Hyderabad: The Central Government would soon come up with a new policy of National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) to alleviate poverty in urban areas, Union Minister Ajay Maken said in Hyderabad on Friday. Maken, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, is on a two-day visit to the Andhra Pradesh capital to study and review the urban poverty alleviation programmes in urban areas implemented by the state government. He...
12:55 AM, May 11, 2013
Bangalore: The quality of governance and better leadership has led to southern states surging ahead of their northern counterparts, widening the gap in terms of per capita income and poverty between the south and north, says a study. Per capita incomes in the south (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala) have risen fast and poverty has declined in recent years and the reason is quality of governance, better leadership...
07:54 PM, May 07, 2013
Union Tourism Minister Chiranjeevi's actor son, Ram Charan Teja, was caught flexing his muscles after being caught in a street brawl. His bodyguards beat up two IT professionals in Hyderabad when their car came in the way of Charan's Aston Martin. ...
07:44 PM, May 07, 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 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to file its response on Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail plea before the Supreme Court on Monday. The YSR Congress chief, who has spent nearly one year in jail in a disproportionate assets case, had moved the SC challenging the Andhra Pradesh High Court's January 24 order refusing to grant him bail in the case. The SC had on April 29...
08:19 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 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 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 AM, May 03, 2013
Karimnagar/Hyderabad: Four rape incidents, including that of a minor girl and a "mentally challenged" girl, were reported in past five days in Andhra Pradesh, the police said on Wednesday. Three rape incidents were reported in different parts of the state capital since Friday, while another incident occurred in Karimnagar district, the police said. An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her step father on Friday night at her home in...
02:06 AM, May 02, 2013
Hyderabad: An accused in a case of gangrape dating back to 1990 has been arrested by Andhra Pradesh CID after 14 years. Mohd Waheed and five others were accused of abducting a woman in May, 1990. She was confined to a room on the outskirts of Miryalguda in Nalgonda district and raped repeatedly. She succeeded in escaping and lodged a complaint. CID probed the case. During the trial, Waheed jumped...
11:40 PM, May 01, 2013
Hyderabad: Speculation is rife that actress-politician Jayaprada, currently a member of Lok Sabha from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, is planning to come back to her home state Andhra Pradesh and join the Congress party soon. The speculation has been triggered following her meeting with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi last week. "I am returning to AP politics and I will soon announce which party I will join," Jayaprada has been saying...
07:49 PM, May 01, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy on Monday warned of initiating action against those making fake calls to the recently launched 'Dial 100 system', an emergency response number. Of the 50,000 calls made to the 'Dial 100 system', about 20,000 have turned out to be fake, Reddy told reporters in Hyderabad adding, "...So far, it is due to ignorance. Henceforth, we will have to come down...
01:37 AM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Five Congress MPs from Telangana on Monday launched a 48-hour protest outside Parliament to press for their separate statehood demand. The move caused a major embarrassment to the Congress as the party is in power in Andhra Pradesh. The MPs, clad in white kurta pyjamas, carried placards which read - "48 hours diksha for achieving Telangana" and "Give Telangana and Save Democracy". The five MPs are Gutha Sukhender...
05:20 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Hyderabad: Some Congress MPs from Telangana region, who have been in the forefront of the campaign for separate statehood, would undertake sit-in on the premises of Parliament house on Monday. Congress Lok Sabha member from Karimnagar Ponnam Prabhakar said MPs from Telangana would observe the sit-in at Gandhi statue in Parliament to highlight their demand. Telangana Congress MPs have been vocal in raising the separate statehood demand, sometimes causing discomfiture...
08:25 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Visakhapatnam: Winding up his nearly seven-month long 'padyatra' (walkathon), Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday promised to bring back Andhra Pradesh on the path of development and restore its glory. Addressing a mammoth public meeting in Visakhapatnam on Saturday night, Naidu made a slew of promises for all sections of people and assured that if voted to power in the next elections, he would fulfill all...
04:58 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Hyderabad: The unseasonal rains that lashed Andhra Pradesh over the last four days have claimed 25 lives and damaged crops over 70,000 hectares, officials said on Wednesday. The deaths, almost all due to thunderbolts, were reported from 11 districts. Guntur accounted for seven deaths; four people died in Nellore, three in Prakasam, two each in Warangal, Krishna and East Godavari and one each in West Godavari, Khammam, Adilabad, Visakhapatnam and...
04:58 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday fixed the benchmark price for purchase of solar power at Rs 6.49 per unit. The Cabinet Sub-Committee on Power fixed the benchmark price at its meeting on Tuesday. The state government has invited bids from interested parties for generating solar power in view of the unprecedented electricity crisis. "We hope to finalise the bids within a month now that the price has been fixed,"...
02:23 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Hyderabad: A one-month-old boy was allegedly sold for Rs 1.5 lakh in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh, officials said on Sunday. He has been rescued. No arrests have been made so far in the incident. The baby's father Gangadhar, a labourer, and one mediator named Linganna allegedly sold him ten days ago, Nizamabad Rural police said quoting a complaint lodged by the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) authorities. Following the...
02:30 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Sangareddy: A rape victim who was in a state of mental depression committed suicide on Sunday afternoon at the Kohir mandal headquarters in Medak district. According to Zaheerabad Circle Inspector of Police Pulimamidi Sridhar Reddy, the 18-year-old girl who was raped by a 36-year-old driver called Shekhar in the wee hours of April 20 near Zaheerabad railway station, committed suicide at her village. She was discharged from hospital at about...
11:12 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Hyderabad: Four men allegedly attempted to a rape a married woman in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh, the police said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday night when the young woman, accompanied by her husband, was returning from Nereducherla town on a bike to Sonyapahad village after purchasing some groceries, the police said. The couple stopped their two-wheeler for the woman to answer nature's call, when four men, who...
09:01 PM, Apr 21, 2013
