d b e APTDC Limited and B h e e m u n i p a t n a m , executed/implemented shall have the work E r r a m a t t i d i b b a l u , in land/property owned started immediately to K a i l a s h g i r i , by private individual or ensure timely utilization Mangamaripeta Beach, trust. of funds and to avoid

The State Government RK Beach, Thotlakonda, escalation of the cost. P a v u r a l a k o n d a , shall also set up a The project should be R u s h i k o n d a , Monitoring Committee commissioned within B h a v i k o n d a a n d headed by Special Chief eighteen months

Tourism Mega Circuit sanctioned for Vizag

Hyderabad, April 1 : TDP Vice-President Mohammad Saleem on Monday took oath as the Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council. He was administered oath by Legislative Council chairman Dr A Chakrapani in his chambers in the presence of TDP leaders Motkupalli Narasimhulu, R Chandrasekhara Reddy, T Srinivas Yadav, N Rajkumari, Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, Muzaffar Ali Khan, Singireddy Srinivas Reddy and others. Talking to reporters after taking the oath, Saleem said that he would raise the problems being faced by the people in the House. He said that the State was in grip of serious problems, especially power crisis, non-release of scholarship to minorities' students and other issues. He said he would also utilise his previous experience of being the chairman of State Wakf Board and would ensure protection of Wakf properties across

Mohammad Saleem takes oath as MLC

State PoliticsMonday, April 01, 2013 | Hyderabad

basis for vacancies posted by 19,500 jobs generated in the Hyderabad, April 1 :Along with 2012-13 on an year-on-year about 4,000 companies via job sector followed by insurance the sluggish economic growth b a s i s w h e r e a s a l l t h e portals like timesjobs.com, (over 12,000 jobs), financial rate, the new job generation remaining cities have shown a naukari.com, monster.com, services (11,680), banking has declined by 14.1 per cent negative growth. Ahmedabad shine.com and job related (11,675 jobs), automobile during the second half of registered highest decline in advertisements published in (11,290 jobs), manufacturing financial year 2012-13 as the new jobs generation n a t i o n a l a n d r e g i o n a l (10,670 jobs), engineering against the corresponding growth with -37.4 percent newspapers for about 56 cities (9,835 jobs), and IT hardware period last year across India. followed by Pune (-23.2 and 32 sectors offering job (7,000 jobs) as the other “India's slowing economy and percent), Mumbai (-21.6 opportunities. leading job generating sectors policy unpredictability had percent), Kolkata (-18.0 The job scenario for the second in India during the second half significantly slowed down the percent), Chennai (-11.3 half of the financial year 2012- of the financial year 2012-13.fresh investments and hurt job percent), Bangalore (-9.9 13 reveals that Delhi and In terms of growth, aviation creation across the country”, percent) and Delhi/NCRT (-1.6

National Capital Region (NCR) sector has registered the according to the just concluded percent). In Hyderabad, IT/ Enabled topped as the job generation highest new job generation s t u d y u n d e r t a k e n b y

center with over 66,000 jobs growth of over 72 per cent ASSOCHAM. (10673 jobs), Academics and “A total of over 5.38 lakh jobs followed by Bangalore (over followed by HR (16.3 per cent), Educat ion (1296 Jobs), were generated during the 40,000 jobs), Mumbai (over academics and education IT/Hardware (917 jobs), financial year 2012-13 across 35,500 jobs), Chennai (almost sector (8.0 percent) and real Automobile (866 jobs) and

21,000 jobs) and Hyderabad estate (0.2 per cent). Whereas, India with 2.65 lakh jobs getting Engineering (709 jobs) are the (20930 jobs) to round-up the list the rest of the sectors generated in first half of the major new job generating of top f ive employment registered negative growth rate year and 2.73 lakh jobs during sector. Among the top five new generating centre’s in India. that ranged from over 4 to 46 second half of the financial jobs generat ing sectors Sector-wise, Information percent during the period.year” according to a sector IT/Enabled, Academic and

Among the Tier I cities, while technology (IT) ranked on top specific analysis titled ‘Job Education and Automobile with 1.2 lakh jobs generated r e l e a s i n g t h e s t u d y Trends Across India in 2012- sector registered positive during the second half of the ASSOCHAM spokesman said, 13’. growth rate whereas IT/ financial year 2012-13 across The ASSOCHAM Economic Hyderabad is the only city Hardware and Engineering the country. which has registered nominal Research Bureau (AERB) registered negative growth Academics and education growth rate of 0.1 percent sourced their inputs primarily rateranked second with over from data tracked on a daily during the second half of the

Job generation drops by over 14.1 per cent: ASSOCHAM

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Shabbir Ali takes oath as MLC

Mohammad Saleem takes oath as MLC

Akbaruddin Owaisi Visits of Nizamia Tibbi Hospital

BusinessMonday, April 01, 2013 | Hyderabad

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MakeMyTrip Extends Brand Promise to ‘Hotels Unlimited’

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