Taking a serious view of the management of a private English medium school punishing two of its students for speaking in Telugu, the Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the incident.
Massive evacuation has been undertaken in four districts of Andhra Pradesh before a severe cyclone hits the eastern coast on Thursday followed by very heavy rainfall.
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For India to invoke "sovereign" or "state" immunity to safeguard its foreign assets, which are under threat of getting seized in the intensifying legal battle with Cairn Energy, may come with several riders. Experts point out that the Indian government has to first satisfy the French court that the properties or assets that are under consideration are being used to dispense the state's sovereign functions.
Heavy rains and surging flood water continued to batter Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, claiming 194 lives and inundating vast swathes of land.
Andhra Pradesh finished the day at 57 for 3 in reply to Baroda's 262.
A strong start-up ecosystem can propel investment, jobs, and demand creation, and for that, substantial growth capital is required.
Danger signal number five, hoisted at Gopalpur port, was replaced by signal number seven while signal number six had been hoisted at Puri and Paradip.
However, the Telangana statehood was not even on the agenda of the assembly which reconvened on Thursday morning.
IT firm HCL Technologies on Wednesday posted 78.1 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 884.8 crore (Rs 8.84 billion) for the first quarter ended September 30.
The operating system would be based on Google's Chrome browser, The New York Times reported. Google plans to make the announcement on its blog on Wednesday afternoon, the daily said.
The body of software engineer Buddhe Kiran, who was shot dead by unknown assailants in South Africa nearly a week ago, reached Hyderabad on Saturday morning. The coffin carrying the body was handed over to Kiran's family members, including his father B Shankaraiah. "It was only two weeks ago that we had seen off my son at this airport," said an inconsolable Shankaraiah. He thanked the state government for making arrangements to bring the body back from Johannesburg.
The Uppada Handloom Weavers Co-operative Production and Sales Society Limited and two other registered societies, representing the weavers community in several villages in the Uppada Kothapalli mandal of East Godavari district, have been given the GI registration.
Pakistan's late military ruler Zia-ul-Haq's son has served a legal notice on a banker, who is at the centre of a scandal over the funding of politicians by the Inter-Services Intelligence in 1990, for claiming that he gave millions of rupees to his family.
An alert has been sounded on the Andhra-Orissa border (AOB) and in some Telangana districts of Andhra Pradesh in the wake of the killing of top Maoist leader Kishenji in an encounter.
The four main parties in Andhra Pradesh; Congress, Telugu Desam Party, Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the Bharatiya Janata Party all say they support a separate state of Telangana, but there have been no concrete steps in that direction. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Thursday dismissed the regular bail petition of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets case involving him. The AP high court had on December 24 dismissed the statutory bail plea of Jagan.
A special women's court in Mumbai on Tuesday convicted a 29-year-old driver for the rape and murder of Esther Anuhya, an Andhra Pradesh-based woman software engineer in suburban Kurla here last year.
The six AP-1000 reactors would be built in Andhra Pradesh.
Chiranjeevi and Balakrishna, the two major rivals in the Telugu film industry and now rival election campaigners, have declared their intention to contest the forthcoming assembly elections in the state.
Karnataka beat Andhra Pradesh by five wickets to record their first win of the season.
Andhra Pradesh now comes third in ease of doing business.
K Sriram Reddy ended his life after he was unable to pay back the money he had borrowed for agricultural purposes.
D L Ravindra Reddy, who was sacked from the Cabinet as Andhra Pradesh health minister a few days ago, Tuesday said he was hurt the way he was removed from his post.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday appealed to Telangana employees not to put common people to inconvenience and invited them for talks on Thursday to discuss the strike notice served by them.
Political parties of all hues, including the ruling Congress, Telugu Desam Party and Bharatiya Janata Party in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday welcomed the Centre's decision to repeal a clause in a 1975 Presidential Order for the benefit of Telangana, while the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and student groups said they would continue their campaign till the orders are issued officially.
In a novel protest against the recalcitrant Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nandendla Manohar, a senior rebel Telugu Desam Party leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy has lodged a complaint with the police that the Speaker was missing.
In an unusual move, US Justice Department secretly obtained two months' of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press, an action termed by the global news wire as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how it gathers the news.
Do these events call for serious introspection about these buzz terms?
The Andhra Pradesh police arrested two persons -- Chandrabhanu and Jadhav Vinod alias Vinayak -- in connection with the burning of six members of a family in Vatoli village of Adilabad district during the recent communal riots.
The communal violence in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday took a violent turn with miscreants burning alive six members of a family in a village in the early hours of Sunday.
New Andha Pradesh Congress Committee president and state's transport minister Botsa Satyanarayana, whose appointment has created a stir in the party, has said that there was nothing wrong if Andhra Pradesh was divided into two to fulfil the demand of Telangana people for statehood.
Welcoming her into the party fold, Chiranjeevi said, "Her entry in to our party reflects the response and respect women of the state are giving to our party."
Party's general secretary Ram Madhav, whose name was doing rounds as a contender, is not among the six candidates with sources saying he is likely to get a bigger responsibility in the organisation following a rejig expected soon.
