
Hyderabad: YSR Congress MP Jagan Reddy is leaving no stone unturned to ensure victory in the upcoming bypolls in 18 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh. Jagan, summoned by the CBI on May 25 in an illegal assets case, continued campaigning in Guntur, all the time telling his supporters that the CBI would arrest him at the Congress's behest. "Congress is using CBI. They want to...

10:43 PM, May 24, 2012

New Delhi: Just a few days after a couple from Jodhpur in Rajasthan abandoned their baby girl, a father allegedly blinded by superstition, assaulted his six-month pregnant wife with an iron rod that resulted in a miscarriage. The 30-year-old woman from Andhra Pradesh lived to tell the tale of horror unleashed by her husband and his family. Six months into her pregnancy, she was brutalised by her husband with an...

09:36 AM, Apr 04, 2012

Commenting on the Andhra Pradesh forced abortion incident, NCW Chairperson Mamata Sharma said that the 'baba' who ordered the act should be held. ...

01:34 PM, Apr 03, 2012

Hyderabad: In a brutally shocking incident, a man in Guntur district along with his parents, allegedly beat up his six-month pregnant wife with an iron rod on the stomach causing her to undergo a miscarriage on Sunday. Police say the family, blinded by superstition and faith in a baba, believed that she was pregnant with a girl child and hence decided to terminate the pregnancy. The victim claims that this...

12:09 PM, Apr 03, 2012

Guntur: Close on the heels of desecration of the statues of Dalit icon Babasaheb Ambedkar, figures of two Congress leaders were found on Saturday to be defiled in Tenali town in the district, police said. Statues of Congress leaders NG Ranga and Vangaveeti Ranga were found damaged, they said. In a bid to prevent any untoward incident, police reinstalled the image of Vangaveeti Ranga even as people gathered near the...

09:40 PM, Jan 28, 2012

Guntur: A woman from Andhra Pradesh claimed that she was injected with HIV virus by her daughter to kill her and usurp her property. The police has registered a case of attempt to murder. It's a case that's surprised not just the police but also the local village folk of Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district. 59-year-old Bharathi Rao, along with her husband R. Ranga Rao, filed a complaint against her daughters...

09:13 AM, Oct 08, 2010

A first year student attempted suicide after being ragged by five seniors. ...

08:07 PM, Mar 14, 2009

Victim had been complaining of ragging since the day she joined college. ...

08:10 AM, Mar 13, 2009

Her assailant is her own brother-in-law, Ravindra Prabhakar. ...

09:30 AM, Jan 04, 2009

This is regarded by some as an effort to counter Chiranjeevi's popularity. ...

02:14 PM, Nov 07, 2008

Guntur, the town with the highest AIDS population in AP, is sporting a positive picture. ...

11:25 AM, Jun 24, 2008

Karachi: Former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas feels the ICC should keep a close watch on the fifth Indian Premier League in the wake of the recent reports about spot-fixing in international cricket. The ICC may have dismissed the recent reports quoting an Indian bookmaker but it would be prudent that a close watch is kept on the IPL, Zaheer said in an interview. He said although the IPL is treated...

02:18 PM, May 03, 2008