K Chandrasekhara Rao is using politics to highlight an administrative and judicial issue, says B Dasarath Reddy.
The outcome of the US presidential election hangs in the balance as several states continued to count their ballots, including some of the most competitive battlegrounds where the tally could take days to complete.
In a follow up to the orders of the Andhra Pradesh high court, the Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a First Investigation Report for criminal investigations into the wealth of YSR Congress president YS Jaganmohan Reddy.
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.
Twenty two legislators belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the Bharatiya Janata Party along with two independent MLAs associated with them were on Monday suspended from the Andhra Pradesh assembly for two days for constantly disrupting proceedings of the House on the Telangana statehood issue.
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.
The death toll in the devastating cyclone Hudhud rose to 26 on Wednesday with the report of one more death in the cyclone-hit Andhra Pradesh while over 1.35 lakh people are rehabilitated in the relief camps set up by the state government.
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.
Assessment by security forces suggests the Naxals had reached Sukma in small batches from different states to carry out the attack, reports Gyan Varma
The six AP-1000 reactors would be built in Andhra Pradesh.
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.
Andhra Pradesh now comes third in ease of doing business.
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.
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.
'The RSS-BJP fight against TMC excesses seem to have been limited to fighting the assembly poll, not coming to the defence of ordinary Bengalis who are being crushed daily by Trinamool goons,' points out Virendra Kapoor.
15-year old Shreya's secret was extensive reading and not merely for the purpose of exams. Read with a general interest, says the young achiever.
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."
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.
A court in Andhra Pradesh on Monday directed the police to probe allegations brought against Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a complaint which says she "cheated" the people of Telangana on the statehood issue.
The party's economic wizard will be fielded from Andhra Pradesh.
A cloud burst over Hyderabad, resulting in 13 cm of rain in a matter of five hours, has claimed 10 lives as houses collapsed in different parts of the metropolis and normal life was affected. More than a dozen people were injured and admitted to Osmania General hospital and other hospitals.
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governor E S L Narasimhan briefed President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on Wednesday about his success in sorting out differences between Chief Ministers Nara Chandrababu Naidu and K Chandrasekhar Rao.
The decision was taken at the state wide preparatory meeting of the fans of the star and the others who have come forward to join the star's camp. The party sources said that till Chiranjeevi himself declares the name, the party will be called Chiranjeevi Party and the offices in all districts and mandal heaquarters will display a board saying Chiranjeevi Party office.
Continuing his spree of sops for the poorer sections, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Monday launched the scheme of supplying tur dal or red gram through the ration shops at Rs 30 per kg against the market price of Rs 49 per kg.
Naval divers were pressed into operation to look for 36 personnel of an elite anti-naxal Force, who were feared drowned in a reservoir at the Andhra Pradesh-Orissa border, where their launch sunk after being fired upon by Maoists.Reports said that three more personnel of a 64-member strong squad of Andhra Pradesh's elite Greyhound Force swam to the banks with injuries, official sources said, adding that they were immediately air-lifted to Bhuwaneswar for treatment.
Gagandeep Singh had match figures of 10 for 43 as Punjab won the Ranji Trophy match by an innings and 95 runs.
K Srinivas, editor of the Telugu daily Andhra Jyothy, was released from the Chanchalguda jail on Friday evening, along with two other journalists from the same newspaper, 24 hours after a local court had granted them bail. Though the surety of Rs 10,000 each was submitted to the court and necessary documents were handed over to the jail authorities in the morning, the release was delayed till evening due to the non-completion of formalities by the officials.
If the deal is successful, it would be the first such acquisition for the ADA Group.
Making a headstart, YSR Congress Party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and his mother Y S Vijayalakshmi on Wednesday separately launched their campaigns for the May 8 by-elections for Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh.
Shatrunjay Gaekwad, son of former Test player Anshuman, scored a fighting 68 to rescue a struggling Baroda.
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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.
K Venkatappa Naidu, a TDP leader facing several criminal cases, his brother, two gunmen and four other associates died at Bodanuru village in the faction-ridden district when some bombs exploded soon after their vehicle collided against a lorry, the police said. It was not clear how the explosion occurred. Police are looking into whether the bombs being carried in the vehicle exploded or there was any attack from outside.
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Andhra Pradesh government to go ahead with the counselling process for providing four per cent reservations to backward Muslims in educational institutions.
Destruction of 16 statues of prominent leaders of coastal Andhra on Tank Bund in Hyderabad during Thursday's Telangana 'Million March' has turned in to a raging controversy with all the prominent political leaders joining hands to strongly condemn the incident.
