Category: South

Chennai: Chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced an Amma Mobile scheme for the benefit of 20,000 trainers at self-help groups in Tamil Nadu. Making a suo motu announcement in the assembly, the chief minister said the scheme would be introduced in the current fiscal. It will incur an expenditure of Rs 15 crore to the state exchequer. The groups […]

Newly-founded Yanamala Charitable Trust on Saturday conducted its first job mela in Tuni under the chairmanship of Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu and got overwhelming response from the job-seekers. About 6,817 youth from different parts of the State attended the mela in which companies like Dr. Reddy’s Lab, Axis Bank, Rane Engineering, Smart India Global, Miracle Software Solutions and others participated. […]

The State government will construct 200 bridges at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore, with assistance from the Housing and Urban Development Corporation, in the State, Public Works Minister H.C. Mahadevappa has said. Speaking after launching various development works worth Rs. 79 crore in Davangere taluk, including construction of an overbridge here on Saturday, he said the bridge, a long-pending […]

In a shift in its strategy, National Democratic Alliance constituent Pattali Makkal Katchi, which had been pushing for a rainbow alliance led by it for next year’s Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, on Saturday said the party would go it alone and contest all 234 seats. “We are emerging as an alternative (to AIADMK and DMK)…we will contest in 234 constituencies,” […]

Hyderabad: For 18 months, a 21-year-old engineering student from upscale Banjara Hills befriended 200 schoolgirls on Facebook and coaxed or blackmailed nearly half of them to share their nude photographs, before he was finally arrested on Friday. Abdul Majid, 21, had opened eight different FB accounts with pseudo names of women and befriended school-going girls from Hyderabad. “From these accounts, […]

Andhra Bank, an institution with presence across 26 States and three Union Territories, on Friday opened its 2600th branch and 3000th ATM. Announcing this, the bank said 43 per cent of the branches are in semi-uban/rural areas and 231 of the branches are in unbanked rural centres. During the current fiscal, the bank added 100 branches and plans to add […]