Date:18/05/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/05/18/stories/2007051809300400.htm

All-India entrance test

HYDERABAD: The all-India combined entrance test for junior research fellow (JRF) and admission to the master's degree programme of various universities will be held at College of Agriculture, ANGRAU, Rajendranagar, on May 19. For details, contact on 040-24530177, 24015318, 24015011(ext. 360), 9989625201 or 9985151692. - Special Correspondent

8 devotees hurt

TIRUMALA: Eight devotees, including a three-year-old baby, were injured when the private jeep in which they were travelling overturned after hitting a roadside railing on the ghat road leading to Tirumala on Thursday. The injured were rushed to SVRR Hospital. The baby, who suffered serious head injuries, was shifted to SVIMS superspeciality hospital. - Staff Reporter

Man's body found

TIRUMALA: The Tirumala two town police on Thursday found a man's body near TTD `D' type quarters. Police, who are clueless, recovered some phone numbers written on a piece of a paper from the man's body. The body was sent to SVRR Hospital for an autopsy. - Staff Reporter

2 officials suspended

KADAPA: DWMA Project Director M. Girijasankar has suspended two field assistants of Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Pullampet mandal owing to financial irregularities of Rs. 6 lakh in a social audit. The amount would be recovered from them within three months, he said. - Staff Reporter

Disciplinary action

HYDERABAD: Senior officials of the Endowments Department on Thursday conducted surprise inspections in various temples of Hyderabad, Warangal, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Anakapalle. G.V. Narasimha Murthy, Additional Commissioner, said some staff members in Ganesh temple, Secunderabad, were transferred for not maintaining hygienic conditions on the premises.

Salary cuts was ordered for two employees of Sri Bhadrakali Temple, Warangal, for their absence from duty. - Special Correspondent

Appointed

HYDERABAD: The All-India Transporters' Welfare Association (AITWA), an apex body of goods transport and logistics companies, has appointed Ramesh Agarwal, Joint MD of city-based DRS Group, its national president, according to Roshan Lal Gorakhpuria, chairman, AITWA. - Special Correspondent

Garuda for Chennai

Kakinada: Local MLA Mutha Gopalakrishna inaugurated the Kakinada - Chennai Garuda bus service at the RTC bus complex here on Thursday. G. Narasimha Rao, depot manager, said that the bus would leave Kakinada daily at 5.15 p.m. and reach Chennai at 6.15 a.m. the next day. In the return trip, the bus would leave Chennai at 7.00 p.m. and reaches Kakinada at 8.00 a.m. the next day. -Correspondent

Orissa handicrafts expo inaugurated

Kakinada: Mayor Kavikondala Saroja inaugurated the Orissa handicrafts and handlooms exhibition - Orissa crafts bazar -- at the merchants' association hall here on Thursday.

She underlined the need for promoting the country's culture and tradition. The exhibition will continue up to May 27. - Correspondent

Coaching camp

Garuda for Chennai

Orissa handicrafts expo inaugurated

Kakinada: Mayor Kavikondala Saroja inaugurated the Orissa handicrafts and handlooms exhibition - Orissa crafts bazar -- at the merchants' association hall here on Thursday.

She underlined the need for promoting the country's culture and tradition.

The exhibition will continue up to May 27. - Correspondent

Coaching camp

Rajahmundry: M. Jitendra, Sub-collector, inaugurated the shuttle badminton summer coaching camp at Future Kids School on Thursday. East Godavari District Badminton Association is conducting the camp. Association president T. Narayana Reddy and chief patron B. Narayana Murthy participated in the inaugural function.

EAMCET ranks

Kakinada: The students of Narayana colleges have maintained the tradition of scoring top ranks in EAMCET this year also by bagging five top ten ranks --3,5,6 and 7 in mathematics stream and the third in Medicine stream, according to M.V. Subba Rao, zonal in-charge of the institutes.

At a press conference here on Thursday, he said that students of the colleges secured as many as 43 ranks among the top 100.-Correspondent

BJP leader plans novel protest

KADAPA: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kovvuru Balachandra Reddy on Thursday announced his resolve to stage a novel protest by squatting in the midst of Sivalayam road in Proddatur town from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on May 18 to draw the officials' attention to acute drinking water scarcity in the town.

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Training for woman sarpanches

KADAPA: Fifteen women sarpanches belonging to Scheduled Castes have been chosen to attend a three-day training at Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development at Sriperambadur in Tamil Nadu from May 23. — Staff Reporter

Petty row leads to man's murder

KADAPA: A petty row between two women neighbours over strewing of garbage in the narrow pathway between their houses led to the murder of a 50-year-old man Alia and stab injuries to three others in Lohianagar on the outskirts of Kadapa city on Wednesday. — Staff Reporter

`Top grade' for Tirupati artiste

TIRUPATI: Prasar Bharati (All India Radio) has declared Pudukkottai R.Krishnamurthy, a senior Veena artiste of Tirupati as an `A-Top grade' artiste. The elevation to `A-Top' grade takes him to the midst of reputed artistes like M. Balamurali Krishna, Mandolin Srinivas and Chittibabu. — Staff Reporter

Training for youth

KADAPA: A thousand unemployed youth from rural areas covered under watersheds will be imparted job-oriented training , DWMA Project Director M. Girijasankar said on Thursday.

Later, will be provided placement, he said in a statement.

Interested youth could register their names with watershed development teams in their villages by May 20, he added.— Staff Reporter