District Selection Committee exams begin today

Exams for DSC 2008, the largest ever recruitment drive in the state to fill up 52,675 teachers’ posts, will begin on Friday in 2,693 centres.

A total of 5,99,649 candidates have applied for the exams which will be conducted till May 31.

For the first time, the department of school education has made arrangements to release the results within two weeks and complete the entire recruitment process in a month.

On the first day, examinations for secondary grade teachers will be held from 10.30 am to 1 pm and for language pandits and physical education teachers from 2 pm to 5 pm

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Singh picks 31 new ministers in team

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will expand his Cabinet on Thursday by inducting 59 members into the ministry.

In all, there will be 31 new faces in the ministry. There are nine former chief ministers, and two first-time MP will be made Union ministers: Mr M.K. Azhagiri of Tamil Nadu and Mr C.P.Joshi of Rajasthan. The DMK gets three Cabinet berths, and Tamil Nadu will have eight berths in all.

Among the 59 to become ministers, Mr Deshmukh is not a member of Parliament. UP is the only state which does not have a Cabinet-rank minister. MP, Rajasthan and Gujarat will have three ministers each while Karnataka, Punjab, Delhi and Meghalaya will have two each.

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Chargers land in city today

Deccan Chargers will return home to a rousing reception on Wednesday night.

A host of surprises are in store after the winners of IPL-2 land at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at 8.30 pm on Wednesday. A band would play the victory tune for the Chargers even as the players will interact with fans before heading into the city.

That promises to be one grand ride as the team bus will be piloted by the city’s famous biker gang, the Highway Nawabs Motorcycle Club.

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Gilly’s smart plan led to win

The lessons of their 2008 debacle were well learnt, triumphant Deccan Chargers captain said on Monday after their fairytale win against the Royal Challengers Bangalore to win the IPL trophy.

Gilchrist said: “Just trying to create the culture of learning from our mistakes last year and trying to play a smarter brand of Twenty20 cricket rather than walking out and trying to just fire from ball one.” He emphasised: “We just got to get smarter about it.”

The skipper added: “I think a lot of the credit goes to the franchisee for turning it around. I think my catchphrase was to make sure every ball — the very next ball — was the most important thing of their lives to the players... It does sound dramatic, but there is nothing else in our lives at that moment...”

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Chargers Champ- On magic night, Deccan dream comes true

Adam Gilchrist and his indefatigable Deccan Chargers lived a school boy’s dream on Sunday, winning the DLF IPL trophy by beating Royal Challengers Bangalore in the tensest game of the 59-match tournament.

Hyderabad, the main base of the Chargers, erupted in joy and fireworks went off as Royal Challengers ended up six runs short of the target of 143. Thousands of viewers who stayed up close to midnight to cheer the Chargers, spilled out on to the streets to celebrate.

Last year’s bottom team gave its fans every chill, spill and thrill as it won seven matches and then floundered before making it to the semifinals on the run rate. If Gilchrist smashed his way to victory over Delhi Daredevils, Sunday’s final saw nail-biting excitement till the last two balls.

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Y S Rajasekhar Reddy will pick new Cabinet on May 26

At least five ministers from the old team may not make it to the Cabinet this time. The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy, has indicated that he would leave out some “non-performers” in his new team.

The State Cabinet will be constituted on May 25, with 26 to 30 ministers. The Chief Minister will submit his list of ministers to the Congress high command on Friday. It will be finalised based on the the Central Cabinet combination.

“The Chief Minister has been given a free hand to form his team, but he will finalise it after the Central Cabinet formation is completed,” the sources said.

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Y S Rajasekhar Reddy thanks voters, gives 30 kg rice, 9 hour free power

Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy struck at the very roots of the Telugu Desam, the Congress’ arch-rival in the state, as he took the oath for the second term as Chief Minister.

Dr Reddy said that regional parties could not stick to ideology and only a national party like the Congress could give good governance in a secular format.

He pointed out that the Congress had never compromised on ideology, a dig at the policy flip-flops of the Telugu Desam and the CPI(M).

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Stars flop at political box office

The star campaigners in the Telugu Desam and the Praja Rajyam have proved to be ineffective as the parties lost the elections in areas toured by the actors.

The TD banked heavily on Junior NTR and Balakrishna.However, the two failed at the political box office.Similarly, the PR’s star trio of Chiranjeevi, Pavan Kalyan and Nagababu also failed to woo the voters.

The TD’s worst performance was in districts toured by the actors.

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Cop killed as gunmen fire

Two gunmen from a previously unknown outfit, Tehrik-e-Galba Islam, opened fire at two unarmed policemen, killing a home guard and injuring a constable near Falaknuma palace in the city on Monday evening, sending the police into a tizzy.

The attack occurred on the second anniversary of the Macca Masjid blast of May 18, 2007. A pamphlet left behind by the gunmen claimed that the attack was to avenge the death of five protestors in police firing that took place immediately after the blasts.

Police suspects the gunmen to be Viqar Ahmed alias Ali Khan and his brother-in-law Suleman.
They had opened fire on a police party in December 2008 at Santosh nagar.

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Congress works out seat formula

The UPA leadership is expected to hold consultations on Monday and Tuesday to decide on the composition of the new ministry, and on the specifics of the outside support that it should take.

Sources said the decision on whether to retain the RJD chief, Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav, in the new government would be left to the UPA chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi.

Earlier in the day, Mrs Gandhi called up Mr Yadav to invite him to Monday’s Cabinet meet after which the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, will submit the resignation of the outgoing Cabinet to the President.

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Jesus in jeans in church

It’s 21st century. And, Jesus is now in “jeans” with his hair and beard “neatly and fashionably trimmed” in an English church.

Yes, Our Lady Immaculate and St Philip Neri Catholic Church in East Sussex has unveiled a high bronze statue dubbed “Jesus in jeans” depicting Christ as a modern man, the Daily Telegraph reported.

In fact, the statue depicts Christ as wearing jeans and a shirt billowing in the wind while his hair and beard are neatly and fashionably trimmed.

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Exit polls shake up Naidu

Exit polls conducted by different television channels in the five phase Lok Sabha elections, which ended Wednesday, predicted a fractured mandate, but most gave the Congress-led UPA a slight edge over the BJP-led NDA, with the Third Front and others lagging far behind.

However, most exit polls have a reputation for going wrong. In 2004, they gave victory — wrongly, as it turned out — to the NDA. Counting of votes will begin on Saturday morning.

With exit polls predicting that the Congress was ahead, the Telugu Desam president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Wednesday advised party leaders and workers not to be disheartened by reports that the TD would lose.

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Poll authorities raid Jayaprada’s hotel

The Election authorities raided the hotel where the SP leader, Ms Jayaprada, was staying, evoking a strong protest from the actress-turned politician and her supporters who blamed her “rival” parties for it.

An official team headed by city magistrate, Mr R.K. Rai, raided Modi which has been con Hotel on Monday night verted into the SP candidate’s election office. Mr Rai said the raid was carried out as the EC has ordered that outsiders should not be present after the end of campaigning,. However, no outsiders were found present in the hotel at the time of the raid, Mr Rai said, adding that the raid was not aimed at targeting anyone and that his team would be carrying out more raids in the constituency on Tuesday.

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Axe to fall on Satyam staff

Satyam Computers is all set face the inevitable: a drastic cost cutting exercise, which includes layoff of 5,000 strong non-billable staff.

Tech Mahindra, the new owner of the fraud-hit IT major, has prescribed a $200-million cost-cutting pill to get Satyam back to financial health.

According sources in the company, Tech Mahindra would place its cost-cutting measures, which includes a three phased layoff plan, before the Satyam board on May 15 for approval.

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1.6 lakh singers set record

A staggering 1.6 lakh musicians sang Annamacharya keertanas in praise of lord Venkateswara in the city on Sunday, setting a new world record.

The official adjudicator of Guinness Records, Mr Reymond Marshal, announced to huge applause that the event, Laksha Gala Sankeertanarchana, had broken the previous record of Poland where 60,000 people sang the national anthem together on August 2, 1937.

“In all 1.6 lakh people participated in the event. The previous record has been broken,” Mr Marshal said.

He handed over the certificate to the finance minister, Mr K. Rosaiah.

The event was organised to pay tribute to the poet Tallapaka Annamacharya on his 601st birth anniversary.

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Airborne Warning and Control System in India on May 20

The Indian Air Force will receive its first Phalcon Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) from Israel on May 20, Chief of Air Staff Fali Homi Major said on Thursday.

The AWACS would provide the IAF means to track incoming missiles and look deep inside neighbouring countries without violating any air space.

“Lots of things are happening and there are more things to be done which my successors will continue,” Major, who retires on May 31 after 42 years of service, said here on the sidelines of a farewell function organised by the Eastern Air ComAir Command here.

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3 in hospital for flu check

Three more air pas-sengers with suspected swine flu symptoms were referred to the AP Chest Hospital on Wednesday.

Two of them were quarantined by the airport medical team and one voluntarily got himself admitted at the hospital.

The two quarantined passengers were a 25-year-old from New York and a 24 year-old from Dubai and were found to be suffering from fever and cold.

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Dirty water kills 6 in city

In a shameful incident, six persons, three of them children, died and 200 others were hospitalised after they consumed contaminated water in Bholakpur and its adjoining areas in the heart of the new city.

They had consumed water supplied by the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board at taps in their homes. The worst affected areas are Bholakpur, Indiranagar, Gulshannagar, Tajirnagar, Musheerabad, Bangladesh and Lanka basthi.

For over 24 hours, the residents drank contaminated water in an area that is dotted with tanneries. It started at 5 am on Sunday when the area began getting black coloured water from the taps. “It is nothing new, the problem has been going on for two years,” said Mr Lokeshwar Rao, social worker and local leader in Bholakpur.

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Bombay Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange receive threats

An emailed threat to blow up the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was sent early on Monday morning to the official email addresses of the stock exchanges.

The threat claimed that 10 armed terrorists had already entered the city and went on to mock the police force to stop them if they could.

The email has been traced to an IP address of a cyber café in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

“At around 5.30 am on Monday, both the BSE and NSE received an email on their official addresses from a Yahoo! account. The two-line email said that around 10 armed terrorists belonging to the Lashkar-eTayyaba were planning to strike both the exchanges at 12.55 pm and dared the Indian forces to prevent them from doing so,” said a senior officer of the state’s Anti-Terrorism Squad.

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General crisis hits Nepal

Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” dismissed his Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Rookmangud Katawal, on charges of insubordination, sparking off a crisis which threatens to derail the fragile peace process in the republic.

The CPN(UML), the Maoists’ biggest coalition partner and third-largest party in the Constituent Assembly, decided to pull out of the Maoist-led coalition government in protest.

The CPN(UML) general secretary, Mr Ishwor Pokharel, said the time had come to forge a new alliance. The CPN(UML)’s support is critical to the survival of the Maoist-led government.

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