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Anand Sharma lays foundation for NID Hyderabad

Hyderabad, May 25 (IANS) Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma Saturday laid the foundation stone of the National Institute of Design (NID) here.

Pressure mounts on Srinivasan to resign, Gurunath arrested (Intro Roundup)

Hyderabad/Mumbai/New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) The clamour for Indian cricket board president Narayanswamy Srinivasan's resignation got louder after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, Chennai Super Kings chief executive, Friday was interrogated by Mumbai police in the IPL spot fixing scandal and later arrested. Chennai Super Kings, however, sought to distance itself from Meiyappan, whose name cropped up during questioning of Bollywood actor Vindu Dara Singh Randhawa, the franchise saying Meiyappan was just an honorary member of the management committee

Pressure mounts on Srinivasan to resign, Gurunath faces questioning (Roundup)

Hyderabad/Mumbai/New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) The clamour for Indian cricket board president Narayanswamy Srinivasan's resignation got louder after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, Chennai Super Kings chief executive, Friday was taken away by Mumbai police for interrogation in the IPL spot fixing scandal.

RIL-BP make huge gas discovery in KG-D6

Mumbai, May 24 (IANS) Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) Friday announced a large natural gas discovery in the consortium's KG-D6 block offshore in Andhra Pradesh

Assocham calls for comprehensive port development strategy

Hyderabad, May 24 (IANS) Industry body, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), has called for a comprehensive port development strategy and for providing level playing field to private players. In its report on ports development in India, released here Friday, it underlined the need to expand the existing framework to attract participation from the private sector for development of infrastructure facilities and other related activities to make India's ports infrastructure on par with the international standard

Heat wave claims 84 lives in Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad, May 24 (IANS) The severe heat wave conditions in Andhra Pradesh have so claimed 84 lives from April 1, officials said.

Tennis: Sunish puts out Kalyanpur

Bangalore, May 24 (IANS) Sixth seed Dhruv Sunish of Maharashtra knocked out second seed Adil Kalyanpur of Karnataka 6-2, 6-4 in the semi-finals to set up a title clash with state-mate and top seed Siddhant Jagdish Banthia in the boys singles of the Karle Infra ATF Under-14 Asian junior ranking tennis tournament here Friday.

Another bookie arrested for IPL spot fixing

Hyderabad/New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Another bookie was arrested in the Indian Premier League IPL spot fixing scandal Friday from Hyderabad, Delhi Police sources said. Mohammad Ahya was arrested at the Hyderabad airport while trying to flee to Dubai, the sources said

Haryana, Jharkhand in sub-junior hockey semis

Bhopal, May 23 (IANS) Haryana and Jharkhand women entered the semi-finals of the Hockey India Sub-Junior Men and Women National Championship (Final) being played here at the SAI Centre Thursday. Haryana registered their third consecutive win as they defeated Jharkhand 5-1 in their Pool B match. The goal scorers for Haryana were Ritu (53 minutes), Manpreet (60), Navpreet (61), Nidhi (69) and Sonika (70) while Nisha Rani (44) scored the only goal for Jharkhand.

Intense heat grips Andhra, mercury in Hyderabad touches 44

Hyderabad, May 23 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh sizzled Thursday with the day temperature in most of the towns crossing 43 degree Celsius while the mercury in the state capital touched 44, the season's highest. According to met department, Rentachintala in Guntur district was the hottest place in the state with the maximum temperature of 47 degrees.