For the residual state of Andhra Pradesh it was an eventful year marked by numerous post-bifurcation challenges -- the biggest being the shifting of the administration from Hyderabad to Amaravti, the new state capital coming up near here.
Overseas audience likes to encourage novel attempts and content driven films. However, family entertainers continue to rule the roost in the overseas market.
In South Indian film industry, currently Devi Sri Prasad is third costliest music director after A R Rehman and Harris Jayaraj.
After a gap of a few months, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister happened to meet his Telangana counterpart and Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao at Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad, where Governor
Venkatesh's next is confirmed with Puri Jagannadh and it is going to be a high budget film. Puri Jagannadh has given a budget estimate of 45 crore and Venkatesh is okay with it although it is way above his market range.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi MP from Nizamabad Kalvakuntla Kavitha appears to be keen on joining the Narendra Modi cabinet at the Centre, but has left the decision to her father – chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
The Telugu Desam Party government in Andhra Pradesh has constructed interim secretariat complex at a whopping cost of Rs 600 crore at Velagapudi in the new capital region of Amaravati.
Hundreds of enthusiastic YSR Congress party associates attended the birthday celebrations of Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy despite the cold wave, showing the true love and affection they have towards their leader Y.S. Jagan.
On Dec. 12, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it no longer recognizes the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) as an accrediting agency.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has a wishful thinking: that the main opposition YSR Congress party will disappear after 2019 elections.
The sudden raids conducted by the income-tax department authorities on the offices and residences of Gunasekhar Yadav, former member of the Medical Council of India, in Tirupati, are understood to have landed Andhra Pradesh Minister for Municipal Affairs P Narayana.
The estimated cost of Polavaram multi-purpose irrigation project, which was Rs 11,000 crore during the Y S Rajasekhar Reddy government, has gone up to Rs 16,000 crore in 2014, when Telugu Desam Party headed by N Chandrababu Naidu came to power.
Pawan Kalyan's next film after Katamarayudu will be directed by top director Trivikram. Script work is complete and Trivikram is currently busy with the pre production work.
Despite Powerstar Pawan Kalyan telling producer A M Rathnam not to hurry through the pre-production works of the film, the veteran filmmaker is on an overdrive. He is said to have already finalised basic tunes for the Neason-directed flick with Pawan.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been encouraging defections from other parties left, right and centre for the last couple of years hoping that it would strengthen the party and cause dent in the opposition parties.