President, welcomes the President of Sri Lanka,

(PIB NEWS) June,09,The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil welcomes the President of Sri Lanka, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa and his wife Mrs. Shiranthi Rajapaksa, at the ceremonial reception, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on June 09, 2010. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh is also seen. (Photo by PIB No.CNR-31974)
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Jaipal Reddy Workshop Inauguration,

(PIB NEWS)June,09, The Union Minister of Urban Development, Shri S. Jaipal Reddy addressing at the launch Workshop for inauguration of Sustainable Environmentally friendly transport mode in the country, in New Delhi on June 09, 2010. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Dr. M. Ramachandran is also seen. (Photo by PIB No.CNR-31986)
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Booklet releasing"Performance of Ministry of textiles"

(PIB NEWS) June,09, The Union Minister of Textiles, Shri Dayanidhi Maran releasing a Booklet ‘One year’s Performance of Ministry of Textiles’, in New Delhi on June 09, 2010. The Minister of State for Textiles, Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi and the Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Smt. Rita Menon are also seen.
(Photo by PIB No.CNR- 31990)
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US presses Pakistan to stop India infiltration, try 26/11 suspects

Underlining its hands off policy on the Kashmir issue, the US has asked Pakistan to first show progress in stopping cross-border infiltration into India and the trial of the Mumbai terror attack suspects.“No, there’s no change right now” in US policy on Kashmir, US assistant secretary of state for South Asia, Robert Blake said in an online conversation Tuesday with Teresita Schaffer, director of the South Asia Programme at Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank.“I think at this point the top priority for India and Pakistan is, first, to kind of get their own bilateral dialogue going in a more systematic way,” he said noting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh “is personally and deeply committed to achieving peace with Pakistan”.“But he needs to see progress on these two important issues… that is, progress to stop some of the cross-border infiltration that’s taking place into India, but also progress on the trial of the Mumbai suspects.“And if we can see that, I think that there will be a flourishing of the dialogue that could take place. But those are very important things that need to take place.”He agreed with Schaffer that the main interest of the United States is that they be able to agree on something that makes the risk of a war that could go nuclear disappear.Nothing that “from 2004 to 2007, in fact, the two countries did make quite a lot of progress on Kashmir”, Blake said: “And that, again, could be picked up, I think, relatively quickly if they can sort out some of these other issues.” “This is going to have to be a kind of incremental process to build up to that stage where they can tackle this very hot button issue (Kashmir) for both of those countries.”At the State Department, spokesperson Phillip J. Crowley too made a similar point. Asked to comment on Manmohan Singh’s offer to open peace talks with the separatist and extremist elements in Kasshmir, he said: “All I would say is that we recognise that this is a very, very important issue between India and Pakistan.”“And as the dialogue between India and Pakistan continues to expand, including at the leader level, that we would hope that India and Pakistan can make progress in understanding this issue and moving forward, just as they did a few years ago.”
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10 TRS, BJP, TJAC activists held

Mahbubabad, Jun 9 : Police have arrested ten activists of Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS), BJP and Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) for their involvement in the violence that rocked the town on May 28 during former Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's son and Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's 'Odarpu yatra'.Circle Inspector of Police R Prabhakara Rao told UNI today that the accused were arrested on specific charges and booked under Sections 307(Attempt to Murder) and 147(destruction of public property) of IPC.He said seven accused were arrested for their involvement in the violence and three for damaging a private car and burning a government vehicle on that day.The accused were picked up last evening and later produced before the Sub Divisional Magistrate. Search was on to arrest some more accused involved in the incident, he added.
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Conditions favourable for advance of southwest Monsoon in AP

Hyderabad, Jun 9 : Conditions were favourable for further advance of southwest monsoon over some more parts of Andhra Pradesh as a low pressure area formed over Westcentral Bay and neighbourhood today, leading to rains at a few places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and isolated rain over Telangana and Rayalaseema.The chief amounts of rainfall recorded in cm were Avanigadda (Krishna district) and Salur (Vizianagaram district) four each, Bobbili (Vizianagaram district) and Vikarabad (Rangareddy district) three each, Tirupati, Chevella (Rangareddy district), Gajapathinagaram and Parvathipuram (both Vizianagaram districts), Mandasa and Patapatnam (both Srikakulam districts) and Mulugu (Warangal district) two each and Hanamakonda, Nellore, Cumbum (Prakasam district), Gudur (Nellore district), Jangaon and Mahabubabad (both Warangal districts), Komarada, Srungavarapukota, Terlam and Vizianagaram (all Vizianagaram districts), Nuzvid and Tiruvuru (both Krishna districts), Sangareddy (Medak district) and Satyavedu (Chittoor district) one each, Met Department said today.However, heat wave conditions prevailed over the districts of West Godavari of Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Hyderabad, Mahabubnagar, Medak and Warangal of Telangana. The maximum temperatures significantly fell at one or two places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana but rose at a few places over Rayalaseema. They were significantly above normal at one or two places over Rayalaseema and over the remaining districts of Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The highest maximum temperature of 44 degrees Celsius was recorded at Ramagundam and Rentachintala. Moderate to rather heavy rain/ thundershowers may occur at many places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh while Light to moderate rain/thundershowers would occur at a few places over Telangana and Rayalaseema. Isolated heavy rain could occur over Coastal Andhra Pradesh during the next 48 hours. A few spells of rain/thundershowers may occur in the city.Maximum and Minimum temperatures may be around 38 and 25 degrees respectively.
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Study Circle to select candidates for coaching for UPSC exam

Hyderabad, Jun 9 : The Andhra Pradesh Study Circle, established by the Social Welfare Department for the purpose of giving residential coaching to candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) to prepare for Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and Civil Services Examinations, will select the new batch for 2010-11.Addressing a press conference here today, Social Welfare Commissioner K Praveen Kumar said the study circle would select 184 meritorious students from SC and ST and Backward Classes students from rural areas.He said in view of some allegations on the entrance tests for the selection of candidates, the department had decided to select the candidates based on the marks attained by the student from tenth class to degree-level and those who got the highest marks would be selected for coaching.The selection committee with nine officers would select the candidates.He said so far in the past 31 years, Andhra Pradesh Study Circle had given residential coaching to 5,757 students of whom 43 got into IAS, 42 into IPS and 372 got into other services. He said 75 per cent of the seats would be given to SC and ten per cent to ST and 15 per cent to BCs.Stating that 50 per cent of seats were reserved for women belonging to SC, ST and BC in each category, he said three per cent were reserved for physically handicapped across all categories.He said the last date for submission of application was June 25.
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