The 5-member Justice Srikrishna Committee submitted its report on the separate Telangana state demand to Home Minister P Chidambaram, who said government will consult all political parties before taking an "appropriate" decision on the issue. The two-volume report, prepared by the Committee after extensive discussions with political parties and other organisations in the state over the past 11 months, was submitted a day before the Committee's term was to expire.

Merger Of Telangana And Andhra

December 1953: the State Reorganisation Commission (SRC), headed by Justice Fazal Ali, created a report in 1955 recommending the reorganisation of India’s states.

The SRC was not in favour of merging the Telangana region with the then Andhra state. The Centre decided to ignore the SRC recommendations and established unified Andhra Pradesh on November 1, 1956. However, a “Gentleman’s agreement” provided reassurances to the Telangana people.

January 1969: Discontent with the 1956 Gentleman’s agreement intensified in January 1969 when the guarantees that had been agreed on were supposed to lapse. This movement also known as Jai Telangana movement led to widespread violence and deaths. Around 360 students died in this movement.

M. Chenna Reddy founded the Telangana People’s Association (Telangana Praja Samithi). This move flopped.
In 1990s the BJP promised a separate Telangana state if they come to power. But BJP could not create separate Telangana state because of the opposition from its coalition partner, Telugu Desam Party.

Congress party MLAs from Telangana region supported the separate Telangana state and formed a Telangana Congress Legislators Forum.

In another development, a new party called Telangana Rashtra Samithi (or TRS) is formed with single agenda of separate Telangana state, with Hyderabad as its capital.

In 2004:  for Assembly and Parliament elections, Congress party and TRS had an electoral alliance in Telangana region with the promise of separate Telangana State.

In September 2006 TRS withdrew support for the Congress led coalition government at center on the grounds of indecision by the government over the delivery of its electoral promise to create Telangana.
In December 2006, TRS won the by-election to Karimnagar parliamentary constistuency, which is considered by many as referendum on Telanagana state, with a record margin.

There is lot of pressure on Congress party to create Telangana state in 2008. In 2010, more than 250 Telangana people committed suicide over the delay in the formation of Telangana state.

On July 6, Telangana congress legislators and ministers met Srikrishna commission and made strong arguments in favor of the formation of Telangana state.

All the Telangana MLAs who resigned protesting the delay in the formation of Telangana(11 TRS and 1BJP) in February were re-elected in the by-elections on July 27, 2010 with huge majority.

On December 16th TRS organized a massive public meeting in Warangal couple of weeks before the submission of report by the Justice Srikrishna Committee. It’s estimated that over 2.5 million attended this meeting.

Continuing to follow the growth trajectory of 2010, the job market is likely to remain upbeat in 2011 with close to a million jobs to be created.

As per the findings of a recent report conducted by leading HR services company Ma Foi Randstad, over one million jobs have been created in the organized sector in 2010.

Talking about 2011, E.Balaji, CEO, Ma Foi Randstad said, “I think we will see a continuity. In terms of the growth momentum will be continued. But we will also have to see if there are any challenges or uncertainties in the world economy. This year, in-spite of the difficult markets, the global economy grew by around 5 percent, which is great news. So as we speak, I think outlook for next year is quite optimistic. We believe that we will maintain the same traction.”

Once again Vijay Mallya-owned Kingfisher came out with another hot and sexy swimsuit calendar for New Year 2011. The Bollywood super star Salman Khan Launched the Calendar, check out the gallery.

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The year 2010 for mobile phone market proved to be full of activities. Number of smart phones from bigger players like Blackberry to Nokia to new players like Micromax entered into the market during 2010.

Some of the most popular cell phones were Apple’s i-phone, Nokia’s N8, Blackberry’s Torch, Motorola’s Milestone, Micromax A60 & Modu, Sony Ericssion’s Xperia and HTC Dezire.

The importance of greeting cards is diminishing day by day. People prefer to wish their near and dear ones through e-mails and SMS. With the advent of modern technology, especially internet and mobiles, people find it easier to get in touch with their relatives and friends in a fraction of a second. We have a report.

Information technology has replaced paper in conveying wishes. SMS’s, social networking sites and E-Mails have intruded into the special place that greeting cards once had in our lives.

With Mahindra’s takeover of electric vehicle Reva and General Motors’ preparedness to introduce its electric spark in the year 2011, alternative fuel seems to be the fuel of the future or in fact, the fuel driving the New Year in the auto sector.

The Indian auto industry is now open to the optional fuel mode from electricity and is even making all possible effort to put it into use by bringing in the launches of electricity driven cars with the onset of 2011.

A bank employee of Citibank in Gurgaon branch deceptively transferred money from 20 different accounts of high profile clients amounting Rs 400 crore and resulted in the biggest fraud in the bank's history.

Internal investigation has already begun and FIR has already been filed the bank against the issue."We recently initiated an investigation into a certain set of suspicious transactions based on documents forged by an employee involving a few accounts in our Gurgaon branch," a Citi India spokesperson said in a statement.

The exhibition on International Biodiversity Congress on Tuesday (Dec’ 28) opened in Thiruvananthapuram. The exhibition will continue till December 31st.

International Biodiversity Congress exhibits various efforts in the area of biodiversity put forward by organisations and government bodies. Kerala Biodiversity Board is one of the organisers of the International Biodiversity Congress.

The Beur Central Jail of Patna became a model for other jails where inmates are being imparted English language education for betterment in their lives. New program of English language is receiving good response from the lodged inmates.

“I have come here in the case of Arms Act. I am learning English language so that I can get the chance to start a new innings of my life and thus I can get a new job,” said Rajiv, a prisoner.  

Jitendra Kumar Rahi, a teacher at the prison, shared his high expectations about this program as reformative action.

“I talked to concerned authorities and told them that prisoners are interested in learning English language. Because prison is an opportunity to improve and it is equipped with all kind of facilities so one can avail these facilities and thus one can start a new life after completing his punishment,” said Rahi.

Buying insurance policies is one of the most common forms of investment for majority of Indians who are not willing to take risks and want to play safe with their money and many do it keeping in mind tax savings. This is clear from sales of insurance policies increasing sharply during the last quarter of every financial year. However, experts of personal finance stress that Insurance should not be mistaken as a tax planning option or investment, and it should be purely perceived as a life risk cover.

The Congress party celebrated its 125th Foundation Day at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday (Dec’ 29).

Senior party office bearers and national leaders like Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Defence Minister AK Antony among others were present for the occasion. A flag hoisting ceremony of the party flag was also organized.

Nitish Kumar has been voted Chief Minister of the decade for his effort to bring back a poverty-and crime ridden Bihar on the developmental trajectory. The Bihar Chief Minister has pushed even Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi to the second slot.

An all India survey by C-Voter and The Sunday Indian weekly reveals Nitish emerging on the national scene, as the politician of the decade, but only after Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI) has released Statistics of telephone subscibers in India.

The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 742.12 Million at the end of October 2010 from 723.28 Million in September-2010, thereby registering a growth rate of 2.61%. With this, the overall Tele-density in India reaches 62.51

Here is the summary

• Total Telephone subscriber base reaches 742.12 Million
• Wireless subscription reaches 706.69 Million
• Wireline subscription declines to 35.43 Million
• 18.98 Million new additions in wireless
• Overall Tele-density reaches 62.51
• Broadband subscription is 10.52 million

Service Providers’ share in net additions during the month of October-2010

Service Provider wise Market Share of Wireless/mobile phones in India as on 31-October-2010

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Service Provider wise Market Share of landline phones in India as on 31-October-2010

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Court orders ACB to file a case against former Chief Minister  Mr Rosaiah in alleged land scam in Ameerpet.

An advocate, Mr K. Mohanlal, on December 21,2010 lodged a complaint with the special judge for SPE and ACB cases seeking prosecution of the former CM, Mr K. Rosaiah, for acquisition of 9 acres 14 gunta land located near Mythrivanam in Ameerpet. The complainant alleged that Mr Rosaiah and 14 others conspired to grab the land under the control of HMDA for wrongful gain causing loss to the exchequer.

The government had taken the land under Land Acquisition Act on May 10, 2004, and even deposited Rs 70 lakh, its market value towards compensation. Mr Mohanlal said that under the Act, land once acquired couldn’t be given to private parties. But the land in survey numbers of 26, 30, 41, 42, 43 and 44, which had been with HMDA, changed hands between January and July 2010 and was under the control of 14 persons, he said.

The complainant alleged that the Rosaiah government issued the GO No 288 on July 15 this year withdrawing from land acquisition proceedings, though officials advised against it. The court posted the matter to December 27. Now the Court orders ACB to file a case against former Chief Minister  Mr Rosaiah in alleged land scam in Ameerpet.

India has become an acronym for SCAM as it stood up to the 9th most corrupted nation tag this year..

Addressing the anti-corruption rally organised by National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in New Delhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday (Dec 22) said that the Congress has been robbing the country’s wealth since Independence.

“These people are working in the direction of robbing the country’s wealth since the Independence. Don’t you people have any responsibility towards it? The film ‘Chor Machaye Shor’ is the story of the Congress,” said Gadkari.

A new book written by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was launched today at Ahmedabad’s Tagore hall by former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. Nobel award winner RK Pachauri was the guest of honor in this function.

Modi’s new book ‘Convenient action – Gujarat’s response to challenges of climate change’ is four-color 250 pages long.The book talks about CM's vision to tackle climate change, and covers state government's initiatives for transforming itself into a low carbon economy. Macmillan Publishers India, the publisher of the book, has described it as a 'Green Autobiography' of Narendra Modi.

The advertisement, published in some Kannada newspapers on December 19, shows a “prosperous farmer harvesting sugarcane and another driving a tractor. The ad claims the “doors of his fortune opened after the BJP came to power.” This has enraged the farmers of Baburayanakopplu village in Srirangapatna taluk, Mandya district since the so-called happy farmer committed suicide 18 months ago because of his inability to repay his debts.

Farmer’S Daughter said, My father dies one and half year before. BJP using his photograph in the advertisement. This is very wrong. My father committed suicide. We are protesting against this.

An independent study commissioned by Cellular Operator Association of India (COAI)- the body representing GSM operators and Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI)- the body representing CDMA operators, has revealed that levels of radiation from cellular base stations is much below the risk level.

Leading experts of IIT Madras and Center of Excellence in Wireless technology (CEWIT) while carrying out measurements on the electromagnetic radiation in Delhi, Pune and Mumbai found that in all circumstances, the “Cumulative Measurements” were well below the compliance limit set by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), adopted by the Indian government for the telecom sector, bringing it at par with the international safety standards.

Dr. Nadeem Akhtar, Senior Research Engineer, CEWIT, IIT Madras said, “What the report says is that the measurements in Delhi, Bombay and Pune show that the level of radiation is much below the ICNRP level. From this we can say that as per the international standard radiation from the mobile towers, at least in three cities where we have measured, is much lower than the radiation level prescribed by WHO and Government of India.”

Johnson and Johnson company lets you quit SMOKING..!!

Employee Provident Fund Makes You a Crorepati By The Time You Retire..

Huge Tax debt killed innocent baby chicks on a horrific scale in Russia..

Poultry women wept seeing the baby chicks die

Thousands of chicks were succumbed to death in freezing cold

Hero Group and Honda have signed an MoU for Hero Group acquiring Honda’s 26% stake in Hero Honda Motors (HH), following the board meeting.

While the management did not share the exact details of the agreement, prima facie, serious concerns seem to have been allayed

• Royalty rates to decline: Contrary to concerns, the management stated that royalty rates (currently 2.6% of revenues) would in fact decline from January 2011.
• New models to be provided: Honda will continue to provide technology for new models under a fresh licensing agreement. Technology for the existing product lines will continue. In addition, the Honda brand can be used until 2014.
• Exports permitted: HH will now be able to tap the export market across the globe without any restrictions, which is an incremental positive.

There are longer term concerns on: (a) HH’s ability to develop new products beyond 2014; and (b) Honda becoming more aggressive in the market. However, HH will have fair amount of time to address these challenges, particularly w.r.t. technology development.

Outlook and valuations: Business as usual; maintain ‘BUY’
The broad contours of the deal seem to indicate that with continuity in products, branding and royalty, the company’s operations are unlikely to be impacted in the medium term (until 2014).

Further, we note that in the past few quarters, HH’s market share has stabilised and recent price hikes indicate an uptick in EBITDA margins. We expect these operational positives, along with potential lower royalty expenses, to offset higher R&D costs. We maintain our earnings estimate (EPS FY12: INR 127).

HH has underperformed the broader market by ~28% since July end (when rumours of the split first appeared) and is now trading at ~13x FY12E EPS (~15% discount to its peers). We maintain ‘BUY’ on the stock with a target price of INR 2,000 (implying 16x FY12E EPS).

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said that India and China are not business rivals, but partners meant for cooperating each-other.

Addressing Indian business tycoons in national capital, on Wednesday (Dec’ 15), Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that fast economic growth in both India and China has become an important engine for the world economy.

“Some media have described India and China as economic competitors and compared development and progress of our nations to rivalries between the dragon and the elephant. I do not agree with such views and I don’t think business leaders present today agree either. China and India are partners for cooperation and not rivals in the competition. There is enough space in the world for the development of both the nations and there are enough areas for us to cooperate,” said Wen Jiabao.

However, Wen Jiabao stressed upon the need for opening up of markets for each other in order to boost bilateral trade.

Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Dr. D Subbarao on Wednesday (Dec’15) appealed to the banks to reach out to the people of rural areas to have a better picture of the country.

Subbarao while speaking at a function organized at Doba village in the Latehar district of Jharkhand where many bank officers had gathered told about the 'Outreach Programme' initiated to extend banking network in rural areas.

Aspirin - Weapon for Cancer

Anil Katiyar of Shahajahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, has a unique hobby of collecting thorny plants and he has been doing it for the past 20 years. His collection includes 150 varieties of thorny plants including native and foreign species.

Katiyar, with his unusual interest, wishes to make people aware of the benefits of these thorny plants.

“There are lots of specialties in thorny plants. Juices are extracted out from these plants. They used to make medicines. I have started collecting thorny plants so that people become aware of their benefits,” said Anil Katiyar, collector of thorny plants.

ATMEL Corporation, a US based company, opened its first R&D centre in India at Chennai on Friday (Dec’ 10). The Chennai branch would have a workforce of 105 talented engineers working on core activities in micro-controllers and touch screen products.

“The touch screen market, in general, is certainly a very exciting market which is rapidly growing…probably one of the fastest growing within the semi-conductor…and it is the fastest growing in the consumer industry right now…and extremely popular user interface is being adopted for a lot of products including smart phones,” said Vegard Wollan, Vice President, Touch and Micro-controller Business Unit.

There is good news in store for job seekers in the last quarter of financial year 2010-11. The January- March quarter is likely to witness a lot of hiring across sectors, with Information Technology leading the lot. Top Indian tech majors, including TCS, Infosys and Wipro, will alone recruit nearly one lakh engineers in the fourth quarter.

"Actually across sectors, there is going to be a lot of hiring but IT, automobiles and infrastructure definitely seem to be bright. IT has already crossed its pre- recession levels, so they definitely seem to be high,” said Sumeet Singh, Senior VP, Marketing & Corporate Communications and Strategic Alliances, Naukri.com.

According to a global survey of hiring and firing trends conducted by international recruitment firm ‘Antal’, headquartered in London, 76 per cent of organisations in India are currently in a recruitment mode.

Anoop Gupta, Managing Partner for Antal asserted that the demand for IT professionals is coming not just from the IT industry, but also from other sectors.

"In India even non- IT companies are hiring IT professionals. They have understood more about the importance of IT. Earlier, it used to be a kind of support function for them, but today they are making it more strategic,” Anoop Gupta said.

Even after receiving an annual budget of Rs 100 crores under the Tiger Project scheme, the Madhya Pradesh government fails to save the dwindling number of wild cats across the forests in the state.  Over a thousand wild animals, including seven tigers and 22 leopards died in Madhya Pradesh over the last four years, according to the 2010 Tiger Census Report.

However, the Madhya Pradesh forest minister finds the funds inadequate to get desired results.

Sartaj Singh, Forest Minister of Madhya Pradesh said, ““The funds are not enough, Rs 100 crores are easily spent on the translocation only. The small villages which have been set up here in the forest land need to be relocated, till then the problems will not sorted out at all.”