Hyderabad, August 07: Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu will undertake a padayatra to Tirumala shrine tomorrow to supplicate before God to give wisdom to the rulers to take measures to preserve the sanctity of the shrine.
Speaking to reporters here today, he said the padayatra would be devoid of any political overtones.
“No one will carry TDP flags. We will be trekking as devotees of the Lord,’’he said.
Hyderabad, August 07: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths, for the first time, unearthed properties amassed by State government officials in other parts of the country. They found that two excise officials, from Guntur and Nellore districts, together had disproportionate assets worth Rs 2 crore, including agricultural land in Gurgaon and Fareedabad in Haryana.
The market value of the assets, however, could be more than Rs 10 crore.
Hyderabad, August 07: The State Government has reportedly decided to hand over the much publicised case of the alleged disappearance of ancient jewellery of Lord Venakteswara to the CBI.
Sources said the decision was taken to set at rest wild speculations surrounding the missing jewels. The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which manages the jewellery of the Balaji temple, has of late been rocked by several controversies, but the missing jewels hogged the headlines for obvious reasons.
Hyderabad, August 07: I Venkateswara Rao has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of NTR Health University at Vijayawada. Governor ESL Narasimhan, who is also the chancellor of the university, appointed Venkateswara Rao for a term of three years with effect from the date of assumption of office.
Ongole, August 07: The birthday party of an engineering student ended on a tragic note with two students being washed away by waves at the Vodarevu beach near Chirala today. Singamsetti Suneel of Nova Engineering College at Ibrahimpatnam went to Vodarevu along with 20 friends to celebrate his birthday.
When the revellers got into the sea, one of them, Ch Mahesh, was washed away at first. Suneel, who tried to save his fried, was also snatched by the strong waves.
–Agencies
Hyderabad, August 07: Stepping up attack again on the party leadership in the state, suspended PCC general secretary Ambati Rambabu on Thursday alleged that a section within the Congress was bent upon ousting the followers of Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy from the party.
“There is also a conspiracy being hatched to bury the family of former chief minister late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy politically,” he said.
Hyderabad, August 07: Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal said that if a resolution favouring separate Telangana was introduced in the Assembly following the statement by Union home minister P Chidambaram, it would have been defeated by a 225-vote majority.
When justice Srikrishna asked about the Assembly adopting a resolution after Chidambaram’s statement in December last year, Rajagopal said it would have been defeated by 225 votes. He pointed out that the powers to adopt a resolution were cancelled to states through the Constitution.
Rajahmundry (AP), August 07: As water level in Godavari river crossed danger mark today, the local authorities have issued warning to residents living near the river bank in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.
The water level at Dowleswarm has been on the rise for the past two days with heavy rains lashing the district, Flood Control Officer and Senior Engineer, V Venugopal said.
“The water level is likely to increase further by night.
We are monitoring the situation and taking all precautions.
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh), August 07: Slamming the ruling United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) food management policies, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Saturday said the government was ensuring food for rats by allowing stocks to rot.
“The FCI (Food Corporation of India) godowns have 60 million tonnes of foodgrain. Stocks are overflowing and allowed to rot. What they are ensuring is food safety for rats,” Karat said while inaugurating the extended central committee meeting of the party here.
Hyderabad, August 07: TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu will remain as equivocal as ever on the issue of bifurcation of the state. This will be the party’s policy, going forward.
In other words, his two-eye policy is in tact, despite the drubbing the party has received in the Telangana region in the recent by-elections.“As both Telangana and Andhra regions are important me, I have taken a neutral stand on the bifurcation issue.
New Delhi, August 07: Members of the Srikrishna committee, looking into demands for and against separate statehood to Telangana, will travel by train next month to seek the opinion of the people.
The five-member committee headed by Justice B.N. Srikrishna will travel from Shadnagar town in Mahabubnagar district to Kadapa in September. The committee will stop at different places both in the Telangana and Rayalaseema regions to feel the pulse of the people.
Hyderabad, August 06: Forest officials Friday intensified their efforts to trap two leopards after devotees walking on the footpath to the Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh spotted one of them.
The devotees, trekking up the Tirumala hills to reach the famed temple, saw a wild cat and informed the forest officials, who swung into action to trap it.
The forest personnel had already launched efforts to catch the leopards that attacked two girls and injured them in two different incidents last week.
Hyderabad, August 06: The Sri Krishna committee on Telangana issue today said it has taken note of the results of recent bypolls in Telangana and alleged suicides in support of the statehood demand but they do not put any kind of pressure on it while preparing the final report.
Hyderabad, August 05: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday announced that his party members will take up a padayatra in the adjoining areas of the Sri Ramsagar Project to create awareness about the illegal constructions across the river Godavari as part of the Babli Irrigation Project by the Maharashtra government.
Hyderabad, August 05: BJP Andhra Pradesh unit is evolving various programmes to further strengthen party base in the state, said its president G Kishan Reddy here on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters, he said the party is gearing up to take up long-term agitations on people’s problem including training programmes to its workers in coming months.
A decision has been taken in the meeting of state office- bearers and party’s district presidents held here yesterday in which former party president Rajnath Singh attended as chief guest, Reddy said.
Hyderabad, August 03: THE Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has decided to shift the deer in the deer park on the Tirumala hills immediately in order to protect pilgrims from deerhunting leopards.
A decision to this effect was taken today by the TTD and the forest department. TTD chairman DK Audikesavulu met forest and environment minister P Ramachandra Reddy here today and discussed the leopard attacks which took place twice within a week on the pathway from Alipiri to Tirumala.
Vijayawada, August 03: Two Austrian students have flown all the way to Vijayawada to contribute for the upliftment of streetchildren. Sabrina Jamnig and Eva Mitterlehner who are pursuing post graduation in Vienna University, Vienna, will stay in the city for four months to work with the NGO Navjeevan Bala Bhavan trust. They have been teaching English and Mathematics to the trust students besides teaching craft.
Hyderabad, August 03: Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu has demanded that the state government ban export of iron ore from the state and also release a white paper on iron ore ‘illegally exported’ from here in last six years.
“Karnataka has banned export of iron ore from that state and estimated that 30 million tonnes of it was exported in the last few years. AP has more iron ore reserves than Karnataka and hence the quantity of ore exported illegally from the state could be much higher…Hence it should be banned,” Chandrababu told reporters at the TDP headquarters here today.
Hyderabad, August 03: A case of attempt to murder was registered against a sub-inspector in the police station he is working, for opening fire on Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths who caught him accepting bribe last night. The SI opened fire on the ACB sleuths and fled by jumping the compound wall of the police station. This is probably for the first time that the ACB sleuths have come under attack by the government officials while discharging duties. The incident took place in East Godavari district.
Hyderabad, August 03: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has expressed disappointment over the outcome of the meeting between the chief ministers of AP and Maharshtra with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Delhi today.
Tirupati, August 03: The campaign against alleged irregularities in the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has assumed caste colour with leaders from various political parties belonging to a particular community terming it as the sinister move to prevent TTD chairman DK Audikesvaulu, popularly known as DK, from becoming the chairman again.
Leaders belonging to Balija (Kapu) community from the district have already started countering what they call ‘a disinformation campaign by the leaders of an upper caste, indirectly referring to the Kammas, with the sole aim of tarnishing DK’s image.
Vijayawada, August 03: The CPM central committee meeting would be held in Vijayawada from August 7-10 to discuss the current political situation, according to party politbureau member and state secretary BV Raghavulu. Decisions would be taken on the future action plan of the party, he added.
Speaking to reporters today he said, several issues including Kashmir crisis , increasing corruption, liberalisation, foreign investments in banks and educational institutions would be discussed in the meeting.
Vishakapatnam, August 03: Even before the case of director of Parkwood School International Mohammed Salahuddin Ayub in Hyderabad has cooled down, yet another teacher has been found allegedly involved in sexual exploitation of school girls here.
Hyderabad, August 03: Legislative Assembly Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy administered the oath of office to the re-elected eleven Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLAs at his chambers in the Assembly today.
Before taking the oath the new MLAs paid rich floral tributes to Telangana martyrs at Gun Park opposite the Assembly. All of them, sporting pink kanduvas, reached the Assembly on foot from the Gun Park amid shouts of ‘Jai Telangana’ raised by their followers.
Hyderabad, August 03: Tension prevailed for a while at Somajiguda Press Club here today, during the book release of ‘My Telugu Roots’ (Telugu version) by Nalamotu Chakravarthy, when a Telangana supporter hurled footwear at ABK Prasad, a veteran journalist who was the chief guest at the event.