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Academics, advocates and leaders of various political parties have come together in support of social worker Anna Hazare who has been on fast demanding a legislation to check corruption. Leaders of various peoples’ organisations set up a tent at the Ambedkar statue and staged a demonstration, while some chose to undertake one-day fast expressing solidarity [...]
Citizens’ Ombudsman Bill or Jan Lokpal Vidheyak (in Hindi) is a proposed anti-corruption law designed to effectively nail out corruption, redress complaints and protect whistleblowers. According to designed bill made by some members of ‘India Against Corruption (IAC)’, a movement against corruption in the government’s bodies, “Jan Lokpal Bill” would work as an independent powerful [...]
Google Chrome is now the world’s third most popular web browser with one in five users preferring it. Google Chrome has also emerged as Britain’s second most popular web browser, edging Mozilla’s Firefox and nibbling at Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the current leader. Chrome accounted for 22 percent of the British web market, compared to 45 [...]
Academics and research scholars of Scheduled Tribe demand that the Central government establish the proposed Tribal University in Telangana region as it has more percentage of tribal population. Telangana University Tribal Teachers Association (TUTTA) president Prof. A. Sitaram Naik in a statement said there were 70 lakh tribals in Andhra Pradesh and of which the [...]
Frustrated by the unilateral decisions being taken by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao, prominent socialist politician, who fought for freedom during Nizam’s period Konda Lakshman Bapuji on Tuesday announced the formation of a new ‘Telangana Joint Action Committee.’ This new TJAC will fight for the cause of Telangana statehood, while taking the views [...]
Washington: In a bid to trump Microsoft’s Bing, Google will start to populate individual users’ search results with posts that have been shared publicly by their connections on Google+. The new feature, which works only when users are signed in to their Google accounts, aims to tailor results to individual tastes, the company said Friday. [...]
A sketch of Delhi’s Red Fort takes guard on the Google home page on the occasion of 15 August 2011, India’s 65th Independence Day. The Red Fort has an important place in the history of Delhi and that of India. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, the fort was built in 1648 during [...]
HYDERABAD: University of Hyderabad has been ranked sixth followed by Osmania University in the seventh position among India’s best universities as per a survey by the India Today-Nielsen for 2011. A total of 45 universities have been ranked based on perpetual and factual scores on parameters like reputation, quality of academic input, faculty, research publications, [...]
Students Making shape ‘green’ Ganeshas in hyderbaad
HYDERABAD: Dressed in green fatigues and outfits, 70 students congregated on a Sunday morning to unleash their creativity. Moulding a mass of clay into Ganesha idols of various shapes and sizes, student members of the AP National Green Corps had a field day getting their hands dirty. The workshop organised by the APNGC, aims at [...]
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HYDERABAD: Ch Shashank, an IT professional had a tough time getting a bus ticket to reach his destination. After waiting for a couple of hours at the Sanjeevareddy Nagar bus stop, he got a ticket by paying extra to a private travel agent. Like him, many other passengers keen to get home for the extended [...]