Hon'ble Chief Minister Sri K. Chandrashekar Rao inaugurated 400 KV Sub station at VK. Phad village of Chivvemal mandal, Suryapet district.

Erdogan says U.S. sacrificing strategic ally Turkey Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States on Thursday of mistreating a strategic ally, in a blistering speech which appeared to rule out swift resolution to a dispute between two NATO members jointly fighting Islamic State. Hours after Ankara announced officials would meet soon to settle differences, Erdogan accused the U.S. consulate in Istanbul of hiding an individual with links to a network he blames for last year's failed coup. He also condemned U.S. support for Kurdish fighters in Syria and separate U.S. court cases against a senior Turkish banker and the president's own security guards, mocking what he said was Washington's claim to be "the capital of democracy". Turkey's relations with the United States and many Western countries have been strained since last year's failed military coup against Erdogan, in which more than 240 people were killed. ...

Queen will not lay Remembrance Sunday wreath The Queen will not lay a wreath at the Cenotaph this year as part of the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony. She will watch the event on 12 November in Whitehall from the balcony of the Foreign Office with Prince Philip, Prince Charles will take her place in laying the floral tribute on behalf of the nation, along with the Duke of Edinburgh's equerry. The Queen has not laid wreaths in six previous ceremonies since her coronation. Two were during her pregnancies with Prince Andrew, in 1959, and Prince Edward, in 1963. The other four occasions were when she was on visits abroad - in 1961, when she was in Ghana, in 1968, when in Brazil, in 1983, when in Kenya and in 1999, when in South Africa. Royal officials told  that the Queen chose to ask her eldest son and heir to carry out the royal duty. It will be the second time the Prince of Wales has laid the wreath after standing in for the Queen when she w...

Asteroid the size of a house approaching Earth An asteroid the size of a house is going to narrowly miss Earth this week in an uncomfortable but risk-free flyby. Experts have said the asteroid, called 2012 TC4, is "no danger", not even to satellites above us. The hunk of rock will pass Earth at an altitude of less than 44,000kms, just above the 36,000kms level where satellites orbit the planet, the  Independent  reports. The asteroid measures between 15 to 30 metres wide and its approach is expected to be a point south of Australia. TC4 was first spotted five years ago when it passed by the Earth. It is expected to swing around again in 2050 and 2079 as it continually loops the Sun. An expert has predicted the asteroid won't hit the Earth in 2050, however it could be on a collision course in 2079.

Wildfires kill at least 10 in California wine country Wildfires fanned by strong winds swept through northern California's wine country on Monday, killing at least 10 people, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and forcing some 20,000 people to flee. The deaths brought the official wildfire-related toll in California this year to 13, the greatest loss of civilian life from a single cluster of blazes in the state in a decade, state fire officials said. Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties, encompassing some of the state's prime wine-making areas, as the blazes raged unchecked and engulfed the region in thick, billowing smoke that drifted south into the San Francisco Bay area. He later extended the declaration to include four more northern California counties and Orange County in Southern California, and requested a U.S. presidential disaster declaration to support state and local firefighting resources...