Author: Syed Amin Jafri

The Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday stayed a lower court’s order directing the Anti-Corruption Bureau to probe allegations of corruption against Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in the procurement of liquor from private distilleries during 1997-2000. Principal Special Judge for Special Police Establishment and Anti-Corruption Bureau Cases S Anantasayana Prasad had on Friday admitted […]

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday said he was not averse to simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha along with assembly polls in the state. “My party is for holding of assembly elections latest by March 17 as school examinations are slated to be held after that date,” he told reporters after a one-to-one […]

The Centre on Monday night announced in the Lok Sabha the setting up of a Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal by August 31. Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh are at loggerheads over the sharing of the river waters. This will be the second tribunal on sharing of the Krishna waters; the earlier one was set up in […]

Shantha Sinha, winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2003 for Community Leadership, is well-known as the founder of the M Venkatarangaiya Foundation (better known as MV Foundation), which works to free child labourers and enroll them in schools. Sinha (53), a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Hyderabad Central University, is a leading anti-child […]

The Andhra Pradesh government on Monday decided to extend by one more year the ban on the People’s War. The decision to extend the ban, which expires on Tuesday, was taken at a meeting of the state Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. The ban on the PW has been in force since […]