20th OCTOBER 2014

K. L. Rao Sagar Project, popularly known as Pulichintala project, which is seen as a boon for A.P. is back in focus with the Telangana government demanding that A.P. release Rs. 40 crore immediately as a pre-condition for impounding 20 tmcft water in the project. TS Irrigation Minister Harish Rao, on Sunday, said the Telangana government did not have any objection to store 20 tmcft if rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) packages were paid. When contacted, Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao said the government would release funds for the R&R packages to be implemented in TS.

President of the State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Pralhad Joshi, on Sunday, urged the State government to review its decision of rejecting the B.K. Somashekhara Commission of Inquiry report into the 2008 church attacks.

Amid instances of property crimes reported on board trains, the Government Railway Police (GRP) has revamped the train beat system with focus on long-distance trains. The modifications were put in place following a review of the system to bring in some standardization in the train escort pattern and in an effort to curb crimes on board trains across the jurisdiction of GRP, Tiruchi District. The structural changes were brought in taking into account the crime pattern and by identifying important trains passing through the limits of the Tiruchi District that starts from Villupuram and extends up to Kanyakumari in the northwest direction.

For the first time, “a more extensive programme” of Nobel Prize-related events will take place in India in less than a fortnight from now, a posting on the official website of the prestigious prize, Nobelprize.org, said on Sunday.

In the run-up to the lift-off of India’s gigantic Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-Mark III) in November 2014, the unmanned crew module it will put into orbit and the vehicle’s equipment bay were flagged off on October 17 from the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, to Sriharikota.

Spanish wind turbine company, Gamesa, is bullish on India’s wind energy sector. The 2.4-billion euro company expects to sell turbines adding up to 650 MW this year in India which is already its biggest market. In a recent interview with a group of visiting Indian journalists at the company’s headquarters in Pamplona, Spain, Gamesa’s Executive Chairman Ignacio Martin said that the local unit in India could not produce enough to meet domestic demand. Mr. Martin joined Gamesa in May 2012 and has overseen rapid growth in the last couple of years.