Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad, January 24: Complex regulatory procedures, lack of quality infrastructure and rigid labour laws are some of the factors hindering the growth of biotechnology industry in Andhra Pradesh, minister for major industries J Geetha Reddy said today.

She was speaking at a seminar on ‘Bridging the gap in biotech-healthcare and agribiotech commercialisation,” organised by the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), Assocham and Fapcci here today.

Nalgonda, January 24: In a case of honour killing, tribal parents allegedly murdered their 16-year-old daughter after they came to know about her pregnancy out of wedlock.

This shocking incident took place in the hillocks of Guvvalagutta village in Chandampeta mandal in the Agency area of Nalgonda district on Sunday.

Ramavath Sharada died of excessive bleeding after her father Ramavath Harya Naik allegedly slashed her stomach with a sharp knife. Writhing in severe pain, the girl breathed her last.

Hyderabad, January 23: The Andhra Pradesh Government today brought the curtains down on the ongoing agitation by its employees and teachers by accepting most of their demands, including filling up of vacant posts.

Tirupati, January 23: Describing the challenge to Kadapa leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy to bring down the government as evidence of frustration, former Minister Peddireddy Ramchandra Reddy lashed out at Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for asking his party MLAs to resign.

Mr Ramchandra Reddy said that Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy should have initiated disciplinary action against the MLAs if he was so upset with them for taking part in former Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s protest rallies.

Kadapa, January 23: A pedestal constructed for installation of a statue of late chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in Thupalli junction under Maidukuru mandal was demolished by the R&B authorities and police during the midnight of Saturday.

YSR supporters have alleged that the pedestal was demolished at the behest of the Health Minister, Dr D L Ravindra Reddy. YSR supporters wanted to erect his statue with their donations.

However, the authorities said that the statue would be in the way of the road widening plan.

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Visakhapatnam, January 23: The Jagan’s group leader, Mr Ambati Rambabu, has questioned the Congress leaders to state what had late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi done to the Congress party to don the highest post.

Mr Rambabu was replying to critics of Jagan that he had not done any service to the Congress party to claim the post of chief minister.

Kurnool, January 23: Police had to open fire to quell clashing workers of the Jindal cement factory Chilakalaguduru village under Gadivemula mandal of the district on Sunday. The workers were demanding compensation to the family of a construction worker Rajaram, who accidentally fell down and died on Saturday.

Warangal, January 23: Irate protestors, allegedly belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Saturday stopped the convoys of Minister for IT and Communications Ponnala Lakshmaiah and Minister for Information and Public Relations DK Aruna and demanded that they resign over the Telangana issue.

The two Ministers were on their way back after conducting a review meeting on the Racha Banda programme at the district Collector’s office.

Hyderabad, January 23:Complex regulatory procedures, lack of quality infrastructure and rigid labour laws are some of the factors hindering the growth of biotechnology industry in Andhra Pradesh, Minister for Major Industries J Getha Reddy said today.

“Complex regulatory procedures, lack of good quality infrastructure, rigid labour laws, the scarcity of scientific personnel with experience in biotech, intellectual property right issues and their enforcement through the courts and complicated clearance procedures for commercialisation of new

Hyderabad, January 23:The Telugu Desam party president, Mr N Chandrababu Naidu, here on Saturday declared that his party’s struggle would not stop till the government initiated effective measures to bring down the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities.

The former chief minister led “Cycle Yatra” from the Secunderabad Monda Market in protest against the frequent hike in the prices of petrol and diesel by the Union government. Before launching the “Cycle Yatra”, Mr Naidu spoke to vegetable merchants and consumers and elicited their problems.

Hyderabad, January 22: When Hyderabadi photographer Madhu Reddy returned to San Francisco to visit her home of 15 years, she presented her work at a local photography event — Open Show.

Hyderabad, January 22: Telangana Telugu Desam Party Forum (TTDPF) convenor Nagam Janardhan Reddy is smart and appears to be eyeing the chief minister’s post in a separate Telangana state, TDP MLA Motkupalli Narasimhulu didn’t say these words directly but meant as much during his remarks today.

Without referring to Nagam’s name, Narasimhulu said the demand for a separate Telangana unit within the TDP was nothing but an attempt by some to show their hold in the region and thus stake a claim to the chief ministership if and when a separate state is created.

Hyderabad, January 22: Noted producer-director EVV Satyanarayana, who introduced Pavan Kalyan (‘Akkada Abbai Ikkada Ammayi’) to the silver screen, died here late this night.

Satyanarayana (53), who had been ailing from mouth cancer for sometime, died due to cardiac arrest at Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills.

Satyanarayana was born at Korumamidi village in West Godavari district on June 10, 1958. He was admitted to hospital on January 19.

Hyderabad, January 22:Declaring that the Andhra Pradesh government has been reduced to minority, the Jagan camp today dared Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and his Cabinet colleagues to step down from their posts and seek a fresh mandate.

Hyderabad, January 22: Kapileswarapuram Zamindar and former Union minister of state for agriculture SBPBK Satyanarayana Rao died after a brief illness at a private hospital in Hyderabad today. He was 91. Rao served people in various capacities during his six-decade political life.

Born in a Zamindar’s family at Kapileswarapuram on September 23, 1921,

he worked as a sarpanch from 1953 to 1964, as Panchayat Samithi president from 1959 to 1964 and as East Godavari Zilla Parishad chairman from 1964 to 1976.

Hyderabad, January 22: A writ petition challenging collection of processing fee, including corpus fund, by the All India Council for Technical Education was admitted by the AP High Court today.

The petition was filed by Joseph Sriharsha Mary Indraja Educational Society and St Mary’s Group of Institutions.

They were represented by KVK Rao.

Hyderabad, January 22: Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute (BIACH&RI) is back in news, again for wrong reasons. Five employees, who have been terminated from service by the management, were seen locked in heated arguments with the management.

The reason for their sacking: They mobilised other staff members and staged a dharna in front of the chief executive officer’s demanding hike in increments last year.

Vishakapatnam, January 22: Lifting the veil of secrecy over the whereabouts of top Maoist leader Ramakrishna alias RK, police say they have information that RK is hiding in the Andhra-Odisha-Chhattisgarh (AOC) border area and that they have intensified combing operations to catch the most wanted Maoist top gun since yesterday.

RK, the CPI (Maoist) central committee member and AOB chief, had escaped into the ‘safe zone’ after coming within a close range of the police dragnet when he came to meet his wife in the Narayanapatna forest block of Odisha in November last.

Hyderabad, January 22: Forty-eight hours before faction leader Maddelacheruvu Suri was shot dead, a telephone call was made to an acquaintance of Pothula Suresh, a trusted aide of slain TDP MLA Paritala Ravi who was arrested in Gujarat recently.

The caller introduced himself as a police officer and “advised” the man to let Suresh know that it wouldn’t be in his interest to apply for bail. “Else, he may unnecessarily become a suspect in a major action (read Suri’s murder) set to take place in a couple of days,” the official warned.

Tirupati, January 22: The Justice Wadhwa Committee, set up by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams for verification of the ornaments in the Venkateswara temple on Tirumala and in other temples managed by the TTD, said that no item was lost and that it was fully satisfied with the system in vogue for protection and maintenance of the ornaments.

Hyderabad, January 22: The state government is contemplating to bring forth a new legislation to curb the growth of bogus societies in the coming Assembly session which is likely to begin in the last week of February.

Speaking to reporters here today, handlooms and textiles minister P Shankar Rao said that several bogus and benami weavers welfare cooperative societies had availed themselves of huge loans from the state government corporations but did not repay them.

Hyderabad, January 22: Taking a break from the hectic schedule, employees of the Ranga Reddy District Collectorate had some fun and frolic today. While women played the traditional ‘thokkudu billa’, men preferred kabaddi. At the end of the games, they cooked food and had lunch together. Well, this was no picnic but they were all doing this during office hours in protest against delay in resolving their demands.

Guntur, January 22: The state government has withdrawn its earlier decision of demolishing the Rajagopuram of Panakala Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple at Mangalagiri, which is stated to be on the verge of collapse.

Following protests from locals against the move to demolish the ancient structure, the endowments commissioner has directed the temple executive officer to submit proposals for strengthening the existing Rajagopuram.

Warangal, January 22: Students of the Kakatiya University have started relay hunger strikes, demanding that the Telangana Bill be immediately introduced in Parliament.

The girl students of the university stood in the forefront of the agitation for Telangana in the University. The University professors visited the hunger strike camp and expressed their solidarity with the students.

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Adilabad, January 22: Slippers and eggs rained on Minister for Infrastructure, Investments, Ports, Airports and Natural Gas Komatireddy Venkata Reddy’s convoy as it tried to avoid a group of protestors, suspected to be belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Bharatiya Janata Party, who were keen to obstruct it in Adilabad district on Friday.

The activists hurled slippers and eggs on the Minister’s convoy even while raising `Jai Telangana’ slogans and tried to block his car.