"I cannot believe this is happening. I was here to see off Kiran when he left for the US and today, I stand here to receive his dead body," said a friend.
A summary of Ranji matches played on Wednesday.
Shobhana Kamineni, vice chairperson of Apollo Hospitals, and a former president of the Confederation of Indian Industry, is unhappy after discovering her name deleted from the voters' list in Telangana.
A summary of action from the Ranji Trophy matches played on Tuesday.
Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar on Saturday issued notices to nine Congress and as many Telugu Desam Party MLAs on petitions seeking their disqualification for voting in favour of the no-confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government.
Round-up of Ranji matches played on Tuesday.
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is facing allegations of making inflammatory speeches against a particular community, would surrender before the law, his brother and party president Asaduddin Owaisi said on Saturday.
It has been virtually a ten-year wait that's coming to a happy end for the 47-year-old leader, who nurtured the ambition of becoming chief minister soon after his father's death in September 2009.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday rejected suggestions that his government had been reduced to a minority after the opposition's no-confidence motion yesterday saw 142 members voting against it, two short of the simple majority mark.
Suu Kyi will be accompanied by Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy will visit, official sources said in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
United Muslim Action Committee, an umbrella of more than a dozen Muslim organisations of Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday declared an all-out war against ruling Congress party, specially Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
The controversy over the extension of the disputed temple adjacent to historic monument of Charminar was now threatening to snowball in to a major political crisis in Andhra Pradesh. Angered over the alleged pro-Hindutva attitude of the state government and the police, Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has threatened to withdraw the support from the Kiran Kumar Reddy government.
At least twenty two people are dead and 80,000 have been evacuated to government shelters as many parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh were flooded after heavy rains brought by the Cyclone Nilam that hit Indian shores on October 31.
Andhra Pradesh's 57th formation day is being observed as a black day by the people of Telangana, who have been demanding a separate state. Black flags have been hoisted over all government offices in the Telangana region.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today drew flak from his party men and the opposition, which demanded that he immediately step down from his post owning responsibility for the twin bomb blasts that claimed 16 lives on Thursday.
President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Hyderabad on Wednesday for the customary winter sojourn during which he will stay at Rashtrapati Nilayam at Bolaram till January 1 next.
The resignation crisis in the Congress commenced on Wednesday, with 15 anti-Telangana ministers submitting their resignations to Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy.
Fifteen ministers from the Seema-Andhra regions, who have parked themselves in new Dehi, have said that they will submit their resignations to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy if an announcement to bifurcate the state is made.
Telugu Desam Party on Saturday alleged that YSR Congress Party president Jaganmohan Reddy violated the model code of conduct by stretching his road show beyond stipulated time limit at Mylavaram town in Krishna district.
Raising awareness about welfare programmes of the government, holding village panchayat polls without delay and installation of statues of late Indira Gandhi in weaker sections' colonies are among the suggestions made by a committee of ministers to revive the fortunes of Congress in Andhra Pradesh.
The issue of resignation by Congress MPs from Seemandhra continues to hang fire. Their meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, which was scheduled for Tuesday, has been delayed further.
The decision of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen to withdraw support from the Andhra Pradesh government has spurred hectic behind the scene activity in the ruling Congress party.
Telugu Desam Party president and leader of opposition in Andhra Pradesh assembly N Chandrababu Naidu and state Communist Party of India secretary K Narayana were taken into preventive custody on Monday along with several leaders of their parties and farmers organisations when they tried to march towards the secretariat to meet Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on the farmers issue.
Controversy is not new to Andhra Pradesh Transport Minister and state Congress president Botsa Satyanarayana. Botsa, who has been in the eye of the storm on earlier occasions for alleged mafia activities, does not seem to shy away from courting controversies. Now, he is accused of abusing his official position for the wedding of his daughter Anusha, a medico, in his native Vizianagaram on Friday night
The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday announced a compensation of Rs 6 lakh each to those who suffered permanent disability in the twin bomb blasts at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad, which claimed 16 lives and left over 100 injured.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde visited the blasts site at Hyderabad's busy Dilsukh Nagar area on Friday morning along with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and other senior officials.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday ordered an inquiry under the Factories Act into the blast that killed 11 people in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy expressed "shock and anguish" over the incident and directed the authorities concerned to conduct an inquiry and submit a report immediately.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Thursday directed the police to observe utmost restraint in dealing with the ongoing agitation in Andhra-Rayalaseema regions.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday hoped that the Centre would soon take an appropriate decision on the Telangana issue in the best interests of the state and country.
Telugu Desam Party senior MLA Errabilli Dayakar Rao and scores of party workers were today arrested when they attempted to lay siege to Andhra Pradesh chief minister's camp residence, demanding lifting of power cuts.
The Congress is likely to make the Telangana issue a part of its manifesto in the forthcoming elections, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Congress leaders from Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh have become hyperactive ahead of the December 9 deadline they have set for the high command even as Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has been called to New Delhi later this week.
The who's who of the Telugu film industry made sure to attend his prayer service on Sunday.
Ruling Congress and main Opposition Telugu Desam Party are set to crack the whip on "rebel" MLAs, who voted in favour of the no-confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh late Friday night.
In a freewheeling interview to rediff.com's Mohammed Siddique, Owaisi explains what went wrong between the Congress and the MIM and lays out his future plans.
Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal, Randeep Surjewala and Jairam Ramesh of the Congress and Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut were among the 16 candidates elected to the Rajya Sabha from four states where polling was held on Friday after tussle over cross voting and alleged breach of election rules delayed the counting by around eight hours in Maharashtra and Haryana.
Telugu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu has appealed to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to immediately remove the tainted ministers who allegedly have links with the liquor mafia.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy's opposition to the formation of Telangana is no secret. During his deliberations with the Congress high command in New Delhi on Tuesday, he had made it clear that he was not in favor of the formation of Telangana, and he is capable of handling the situation in the wake of pro-Telangana protests. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Andhra Pradesh roads and buildings minister Dharmana Prasada Rao, who resigned after his name figured in a Central Bureau of Investigation chargesheet in a corruption case, on Sunday expressed confidence that he would come out clean.
