Hyderabad

Seven more farmers committed suicide due to debt burden in Khammam, Anantapur, West Godavari, Nizamabad and Krishna districts taking their death roll to 21 since the change of the Government in the State.

Hyderabad

With suicide by farmers continuing unabated even after the announcement of a financial package, the Chief Minister Dr.Y.S.Rajasekharareddy has unveiled a second package this time preventing 'potential victims' from taking extreme step. According to details of the scheme finalized at an official meeting on Friday a sum of Rs.50,000 would be given to the family of the potential victim for clearing loans taken from different sources, including local money lenders as one time settlement and another Rs.1 lakh towards the family's daily needs and for resuming farming.

Hyderabad

In a sudden turn to the political developments in the State, the Chief Minister's announcement that he would constitute his Ministry on May 22nd and asked officials to make arrangements for the swearing in ceremony at 11.46am on Saturday. Dr.Reddy/'s decision took everyone by surprise since he had declared at a press conference on Friday evening that the Ministry making exercise would take place on Monday.

Officials of the Police, General Administration, Information and Public Relations and other departments, who were gearing themselves up slowly for next week's function, started work at a frenetic pace at Raj Bhavan where the Governor, S.S.Barnala would administer the oath to the new Ministers.

Invitations to the media were not printed until well past midnight. The Chief Minster was all set to go over to New Delhi to attend the swearing in ceremony of the Prime Minister-designate and his council of ministers on Sunday evening. The change in schedule followed a message from the AICC that he should witness the function at Rastharapathi Bhavan. Arrangements would e made to fly him to Delhi in such an eventuality. As soon as the AICC'S decision was conveyed to him, Dr.Reddy changed his plans to take the morning flight to the Capital and got down to the business Cabinet expansion here.

The Probable The new cabinet is expected to have about 22-25 members. Amongst the probable to become Ministers in the YS Rajasekhar Reddy cabinet are:

K Rosaiah (Prakasam)
JC Diwakar Reddy (Anantapur)
D Prasada Rao (Srikakulam)
Botsa Satyanarayana (Vizianagaram)
Konathala Ramakrishna (Visakhapatnam)
J Ramamohana Rao (East Godavari)
C Venkat Rao (Krishna)
M Hanumantha Rao (Guntur)
Anam Ramn-arayan Reddy (Nellore)
Sar Raju/Madala Sunita/M Venkateswara Rao (West Godavari)
Gangula Pratap Reddy (Kurnool)
Galla Aruna (Chittoor)
D L Ravindrareddy or Ahmedulla (Kadapa)
M Mukesh Goud/M Shashidhar Reddy/P Janardhan Reddy/Malreddy Ranga Reddy (Hyderabad)
Ponnala Laxmaiah/D S Redya Naik (Warangal)
Jalagam Venkat Rao/Sambhani Chand-rasekhar (Khammam)
M Satyanarayana/Sridhar Babu (Karimnagar)
A Indrakaran Reddy (Adilabad)
G Chinna Reddy (Mahabubnagar)
J Geetha Reddy (Medak)
P Sabita Indra Reddy (Ranga Reddy)
D Srinivas/Mohd Ali Shabbir/K R Suresh Reddy (Nizamabad)
K Jana Reddy/V Venkaiah (Nalgonda)

Koneru Ranga Rao, M Satyanarayana Rao have chances to alleviate to Speaker of the Assembly post.

Candidates who have not received their hall tickets for the Common Entrance Examination for Polytechnics (CEEP-2004) to be held on May 24th may received duplicate hall tickets by logging on .to http: sbtet.apnic.in in the SBTET website or by contacting the Principal of Government Polytechnic here in person according to a press release.

Hyderabad

The Central Board of Secondary Education has asked C-net to announce the results of the Board Exam for Classes 10 to 12 on SMS through mobile phones and website. The service which would be available from noon on the day of declaration could be utilized by sending an SMS to 7827 on all mobile networks across the country. The keywords for Class 10 results are CBSE10 Roll N. and CBSE12 Roll No for Class 12 results.

Tirupathi

The former Chief Minister N.Chandrababunaidu cheered up his constituents in Kuppam and told them not to get disheartened and instead act with renewed vigor to wrest it back. 'He said that 'it is a common thing in a democracy like ours.

Events and happenings on 21 May in History

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21 May 2002
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21 May 2003
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21 May 2004
Highlights: Chief Minister unveils second package

21 May 2005
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21 May 2006
Highlights: Rich tributes paid to Rajiv Gandhi

21 May 2007
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