Lokeswara Rao

Jagan’s YSRCP boycotts State Election Commission meet over local body polls

October 29, 2020

The ruling YSRCP boycotted the State Election Commission (SEC) meet on Wednesday over the conduction panchayat polls in the state. With this, the tussle between SEC and the Andhra Pradesh government looks to be far from getting over. The SEC Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar had been sacked by the state government...

HEINOUS CRIME DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED FOR KILLING NINE MIGRANTS IN WARANGAL

October 29, 2020

The first additional district and sessions court of Warangal convicted Sanjay Kumar Yadav and awarded him death sentence for the murder of nine persons in March this year.Despite the constraints due to COVID-19, the investigators and the prosecutors got the trial of the case completed in less than five weeks...

Stick fight festival held in Andhra Pradesh despite ban, at least 50 people injured

October 28, 2020

People in large numbers gathered to celebrate the Banni festival in Devaragattu village of Kurnool district despite the imposition of Section 144 in the area. At least 50 people were injured during the festival. The government has imposed Section 144 at Devaragattu village of Kurnool district this year due to...

ANDHRA PRADESH: DALITS STAGE PROTEST DEMANDING PLOTS IN AMARAVATI

October 27, 2020

Even as farmers are opposing the Jagan government’s plan to trifurcate the capital of Andhra Pradesh, scores of Dalits have come out on the street demanding land in Amaravati for the construction of their houses. They have also sought three capitals for the state “for better development”. A number of...

Land encroachment issue: YSRCP leader seeks derecognition of GITAM’s medical college

October 27, 2020

In a significant development, YSRCP parliamentary party chief Vijay Sai Reddy has written a four-page letter to the Chairman of the National Medical Commission (NMC) for derecognition of the medical college run by the Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), deemed university, in Visakhapatnam. Some parts of the building...

TDP, YSRCP trade charges over partial demolition of top Andhra varsity building

October 26, 2020

After a revenue department probe confirmed land grabbing charges, some parts of the building of Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), a deemed University based in Visakhapatnam, was demolished on Saturday. The action resulted in trading of charges between TDP and the ruling YSR Congress Party. Revenue officials, accompanied...

MANSAS TRUST CHAIRPERSON, SANCHAITA GAJAPATI LEADS FROM THE FRONT FOR SOCIAL CAUSE

October 26, 2020

Sanchaita Gajapati, the heir of Vijayanagara Gajapathis and daughter of Ananda Gajapati Raju has stood strong against all odds. Sanchaita Gajapati, who is the female hereditary Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the MANSAS (Maharaja Alak Narayan Society of Arts and Sciences) Trust and Chairperson of the Board of...

BJP wants its own CM, not Nitish Kumar: Asaduddin Owaisi

October 24, 2020

AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, who has been trying hard to make his presence felt in Bihar Assembly elections, said that there is a political vacuum in the state. He further said that BJP, JDU, RJD and Congress failed the people of Bihar. He told The Daily Guardian,...

Top Andhra university faces land grabbing charges, SIT probe underway

October 24, 2020

Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM) University, which is said to be the largest private university in Telugu states, is facing massive land grabbing and encroachment charges. According to some officials in Andhra Pradesh, the university, which is based in Visakhapatnam and has campuses in Hyderabad and Bangalore, has...

9-YEAR-OLD BOY KIDNAPPED FOR RANSOM, PARTIALLY DECOMPOSED BODY FOUND

October 23, 2020

A charred body of an abducted nine-year-old boy was recovered in Mahabubabad district of Telangana on Thursday. A boy named Deekshith Reddy was kidnapped on Sunday and kidnappers had been in contact with the victim’s parents till Wednesday asking for money. However, according to the police, the child was killed...

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