Hyderabad, June 14: Senior Congress leaders and some MPs of the Telangana region have demanded that Major Irrigation Minister Ponnala Laxmaiah resign owning responsibility for irregularities in the State Government’s prestigious “Jalayagnam’’ programme in the region.
They said that if the minister was not willing to resign, Chief Minister K Rosaiah should remove him from the Cabinet.
Karimanagar, June 14: Young Harish Rao has done Karimnagar proud. He was part of the team which made 1-kg mini satellite, Pico, which will be put in orbit on July 28.
The team with students drawn from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka was guided by the Indian Space Research Organisation, Bengaluru in their mission.
Harish Rao, a Karimnagar lad, is currently studying Mechanical engineering third year at the KITS, Ramtek in Nagpur. He briefed about the satellite to the students of Vindhya Valley High School at a programme in Karimnagar today.
Vijayawada, June 14: TDP urban president Vallabhaneni Vamshi and Congress leader Devineni Rajasekhar (Nehru) are locked in an intense verbal war, resurrecting the memories of 1980s when the same Rajasekhar used to have a running feud with the then Congress MLA late Vangaveeti Mohan Ranga Rao.
In those days, an undercurrent of fear used to run among the citizens over what trouble was awaiting them since both the leaders were at war with each other.
Hyderabad, June 14: PCC president D Srinivas has asked the party cadres to spread the message that the party leaders were united and would be able to deliver Telangana.
Talking with reporters after a review of the poll preparedness, he said told the district leaders not to worry about the warnings of the TRS or JAC. He said they were doing their job and there was no need to spell out their stand everyday to the media.
Hyderabad, June 14: Acknowledging that the popularity of the Left was waning in West Bengal, the CPI national council has decided to introspect on the reasons.
With the Left Front suffering serious setbacks in the recent local body elections in that State, the CPI decided to go into a huddle in view of the Assembly elections there next year, national secretariat member Shameem Faizi told reporters here today.
He said that as the CPM was leading the Left alliance in the West Bengal, the CPI expected that it too would undertake a similar exercise.
Hyderabad, June 14: The internal differences within the ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh came to the fore today with a group of senior leaders and MPs demanding resignation of State Irrigation Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah for the alleged irregularities in irrigation projects.
Hyderabad, June 14: Major Irrigation Minister Ponnala Laxmaiah dismissed demands by a section of senior Congress leaders that he resign owning responsibility for corruption in the State Government’s prestigious `Jalayagnam’’ programme started by the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
He said the allegations were baseless and so the question of quitting did not arise.
Hyderabad, June 14: A 22-year-old student from Tandur in Ranga Reddy district was found dead, allegedly murdered, in a pond on a US university campus on Saturday.
Adarsh Johnson, pursuing an MS at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (UMHB) in Belton, Texas, had been missing from his room since Friday and his body was found in the pond Saturday evening, reports reaching here said.
The parents of the student alleged that their son had been receiving threat calls ever since he became the leader of the university’s Student Welfare Association.
Hyderabad, June 14: Mild tremors caused by an earthquake in the Andamans and Nicobar Islands sent people in towns along the AP coast into a tizzy in the early hours of Sunday.
People were jolted out of their sleep at about 1 am when tremors rattled windows and upset household articles. From Srikakulam to Nellore, there was a scare that a tsunami might hit fishing colonies along the coastline.
Several parts of Visakhapatnam experienced tremors. “Tremors came in two spells each of five seconds duration. We were scared,” S Padmavathi of Officials Colony said.
Hyderabad, June 14: At least nine people were killed and 20 others injured when the wall of a vegetable market collapsed Monday in Andhra Pradesh’s Mahabubnagar district, police said.
The accident took place at Gadwal town. The dead include three women and a child.
Rescue work is on as some more victims are feared trapped under the debris. The incident occurred when the municipal vegetable market was crowded with buyers.
Eye witnesses said the wall had weakened due to rain during the last three days.
Vijayawada, June 14: TDP urban president Vallabhaneni Vamshi and Congress leader Devineni Rajasekhar (Nehru) are locked in an intense verbal war, resurrecting the memories of 1980s when the same Rajasekhar used to have a running feud with the then Congress MLA late Vangaveeti Mohan Ranga Rao.
In those days, an undercurrent of fear used to run among the citizens over what trouble was awaiting them since both the leaders were at war with each other.
Tirupati, June 14: It is interesting to note that the TTD-run Sr i Venkateswara Ayurvedic College here, the only such college in the Rayalaseema region offering graduate and postgraduate courses in the traditional Indian medicine system, has faculty members more from Telangana than from other regions.
A glance at the composition of the faculty reveals the dominance of people hailing from Telangana – including professors, readers and assistant professors – in the college.
Hyderabad, June 14: Welcoming the Serilingampally Telugu Desam Party leader Sangareddy and over 250 of his followers into the Telangana Rashtra Samithi fold, TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday said that the Telangana movement needs such dedicated social workers.
Hyderabad, June 14: The Andhra Pradesh police claimed to have foiled an attempt of a Maoist team from Karnataka to target political leaders and senior police officers in the state, by arresting one of its members on Sunday.
The arrested member, identified as B Chandrashekhar, of a three-member action team of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), during his interrogation reportedly told the police that the team led by him was tasked to eliminate politicians and policemen in Andhra Pradesh.
Hyderabad, June 14: Almost two months have passed since the first reports that Hindu militants, suspected in Ajmer Dargah blast, were also linked to Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad. The Central Bureau of Investigation has picked up a right-wing activist Devender Gupta and others in this connection.
Now the bureau has moved a special CBI court in Hyderabad for a transit warrant to bring the suspects to Hyderabad for interrogation.
Hyderabad, June 13: Andhra Pradesh police today claimed to have foiled an attempt of a Maoist team from Karnataka to target political leaders and senior police officers in the state, by arresting one of its members.
The arrested member, identified as B Chandrashekhar, of a three-member action team of CPI (Maoist), during his interrogation reportedly told police that the team led by him was tasked to eliminate politicians and policemen in Andhra Pradesh.
Hyderabad, June 13: The new academic year will see an end to the practice of half-day sessions in government schools in the twin cities.
District education officials said there were over 30 schools where shift system was being followed because of lack of space to accommodate all the students in one session. But it is mandatory that schoolchildren have to spend most of their day time at school.
Vijaywada, June 13: In a major catch, the city police nabbed a gang involved in the selling of antique idols here on Saturday and recovered two historical idols from the possession of the gang members. According to Governorpet inspector S Prasada Rao, the three-member gang was headed by one Undrajavarapu Salmon Raju of Palkole in West Godavari district.
Hyderabad, June 11: Two persons, including an employee of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), were arrested today for the Rs 1.43 scam involving the theft of Compact Discs (CDs) containing the Electronic Permanent Index Numbers (EPINs) from the BSNL office at Adarsh Nagar a few months back. Though the accused have encashed more than Rs one crore worth EPINs or more popularly known as recharge coupons, police could recover only Rs 5.6 lakh cash and gold ornaments worth Rs 3.2 lakh from the accused.
Hyderabad, June 11: Film actor N Balakrishna received an unexpected gift on his 50th birthday today from none other than his brotherinlaw and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu.
Hydeabad, June 11: “Leave Hyderabad and flee to Hindustan” read the letter received by Bharatiya Janata Party State president G Kishan Reddy a fortnight ago by an outfit styling itself “Islamic Republic of Hyderabad, LashkareTaiba Suicide Bomber Cell”.
A case was registered by the Abids police today.
Police, however, ruled out the involvement of any Islamic militant outfit behind the letter and said a land dispute between two communities in the Old City could be behind the threat and since Kishan Reddy was BJP president, the missive was addressed to him.
Hyderabad, June 11: The alleged regularisation of government lands in favour of prominent persons by former Hyderabad district collector Naveen Mittal rocked the Hyderabad District Review Committee meeting on Thursday.
Cutting across party lines, MPs, MLAs and MLCs demanded that all the deals related to regularisation of government lands done in favour of rich parties by Naveen Mittal be cancelled and stringent action be taken against the IAS officer.
Hyderabad, June 11: The Railway police are all set to train their personnel to identify women and children being spirited away by train from Andhra Pradesh to various destinations by human traffickers to various destinations.
“We are focusing on this aspect and all our personnel will be trained to identify victims and rescue them,” deputy inspectorgeneral (DIG) of police (Railways) Bhavana Saxena told Express. She said the exercise to sensitise the Railway police had already been taken up in Vijayawada.
Hyderabad, June 11: The Group of Ministers on fee reimbursement has decided to bring in a new law to check fraud in the issuance of income certificates and to penalise both those obtaining and issuing them.
Disclosing this to Express, Higher Education Minister D Sridhar Babu said the law would also help in the matter of white cards and other programmes intended for the poor.
Tirumala, June 11: The hundi in Lord Venkateswara temple here had a record collection of offerings from devotees amounting to Rs 2.11 crore today.
According to temple officials, the alltime record of hundi collection in a single day was Rs 2.83 crore which included the single donation of Rs 1 crore by former BJP leader Uma Bharathi. Today’s collection had no such single major donation.