Andhra Pradesh state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, who has been in a virtual war with YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy over the conduct of local body elections in the state, has also started playing a political mind game.
Senior IAS officer K Kanna Babu had assumed office of the secretary to the State Election Commission on Saturday.
It is more than 12 years for actor Pawan Kalyan in political life, which started in 2008 with his brother Chiranjivi launching Praja Rajyam.
A day after State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar wrote a letter to chief secretary Adityanath Das asking him to keep Principal Secretary in General Administration Praveen Prakash out of the reach of the district collectors, pat came from the latter.
SEC Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar is in district tour pertaining to the upcoming Panchayat Elections. First he started his tour from Rayalaseema.
The moves and counter-moves between the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government and the state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar have created an unhealthy atmosphere in the state.
Giving a boost to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy's vision to establish judicial capital in Kurnool town, leading domestic carrier IndiGo on Friday announced it will launch flights to Bengaluru, Visakhapatnam and Chennai starting March 28 from the Rayalaseema town.
Chandrababu Naidu is looking different from the past. He was not the same old Babu who used to talk nonsense without cuss words.
Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner (SEC) Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar on Friday said he would conduct the panchayat elections with the help of state government personnel and had no intention to deploy Central forces.
Known for his pungent and sarcastic comments against his political rivals, YSR Congress party general secretary and parliamentary party leader V Vijay Sai Reddy on Friday came down heavily on state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar for issuing a series of orders asking for action against certain IAS officers and ministers.
In yet another move to irritate YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar on Friday suddenly transferred Praveen Prakash, senior IAS officer and principal secretary in chief minister’s office.
Former chief priest of Lord Venkateshwara temple in Tirumala A V Ramana Deekshitulu has not given up his fight to get back his hereditary archaka post, despite being given the honorary head priest post by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government.
Panchayat elections are coming up in Andhra Pradesh. First time for ever in the history of the state, these elections are considered to be crucial by the TDP.
Students and parents of the school in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district where the mother, who murdered her two daughters along with their father, worked, are in a state of shock, disbelief and fear.
In a little relief to senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former Union minister P Ashok Gajapathi Raju, the Andhra Pradesh high court on Thursday restored his trusteeship in the Ramatirtham temple in Vizianagaram district.
