Sreenivas Janyala

Having severed ties with the BJP, the ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh is trying to woo Muslims back into the party fold.

Names of two actresses were reportedly doing the rounds in the industry — they had acted in four Telugu films and two each in Kannada about three years ago, but fell on hard times after that and were not getting roles in recent years.

Officials at Chaitanyapuri police station said that Mallikarjun Reddy, a resident of Satyanarayanapuram, strangled his 12-year-old nephew Vishnuvardhan Reddy and niece Srujana late Friday night.

Under Rythu Bandhu, farmers are given a flat Rs 4,000 per acre “investment support” before every crop season, with this amount expected to meet a major part of their expenses on inputs.

On May 31, the Adivasis announced a boycott of Lambada teachers as part of an ongoing agitation in the tribal-dominated districts of Adilabad, Komaram Bheem Asifabad and Mancherial.

The multi-purpose Polavaram project dam would be150 feet high and will store 194 TMCs of water. This project will help irrigate over 7.2 lakh acres beside providing drinking water to several cities and towns, and to industries.

The DGP instructed police commissioners and SPs to immediately rein in the 'mamool' collectors and reassign them to the nearest Armed Reserve headquarters without any powers.

Police have arrested 16 persons including two 'journalists' who run a web channel known as 'What's Up'.

The “ban” primarily targets teachers of state-run Ashram residential schools, primary and upper primary schools where almost all the teachers are from Lambada community.

At Machchapur in Warangal, the convoys of Finance Minister Etela Rajender and Education Minister Kadiyam Srihari were stopped by the protestors. 

Officers of Rachakonda Police Commissionerate, led by Police Commissioner Mahesh M Bhagwat, which has jurisdiction on the outskirts of Hyderabad, decided to help the Lambada community construct a motorable road to the nearest village of Ayidhu Donala Thanda.

Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister Ramakrishnudu accused PM Modi of taking revenge against Andra Pradesh by denying it Special Category Status after Chandrababu Naidu had asked him in 2002 to take moral responsibility for the Godhra riots.

On the last day of its three-day conclave, the party, led by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, claimed huge funds were being allocated to establishing a new city at Dholera in Gujarat, while the BJP was showing step-motherly treatment towards AP.

At a media interaction in New Delhi, Shah had alleged that Andhra Pradesh had not laid a single brick for construction of Amaravati though the Centre had released Rs 2,500 crore.

Panic continues to grip districts across Telangana as at least three people have been lynched following fake messages on social media.

"He (Amit Shah) claims that the utilisation certificates submitted by AP Government of work done at Polavaram and Amaravati are false. I ask, who is Amit Shah to say whether they are authentic or not? In what capacity does he say this, questioned Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu.

“As the BJP is unable to come to power in south India, they are trying backdoor entry using Governors. Modi had to face black flags in Tamil Nadu for trying to interfere in state politics," Naidu said.

Following the two lynchings in Telangana and attacks on at least nine people based on rumours about the presence of child-kidnappers in Prakasam, Guntur and Chittoor districts of Andhra Pradesh, the police chiefs of both states Thursday warned of strict action.

After he had to retire forcibly, Ramana Dikshitulu, 69, alleged that there were financial irregularities in the TTD. He also said that some expensive diamond jewels belonging to the presiding deity have gone missing from the temple.