The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet has unanimously approved the proposal for taking up community or cooperative farming in the State with a village as a unit. The proposal of the Chief Minister was approved at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, chaired by Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
June 30: The Krishna water supply pipeline, water treatment plant and pump houses that supply drinking water to Hyderabad, will now be guarded by the Special Protection Force.
June 30: At least 10 officials of various departments will be arrested by the Central Crime Station (CCS) for their alleged negligence, which resulted in contaminated water being provided to Bholakpur. As many as 14 persons died and 785 others were hospitalised in May due to consumption of contaminated water.
Agricultural scientist and chairman of National Commission on Agriculture MS Swaminathan said that any attempt to promote the cooperative or group farming will succeed only if it is made into win-win situation for all those who join it.
The press release by Greenpeace on its protest against herbicide-resistant rice trial by Bayer Crop in the village of Chinnakanjarla, about 45 kilometers from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. It warns that this would lead to serious contamination of non-GM rice grown in the vicinity.
New Delhi: With the samples of a nine-year-old boy, who arrived in Hyderabad on Sunday night from New Jersey through London, testing positive on Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases of H1N1 virus in India has gone up to 31. The boy was detected with flu-like symptoms at the Hyderabad airport and sent to the isolation ward at the chest hospital in the city.
The discharge of heavily contaminated domestic and industrial waste into Phuleli Canal in Hyderabad continues unabatedly and no relevant authority has taken notice of the grave threat this situation poses.
A large portion of the province, particularly the lower Sindh, has brackish and saline underground water due to the influence of the sea and water shortage in the Indus River.
Hyderabad: The 23-year-old student, who was the first person to suffer from swine flu in India, is stable and recovering at the Government General and Chest Hospital at Erragadda. The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi, found evidence of the H1N1 strain in throat secretions and blood samples of the student of Indiana University, Bloomington.
