Month: December 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 […]