State has no money, cuts 3,000 IIIT seats

In a major blow to students from rural areas, the state government on Thursday decided to reduce the intake into IIITs by half citing infrastructure constrains.

Against yearly admissions of 6,000 students over the last two years, the government will now allow only 3,000 students. The IIITs, the brainchild of YSR, are located in Basar, Idupulapaya, where YSR gave away his land to set up the institute, and Nuzividu.

As much as 80 per cent seats are reserved for students from rural areas in these technical institutes run under the aegis of Prof.Raji Reddy.

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Land misuse has AP rethink sops to firms

Instances of companies misusing or under-utilising huge tracts of land received from the government have got agencies like the AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation rethinking on allotments.

Software giant Infosys has been talking of developing nine lakes on its 450acre campus at Pocharam in the city outskirts rather than making use of the land for a specific purpose.

Bramhani Infotech, promoted by the Navbharat has not raised a single structure on the 250-acre IT SEZ near the Shamshabad international airport even after three years since allotment.

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Endgame after Indian Premier League final

Mr Lalit Modi’s carefully-constructed Indian Premier League empire threatens to come crashing down around his ears.

Days after he “outed” details of the Kochi bid for an IPL team to join the lucrative league from 2010, leading to the resignation of the minister of state for external affairs, Mr Shashi Tharoor, the fallout now threatens to consume the IPL commissioner.

On Tuesday, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president, Mr Shashank Manohar, met the Union agriculture minister, Mr Sharad Pawar — who has so far backed Mr Modi and the Opposition leader.

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Mumbai stadium is not safe either

It appears that even the D.Y. Patil Stadium, which is to host the two IPL semi-finals on Wednesday and Thursday, is not very safe either.

The Union home ministry has issued a warning to the IPL that security arrangements at the stadium are not up to the mark, according to a report.

The matches were shifted to Navi Mumbai following two low-intensity explosions at Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy Stadium, and the recovery of three bombs.

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Tharoor quits over IPL franchise row

Controversia minister of state for external affairs, Mr Shashi Tharoor, is understood to have submitted his resignation to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Sunday. This has been accepted, and forwarded to the President, Ms Pratibha Patil. An official announcement is expected later in the night or Monday.

The Prime Minister summoned Mr Tharoor late Sunday night for the second of two meetings in the day at 7 Race Course Road, where the minister was told to put in his papers.

Earlier, a consensus emerged at a meeting of the Congress core group that Mr Tharoor's continuance in the wake of his involvement in the IPL Kochi team controversy was damaging both the government and the Congress, and that he should be asked to go.

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Moon mission may be delayed

The crash of Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV-D3 into the Bay of Bengal will set the clock back by a couple of years on ambitious projects such as the human journey into deep space and the country’s second shot at the Moon.

This evening, the rocket veered off course and crashed into the choppy sea because of a snag in the indigenous cryogenic engine, according to Indian space scientists.

The vehicle lifted off as planned at 4:27 pm after a smooth countdown. The performance was normal up to the end of second stage (about five minutes into the flight).

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Country's GeoSynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle launch today

The scientists of the Isro seemed to have chosen an astrologically auspicious time for the launch of the country’s first indigenous GeoSynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle on Thursday.

Rahu, Gulika and Yama Kandaka, the three inauspicious phases of the day, will be over by 3 pm and the GSLV will blast off from the Satish Dhavan Space Centre in Sriharikota, the country’s space port, at 4.27 pm.

Scientists of the Liquid Propulsion System Centre who developed the cryogenic engine are confident about the success of the mission but apparently they don’t want to take chances with other cosmic forces either.

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