Author: Syed Amin Jafri

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 […]

Andhra Pradesh Home Minister K Jana Reddy on Wednesday night announced that the ban on Communist Party of India-Maoist covers its seven frontal organisations for a period of one year with immediate effect. Apart from CPI-Maoist, the other outfits that figure in the list are: Radical Youth League, Radical Students Union, All India Revolutionary Students […]

Andhra Pradesh lawmakers will be alloted Rs one crore towards area development fund on the lines of Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) fund from the next budget. Accepting a demand from the MLAs, Chief Minister Y S R Reddy said the request of the legislators is being accepted tentatively and the rules for […]

Hyderabad is the biggest and most prominent city in the Telangana region. But what will its fate be if Telangana is spun off into a separate state since it is also the capital of Andhra Pradesh? Hyderabad is a sprawling metropolis and cosmopolitan city spread over 688 sq km. It comprises Hyderabad, Secunderabad and 10 surrounding municipalities […]

One man breaks away from a mainstream party demanding a separate state. He forms a new party, which wrecks havoc on the parent party in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Logically, the story should end with the formation of a separate state. But the reality has been somewhat different for K Chandrasekhar Rao who broke […]

The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday clarified that it was not ordering the People’s War group of Naxalites to surrender their weapons for the peace talks but only asking them not to carry them during the period of talks. State Home Minister K Jana Reddy conveyed the government’s ‘firm stance’ on the issue to the […]

President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam will dedicate the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics-Sun Microsystems Medical Bio-informatics Center of Excellence in Hyderabad on Friday. The center has been set up by the CDFD of the government of India, the Andhra Pradesh government and Sun Microsystems, the world’s leading company in high-precision computing, at […]

A metropolitan magistrate on Wednesday issued non-bailable warrant against Union minister and Telangana Rashtra Samiti founder K Chandrasekhar Rao in connection with a cheating case. The fifth metropolitan magistrate had directed TRS president to appear in the court on May 16 but he failed to do so. The magistrate had then given him time till […]

With its scheme to provide reservation to Muslims in jobs and education caught in a legal wrangle, Andhra Pradesh Government is contemplating to bring a legislation, if necessary, on the issue. Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy told reporters in Hyderabad,  “We are contemplating to bring in a legislation, if need be, on the subject.” He […]

President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday advised the legislators and MPs from Andhra Pradesh to use their constituency development funds to promote education and identified 10 important missions to ensure the overall development of the state. Making a special address to the members of legislative assembly in Hyderabad on Wednesday afternoon, he said, “The […]