Two minor girls, who were 'mortgaged' to a man by their parents after they were unable to repay a loan amount of Rs 34,000 taken from him, were rescued by police in Maithapur village, police said on Saturday. ...
01:13 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh on Friday won a no-confidence motion moved by TRS and supported by YSR Congress and other opposition parties. Capping a day-long acrimonious debate in the Assembly that went on till small hours of Saturday, the motion was defeated by 84 votes in a head count by division. ...
10:36 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker N Manohar on Friday admitted the notices for no-confidence motion given by Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSR Congress Party against the Congress-led state government. ...
11:18 AM, Mar 15, 2013
The Hyderabad branch of National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday lodged two first information reports (FIRs) in connection with the February 21 twin blasts. The development follows Centre's direction for hand-over of the case to NIA, sources said, adding that NIA, which had already started its probe, would continue it. FIRs (one for each blast) were registered under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code and other Acts. ...
11:37 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by the watchman of her school in February, police said. ...
03:28 AM, Mar 14, 2013
The special CBI court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of Kadapa MP and YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy till March 20 in the disproportionate assets case against him. Jagan, former minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao, industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad, senior bureaucrat KV Brahmananda Reddy (all accused in Vanpic aspect of the Jagan assets case) and other accused, lodged in Chanchalguda Central Prison, were produced before the court through video-conference....
07:43 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A Delhi court on Wednesday remanded suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Obaid-ur-Rehman in seven days of NIA custody in connection with the February 21 Hyderabad twin blasts case. During an in-chamber hearing, district judge IS Mehta allowed the National Investigation Agency's plea seeking custodial interrogation of Rehman on the ground that it has to unearth the entire conspiracy which led to the bombings that claimed 16 lives, court sources said. ...
05:54 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The budget session of the Andhra Pradesh state legislature began on Wednesday on a stormy note with the opposition Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) disrupting state governor ESL Narasimhan's address to the joint session of both houses. ...
11:40 AM, Mar 13, 2013
A five-member team comprising officials from the UN and Boston Consulting Group arrived on Tuesday at East Godavari district to study Aadhar-card based services provided by the public distribution system. The five-member delegation, which included officials from United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) visited Rajahmundry and Samalkota mandals and later met the district joint collector A Babu, an official release said. ...
11:52 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The Andhra Pradesh police has released sketches of a bicycle used in the twin bomb blasts in Dilsukhnagar in February which killed 17 and had injured more than 100 people. Cyberabad Police Commissioner Dwaraka Tirumala Rao released the sketches of a damaged bicycle on Sunday night. ...
12:23 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Even as Rajasthan Police prepares to seek custody of rape convict Bitti Mohanty two days after he was arrested in Kerala, the role of his father, former Orissa DGP BB Mohanty, has come under suspicion. BB Mohanty had consistently maintained he did not know Bitti's whereabouts, but a former headmaster at Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh, who employed Bitti at his school, said a man used to visit the convict frequently....
05:34 PM, Mar 10, 2013
The Navy on Saturday recovered the bodies of its two personnel including a pilot who had been missing after their chopper crashed off the Viskhapatnam harbour four days ago. The Chetak helicopter had crashed with four persons on board of which two were rescued while the two others had gone missing. ...
10:55 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Andhra Pradesh Police on Friday said the face of one of the suspects of February 21 Dilsukh Nagar twin blasts case here was clearly captured by CCTV cameras and efforts are on to identity the person. "The face of one of the suspects with a bicycle has been clearly captured by CCTV cameras and the process is on for the identification of the suspect," Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police...
11:59 PM, Mar 08, 2013
On International Women's Day, CNN-IBN brings a story of hope. A gangrape survivor herself, Sunita Krishnan fought back and set up Prajwala, a home for sexually exploited women and children. Sunita was CNN-IBN's Real Hero in 2008. She has now made a film on her trauma and the trauma of others like her. ...
11:44 AM, Mar 08, 2013
A college student committed suicide on Wednesday for allegedly being denied a hall ticket by the college management to appear for annual exams. Police sources said that K Sai Kumar (17) of Sangupet village, Andole mandal of Medak district, a student of Kranthi Junior College at Jogipet' went to college on Tuesday to collect his hall ticket, but returned home without it. ...
11:26 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The death toll in Hyderabad twin blasts rose to 17 on Wednesday with an injured person succumbing while undergoing treatment at a private hospital, sources said. ...
10:59 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The National Security Guard (NSG) DG has ordered a court of inquiry into unauthorised call made to the NSG office, seeking details of the Hyderabad twin blasts. The DG, Arvind Ranjan, order the inquiry after it was revealed that a senior NSG officer received a call from Pakistan. ...
05:57 PM, Mar 06, 2013
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Indian Mujahideen founder Riyaz Bhatkal in the Hyderabad twin blasts case. The warrant has also been issued against nine other Indian Mujahideen suspects in connection with the blasts. ...
04:02 PM, Mar 05, 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
With no breakthrough in February 21 twin blasts at Dilsukh Nagar here that left 16 dead and 117 injured, the Andhra Pradesh government on Monday decided to hand over the investigation to NIA. The decision to hand over the probe to the National Investigation Agency was taken at a review meeting chaired by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, state's Home Minister P Sabita Reddy told reporters. ...
08:10 PM, Mar 04, 2013
