Andhra Pradesh

The Coastal Andhra districts of Krishna, Guntur And West Godavari continued to reel under oppressive heat wave conditions which have already claimed as many as 16 lives so far in Krishna districts. Official sources said the 16 people died during the last 20 days in Krishna district while as many as 15 others were hospitalized with symptoms of sun stroke.

However, unconfirmed reports said that about 25 people died of sun stroke in the district so far. The day temperature recorded at Gannavaram AirPort today was 45 Celsius (113 F). The minimum temperature was 27.8.C.

Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan will be campaigning for three days from June 4 on behalf of party candidates in Yemmiganur and Rayadurgam and the CPI (M) candidate in Anantapur in the by-elections to the Assembly.

On June 4, Dr. JP will campaign in Gonigandla and Nandavaram mandals and in Yemmiganur town in Yemmiganur constituency.

Dr. JP will tour Veerapuram, Kanekallu and Rayadurgam town on June 5 and Gummagatta mandal on June 6 in Rayadurgam constituency.

He will campaign in Ananatapur town in the afternoon of June 6. (NSS)

More than 100 thatched houses and six haystacks were gutted in three different fire accidents in the district today.

Police said more than 60 thatched houses were gutted at Tallapalem village in Ponnuru mandal. as many as 100 families were rendered homeless and property worth Rs seven lakh destroyed in the fire. Hardly the fire was extinguished, another similar fire mishap took place at Mulukuduru village in the same mandal, destroying 40 thatched houses, rendering 50 families homeless. Property worth Rs five lakh destroyed in the accident.

Rear Admiral GS Pabby, VSM took over as Admiral Superintendent Naval Dockyard Vishakhapatnam from Rear Admiral KR Nair, at a ceremony held at the Naval Dockyard here today, According to Navy Spokesman Mr Pabby, VSM, who was commissioned into the Indian Navy in August 1980, is an Engineering Specialist officer and an alumnus of Naval War College and the College of Defence Management. The Admiral is a specialist in Systems and Control, with a Masters degree from IIT, Mumbai. He has held various prestigious appointments in the Indian Navy including operational, design and staff.

TDP leaders Revanth Reddy and Anagani Satya Prakash have questioned the Chief Minister as to why he was still hesitating to cancel allotment of the assigned lands to Vanpic, though there was a High Court direction to do so.

(NSS): Telugu Desam Party MLC Babu Rajendraprasad has lashed out at the Congress government for arrest of party MLA Paritala Sunita. He has alleged that the Sonia Congress and Jagan Congress have colluded to arrest Sunita, who was preparing to launch hunger strike demanding fresh CBI probe into her husband Paritala Ravi’s murder.

G. Sainath, deputy Collector, who was awaiting posting order, was posted as Special Deputy Collector to KRCC, Chittoor in the existing vacancy.

According to the GO, the individual has been directed to report before the Collector of Chittoor district immediately. (NSS)

Office of the Postmaster General Kurnool-2 has notified for the information of the public that “Dak Adalat” to hear the complaints and grievances of the members of the public relating to postal services will be held by the Director of Postal Services, Kurnool region, Kurnool-2 at Kurnool-2 PMG’s office on June 22 at 4 pm.

South-West Monsoon is likely to hit Kerala coast by June 1, 2. The MET department officials said that it will be entering the state in June second week.

Heat wave conditions were continuing in Coastal Andhra and Telangana regions. MET Officials said that the heat waves will continue in Guntur, Krishna, Prakasham, West Godavari, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Nalgonda and Khammam districts in the next two days. Thunder showers are expected in many places in the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions.

Following the arrest of Kadapa MP Jaganmohan Reddy in disproportionate assets case this evening, YSR Congress leaders and workers staged dharnas at different places in the city and threatened to call for bandh in the city on Monday.

Tension prevailed here following Jagan’s arrest and some of the YSR Congress party leaders were picked up as a
precautionary measure, police said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Ravindranadh Babu told PTI that the situation in the city was under control and some
of the leaders and workers from YSR Congress had been taken into custody.

Integrated Common Entrance Test-2012 convener Prof K Om Prakash on Friday released the key of ICET at Kakatiya University premises.

Prof Prakash appealed to the candidates to visit the website www.icetku2012.net to get further details. He said that the candidates can file any objections over the key before May 31. Stating that the final key of ICET would be released on June 2, he said the results of ICET would be released in the second week of June. (INN)

Fishermen’s cooperative societies have expressed displeasure over the arrest of Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkataramana Rao by the CBI on Thursday. They alleged that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana had conspired and targeted the leader of fishermen, leaving all the other ministers, who were responsible for several scams. They said they would launch an agitation against the arrest of Mopidevi.

Soon after the news broke that Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkataramana was arrested by the CBI, his followers went on a rampage in several parts of the district.

In Repalle, the minister’s supporters have raided the offices of the MRO and MDO and hurled stones. They have burnt one jeep and broke the window panes of several buses. In Repalle, police sub inspector Brahmam was attacked. He suffered injuries.

BANDH IN MOPIDEVI’S VILLAGE

Andhra Pradesh High Court today rejected the petition filed by YSR Congress party President YS Jaganmohan Reddy seeking exemption from appearing before the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) authorities.
In its order, the court also directed the CBI authorities to deal the issue as per the Criminal Procedure Code.
The prosecution submitted to the court that they served notice on Kadapa MP Jagan to appear before the investigating agency on May 25 as part of the probe into his ill-gotten assets case.

Three trains have been cancelled and five others were running late as a result of the collision between Hampi express and a goods train in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantpur district.

Bangalore-Mysore express, Mysore-Yesvantpur express and Hindupur-Guntakal passenger train have been cancelled for the day, a South Western Railway press release said.

Kacheguda-Bangalore Express, Nizamuddin-Bangalore Rajdhani Express, Mumbai(CST)-Bangalore Udyan Express, Machilipatnam-Yesvantpur Express and Bagalkot-Yesvantpur Basava Express were running late, it said.

Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao on Tuesday accused YSR Congress president and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy of not having any human values as he has sought signatures of elected representatives supporting his candidature for the Chief Minister’s post immediately after the sudden demise of his father YS Rajasekhara Reddy. He said Jagan viewed his father’s death as an opportunity to become the Chief Minister.

Stating that it was very bad that both the Congress party and YSRCP leaders criticizing each other, CPI state secretary Dr K Narayana has demanded the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to remove the six tainted ministers from his cabinet immediately.

Addressing the party executive meeting held at Hanumantharaya Library here on Monday, Narayana flayed that the Congress, which was neck deep in several scams, was not in a position to criticize the YSRCP confidently. (NSS)

A city court Monday dismissed the petitions by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), seeking orders to attach the properties of YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy in the alleged illegal assets case and those of two accused in the Emaar case.

The civil court pointed out at least eight deficiencies in the petition and observed that the investigating agency failed to provide sufficient grounds for attachment. It asked the CBI to file fresh petitions.

Konda Murali, MLC and husband of YSRCP candidate Konda Surekha in Parakala constituency in the ensuing bye-elections, has said that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao have no moral right to step into Warangal district.

Addressing a YSRCP workers’ meeting at Janpaka village under Geesukonda mandal on Sunday, Murali said that KCR and his family had collected several crores of rupees in the name of Telangana movement. He also alleged that Kiran Kumar Reddy has become Chief Minister by dumping crores of rupees before the Congress high command.

Two persons were burnt alive in a major fire in the district during the wee hours of today. One of the deceased was a Fire Service personnel. Police said the fire had occurred in a cold storage warehouse in Madhira caused by electrical short-circuit.

Several bags of chilli stored in the warehouse were gutted. Police said one person working in the godown and a fire engine driver were caught in the fire and burnt alive. A fire engine was also partially burnt.

In view of the whirlwind tour of Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana and AICC observer Vayalar Ravi in the Parakala Assembly constituency on Sunday, the police took some 300 Telangana activists into preventive custody and stirred a hornet’s nest.

Enraged over the police action, a large number of TRS leaders, including Vinay Bhaskar, Rajaiah, Ravinder Reddy and others squatted before the district police headquarters demanding that their activists be released immediately.

At least 25 people were injured, four of them seriously, when a temporary tent collapsed due to gale during an election meeting in Parkal assembly constituency here on Sunday.

Police have found five land mines under a railway track at a culvert in Edulanagulapalli in the district here on Saturday.

On receipt of information that there were some suspicious materials under the track, the police rushed to the spot and conducted a search and found the land mines. They were immediately defused.
Police said that they have registered a conspiracy case and taken up investigation. (NSS)

Vijayawada Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal has seriously reacted to the criticism of the YSR Congress that the CBI was only harassing non-Congress investors in Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s companies and was allowing Congress leaders who had invested in Sakshi and other companies to go scot-free.

A woman worker of the Congress has climbed a mobile tower in the district Collectorate and created tension for over two hours on Friday morning.

Police turned jittery when she refused to come down until they promised action against the ruling party’s MLA.