Kakinada, Nov 30th: Robert Charles Cotton, great grandson of Sir Arthur Cotton, the architect of Godavari and Krishna anicuts, visited Aditya Engineering College campus at Surampalem on Nov 30. Mr. Cotton and his wife Nicolette Anne Cotton are on a tour as State guests to study the progress of work in large and medium irrigation projects in Andhra Pradesh. Replying to a felicitation, Mr. Robert Cotton and his wife appreciated the reverence in which his great grandfather was held though three generations had elapsed. They exhorted engineering students to adopt more scientific and advanced technology for linking rivers in India to fulfil the dream of Sir Arthur.
The management of the college has installed a statue of Sir Arthur to express gratitude for the yeoman service he had rendered in transforming Andhra Pradesh as a granary of the country. Mr. Cotton and his wife were received by Aditya Educational Institutions Vice-Chairman N. Satish Reddy. They garlanded the statue of Sir Arthur. Speaking at the felicitation, AP Hindi Academy ChairmanYarlagadda Laskhmi Prasad recalled the role played by Sir Arthur in shaping the destiny of Andhra Pradesh by designing and constructing two major projects on the Godavari and the Krishna. To commemorate the role of Sir Arthur, MLA and Chairman of Aditya Educational Institutions N.Sesha Reddy got erected the statue of the great benefactor to inspire students to take up challenging assignments in their career.
TRS president ends fast abruptly Posted on 01-Dec-2009
Hyderabad, Nov 30th: Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrasekhar Rao ended his indefinite fast in Khammam on Monday evening (Nov 30) in circumstances as dramatic as they unfolded on Sunday morning when he was picked up by the police in Karimnagar. Mr. Rao accepted a glass of juice in the Kha...
Comm. Taxes to step dharna on Dec 4 Posted on 01-Dec-2009
Mahabubnagar, Nov 30th: Demanding to solve their long pending grievances, members of A.P.Commercial Taxes Non-Gazetted Officers Association has decided to start an agitation. Secretary of the association K. Rajaiah in a press release here on Monday said that the government failed to resolve their lon...
Y.S.Jagan vows to emerge leader Posted on 02-Dec-2009
Kadapa, Dec 01st: Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, exuded confidence on Tuesday that he would emerge leader of the State in future with the people’s support. Addressing public representatives, Congress functionaries and YSR’s followers of seven mandals in Pulivendula constituency at YSR a...
Pension to HIV-affected soon Posted on 02-Dec-2009
Kakinada, Dec 01st: All people affected by HIV/AIDs in East Godavari district will be given pensions at Rs 200 per month shortly. The district administration will start a survey to identify eligible people for pensions soon after instructions from state government, the collector, Mr. Gopalakrishna Dw...
Demand for KCR immediate release Posted on 02-Dec-2009
Hyderabad, Dec 01st: Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders have demanded the unconditional withdrawal of all cases against their president K. Chandrasekhar Rao who is on an ‘indefinite fast’ and his immediate release from Khammam jail. TRS floor leader Etala Rajender and former MP B. Vinod me...
Increase in cargo handling Posted on 02-Dec-2009
Kakinada, Dec 01st: Beating global economic recession and industrial slowdown, Kakinada Sea Ports Limited (KSPL), one of the deep water sea ports in the country handled nearly 20 percent more cargo at 7.80 million metric tonnes (MMT) in 2008-09 as against 6.52 MMT in the 2007-08. The KSPL broke recor...
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