Global News Post: Andhra Pradesh

Rain Deficit Hits India's Leading Rice Producing State

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">HYDERABAD  (NNN-Bernama) -- Deficient rainfall and severe drought have adversely affected agricultural activities across south Indian state Andhra Pradesh, one of India's leading rice cultivation zones.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rice cultivation has been taken up in only 940,000 hectares this season, known as Kharif cultivation in Indian parlance, compared to the usual 2,648,000 hectares.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This has resulted in fears of a fall in rice output from the state, Press Trust of India reported.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rain deficit has ranged between 3 to 31 per cent in 13 out of 23 districts in the state since the start of the Kharif season on June 1, official sources said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The perennially drought-hit Anantapur district recorded a 31 per cent deficit rainfall followed by Nizamabad at 24 per cent and Nalgonda and Visakhapatnam with 21 per cent each.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kurnool district received three per cent less than usual rain this season.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On Wednesday, State Revenue Minister N Raghuveera Reddy, Agriculture Minister Kanna Lakshminarayana and Municipal Administration Minister M Maheedhar Reddy reviewed the situation with district collectors via a video conference from Hyderabad.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They had asked the agriculture department to prepare farmers to take up irrigated dry crops as an alternative. --NNN- BERNAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Rain Deficit Hits India's Leading Rice Producing State

HYDERABAD (NNN-Bernama) -- Deficient rainfall and severe drought have adversely affected agricultural activities across south Indian sta...

RINL signs MoU with Andhra Pradesh Government for Rs. 42,000 Crore Investments

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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Hyderabad</span></st1:city><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> <span class="apple-style-span">(PIB) --- </span>The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Andhra Pradesh (AP) for huge investments to the tune of Rs.42, 000 crores for various projects in its current facility at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Visakhapatnam</st1:place></st1:city> and other parts of the State. With this, RINL emerged as the “Number One” Company as far as the investments are concerned in Andhra Pradesh and this will give a big boost to the industrial development of the State particularly the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Visakhapatnam</st1:place></st1:city> region.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The MoU documents were exchanged by the Chief Minister of AP, Shri N Kiran Kumar Reddy and Shri A P Choudhary, CMD, RINL-VSP on 13th January, 2012 at Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) at the Partnership Summit 2012 in the presence of Dr J Geetha Reedy, Minister for Major Industries, Commerce and Exports promotion. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The MOU envisages that the Government of Andhra Pradesh would facilitate RINL to obtain necessary permissions/ registrations/ approvals/clearances etc. from the concerned departments of the State, as per the existing policies/rules and regulations of the State Government. Government of Andhra Pradesh will also facilitate allotment of iron ore mines including other raw material mines, supply of water, power, etc., to RINL on priority basis. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Under the Agreement, VSP will invest around Rs. 42,000 crores for various projects for the expansion and modernization of the plant. This MOU is made to facilitate RINL for establishment of the Projects in Andhra Pradesh in a time bound manner. The signing of the MoU with the State Government would strengthen RINL for the next phase of expansion to 11/12Mtpa.</span></div></div>

RINL signs MoU with Andhra Pradesh Government for Rs. 42,000 Crore Investments

Hyderabad (PIB) --- The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the ...

Cyclone Warning for North Tamil Nadu and South Andhra Pradesh Coast

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<div style="border-bottom: double windowtext 2.25pt; border: none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;">  <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The cyclonic storm ‘THANE’ OVER southwest <st1:place w:st="on">Bay of Bengal</st1:place> is likely to move westwards and cross north Tamil Nadu coast between Nagapattinam and Chennai, close to Puducherry around early morning of 30th December 2011. The system was centered at noon today about 180 km east of Puduchery andat the same distance southeast of Chennai, Tamilnadu. Sea condition is very rough. It will gradually become very high to phenomenal along and of north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and south Andhra Pradesh coasts. Fishermen along north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & south Andhra Pradesh coasts are advised not venture into sea during next 48 hrs. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Under the influence of this system, rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy falls a few places and isolated extremely heavy falls (25 cm or more) would occur over north Tamil Nadu & Puducherry during next 48 hours. Rainfall at most places with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall would also occur over south coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalseema and isolated heavy rainfall would occur over south Tamil Nadu during the same period. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Squally winds speed reaching 55-65 kmph gusting to 75 kmph is likely along and off north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and south Andhra Pradesh coasts. The wind speed will increase gradually becoming 110-120 kmph gusting to 135 kmph along and off north Tamil Nadu and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coast from today coast from today night onwards. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Storm surge of about 1.0-1.5 meter height above the astronomical tide would inundate the low lying areas of Puducherry and Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram & Villpuram districts of north Tamil Nadu at the time of landfall.<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;"> ---PIB<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div></div>

Cyclone Warning for North Tamil Nadu and South Andhra Pradesh Coast

The cyclonic storm ‘THANE’ OVER southwest Bay of Bengal is likely to move westwards and cross north Tamil Nadu coast between Nagapattin...

India: Andhra Pradesh CM Confident of Warding Off No-Trust Vote Challenge

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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">NEW DELHI</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (NNN-ANI) -- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has expressed confidence about warding off a no-confidence motion moved by the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"I think the numbers are quite clear. I think we have got about 180 odd with all our ally parties and us. I don't think there is any numbers game," said Reddy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">But the Congress, which heads the state government, may get into a spot of bother if 22 party rebels cross over to the Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy camp and vote against the government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Congress will have to bank on its allies PRP and MIM to bail it out. But Chiranjeevi's party is not too happy with the Congress and was reportedly busy on Sunday drawing up its strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Congress rebel lawmakers also visited Jaganmohan Reddy's residence to discuss political options. -- NNN-ANI<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div>

India: Andhra Pradesh CM Confident of Warding Off No-Trust Vote Challenge

NEW DELHI (NNN-ANI) -- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has expressed confidence about warding off a no-confidence moti...

India: Decision On Telangana Only After Azad's Report: Chidambaram

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">NEW DELHI (NNN-PTI): </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">A decision on Telangana will be taken only after Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad submits his report on his deliberations with Congress MLAs and MPs of Andhra Pradesh.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Home Minister P Chidambaram said here Friday that Azad, the Congress general secretary in-charge of Andhra Pradesh, had conveyed to him that he would submit a report on Telangana after consultation with the party MLAs and MPs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"He has told them (MLAs and MPs) that allow a little time for the party to take a decision and the government to take a decision." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Chidambaram was replying to a question on when the Centre will convene an all-party meeting to deliberate on the issue of Telangana. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He said four political parties of Andhra Pradesh have not taken their decision on the issue and in the top of the list is the Congress party. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"TDP and MIM are waiting to see what Congress party's decision will be. The other party the YSR Congress has not indicated its mind either. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"So I think one important stage of the consolation appears to be over today and the report will be submitted today or tomorrow. And after that I hope that the parties will make up their mind quickly as I appealed in Parliament to enable me to call an all party meeting," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Chidambaram said, as a home minister, he has been trying his best to hasten the process but since the issue was concerning the political parties, he has limitation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"I am trying to hasten the process as much as I can but as you know these are matters concerning political parties and only so much one can do from the government," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Asked about the ongoing strike in Andhra Pradesh, the home minister said continuation of such protests would only bring inconvenience to the people and hamper economic activity.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"No government will actually support a general strike. No government will actively support a bandh, a blockade, or a rail roko. My appeal is that while the protesters certainly made their point, continuation of any strike or rail roko or rasta roko cripples economic activity and enormously inconveniences the people.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"So, whoever in the government, can only appeal to the protesters that having made their point, not to continue these protests," he said.-NNN-PTI<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
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India: Decision On Telangana Only After Azad's Report: Chidambaram

NEW DELHI (NNN-PTI): A decision on Telangana will be taken only after Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad submits his report on his del...