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Doctors at the government-owned Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) have admitted to conducting human trials for the drug Ragaglitazar produced by Dr Reddy's Labs (DRL) on a select group of patients, but only after the hospital's ethics committee approved the secret tests.

The Congress and the leftist parties and major farmers' organisations like the Rytu Sangam declared yesterday that they would form a joint action committee to pressure the federal and state governments to provide immediate drought relief in the state.

Civic officials are now charging residents of Hyderabad for a whiff of fresh air.

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) was responsible for setting up a fifth dealer selection board (DSB) in the state and appointing its own chairman, thanks to inside pressure from the TDP's Lok Sabha leader, K. Yerran Naidu, who succeeded in convincing Federal Petroleum Minister Ram Naik, it was revealed here by politicians within the party.

The Hyderabad police have asked Tasleem Murad, 30, the Pakistani wife of Mohammed Azmath, arrested in the U.S. after the terrorist attacks last year and now charged with credit card fraud, to report to them following the High Court's rejection of her plea for a visa extension.

The three-member disciplinary committee of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has been criticised by its own politicians for adopting "dual standards".

Birds are not the only threat to aircraft flying over the Begumpet airport in Hyderabad. Rising levels of air pollution has brought down visibility levels for pilots who now need to take an extra 15 minutes to land at the international airport and this means burning an extra one to two tonnes of precious fuel.

The historical documentary The Living Mughals on the descendants of the last Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah Zafar has taken a controversial turn.

After it carried out extensive tests, the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) said in Visakhapatnam it was ready to transfer its turtle excluder device (TED) to the shrimp trawling industry.

The train accident in which 20 passengers died near Kurnool on Saturday has revealed a shadier aspect of the safety system adopted by the South Central Railways (SCR).

The "course and direction of Indian politics in the future" will be decided by the Gujarat elections scheduled for December 12, Bharatiya Janata Party president M. Venkaiah Naidu said here yesterday.

Andhra Pradesh is luring India's best athletes to compete for the state and win medals in the 13th National Games, to be held in December, with the promise of big prize money.