Hyderabad: An eight-year-old girl suffered burn injuries after a man allegedly threw acid on her, while she was begging at Jagatgirigutta area of Hyderabad on Friday, police said. According to police, the accused Narasimha, was in a drunken state when the incident took place. When the minor girl, who is dumb, came to Narasimha seeking alms, he threw acid on her, they said. The girl, who sustained burn injuries on...
10:20 PM, Jun 07, 2013
New York: Andhra Pradesh is set to sign an MoU with the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology to tap its vast resources to help give the state's educational system a face lift, the state's information technology and communications minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah said here on Tuesday. The minister said the finer details are being worked out and the memorandum of understanding (MOU) will be signed within a few months. The MOU...
08:25 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Hyderabad: Former Andhra health minister DL Ravindra Reddy on Tuesday said the reason for his sacking by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was not clear. DL, as Ravindra Reddy is popularly known, was in London when he was dismissed by the chief minister June 1. A bitter critic of the chief minister, he returned on Monday night. Talking to reporters on Tuesday outside the office of Congress Legislature Party...
05:15 AM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: For effective governance and providing affordable access to communication, the Union Cabinet Tuesday decided to install mobile towers in nine Maoist-hit states, including Chhattisgarh where the rebels killed several Congress leaders May 25. The approval to the project was given by the Union Cabinet in a meeting held here. Mobile towers would be installed at 2,199 locations in nine states - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya...
10:21 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Khammam: A woman Maoist leader and another suspected ultra were remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a court in Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, on Tuesday. K Mothibai (40) alias Madhavi or Radhakka, south and West Bastar division committee secretary of CPI (Maoist), and Pridhvi and his father Dharmaraju were taken into custody on Monday after a chase near Palvancha in Khammam. Dharmaraju, who was found to have no Maoist links, has...
05:27 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh government has started the Aastha and Mamta scheme with a lot of fanfare claiming that it will ensure free treatment of several diseases. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan said that that aim to provide treatment for all the residents of the state through the Aastha and Mamta scheme. But even Chauhan's constituency Budni lacks basic medical facilities to ensure proper healthcare. Budni is situated just 60 km...
02:50 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Andhra Pradesh Police has arrested a suspected Naxal leader identified as Savita alias Madhvi in Khammam district of the state. Police suspect that Savita was involved in the May 25 attack on a Congress convoy at Darbha ghati in Chhattisgarh and had been injured during cross firing. The Andhra Police caught Savita from the car during routine checking.Savita is allegedly a member of CPI-Maoist Bastar Regional Committee...
11:13 AM, Jun 04, 2013
Hyderabad: Seeking to mount pressure on the ruling Congress, BJP on Monday demanded that the government should move a Bill in Parliament for formation of separate Telangana or convene a special session for the purpose. "BJP will support it (the bill) fully without any condition. If necessary, you convene a special session for forming separate Telangana and BJP will support it even then," BJP President Rajnath Singh said. He was...
11:45 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Hyderabad/ New Delhi: YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's judicial remand in the disproportionate assets case comes to an end on Monday. He will be produced before a Hyderabad court later on Monday via video conferencing. The ED had on May 31 frozen fixed deposits worth more than Rs 34 crore of a media firm owned by Reddy in connection with the money laundering probe against him and others. With...
08:38 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi/Hyderabad: The Congress on Sunday said it will take a decision on the Telangana issue in June 2013. Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters that the party would hold some more consultations before taking the decision. Azad, who is incharge of the party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, advised party leaders from Telangana to wait for the decision. Referring to two MPs and some others who quit the...
04:16 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: After hitting Kerala, the monsoon is expected to advance to parts of Tamil Nadu and drought-hit states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh over the next two days. Arriving in Kerala two days ahead of schedule, the monsoon has boosted farming prospects and raised hopes in the cotton and sugar growing belt. Meanwhile, onset of monsoon brought respite from the heat for the north Indians as the mercury continued...
07:00 PM, Jun 02, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Health Minister DL Ravindra Reddy, who had been a vocal critic of various schemes launched by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, was sacked from the cabinet on Saturday. The Chief Minister removed Ravindra a day after he held talks with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi over the revamp of the state Council of Ministers. The Chief Minister, who returned from a two-day trip to...
10:30 PM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress Core Group met in the national capital to discuss the Telangana issue and sources tell CNN-IBN that a decision is likely to be announced after the Assembly session of Andhra Pradesh gets over. The Group also held talks on the Food Security Bill. Sources say an all-party meet could be called on June 7 or June 8. The main Opposition the Bharatiya Janata Party has hit...
05:15 PM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: With Telangana issue returning to haunt Congress, Sonia Gandhi on Friday held deliberations with senior leaders in the wake of two sitting MPs and a prominent state leader deciding to join TRS, which is spearheading the statehood movement. Gandhi held confabulations with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and AICC general secretary in-charge for the state Ghulam Nabi Azad and her political secretary Ahmed Patel on the...
02:12 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh government on Friday constituted an 11-member Group of Ministers to provide policy direction to the agriculture sector for the 12th Plan. The GoM will also monitor and review the performance of the agriculture sector during the 12th Plan period. Minister for Agriculture will be chairman of the GoM that will have ministers for finance, major irrigation, horticulture, animal husbandry, co-operation, forests and environment, marketing, major industries, minor...
01:20 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Hyderabad: Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates visited Biological E Ltd, a leading vaccine manufacturer, and the International Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) near Hyderabad on Thursday on a private trip kept completely under wraps. Bill Gates, who is also co-chairperson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, visited Biological E Ltd late Thursday evening, the company said in a statement on Friday. "Mr Bill Gates congratulated...
06:16 PM, May 31, 2013
Hyderabad: A woman was killed and three others were injured in a massive fire in a gym in Hyderabad on Thursday evening, police said. The incident took place in the busy Ramgopalpet area of Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad. According to eye-witnesses a woman died on the spot after she jumped from the second floor to escape from the leaping flames. Three others injured in the mishap were shifted...
04:34 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: In a major jolt to the Congress in Andhra Pradesh, Keshav Rao, the party's most prominent face in Telangana, threatened to quit along with two other MPs, Dr M Jagannath and Dr Gaddam Vivekanand. Speaking to reporters, Keshav Rao said that he had issued an ultimatum to the Congress and that ten other MPs were also ready to quit along with him. Keshav Rao said he will formally...
04:59 PM, May 30, 2013
Hyderabad: A 35-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide inside a police station at Tekulapalli in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, police said. Sakhi, who had been called along with two other men for questioning in connection with an attempt-to-murder case, panicked and hanged herself by a saree inside the police station's toilet. Her husband blamed one of the police constables for the incident. A case of abetment to suicide...
04:25 AM, May 30, 2013
Mumbai: After the crackdown by the Maharashtra government on the doctors allegedly indulging in aborting female fetus in the state, the racket has now shifted to the neighbouring states. The racket of aborting female fetus is now operating in the states bordering Maharashtra as the doctors have set up their shops there. An NGO has exposed the alleged racket in a sting operations. The doctors take a huge fee and...
11:04 AM, May 29, 2013
