Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtriya Samithi Karimnagar MP B. Vinod Kumar has filed two petitions against construction of the controversial Polavaram Dam. Telangana irrigation minister T.

Hyderabad: Union Ministers P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju and M.

ITC proposes to double capacity in its Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division to one million tonnes.

Committee questions roles of ICMR, Drug Controller-General of India in the “intriguing” 2010 episode

Accusing the international organisation PATH (Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health) of exploiting with impunity the loopholes in the system during a trial of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, a parliamentary panel has also questioned the roles of the Indian Council of Medical Research and the Drug Controller-General of India in the entire episode.

On 25 May, the ghastly Naxal attack on a convoy of Congress leaders in Darbha, Chhattisgarh, jolted political leaders across the spectrum.

The Andhra Pradesh government today sought to put at the rest the political controversy over the Bayyaram mines issue, saying there was no proposal to divert iron ore to the Visakhapatnam Steel Pla

Lightning struck and killed at least 21 people and heavy unseasonal rain damaged acres of standing crops, particularly paddy and mango, over the past two days across Andhra Pradesh.

Visakhapatnam:Encroachments in the guise of Forest Rights Act, cultivation and smuggling is shrinking forests. As much as 36.44 sq km of forest area has vanished in the state due to cultivation and illegal felling of trees within a span of one year. Andhra Pradesh forest department has completed collecting data of loss of forest cover during 2010-11 and is set to come out with a detailed report for the year 2012 soon.

Khammam district recor-ded an encroachment of 19.28 sq km forest area, the highest. Warangal, part of Karimnagar district followed with 6.66 sq km and Nizamabad forest circle comprising of Nizamabad and Medak was encroached to the tune of 2.46 sq km.

New Delhi Hit by an acute shortage of land for growing eucalyptus, the paper industry is now banking on agro-forestry to meet the rising demand of wood pulp. Started by paper major ITC, more than 1,500 acres of land is covered under the agro-forestry plan in areas such as Khammam, west Godavari, Prakasam and Nizamabad districts of Andhra Pradesh.

In these areas, eucalyptus is planted on the same land where other agricultural crops such as cotton, chili, sunflower, maize and tobacco are grown.