Aravind Rao

The state government has set in motion the arduous task of withdrawing cases booked against students who participated in the Telangana and Samaikyandhra agitations.

Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday said that the renovated main temple premises at Yadadri will be inaugurated in February next year. He invited Sri Thridanda Chinna Jeeyar Swamy for the inauguration ceremony. He said a Maha Sudharshana Yagnam will also be performed at Yadadri.

The Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case took a new turn with the CBI questioning former director general of police K Aravinda Rao on the affair.

A two-tier security cover will soon be in place in Tirupati and on Tirumala hills in view of the red alert sounded by security agencies.

TRS president K Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday threatened to start another round of agitation if the police book cases against T region employees for participating in the separate Telangana movement.

The CM's principal secretary Jannat Hussain has moved in and convinced Rajasekhara Reddy to appoint Balwinder Singh in the coveted position.

The government is considering the request of Telangana and Seemandhra leaders to withdraw the cases booked against the students who participated in the Telangana and Samaikhyandhra agitations.

After 'The Kashmir Files' and 'The Kerala Story' stirred up a hornet's nest over their controversial depiction of communal issues, a Kannada movie that claims to expose the gory truth behind communalization of politics and political murders is all set to hit the screens on June 16.

Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy condemned the attack on the governor and Lok Satta chief Jayaprakash Narayan.

MANGALORE: Peeved at the way some pharmaceutical companies are resorting to misinformation and scare-mongering about the Hepatitis B infection, doctors in Mangalore have written a letter to Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr C.P. Thakur urging him to formulate a national policy on HBV vaccination and publicise it widely.

HYDERABAD:With polling for the elections to the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad just 48 hours away, all the main parties are reportedly bringing in supporters from neighbouring districts. The duties of the ‘imports’ include casting bogus votes, impersonation and threatening voters and rival party workers at the polling booths.

This is even as the chief minister is disgusted at the state of affairs in the police department and has commented so to close colleagues.

Senior cops are upset about the intelligence failure because the whole focus of the state intelligence apparatus is on Maoists.

The medicos described the turn of events as 'satisfactory' though the home minister did not give them any written assurance.

IPS officers in the state are unhappy over the 'politicisation' of postings and transfers and denial of due promotions by the state government.

Retired IPS officer Anjaneya Reddy had prepared a report suggesting changes in the intelligence structure of Andhra Pradesh, but it was not implemented all this while.

Senior minister P Shankar Rao on Saturday demanded that all YSR loyalists in the Kiran Kumar Reddy cabinet should step down as they did not defend Congress president Sonia Gandhi when she came under attack from the Opposition recently.

Jaiswal's transfer has come close on the heels of union home minister P Chidambaram likening frequent transfers of police officials to "a football" being kicked around.

Accusing outsiders and non-boarders for fomenting trouble on the Osmania University campus, the state government on Sunday clarified that police forces were not deployed on the varsity premises as was being alleged by some political parties.

Accusing outsiders and non-boarders for fomenting trouble on the Osmania University campus, the state government on Sunday clarified that police forces were not deployed on the varsity premises as was being alleged by some political parties.

A 1992 batch officer, Prabhat is currently DIG with the CRPF, and is among the officers who were honoured with the top award on the occasion of Independence Day.

Situated around eight km from Mehdipatnam junction, Bandlaguda Jagir that was a village until three years ago, has repositioned itself as a rapidly growing residential pocket now, drawing a sizable chunk of IT buyers.

Clashes between students and police continued for the second day on Osmania University campus with both the parties fighting pitched battles for over eight hours on Tuesday. While the students hurled stones and molotov cocktails (petrol bombs) at the police and paramilitary force personnel stationed outside the university premises, the latter retaliated with tear gas shells.