Puttaparthy, April 07: Satya Sai Baba, who has been on ventilator support for the past few days, showed slight improvement on Tuesday.
The 85-year-old religious leader, undergoing treatment at the super speciality hospital here since March 28, appeared better though he was on ventilator support and on continued renal replacement therapy (CRRT) which is intended to make his kidneys functional.
Sangareddy, April 07: Former IAF chief Air Chief Marshal (retd) Denis Anthony Lafontaine (82) died of cardiac arrest at his home in Brahmanapalli village in Toopran mandal in the district today. He was survived by wife and three daughers.
Lafontaine headed the Indian Air Force(IAF) for three years from July 1985. Lafontaine was born in Chennai on September 17, 1929. His grandfather as well as his father had served in the Indian Army.
Nalgonda, April 07: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao demanded the police to arrest the real culprits responsible for the murder of TRS politburo member and former Maoist Sambasivudu.
Speaking at a memorial meeting for Sambasivudu at Valigondla village in the district, he said if the police did not arrest the real culprits, the TRS would not keep quiet. Those who were arrested yesterday were not the real culprits, the TRS chief said.
Kurnool, April 07: The body of a nine-year-old boy was found in Handri river in Chinnatekuru village in the district today.
However, it was not known immediately whether he was murdered or was it a case of human sacrifice.
According to sources, the boy Santosh was staying at his grandparents house in Chinnatekuru village in Kalluru mandal and studying class II in Rama Maharshi school.
Santosh went missing from April 2. The grandparents lodged a complaint with the police.
This some of the villagers found a body floating in Handri river.
Hyderabad, April 07: Battlelines are drawn for the Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly seats, with political parties finalising their candidates.
The TDP’s man for Kadapa Lok Sabha will be Rajya Sabha member MV Mysoora Reddy, who is originally from the Congress stock and who never had good relations with the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy. For Pulivendula Assembly seat, it is youngster B Tech Ravi who will be taking on YSR’s widow Vijayamma on the TDP ticket.
Hyderabad, April 07: A retired civil judge and his wife were found dead under suspicious circumstances at their residence at Rajendranagar today. The couple’s death, however, turned into a mystery after their son, a mentally challenged person, tried to set their bodies afire in the compound of the house without informing any one.
Though the neighbours alleged that the couple’s son might have killed his parents, police suspect that the retired magistrate might have committed suicide yesterday after the death of his wife a day before.
Hyderabad, April 07: Justice B Seshasayana Reddy of the AP High court today rejected the anticipatory bail petition filed by Sirish Bharadwaj, son-in-law of PRP leader and cine actor Chiranjeevi.
The application comes in light of a complaint by Sirisha she was a victim of dowry harassment by the petitioner and his mother. The runaway marriage between Srija, daughter of the matinee idol and Sirish had made big news two years ago. The love story however
turned sour with the girl complaining she was harassed for dowry.
Hyderabad, April 07: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials today conducted searches on the house of a retired IAS officer in the city following an order by an ACB court. The searches were conducted on the Jubilee Hills residence of D Suryanarayana Murthy today evening.
According to sources, a relative of Murthy lodged a complaint with the ACB court alleging that the official amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income The petitioner alleged that the retired IAS officer amassed wealth amounting to more than Rs 100 crore.
Hyderabad, April 07: The 2011 batch of the Indian School of Business (ISB) saw a 22 per cent increase in total placement offers made by 310 participating companies. ISB also said it has witnessed the highest number of offers at 661 this year as opposed to 541 made last year.
Hyderabad, April 07: A cool morning, a not-so-hot afternoon and a balmy evening greeted people in many places across coastal Andhra today.
People got relief from the recent soaring temperatures as moderate to heavy rain occurred in many places. However, heat wave conditions continued in Telangana.
The highest rainfall of 5 cm was reported from Anakapalle of Visakhapatnam district. Narsipatnam in Visakhapatnam district and Veeraghattam of Srikakulam district recorded 2 cm each.
Hyderabad, April 07: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has directed AP-Transco and AP discoms to give top priority to providing seven hours of power supply to agriculture in view of the peak rabi season.
He directed the officials that standing crops should be protected at any cost by ensuring seven hours of quality power supply and if necessary by giving additional hours of supply wherever required and asked them to update the feeder-wise information on agriculture supply on their websites regularly.
The chief minister also wanted domestic power supply without any interruptions.
Hyderabad, April 07: Former Supreme Court judge K Ramaswamy said the state government should table the Affirmative Action Mechanism For Social Equality Act, 2010 in the Assembly.
Hyderabad, April 07: Nine persons, mostly businessmen from various parts of the city, were abbed by Task Force sleuths on Wednesday while gambling in a rented flat at Begumpet.
Police recovered more than Rs 1.89 lakh from them.
On information that some persons were playing cards in flat no 303 of Ivorysands Apartments at Begumpet, Task Force sleuths raided the premises and nabbed the nine persons.
The nabbed are P Ram Reddy, A V Rama Reddy, K Sridhar Babu, N Madhava Rao, K Subash, G Satish Kumar, G Rattaiah, K Kishan Rao (all businessmen) and B Krishna Rao, an agriculturalist.
Hyderabad, April 07: Minister for handlooms and textiles P Shankar Rao has directed the livery producing societies to speed up cloth production to deliver on time over 52 lakh uniforms, costing Rs 105 crore, ordered by the Rajiv Vidya Mission.
The minister has found that the production of suiting and shirting cloth is not up to the expectations. If the societies failed to complete the order by May first week, the remaining order would be cancelled, he said.
Hyderabad, April 07: With the government deciding to put a stop to land sharks in the city who take over open government lands and later claim ownership over it, revenue officials have prepared a data of house numbers which will help the department of Stamps and Registerations prevent the registeration of government lands by private parties. The system will be in place and will be effective by May.
Vizianagaram, April 07: Taking a serious note on the police lathicharge on Andhra Pradesh Voluntary Health Workers’ Union (AASHA) members, Superintendent of Police Naveen Gulati on Thursday suspended Town Circle Inspector Trinath from duties with immediate effect and ordered a probe into the entire incident.
Hyderabad, April 07: Making a headstart, YSR Congress Party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and his mother Y S Vijayalakshmi on Wednesday separately launched their campaigns for the May 8 by-elections for Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh.
Vijayalakshmi and Jagan, along with other members of the family, paid homage at the burial site of late Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in Rajiv Knowledge Valley, Kadapa, before kick-starting their election campaign.
Hyderabad, April 06: The state government has decided to start model schools in 21 districts on the lines of Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) with the aim of improving female literacy in educationally backward blocks (EBB) of Andhra Pradesh.
The government identified about 737 EBBs in over 1124 mandals of the state and along with the School Education Department it has decided to establish 355 models schools under the centrally sponsored Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyaan (RMSA).
Nandigama, April 06: The small Ram temple here, located by on NH No,9, is being decked out for governor ESL Narshmihan’s visit on April 12 on the auspicious Srirama Navami.
The governor’s decision to attend the ceremony has an interesting story behind it. One of the temple trustees, Mangammal, a resident of Chennai, is a cousin of Narasimhan’s. The governor has decided to attend the festivities at her invitation.
Vishakapatnam, April 06: A tribal girl student of Kasturba Gandhi Balikala Vidyalayam at Gangaraju Madugula village died and another girl of the same institution is undergoing treatment at Paderu area hospital for some mysterious fever.
According to reports, G Anita of Buruguputti village in Hukumpeta mandal, studying Class VI and residing at Vidyalama at G.Madugula, had sufferred from fever for the past few days.
She was been given medicines by the hostel management. Suddenly, Anitha had diarrohoea since Sunday and was shifted to the Paderu Area hospital yesterday.
Nalgonda, April 06: It was former Naxal Nayeemuddin who wrote the ‘script’ for the murder of TRS politburo member and former Maoist leader K Ilaiah alias Sambasivudu, who was done to death in Nalgonda district on March 26. Land settlements and the increasing clout of Sambasivudu in political circles was the motive, police said.
Guntur, April 06: A Coast Guard port will be set up at Nizampatnam in Guntur district as the central government decided to set up such ports at a cost of Rs 10,000 crore to improve vigilance along the country’s coastline.
The central government has been concentrating on improvement of Coast Guard operations since the Mumbai blasts.
As a part of this programme, a Coast Guard port would be set up at Nizampatnam. Officials of the three armed forces _ Army, Navy and Air Force _ visited the place and submitted a report to the government.
Tirupati, April 06: The Tirupati Bar Assocation advocates agitating for the High Court bench in Tirupati, withdrew their 181 days’ relay hunger strike following an assurance from Mines and Geology Minister G Arunakumari.
The minister visited the hunger strike camp and assured that she would bring the matter to the notice of the chief minister and would strive to resolve their issue. She served lemonade to the advocates observing the hunger strike outside the court premises.
Kadapa, April 06: Nominations will not be accepted for the byelections to Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly seats on government holidays–April 14 and 17, said district collector Sasibushan Kumar. Addressing a meeting with leaders of different political parties here on Monday, he sought their cooperation for conducting the by-elections in a smooth and peaceful manner on May 8.
He exhorted them to strictly adhere to the election code of conduct.
Karimnagar, April 06: Incessant rains last year caused havoc in the district breaching the Sriramsagar Project (SRSP) canal.
The breaches in the canal were posing a serious problem with water going waste at several places. The government has not taken any steps so far to repair the breaches.
Sriramasagar Project is a multipurpose irrigation project constructed across the Godavari near Pochampad in Nizamabad district. The project under stage-I is contemplated to irrigate an ayacut of 9,68,640 acres in Nizamabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar and Warangal districts.