and offices Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy is literally facing the heat with striking employees of the electricity department in Telangana threatening to cut power supply to his house and that of his ministers in Hyderabad.
The Telangana agitation took a violent turn on Friday with pro-statehood agitators attacking legislators and activists from the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which opposes bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. TDP activists retaliated leading to clashes at various places. HT reports.
A CBI court in Hyderabad on Friday posted to September 29 hearing on the central investigation agency's petition seeking custody of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy, arrested in connection with alleged illegal mining activities.
Garbage heaps accumulated in Hyderabad as sanitation workers’ strike to press for Telangana entered the third day while teachers, miners, power sector workers and government employees showed no signs of returning to work. HT reports.
Upping the ante, leaders of Andhra Pradesh's ruling Congress from Telangana on Thursday said they would be forced to take a "tough decision" if the central leadership failed to make a favourable statement on statehood for the region by month-end.
Over 10,000 buses of the state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) were off the roads in Telangana for the third consecutive day on Wednesday as employees continued their strike to push for a separate Telangana state.
Obulapuram Mining Company managing director BV Srinivasa Reddy, who is under CBI custody, was on Saturday taken from Hyderabad to Karnataka's Bellary for probe in connection with the seizure of Rs. 4.9 crore from a truck.
At least 15 people are feared trapped under the debris of a five-storeyed building which collapsed today in Kakinada, about 500 km from Hyderabad on the Andhra coast, police said.
Congress MP and former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin's son Ayazuddin (19) died due to multiple organ failure at the Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad today.
Ashok Das reports.
VideoAndhra Pradesh is on the verge of an economic crisis as the strike by miners in Singareni Collieries is threatening to create power scarcity in the state and also in other southern states and Maharashtra.
The condition of Ayazuddin, son of former cricketer and Moradabad MP Mohammad Azharuddin, who was grievously injured in a road mishap, continued to remain critical for the fourth day on Wednesday, Apollo Hospital sources said.
The condition of former Indian cricket captain and Moradabad MP Mohammed Azharuddin's son Mohammed Ayazuddin, 19, who was injured in a mishap, continued to be "very critical" for the second day.
HT reports.
VideoFormer Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy and managing director of Obulapuram Mining Company BV Srinivas Reddy, both of whom were arrested in connection with alleged illegal mining, on Tuesday moved their bail petitions in the special CBI court in Hyderabad.
Amid a battle over late YSR's legacy in Andhra Pradesh, a prominent Congress leader from the state on Saturday made a strong pitch for the party projecting the image of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to shake off the challenge posed by YS Jaganmohan Reddy.
YSR Congress has hit out at ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh, saying it is creating problems for their President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is facing CBI probe over his assets and investments by companies in his business entities.