The budget session of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly began here on Thursday. In his address, delivered in virtual mode from the Raj Bhavan, to members of both Houses, governor Biswabhushan Harichandan expressed his sympathies for the victims of Covid.
KIA India Pvt Ltd has contributed Rs 5 crore to Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority (APSDMA) towards Covid-19 containment measures, an official release from the state government said.
The arrest of two social media activists of CBN Army, a pro-Telugu Desam Party outfit, by the Guntur police, for allegedly posting abusive comments against YSR Congress party MP and general secretary V Vijay Sai Reddy, has evoked strong protests from the opposition party.
With the Covid pandemic putting pressure on manpower resources, Andhra Pradesh has turned its attention to improvement of medical and health training capabilities. Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said that 16 teaching hospitals will be set up in the state.
Andhra Pradesh has done far better than the nation as a whole in achieving the growth rate in gross state domestic product, the Jagan Mohan Reddy government claimed on Wednesday.
The Andhra Pradesh state high court on Wednesday charged the Jagan Mohan Reddy government with contempt of court for not following the court orders in connection with the arrest of rebel YSR Congress MP from Narasapuram parliamentary constituency K Raghurama Krishnam Raju.
Senior YSR Congress party leader and advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government (public affairs) Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy accused Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu of trying to destabilise the Jagan Mohan Reddy government using rebel MP K Raghurama Raju.
The Opposition TDP has decided to boycott the 2021-22 budget session of the AP State Assembly.
Member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh K. Raghurama Krishnam Raju was medically examined at Army Hospital in Secunderabad here on Tuesday.
For the last few months, Telugu Desam Party, the main opposition in Andhra Pradesh, has been taking up the cause of Hindutva more than the Bharatiya Janata Party which is actually supposed to champion the cause of Hindus.
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s inconsistent stand on any issue just to gain political mileage is forcing his loyalists to quit the party one after the other.
A curious case of a deceased beggar amassing Rs 10 lakh surfaced on Monday in the temple town of Tirumala.
Within five weeks of getting shunted out of the post of executive officer of famous Kanaka Durga temple in Vijayawada following allegations of irregularities, senior endowments department official M V Suresh Babu is now back in a plum post.
The Jagan Mohan Reddy government on Monday posted him as the Regional Joint Commissioner Endowments Department, Rajamahendravaram, which is a sort of promotion for him. Orders to this effect were issued by principal secretary of revenue(endowments) department Dr G Vani Mohan.
In the first week of April, the state government transferred Suresh Babu from the post of Kanaka Durga temple EO, following several complaints of irregularities allegedly indulged in by him.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths conducted raids on the temple premises for three days in February which exposed the dereliction of duty by temple staff, contract works for sanitation, engineering and irregularities in the temple administration.
The ACB in its report pointed out that Suresh Babu had made payments against the wish of the Endowments Commissioner. While 15 employees of the temple were suspended, Suresh Babu was spared initially, but was shifted out of his post later.
Surprisingly, after the transfer, Suresh Babu was posted as Regional Joint Commissioner Endowments Department, Rajamahendravaram, with immediate effect. However, following criticism from various quarters, the posting was cancelled and he was asked to report to the government.
But after everybody forgot the scam in the Kanaka Durga temple after a month, the government quietly posted Suresh him as RJC, Rajahmundry. He would be taking charge in a day or two.
Sources said Suresh Babu is a close associate of endowments minister Vellampalli Srinivas Rao and hence, could easily escape the punishment and instead, got the promotion.
Two Telugu television news channels – TV5 and ABN Andhra Jyothy – on Monday moved the Supreme Court, challenging the sedition cases filed against them by the Andhra Pradesh government along with rebel YSR Congress party MP Kanumuri Raghurama Krishnam Raju on Friday.
Rebel YSR Congress party MP from Narasapuram K Raghurama Krishnam Raju on Monday got a temporary breather in Supreme Court, which directed the Andhra Pradesh government to shift him from jail to Army Hospital, Secunderabad for medical examination.
