Author: Syed Amin Jafri

In a setback for the Andhra Pradesh government, the elected body of the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad on Thursday shot down its proposal to form a Greater Hyderabad by merging 12 adjoining municipalities and the MCH. At a meeting, convened to ascertain the view of MCH’s elected members, all parties, barring the Congress, opposed the […]

K Keshav Rao was on Friday unanimously appointed the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president, marking the completion of the organisational polls of the ruling party in the state. Returning officer G S Basavaraj announced Keshav Rao’s election at a meeting of 588 party delegates elected from all over the state. Keshav Rao, a close confidante […]

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 […]

A dozen political parties from various parts of the country expressed support for a separate Telangana state at a rally organised by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in Hyderabad on Saturday. Interestingly, the Congress stayed away from the meeting. The TRS is a partner in the ruling coalition headed by the Congress at the Centre. The TRS had […]

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 […]

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 […]