Katara scandal puts Hyderabad back in focus

Tuesday 24 April '07

Hyderabad is once again in the spotlight for human trafficking with the Delhi Police establishing a link between the Babubhai Katara case and the city.

Greater Hyderabad civic body to target slums, infrastructure

Wednesday 18 April '07

The head of the newly-constituted Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation said his first priority is developing slums and urban infrastructure.

Andhra observes bandh over Babli

Thursday 12 April '07

A day after the Andhra Pradesh High Court rapped the state government for “morally supporting” a state-wide bandh called by the Opposition

From classrooms to crores for five ISB students

Wednesday 11 April '07

Five students from International School of Business in Hyderabad bagged international placements with each being promised annual salaries of over Rs 1 crore.

SSA scam: Cops claim ‘truckload’ of evidence

Tuesday 10 April '07

Evidence unearthed in the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan fund embezzlement case in Andhra Pradesh indicate that its magnitude could be much bigger than originally thought.

No ISI link, we are victims of police witch hunt, says Darsgah chief

Sunday 8 April '07

In the wake of the arrest of an alleged ISI activist here, the city-based Darsgah Jihad-o-Shahadat (DJS) has once again been linked to ISI and terrorism.

Foreigners in slum, Bajrang sees ‘conversion’

Friday 6 April '07

The moral police have struck again. And this time, the victims are a group of foreigners who are in India for a few months.

Medak has the IIT after all

Wednesday 4 April '07

A long-running battle over the site of the new IIT to come up in the state finally came to an end on Sunday. Andhra Pradesh has decided to go with the choice of its Chief Minister

Anti-trafficking: Andhra identifies victims for rehab

Saturday 31 March '07

With the formation of three new Anti-Human Trafficking Units this year, Andhra Police have begun to differentiate victims from traffickers during raids.

Andhra plans to meet PM over Babli project

Thursday 29 March '07

The Andhra Pradesh Government will send an all-party delegation to meet the Prime Minister over the Babli Barrage project issue.

Top Naxal leaders surrender in Andhra

Tuesday 27 March '07

Two top Naxal leaders, Durgam Ramanaiah alias Ravi and Merugu Sambaiah alias Ganesh Ueike, surrendered before the Andhra Pradesh Police in Warangal on Sunday.

AP trafficking victims will be paid to testify

Wednesday 14 March '07

The idea is to help victims of trafficking help themselves.

Andhra plans eco-tourism in Naxal-infested jungle

Monday 12 March '07

The Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation is thinking big and thinking out of the box.

25 TDP legislators suspended

Friday 9 March '07

Matters between the Congress and the Telugu Desam Party came to a head today with 25 TDP MLAs being suspended for creating an uproar and ‘obstructing proceedings’ in the House.

From marijuana to mines: Another Naxal story in AP

Tuesday 6 March '07

Arrests by the Andhra Pradesh police show that the state’s ganja farms are now being used to fund Naxalite weapons.

Andhra’s girls vanish, many to Maharashtra’s brothels

Thursday 8 February '07

Most cases go unreported, officials say 40 per cent of trafficking cases are from Andhra

Gaddar on Telangana march, cops keep eye

Wednesday 7 February '07

Wearing the traditional costume of Telangana, revolutionary poet and Maoist spokesman Gaddar is on a march through the region.

45 feared dead in Krishna boat mishap

Friday 19 January '07

At least 45 people are feared dead after a boat carrying worshippers capsized in the Krishna river this afternoon. Officials said the country boat was overloaded.

Now Hyderabad cops probe what may be serial killings, 2 held

Monday 8 January '07

On the heels of the suspected serial killers of Noida, the Cyberabad police have arrested two men who investigators say have confessed to sodomising and killing nine people.

Andhra MPs lock horns over IIT issue, stir intensifies

Saturday 6 January '07

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr YS Rajashekhara Reddy today ruled out that the new IIT would be set up anywhere other than in Medak district of the state.

A card that means credit for the poorest of the poor

Sunday 31 December '06

In Medak, one of the poorest districts of Andhra Pradesh, people will soon get a New Year gift, something they could not even dream of: a bank account.

YSR plans to make it law: Marriage only after HIV test

Thursday 21 December '06

Andhra Pradesh, among the worst hit by HIV/AIDS in the country, is set to become the first state to pass a legislation to make it mandatory for couples to undergo HIV testing before they can get married.

YSR surrenders excess land, Oppn sees reason for him to quit

Thursday 14 December '06

The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister’s ‘good deed’ of surrendering 618 acres of family land, which were above permissible limit of the Land Ceiling Act, to the state seems to have backfired.

Bypoll over, TRS verdict on Dec 7

Tuesday 5 December '06

The much hyped by-polls for the Karimnagar parliamentary constituency, touted by some as a “referendum for Telangana”, today passed off smoothly with a turnout of 51.57 per cent.

Polls in beedi country make YSR, Naidu appeal to Centre: Reduce size of health risk sign on packet

Tuesday 21 November '06

Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhara Reddy and TDP rival N Chandrababu Naidu have asked the Centre to reconsider its decision that makes it mandatory for beedi manufacturers to print a skull-and-crossbones warning across the beedi wrapper.