
Telugu Desam Party led by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu making all out efforts to attack the ruling YSR Congress party over reduction of Backward Classes reservations in the local body elections to get some mileage in the elections.

Former Congress minister and Telugu Desam Party leader Dokka Manikya Varaprasad, who has resigned from his legislative council membership recently, is desperate to join the YSR Congress party, but is hesitant to make the first moves.

Senior Congress leader and outgoing Rajya Sabha member K V P Ramachandra Rao had been a bosom friend of late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, but had been maintaining distance from the latter’s son – YSR Congress party president and present Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Telugu Desam Party headed by former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had been several attempts to retain its identity in Kadapa district dominated in the past by the Congress and later by YSR Congress.

The arrest of Yes Bank’s founder-chairman Rana Kapoor by the Enforcement Directorate on Sunday has brought to light how he had allegedly indulged in money laundering through floating shell companies and siphoning of deposits.

The State government had finally decided not to conduct elections in the 29 village panchayats this time.

TV9 has been a revolution in the electronic media. Its emergence broke the monotony and monopoly of the government-owned DD news.

Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy had committed that his party would give 34 per cent reservation to the BCs in the on-going local body elections.

The State Election Commission had issued notification for the local body – both urban and rural – elections to be held this month in Andhra Pradesh.

If Bharatiya Janata Party central leadership decides to go by the recommendation of its Andhra Pradesh unit, BJP national yuva morcha executive committee member Sanchaita Gajapathi Raju, niece of former Union minister P Ashok Gajapathi Raju, is all set to be sacked from the party.

In one of the bigger cash hauls in recent times, income tax sleuths in Hyderabad unearthed ₹10.5 crore from the premises of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions.

In a big setback to senior IPS officer and former intelligence chief of Andhra Pradesh A B Venkateshwar Rao, the Union ministry of home affairs on Saturday confirmed his suspension in the wake of facts and circumstances of the case and seriousness of the allegations against him.

With the Election Commission of India issuing the notification for biennial Rajya Sabha elections on Friday, lobbying has intensified for nominations in the ruling YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh.

After maintaining silence for two days after being stripped of the posts of chairman of Simhachalam temple trust board and MANSAS Trust, former Union minister and senior Telugu Desam Party leader P Ashok Gajapathi Raju finally broke his silence on Saturday.

The Andhra Pradesh state election commission on Saturday announced the schedule for conducting local body elections in the state, so as to complete the entire process by March 29.