Irrespective of the government of the day or the political party in power, temple offences occurred in Andhra Pradesh almost every year in the past five years, as per the statistics shared by Director General of Police (DGP) Gautam Sawang on Wednesday.
The attack on Ramatirtham temple in Vizianagaram district and beheading of Lord Rama idol’s head in the last week of December triggered a nationwide sensation, drawing protests from all parties.
Senior IPS officer R P Thakur, who was shunted out of the post of Director General of Police soon after Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy took over as the chief minister in May 2019, finally got a key post in the government.
Giving a political twist to 'Sankranti' festivities, TDP chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday burned copies of some Andhra Pradesh government orders in a 'Bhogi' bonfire.
It has been nearly 20 months since the people of Andhra Pradesh have voted the Telugu Desam Party led by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu out in the assembly elections and elected YSR Congress party led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy to power with a huge mandate.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy will participate in Gopuja (cow worship) at Narsaraopeta on Friday.
The Press Council of India, a watch dog of the media in the country established by Parliament to preserve the freedom of the press, on Tuesday served a notice on the Andhra Pradesh government headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, for ignoring the media persons while constituting the state-level and district-level media accreditation committees.
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Tuesday had given yet another setback to AP State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar.
In a rude shock to Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Christian leaders of the party in all the 13 districts of the state quit the TDP en masse in protest against his recent remarks against Christianity.
Apparently frustrated with the setback he had received from the Andhra Pradesh high court over the conduct of gram panchayat elections in February, state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar has started sacking officials one after the other.
Senior YSR Congress party leader from Vijayawada Dr Punuru Gowtham Reddy was on Tuesday appointed chairman of Andhra Pradesh State FiberNet Limited (APSFL), a state-government undertaking.
For the last few days, we have been listening about new terminology in Andhra Pradesh politics, that has never been heard anywhere in the country.
The market in Andhra Pradesh is jubilant, ahead of the annual Pongal festival.
In a rude shock to former Andhra Pradesh tourism minister and Telugu Desam Party leader Bhuma Akhila Priya, a Secunderabad court on Monday rejected her bail petition and instead, handed over to the police custody for two days.
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday suspended the schedule announced by state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar for the conduct of the local body elections in the state in February.
