NINE BODIES FOUND IN WELL IN TELANGANA

Mystery shrouded the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were found in a well, five of them on Friday, near here in Telangana. A day after a 48-yearold man, a worker of a gunny bag stitching unit, and three other members of his family were found dead in the well at Gorrekunta village, on the city outskirts, five more bodies, including that of his two sons, were recovered on Friday. The bodies of six members of the family, a friend and two other men were retrieved from the well, Warangal

Police Commissioner V Ravinder said. Four bodies were found floating and fished out on Thursday. On Friday morning, some bodies were seen floating following which the police found others. A case under Section 174 of CRPC has been registered. The 48-year-old man had migrated from West Bengal over 20 years ago and had settled down here.

Information and Broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday. The minister made the announcement during an address to 300 community radio stations functional across the country. The minister said he was eaager to raise air time for advertisements to 12 minutes from 7 minutes on Community Radios currently to bring them at par with TV channels. While 75% of the expenditure during setting-up of these stations is borne by the Ministry, daily operations’ expenditure is borne by the Stations. The minister pointed out that the stations would not be needed to seek funds if more local advertisements can be relayed on these platforms. Javadekar said the ministry will come out with a plan to increase the number of stations.