Andhra Pradesh

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Nominated as SBH Director

HYDERABAD: I. Ram Reddy, head cashier at Karimnagar main branch of the State Bank of Hyderabad, has been nominated Director of the bank with effect from April 28. He is secretary of the All-India SBH Staff Association and president of the association's State unit, according to a press release. - Special Correspondent

Two landmines recovered in agency

VISAKHAPATNAM: The Police on Friday morning recovered two landmines at Kampamanupakalu village in G.K. Veedhi mandal of the agency area of the district. The landmines, each weighing 5 kg., were detected by a district Special Police Party acting on a tip-off, according to Officer on Special Duty Vineet Brijlal. - Staff Reporter

IT officials serious on assault episode

Kakinada: Director-General of Income-Tax (investigation) J.L. Giridhar has taken a serious view of the assaulting of IT officials when they tried to conduct searches in the house of financiers in G. Mamidada village on April 27, according to local IT officials here. They said they had drawn his attention during his visit to Rajahmundry on Friday about the unsavoury incident. - Correspondent

Sloth bear injures man

KURNOOL: A 60-year-old man was injured by a sloth bear at Kotakonda in Rudravaram mandal of Kurnool district on Friday. According to reports, Swami Das went into the forest to collect tendu leaves along with others when a sloth bear attacked him. The animal ran away as others raised alarm. Sloth bears have been giving sleepless nights to people in the villages close to the Nallamala forest in Rudravaram, Allagadda and Mahanandi mandals. So far, four persons were killed and three others sustained serious injuries in the bear attack. - Staff Reporter

Sureedu killing: 12 suspects in police custody

ANANTAPUR: Twelve more suspects in the murder case of TDP leader and former legislator K. Suryapratap Reddy were learnt to have been taken into custody by the police on Friday and a few days ago. According to the sources seven suspects were said to have been taken into custody four days back and another five suspects were learnt to have been taken into custody by the Tadipatri police. - Staff Reporter

APSCHE invites proposals on fee

HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) has invited proposals from all private unaided engineering, pharmacy and architectural colleges to submit free proposals to the Fee Fixation Committee by May 27. - Special Correspondent

Huge fire accident in medical agency

ANANTAPUR: A fire accident occurred in a medical agency on the Suryanagar Road here in the small hours of Friday allegedly due to electrical short-circuit resulted in a burning of medicines in huge quantity. The fire was put off within half-an-hour by the fire tenders. Medicines stored in the agency were burnt completely in the accident. - Staff Reporter

SPMVV all set to get an engineering college

TIRUPATI: Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam (SPMVV) will soon be opening SPMVV College of Engineering and Technology which will be the first-ever university college run exclusively for women. Vice-Chancellor Veena Noble Dass on Friday announced that the varsity had secured the `No objection certificate' from the Government and the AICTE. The college will be offering B.Tech with specialisation in computer science and engineering, industrial biotechnology, IT and electronics and communications engineering. Admissions will be through EAMCET. - Staff Reporter

Rs. 2.77 crores for

road repairs

KURNOOL: Minister for Lift Irrigation M. Mareppa on Thursday said Rs.2.77 crores was sanctioned for carrying out repairs to the National Highway at Rajiv C

rcle in the city and development of the road up to GPR Engineering College. The work would start soon. - Staff Reporter

Protest against frequent power cuts

ANANTAPUR: Activists of the TDP and the CPI laid a siege to the Transco's ADE office at Guntakal on Thursday protesting against the indiscriminate power cuts being imposed on the town and surrounding villages for more than a week now. They detained Nagappa, ADE, by locking the office for about three hours. - Staff Reporter

Civil services exam tomorrow

TIRUPATI: All is set for the civil services examination on May 14 here. The exam will be held in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam also. Observers from New Delhi are expected to visit the examination centres to ensure that the test is held without any glitch. District Collector S.S. Rawat and V.V. Gopalakrishna, SP, on Thursday reviewed the arrangements for the exam to be held in seven centres. - Special Correspondent

Haystacks destroyed

in major fire

KURNOOL: In a major fire accident at Kotekal near Yemmiganur in Kurnool district, 30 haystacks and two huts were destroyed on Friday. The loss was estimated at Rs 3 lakhs. High temperature coupled with wind was said to be the reason for the large-scale loss. Fire tenders rushed to the place and put out the flames. - Staff Reporter

Free medical camps

KURNOOL: Kurnool district branch of AP Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association proposed to conduct free medical camps every Sunday in one of the association hospitals. The executive committee of the Association conducted its meeting under the chairmanship of its president Ramana here on Friday. Association secretary M. Bhuvaneswari said in a press note that the meeting resolved that strong unity among the members was the only way to fight the new trends in the health sector. - Staff Reporter

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