HYDERABAD: The stage is all set for laying the foundation stone for Pranahita Chevella Sujala Sravanti (PCSS), the biggest lift irrigation project in the country, being taken up with an estimated Rs. 38,500 crore.

Guntur, Nov. 18: The paper mills have agreed to purchase su-babul and eucalyptus trees from farmers in the district from November 20 by offering support price fixed by the state.

The district collector, Mr B. Venkatesam, and the joint-collector, Mr Kantilal Dande, on Tuesday convened a meet with the representatives of paper mills and farmers at the collectorate.

Nellore, Nov. 18: The sudden fall in iron ore exports has hit the Krishnapatnam port really hard. Though the port also exports and imports other cargo such as granite, coal and fertilisers, the lion

Warangal, Nov. 17: The decline in Maoist presence in the forests of the district is resulting in a new problem

Kadapa, Nov. 17: District forest officials are once again a worried lot over the fresh incidents of smuggling of red sanders in Kadapa district. In a fresh incident, smugglers tried to illegally transport red sanders logs in Nandalur mandal headquarters town in the district late on Sunday night.

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MACHILIPATNAM: Heavy downpour accompanied by strong winds and gales hit the district headquarters following concentration of cyclone in the Bay of Bengal on Saturday. An alert was sounded in coastal Andhra as cyclone over the Bay of Bengal threatened to hit the coast by night.

Chikkaballapur: The Bellary mines owners who have secured ministership in the State cabinet have actually sneaked into the State with an intention to extend the mines they own in Andhra Pradesh alleged State Youth Congress president Krishna Byregwoda.

Vijayawada, Nov. 14: The much-awaited Bus Rapid Transport System which was supposed to have been started this month, will take a longer time to hit the road.

Thanks to the foreign tour of the VMC commissioner, Mr P.S. Pradyumna, he learnt about implementing BRTS and realised that more infrastructural changes have to made for it in Vijayawada.

Rajahmundry, Nov. 14: The education authorities under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan programme plan to start mini residential bridge centres (RBC) from January 2009 in West Godavari, in an attempt to rescue child labourers as well as school dropouts and provide them formal education.

Rajahmundry Nov. 13: The Centre has proposed to introduce injec-table trivalent polio vaccine in the immunisation schedule of children below one year, shortly.