Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad, November 16: A class V student of a private residential school at Hayathnagar was confined in a room on Monday and thrashed mercilessly by the principal, on allegations that the girl stole money from her room.

The principal allegedly disrobed the girl and beat her with a gas stove pipe. She was confined in a room for a day to ensure the brutal act does not come in the open. The girl managed to flee told her parents, who lodged a complaint with the Hayathnagar police. The principal, Vijaya Mani has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody.

Hyderabad, November 16: The Standing Committee of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) met on Monday to discuss the draft budget estimates for 2011-12 and revised estimates for 2010-11. The committe proposed to tax 40 new trades like hostels, coffee shops, private swimming pools for trade licence.

It also plans to enhance garbage collection fee from commercial establishments and fee for film/TV shooting in GHMC parks and properties. Developing ring drains around lakes by collecting charges from polluters was also proposed.

Hyderabad, November 16: The BJP state unit has come down heavily on TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao for announcing support to the Congress and sought to know whom he would fight with hereafter, for the formation of a separate Telangana state.

Hyderabad, November 16: A day after the Orissa Police arrested Padma, wife of top Maoist leader Ramakrishna alias RK, the Andhra Pradesh Police on Monday denied speculation that her husband was also picked up.

A team from AP’s elite anti-Naxal force, Greyhounds, is in Koraput, where Padma was arrested, to gather information about the whereabouts of RK, the CPI (Maoist) central committee member and Andhra-Orissa-border (AOB) special zonal committee general secretary.

Hyderabad, November 16: Alleging state government’s failure to provide better facilities at social welfare hostels, anganwadi centres and government schools, Vasantha Kannabiran, noted social activist, has called upon all social organisations to come forward to help poor students who are studying in government schools and anganwadi centres.

Hyderabad, November 16: Intelligence sharing on internal security, terrorist threats and left-wing extremism between the civil government and the armed forces should be encouraged to counter terrorism, said Lieutenant General B K Chengapa, General Officer Commanding of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. He stressed the need to conduct joint training and rehearsals in operations to improve the situation.

Hyderabad, November 16: TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu today demanded that the FCI should relax norms and procure the paddy that had become discoloured due to the recent rains in the state.

A group of farmers from West Godavari district narrated their woes to the former chief minister here today. They said with the FCI, Civil Supplies Corporation and the IKP not coming forward to procure the discoloured paddy from them, they were forced to resort to distress sale at Rs 550 a bag.

Hyderabad, November 16: Serious differences cropped up between Telangana and Andhra MPs over the way Polavaram project is sought to be executed with both sides shouting at one another at a meeting called by Andhra Rajya Sabha member N Janardhan Reddy at his residence in Delhi today.

According to sources, the Telangana MPs – Ponnam Prabhakar, G Vivek, V Hanumantha Rao and K Keshava Rao – were taken aback when Eluru MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao began making ‘cheap’ comments on tribals whose habitations are likely to be submerged after the execution of the project.

Hyderabad, November 15: After a week-long rescue operation, the crocodile has managed to survive in the pond, without any feed from the rescue team in the last few days.

With a warning board ‘Beware of Crocodiles’ hung up at the site in Nanakramguda, the crowd refuses to die even after eight days. With no rescue plan in sight, the 10 to 12 feet long reptile is surviving by altering its natural tendencies. It is usually known to become sluggish, if it does not sunbathe for long.

However, the 10-year old crocodile has been affected by human disturbances.

Hyderabad, November 15: Ravinder and Anita Gambiraopet’s home has never been more full of family, friends and neighbours. And yet, all that one hears is hushed silence, interrupted by soft weeping. They have gathered together to mourn the loss of Arpana Gambiraopet and to prey for the speedy recovery of her twin sister, Archana.

How do you see KCR’s changed strategy?

After July 27 byelections, TRS’ confidence went up and he intensified efforts to achieve Telangana through a political process. KCR’s critics are seeing only a part of his strategy and not the whole. I am sure they will support him when they come to know the entire strategy.

But why does KCR seem to be hesitating to intensify the movement?

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Hyderabad, November 15: A petrol pump owner was seriously injured in an attack by three robbers who made a vain bid to snatch a bag which contained Rs 7 lakh at Canara Bank’s Shivarampally branch here today.

Ranjendranagar police said Mohammed Sadiq, owner of Janatha Petrol Station, went to Canara Bank to deposit Rs 7 lakh with the bank. The bank is located on the first floor and Sadiq was climbing the steps. Suddenly, three persons emerged, attacked him with a knife and snatched the cash bag from him.

Hyderabad, November 15: China’s development poses no threat to any country but rather provides an opportunity to the world, Zhang Yan, ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to India has said. He asserted that the world stands to gain from a stable, developed and prosperous China and assured that time will continue to prove that China will always be a positive and constructive force for world peace and development.

Hyderabad, November 15: ‘We kshatriyas are known for lavish spending and would like to know from Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah on how to save money,” quipped former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and general secretary of All India Congress Committee Digvijay Singh at a national conference of All India Kshatriya Federation here today.

Bhongir, November 15: The name of YS Rajasekhara Reddy, who had made all Congress groups fall in line when he was alive, triggered trouble once again, this time at the Telangana martyrs memorial meeting here today with IT minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and Suryapet MLA and former minister R Damodar Reddy engaging in heated exchanges.

A similar unsavoury situation prevailed at another memorial meeting held in Mahaboobnagar recently when some supporters of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy created a ruckus over non-display of a portrait of YS Rajasekhara Reddy at the venue.

Hyderabad, November 15: Top Maoist leader Ramakrishna’s wife was arrested by the Orissa police while she was on her way to meet him and their son Prithvi alias Munna in the Koraput forest area on Sunday.

According to reports, Padma, wife of CPI (Maoist) central committee member and Andhra-Orissa Border special zonal committee general secretary Ramakrishna alias RK, was picked up at Dhudari village under the Semliguda police limits. Sources said she was going to Narayanapatnam to meet Ramakrishna and their son Prithvi.

Hyderabad, November 15: What is Congress working committee (CWC) member K Keshava Rao up to? The other day, he described the TDP’s Telangana leaders as “heroes” and profusely thanked Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao for his offer of support to the Congress.

Warangal, November 15: Former Congress minister Konda Surekha on Sunday dashed off a letter to AICC president Sonia Gandhi urging her to direct the PCC to review its decision of sacking Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy from the primary membership of the Congress.

A close follower of the late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, Bhaskar Reddy earlier worked as chairman of the Tirupati Urban Development Authority.

“Strangely nobody knows why the PCC has sacked him and it can’t be justified.

Guntur, November 15: A youth slit the throat of a minor girl after a failed rape bid as she raised an alarm late on Saturday night in the SC colony of Madanur village in Kotthapatnam mandal of Guntur district.

She was rushed to the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ongole, about 20 km from here where doctors gave her eight stitches and declared her condition ‘stable’.

Hyderabad, November 15: Senior TDP leader and politburo member K Yerran Naidu alleged that the Congress governments at the state and Centre have turned into centres of corruption.

The TDP leader, along with MP Nama Nageswara Rao, MLA P Keshav and others, made a press briefing after TDP’s politburo meeting here today.

Yerran Naidu said that 2G spectrum scam was the largest in the world and the UPA government did not initiate action even after CAG revelations.

Hyderabad, November 15: What ’s KCR up to? Political circles are abuzz with this question ever since the TRS chief made a statement last week offering support to the Congress. Coming just a month and a half ahead of the Dec 31 deadline for the Srikrishna Committee’s report on the Telangana issue, his olive branch to the Congress is being seen as a sellout by his critics in the Telangana movement and as only an opportunistic stratagem by his supporters.

Hyderabad, November 15: Underlining the importance and culture of the Telugu language, Andhra Saaraswata Parishad president and Jnanpeeth awardee C Narayana Reddy has appealed to the state government to use Telugu while issuing orders and promote use of the language in all government departments and private firms in the state.

Guntur, November 15: An 18-day -old boy has gone missing from the government general hospital. It is the first such incident in the 60-year history of the hospital.

According to information, Agnivardhani, wife of Yohan of Choutuppayapalem in Rajupalem mandal, gave birth to a male child at home.

Hyderabad, November 15: Did the executive engineer of Sri Kalahasteeswara Swamy Devasthanam, who created a flutter by committing suicide in the devasthanam’s administrative building, drop his suicide note in the temple’s hundi? The Chittoor district police believe that Vasudevan might have dropped the suicide note and other gold ornaments with him at the time of taking the extreme step in the temple’s hundi. The police have also requested the temple authorities to permit them to see the contents in the hundi.