Month: June 2012

Reiterating that an inquiry should be ordered by a sitting Supreme Court judge to probe into the conspiracy to physically harm Party Chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, the YSR Congress has said some vested interests and a section of media has been actively involved in diverting the issue through malicious propaganda.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau officials arrested two Revenue Officers in bribe case at Karminagar and Medak districts respectively in the late hours of yesterday. A 51-yea-old M V Narasimha Rao , working as Village Revenue Officer at Chinnakodur mandal in Medak district, was caught red handed in late hours of yesterday when he demanded and accepted Rs 28,000 as bribe from the complainant for mutating the agricultural land, ACB said in a release here today. He was arrested after recovering tainted bribe amount from the accused.

Isolated rain or tundershower would occur over Telangana and in the districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavari of Coastal Andhra Pradesh over next 48 hours.

Mainly dry weather would prevail over Rayalaseema and in the remaining districts of Coastal Andhra Pradesh during the same period during the same period, the Met Office said here today.

The euphoria of bagging a medal was short-lived for Haryana runner, Dharambir. as his win in the men 100 metres dash of the 52nd Senior Inter-State Athletics Championships at Gachibowli Stadium on Saturday came to a naught. The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) provisionally suspended him pending an enquiry for evading the dope test immediately after the race. Adille J Sumariwalla, President of AFI said action would be taken against the erring athlete and the federation will not tolerate the doping-menace anymore.

After the by-elections, every leader in the Congress has started analysing the party’s debacle in his own way and submit reports to the party’s leadership. Likewise, Chiranjeevi also prepared a report and is going to present it to Congress president Sonia Gandhi soon.

Vijayawada city turned tense as TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal planned dharnas against each other on Monday.

The TDP chief announced that he would stage a dharna demanding construction of a fly-over at the Kanaka Durga temple. TDP is alleging that the State government has been ignoring the flyover proposal, which has been long pending. TDP workers made elaborate arrangements for Naidu’s dharna on Monday.

Some professors, who have recently joined the YSR Congress party under the leadership of party leader Somayajulu launched Professors Wing of the party here on Sunday.

The professors said that the wing would be useful as a think tank and help the party in brain storming sessions. The wing also would be sending frequent reports to the party leaders on the socio-economic changes occurring.
Several university professors met at the YSR Congress party office on Sunday and announced the launching of the academicians’ wing. (NSS)

Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers’ Union president Swamy Goud on Sunday made it clear that he did not commit irregularities in the allotment of plots in the Telangana Cooperative House Building Society.

Charging the Kiran Kumar Reddy government with neglecting problems of the farmers, the Janata Dal (United) State unit leaders and activists staged a dharna at Indira Park on Sunday.

The protestors demanded that the Congress government initiate immediate steps to lower the prices of fertilizers and implement the recommendations of the Dr Swaminathan Commission. They also demanded that the government pay loans to the tenant farmers directly.

A Congress workers’ meeting called for reviewing Parakala bye-election result turned into a battlefield.

The meeting was held on Sunday at Warangal DCC Office. Tension prevailed when Government Chief Whip Gandra Venkataramana Reddy’s followers and their critics came face to face and clashed. Earlier, Gandra’s followers launched a protest in the meeting hall. The fight occurred in the presence of ministers Ponnala Laxmaiah and Basavaraju Saraiah.

Later, Gandra’s followers staged a dharna on Parakala road. (NSS)

AICC secretary and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy today appealed to all political parties to announce their support for Pranab Mukherjee, who was in fray for President post.

Speaking to the media at the CLP office here on Sunday, Ponguleti said that all political parties except a couple of them were in a dilemma on extending support to Pranab. He said that Pranab was an extraordinary person and intellectual, who is fully aware of the Constitution. (NSS)

‘Passport Adalat’ was held for second day on Sunday at the Regional Passport Office at Secunderabad.

Speaking on the occasion, Regional Passport officer Srikar Reddy said that response was poor on the first day as people did not know about the ‘Passport Adalat’; but the response was good on the second day. The RPO received some 2,000 applications. Several applicants said that they were happy with the ‘Passport Adalat’ as it proved to be useful. (NSS)

Minister for Rural Development and NREGP Dokka Manikya Varaparasada Rao here on Sunday said that NREGP would be linked with agricultural works to save the small and marginal farmers in the State.

Senior Congress MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao has said that the condition of the party in the State was far from satisfactory.

Talking to the media here on Sunday, Rayapati said the party high command was totally dissatisfied with the state of affairs of the party in Andhra Pradesh. He also said that there would be major changes in the State to settle things right after the Presidential elections. He also announced that he would donate one kg of gold for ‘Punyakoti Vimanam’ of Goddess Kanakadurga in Vijayawada. (NSS)

Authorities of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday visited the Chanchalguda jail to question the accused in the OMC, Emaar Properties and Jagan assets’ cases.

It may be mentioned here that the CBI Special Judge’s Court granted permission to the ED to interrogate the accused in the jail.

It is learnt that the ED authorities, who were given only 15 days for interrogation, have started questioning B V Srinivasa Reddy of the OMC and former IAS officer Srilakshmi and former Mining Department director Raja Gopal on Sunday. The interrogation continued till 5 pm.

Two miscreants, who allegedly abducted a 12-year old boy in Karmanghat area here, were given a sound thrashing by local residents before handing him over to the police.

According to the information, three unidentified persons kidnapped Srikant while he was playing before his house and confined him in a room.

When the trio was moving under suspicious circumstances, the local residents felt something wrong and caught the miscreants and questioned about their behaviour.

Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy today made it clear that she would cooperate with the CBI investigating officers in the Jagan disproportionate assets case.

Speaking to the media here, the Home Minister reminded that the CBI had already given her a clean chit in the OMC case. She said that she would cooperate with the CBI sleuths in the Jagan assets case.