Andhra Pradesh government re-imposes ban on Maoists

The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday evening re-imposed a ban on the Maoists, in the wake of a spurt in naxalite violence that has claimed 254 lives in the state since January 2005.  After day-long deliberations, the government issued the orders outlawing the Communist Party of India-Maoist and its frontal organisations under the Andhra Pradesh […]

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AP: PM to distribute 1 lakh acres of land to poor on August 21

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will pay a one-day visit to Andhra Pradesh on August 21 to launch the programme for distribution of 1 lakh acres of land to the landless poor. Briefing newsmen after the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening, Information Minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir said that Andhra Pradesh would become the first state […]

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AP home minister says ban covers CPI-Maoist and seven frontal organisations

Andhra Pradesh Home Minister K Jana Reddy on Wednesday night announced that the ban on Communist Party of India-Maoist covers its seven frontal organisations for a period of one year with immediate effect. Apart from CPI-Maoist, the other outfits that figure in the list are: Radical Youth League, Radical Students Union, All India Revolutionary Students […]

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Don’t carry weapons: AP govt to Naxalites

The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday clarified that it was not ordering the People’s War group of Naxalites to surrender their weapons for the peace talks but only asking them not to carry them during the period of talks. State Home Minister K Jana Reddy conveyed the government’s ‘firm stance’ on the issue to the […]

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Kalam to open bio-informatics centre in Hyderabad

President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam will dedicate the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics-Sun Microsystems Medical Bio-informatics Center of Excellence in Hyderabad on Friday. The center has been set up by the CDFD of the government of India, the Andhra Pradesh government and Sun Microsystems, the world’s leading company in high-precision computing, at […]

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After Soren, arrest warrant against TRS chief

A metropolitan magistrate on Wednesday issued non-bailable warrant against Union minister and Telangana Rashtra Samiti founder K Chandrasekhar Rao in connection with a cheating case. The fifth metropolitan magistrate had directed TRS president to appear in the court on May 16 but he failed to do so. The magistrate had then given him time till […]

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