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LPG supplies to households with multiple-connections to stop from June 1The PSU Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) IOC, BPC and HPC have been directed to stop supplies of LPG refills to households having multiple-connections for which no KYC: page, 5

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yesterday.New Delhi, May 17: On the final leg of his It is understood that the discussion veered two-day tour, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar round the question of tainted ministers, Reddy on Friday met Congress President reshuffle of the cabinet and appointment of Sonia Gandhi.corporations' chairmen. The complaints They held discussion on a wide ranging of against the Chief Minister by his cabinet issues. As a prelude, the Chief Minister held colleagues also came for discussion, it is discussions with state in-charge Ghulam learnt. Nabi Azad and other leaders and ministers

CM meets Sonia

publicity for the two Chittoor, May 17: The schemes, the benefit is government welfare not being reached to the schemes are more for poorer sections, he said.publicity and for the Wh i l e tamar ind i n intended purpose, YSR available for Rs 35 per C o n g r e s s l e a d e r k g a t P u n g a n u r u , P e d d i r e d d y charging the same Ramchandra Reddy amount for half the said here today.q u a n t i t y i n A m m a The schemes like Amma Hastham is ridiculous, Hastham and Bangaru he said. While the Amma Thalli are used more Hasstham bag cost is Rs publicity. The cost of 4 it is being sold of Rs 11 publicity is more than the and who is getting the actual cost of scheme, kickbacks should be he said. Though Rs 700 traced, he said. crores were spend on

Govt spending more on publicity: YSRCP

Hyderabad, May 17 : Congress MLA Dr P Shankar Rao demanded that the tainted ministers shou ld be d ropped immediately.All ministers named in the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Disproportionate Assets (DA) case should be sacked, he said.While YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was in jail even without filing a charge sheet, those named in the charge sheet are moving feely, he said. He agreed that he had no knowledge Speaking to media at the Assembly about the GOs when he filed the case. premises, he said, people are of the view Things came out later, he said and that there is discrimination in the demanded that all the tainted ministers investigation process. should be dropped immediately.

Sack tainted ministers, demands Shankar Rao

Kadapa, May 17: The security to the key witness in Obulapuram Mining Case has been scaled down.Police reduced the security of Sasi Kumar, who is the key witness in the OMC illegal mining case. Sasi Kumar is the brother of Endowments Minister C Ramachandriah.Ramachandriah, who was elected on PRP ticket, was given ministerial berth after the party merged with Congress. Recently, Ramachandraiah was vocal about his leader and union minister K Chiranjeevi being the right candidate for the Chief Minister's post.

OMC key witness security scaled down

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also will contribute to Hyderabad, May 17: In tune preventing damage to with the eco-friendly / green track / coach fittings initiatives of South Central and improving the Railway and after successful aesthetics of railway trial of 48 Bio-Toilets fitted to stations.the 17 Coaches being run on The Bio-Toilet, which Hyderabad-Mumbai Hussain has six compartments, S a g a r E x p r e s s a n d u s e s I n o c u l u m s K a c h e g u d a - B a n g a l o r e ( B a c t e r i a ) t o Express, South Central decompose the night Railway is expanding the soil. The night soil from same to other trains also by commode enters in to procuring 200 Bio-Toilets the Bio-Tank, where within few months. the inoculums are Bio-Toilet was developed s t o r e d , g e t jointly by Railway Research decomposed by the and Standard Organisation bac ter ia and the ( R D S O ) a n d D e f e n c e decomposed human Research Deve lopment soil will next enter into Establishment (DRDE) for use Chlorine Tank and to in Indian Railways and the get purified. Finally same is under trial in many of the output will be just the Zonal Railways.

and the track get scattered with vexatious problem which is water and gas. Bio-South Central Railway took a h u m a n e x c r e ta c r e a t i n g mainly due to letting the night soil Toilets with provision to replenish lead in the trial and put the Bio-u n p l e a s a n t s i t u a t i o n f o r from train toilets to fall on the Inoculums and Chlorine will be Toilets into regular use in the passenger on the platforms. track. easy to maintain. This toilet will trains as mentioned above Maintaining the cleanliness at With simple design, less get chocked and go out of order if t o w a r d s s t r e n g t h e n i n g railway stations, especially the maintenance and easier RETRO passengers dump bottles, plastic c lean l iness in Ra i lway tracks at stations, is found to be a fitment on existing coaches, the carry bags, cups, napkins etc premises in an eco-friendly challenging task for railways in environmental friendly Bio-Toilet into the it via commode. It will manner.the face of ban on the use of will ensure zero discharge of cause choking of the toilet The conventional toilets in the Safaiwalas and absence of RCC night soil on the ground. This making i t un-usable and trains, by allowing night soil to Apron below the track at some arrangement will be of great help becomes di ff icul t for the fall on the track, cause stations. Track maintenance staff in adding to the tidy environment maintenance staff to clean the unhygienic conditions and also has to face difficult situation and hygienic conditions of the same. Hence, Passengers are corrosion to track and coach while on duty. But, with the railway stations and track en- advised not to dump any fitt ings endangering the advent of Bio-Toilet, Railways route. Thus, Bio-Toilets are not garbage / litter items in Bio-Toilet safety. Passengers use toilets has found an answer to this only environment friendly but units.while trains are at platforms

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State PoliticsFriday, May 17, 2013 | Hyderabad

notification with regard to web Hyderabad, May 17: As many counselling for admission into as 1,77,678 candidates or 71.94 Polytechnics in the State shall be per cent candidates have released by the Commissioner of c leared the Po ly techn ic Technical Education in the third Common En t rance Tes t week of May.(POLYCET - 2013).This time three new help line Announcing the results, State

Board of Technical Education centres have been opened at and Training chairman P GMR in Bhadrachalam, Andhra

Loyola College in Vijayawada Jayaprakash Rao informed and KDRGP of Wanaparthy. that out of 1,80,744 boys who Candidates have been advise to appeared for the examination, lookout for the same and attend 1,26,854 boys or 70.18 per the verification of certificates cent qualified. Similarly, out of programme as per the schedule, 66,226 girl candidates who based on their rank indicated in appeared for the examination the notification. The Notification 50,824 girls have qualified in the newspapers shall itself be r e p r e s e n t i n g a p a s s treated as a call letter for web percentage of 76.74 per cent. qualified and have been assigned The ranks cards of POLYCET - counselling for admission even if Jayaprakash Rao said that the r a n k s b a s e d o n t h e i r 2013 can be downloaded from rank card is not received by the minimum qualifying marks of performance. website by candidate. No separate call letter POLYCET - 2013 was 30 per The first three ranks at POLYCET the candidate from May 20. The for verification of certificates and cent or 36 marks out of 120 for all - 2013 have been bagged by scanned OMR Answer script will

category candidates, except SC the web counselling shall be sent Surampudi Sai Sriharsha of East be placed in the same website and ST for whom there is no to the candidate by the SBTET.Godavari (1st rank); Gajjala Sai from May 23 for individual

C o m m i s s i o n e r Te c h n i c a l minimum qualifying marks. All Satya Kiranmayee of East verification of the candidates Education Ajay Jain was also the SC/ST candidates who have Godavari (2nd rank) and Bala appeared for examination. Web present in the press conference.appeared for the POLYCET Gopala Sreerama Bhadraraju of counselling will commence from

examina t ions thus have West Godavari (3rd rank). May 29. However, the detailed

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Releasing the results at Board of Secondary Education office at Chapel Road, Secondary Education Minister K Parthasarathy informed that girls outnumber boys in the pass percentage. While 87.30 boys cleared the exams, 88.90 per cent girls passed the SSC. The State percentage of passes of private candidates is 45.50. The percentage of passes secured by boys is 42.47 whereas girls secured 51.92 percentage of passes. The Girls secured 9.45 per cent higher than boys.This year as many as 4,326 schools secured 100 per cent results. However, as many as 11 schools including six private schools secured zero results.Chittoor district secured highest pass percentage of 94.92 while Medak secured lowest percentage of 67.96 per cent.Both, regular and private candidates, put together 11,92,076 candidates have appeared for the SSC Public Examinations held in March this year as against 12,85,822 registered last year. Of them, as many as 99.17 per cent appeared for the exams.

Hyderabad, May 17: As many as 88.08 per cent candidates The Minister informed that the Advanced Supplementary cleared the Secondary School Certificate exams whose results Examinations for failed candidates would be held from June 15 to were announced here on Friday. 28th. The last date for payment of exam fee will be June 1.

Over 1.77 lakh clear POLYCET - 2013

Girls outperform boys in SSC exams

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party through their nefarious Hyderabad, May 17: YSR Congress games, she asked them to keep a party honourary President Y S Vijayamma vigil on such forces and thwart on Friday called upon the party leaders and their attempts effectively.activists to work in unison in the “The opponents, envious of our forthcoming local body elections.strength, are trying to weaken Presiding over an extended meeting of the us and you must be careful of YSRCP leaders at her Lotus Pond such attempts.” The Kiran residence here, she stressed on the need to K u m a r - l e d C o n g r e s s fight the local body polls by selecting Government, which has fallen deserving and good leaders as party into minori ty, has been candidates in all villages.burdening people with new “I call upon you to work together in unison takes and hiking of charges with in the local body elections by taking the sole backing of the maineverybody along with you to achieve Vijayamma said, “Ever since success,” she told the meeting attended by the YSRCP has been formed, 150 party leaders including MLAs, MLCs, both Congress and TDP have coordinators and conveners of various b e e n w o r k i n g t o g e t h e r affiliated organizations of the party.

unabashedly unable to face us independently. They have worked together Vijayamma asked the party leaders to take up the people's issues and fight in all elections till now and will continue to do so.” for their solutions. Pointing out that some forces are trying to weaken the

Fight local body polls in unison: Vijayamma

LPG supplies to households with multiple-connections to stop from June 1shared between IOC, their KYC details as they are HPC and BPC and all not required to do so as of now.m u l t i p l e L P G The PSU Oi l Market ing connection holders Companies are, therefore, have been identified a d v i s i n g a l l m u l t i p l e -and intimated. A list of connection holders to submit such customers is also their KYC details, pertaining to d i sp l ayed a t t he the LPG connection they wish r e s p e c t i v e L P G to retain, immediately to their distributorships and LPG d i s t r i bu to rs . Such published in the OMC customers are also being w e b s i t e s advised to surrender their other ( , LPG connections immediately

to their LPG distributors to and ). avoid blocking of further Only these customers supplies. These customers will need to submit their not be entitled to LPG refills till KYC details along with such time as they complete 1st. No transactions, including Mumbai, May 16: The PSU Oil

proof of identity (POI) and proof their KYC formalities. Though delivery of non-subsidised Marketing Companies (OMCs) of address (POA) immediately the deadline for submission of cylinders, will be permitted in IOC, BPC and HPC have been to their LPG distributors so as KYC was 31st December 2012, such cases once such directed to stop supplies of to receive their uninterrupted KYCs are being accepted and connec t ions have been LPG refills to households quota of subsidized cylinders. LPG connections are being blocked.having multiple-connections for Other customers whose names regularised for supply of The OMCs, in a press release which no KYC (Know Your do not appear in the above- subsidised cylinders till date.on Friday said that the Customer) details have been mentioned list need not submit customer data has been received, with effect from June

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Business

Mumbai, May 17: Also, flagship B S E p r o v i s i o n a l d a t a . Extending gains for index SX40 rose 18.03 Out of the 30 BSE index the fourth day in a points, or 0.15 per cent, to components, 16 stocks gained led r o w , t h e 1 1 , 9 7 2 . 5 2 . by BHEL by rising the most in five benchmark Brokers said the market months, pacing gains among other today rose by 39 remained bul l ish on makers of power equipments. The points, mainly on reports of higher foreign stock rose 4 per cent to Rs 201.35. buying in power, fund inflows on optimism Banking stocks were in demand on capital goods and about a rate cut by the hopes of interest rate cut. ICICI realty sector stocks Reserve Bank in the wake Bank rose 1.92 per cent to Rs a m i d i n c r e a s e d o f f a l l i n g i n f l a t i o n 1,228.60, SBI by 0.41 per cent to Rs f o r e i g n i n f l o w s . n u m b e r s . 2,424.60 and Axis Bank by 0.18 per The 30-share index They said a better trend in c e n t t o R s 1 , 5 3 2 . 8 0 . rose by 38.79 points, Asian region and higher The power sector index gained the or 0.19 per cent, to opening in Europe further most by 3.08 per cent to 1,844.29, week, the longest rising streak since 20,286.12. It has gained 556 points influenced the trading sentiment to followed by capital goods index by O c t o b e r l a s t y e a r . in last three trading sessions. s o m e e x t e n t . 2.95 per cent to 10,423.08. Realty Similarly, the National Stock Sensex had climbed to its highest FIIs bought domestic stocks worth index advanced 2.02 per cent to Exchange index -- -- rose by level since January 2011 yesterday around USD 195 million yesterday 2,032.03 and banking index by 0.56 17.40 points, or 0.28 per cent, to and has gained one per cent this (Rs 1,070.33 crore), according to per cent to 15,214.45.6 , 1 8 7 . 3 0 .

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sovereign rating to junk status, making overseas borrowings by c o r p o r a t e s c o s t l i e r ."High fiscal deficits and a heavy government debt burden remain the most significant constraints on our sovereign ratings on India. Nevertheless, the government has regained control of public finances and embarked on fresh structural New Delhi, May 17: Global reforms since September 2012," agency Standard & Poor's on S&P credit analyst Takahira Friday warned that it may O g a w a s a i d .downgrade India's sovereign S&P said although part of this rating to junk grade if the slower growth in India is cyclical, government fails to pursue reforms rigidities in the labour and product and check deterioration in fiscal m a r k e t s a n d i n a d e q u a t e and current account deficits.infrastructure constrain the While retaining India's sovereign country's medium-term growth rating at 'BBB-' with a negative p r o s p e c t s .outlook, S&P said there is at least a "Despite the initiatives from the one-in-three likelihood of a cabinet committee on investments downgrade within the next 12 to cut red tape on infrastructure and m o n t h s .power projects, that committee's "We may lower the rating if we success in raising investment conclude that slower government growth remains uncertain," it said.reforms than we currently expect Last month during a meeting with would not lead economic growth to S&P representatives, Finance recover to levels experienced Ministry officials had pitched for a earlier this decade," S&P said in a ratings upgrade arguing that the s t a t e m e n t .government has been taking steps 'BBB-' is the lowest investment to contain fiscal deficit and grade and a downgrade would promote investments. mean pushing the country's

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