
Guntur: Three persons including Chilakaluripet Congress leader Mallela Satyanarayana, died when the car by which they were travelling collided with a truck at Chowdavaram, police said on Sunday.
The incident occured in a suburb of Guntur, on the National Highway number five, they said.
Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister K Lakshmi Narayana visited the scene of tragedy and condoled the death of Satyanarayana and two others. ...
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07:45 AM, May 20, 2013

Guntur: The incident in which a Dalit woman was killed after she was allegedly roughed up and pushed under the wheels of a speeding truck at Tenali town by drunk miscreants, has now assumed political and caste overtones. B Susheela, a 45-year-old housewife paid with her life on Monday night when she tried to rescue her teenaged daughter, who is a B Tech student, after seven drunken motor mechanics aged...

02:28 AM, Apr 11, 2013

Guntur: Seven men in inebriated condition pushed a woman under the wheels of a speeding truck in Guntur, leading to her death, after she took on them and resisted their harassment, police said on Tuesday. B Susheela, a housewife, was seriously injured in Monday night's incident at Tenali town. The 45-year-old was rushed to NRI General Hospital at nearby Mangalagiri town, where she died on Tuesday, they said. All the...

11:35 PM, Apr 09, 2013

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05:42 PM, Mar 17, 2013

A creditor detained his debtor's wife in his house, demanding clearance of his dues, in Macherla town of Guntur district on Monday, the police said. A drunkard called D Gopala Reddi had borrowed Rs 50,000 from S Lakshmanaih three years ago and then gone missing, after which his wife Vijayamma was forced to vacate her rented house in Macherla six months ago and settle in a nearby village, eking out...

08:27 PM, Dec 11, 2012

A police constable allegedly set on fire his pregnant girlfriend for coming in the way of his proposed marriage with another woman, police said on Sunday. The woman, who suffered fifty per cent burns, is out of danger, doctors at the government general hospital said. ...

09:03 PM, Dec 09, 2012

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04:29 PM, Dec 04, 2012

Guntur: A two-day old baby girl was found abandoned in an open drain on Thursday in Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. She was found by passers-by and was immediately taken to a government hospital, where she is currently undergoing treatment. Doctors said that she is stable but there have been no claimants yet. Meanwhile, an infant was found abandoned in front of a rest house in Shirdi on Thursday. The...

07:59 AM, Oct 26, 2012

Guntur: Three persons were killed and as many injured when their autorickshaw collided with a bus near Budampadu village in the district, police said on Friday. Six persons were going from Guntur city to Brahmana Kodur late last night when their autorickshaw was knocked down by an Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) bus, police said. While two persons died on the spot, another one succumbed on way to...

11:08 AM, Oct 12, 2012

Guntur: An engineering student, who suspected his girlfriend of having an affair, rode her to death and killed himself in the process when he rammed his speeding bike into a bus here, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday night at Nallapadu where the bodies of M Saidu Babu (23) and Krishna Jaa (22) were found, they said. Both the engineering students, who died on the spot,...

03:09 PM, Sep 06, 2012

Guntur: A woman, deserted by her husband, on Wednesday allegedly killed her two children and tried to commit suicide, police said. N Sailaja (30), the woman, married N Suresh, an auto driver, about five years ago, and had two sons. But the husband, of late, had left her, said the police. On Wednesday she allegedly administered pesticide to her sons, aged 4 and 2 years, and tried to hang herself...

01:24 AM, Sep 06, 2012

Hyderabad/Vijayawada: About 200 policemen hunting for one notorious offender in a forest area spread over some 23 km for the past 72 hours. Sounds like a plot of a Hindi flick, but it is not. The hide and seek game between the policemen and psycho-killer Rachakonda Sambasiva Rao alias Psycho Samba, who gave a slip to the Guntur urban police on Thursday, continued for the third day on Saturday with...

01:30 PM, Jul 15, 2012

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...

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08:07 PM, Mar 14, 2009

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08:10 AM, Mar 13, 2009