A bus plunges into a canal in Khammam district while a car met with an accident in Chittoor on Monday.
Over 1,000 people from six villages in Karimnagar district have been evacuated in the wake of flooding as heavy rains continue to lash Telangana for the last few days.
In one of the biggest encounters in the recent times with the Maoists, involving the Andhra Pradesh police and Central paramilitary forces, 10 left-wing ultras were killed while scores of others were injured.
However police said they were investigating the reason behind his suicide.
K Chandrasekhar Rao, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and Telangana chief minister-elect, has called for a shutdown in the region on Thursday to protest the Centre's reported move to issue an ordinance merging certain villages in Khammam district into residuary Andhra Pradesh.
According to BJP insiders, every Union minister has been given 3-4 seats to mentor and has been told to work hard on these constituencies in the next 20 months to ensure the party's victory.
An AK-47 rifle, one SLR, three Insas rifles and a .303 rifle were also recovered from the encounter spot.
Just two days after Andhra Pradesh was rocked by an air crash, authorities here went into frenzy this morning when a helicopter disappeared from the radar.
The health condition of Telangana Rashtra Samithi President K Chandrasekhar Rao is deteriorating due to his fast-unto-death, but he is refusing medical treatment, a senior government official said on Tuesday night.
Telangana Rashtriya Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is on a fast-unto-death for a separate Telangana state, was admitted to a government hospital in Hyderabad on Thursday after being shifted from Khammam.Rao was put in the Khammam sub-jail after being arrested ahead of his proposed fast-unto-death at Siddipet in Medak district earlier this week.The TRS chief called off his fast within two days, after being admitted to the Khammam hospital, but resumed it later.
Sporadic incidents of violence and suicide by at least three activists marred the Telangana Bandh called by Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on Monday to protest against the arrest of its president, K Chandrasekhara Rao and police cane charge on students in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Three Maoists were killed in two separate encounters in Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. The encounters occurred a day after a group of suspected Maoists looted Rs 10 lakh from a bank in the same district. According to the police, two Maoists were killed in an encounter in Polavaram forest area of Khammam on Tuesday.In another incident, a Maoist was killed in an encounter with the police in Nandigamapadu village.
Andhra Pradesh police recovered Rs 32 lakh in cash and arrested two persons, including a Telugu Desam Party leader, after a brief encounter with Maoists in Bhadrachalam forest area in Khammam district on Friday.
A division bench, comprising Chief Justice G S Singhvi and Justice V Eshwaraiah also directed the district judge, Khammam, to go to the spot and submit a fact-based report within two days.
The fresh additions come a little more than six months after his earlier cabinet expansion on February 19.
Railway stations -- Beas, Vishakhapatnam, Khammam, Secunderabad, Ahmednagar and Jammu Tawi are the top ranked railway stations by cleanliness.
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti's efforts to spread its wings to southern Telangana and showcase that the statehood sentiment is strong in the entire region received a setback as it could not win the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council seat from the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgoda Teachers' constituency.
The Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a suspected Naxal leader identified as Savita alias Madhvi in Khammam district of the state.
Hardcore Maoist Sriramula Srinivas alias Sudarshan, wanted in connection with several cases including the killing of former Andhra Home Minister A Madhava Reddy and carrying a reward of Rs 20 lakh on him, was arrested in Khammam district, police said on Sunday.
The Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested nine more excise officials in Khammam district on charges of "subverting" the tender process for allotment of liquor shops for pecuniary benefits, the ACB officials said on Friday.
It will be tough for the Congress leader to return to the Upper House from either Telangana or Andhra, where the party's presence has dwindled. But neither House will forget her.
A mild intensity earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 on the Richter Scale jolted parts of Andhra Pradesh on Monday.
Telangana has been witnessing high temperatures for several days now and the highest maximum temperature of 43 degree Celsius was recorded.
At least 16 students were killed and 18 others injured when the school bus carrying them fell into a canal in Andhra Pradesh's Khammam district on Tuesday afternoon. The bus, carrying students of the LV Reddy school of Vepalagandla village, met with the accident when the driver, while trying to avoid a speeding bike coming from the opposite direction, lost control of the vehicle. The bus fell off a bridge in to the canal.
Serious trouble is brewing in the ruling Congress party against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy as a fall out of the ongoing probe by the Anti-Corruption Bureau in the alleged nexus between some ministers and the powerful liquor cartels across the state.
The BJP has incorporated caste as a significant component of its politics.
A bulletin from the India Meteorological Department said heatwave conditions are likely to prevail in some parts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar and Khammam districts.
Security was tightened at the various facilities of Anil Ambani-owned Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group in Andhra Pradesh after mobs attacked the group's offices in five districts of the state on Thursday.
The Andhra Pradesh Government has taken up evacuation work on a large scale in the rain-affected districts and over 88,000 people have been evacuated so far, officials said on Wednesday.
The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau on Monday arrested a second party legislator Sandra Venkata Veeraiah after interrogating him in connection with the case.
Suspected Telangana Rashtra Samithi activists attacked the camp office of former Union Minister and Congress leader Renuka Chowdhary in Khammam, accusing her of being against a separate state of Telengana.
The demand for making Kadappa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy the state chief minister in place of his late father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy took an ugly turn with his supporters in the name of Jagan Yuva Sena allegedly tearing down a huge banner carrying the pictures of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former minister Renuka Choudhary in the Khammam district Congress committee office.
Around 2.7 lakh people who went to sleep in Telangana woke up in Seemandhra on Monday morning. The residents of 337 villages situated in the Paloncha and Bhadrachalam areas in Khammam have now become part of Andhra Pradesh with the formation of Telangana.
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.
The country-made boat was carrying the villagers from Pinapaka to Cherla village near the temple town Bhadrachalam.
Five coaches of the Gautami Express were gutted in a massive fire in Warangal district in the wee hours of Friday, killing at least four passengers, the police said. The train was traveling from Secunderabad to Kakinada. The passengers were fast asleep when the fire broke out. The victims include three handicapped persons and a pregnant woman. Soon after the fire broke out, the crew of the train acted quickly and separated the engine and other bogies from burning coaches.
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