Andhra Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has met the Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, even as speculation is rife that the UPA government is mulling setting up of Telangana Territorial Council along the lines of the Bodo Territorial Council pact to solve the Telangana statehood issue. ...
12:21 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Bangalore: The 25th Southern Zonal Council meeting to be chaired by Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in Bangalore on Friday will discuss wide ranging issues relating to Police administration, atrocities on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes vis-a-vis human trafficking. The meeting is expected to be attended by Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Kiran Reddy. Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangaswamy, Kerala Minister for Finance K...
08:40 AM, Nov 16, 2012
HYDERABAD: The Congress high command is understood to have taken a serious view of the running feud between chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana.According to sources, the party leadership wants to put its foot down and bring discipline as it cannot afford to have differences between top leaders coming to the fore frequently at a time when by-elections to 18 Assembly seats are round the...
08:18 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday said the government was waiting for the high court's consent to implement an agreement reached with the Telangana employees at the end of a 42-day-long strike last year. The chief minister told the assembly that the government has sought the court's permission to implement the agreement and hoped that the matter would come up in a couple of days....
04:03 PM, Mar 05, 2012
HYDERABAD: Even before the chief minister, or for that matter any senior Congress leader, reacted to the comments made by Opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu over the address of the Governor to the joint session of AP legislature on Monday, it was PCC president Botcha Satyanarayana who trained guns at Naidu and sought to take the wind out of his sails on the issues of corruption and liquor scam. Satyanarayana...
10:54 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: Scores of party workers, MPs and ministers thronged the official residence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi to celebrate her 66th birthday on Friday. Special prayers were offered at a mobile temple outside Gandhi's 10, Janpath residence and enthusiastic Congress workers cut huge cakes and distributed it to all gathered there. A number of party leaders including Andhra Chief Minister Kiran Reddy, several Union Ministers, including External Affairs Minister...
11:02 AM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Telangana agitation is now close to completing four weeks and the various talks between Telangana leaders and the Congress so far have borne little fruit. Even within the Congress, there are several opinions despite time running out fast. Congress realises that it's options and time is running out and so Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Reddy and Governor ESL Narasimhan rushed to Delhi to brief the Prime...
07:19 PM, Oct 08, 2011
New Delhi: The Telangana agitation seeking statehood for the region entered its 26th day on Saturday even as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Reddy reached Delhi to discuss the issue with the Congress high command. Governor ESL Narasimhan is already in Delhi and will brief the Prime Minister on Saturday on the ground situation. Narasimhan met Home Minister P Chidambaram and discussed the law and order situation in the region....
07:41 AM, Oct 08, 2011
New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh is on the verge of an economic crisis as the Telangana stir enters day 10 with power cuts, crippled courts and road transport affected across Telangana regions. Government employees have paralysed the region's state administration. In Hyderabad, courts and civic services have been partially shut. Power Cuts and bus strikes have brought life to a virtual standstill. Members of the Telangana Congress Steering Committee met Andhra...
08:18 AM, Sep 23, 2011
Hyderabad: Eleven out of 15 ministers of Andhra Pradesh cabinet hailing from Telangana region on Monday resigned from their posts as well as membership of the legislative assembly on separate statehood issue but maintained that it was "not to defy" Congress high command. After submitting their resignation from assembly membership to Deputy Speaker Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, a group of ministers drove to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy's camp office...
03:43 PM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: A political and constitutional crisis looms large in Andhra Pradesh as 61 MPs from Telangana, including 8 from the ruling Congress have threatened to resign if the government doesn't agree to form a separate Telangana state. Will the Kiran Reddy government give in? Congress MLAs and MPs from the Telangana region displayed their resignation letters to the media. They threaten to submit the letters to the Speaker of...
07:39 AM, Jul 04, 2011
Hyderabad: The Congress camp in Andhra Pradesh is abuzz with activity with Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and state party president Botsa Satyanarayana stepping in to avert a possible crisis in the wake of threat by legislators from Telangana to quit their posts in support of a separate state. Following a directive from the Congress high command to defuse the situation, the Chief Minister swung into action and held...
01:43 PM, Jul 02, 2011
Puttaparthi: Late Sathya Sai Baba's nephew RJ Ratnakar was on Saturday questioned by police in connection with the seizure of Rs 35.5 lakh in cash from this Andhra Pradesh town recently. A team lead by the Investigative Officer, who is probing the case, quizzed Ratnakar at his residence in Prashanti Nilayam here, a senior police officer said. Police had on Wednesday issued notices to two trustees of the Sai Central...
07:53 PM, Jun 25, 2011
Hyderabad: The Rs 35-lakh mysterious cash trail at the Sathya Sai Central Trust in Puttaparthi district of Andhra Pradesh has taken a political turn. After refusing to interfere in the trust affairs, the Kiran Reddy government has now asked the trustees to submit a factual report on the financial matters of the body. "In the past, the trust was granted several exemptions. We have now asked the trust for a...
08:29 AM, Jun 25, 2011
Hyderabad: Police have registered a case against the father and other relatives of S Chaitanya Reddy, who allegedly killed his wife Dr Kiran Reddy, niece of Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy, for 'obstructing the police from performing their duty'. The case was registered against Chaitanya's father S Devender Reddy and others (including his relatives) for obstructing the police from performing their duties while Chaitanya was being taken to a local...
12:03 AM, Jun 24, 2011
Hyderabad: The postmortem report of Kiran Reddy, niece of Union Minister for Petroleum S Jaipal Reddy, has revealed that she died because of smothering. Following the revelation, police have arrested Kiran's husband Chaitanya Reddy. Union Minister Jaipal Reddy's niece Kiran Reddy's death, was not an accident but murder - say the Andhra police. Basing their conclusion on the post mortem which indicated death by asphyxiation, the police arrested her husband...
02:11 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Hyderabad: As part of investigations into the suspicious death of Kiran Reddy, niece of Union Minister for Petroleum S Jaipal Reddy, police on Tuesday began questioning her husband and in-laws. Kiran Reddy (26), was found dead in her house at Bharani Layout in Jubilee Hills on June 18. The Jubilee Hills Police had initially registered a case of suspicious death and later altered it to murder after her father Raghottam...
04:42 PM, Jun 21, 2011
Police had on Saturday registered a case of suspicious death after Kiran Reddy was found dead. ...
10:21 AM, Jun 20, 2011
Hyderabad: Hyderabad Police on Sunday registered the death of Kiran Reddy, niece of Union Minister for Petroleum S Jaipal Reddy, as murder and would question her husband soon, senior officials said. Police had on Saturday registered a case of suspicious death after Kiran Reddy (26) was found dead in her house at Bharani Layout in Jubilee Hills but following a complaint, the case was now altered to Section 302 (murder)...
10:18 AM, Jun 20, 2011
CM Kiran Reddy has conceded to illegal land allotment by the YSR govt to former Congress MP Jagan Mohan Reddy. The entire controversy has given the opposition another topic to target the government. ...
11:30 AM, Mar 31, 2011
