At a time when tension was already high among the North Eastern people in different parts of the country and rumours were triggering their exodus, a statement by the All India Assam Students Union leader in Guwahati about the death of an Assamese passenger in Andhra Pradesh has further heightened the tension.
The Andhra Pradesh government faced a major embarrassment in the high court on Thursday when a division bench struck down the appointment of V Dinesh Reddy as the state director general of police.
Hyderabad has become the destination of Rohingya Muslims, fleeing the current wave of ethnic cleansing by the ruling Buddhist majority in Myanmar, especially in the Arakan region.
At a time when the Indo-Pak relations continue their decades-old path of improvement and deterioration, the people to people contacts continue to move forward, yielding heart warming results. Mohammed Siddique reports.
Andhra Pradesh Minister for Road and Buildings Dharmana Prasad Rao has made up his mind to submit his resignation after the Central Bureau of Investigation named him as an accused in YS Jaganmohan Reddy's disproportionate assets case.
With the violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar continues to rage, forcing the victims to flee, more displaced families from the country have reached Hyderabad taking the number of such migrants to more than 300.
The beleaguered Congress in Andhra Pradesh is witnessing a renewed all out war between the loyalists and the opponents of late chief minister Y S Rajashekhar Reddy.
Even as preliminary investigations by forensic experts and the railway police suggest that the fire accident aboard the Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express on Monday was caused by the electric short circuit, the circumstances which led to the accident and heavy loss of life continues to be wrapped in the mystery.
A Rs 20 crore deal was struck to secure bail for former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, who was arrested in connection with the iron ore mining scam, according to state Member of Legislative Assembly Suresh Babu. The revelations come in the wake of Babu's arrest by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on Monday.
A day after horrifying fire accident aboard the Chennai bound Tamil Nadu Express killed 32 people, railway officials were trying hard to identify the charred remains of the passengers and hand them over to their families.
Nellore District Collector B Sridhar said that as only 22 people could come out of the S 11 coach in which 72 passengers were travelling, fears were mounting that the toll could go up further.
Launched by the Jamat at the national level some time back, the Welfare Party has its presence in six states, reports Mohammed Siddique.
Licence to liquor shops will be issued on a fixed licence fee and licences will be granted through the draw of lots. Mohammed Siddique reports
In a major embarrassment to Tamil Nadu Governor and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah, an Anti-Corruption Bureau court in Hyderabad has issued a summon to him. He has been asked to be present in the court on August 2 in a land case.
The Anti Corruption Bureau in Andhra Pradesh has arrested Chalapati Rao, a retired judge, and Ravichandar, son of suspended Central Bureau of investigation court judge Pattabhi Rama Rao in the Gali Janardhan Reddy bail-for-cash case.
Stunned by the defeat in the by-elections at the hands of the YSR Congress in Andhra Pradesh, both the ruling Congress and the main opposition Telugu Desam Party were trying to come to terms with the reality and decipher its meanings.
As Congrees' defeat in the by-election becomes clearer, voices of discontent in the party have started to become louder. Firing the first salvo, a dissident leader and former minister P Shankar Rao has demanded the immediate change of leadership in the state.
At least 16 people were killed and 11 others were injured when a massive explosion rocked the Visakhapatanam Steel Plant on Wednesday night.
The crucial by-elections to 18 Assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh witnessed brisk polling on Tuesday amid incidents of violence in some areas including Kadapa, the parliamentary constituency of arrested YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday raided the Chikaluripet residence of retired judge Chalapathi Rao in Guntur district in connection with the cash-for-bail scandal involving CBI special court judge T Pattabhi Rama Rao and mining baron and former Bharatiya Janata Party Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy.
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