Vijayawada, January 06: The Bezawada Bar Association Human Rights Committee has decided to set up a committee to probe allegations against city police commissioner PSR Anjaneyulu. A decision to this effect was taken by Bar Association president Chalasani Ajay Kumar. It was alleged that the police commissioner had not only sent SMSes to some women but also made innumerable phone calls to them seeking sexual favours.
New Delhi, January 06: Four political parties, which attended a meeting convened by the Centre to hand over the report on Telangana by Justice Srikrishna committee, on Thursday issued a joint appeal to the people of Andhra Pradesh to maintain peace and harmony.
The “joint appeal” issued after the meeting also said the parties have agreed to the suggestion of Home Minister P Chidamabaram that they will meet again later this month after discussing the report within their respective parties.
Khammam, January 05: Investigation into the murder of factionist Maddelachervu Suryanarayana Reddy has unearthed a surprise link between the prime suspect, Bhanu Kiran and Khammam district.
According to police, Bhanu, a trusted aide of Suri, had applied for a pistol licence from Wyra in Khammam district on September 26, 2006 and got a licence for 0.32 pistol on November 23, 2006 despite he not being a resident of Wyra.
Bhanu mentioned his address in the application for the licence as Bhanu, son of Damodhar Rao, 5TH ward, Wyra town.
Adilabad, January 05: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Nitin Gadkari today reiterated that 165 NDA MPs would support the T Bill if the UPA introduced it in Parliament.
Speaking at ‘Telangana Poru’, the public meeting organised by the state BJP here, Gadkari said if the Union government tried to suppress the Telangana agitation, the NDA would stall the Parliament.
Hyderabad, January 05: Apprehending serious trouble to the state due to the recent award of the Krishna River Disputes Tribunal on allocation of waters among Karnataka, Maharashtra and AP, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has decided to take the views of experts and retired engineers concerned to decide on the future course of action.
Hyderabad, January 05: The young energy bouncing off the grounds at Shankarpally was difficult to miss. Over 18,000 scouts from across the country and from countries like France, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal had assembled to kickstart the 16th National Jamboree on Tuesday.
Anantapur, January 05: Body of Maddelacheruvu Suri, who was murdered yesterday, was brought to his native village Maddelacheruvu in Kanaganipalle mandal today evening.
The funeral will be held tomorrow. Suri will be cremated near his parents graves.
Suri’s widow Bhanumathi and his son Vishnuvardhan Reddy along with their relatives accompanied the body from Hyderabad.
People from CK Palle, Ramagiri and Kanaganipalle came in large numbers to Maddelachervu to pay their last respects to Suri.
–Agencies
Hyderabad, January 05: The Congress MPs from Telangana have been summoned by the party high command to be around in Delhi tomorrow, ahead of the allparty meeting convened by Union home minister P Chidambaram on Jan 6.
Party senior leader and Union minister Pranab Mukherjee will confer with them tomorrow at 3 p.m. They are expected to be advised against embarrassing the party with agitations if the Srikrishna Committee verdict goes against formation of a separate Telangana state. Already, some MPs left for Delhi and others are leaving tomorrow morning.
Hyderabad, January 05: MK Ismail, a mandal revenue inspector at the office of the tahasildar, Yammiganur in Kurnool district was dismissed from service by the principal secretary to government (Revenue) following his conviction by the additional special judge for SPE and ACE cases for accepting a bribe.
He was trapped in June 2007 while he was accepting a bribe of `3,000 from a complainant for doing an official favour.
–Agencies
Hyderabad, January 05: The man, who shot dead faction leader Maddelacheruvu Suri, is believed to have shivered as he opened fire, a team of forensic experts at the Osmania General Hospital have concluded. The evidence: two bullets extracted from Suri’s body had a gap of eight inches between them.
‘’Two bullets were recovered — one from the cerebellum and the other from the right ear bone. The gap between the two was eight inches.
Hyderabad, January 05: Factionist Maddelacheruvu Suri’s murder could well be a preplanned covert operation. Investigators believe prime suspect, Bhanu Kiran, was lured by a group of people, over the past one year, to eliminate Suri for a variety of reasons.
Sources associated with the investigation told Express that ever since Suri came out of jail about a year ago, he had made several enemies, mostly in land disputes and due to his involvement in tenders’ process.
Hyderabad, January 05: Clearing the decks for the Indirasagar irrigation project (Polavaram) to attain the national project status, the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of Central Water Commission (CWC) on Tuesday issued clearance for the muchawaited multipurpose project with the revised project cost of about Rs 17,000 crore.
Hyderabad, January 05: Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president D Srinivas today appointed an APCC study group comprising 10 members from the three regions (Telangana, Andhra and Rayalaseema) in the state to delve into the Krishna water sharing dispute.
New Delhi, January 05: The Justice Srikrishna Committee is understood to have recommended six options to deal with the Telangana statehood demand on which the government may take a call in about six weeks.
Sources also said the government would like to take a decision on the recommendations of the panel possibly before the Budget Session of Parliament starting February-end.
New Delhi, January 05: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday told Congress leaders from Andhra Pradesh that a meeting on Thursday on Telangana was just to hand over Justice Srikrishna Committee report to political parties and that they will get some time to give their opinion on the issue.
A day before the meeting convened by Home Minister P Chidambaram, regional differences in the ruling party persisted with MP K.Sambasiva Rao and MLA Uttam Kumar Reddy, who hail from coastal Andhra and Telangana regions respectively, meeting Mr. Mukherjee separately.
Srikakulam, January 05: District Police Superintendent Sanjay Kumar Jain congratulated the efforts made by special police party in unearthing huge dump of explosives and grenades in the district.
According to the a police press release here yesterday the officials confirmed the district to be peaceful after the recovery.
The dump included 40 grenades, eight treasure mines, 52 safety lever pin grenades, Maoist literature and 10 pairs of Maoists’ uniforms.
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Vijayawada January 05: Security beefed up for Palace on Wheels Director General of Police K Aravinda Rao today said Bhanu Kiran, the main suspect in the sensationl murder of Factionist G Suryanarayana Reddy alias Suri, is absconding and the police is investigating the case in all aspects.
Talking to reporters here, the DGP said the police were also investigating car driver Madanamohan Reddy’s version on the case.
Srikakulam, January 5: A Maoist dump was found while a farmer was ploughing his field in Bharanikota village under Meliyaputti mandal of this district on Tuesday.
The shocked farmer informed the police, who dug up the field to take out the dump. They found 40 grenades, eight pressure mines, nine gas sticks, 52 grenade safety levers, uniforms, revolutionary literature and banners.
The police have shifted the material to the district headquarters.
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Hyderabad, January 04: “Are you not taking government’s salary? Why are you refusing to give a complaint form?” fumed 65-year-old N Chalapathi Rao, holding photocopies of representation of problems in his water meter. Staffers at the Prajavani of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) had refused to give him an application form saying the time was over when it was only 12.30 p.m. Customers were given time for obtaining forms till 1 p.m.
Hyderabad, January 04: RightFOLIO, a company offering solutions in the areas of market research and event management among others, announced the integration of all its verticals.
“We have been in corporate communicaton, market research, HR consulting, event management and brand building for over 15 years. However, we are now integrating all the verticals and bringing them together under one umbrella” said Parakala Prabhakar, managing director, RightFOLIO.
Hyderabad, January 04: With the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) loosing out revenue due to water tankers stealing water, the Board has decided install clear water meters at 96 water filling stations.
It has invited tenders from private agencies for supplying, installing and commissioning water meters having Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and GSM technology. The meters would also be capable of transferring data to the Board’s Revenue Billing System (RBS) wirelessly.
Hyderabad, January 04: The Hyderabad district administration is going to organise Arogysri camps in all 16 mandals of the district from January 6 to 12, collector Natarajan Gulzar said.
On January 6, Arogysri camp will be organised in Chanchalguda of Charminar mandal, Erukula basthi (Saidabad) and Indiranagar (Musheerabad).
The next one will be held on January 8 in Karmika Nagar in Khairatabad mandal, Quli Qutub Shah Nagar (Golconda), Mangalhat (Nampally), MCH Quarters (Himayatnagar) and Tulasiram Nagar (Amberpet).
Hyderabad, January 04: Perhaps for the first time in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), the Town Planning wing has been bifurcated into sections for effective functioning by GHMC commissioner Sameer Sharma. The Town Planning wing has become notorious for corruption and harassing applicants. It is an open secret that without greasing the palms of the staff here, the files pertaining to building plans and other matters do not move here.
Hyderabad, January 04: The Congress will send the same representatives _ Kavuri Sambasiva Rao (MP) and Uttam Kumar Reddy (MLA) who had attended the previous all-party meeting in Delhi on January 5, 2010 _ to the all-party meeting being held by Union home minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi on January 6.
Kakinada, January 04: Prime minister Manmohan Singh presented the prestigious Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award and a gold medal to JNT University-Kakinada (JNTU-K) vice-chancellor Allam Appa Rao at the inaugural session of the 98th Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) held at SRM University in Chennai today.
The ISCA selected Prof Rao for the award for his contribution to the development of science and technology, specifically in the area of Computational Biology, Software Engineering and Network Security.