The Andhra Pradesh Government has prohibited fishing activities on sea in the territorial limits of the State by all mechanised and motorised fishing vessels from April 15 to June 15. The non-motorised traditional fishing crafts have been, however, exempted from the prohibition. The main objective of the order is to observe conservancy measures during breeding season of prawn and fish.

Hyderabad, April 14: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has started commercial sale of canned water.

The Board will initially confine the sale to government offices and institutions.

The Board

Hyderabad, April 14: Experts in the Nehru Zoological Park have started a breeding programme for Mouse deer, an endangered species which is also known as Spotted Indian Chevrotain.

Hyderabad, April 14: The state government is sitting on the proposal to set up a wildlife crime bureau that would probe poaching cases.

Hyderabad, April 14: The Rs 300-crore Hussain Sagar Restoration Project aided by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation has made little progress though five years have passed since its launch.

This massive project meant to clean sewage, industrial effluents and accumulated toxic wastes in the lake began in March 2004 was expected to be completed in three years.

CH Prashanth Reddy / Hyderabad April 14, 2009, 0:47 IST

They are displaced farmers and they know that their chance of getting elected is very remote. Yet, they have entered the electoral fray.

Hyderabad, April 13: The Andhra Pradesh forest department is probing the Mumbai link of the tiger poaching that occurred at Narsampet reserve forest area in Warangal district.

It is suspected that one of the accused in the case, Raheem, was in contact with people in Mumbai allegedly to sell off the tiger skin and claws.

Lucknow: Sitaram Yadav, a farmer based in Gohta village of Mau district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, gives a thumbs up to the flood-tolerant Swarna Sub-1 rice variety.