Year: 2005

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed the charge-sheet in connection with the murder of Telugu Desam Party legislator Paritala Ravi in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur town on January 24. CBI Deputy Superintendent of Police Vijay Kumar filed the charge-sheet, which has named 13 accused, in the court of the Additional First Class Magistrate Jayaraj in […]

Three dissident leaders literally spoiled Telugu Desam Party boss and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s birthday party last week accusing him of not learning lessons from the electoral debacle last year and persisting with his dictatorial style of functioning. For a party which prides itself for its ‘discipline’, the dissenting voices that […]

Naxal leaders Vavavara Rao, Gaddar and G Kalyan Rao withdrew from peace efforts on Monday in protest against what they called ‘repression let loose by the government’. The naxal leaders called off the peace process after blaming the government of the killing of 80 Maoists and other naxalites in fake police encounters in the last three months. AP Maoists: The party […]

The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday created history in land distribution to the poor. It undertook the distribution of 1.15 lakh acres of land worth Rs 5,000 crore to the poor and the under-privileged — the biggest-ever effort in a single day in the country — on the occasion of Republic Day. Chief Minister Y […]

The Communist Party of India-Maoist and Communist Party of India-ML Janashakti on Monday evening announced they were pulling out of peace talks with the Andhra Pradesh government following the “repression let loose by the state police.” In a statement issued to the media hours after the state cabinet decided to continue the peace talks and asked the […]