Microsoft founder and Gates Foundation chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday hailed Andhra Pradesh's rapid development, saying it was exciting to see the state's growth being accelerated through AI and technology.
Fifteen people, mostly college students, were on Wednesday killed and 30 others injured when a state-run bus in which they were travelling fell down a dug up area adjoining a hilly road in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district.
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Ministers, legislators and Members of Legislative Council are understood to have raised a virtual rebellion against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, protesting his unilateral style of functioning.
In a clear message that the people of Telangana want a separate state, both the Congress and Telugu Desam Party were rejected by the electorate in the region, reports Mohammed Siddique
Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday warned that the days of the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh were numbered as it was neglecting the farmers in distress.
Hyderabad has contributed only Rs 20,022 crore out of Andhra Pradesh's total revenue of Rs 1,27,866 crore. This information was part of a note circulated by the Union finance ministry to the Group of Ministers looking into issues leading up to the bifurcation of the state.
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
Andhra Pradesh may go for a brief spell of President's rule with the Kiran Kumar Reddy government facing internal crisis with 25 to 30 MLAs planning to join YSR Congress headed by Jaganmohan Reddy.
The Election Commission on Tuesday issued a notice to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy seeking an explanation on his remarks made at a Congress workers' meeting in Tirupati last week.
Capping a day-long acrimonious debate in the Assembly that went on till the wee hours of Saturday, the motion was defeated by 84 votes in a head count by division.
The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield and the Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences, in Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, which was established at the initiative of a group of non-resident Indians, have signed a memorandum of understanding for fostering academic collaboration and improving rural healthcare. The agreement allows for student and faculty exchange between the two institutions.
Azad, a senior member of banned Communist Party of India-Maoist Central Committee, and Pandey, who was dubbed by the police as a Maoist, were killed in an alleged fake encounter on the intervening night of July 1-2, 2010, in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh.
Rosaiah was administered the oath of office and secrecy at a simple ceremony by Governor Narayan Dutt Tiwari at the Raj Bhavan.
It is not just film stars who are spicing up the poll scene in Andhra Pradesh, but also corporate honchos who are jumping on to the political bandwagon to try their fortunes in Lok Sabha and assembly polls.
The South Central Railway as well as the East Coast Railway cancelled several trains while some were terminated midway, officials said, adding a few express trains were also diverted.
Over 13 lakh people were affected in five districts of Andhra Pradesh following unprecedented floods in Krishna river basin which has claimed 37 lives so far, official sources said in Hyderabad on Sunday. The flood claimed 15 lives in Kurnool, 16 in Mahabubnagar, three in Krishna, two in Nalgonda and one in Guntur district, they said, adding that the toll may go up.
Communist Party of India-Maoist central committee member G Saraiah alias Azad and his wife Padma were shot dead in an exchange of fire with Greyhound commandos in the forests between Kantanapalli-Rampuram villages in Eturunagaram mandal. Azad was suspected of organising the killing of 16 tribals in Nizamabad district in 2002.
In a last ditch effort, Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday appealed to Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to "use his good office" to keep Andhra Pradesh united till an amicable solution is reached on the issue of creation of separate Telangana.
Cyclone Hudhud is set to intensify further into a very severe cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours before it makes landfall on October 12.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Friday said he was not convinced about the bifurcation of the state and claimed that he has not changed his position on it.
Incessant rains, due to the depression in the Bay of Bengal, have wrecked havoc in Nellore, Chittoor and Kadapa districts with several tanks being breached.
The United Progressive Alliance chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi kicked off her election campaign seeking mandate for another term on the basis of the "good work" done by UPA at the Center and by YS Rajasekhara Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh.
This is the second death of a student due to ragging in Andhra Pradesh during last 24 hours. S Harish Kumar, a student of polytechnic college died at his home in Nandyal town of Kurnool district in the state on Friday night, nearly three months after he had attempted suicide by consuming acid over ragging and humiliation by the senior students.
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy visited the riot hit town of Bhainsa on Thursfday and near by Vatoli village in Adilabad district, six days after communal violence had flared up there leaving ten people dead and dozens of shops and houses looted and burnt.
"However, if the Lok Sabha elections are held early next year, assembly elections could be held simultaneously," Reddy told media persons, in the backdrop of intense speculations that the Lok Sabha elections could be advanced because of the possible break up of UPA-Left ties over Indo-US nuclear deal.
YSR, who seemed to enjoy his new role, said, "I have been acting in the politics for last forty years and now I have got an opportunity to act in a film."
The Andhra Pradesh assembly took up the marathon debate on the no-confidence motion tabled by the main opposition TDP against the Congress government. This is the first time that the present government is facing a no-trust motion even as it completes four years in power. The TDP attacked the Congress government for alleged acts of omission and commission.
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde spoke to Kavita Chowdhury on the logical steps that follow from the passing of the contentious Telangana Bill in Parliament and the future course of action in Andhra Pradesh in view of the coming general polls. Edited excerpts:
IT major Infosys Technologies is all set to expand its operations in Hyderabad with a second campus that would come up in 550 acres with an investment of Rs 1,250 crore (Rs 12.50 billion) over the next ten years.
A 27-year-old man died after his wife allegedly stabbed him following a dispute over the volume of the television in their home in Andhra Pradesh.
A membership drive by the Aam Admi Party in Andhra Pradesh ended with over 38,000 members enrolling themselves. No doubt, it is an impressive number in a state which fights elections on several issues barring corruption. But is it enough, wonders Vicky Nanjappa
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