Andhra Pradesh is facing the worst ever floods in its 60 years, as 60 per cent of Kurnool city was submerged on Friday leaving thousands homeless and stranded without food and water.
In a relief to actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, an accused in the Renukaswamy murder case, the Karnataka high court on Wednesday granted him interim bail on medical grounds, to undergo spine surgery.
A fatal accident on highway 42 in Missouri claimed the lives of four Indian students from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and critically injured the fifth student who was driving. All the students hailed from Andhra Pradesh.
Only after the final bill for Telangana goes to Parliament will the disturbances in Andhra Pradesh subside. Sheela Bhatt reports
The toll in the explosion at a fire cracker manufacturing unit at Vakatippa village in East Godavari district rose to 17 on Tuesday with six more persons succumbing to burns at a local hospital, police said.
The total number of such suicides in Guntur district has gone up to 63 since May.
With students and Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers Association calling for a bandh on Monday, the Centre is contemplating making Hyderabad a free zone.
He is expected to be produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court on Saturday where the ED will seek his remand for custodial interrogation.
Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy, who landed in a controversy for his remarks linking women's fashionable dresses to increase in rape cases, on Wednesday said he did not mean to degrade women and had only mentioned a "social study".
Late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's brother and Member of Legislative Council Y S Vivekananda Reddy on Tuesday began an indefinite hunger strike in Hyderabad in support of a united state.
The Andhra Pradesh government has finally acted against Additional Director General of Police. Vivek Dubey and ordered him to go on leave for a month as the investigations were on against him for sending the constables to Delhi to work as domestic help with his family.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday held a high-level meeting to discuss the law and order situation in view of various agitation programmes planned by pro-Telangana groups in the next few days and the strike by government employees from August 17.
Some police encounters that stunned India.
Keeping up his tradition of celebrating the festival with soldiers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sir Creek near the Indo-Pak border in Gujarat's Kutch district and offered sweets to jawans.
A deputy superintendent of police, hailing from Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday resigned from service as the campaign for separate Telangana state picked up momentum. While police sources said DSP D Nalini quit owing to health problems, the officer reportedly said in her resignation letter to the director general of police that she was quitting as she could not work under officers hailing from Andhra region.
After the protest, Naidu climbed onto his vehicle and addressed the public, slamming Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy for bringing in a government order prohibiting roadshows.
Five persons, including two children and as many women, were killed and 10 others injured in a stampede near Kanakadurga Temple at Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.
The new anti-terror body named 'Octopus' will be headed by an additional DGP and will have various wings
A 24-year-old Indian national was on Thursday charged in connection with the murder of a post-graduate student from Andhra Pradesh, who was found dead at her private accommodation in a Birmingham suburb. The man, whose surname is said to be Nalloori, was arrested on Wednesday evening. The West Midlands Police told PTI that the woman has been identified as Samrajyo Jyothirmai Vempala from Vijaywada, who was in the UK on a study visa.
More than 50 workers were at work in the night shift when the mishap occurred in unit-4.
Six teams of the National Disaster Response Force are being deployed in four coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh as cyclonic storm 'Helen' is expected to cross the Bay of Bengal coast near Kavali on Thursday evening.
Four youth from Andhra Pradesh studying MBBS in ST. Louis died in a ghastly road accident, the reports reaching Hyderabad said. The four were travelling in a car and a police van coming from the wrong side hit their vehicle killing four of the occupants.
'There is a mafia operating in that area that lends money to these labourers. Loans are paid off with red sandalwood. The actual smugglers don't need to come to the area.'
Intermittent, widespread rains lashed Chennai and other regions of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday and the India meteorological department said the low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal has turned into a well-marked low pressure area and it is likely to become a depression.
Police questioned Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Akbaruddin Owaisi for a second day on Sunday for his hate speech against Hindus.
Amid a raging row over the cash-for-vote scam, Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths on Tuesday conducted searches at the residences of Telugu Desam Party MLA Revanth Reddy and arrested two persons in connection with the case.
"With the death of RK, the outlawed CPI (Maoist) has lost its three central committee members and as many other senior cadres in the last two years. These deaths would certainly deplete the strength of the Naxal movement which has been losing its ground. Security forces would make an all-out attempt to soon bring an end to the five-decade-long mindless violence by ultras in the region," Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P said.
The 73-year-old former chief minister has been provided with a separate accommodation inside the jail in view of the purported threat to his life. He is a Z-plus category security protectee.
The Congress alleged that the claims made by the ED against Baghel are part of a "conspiracy" hatched by the BJP to tarnish the Chhattisgarh chief minister's image and asserted that the people of the state would give a befitting reply to such tactics in the upcoming Assembly poll.
The Supreme Court Friday granted bail to rebel Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress MP K Raghu Ramakrishna Raju, who was arrested in a sedition case lodged by Andhra Pradesh Police against him.
The bandh called by YSR Congress on Friday to protest the unprecedented power cuts in Andhra Pradesh evoked lukewarm response as police cracked down on the party rank and file across the state.
'The strategy of frontal organisations of the Maoists is to create unrest and ensure that such unrest leads to a law and order problem.' 'To cover such acts it was necessary to bring in a different definition of unlawful activities which is different from the definition of unlawful activities in the UAPA.'
An overloaded boat carrying 38 people capsized on Sunday close to the 'Pavitra Sangamam'.
Alamgir Alam had distanced himself from the activities of Lal while speaking to reporters after the ED raids, pointing out that he had earlier served with other ministers of the state government too.
The Andhra Pradesh police has registered a case over the twin blasts that ripped through a crowded market in Dilsukhnagar area of the state capital, leaving 16 dead and 120 injured
The police broke the indefinite fast undertaken by nine students of the Kakatiya University on Saturday at the campus sparking widespread protests in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh.
