New Delhi: A special court in Hyderabad will on Friday decide on the bail plea filed by YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy. The YSR Congress Chief has been in prison since May 26 in an alleged disproportionate assets case. The court has on Thursday reserved its orders till Friday on the bail plea. The Court of Principal Special Judge for CBI cases had posted the matter to Friday after...
06:41 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Hyderabad: Four Andhra Pradesh ministers may come under the CBI scanner for their alleged role in issuing controversial government orders that have become the basis for filing a case against YSR Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. Jagan was arrested in an alleged disproportionate assets case on May 27 after being grilled for three days by the investigating agency. Dharmana Prasada Rao, J Geeth Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaih and Sabitha Reddy...
11:46 PM, May 31, 2012
Hyderabad: Jailed Member of Parliament YS Jagan Mohan Reddy received a shot in the arm on Thursday with another legislator resigning from the ruling Congress party and two more showing solidarity with him. A day after Krishna Ranga Rao resigned from the Congress party to join YSR Congress, another legislator Alla Nani announced that he too was quitting the ruling party. Nani, who represents Eluru constituency, made the announcement after...
07:42 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: A Special CBI Court in Hyderabad heard YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail petition in the disproportionate assets case on Thursday, but it will pronounce its order on Friday. The Kadapa MP is in judicial custody for 14 days. Jagan said that his custody was a move by the CBI and the Congress to ensure he is not able to campaign for the crucial bypolls in Andhra...
02:28 PM, May 31, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court is expected to hear YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail petition on Thursday in the disproportionate assets case. The Kadapa MP is in judicial custody for 14-days. Jagan says this is a move by the CBI and the Congress to ensure he is not be able to campaign for the crucial bypolls in Andhra Pradesh. Jagan's mother YS Vijaya Lakshmi hit the campaign...
08:09 AM, May 31, 2012
Ahmedabad: The UPA government is likely to fall in 2013 and the country will have to face the mid term polls, BJP national vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi claimed on Wednesday. "There is every possibility that allies of Congress that are present in UPA today will desert the government due to large-scale corruption, price rise and policy and decision paralysis that has plagued this government," he said. "This government is likely...
03:30 AM, May 31, 2012
Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India is said to have flatly rejected the Andhra Pradesh government's plea to permit it to reduce sales tax on petrol by three per cent to "provide relief to people in view of the recent price hike." With a clear eye on the June 12 by-elections, state Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy directed officials of the Commercial Taxes Department to obtain permission from the...
01:33 AM, May 31, 2012
Srikakulam/Hyderabad: Hitting the campaign trail for bypolls in Andhra Pradesh following the arrest of her son YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, Y S Vijaya Lakshmi on Wednesday alleged that there is a conspiracy to defame him and demanded that the Centre and state government clarify "doubts" over the death of her husband Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. With the June 12 bypolls to 18 assembly and one Lok Sabha seat...
06:46 PM, May 30, 2012
Hyderabad: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Hyderabad on Wednesday sent the Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister to judicial custody till June 7 even as he applied for bail on health grounds. Mopidevi Venkataramana Rao was arrested on May 24 in connection with the disproportionate assets case involving YSR Congress chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. After completion of the five-day custody period, the central agency produced Mopidevi in...
06:18 PM, May 30, 2012
Hyderabad: Congress MLA Venkata Sujay Krishna Ranga Rao Ravu from Bobbili in Vizianagaram district on Wednesday resigned from the Andhra Pradesh Assembly as well as the party. Ranga Rao, who hails from Bobbili royal family, joined YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's camp four days ago and expressed full solidarity with the latter prior to his arrest in the disproportionate assets case. He is the second MLA after Eluru's Alla Krishna Srinivas...
05:43 PM, May 30, 2012
Hyderabad: Sustained efforts of the members of a village in Andhra Pradesh have paid off as the place would be declared tobacco-free on May 31, the sources said. The announcement would be made on May 31, which is celebrated as the World No Tobacco Day. Pongalipaka, a village with a population of 1,632 people, located in Madugula mandal and about 48 km from Hyderabad, will be declared a tobacco free...
11:17 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday sent letters rogatory against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's companies to London, Mauritius, Cyprus, Cayman Island, British Virgin Island and Isle of Man to get more information over investments made and received abroad. Meanwhile, Jagan's mother YS Vjayamma began YSR Congress's bypoll campaign from Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday. Vijayamma met Jagan in Chanchalguda jail cell on...
10:35 AM, May 30, 2012
Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy's mother Vijayamma is set to kick off her party's bypoll campaign in Andhra Pradesh from Wednesday. Vijayamma met Jagan in Chanchalguda jail cell on Tuesday. She and her family have been sitting on dharna accusing the CBI of a witchhunt in order to prevent Jagan from campaigning for the bypolls that will take place on June 12. Vijayamma will begin her campaign from Srikakulam...
07:40 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: It's a blow which the government was quick to recover from. Less than 24 hours after Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the sub-quota for minorities, the government is adamant to pursue it. The government has proposed creation of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for notified minority groups out of the 27 per cent reservation meant for OBCs - a move which the Opposition says smacks of votebank...
09:44 PM, May 29, 2012
Hyderabad: A team of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials from Delhi on Tuesday arrived in Hyderabad to approach a local court for questioning YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy who has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a disproportionate assets case. The team would get in touch with CBI officials probing the case to present its plea in court in Hyderabad for questioning Reddy, ED sources...
04:45 PM, May 29, 2012
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