Srinivasa Rao is Senior Assistant Editor based out of Hyderabad covering developments in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana . He has over three decades of reporting experience.
Articles by Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
KCR government suspends collector over EVM tampering charge
The order followed a direction from the Election Commission (EC) of India, which acted on a petition filed by Telangana Congress leaders last week.
Published on Feb 09, 2019 11:42 PM IST
Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Three months after surgery, doctors find forceps inside woman’s abdomen in Hyderabad
The woman, who underwent a surgery in November, returned to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) complaining of severe stomach pains.
Updated on Feb 09, 2019 09:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Hyderabad Metro video of intimate couples leaked, probe launched
There have been similar instances of CCTV footage of couples sharing a private moment at metro stations getting leaked elsewhere in the country.
Updated on Feb 08, 2019 06:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
KCR, Yogi Adityanath to meet at religious ceremony in Visakhapatnam on Feb 14
Both the chief ministers will attend the concluding ceremony of ashta bandhana maha kumbh abhishekam at the Sri Sarada Peetham headed by popular Hindu seer Swamy Swaroopanandendra from February 10 to 14.
Updated on Feb 08, 2019 09:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
17-yr-old girl attacked by stalker on busy Hyderabad road
The girl, a student of a private college, was walking towards the bus stop to take a bus to her college at around 9am, when 19-year-old Bharat attacked her with a sickle-like weapon on her stomach, neck and hands.
Updated on Feb 06, 2019 04:03 PM IST
Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Depressed over break-up, 21-year-old Telugu TV actress Naga Jhansi commits suicide in Hyderabad
Hailing from Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, Jhansi acted in different serials including “Pavitra Bandhan” on MAA TV. She had been running a beauty parlour at her home for the last few months.
Updated on Feb 06, 2019 12:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Honey-trapped on WhatsApp, Telugu NRI businessman killed for unpaid loans
Chigurupati Jayaram allegedly owed ₹4 crore to the accused Rakesh Reddy.
Updated on Feb 05, 2019 10:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Congress dumps alliance to go solo in Telangana, contest all LS seats
The grand old party decided to go solo after an alliance in the recent assembly elections did not help the party.
Updated on Feb 05, 2019 06:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
IIT Hyderabad student dies after falling from terrace while talking on phone
M Anirudhya (22), a final year engineering student of IIT-Hyderabad, died instantly when he accidentally fell down from the terrace of his seven-storied hostel building.
Updated on Feb 01, 2019 09:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
8 Indian-origin men held in US immigration scam
US-based Telugu group says all held are from Andhra, may provide legal aid.
Published on Feb 01, 2019 12:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington/Hyderabad | Yashwant Raj & Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Five workers die after falling from 10th floor of under-construction building outside Hyderabad
The incident happened when the workers were undertaking cement work of a double-bedroom housing complex taken up by the state government at Rampalli village under Keesara police station limits in Medchal district, about 25 km from Hyderabad.
Updated on Jan 31, 2019 09:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Major fire guts stalls at industrial exhibition in Hyderabad, 9 hospitalised
Hundreds of shops were gutted in a major fire at the All India Industrial Exhibition being held at the Exhibition Grounds at Nampally in Hyderabad on Wednesday night.
Updated on Jan 30, 2019 11:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
New Telangana secretariat at Secunderabad gets HC nod, to be built as per vaastu
Telangana high court issued an interim order asking the Centre to go ahead with the official procedure in transfer of land to the state government.
Published on Jan 29, 2019 07:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Ponzi scheme accused Nowhera Shaik produced in Hyderabad court in more cheating cases
Nowhera Shaikh, managing director of Heera Gold group which allegedly duped thousands of people of their deposits worth crores in a ponzi scheme case, was brought to Hyderabad on Tuesday in connection with fresh cases of cheating.
Published on Jan 29, 2019 06:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
KCR likely to expand Telangana cabinet in February’s first week
Rao, who returned to power for a second successive term in December assembly elections, took oath as the chief minister on December 13 along with just one minister Mohammad Mahmud Ali, who was given the home portfolio.
Updated on Jan 28, 2019 10:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
BJP MLA-led cow vigilantes stop truck carrying cattle for slaughter near Hyderabad
Acting on specific inputs, the gau rakshaks chased the truck and waylaid it near Shamirpet in Medchal district, about 25 km from Hyderabad.
Published on Jan 28, 2019 09:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Irrigation project on Godavari river set to raise Telangana’s debt
At an estimated cost of ₹80,000 crore, Kaleshwaram is the costliest lift irrigation project in the country involving the construction of three barrages.
Updated on Jan 26, 2019 11:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
This old couple begged to pay bribe to official to get land patta in Telangana
Manthu Basavaiah (75) and his wife Lakshmi (70) went begging around with a basket and placards around their necks asking for money to raise money for paying a bribe.
Updated on Jan 26, 2019 02:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Congress poster compares poll malpractices to Draupadi disrobing, draws flak
The poster depicts “Democracy in Telangana” as Draupadi, wife of the Pandavas, being disrobed by Dushshasana, represented by election officers.
Updated on Jan 24, 2019 11:56 PM IST
Chandrababu Naidu copying KCR’s welfare schemes to win Andhra elections, alleges TRS
KT Rama Rao has said that after TRS won assembly elections in Telangana, Chandrababu Naidu has been copying KCR’s schemes to win Andhra state polls.
Updated on Jan 24, 2019 06:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Vijayawada/Hyderabad | Gali Nagaraja/Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
EVMs fine, poll losers find problems, says TRS on tampering row
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Tuesday dismissed fears of tampering in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), saying those who had lost polls had issues with the ballot machines.
Updated on Jan 22, 2019 06:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
TRS-backed candidates sweep gram panchayat elections in Telangana
Though the elections are held on non-party basis, candidates openly flaunted their political affiliation while contesting the elections.
Updated on Jan 22, 2019 09:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
KCR begins five-day mega yagyam for ‘better governance’
Buoyant with the stupendous victory of TRS in the recent assembly elections, party president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday began a five-day mega Vedic ritual at his farmhouse in Erravelli village of Siddipet district to get ‘rid of all obstacles for his future endeavours’.
Published on Jan 21, 2019 04:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Assembly or Andhra CM? Why did KCR stay away from Mamata’s mega Opposition rally
The Telanagana CM’s daughter said it was due to the ongoing assembly session but a TRS spokesman said it was because KCR did not want to share a stage with TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu and Congress leaders.
Published on Jan 19, 2019 06:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Bodies of 3 Telangana siblings killed in US home fire brought to Hyderabad
The children’s parents K Srinivas Naik and Sujatha Naik, who rushed to Collierville soon after the accident, accompanied their bodies to Hyderabad
Updated on Jan 18, 2019 03:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Chandrababu Naidu’s son Nara Lokesh to lead Andhra delegation to World Economic Forum
This is for the first time that Lokesh would be representing Andhra Pradesh at the WEF after Naidu, who had been attending the meetings regularly, opted out this time due to official and political engagements.
Updated on Jan 18, 2019 12:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Senior TRS legislator Pocharam Srinivas Reddy to be Telangana assembly’s Speaker
Earlier, KCR, as the Telangana chief minister is popularly called, spoke to leaders of all political parties and requested them to ensure the unanimous election of the Speaker.
Published on Jan 17, 2019 03:19 PM IST
Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
KCR’s Federal Front is a front, says Chandrababu Naidu. Then comes a dig
N Chandrababu Naidu himself has been making efforts to build up an anti-BJP front at the national level by bringing together like-minded parties along with the Congress under a single umbrella.
Updated on Jan 17, 2019 05:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
3 TRS MLCs, who defected to Congress, disqualified from membership
While Bhupathi Reddy was elected to the legislative council from Nizamabad local bodies’ constituency in 2015, Yadava Reddy was elected to the upper house by the MLAs in 2016 and Ramulu Naik was nominated under the Governor’s quota in 2014.
Updated on Jan 16, 2019 07:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
New Telangana assembly’s first session tomorrow, senior MIM legislator is pro-tem speaker
Six-time MLA Mumtaz Ahmed Khan would administer oath of office to the newly-elected MLAs in the assembly which would commence its operations at 11.05 am on Thursday
Updated on Jan 16, 2019 06:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu