For the last one week, Andhra Pradesh has been facing an acute power crisis in the state due to sharp decline in thermal power generation because of severe shortage of coal.
It looks like former Congress MP from Rajahmundry Vundavalli Arun Kumar has turned into some sort of godfather for Jana Sena Party chief and actor Pawan Kalyan and also rebel YSR Congress party MP Kanumuru Raghurama Krishnam Raju.
Bundles of cash running into crores of rupees tumbled out of the private bank lockers belonging to Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company Hetero Drugs during the continued searches by the Income Tax department on Tuesday.
The YSR Congress party is all set to increase its strength in the Andhra Pradesh state legislative council by November second week by filling up the existing vacancies in the upper house.
Kapu reservation issue, which was taken up by former minister and firebrand leader Mudragada Padmanabham from East Godavari, who later abandoned the same, is now back in the Andhra Pradesh politics.
A cold war of sorts is learnt to be brewing in the Andhra Pradesh unit of Bharatiya Janata Party over the alleged domination of defectors from other political parties, particularly those from Telugu Desam Party.
Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and chairman of Public Accounts Committee Payyavula Keshav on Saturday accused YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh of pushing the power-surplus state into a severe and intractable crisis.
The frequent legal hurdles to his government’s various welfare and developmental schemes seem to have terribly upset Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
known for spitting fire at YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy quite often, former Congress MP from Rajahmundry and self-styled intellectual Vundavalli Arun Kumar on Saturday once again fumed at the chief minister for pushing the state into severe debts.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s blow-hot and blow-cold attitude towards the Narendra Modi government at the Centre has been surprising the political parties in the state.
The Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh on Friday made it clear that Y S Anil Reddy and Y S Sunil Reddy, cousins of the chief minister, have no connections whatsoever with the recent seizure of heroin at Mundra Port in Gujarat, as alleged by Telugu Desam Party leaders.
Supreme Court on Friday directed that the Central Bureau of Investigation continue the probe into the alleged disproportionate assets case against Andhra Pradesh education minister Adimulapu Suresh and his wife Vijayalakshmi.
In a big relief to former chief secretary and present Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner (SEC), the state high court on Thursday upheld her appointment as the SEC, after the retirement of controversial officer Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday issued a circular stating that state government employees, who are willing to be transferred to Telangana on permanent basis, can now exercise their option.
The other day, Telugu Desam Party politburo led by party president N Chandrababu Naidu took a decision not to field a candidate in the by-elections from Badvel assembly constituency in Kadapa district.
