Hyderabad, February 03: The crucial political affairs committee (PAC) meeting of the PRP will be held here tomorrow. PRP president K Chiranjeevi will preside over the meeting. The meeting assumes significance in the light of defence minister AK Antony recently calling on Chiranjeevi at the latter’s residence and extending invitation to meet Sonia Gandhi.
Hyderabad, February 03: Chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy today strongly objected to allegations levelled against Congress president Sonia Gandhi by senior Congress leader G Venkataswamy yesterday. He termed the CWC member’s statements as most unfortunate and pointed out that Sonia Gandhi had twice sacrificed the PM’s post in the interests of the party.
Addressing the media at Secretariat tonight, the chief minister criticised Venkataswamy for making baseless allegations despite his experience of decades in the party.
Hyderabad, February 03: Former chief secretary SR Ramamurthy passed away here today. He was 85. He is survived by three sons.
Ramamurthy served as collector of Anantapur and East Godavari districts. He headed industries and education departments before his elevation as chief secretary. He also served as advisor to former chief minister Marri Chenna Reddy.
–Agencies
Hyderabad, January 03: For the last 11 days, Deepthi (name changed on request) has not moved out of the apartment that she shares with a fellow Tri-Valley University (TVU) student in Pleasanton, California. Ever since US Immigration and Customs Enformcement (ICE) officials called on her to check her status in the country, her spirits have sunk.
Her university has been busted, the money her family raised to send her to the US has gone down the drain and she may have to drag the RFID anklet around until September when the hearing on her future is likely to take place.
Vishakapatnam, February 03: A man bit the ear of his cousin over old rivalry at the Steel Plant General Hospital here yesterday and fled.
Hyderabad, February 03: The BJP national leadership has decided to focus on Andhra Pradesh as part of its strategy to regain the lost ground at the national level. The party wants to maintain good relations with all the non-Congress parties in the state to get their cooperation in national politics and has shortlisted some important personalities from the state to seek their help to achieve its political targets.
Hyderabad, February 03: Several senior Congress leaders, including former chief minister K Rosaiah, former ministers JC Diwakar Reddy and G Venkat Reddy, MP S Satyanarayana and MLCs KR Amos and P Sudhakar Reddy, today came down heavily on CWC member and senior leader G Venkataswamy for his outburst against party chief and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
They strongly condemned his remarks.
Tirupati, February 03: The herd of 21 elephants that had Kuppam and surrounding villages on the edge for close to 12 hours finally moved towards the forests on the Chittoor-Tamil Nadu border.
They had strayed into Lakshmipuram near Kuppam on Tuesday morning, attracted by the water tank at the Varadarajaswamy temple. While the panicky locals alerted the forest department officials and police, the pachyderms played and rested in the water body till late in the evening.
Karimnagar, February 3: Civil Supplies Minister D Sridhar Babu on Wednesday stated that the government will set up DPL Centres to distribute ration cards in the state.
Talking to media persons after participating in Racha Banda organized at 31st division, Subhash Nagar in Karimnagar district, the Minister said the government will distribute ration cards to all eligible persons through DPL Centres from February 15.
Nalgonda, February 3: Relatives and police of some people who had fainted due to large booming sounds emerging from a power generation plant at Premier Explosives Company Limited at Kandukuru mandal in Yadagirigutta mandal in Nalgonda district lashed out at media for reporting that a bomb explosion had taken place there.
The relatives and police vent their ire at various television channels for releasing scrolling which stated that a massive explosion had occurred in the company and also claimed that some deaths had according.
Nizamabad, February 03: The parents refused to receive the body of notorious psychopath killer Nalla Nagender Reddy, who was shot dead by the Bengaluru cops in an encounter on Tuesday. Nagender Reddy was reportedly involved in 13 heinous crimes including six murders. Following the Red Corner notice issued by the Interpol, the police in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka was on a lookout for him.
Nellore, February 3: Panic prevailed among people of Udayagiri and Varikuntapadu mandals in Nellore district in the wee hours of Wednesday after mild tremors rocked some villages.
According to reports, the mild tremors lasted for a few ‘moments’, led to the villagers running out of their houses in panic. The tremors are also reported to have led to some minor cracks being developed on the walls of some houses in villages.
The villagers claimed that they experienced the tremors thrice in succession.
Chittoor, February 3: The attempts of the Forest Department officials to push the ‘invaders’ in the form of a herd of elephants back into the forest area ended in failure on Wednesday, leaving the officials to continue to ask people to remain under ‘curfew’.
The forest officials had earlier in the day launched `Operation Gaja’, utilizing the services of two well trained pachyderms, Jayanthi and Ganesh, to push back the invading herd in the forests bordering the Pedaparthykunta, Rallapalli and Soudaginepalle areas of Chittoor district.
Hyderabad, February 03: The Congress is slowly but surely moving in to frustrate Jagan Mohan Reddy’s attempt to monopolise the legacy of his father, the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
On Wednesday it fielded Undavalli Arun Kumar, Lok Sabha MP and trusted lieutenant of the former chief minister, to reveal a letter written by YSR when he was CM, strongly recommending to Sonia Gandhi an alliance with the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) and a berth in the Union Cabinet for its president K Chiranjeevi.
Guntur, February 02: A close aide of former Congress MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy today slammed actor- politician Chiranjeevi over his party’s proposed alliance with the ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh.
“The Telugu matinee idol has dashed the hopes of lakhs of people. They reposed immense faiths in him. The actor owes an explanation to them,” Ambati Rambabu told reporters here.
Congress leader and Defence Minister A K Antony held a meeting with Chiranjeevi in Hyderabad yesterday and extended an invitation to him to go to Delhi for a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Hyderabad, February 02: A ragpicker couple on Tuesday evening made a vain bid to “sell” their 8-month-old daughter at Mangalam village.
The locals saw a frail woman pleading with people to buy the infant fore just `100. The villagers said the couple was ready to give away their child even for free. They said they were both suffering from ill-health and didn’t want their child to become a ragpicker.
Locals informed the police, media and a voluntary organisation. However, by the time, the police reached the spot, the couple had left.
–Source: Flashnewstoday
Tirupati, February 2: The Praja Rajyam president, Mr K. Chiranjeevi, has said that his party was invited by the Congress party to join the government.
Chittoor, February 2: One person is believed to have been trampled to death and 15 others injured when a herd of wild elephants ventured into villages on the border of the state with Karnataka in Chittoor district, destroying nearly 100 acres of sugarcane, paddy and vegetable crops.
However Kuppam Sub-Inspector Sai Prasad said that the news of the death of the man is yet to be verified.
The wild elephants, said to be about 40, had ventured into the agricultural fields from Karnataka early on Tuesday and were at present cooling off in the Lakshmipuram Lake in Kuppam mandal.
Hyderabad, February 1: Handlooms and Textiles Minister Shankar Rao will represent Andhra Pradesh during an international exhibition on handloom products to be held in Turkey between February 3 and 6.
Talking to media persons at the Secretariat on Monday, Dr Shankar Rao revealed that the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry has invited industries from Andhra Pradesh to participate in the Turkish exhibition with an objective to promote Indian image as also to provide a platform for industries to showcase their strength and capabilities in an emerging and developing market of that country.
Hyderabad, February 1: The Telangana separatists’ influence to disrupt the Racha Banda in the region went ahead unabated for the eighth day in succession on Monday.
In the districts of Karimanagar, Warangal, Mahabubnagar, the programme was either boycotted or was held for name sake as the locals cooperated with the agitators.
In Chittoor district, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits, state Industries Minister J Geetha Reddy participated in the programme.
They interacted with the beneficiaries.
Hyderabad, January 31: The participants marched along Necklace Road on the banks of Hussain Sagar lake in the heart of Hyderabad. Led by jm Lyngdoh, activists of Youth for Better India carried banners and placards with anti-corruption slogans like “Bring the Lokpal Bill”.Bureaucratturned- politician Jayaprakash Narayan, physician KS Ratnakar and film director Raja Mouli were among the key participants in the rally, which coincided with Martyrs’ Day, the death anniversary of the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi.
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Hyderabad, January 31: The US authorities may have shown the way out to the Indian students of Tri-Valley University by allowing them to apply to other universities or come back home to apply again, but there was little relief for them especially those facing deportation.
Many of the detained Indian students of Tri-Valley University facing deportation are continuing to languish in detention centres in California because to get out they would have to furnish bonds to the tune of $5,000-22,000 depending on the state where they are detained.
Hyderabad, January 31: More trouble is in store for Rachabanda programme in Telangana. The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) announced that it would obstruct the programme of chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to be held at Medak on Feb 9. The JAC took the decision after police allegedly started disrupting relay hunger strikes at several parts in the region.
Pulichintala, January 31: The Pulichintala project works are going on at a snail’s pace as the state government has not released any funds for it since August 2010.
Ashok, project in-charge of Srinivasa Constructions, which is executing the irrigation project, said Rs 40 crore was due to them from the government.
Pulichintala project executive engineer P Bhaskar Rao said bills worth Rs 23 crore were pending with the government.
District Telugu Desam president and Mylavaram MLA Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao said Rs 125 crore was allocated for the project in the last budget.
Hyderabad, January 31: City mayor Banda Karthika Reddy has requested the chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for revoking of government orders related to the mortgage clause issued last year by the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) department.
In a letter to the chief minister, the mayor urged him to amend the Andhra Pradesh revised common building rules.
The state government had issued a GO, dated October 13, 2010 mentioning applicants holding 100 sq m and above plot have to mortgage 10 percent built-up area.