Andhra Pradesh

Warangal, October 15: Incidents like Muslim girls running away with Hindu boys and marrying them subsequently are frequent these days. But in an unprecedented incident a Muslim burqa clad girl is found to be worshiping in a temple with her non Muslim friends.

The girl not only visited Sri Sai Baba temple situated in Hanamkunda Warangal police station limits but also worshiped according to Hindu rituals.

Local Muslims are immensely grieved by the agonizing incident.

——–Siasat News

Hyderabad, October 14: Seeking to rein in microfinance institutions (MFIs), whose coercive functioning led to alleged suicides of a number of poor and rural people, the Andhra Pradesh government today approved a special Ordinance for the purpose and sent it for the Governor’s assent.

The State Cabinet met here specially to approve the ordinance in view of the massive pubic outcry over the harassment of the poor by the MFIs.

State Rural Development Minister V Vasanth Kumar, talking to reporters after the Cabinet meeting, declined to divulge the contents of the ordinance.

Nalgonda, October 14: Flying debris caused by an explosion in a garbage bin left one passerby seriously injured at Peerla Chavadi Bazaar, a Gram Panchayat in Huzurnagar in Nalgonda district on Thursday.

According to Sub-Inspector Balagangi Reddy, Venkateshwarlu, a resident of Huzurnagar was passing by the garbage bin when the explosion took place. The explosion ripped blew the circular cement garbage bin into pieces, which hit Venkateshwarulu on the forehead, leaving him seriously injured.

Venkateshwarulu was rushed to a nearby hospital by other passersby and the police was informed.

Vishakapatnam, October 13: A new born has had its right eat cut off in a botched ceasarean operation and died minutes after birth at a private nursing home in Railway Colony here. An angry father and his relatives blamed the death on doctors and staged a dharna in front of the nursing home today seeking justice.

Hyderabad, October 13: Former minister JC Diwakar Reddy, who had hoped to make it to the cabinet, turned philosophical today on pursuit of politics after the party president Sonia Gandhi deferred the exercise of reshuffle of the state cabinet.

“There is no room for despair and despondency in public life. If anyone has any such feelings, it is better he chooses some other field,” Diwakar Reddy said in response to mediapersons’ queries on the unsuccessful mission of the chief minister to Delhi.

Nellore, October 13: The controversial Odarpu Yatra, planned by Kadapa MP YS Jaganmonha Reddy in the district, raised a lot of din and heat in the district political arena well before it actually kicked off.

As expected, the yatra has caused a sharp division in the ruling party and a verbal clash between those supporting the yatra and others distancing themselves from it.

Meanwhile, TDP MLA Prasannakumar Reddy has added more to the din by announcing that he will participate in the yatra, much to the discomfiture of the TDP and surprise to the Congress.

Tirumala, October 13: A three-tier security cover will be provided in and around Tirumala township in view of the terror threat to the Venkateswara temple and the Tirumala hill.

Hyderabad, October 13: Raising hopes among hopefuls, Congress MP Rayapati Sambasiava Rao today said that chief minister K Rosaiah will reconstitute his cabinet by the end of this month.

Sambasiva Rao, after conferring with Rosaiah earlier in the day, said party president Sonia Gandhi will give the go ahead signal to him with regard to Cabinet reshuffle. He felt that the Cabinet reshuffle was put on hold because the party leadership was preoccupied with Karnataka political crisis.

Kadapa, October 13: In a shocking incident, the torso of a 13-year-old boy, who had gone missing since Sunday, was found near a hillock near Mamillapalle Indiramma Colony today.

K Ganesh Reddy, a Class VIII student of Pavan School at Akkayapalle, went missing while practising cycling on the road in front of his house on Sunday. When he failed to return home even by 5 pm, his parents got panicky and started searching for him.

Hyderabad, October 13: Even a microfinance sector is being rocked by reports of borrower distress in Andhra Pradesh, SKS Microfinance Ltd, the biggie in the sector, is caught up in boardroom troubles.

The company fired its CEO and managing director Suresh Gurumani last week, citing no reasons to the stock exchanges. Reports emanating from the company indicate that the dismissal was primarily due to Gurumani’s interpersonal issues with senior management.

Hyderabad, October 13: The flash strike called by Indo-American Hospital employees on Monday night ended peacefully after the management assured a committee would be formed to look into their grievances.

Sources in the hospital said this committee would be looking into individual grievances of the employees. He added that most grievances were individual in nature. “Employees can come either in group or individually to get their grievances addressed,’’ an official said.

Hyderabad, October 13: Worry lines are creasing the faces of MFI honchos with the government mulling a decree to keep them in line.

“The situation is bad and there’s a fair amount of distress because of MFI practices,’’ said Subramanyam, principal secretary, rural development. “We don’t know yet whether it will be an Act or an ordinance or just an agreement. But there will be something very shortly.”

Hyderabad, October 13: Big Fish Velugubanti Suryanarayana, executive engineer of the fisheries department who was caught with disproportionate assets running into several crores of rupees in 2008, was convicted and sentenced to two years simple imprisonment in a similar but separate case by a special court in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.

Hyderabad, October 13: Three pseudo-Naxalites, who tried to extort money from a private seed companuy, were today nabbed by the police.

Hyderabad, October 13: Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy is likely to issue a notice to rebel TDP MLA N Prasanna Kumar Reddy against whom Telugu Desam has complained of indulging in anti-party activities.

The Speaker is likely ask Prasanna Kumar Reddy, MLA from Kovur in Nellore district, to reply within a week, Assembly sources said.

Prasanna Kumar Reddy was elected on a TDP ticket but has been making critical comments against the party leadership for long.

–Agencies

Hyderabad, October 13: A man from Warangal district, whose son allegedly committed suicide in support of separate Telangana demand, created a commotion at the TRS office here by attempting suicide.

Teegala Venkanna alleged that nobody had offered him any financial help though his son died for Telangana last month.

He poured kerosene on himself but was prevented from doing anything else by TRS workers and others. He and his wife were taken inside the party office.

Venkanna claimed that his son Hariprasad committed suicide in support of separate Telangana.

–Agencies

Hyderabad, October 12: A software engineer from the city, who was employed in the US, was arrested from the Delhi international airport in a dowry harassment case. The techie was returning to the US when immigration authorities caught him and handed him over to the city police.

The software engineer is the son of Asifabad additional district judge Sambasiva Rao.

Police said K Ramakrishna was married to Anupama, a resident of Yousufugda in 2006. Anupama’s parents reportedly gave Rs 1.80 lakh cash, gold ornaments and other household articles as dowry during the marriage.

Hyderabad, October 12: Six railway employees were today arrested for their alleged involvement in cheating a nationalised bank to the tune of Rs 65 lakh by submitting forged documents. The railway employees conspired with a person and took loans from the bank by submitting forged documents, police said.

Hyderabad, October 12: “The state government issues orders and brings forth legislations but seldom bothers to implement them.” This was the opinion expressed by building and construction workers of the state who staged a dharna in front of the State Labour Commissioner’s Office here today.

The protest was held under the aegis of the AP Building and Construction Workers Union demanding proper implementation of the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Act 1996.

Hyderbad, October 12: Megastar and Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) chief Chiranjeevi appears an unhappy man these days.

Reason: his bete noire and veteran director Dasari Narayana Rao has bagged the Nandi award for displaying “best acting” skills in a film, ‘Mestri’, that is at best, a critic and at worst, a parody on PRP. Never mind that it bombed at the box-office.

Awards do not matter so long as films rake in the moolah, Chiru reasoned on Monday.

New Delhi, October 12: After creating a flutter by saying that chief minister K Rosaiah should either step down or drop defiant and corrupt ministers from his cabinet, Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao dashed off a letter to party president Sonia Gandhi this morning urging her to give Rosaiah a free hand to reshuffle his cabinet.

The Congress MP had sent the letter to her a few hours before Rosaiah had met her. But the letter, apparently, did not have any influence on the party president since the cabinet revamp has been kept on hold, at least for the time being.

Nellore, October 12: Telugu Desam dissident leader and Kovur MLA Nallapareddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy, who created a flutter with his 8-page open letter to party supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, making allegations against him, fired yet another salvo today by declaring that he would participate in the Odarpu Yathra of Jagan in the district. Speaking to mediapersons here today, he said that he had decided to participate in the yatra ‘from the beginning to the end’.

Hyderabad, October 12: Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy’s camp has received yet another blow from the APCC with the party directing the Chittoor DCC president to issue show-cause notice to former TUDA chairman Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy, a staunch loyalist of Jagan.

Hyderabad, October 12: The state government has reportedly taken a decision not to bring pressure on Maharahstra government on Babli in return for not raising objections to Pranahita Chevella project. Though there is no official word on the trade off, sources in the irrigation department said that the state government is of the view that pursuing the Babli project vigorously will only hamper the relations with the Maharashtra government and damage the prospects Pranahita-Chevella project for which the state government is making efforts for national status..

Hyderabad, October 12: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leadership will draft its future course of action, to be followed after December 31, at its

politburo and executive committee meeting scheduled to be held at the Telangana Bhavan on October 13.

Party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao disclosed it while addressing a gathering of party workers here today. The TRS chief is planning to spearhead the movement on Gandhian lines and is contemplating to take up non-cooperation movement in the region.