This step by the Modi government is in the right direction and will go a long way in safeguarding the interests of socially and economically backward communities, asserts Professor T V Kattimani, Vice-Chancellor, Central Tribal University, Andhra Pradesh, Vizianagaram.
Justice Bobde, who decided several key cases during his tenure including the historic Ayodhya verdict, was administered oath as the 47th CJI in November 2019 and retired on Friday.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister-elect Chandrababu Naidu has personally invited Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao for his swearingp-in ceremony on June 8, although the TRS chief didn't invite Naidu for his oath taking ceremony on Monday.
A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Thursday.
The country recorded 311 new deaths in the 24-hour period till Sunday morning while the recovery rate rose to above 50 per cent
India's death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 6,642 with a record increase of 294 deaths in the 24 hours till Saturday 8 am.
If there were an Olympics for bank frauds in India, Rishi Agarwal, founder and former chairman of ABG Shipyard Ltd, a nephew of the Ruia brothers of the Essar group, would bag the gold, pushing Nirav Modi to his right, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Three bills were introduced in Lok Sabha on Tuesday amid uproar with members from Left parties trooping into the Well to protest against rising prices of onion while other members raised the Telangana issue.
An astrologer told Ramesh Menon that he was increasingly having worried parents asking him about the future of their children who were showing serious behavioural changes like lack of tolerance towards others, shunning social interaction, and even violent behaviour. They were worried because they had never ever seen such traits in their children before the pandemic.
An ugly incident over a beef festival that was to be held at the Osmania University in Hyderabad has become a talking point in Andhra Pradesh as the development is being seen as a ploy to divide the students who have been very united in fighting for the Telangana cause so far, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
One of the two Indian teachers from Karnataka, who was kidnapped in Libya, allegedly by the Islamic State terror group and released subsequently, on Tuesday, said they were treated with respect by the abductors and not tortured in captivity.
The doubling time of coronavirus cases has slowed down to 13.9 days in the last three days.
The United States expressed concern over any activity involving visa fraud, as several Indian students of a California-based University shut down by authorities on charges of illegal immigration were interrogated.
Hundreds of Indian students, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, face the prospect of deportation from the United States after authorities raided and shut down a university in the Silicon Valley on charges of a massive immigration fraud.
Earlier on January 19, American federal agents had raided the Tri-Valley University in Pleasanton, California, and shut it down for misusing visa permits, laundering money and for other crimes.
Reacting strongly to the Srikrishna Committee report, pro-Telangana student groups on Thursday held protests at the Osmania University in Hyderabad and gave a call for a bandh on Friday in Hyderabad and Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh.
The 1986 batch Odisha cadre IPS officer has been described as a competent officer and is known for his acumen in handling disasters.
Fifty-six months on, the government's record in implementing these schemes and projects has been mixed, report Arup Roychoudhury and Indivjal Dhasmana.
'Hear2Read' -- an open-source Text To Speech (TTS) software that offers audio books in Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu -- is a first of its kind initiative in the country.
Braving attacks by pro-Telangana elements, nearly one lakh employees from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions congregated in Hyderabad on Saturday for a rally, which gave the call to keep the state united.
After being duped by a California-based "sham" university, scores of Indian students in the United States are now enduring the ignominy of being forced to wear radio collars around their ankles so that authorities can keep track of their movements.
The govt said there are 18 states and UTs in the country where the total number of active cases are between 5,000 and 50,000, while there are only four states with more than 50,000 active cases.
Humiliating treatment of stranded Indian students of the scam-hit Tri Valley University in the United States has left their families back home seething with anger and worried about the future of their wards.
Andhra Pradesh-born professor Gopi Podilla, chairman of the biological sciences department at the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) and two of his colleagues -- Maria Davis and Adriel Johnson, both associate professors -- were allegedly killed by 44-year-old Amy Bishop on Friday.
Dr P Subrahmanyam and A S C John Wesley who were with Chief Minister Y S R Reddy on his journey into interior Andhra Pradesh had served in Cuddapah's district administration
Tamil Nadu, which boasted of as many as nine ministers in the UPA-II government in 2009, did not get any representation in Modi 2.0 government.
Raju's grandfather had commissioned a similar sahasra nama mala for Lord Balaji 50 years ago. Raju now wanted to offer a new garland.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Andhra Pradesh government to furnish proof of "secret intelligence inputs" to prove that Maoists have infiltrated Osmania University, the hotbed of Telangana statehood agitation.
A mix of industrialists and businessmen, who have inherited riches or rose from humble backgrounds and even endured boom and bust cycles, the top five MPs are illustrative of how the political stock of the wealthy is increasing rapidly.
The Supreme Court sought an explanation from the Andhra Pradesh government on Friday asking why it had deployed the elite anti-Naxalite force 'Greyhounds' to quell the students' unrest in Osmania University, the hotbed of Telangana statehood agitation.
A 48-hour countdown began on Monday for the launch of record 20 satellites, including India's latest earth observation Cartosat-2 Series Satellite, onboard PSLV C-34 from Sriharikota on June 22.
A group of students and professors from various universities in Andhra Pradesh have warned the state government not to backtrack on the Telangana promise.
The scheme, which would give Rs 6,000 to small farmers in a year or Rs 500 a month, will add more money to the account of these cultivators than the money he/she saves every month on an average.
MGNREGA scheme: A significant Rs 17,370.58 crore has been carried forward over to the next financial year as unpaid dues as demand for work continued unabated for the scheme in rural areas.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary Prasanna Kumar Mohanty on Thursday briefed new chief minister-to-be, N Chandrababu Naidu, about the ongoing process related to the bifurcation of the state.
'Embedded with the divisive regime, they administer heavy doses of the opium of religion and nationalism day in and day out,' observes Mohammad Sajjad.
Yet another feather in Andhra Pradesh's crown. The state is all set to get an exclusive horticulture university.
Experts believe that under-reporting is likely to cause an underestimation of the spread of the disease.
Fourteen bodies have been recovered so far as massive rescue operations continued at the building collapse site at Mugalivakkam near Porur in Chennai.
Dravidian University, Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh invites applications for admissions to full time/ part time PhD Programmes in Biotechnology, Botony, Zoology, Mircobiology, Chemistry, Commerce and Management Physical Education for the academic year 2008-2009.
