Srinivasa Rao Apparasu

A decade later, ordeal continues for Greyhound rape victims of Visakhapatnam

Eleven Adivasi women were allegedly gang-raped by a police team in 2007 during an anti-Maoist operation in their hamlet in Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh.

Celebrity hair stylist Jawed Habib booked for insulting Hindu gods

A newspaper advertisement showed Hindu gods Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ganesha and Kartikeya getting their hair fixed, applying makeup, and counting money with Durga looking over them in a Jawed Habib salon.

Quota policy behind Dalit atrocities, need to promote inter-caste marriages: Athawale

The Union minister said the quota system should also be extended to the poor, and asked the Centre as well as other political parties to back a law aimed at providing 25% reservations to economically backward upper caste members too.

Vietnamese cargo ship tilts at Vizag port, crew safe

Govt cancels Indian citizenship of ‘German’ TRS MLA, leaves him stateless

Chennamaneni Ramesh said he has forfeited his German citizenship as there is no system of dual citizenship in India.

Congress leader declares ‘potography’ war against potholes in Hyderabad

Hyderabad-based Congress leader Marri Adithya Reddy plans to send the photographs to all the zonal commissioners of the reater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and corporators across the city.

Andhra Pradesh: Techie jumps off train to escape sexual harassment, 3 arrested

The woman works as a trainee engineer at Redington Gulf, an IT company in Chennai, and was going home in Vijayawada along with two of her friends.

Eight years on, wife of pilot killed in chopper crash with YSR awaits govt help

Captain MS Reddy was among the two pilots who died along with then Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy and two others in a Bell 430 helicopter crash on September 2, 2009.

Quest for male child: In-laws force pregnant woman to apply ‘miracle oil’ on belly

Hyderabad police arrest three people, including black magic practitioner who prescribed the ‘medication’, for cheating and criminal intimidation. The woman’s husband was also booked for attempting to divorce her after the oil failed to work.

Andhra: TDP trounces YSR Congress by nearly 28,000 votes in Nandyal bypoll

While TDP candidate Bhuma Brahmanand Reddy polled 97,066 votes, his YSR Congress counterpart – Silpa Mohan Reddy – managed just 69,610. Congress candidate Abdul Khader lost his deposit by garnering a paltry 1,382 votes.

Dera Sacha Sauda owns 56 acres in Telangana, locals want govt to take over land

Dera Sacha Sauda owns 56 acres of land, including those marked for the poor, in Telangana’s Nalgonda district.

Pilot suffers heart attack; Qatar Airways plane makes emergency landing in Hyderabad

The pilot who was in critical condition had to be admitted to Apollo hospital. His condition is now said to be stable.

Hyderabad university students burn Roopanwal Commission report on Rohith Vemula

Students of Hyderabad university have rejected the Roopanwal Commission report on the suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula as a cover up operation.

EC orders action against Jagan Reddy for saying Chandrababu Naidu should be killed

Poll panel said Reddy’s comments were a “gross violation” of the election code, and called for a police case to be filed against the YSR Congress party leader

Retired IAS officer PVRK Prasad, media advisor to P V Narasimha Rao, passes away

P V R K Prasad had claimed in a book that Narasimha Rao had planned to construct Ram Mandir in place of Babri Masjid.

A new Dalit revolution is brewing in Telangana

Dalits in the state are adopting the title of ‘Swaero’ for solidarity and pride.

Hyderabadi teen’s father arrested for ‘forcibly’ marrying her to Omani

According to the police, the girl’s father Syed Anwar had colluded with his sister Ghousia and her husband Sikandar and sold the girl to the Oman national with the help of two brokers, Ahmed and Haji.

Delhi woman raped in Hyderabad hotel, four arrested

A holiday in Hyderabad turned out to be a nightmare for a maid who was raped in the hotel where she was staying.

16-yr-old ‘sold’ and married to 65-yr-old Arab for Rs 5L, claims domestic abuse

The girl was allegedly ‘sold’ by her father and aunt to an Oman national who paid Rs 5 lakh for the bride.

In Telangana, a town that stands still for the national anthem every morning

If this new practice launched in a small town in Karimnagar on Independence Day works out, the entire town will stand up in a display of patriotic fervour for 52 seconds as the national anthem plays every day.

Andhra Pradesh: Toddler rescued nearly 12 hours after falling into borewell

Chandrasekhar had tumbled into the borewell around 3 pm on Tuesday, while his mother was away fetching fodder for their cattle from a nearby field.

If sent back forcibly, we’ll be killed: Rohingya Muslims on deportation

The Rohingya are denied citizenship in Myanmar and classified as illegal immigrants, despite claiming roots there that go back centuries, with communities marginalized and occasionally subjected to communal violence.

Telangana: Sarpanch tries to settle ‘rape’ case for Rs 2,000, booked

The victim was a tenth grader who accepted a ride from a fellow villager before being allegedly assaulted in a secluded field

‘Outcasts in own community’: Life after acquittal for Hyderabad bombing suspects

Ten people were acquitted on all counts as the prosecution failed to prove their role in the attack that killed a home guard and the suicide bomber on October 12, 2005.

India at 70: Tailed by police for years, Hyderabad’s Muslim men lost their freedom

Ibrahim Ali Junaid, a 35-year-old Unani doctor who was acquitted after two harrowing years in connection with the Mecca Masjid blasts in Hyderabad, thought keeping a low profile would keep him out of trouble. He was wrong.

Jagan Mohan Reddy calls for Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu to be publicly hanged

10 suspects in 2005 Hyderabad suicide bombing acquitted

The attack, which took place on October 12, 2005, killed a home guard and wounded a constable.

YSR gave money to Maoists to kill me in 2003: Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu

Andhra Pradesh chief minister responds to YSR Congress president YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s barb, says his father late YS Rajasekhar Reddy helped Maoists in assassination attempt

Would have retired from politics in 2019, says vice president-elect Naidu

Naidu had told his wife that he would relinquish politics in 2019 after ensuring Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister for the second term. 

Nizamabad MP Kavitha gifts helmet to brother KTR on Raksha Bandhan to promote road safety

Gifting a helmet to her brother was part of the campaign by Telangana Rashtra Samithi MP from Nizamabad, Kavitha to promote road safety for two-wheeler riders.