Hyderabad City News and Information

RDX ‘freely’ available

seo4india — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:47:19 +0000

HYDERABAD: Sounding an ominous note, additional commissioner of police (crime and SiT) Rajeev Trivedi on Thursday said that explosives were ‘freely’ available in Hyderabad and anybody wanting to procure them could easily do so.
Trivedi’s statements came in response to a query whether the RDX used in the Mumbai 7/11 blasts could have been routed through Hyderabad. On being pressed to elucidate by mediapersons, Trivedi clarified: “i don’t mean that explosives are available in each bylane, but if you want it you will get it.” \
He, however, did not want to categorically state that the RDX from Hyderabad had snaked its way to Mumbai. in fact, he denied that any knowledge of reports suggesting this.
Even as he tried hard to deny that the Hyderabad police had picked up anyone in connection with the latest Mumbai blasts, Trivedi said that some people connected to terrorist organisations were absconding from Hyderabad and the cops were looking for them.
He, however, did not provide details of those missing but said that a discreet watch was being kept on persons suspected to have links with terrorists and who were not underground.
He said that the police were aware of the new outfit through which the banned Students islamic Movement of india (Simi) were operating.

Hyderabadi’s hand in bomb blasts?

seo4india — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:03:26 +0000

Hyderabad : it was identified that a Hyderabadi was involved in the Mumbai bomb blasts. The Hyderabad police have taken a suspect into custody and are investigating him.
As the recent reports suggest that Hyderabad had became a haven for iSi motivated terrorist cells, the city police department is in full alert immediately after the blasts took place.
in the series of investigations that followed, the city police have arrested a suspect by name of Abdulla at Nampally railway station. it is now known that he is from Jeedimetla area in the city.
According to the information, he confessed that he worked in a hotel in Pune.
The police obtained valuable information on several areas in Pakistan and india from him and are presently decoding the data.

Locals once again fall prey to terrorists

seo4india — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:23:49 +0000

HYDERABAD: Violence by terrorists returned to haunt locals of Anandbagh and Mirjalguda when three members of a family from here were killed in a grenade attack at Srinagar on Tuesday.
An engineer, Suryanarayana, who was kidnapped and killed by terrorists in Afghanistan nearly more than three months ago, also belonged to this area. “There seems to be a curse upon our area,” said a local.
Sandeep Bhattacharjee’s younger brother Dileep said that he got a call from his brother on Monday.
“He said everything was going smooth and fine. But this shocking news came in the afternoon,” he said.

Bank employees to protest

seo4india — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:51:34 +0000

Hyderabad : Bank employees throughout the country will participate in one-day protest on 28th of this month.
All india Bank Employees Association is demanding the RBi to withdraw its circular on outsourcing of Banking services and Clearance operations.Further the association wants the Reserve Bank to resolve the issues on employee’s pension demands and filling up of vacant posts.

Now you may file tax returns e-way

seo4india — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:38:19 +0000

Coimbatore: Hyderabad-based Fortune informatics Ltd, a software development company, on Thursday launched its new product ‘eTaxFile,’ here for filing of income tax returns.
“The product is a comprehensive TDS management software application designed to automate the entire activity from accurate computation of TDS (tax deducted at source) to preparation of challans and TDS returns and finally in the electronic filing of the TDS returns itself,” Avinash Kulkarni, Regional Manager of the company told reporters here.
The income Tax department has authorised the National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) to accept TDS returns on behalf of the Government, he said and claimed that eTaxFile has been designed as per the formats prescribed by NSDL.
The company has launched a marketing campaign to improve awareness and increase public appreciation of reforms in income tax administration, for which, it has specifically targeted the Chartered Accountant community, Kulkarni said.
With over 50 lakh companies and organisations in india, Fortune, which has already launched its product in other parts of the country, has two per cent of market share and wanted to enhance it within shortest possible time, Kulkarni said.

Work on highway stretch goes at a snail’s pace

seo4india — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:25:20 +0000

HYDERABAD: The work on the 23.4 km-stretch on Hyderabad-Bangalore National Highway (NH 7) from Aramgarh junction near Rajendranagar to the international airport at Shamshabad has fallen behind schedule.
The Rs 105-crore project of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) was scheduled to be completed in 12 months, but has been ‘in the process’ for the last three years.
it was envisaged to provide faster connectivity to Bangalore from the city. The contract for the work was first given to Maharia and Company three years ago.
After one and half years, the contract with the company was terminated after it was found that the company had submitted fraudulent bank guarantee. By that time, the company had completed Rs 35-crore-worth works.
After a gap of one year, the work was awarded to another company, M B Patil Constructions, at a project cost of Rs 70 crore. But the work by the new company too went behind the schedule for the past six months.
NHAI officials themselves are in doubt now whether the deadline of December 2006 to complete the work will be met. if rapid progress is not made within the next two months, the contract may be terminated and the work awarded to another company, an NHAI official said.
The company is said to be still in the process of mobilising crushers and hot mix plants. As per the agreement between the NHAI and the company, the NHAI reserves the right to terminate the contract at any point, if it is not satisfied with the pace of the work.
While the project has been marred by delays, there has been cost escalation, particularly for land acquisition along the highway.
“There are some religious structures, including mosques and graveyards on the highway. We have written to the state government seeking permission to relocate them,” said i G Reddy, NHAI general manager and project director.

IEL gets iSO 27001 security certification

seo4india — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:40:28 +0000

MUMBAI: Software services company, Infotech Enterprises Ltd today said it has received the ‘ISO 27001′ certificate for its facilities in Hyderabad and Bangalore by BVQI.
The certificate is the latest recognised industry standard over the earlier BS 7799 certification for benchmarking Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) for organisations, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange.
“Infotech’s commitment to its customers is reflective in its stringent adherence to various quality and security standards across its global delivery centers. More significant is our endeavour to ensure we are adhering to the standards as contained in latest certifications,” Infotech Enterprises Founder, Chairman and Managing Director B V R Mohan Reddy said.
With this certificate, the company joined the select list of global IT companies that have been assessed at ISO 27001, it added.
This certificate, outlines the grounds for establishing, implementing, operating, reviewing and improving a documented ISMS within the context of an organisation’s overall business risks.
BVQI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of France-based Bureau Veritas and offers certification services of quality management systems.
The shares of the company were trading at Rs 510.35, up 1.16 per cent on the BSE.

Joshna crashes out of World Squash Championship

seo4india — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:41:12 +0000

HYDERABAD: Joshna Chinappa’s campaign came to an end and so did the indian challenge in the WiSPA $ 79,500 prize money Qatar Airways Squash Championship at the Secundrabad Club here on Wednesday.
The 10th seed Shelly Kitchen cut to size the error-prone indian with a 9-4 9-1 7-9 9-4 verdict, to book her place in the last 16 of the championship. “She is a good player and i failed to keep the ball going. The unforced errors cost me the match,” commented Joshna.
Top seed Nicol David routed her rival Raneem El Weleily of Egypt in her opening round in just 23 minutes with a 9-3 9-3 9-2 scoreline. Defending champion Rachael Grinham also announced her presence with a resounding 9-5 9-2 9-0 win over Carla Khan from Pakistan in the opening match of the day. “it is not easy,” summed up Rachael after the match. “She (Carla) has been out of the game for some time, but this a a good comeback.”
Carla is quite content with her form. “i ran out of steam,” agreed Carla who is making a comeback after six months. “This is warm up for the forthcoming tournament in Hong Kong,” she added. Pushed behind by none other than her younger sister Natalie in the world ranking (4), Rachael took some time to settle before booking her place in round two of the championship, where she meets Rebecca Chiu of Hong Kong who beat Runta Reta of Canada 9-3 9-4 9-4.
Of indian origin, Runta lost her baggage while on her way to Hyderabad in Doha and played with a borrowed racket. On a day when three ranked players were shown the doors, Nicolette Fernandes from Guyana turned out to be the smiling assassin when she sent the 11th seed Annelize Naude of Netherlands packing. Smiling on each occasion while giving away points, the qualifier girl from Guyana Nicolette registered a 9-6 0-9 9-7 9-7 win.
Earlier, the 15 seed Pamela Nimmon of Scotland was beaten by Kasey Brown of Australia 9-3 6-9 9-3 9-4 while, 12 seed Engy Kheirallah of Egypt was beaten by Lauren Briggs 6-9 9-4 9-4 9-3.

All eyes on Prabhas

seo4india — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:31:34 +0000

No matter what the remake syndrome doesn’t look like stopping.
After a series of movies from Tamil, a Kannada remake has now gone on to the floors.
The Kannada blockbuster Jogi’s remake in Telugu with V V Vinayak wielding the megaphone and Prabhas in the lead has begun to shoot.
The shoot has been going on quietly for the last four or five days in Hyderabad.
All eyes have been on Prabhas as his last movie Pournami did not do well at the box office.
Prabhas is currently also doing Dil Raju’s Munna.
it is interesting to note that Prabhas has taken up Jogi even before Munna is fully complete. The surprise here stems from the fact that his Jogi character requires him to have a long hair.
So Prabhas may have to settle for an uncomfortable wig.
But Jogi will be a powerful character for him.
it also stars the hot and happening Nayantra as the heroine.
Produced by Eeshwari Arts, Jogi will not be an absolute copy of the Kannada blockbuster. Vinayak has reworked the script to suit the Telugu taste.

Court stops work around Hyderabad palace

seo4india — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:01:27 +0000

Court stops work around Hyderabad palace
Hyderabad, July 4 (iANS) The Andhra Pradesh High Court Tuesday stopped the ongoing construction work around the Hyderabad palace, the seat of the erstwhile Nizams, after it was told of the threat posed to the 250-year-old monument.
The court order to stop work for a week at the splendid Chowmahalla Palace comes a day after a team of officials visited the palace and inspected the artefacts and the illegal construction activity around it as per the court order.
Justice J.S. Singhvi and Sitapathi issued the orders while hearing a public interest litigation filed by Vasanta Sobha, a conservation architect.
Sobha, in her petition, prayed for declaring the 200-year-old former British Residency, which now houses a college, as a national protected monument. However, during the hearing the court was informed about the threat to vintage cars and other artefacts lying at Chowmahalla palace and the construction activity around it.
The construction activity poses a threat to the fabulous palace, which was thrown open to the public last year after the first phase of the conservation project.
Chowmahalla, a symbol of French and islamic architecture and the seat of the rulers of the former princely state of Hyderabad, is located just 300 metres west of Charminar, the symbol of Hyderabad in the walled quarter.
During the 19th century, the palace was the very heart of Hyderabad and the seat of the Asaf Jahi dynasty (1724-1948).
Once spread over 45 acres with sprawling gardens and open space, the palace has been left with only 12 acres. Even this is under threat from encroachers, with new constructions coming up close to the boundary wall and protruding into the palace premises.
On a direction from the court, Hyderabad district collector R.V. Chandravadan and Director of Archaeology and Museums J. Kedareswari visited Chowmohalla and Chiran palaces Monday to inspect the valuable artefacts.
The team had to face some resistance from security personnel posted there, who argued that it was the Nizam’s private property. The team could not have access to many artefacts including buggies, weapons and crockery. The palace officials told them that the keys of the storehouses where the artefacts were lying were not available.
in the absence of an inventory, the two officials were at loss to cross check what was originally present and was now missing. They merely asked the palace staff to submit the inventory and arrange the keys in three days.
The visit by the team brought into focus the poor shape in which the vintage cars and other memorabilia have been kept at the palace.
The vintage cars like a Rolls-Royce, Ford, Fiat and Buick were stashed in a rundown tiled garage inside the Chiran palace, located in the sprawling Kasu Brahmanand Reddy Park in the posh Jubliee Hills neighbourhood.
The princely state of Hyderabad was merged into the indian Union in September 1948 following the ‘police action’, or operation by the indian Army.
Prince Mukarram Jah Bahadur, the successor and grandson of last Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, lives in Turkey.