The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh is under pressure after two ministers named in the Jagan Reddy disproportionate assets case stepped down on Sunday night. Voices of dissent from within gained ground even as Jagan's wife Bharathi Reddy wrote to the Prime Minister, alleging the CBI probe is unfair and that her husband is being victimised. ...
08:44 PM, May 20, 2013
Hyderabad: In a dramatic development, Andhra Pradesh Home Minister P Sabita Reddy and Roads and Buildings Minister D Prasada Rao, who were named as accused in disproportionate assets case involving Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy, late on Sunday night submitted their resignations to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. The two Cabinet ministers were summoned by the Chief Minister who met them for over an hour. With both the ministers...
08:22 AM, May 20, 2013
Hyderabad: In an embarrassment for the Congress in Andhra Pradesh, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court has chargesheeted the state's Home Minister, Sabitha Reddy, in connection with the Jagan Reddy disproportionate assets case. Sabitha has been accused by the FBI of misusing her position. She is the third Cabinet minister accused. The Congress is under fire over the case. Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu said, "The party needs...
07:23 AM, May 16, 2013
Hyderabad: A civil liberties lawyer, Jaya Vindyala, has been arrested under Section 66A of the IT Act for posting some comments on Facebook allegedly against former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Tamil Nadu Governor Rosaiah and an MLA A Krishna Mohan. The advocate, who is also a member of the People's Union for Civil Liberties, was arrested in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. According to the police, local Congress MLA...
11:25 AM, May 13, 2013
Union Tourism Minister Chiranjeevi's actor son, Ram Charan Teja, was caught flexing his muscles after being caught in a street brawl. His bodyguards beat up two IT professionals in Hyderabad when their car came in the way of Charan's Aston Martin. ...
07:44 PM, May 07, 2013
The Hyderabadi girl won her maiden Grand Prix Gold title beating Singaporean fifth seed Juan Gu in the singles final of the Malaysia Open badminton last week. ...
12:01 PM, May 07, 2013
Hyderabad: The acute power shortage in Andhra Pradesh is hitting the largest worker sectors in the state's coastal region. Balla Agastya is a skilled weaver. His loom and his art have been inherited down generations. Weaving is the livelihood of thousands in coastal Andhra and Rayalseema. Their Gadwal sarees, their Jamdani and Kalamkari work sells across the country. A single bulb for the delicate threadwork and a fan in the...
10:17 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Hyderabad: The Opposition in Andhra Pradesh has been accusing the state government of mismanagement as the state reels under power crisis. The question that remains to be answered is as to why the state is facing its worse energy crisis in 40 years despite crores being spent on setting up power plants. In spite of an installed capacity of 3,800 Megawatts, Andhra Pradesh produces just 500 Megawatts, buying power for...
08:50 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Hyderabad: In several districts Andhra Pradesh, the state government has not been able to keep its big promise of 7 hours of free power to farmers, pushing desperate farmers to take matters into their own hands, often with tragic consequences. Chief Minister Kiran Reddy's claim seems far fetched with Andhra Pradesh facing an acute power crisis. CNN-IBN travelled to Medak, where seven hours of free power is a myth, claim...
12:35 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Jeedimetla: Andhra Pradesh is reeling under its worst power crisis, and bearing the brunt of it are small and medium scale industries, which are losing 70 per cent of their revenues due to lack of electricity. Several industries are now standing on the brink of shutting down. Once a bustling industrial town, Jeedimetla now wears a grim look. Andhra Pradesh's power crisis had brought small and medium scale industries to...
09:45 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Political protests, indefinite hunger strikes and fierce debates in the state assembly, Andhra Pradesh's opposition parties have trained all their guns at the Chief Minister, accusing him of mismanaging the deepening power crisis in the state. Proving seven hours of free electricity to farmers and reducing tariff burden on consumers, however, remain their key demands. ...
01:02 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The Indian Mujahideen is still being considered the main suspect in the Hyderabad twin blasts case. The Andhra Pradesh government has handed the case over to the National Investigation Agency. With that, the state government essentially admitted that the Andhra Pradesh police have made no breakthroughs in the investigation. ...
10:21 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Let me admit right away. I'm terrified of the word "resilience". So if someone mentioned the word to define my city after the twin blasts ...
05:09 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Three days after twin blasts claimed 16 lives and injured 117 in Hyderabad, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday visited the injured in the hospital and urged people to "maintain calm in the hour of grief". ...
10:47 PM, Feb 24, 2013
As the probe into the Hyderabad twin blasts gets underway, the National Investigation Agency will be questioning 12 alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba members against whom a chargesheet was filed two days ago in Bangalore. The investigating agencies are not leaving any stone unturned and are trying to gather information from anybody who falls under the radar of suspicion. Eyewitnesses are also being questioned, while records at cyber cafes near the blasts sites...
03:07 PM, Feb 24, 2013
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