Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad, May 12: How did Congress nominee Kasani Gnaneswar bite the dust in the election to the Legislative Council from the Ranga Reddy LAC (Local Authorities Constituency)? Knowing its weakness in the constituency, the Congress had brought into the fray Gnaneswar, who was president of Mana Party, as it thought he would be able to win because he had the resources to turn the tables on the opposition. But the ruling party was proved wrong and Telugu Desam candidate Narender Reddy walked away with the cake.

Hyderabad, May 12: Andhra Pradesh continued to reel under intense heat with the mercury level hovering between 43 and 48 degrees Celsius in various parts of the state today.

Guntur in coastal region, Adilabad, Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar and Warangal districts in Telangana and Anatapur and Chittor districts in Rayalaseema were in the grip of intense heat, MeT officials said.

The highest temperature of 48 deg C was recorded at Ramgumdan in Karimnagar district, they said.

For the third consecutive day, Hyderabad with 45 deg C reeled under severe heatwave.

Tirupati, May 10: Twelve pilgrims going to the Golden Temple in Vellore died when the driver of the goods carrier taking them there dozed off at the wheel in the wee hours of Sunday morning at Agarala substation near Ithepalle under Chandragiri police limits.

The driver, 19-year old G Madan Kumar had bought his the auto on hire purchase nine months ago and had been operating it to supply mineral water cans to customers and lend a helping hand to his father, a mill worker.

Guntur, May 10: Chief minister K Rosaiah has reiterated that despite the financial crunch the State Government will continue the welfare and development programmes launched by the late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy.

Addressing a meeting here after inaugurating a 384- house complex constructed at a cost of Rs 6.84 crore under the Rajiv Gruhakalpa programme, he said Rajiv Gruhakalpa was launched five years ago with an aim to construct 80 lakh houses across the state.

Warangal, May 10: Telugu Desam functionaries and students of Kakatiya University JAC exchanged blows when the latter tried to disrupt the party activists meeting being held here today.

Demanding that agitations be launched in favour of separate Telangana, KU JAC students led by convener Vasudeva Reddy stormed Reddy Function Hall in the NGO Colony where the meeting was being held.
Raising pro-Telangana slogans, they tried to give a representation to the party leaders.

Hyderabad, May 10: At least three tribals and three policemen were injured during a gun battle between Maoists and police in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district.

The police said the exchange of fire took place after Maoists blasted a police vehicle during a weekly market in R.V. Nagar village.

Three policemen were injured in the firing. Three tribals also suffered injuries. The injured were admitted to Chintapalli Area Hospital.

Hyderabad: Six tribals were injured on Monday when Maoists opened fire on them in a forest area in Vishakapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, police said.

The incident occured around noon in R V Puram forest area of G K Veedhi mandal on the Andhra-Orrisa border when a group of ultras fired on a private vehicle suspecting that it was carrying police personnel, a senior police officer said.

Hyderabad, May 10: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah on Monday ruled out any inquiry into charges of corruption levelled by some senior Congress leaders against a few of his cabinet colleagues.

“There is no need for any such inquiry,” Mr. Rosaiah said in Zaheerabad where he came to attend the Prajapatham (administration at the people’s doorstep) programme.

Hyderabad, May 10: Six tribals were injured on Monday when Maoists fired at their vehicle in a forest area in Visakhapatnam, thinking it was carrying police personnel.

The incident took place in R. V. Puram forest area of G. K. Veedhi mandal on the Andhra-Orissa border when a group of ultras fired at a private vehicle suspecting that it was carrying police personnel, a senior police officer said.

The Maoists soon fled away. The tribals received bullet injuries and have been admitted to a government hospital. They were being shifted to KGM hospital at Visakhapatnam, he said.

Hyderabad, May 10: Andhra Pradesh’s planners have much to cheer over Friday’s Supreme Court ruling on the feud between the Ambani brothers over pricing of gas from the Krishna-Godavari offshore field as it will open the doors to gas allocation for new projects.

Hyderabad, May 09: In the wake of corruption charges levelled by Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, MP and former minister P Goverdhan Reddy against the Cabinet ministers, the Lok Satta party has demanded the state government to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act immediately.

Lok Satta leaders Bheesetti Babji, V Lakshman Balaji and P Bhaskara told reporters that corruption in Andhra Pradesh has become ubiquitous and the guilty are going unscathed as the government is not serious about mitigating if not eliminating corruption altogether.

Hyderabad, May 09: A global investors conference will be held at Bengaluru for two days from June 3 to attract nearly Rs 4 lakh core investments in all the priority sectors.

This was disclosed by Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa here today.

He urged Hyderabad-based investors to take part in the conference.

Twin cities Sanmana Samiti comprising all Kannada-based associations of Hyderabad and Secundrabad today felicitated Yeddyurappa at Sundaraiah Vignana Kendram.

Hyderabad, May 09: Pilgrimage turned tragic for three families from Mahaboobnagar district when the vehicle in which they were travelling met with a major accident leaving 10 persons dead and one injured late yesterday night.

Three families from Addakula and Pangula mandal of the district set off on a pilgrimage in a vehicle on April 1. They first visited Tirupathi and later visited several other temples.

They reached Mahanandi in Kurnool district yesterday and after having darshan were returning home at around 10.30 p.m from Kurnool.

Hyderabad, May 09: A student from Hyderabad pursuing her MS in electrical engineering at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, died in a road accident in the US yesterday. Five other students from the city escaped with minor injuries in the accident.

Praneetha Devi Kasani (22) was returning from New York to Ohio along with five of her friends when the mishap took place in West Virginia. According to reports reaching the family, the car in which the six were travelling hit a car in front of it and veered off to left and ran into another car onrushing from the opposite direction.

Vishakapatnam, May 09: It was a rare sight for the fans of Chiranjeevi.

Much to their delight, the Tollywood mega star of yesteryears, almost enacted a scene from many of his films when he went on a horse ride on the streets of Payakaraopata, a small town on the border of Visakhapatnam distict.

Tirupati, May 09: Twelve persons were killed and two others seriously injured in a head-on collision between a van and a state-run transport corporation bus near here in the wee hours today.

The mishap occurred when the van, carrying 14 persons from Nellore, collided with the bus coming from the opposite direction at Agarala village, 25 kms from here, police said.

The victims, all occupants of van, hailed from Nellore.

Tirupati, May 09: The famous hill shrine of Tirumala and its base town Tirupati, which feature prominently on the terror radar, will be further fortified, once the proposed Tirupati urban police district becomes a reality.

The temple town, which witness 70,000 to 80,000 pilgrims from across the country and abroad, on an average every day has a high threat perception, considering past incidents involving terrorists, where places of worship were targeted.

Guntur, May 09: It now turns out that MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao’s comment on “tainted ministers’’ in the Rosaiah Cabinet was actually aimed at his rival from Guntur district, Kanna Lakshminarayana.

And the lat ter, minister for major industries, is not inclined to take the attack lightly.

“I will complain to party president Sonia Gandhi against Rayapati. I file my income tax returns regularly and anyone can verify them,’’ he said, referring to charges that he had amassed wealth after becoming a minister.

Hyderabad, May 09: An engineering student was found dead under suspicious circumstances near the railway tracks at Balanagar on Friday night. The victim, A. Chandrasekhar (22) hailing from Karimnagar district, allegedly consumed liquor along with his friend Naresh at the railway tracks. While Naresh said that Chandrasekhar died after a goods train hit him, police maintained that exact reasons behind the accident were yet to be ascertained only after getting the post-mortem report.

Freak accident

Vijayawada, May 06: Perhaps taking a cue from the daughters of well known Nadaswara Vidwan late China Moula Saheb, four teenage girls belonging to one family are enthralling audience with their music.

They enrolled themselves in the four-year certificate course in Nadaswaram at the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams-run Sri Venkateswara College of Music and Dance, Tirupati two years ago.

Hyderabad, May 06: Police are scouring their contacts to find out what exactly Mohammed Zia-ul Haq, the alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative who was arrested by the police on Monday, was up to since he crossed over into India in Kashmir way back in 2002.

Police picked up the LeTtrained operative who was allegedly tasked to attack the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu facility in Hyderabad’s software district. The plan was to set a scare in the software sector in the city.

Guntur, May 06: A junior doctor at the Guntur Government General Hospital who allegedly misbehaved with an attendant of a heart patient last night, was handed over to the police.

According to information, house surgeon Ravi Teja allegedly misbehaved with a girl, an attendant of a heart patient.

When she raised an alarm, people nearby caught him and handed him over to the police outpost and later to the Kothapet police station.

However, no case was registered against the junior doctor as the girl did not file any complaint.

Rajhmundary, May 06: Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi’s `Polavaram Sadhana Bus Yatra’ set out from the famous pilgrim centre of Antarvedi in the Konaseema area of East Godavari district today after pujas to Lord Lakshminarasimha Swamy were conducted.

Addressing people en route on the first day of the bus yatra today, the PRP president said that the Union Government was delaying according the national project status to Indira Sagar (Polavaram) irrigation project.

The PRP would continue the fight against the government until the project was given the national status, he said.

Vishakapatnam, May 06: Governor ESL Narasimhan has not sent any adverse report to the Centre on the state of things in the state, chief minister K Rosaiah has asserted.

Speaking at a press conference here today at the end of his twoday visit to the district, the chief minister said that the governor had called him up and clarified on media reports. “Rosaiah, I have not sent any special reports or survey reports on the government except my routine messages to the President,’’ the chief minister quoted the governor as having told him.

Hyderabad, May 06: Even as the Central government is drafting new rules for electronic waste (e-waste) management under the e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2010, e-waste is fast piling up in the backyard of Hyderabad with the officials turning a blind eye to the threat.

The city has climbed up on the list of top-10 e-waste-producing cities in the country, with a daily generation of about 25 ton. An estimated 10,000 ton of e-waste was produced in the State during the last financial year with a major contribution (about 6,000 ton) from Hyderabad, industry sources said.