Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Saturday announced Rs 10 lakh each as immediate relief to the bereaved families of the two officers and two pilots who died in the helicopter crash along with Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy on September 2.
The district revenue authorities have taken possession of the surrendered lands.
Dr Reddy has also cleared a proposal for a centre to provide training and guidance to meritorious minority youth both in civil services and other higher echelons.
The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to strengthen the police force in the state in view of terror attacks and Maoist violence.
When the figure figured in the cabinet meeting, Dr Rajasekhar Reddy left the meeting hall, leaving the issue to be discussed by his cabinet colleagues. The cabinet unanimously approved the allotment.
The suspended members were escorted out of the House by marshals.
Dr Singh had a brief review of the state's security scenario in the context of the police firing at Mudigonda which resulted in the death of six persons and bullet injuries to eight others.
Dr Madanmohan Reddy, an orthopaedic surgeon attached to the hospital, said the blood clot could be removed with medicines and the legislator need not undergo any surgery.
"In view of the ongoing CBI inquiry into the issue, we have declined to accept the money. We are more interested in seeing that Volkswagen sets up its car plant here," Reddy told reporters.
The Andhra Pradesh government would take a decision on setting up three more IT parks in the city in the next two months.
The move gains importance in the backdrop of the constitution of a house committee by the assembly speaker in July 2005 to probe into illegal occupation of properties of Christian missionaries and educational institutions in the state.
An image of Pratibha Patil in Hyderabad as part of her campaign.
"We have a long history of relations with people of this state. Many professionals from this state were settled in US decades ago and today they are successful and are important players in American life," Mulford pointed out.
The NTRO will also include the National Institute of Cryptology Research and Development (NICRD), which will be the premier institute and first of its kind in Asia.
After they were suspended from the State Assembly for disrupting the Question Hour, 46 opposition members, led by Leader of the Opposition N T Rama Rao, took out a rally from the Assembly premises to the state Raj Bhavan.
AP to have quota for minorities in govt jobs
Will Andhra Pradesh follow the Odisha model, voting differently in Lok Sabha and assembly elections? Or will Odisha follow Andhra Pradesh, voting in new faces in both?
Andhra Pradesh government has conveyed the deep concern and apprehensions of the people of the state over the incidents of murders of the people belonging to the state in the United States of America. Mohammed Ali Shabbir, minister for energy, coal, minorities' welfare and non-resident Indians affairs convened a high level meeting on the instructions of the Chief Minster Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Friday.
These schools, to be known as public schools, will be established in the Public-Private Partnership mode.
Globally, there were 73 accidents as of November 30 compared to 109 a year ago. "If you were to fly once per day, it would take 4,807 years for an individual to be involved in an accident," IATA's senior vice president (safety) Gunther Matschnigg told PTI in Geneva.
Opposition members created a ruckus during Zero Hour, raising the issue of alleged violation of land laws by the chief minister.
The Opposition members were demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy for illegal possession of land.
For Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao, his resounding victory in the Lok Sabha bypoll in Karimnagar is "sweet revenge" against the ruling Congress
No time-frame can be fixed for solving the complex issue of Telangana statehood as it requires political consensus, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy said on Monday.The demand for carving out a separate state was under active consideration of the Congress high command, he said a day after the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, spearheading the statehood movement, received a huge setback in the by-elections.He said the Cong high command was trying to reach consensus.
A helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy today went missing on its way to Chittoor district.
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