
Hyderabad: An all-party meeting in Hyderabad on Monday decided that Andhra Pradesh government will seek review/clarification from the Supreme Court on its orders about the Babli project neighbouring Maharashtra is building across the Godavari river. The meeting decided to take the step to safeguard the state's interests. Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who presided over the meeting, agreed to hire the services of a senior Supreme Court advocate for...

04:15:39 AM May 21, 2013

New Delhi: Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta was on Monday elevated as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. He was currently a judge in the Uttarakhand High Court. Justice Sengupta (60) was appointed as a permanent judge of the Calcutta High Court in July 1997 and assumed charge as the acting Chief Justice in October 2012. He was transferred to the Uttarakhand High Court at Nainital in October...

12:17:10 AM May 21, 2013

Hyderabad: A 23-year-old electrician allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree on the Osmania University (OU) campus in Hyderabad on Monday for the "cause of separate state of Telangana", police said. The deceased, identified only as Bharat, was found hanging from a tree on the campus by some locals who alerted police. The deceased, a native of Huzurnagar in Nalgonda district, came here only two months ago and...

11:20:53 PM May 20, 2013

Guntur: Three persons including Chilakaluripet Congress leader Mallela Satyanarayana, died when the car by which they were travelling collided with a truck at Chowdavaram, police said on Sunday. The incident occured in a suburb of Guntur, on the National Highway number five, they said. Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister K Lakshmi Narayana visited the scene of tragedy and condoled the death of Satyanarayana and two others. ...

07:45:35 AM May 20, 2013

Hyderabad: A youth from Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh was arrested on Sunday for creating a fake Facebook account of a female student and posting her morphed pictures, the police said. The youth, allegedly created a Facebook account of the girl and uploaded her morphed images along with obscene as well as false information, besides her contact number, the police said. The victim lodged a complaint with police after which...

09:46:23 PM May 19, 2013

Hyderabad: The Chief Minister, who returned from New Delhi on Saturday after a four-day visit during which he discussed the issue with the leadership, has summoned Rao to the state capital from his native Srikakulam district. Reddy, who is from neighbouring Ranga Reddy district, is already in Hyderabad, party sources said. The Chief Minister reportedly defended the ministers in his meeting with the Congress leadership. Kiran Reddy, who called on...

01:20:55 PM May 19, 2013

Hyderabad: Door-to-door verification of electoral rolls to rectify duplication of voters and any errors will be undertaken by booth-level officers (BLOs) in Andhra Pradesh from Thursday. The campaign to be carried out by 66,270 BLOs would go on till June 15 and new eligible voters would be enrolled during the drive, state Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal said in Hyderabad. The BLOs would also collect the mobile numbers and e-mail...

02:26:25 AM May 16, 2013

Hyderabad: Railway Police on Tuesday rescued 19 children, including seven belonging to Jharkhand, from Secunderabad railway station and caught one person on charge of trafficking. The children were to be employed as bonded labourers at a furniture manufacturing unit at Lingampally here, SP (Secunderabad Railway Police) M Kanta Rao told PTI. "During a survey on the Secunderabad railway platform, 19 children (all below the age of 14) were found abandoned...

03:05:44 AM May 15, 2013

Visakhapatnam: Two girls jumped from a speeding autorickshaw to escape a rape attempt and one of them was severely injured at Paderu in the Vizag agency area on Monday in the wee hours, police said. The girls, both residents of G Madugula area in the district had gone to Paderu on Sunday evening to witness the local Sri Modakondamma festival which began on Sunday, they said. The girls boarded a...

01:10:06 AM May 14, 2013

Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Police chief on Friday ordered a probe into the alleged assault on a woman by an IRS official in the presence of a Police Inspector, the footage of which was broadcast by a local TV channel. "I told my DCP (Balanagar Zone) to conduct an enquiry and submit a report to me. Based on that we will take a decision. As per the TV footage, the IRS...

12:05:20 AM May 11, 2013

New Delhi: In a disappointing verdict for YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, who has been lodged in a Hyderabad prison for a year in connection with a disproportionate assets case, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected his bail plea. "Jagan's release will hamper the probe in the case which is of high magnitude," said the court in its ruling. The apex court also said that "likelihood of tampering with...

11:45:23 AM May 09, 2013

Hyderabad: At least ten people were killed and four others got injured when a lorry in which they were travelling overturned in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh in the wee hours on Monday, police said. The incident occurred near Singarayakonda at around 1:30 AM when the cement-laden lorry was on its way from Nalgonda towards Puducherry. All the ten victims died on the spot, they said. The victims belonging to...

10:50:25 AM May 06, 2013

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday promised to shut down, in a phased manner, "belt shops" or illegal outlets of licensed liquor shops spread across the state. He made the announcement while addressing a public meeting at Eluru in West Godavari district when union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh made a fervent appeal. Ramesh said the chief minister should take the initiative as the women...

04:47:11 AM May 06, 2013

New Delhi: In the wake of increasing rapes and other crime against women across the country, Andhra Pradesh has reportedly barred women from clubs, pubs and bars after 10 pm. The State government has also banned those under 21 from these places at any hour, despite the legal age for drinking in the country being 18. The state government on May 3 issued a notification telling clubs, pubs and bars...

04:59:56 PM May 04, 2013

Hyderabad: A three-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her father on Thursday, after he "suspected" his wife's 'fidelity' in the Mancherial town of Adilabad district, the police said. After allegedly throwing the baby girl Harini, into a water tank on Ashok Road in Mancherial, her father C Krishna, a painter, initially claimed that she had been "abducted". "After the incident he reported the matter to his relatives and police. However,...

02:11:23 AM May 03, 2013