Year: 2005

Congress candidate Chittem Ramamohan Reddy on Tuesday won the Makthal constituency by-poll in the Andhra Pradesh assembly. Reddy trounced his nearest rival by 40,124 votes. The election was necessitated by the death of his father Chittem Narsi Reddy, who was killed along with his younger son and nine others in a Maoist attack at Narayanpet […]

A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday refused bail to Mumbai blasts accused Abu Salem’s girlfriend Monica Bedi in connection with a forged passport case. Special court Judge C V Subramanyam dismissed Bedi’s petition on the ground that further investigation was pending. Abu Salem extradited Defence counsel S Pradeep Kumar said […]

The one-man Commission of Inquiry has held the previous Telugu Desam Party government responsible for the large number of farmers’ suicides in Andhra Pradesh. The inquiry commission, headed by retired judge L Ramachenna Reddy, which probed the causes for suicides by farmers between July 1998 and May 2005, submitted its 200-page report to the government […]

With the Naxal issue back in the news and the peace process between the Maoist rebels and the Andhra Pradesh government having failed, here’s a look at one of the most enigmatic figures of the ultra-red bastion, the folk singer Gaddar.  Gummadi Vittal Rao is 56 years old, has acted in two movies, and carries […]

Outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) has slammed the ban imposed on it by the Andhra Pradesh government and accused Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy of converting AP into a police state. In the first reaction to the ban clamped on it and 7 frontal organizations on August 17, Maoist AP state committee secretary Ramakrishna charged Reddy on […]

Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday stayed the formation of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation on various grounds. This decision came in response to a writ petition filed by a Hyderabad member of Parliament and others alleging that the decision was illegal and unconstitutional. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Bilal Nazki and Justice G […]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the naxalites to adopt democratic means and fight elections to gain power. “The government was willing to have a dialogue with them, but it would not tolerate extremist violence at any cost,” he said. Dr Singh came on a half-day’s visit to Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, just four days after the […]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the naxalites to adopt democratic means and fight elections to gain power. “The government was willing to have a dialogue with them, but it would not tolerate extremist violence at any cost,” he said. Dr Singh came on a half-day’s visit to Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, just four days after the […]

The Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission on Saturday issued notices to the state director-general of police and the Hyderabad city police commissioner on the arrest of Revolutionary Writers Association functionaries and former Maoist emissaries Varavara Rao and G Kalyan Rao in Hyderabad. At a special sitting, the Commission took ‘suo motu cognisance of the […]

In a crackdown on members of the Revolutionary Writers Association (Viplava Rachiyatala Sangham-Virasam), which has been banned alongwith the Communist Party of India(Maoist) and six other frontal organizations, Andhra Pradesh police arrested former Maoist emissary and prominent revolutionary writer Varavara Rao from his residence in Malakpet area in Hyderabad early Friday morning. AP govt reimposes […]