Hyderabad, Oct 9 - All-rounder Chris Woakes, who played a key role in England's 56-run win in the warmup match against Hyderabad XI, feels it is an honour to open the bowling for his country.

Woakes made a useful contribution of unbeaten 46 and later chipped in with two wickets off successive deliveries to virtually end the home side's run chase late Saturday.

The 22-year-old from Warwickshire opened the bowling with Steve Finn.

Hyderabad, Oct 3 : Union Health Minister and Congress in-charge for Andhra Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad has appealed to demonstrators agitating for the creation of a separate Telangana state, to end their strike as it is causing massive inconvenience to the common people.

"The strike should be called off immediately as it would provide the common people of the state some much needed respite," Azad told the media here.

"If they call of their strike, the people of Telangana will be greatly relieved," he added.

Hyderabad, Sep 29 : Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M. Venkaiah Naidu has attacked Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh over the 2G spectrum allocation scam by accusing him of having diverted the country''s attention from the massive financial scam.

Hyderabad, Sep. 16 : Former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin''s son Ayazuddin, died on Friday, five days after being critically injured in a road accident.

Confirming the nes, doctors at the Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad said Ayazuddin had sustained critical injuries after a high-end sports bike he was driving skidded off the road at Puppalguda on Outer Ring Road
(ORR) here last Sunday.

Hyderabad, Sep 13 : Coal production in the government-owned Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) came to a grinding halt Tuesday as its over 100,000 workers joined a 'people's strike' demanding a separate state of Telangana be carved out of Andhra Pradesh, an official said.

Work in 50 mines spread over Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Khammam districts in Telangana region came to a standstill as the employees began the indefinite strike Tuesday morning on the call of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC).

Hyderabad, Sep. 12 : Former Indian cricketer and Congress lawmaker of Moradabad Mohammad Azharuddin arrived in Hyderabad early this morning from London to visit his son, who is in critical condition at the Apollo Hospital after being involved in a high-speed motorbike crash.

Azharuddin would be visiting his son Mohammed Ayazuddin, 19, who is on ventilator support, later in the day.

Andhra Pradesh’s state government has once again failed to woo European auto-makers in its attempt to launch an automobile manufacturing industry within the state.

In its most recent attempt to kick-start the industry, the Government of Andhra Pradesh actively courted France-based PSA Peugeot Citroen in the hopes that the company would establish automobile manufacturing facilities in the state.

The government had hoped that PSE Peugeot Citroen would act as an anchor client, which would help the state government to develop an automotive cluster complete with assembly production line, ancillaries units, dye manufacturing, and body-building shops.

On Friday the Andhra Pradesh High Court arranged two more weeks for microfinance organization to get itself listed with the rural growth authorities in regions in conformity with the latest MFI decree conceded by the state government.

A sitting panel encompassing justices Vilas V Afzalpurkar and Nisar Ahmad Kakru had previous week conceded a temporary instruction asking MFIs to carry on with the standard business of borrowing and lending and had then provided the micro lenders a week to enlist themselves.

A site at the cotton market in Khammam in Andhra Pradesh on October 13, 2010, the textile industry has required Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s interference for making sure accessibility of cotton for family firms in the stir of government consent to export 55 lakh bales.

The textile industry has required Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s interference for making certain accessibility of cotton for domestic firms bearing in mind that exporters registered 55 lakhs bales of cotton for exports within 10 days of the administration beginning the process.

To verify the mounting turbulence in Andhra Pradesh subsequent to the reports of the microfinance organization’s purportedly coercive performances, the state government has permitted a unique decree to manage the rates of interest charged by these lenders.

Microfinance institutions widen miniature loans to rustic poor. The purpose of the decree is to compress down on unfettered lending. The state government has expressed that it will declare a complete financial enclosure package that shall facilitate renovation of advanced interest rates on loans to an inferior rate.

The first round of admissions for the engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh got over on 4th October and of the 1.82 lakh seats available, 55,000 are still empty.

The second round of admissions which began 5th October onwards has 88,000 seats available. However, the officials are of the view that not even 15,000 seats will be taken.

The colleges which have been impacted most are the ones situated in Hyderabad and Vijayawada and their surrounding areas, including other major areas which have been the hotspots of the Telengana agitation.

While the chief minister K Rosaiah assured all the important names that the Telangana trouble will not come in the way of the investments coming in Andhra Pradesh but the fact of the matter is that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has said that its chief K Chandrasekhar Rao will surely make it clear to the industry stalwarts at the CEO forum that the growth in the region is directly linked to their demand of creating a separate state of Telangana.

Most of H1N1 cases have been reported from Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh during the last few days.

In Maharashtra's Aurangabad city, lots of individuals have shown swine flu symptoms, out of which 9 persons have been taken to the govt medical college.

One person tested positive for the deadly flu whereas reports of the other eight are yet to come.

Laser Soft, a Polaris Group company, has got itself a project with Andhra Pradesh State Co-operative Bank Limited (APCOB) which involves imposing main banking solutions in the district central co-operative banks in the State.

This imposition will be carried out through a special multi-entity CBS, which has a centralized deployment at Hyderabad. This model is not only cost-effective but will also facilitate easier transactions between customers of the banks.

According to reports, Andhra University (AU) has inked a 'historical' MoU with the State government's King Geroge Hospital (KGH).

Under the deal, AU is launching a 6-year Pharma D course, first of its kind in India, from this academic session.

While speaking on the occasion, Prof B Satyanarayana, Vice-Chancellor, AU, stated that the new course would alter the very profile of the pharma researches thereby adding authentic clinical dimension to the course that has been thus far in industry-oriented studies.

On Monday, the Supreme Court (SC) allowed the stay order on the Reddy brothers' mining operations to be extended. These operations are going on in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Besides this, the SC has also directed the Survey of India (SoI) officials to submit their reports by April 22. This happened after the Reddy brothers were said to have encroached two mines.

The case was filed against the Reddy brothers and also the SoI. The panel from SoI had cleared a 68.5 hectare iron-ore mine project. It said in its report that there was no encroachment done.

Andhra students might have to rethink before bunking, as Biometric attendance system is being introduced for the first time in the country for Andhra students who are pursuing professional and non-professional education.

The DHE or the State Department of Higher Education has laid out hints to introduce the Biometric system in order to "improve the academic performance of students."

As many as seven new Special Economic Zones (SEZs) were given a go-ahead by the Board of Approval (BOA), on Friday.

Three of the new projects will starts in Andhra Pradesh (AP) while the rest will be given to other states.

In reality, only six proposals have been given a green signal now. The seventh one has already got an in-principal approval. The BOA just gave it a formal approval.

As for the projects, two of them will start in the field of biotech and other related activities. These would begin in the districts of Anantpur, Medak and Ranga Reddy in AP.

Denying the nuisance of blames against the clinical trials, which supposedly caused the deaths of three tribal girls in Khammam district, Health Minister D Nagender said that the two girls committed suicide whereas the third passed away due to viral fever.

This came following the news, which held the vaccine responsible for the death of the girls. Vaccine HPV was given for cervical cancer.

The Andhra Pradesh Police on Friday gunned down two top state-level Maoist leaders, including military chief Sakamuri Appa Rao.

“Appa Rao was looking after military activities in AP state and guiding (the Maoists’) action teams,” a press note issued by the state police chief, R. R. Girish Kumar’s office said.

According to police sources, Sakamuri Appa Rao, alias Ravi was considered to be both a ideologue and a military strategist of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). He was involved in a series of high-profile attacks, including the landmine blast near Tirupati that nearly killed then Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in October 2003.