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" The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is planning to use bio-metric devices for attendance, on-site monitoring system for lifting of bins and GPS for garbage vehicle tracking to improve efficiency of the sanitary system. Reviewing the work of various GHMC wings on Monday, municipal commissioner MT Krishna Babu expressed displeasure with the present sanitary system, particularly garbage lifting and staff attendance."

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has decided to construct, for the first time, exclusive women's toilets at public places in the city. Charminar and Birla Mandir are among several locations where these conveniences will be constructed. There will be no charge for use of the toilets. The decision has been welcomed by women's welfare organisations and the medical fraternity involved in women's health problems. But they have warned that unless the toilets are clean and hygienic, with sufficient water supply, privacy and security and are easily accessible, they will meet the same fate of disuse and decay as other public toilets in the city.

In a setback to veteran Congress leader and former governor of Andhra Pradesh N D Tiwari, the Supreme Court on Monday held that he has to undergo DNA test in a paternity case. However, it maintained that the test findings would not be made public until it is required to do so. A Bench comprising Justices Aftab Alam and R M Lodha refused to stay the Delhi High Court order asking the 85-year-old leader to undergo DNA test and directed him to suggest by Friday the procedure preferred by him for the DNA test. Tiwari who has held the post of chief minister of undivided Uttar Pradesh and later of Uttarakhand contended that it would be a violation of his Right to Privacy and would cause him public humiliation if he is directed to undergo the DNA test.

Cyber Crime police on Friday evening arrested an internet hacker, Vangalapudi Vijaya Kumar, 23, for swindling Rs 30,600 from an HDFC Bank customer. Vijaya Kumar, a resident of Boduppal and a native of Krishna district, secured the internet banking user name and password of a cyber cafe visitor. He used the details to purchase online a mobile phone (Nokia N-97) worth Rs 30,600 on December 3. On December 8, he sold the mobile instrument for Rs 20,000 to one Shahnawaz Zubair, a mobile vender at Jagdish Market, Abids. Through the IMEI number of the phone, the duo were traced and arrested, an official press release said.

"t whereas families with Antodaya cards get 35 kg per month, irrespective of the size of the family. The above figure of beneficiaries has been arrived at after weeding out bogus ration cards in a recent drive. "It's a difficult and time consuming process as removing the white card of a genuine beneficiary will undermine the very purpose of the scheme," said Mr B. Harikrishna, deputy director of the civil supplies department. The government is also not waiting to link Aadhaar to all the schemes until the entire population is enrolled. "We are planning to take it up fair price shop-wise. We are identifying beneficiaries yet to be enrolled under every fair price shop and mobilising them to get themselves enrolled," he maintained. By doin"