Year: 2008

Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu turned 58 on Sunday. A large number of party leaders and activists, including sitting legislators, Parliamentarians and former ministers, greeted him at his Jubilee Hills residence. They offered him bouquets, garlands, sweets and fruits. Party leaders also organised ‘annadanam’ (providing food to […]

Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu kicked off his 100-day, state-wide yatra on Monday. Naidu set out on the yatra in a specially built campaign bus from Matammagudi (local temple) in a Dalit colony in Rayalapuram village in his native Chittoor district, after seeking divine blessings of Lord Venkateswara at the famed Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanam. Senior […]

The no trust motion tabled by the main opposition Telugu Desam Party against the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh was defeated in the State Legislative Assembly in the early hours of Thursday. The motion was put to vote by Speaker K R Suresh Reddy around 1.45 am after the House witnessed acrimonious debate over the […]

The Andhra Pradesh government is considering setting up a statutory authority to determine the backward districts and regions in the state.  Replying to the debate on the motion of thanks for the Governor’s address in the state legislative assembly on Wednesday, Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy said that the new body would be […]

All India Congress Committee General Secretary and in-charge of Andhra Pradesh affairs Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said that the United Progressive Alliance government. is considering the formation of the second States Reorganisation Commission to look into the demand for a separate Telangana state and Vidarbha state.  Addressing a media conference, Moily said that AICC president […]