The cracker unit, located in a 12 x 12 feet room, is located in the ground floor of a two-storied building. After school hours, the children of poor and lower middle-class families of the locality worked part-time in the unit under the supervision of three adults. The children were paid Rs 10 for making 100 crackers. The blast occurred due to a wrong mix of chemicals.
Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy cleared SSP Yadav's name for the top post in the Andhra Pradesh Police a day before the superannuation of Basith. Yadav supersedes two of his own batch mates from the 1972 batch of the Indian Police Service -- P V Naidu and M L Kumawat.
District collectors have been asked to take up the assessment of house and crop damage and submit reports to the government.
The Andhra Pradesh government will set up a special cell in Hyderabad to provide information to the public on detentions in connection with the recent bomb blast cases.
Roja's comments on K Chandrasekhar Rao's alleged drinking habit led to protests from that party.
Pawan Kalyan surrenders his licensed revolver, and says that it is unfortunate that his neice, Srija, told the media that she perceived a threat to her life from her family.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is expected to dedicate the new airport to the nation
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy on Tuesday dared Leader of Opposition and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to agree to an enquiry commission to investigate the wealth accumulated by them and their family members over the last three decades. Dr Reddy lambasted Naidu for alleging that he was making Rs one crore per hour through corrupt means. In fact, during his nine-year rule, Naidu was used to earning income on an hourly basis, the CM alleged.
During the course of investigations, it was revealed that these immigrants had entered India illegally by crossing the border near Rajshahi, a Bangladesh border town, and Boghkalam in West Bengal's Mursheedabad. Some of them have been staying in Hyderabad for several years while the rest of them came recently. Some of the illegal immigrants even obtained passports, ration cards, voter identity cards and PAN cards by furnishing false documents.
The family members were shell-shocked as he was supposed to return home later this month and proceed to Bangalore for his marriage on October 29.
The personnel for Organization To Counter Terrorist Operations will be drawn from different wings of the police.
The Hyderabad city police has arrested Mohammed Abdul Majid, brother of city bomb blasts mastermind and Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami south India chief Shahid alias Bilal, and his childhood friend Mohammed Shakeel, on charges of criminal conspiracy.
The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to strengthen the police force in the state in view of terror attacks and Maoist violence.
As many as 57 villages were marooned and 60 mandals were affected. As many as 33,570 families were affected out of whom 9,257 families were evacuated and lodged in 31 relief camps.
The Hyderabad City police arrested a Bangladeshi youth Rizwan Ghazi for illegally staying in the city.
The move gains importance in the backdrop of the constitution of a house committee by the assembly speaker in July 2005 to probe into illegal occupation of properties of Christian missionaries and educational institutions in the state.
Heavy rain for the last three days claimed 21 lives in Andhra Pradesh, taking the total toll to 36
In the 56-page report released to the media after laying down office as Vigilance Commissioner, R C Samal accused three ministers and 18 senior All India Services (IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service) officials of indulging in corrupt practices.
A Hyderabad court on Wednesday remanded K Venkat, son of outgoing AP Congress Committee president K Keshav Rao, to 14-days' judicial custody in connection with a murder case.
Venkat got himself admitted to the Apollo Hospital soon after the shooting incident in which his business partner B Prashant Reddy died under mysterious circumstances
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