A warm welcome waits at TANA celebrations for the Union Tourism Minister Chiranjeevi with a rally of 100 cars.  149 gold coins with Chiranjeevi's impression on it and with an inscription reading "Padmabhushan Kalaprapurna Mega Star Dr.Chiranjeevi" are made to correlate with 149 of his movies.  The coins will be auctioned to donate the sale proceeds to Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust.  

The recent activities of Chiranjeevi in politics and the way he took up the responsibilities for promoting the ministry under him must have impressed the NRIs in USA to make a gesture of that sort.  But reminding Chiranjeevi that he came close to 150th movie always makes him uneasy.  He announced number of times that his focus is on politics and he wants to give full time to study and to be with it.

But experience in the life always comes back in time and also pays back.  His attempt at Cannes to impress the film producers to opt for the cinema shootings in India shows it.  
The enthusiasm in USA to receive Chiranjeevi also indicates that he may strike success in getting investments of NRIs also to develop tourism in the State.

 
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A Butterfly Park is made at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, Visakhapatnam.

Minister Shatrucharla Vijayaramarao inaugurated the Butterfly Park and said that it took one year to give it a shape as it looks now.  Only Ramoji Film City has a similar park in our State.  It has 5 varieties of butterflies for the time being number of which, the minister promised, will be increased in due course.  

Butterflies add beauty to a park like flowers do.  As they are harmless and colorful, they are loved by kids and nature lovers.  While relaxing on a bench of a park, watching a butterfly makes one relieved from all the tensions.  A regular watching of movements of fish in an aquarium and butterflies in a park make a hyper tension cured as scientific observations revealed.  

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Andhra Conference was first celebrated at Bapatla on 26th May 1913.  It was the seed for the demand for a separate Statehood for the Telugu speaking people.  

The centenary of the First Andhra Conference are being conducted from yesterday to commemorate the event as a first step towards made the formation of the State of Andhra a reality.   

The celebrations were conducted in the historic town hall of Bapatla Yesterday.  It will be conducted at the Municipal High School Tomorrow which will be attended by K.Rosaiah, Governor of Tamilnadu as Chief Guest.    

The celebrations committee is headed by Bapatla MLA Gade Venkata Reddy.  Preparations have been going on for the last 20 days for the grand celebrations on 26th.  The 40 feet welcome arch made for the occasion collapsed today today in which incident three persons were wounded badly.  

A special postal cover of Rs.5/- was released yesterday by Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Panabaka Lakshmi to mark the occasion.  

The great personalities were remembered and tributes were paid to B.Narasimheswara Sharma who presided over the first Andhra Conference, Bhogaraju Pattbhi Seetharamaiah, Pingali Venkaiah, Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao, Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham Panthulu, Konda Venkatappaiah and Mutnuri Krishna Rao.  

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So far today 130 persons lost their lives due to heat waves in the State.  Yesterday a record death of 293 was reported in the State due to heat waves.  Khammam district especially coal belt area went to a record high of 50C because of which the management of Singareni Collieries made changes in the working hours.

Today reports of sunstroke deaths reached from all districts.  18 in Guntur, East Godavari -13, Prakasam-13, Krishna-10, Karimnagar-9, Nalgonda-8, Vizianagaram-6, Visakhapatnam-9, Mahaboobnagar-6, Nizamabad-4, Anantapuram-4, Khammam-4, Medak-5, Chittore-3, Adilabad-3, Srikakulam-3, Hyderabad-3, Warangal-3, Kadapa-2, West Godavari-2, Kurnool-1 and Kurnol-1.

General public are requested to take precautionary measures if they cannot avoid going out in the sun like using caps, umbrellas etc. and to drink water frequently.  It is hell for the daily workers who have to work to make both ends meet but it is equivalent to suicide to work in the open during the day.  Either they have to starve or face scorch.  Small children and elderly people are facing the wrath of the Sun.

Revenue minister Raghuveera Reddy announced compensation of Rs.50000/- for the kin of the deceased due to heat under Apathbandhu Scheme.

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TRS President K Chandrasekhara Rao challenged Telugu Desam Party yesterday while he was participating in the political training classes conducted at Banswada, Nizamabad District that TDP should prove its sincerity towards formation of a separate Telangana State by making a resolution in the Mahanadu the party’s Statewide annual public meeting that is going to take place at the end of the month.  

KCR as always did in the past blaming TDP and Congress party in that order, this time also did the same and instead of making his own strategy to achieve formation of Telangana State for which the party is formed, asked the people of Telangana to debate among themselves about the TDP’s sincerity.  He questioned whether a Telangana person will become a Chief Minister if TDP comes to power or at least become the president of the party.  

TDP gave a fitting reply to KCR in their interview with the media persons that the party has its own way of functioning and it knows what to do and when with the decision taken from the leaders of the party.  They questioned KCR back whether TRS will work for Telangana without desiring political positions if TDP makes a resolution of that sort.  And they also reminded that the party’s stand is already made clear long back and it is up to the TRS party to fight as it is formed for that and Congress Party as it is in the power to do that.  They blamed TRS that it is politically contesting for the power and at the same time ask other parties to resign or to make their stand clear about Telangana State.  

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So far today 35 persons lost their lives due to over swelling mercury.  Yesterday a record death of 293 was reported in the State due to heat waves.  Khammam district especially coal belt area went to a record high of 50C because of which the management of Singareni Collieries made changes in the working hours.

It is hell for the daily workers who have to work to make both ends meet but it is equivalent to suicide to work in the open during the day.  Either they have to starve or face scorch.  

Small children and elderly people are facing the wrath of the Sun.  A steam of heat emitted by the earth was witnessed at the open casts of coal mines.  Crows and bats fell dead due to the heat.   A white tiger in the Nehru Zoological Park at Hyderabad died taking four babies in its womb along the cause of the death is not confirmed by the zoo authorities as heat.  Deaths are reported from all most all the districts of the State.  

Revenue minister Raghuveera Reddy announced compensation of Rs.50000/- for the kin of the deceased due to heat under Apathbandhu Scheme.

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The Telugu legend artist Bapu's wife Bhagyavathi (75) passed away today. She had been ailing and been hospitalized for some time at Chennai where she breathed her last today.

Bhagyavathi's death was condoled by many film personalities and close ones.

Sattiraju Lakshminarayana, popularly known as Bapu recently received a belated Padmashree award from the President of India. Bapu a simpleton in his life is a legend in Telugu world as an artist. He directed many movies latest of which is 'Sreerama Rajyam'.

Bapu gave a definition to Telugu beauty and richness of Telugu culture through his art. A beautiful girl from a Telugu family is compared with Bapu's creation. And it is known from the close sources that Bapu used to get an inspiration from his wife whenever he hesitated for stroke of the brush to draw a curve of a beauty of a lady in his art.

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Gurunath Meiyappan, CEO of Chennai Super Kings was taken by Mumbai Crime Branch in to their custody from the Mumbai Airport and questioned him for two and a half hours starting form 9.30pm and at the end of it he was arrested.

Meiyappan was to surrender to the Crime Branch at 5.00 pm yesterday for questioning as per the notice issued by them at his Chennai residence on Thursday at which time he was not available there.  The notice was given to the persons available at his residence asking them to convey that he has to surrender before 5.00 yesterday.   But Meiyappan took his own time to leisurely arrive at Bombay after a pleasure trip. The moment he landed in Mumbai airport, he was taking in to custody.

As announced by The Joint Commissioner of police (crime) Himanshu Roy, after interrogation and with the evidence available, they found that Meiyappan was guilty having involvement with the betting.

Vindoo son of late Dara Singh wrestler and film actor was arrested on the charge of having links with the bookies with whom he used to bet and to that extent he already admitted the offence.  Meiyappan was to be interrogated in the presence of Vindoo as per the original plan of the police but it was not revealed whether it was done like that or not.  

Police have strong evidence that Vindoo and Meiyappan were in frequent touch.  They have some recorded conversations of these two.

Meiyappan is son in law of Srinivasan who is BCCI President who refused to resign after the involvement of his son in law Meyappan came to light stating that he has nothing to do with Meiyappan’s activities.  Meiyappan is also heir of AVM Productions being son of Bala Subramanian, owner of AVM Productions.  

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Osmania University JAC gave a complaint to the Joint Director CBI today to probe into the wasteful expenditure made by Chiranjeevi as Union Minister of Tourism.

The members of the OU JAC went to the office of the CBI in Kothi to submit their complaint in which they mentioned that a huge sum of Rs.2 Crores 14 Lakhs was spent in Park Hyatt and Taj Falaknuma in which the international meet UNWTO organized by Chiranjeevi.

Their allegation is that a big amount was given away to the corporate hotels out of the funds available at the disposal of the Minister.   In the wake of it a thorough probe was requested by OU JAC on the entire money transactions.  

The OU students yesterday tried to attack on Chiranjeevi’s residence and to burn effigy of Chiranjeevi for the alleged lavish spending of Govt.funds.  Police of course foiled their attempt and arrested some of them and later let them go on personal sureties.  

The funds are of Central Government and the amount is spent in the State for the development of the State.  Although Chiranjeevi is a Union Minister, he brought the summit to his home State for which we in fact should feel happy.

Probes can be initiated on the Government spending.  But why Chiranjeevi alone?

Nobody so far filed any complaint on the State Government’s spending money on Delhi tours to discuss politics and to launch popular Govt. schemes to earn good will for the party.  Did anybody question on the expenditure met for running Assembly? How much of air fare and helicopter charges are met and for what purpose?  If one asks for these expenses including the money spent on the Members of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council in terms of remuneration and other expenses astonishing figures will come out.  

It is very easy to provoke a common man who is not aware of the rates of star hotels.  They can also be enraged if the expenses of the Government are made public.  

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Former MP and Polite-bureau member Rumala Ramachandraiah resigned from the primary membership of Telangana Rashtra Samiti.

Ramachandraiah told media persons at Basheerbagh press club today that the decision of leaving TRS was taken by him to give more focused service for the sake of achieving separate Telangana State by going actively in to the activities of Telangana agitation.  

Ramachandraih said that out of all the groups, parties and associations engaged in the fight for the Telangana State, only Telangana political JAC is working hard with total dedication.

 
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