Hyderabad:
The Andhra Pradesh Government today decided to introduce English as second language in government schools from first class itself to make the students more competitive.
"After careful examination and keeping in view the importance of English at primary education level, Government has decided to introduce English as second language from 1st Class itself in Government schools in Andhra Pradesh from the Academic year 2011-2012, a Government Order (GO) issued by the School Education Department said.
This will to increase the enrollment of students and impart academic knowledge to the young children and help in higher learning at later stage, it said.
At present, English as a subject is being implemented in the state from Class III onwards.
Man arrested for betting on India-Australia quarter final
Hyderabad
The police today arrested a man for accepting bets on the World Cup quarter final played between India and Australia in Ahmedabad and seized a laptop, two cell phones, Rs 27,580 in cash and other incriminating material from his possession.
Sleuths of the Commissioner's Task Force (Central Zone) conducted a raid and apprehended one Rakesh Jhadav from S R Nagar here while he was accepting betting over cell phone from punters, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Task Force) V B Kamalasan Reddy said.
Reddy said Jhadav, a native of Nanded district of Maharashtra was operating under one Raju, a kingpin of betting racket who is absconding, and had previously too accepted bets. Further investigations were on, he said.