Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad, June 11: Cutting across party lines, MLAs and MLCs of Hyderabad district have demanded that the State Government take up the Krishna Phase-III on a war-footing to tackle drinking water problem in the city.

The dwindling water levels in the five reservoirs (Osmansagar, Himayatsagar, Singur, Manjira, Akkampally) has resulted in a severe water crisis.

Hyderabad district Incharge Minister K Sabitha Indra Reddy said all the city MLAs and MLAs would meet Chief Minister K Rosaiah on June 29 and urge him to take up the project.

Hyderabad, June 11: A division bench of the AP High Court comprising Chief Justice Nissar Ahmed Kukru and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar on Thursday admitted a writ appeal under the Right to Information Act seeking penal action against the RDO Nuzvidu and the Tahsildar of Vuyyuru mandal in Krishna District. The appellant had moved the revenue authorities of the district under the RTI Act for the list of homeless persons in the mandal and details on as to how many persons have since been allotted houses and the details of the said persons.

Hyderabad, June 11: Chief Minister K Rosaiah has urged Karnataka counterpart BS Yediyurappa to revoke the decision changing the medium of instruction in a 100yearold school from Telugu to English.

In a letter to the Karnataka chief minister, Rosaiah said Karnataka Telugu Academy chairman A Radhakrishna Raju had informed him that the school had a good number of Telugu students.

Kurnool, June 11: Former minister and PCC executive member Rambhupal Chowdary who had distanced himself from party activities even before the Assembly and Parliament elections announced that he was quitting the party. He is going to join TDP on June 15.

He had not been in good spirits ever since the party denied him Kurnool MP ticket. However, his followers maintained that he was quitting as the party was not giving him any importance.

However, Choudary maintained that he was quitting party disturbed by group politics in the party.

Hyderabad, June 11: In the backdrop of differences of opinion among the Congress leaders on what the party should promise voters during campaigning for the coming byelections to 12 Assembly seats in the Telangana region in July or August, senior State leaders are for leaving the matter to the party high command.

Talking to Express here today, Pradesh Congress Committee chief D Srinivas said the party had not yet decided on the slogan. He ruled out his going to Delhi to discuss the same until the election schedule was announced.

Hyderabad, June 11: What is your assessment of your party president Nitin Gadkari’s threeday tour of the state?

Hyderabad June 11: Over 40 TDP corporators on Wednesday swept roads and deposited the gathered waste in the nearby dust bins at Domalguda in an attempt to expose the laxity among the health and sanitation officers and staff of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

Piled-up garbage in the slums in Domalguda has not been cleared for many days. TDP floor leader Singi Reddy Srinivas Reddy said it was a shame that the city had slipped to 88th position in terms of sanitation in the country. When the TDP was in power, it stood fifth and even won several clean and green awards.

Hyderabad, June 11: In all probability, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao may not take up an aggressive campaign in Nizamabad constituency where PCC chief D Srinivas may contest for the ensuing bypolls. Rao has good relations with the PCC president.

The TRS leadership has already declared that it is not going to put up their candidate in Nizamabad constituency but contest the other seats.

Rajahmundry, June 11: With one more person succumbing to injuries at a hospital here, the death toll in the road accident in East Godavari district has risen to 11, police said today.

P Chinnalakshmi (35) of Kakinada died yesterday at a government hospital, they said.

Ten members of a marriage party were killed and 13 others seriously injured yesterday when a lorry collided with a tractor.
–PTI

Rajahmundry, June 10: At least ten members of a marriage party were killed and 13 others seriously injured when a lorry collided with a tractor in East Godavari district, police said Thursday.

The mishap took place last night when the lorry driver lost control over the vehicle and hit the tractor carrying 40 person in Bikkavolu mandal, District Superintendent of Police G Srinivas said.

Five of the passengers were killed on the spot and the others died on way to hospital. The deceased included a child, they said.

Hyderabad, June 09: BJP national president Nitin Gadkari has announced that a committee of party MPs would be deputed to the State to study the problems of handloom weavers.

Addressing the first meeting of the newly constituted BJP State executive here on Tuesday, Mr. Gadkari referred to suicides by weavers in the State and said their plight was quite pathetic.

The issue would also be raised in Parliament.

Bapatla, June 09: Chief minister K Rosaiah today said it was unfortunate that the farmers were not getting the minimum support price (MSP) for their agricultural produce on par with the industrial products. An industrialist could fix price of his product, but the same was not true for the farmers, he observed.

New Delhi, June 09: At a time when a severe financial crunch has forced it to go slow on many welfare schemes, the Andhra Pradesh government has earned a whopping Rs.6,904 crore from the auction of liquor shops.

The earnings are said to be the highest by any state through sale of liquor shops.

The excise department earned Rs.6,904 crore from the auction of 6,505 out of 6,595 liquor shops. The revenues may cross Rs.7,000 crore as remaining 91 shops are yet to be auctioned.

Hyderabad, June 08: Praja Rajyam Party president K. Chiranjeevi on Monday hinted that his party was likely to support the Congress in the by-elections scheduled to be held in Telangana on the plank of Samaikhya Andhra.

The PRP chief was here on the last leg of his Bus Yatra for the Indira Sagar Project to interact with the project victims from East Godavari, West Godavari and Khammam districts and to take stock of its progress. He is scheduled to meet the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with a request for early completion of the project and to ensure justice to the project-affected persons.

Hyderabad, June 08: The Centre has sanctioned an additional amount of Rs.43 crore towards pre-and post-matric scholarships for the students belonging to minority communities.

Hyderabad, June 06: Continuing its efforts vigorously to promote industrial development and leverage the potential of human and natural resources in the state, the State Government has come up with a fresh proposal to initiate the process for setting up Southern Industrial Corridor.

To be modelled on the lines of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Development Corridor, the Southern corridor would span from Bangalore to Chennai covering Andhra Pradesh.

Hyderabad, June 06: A case has been registered against Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Danam Nagender, after a realtor alleged that the former had abused and assaulted him following a dispute over laying a drainage pipeline, police said today.

Following a complaint by a real-estate businessman S Ram Reddy, Banjara Hills police late last night registered a case against the Minister, a local Congress corporator and her husband under sections 448 (trespass) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC, they said.

Hyderabad, June 06: BJP national president Nitin Gadkari will arrive here tomorrow on a threeday visit aimed to rejuvenate party workers in the state.

This would be his first visit to the state after becoming the national president of the BJP in December last.

Gadkari would address a press conference at party’s state office on his arrival and later attend an interactive session of IT Professionals, state party president G Kishan Reddy said here.

Next day, the party president would address BJP “Nava Chaitanya Conference” at Saroornagar Indoor stadium.

Vijayawada, June 06: Former professor at IIT Kanpur and vice-president of the Geosynthetic Society of India Prof MR Madhav today inspected the cracks on the retaining wall of the Sri Kanaka Durga temple ghat road here.

Though the temple authorities have allayed the fears of devotees, they brought in the civil engineering expert to seek his suggestions for strengthening the wall. It may be recalled that a detailed report was published in these columns on Thursday on the cracks in the newly-constructed retaining wall.

Hyderabad, June 06: The South-West monsoon entered the State on Saturday after remaining sluggish for a week. It touched parts of Rayalaseema and South Coastal Andhra.

This was three days ahead of June 8, the date forecast for its arrival by India Meteorological Department (IMD). This became possible due to weakening of the severe cyclonic storm ‘Phet’ in the Arabian Sea. As a result, the wind pattern changed on Friday evening and westerly winds developed following heavy rain in Tamil Nadu and parts of Karnataka.

Hyderabd, June 06: Several Congress leaders today met Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who has been asked by the party high command not to resume his ‘Odarpu yatra’.

Congress Whip S Sailajanath and other ruling MLAs Srikant Reddy and Adinarayana Reddy, all considered loyalists of the late Y Rajasekhara Reddy, are among those who met Jagan.

His uncle and MLC Y S Vivekananda Reddy and other family members also met him, besides several senior leaders who are understood to have told him not to go against the party high command.

Hyderabad, June 06: The Andhra Pradesh government Saturday extended for the second time the last date for submitting financial bids for the Rs.12,132 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail project to June 14.

This is the third time in as many months that HMR project authorities have extended the deadline as the shortlisted bidders did not come forward to submit financial bids.

The state government had earlier set April 9 as the deadline, extended it to April 21 and then till June 7.

Earlier this year, eight consortia had qualified to file the financial bids.

Hyderabad, June 06: The Justice Srikrishna Committee will hold consultations with associations and other groups who have submitted representations, from June 8 to 10, according to its nodal officer Rajiv Sharma.

It will hear Telangana Praja Sanghala JAC, Muslim Forum for Telangana, APNGOs, CITU, AP State Committee at Jubilee Hall from 2.30 p.m. onwards on June 8.

Hyderabad, June 06: Late Andhra CM YSR’s son and Congress MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy tells KUNAL MAJUMDER why he wants to continue with his yatra

Media reports suggest that the Congress high command was unhappy with your yatra. Now you claim you have been allowed to continue. What exactly is going on?
I met Ahmed Patel and Veerappa Moily. Both sounded very compassionate about the whole thing and gave me their blessings. The media has blown up the whole thing. [Later, Moily contradicted Reddy’s claim in a media interaction]

Hyderabad, June 05: Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), the governing body of the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala, is planning to ask devotees not to wear “indecent” dress while on pilgrimage to the hill shrine.

“We are going to tell our staff not to allow people with indecent dress. That means they should not allow those wearing bermudas, shorts or T-shirts. They can allow those wearing shirt and pant,” TTD Executive Officer I Y R Krishna Rao said.

The decision to discourage “indecent” attire was taken following complaints.