K. Venkateswarlu

Andhra Pradesh tribals live in pathetic conditions, with little or no access to health care

For decades, democracy remained a distant dream for the aboriginal Chenchu tribes in the Nallamala hill ranges of Andhra Pradesh. They hardly had a chance to vote freely, caught in the crossfire between the Maoists and the police.

Handicrafts sector leads with 34 sanctions in product-wise distribution of GI

CHENNAI: As many as 143 Indian products have been provided with a Geographical Indication (GI) tag and more applications are being filed from the Southern states, said Kasturi Das, Associate professor, Centre for WTO Studies on Monday.

April 20: The AP Builders

The Indian Space Research Organisation

PILLALAMARRI SRINIVAS
DC | MALINI (ADILABAD)

March 19: "Why should we give our votes to any political leader in the coming elections when all of them have failed to provide us drinking water all these years?" asks Ms Surpam Sundaribai of Malini gram panchayat in Sirpur (T) Assembly constituency. Ms Sundaribai is the first voter in the state.

The KG-D6 field off the Andhra coast will almost double India's gas production and could change the face of gas usage in cities

The tribes of Northeast India have been using jatropha seeds to light their huts at night. It contains 35 per cent fuel and is not edible. Best of all, it thrives in degraded land. And Dl-Williamson Magor Bio Fuel, a joint venture between tea major Williamson Magor and UK-based Dl-bp Fuel Crops, has been providing seeds for contract farming in eastern and north-eastern India.

Kaikaluru(Krishna), April 17: Touching upon the local chord, the Telugu Desam (TD) president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, promised that the famous Kolleru Lake would be regularised and the surplus lands from the lake would be distributed to the poor farmers.

Mahesh Kulkarni / Bangalore April 17, 2009, 0:08 IST

Visakhapatnam, April 16: The cyclonic storm