Vijayawada, India News

VIJAYAWADA: A 45-year-old man died under mysterious circumstances on the road side near SRR & CVR Government Degree College at Machavaram on Friday.

VIJAYAWADA: The Staff and Workers' Federation of AP State Road Transport Corporation has condemned what it calls 'indifference' of the State government to the longstanding issues that have paralysed effective functioning of the Corporation.

HYDERABAD: Film producer and former Member of Parliament Manchu Mohan Babu condemned the attack on his daughter Lakshmi Prasanna's production unit while they were shooting at Kompally on the city outskirts on Tuesday noon.

HYDERABAD: Congress MP from Vijayawada, Lagadapati Rajagopal, has condemned the attack on the film unit of Lakshmi Prasanna, daughter of former MP and producer M. Mohan Babu and said the entire industry was regretting such a development.

TDP legislator D Umamaheswar Rao was "very weak" and unable to speak today as his indefinite fast in support of a united Andhra Pradesh entered the 10th day even as Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal continued his fast in a city hospital.

December 22, 2009 Visionmp.com news service Vijayawada Commissioner of Police KV Rajendranath Reddy and five other officers have been suspended as they were held responsible for the escape of Congress MP L Rajagopal from the government hospital on Sunday night.

PM assures decision on Telangana by Tuesday The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Monday assured a delegation of Congress MPs from coastal Andhra and Rayalseema regions that a decision on initiating the formation of separate Telangana state could be taken by Tuesday.

VIJAYAWADA: The post of commissioner of police of Vijayawada has once again turned out to be a hot seat as proved by the suspension of K.V. Rajendranath Reddy in the controversy surrounding the "great escape" of MP Lagadapati Rajagopal from the Government General Hospital on Sunday night.

Protests and shutdowns against the proposed division of Andhra Pradesh continued in many parts of the state for the 11th consecutive day Monday.

With a message: Leaders and activists of the Joint Action Committee sit in the form of Andhra Pradesh map while staging road blockade on National Highway-5 in Vijayawada on Saturday.

Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal was forcibly lifted from his indefinite hunger-strike camp in Vijaywada this morning and shifted to hospital as he faced serious threat from Maoists, a top police official said.

HYDERABAD: The fast-unto-death by Congress MP L Rajagopal and several other leaders, pressing for a unified Andhra Pradesh continued on Wednesday even as Chiranjeevi-led Praja Rajyam Party came under pressure from its MLAs to end its support for separate Telangana.

Congress MP L. Rajagopal was Saturday arrested in Vijayawada and shifted to a hospital as his condition started deteriorating on the fifth day of his indefinite hunger strike to oppose the proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

For the seventh consecutive day, protests continued in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions against the proposed separate statehood to Telangana region, affecting normal life.

New Delhi The political slugfest in Andhra Pradesh over the issue of statehood for Telangana looked set to get murkier with yet another group of Congress MPs joining the battle of succession for the legacy of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.

With huge business interests at stake in Hyderabad, geographically and historically a part of Telangana, politician-industrialists from the prosperous coastal Andhra are not ready to let go this technology and economic hub.

New Delhi, Dec 17 : The Water Resources Ministry, based on the report of the National Water Development Agency has identified 30 River links which includes 16 under Peninsular Component and 14 under Himalayan Component for preparation of feasibility reports.

The agitation for united Andhra Pradesh got a boost today with Praja Rajyam Party chief Chiranjeevi announcing his resignation as an MLA and support to the campaign, as fast-unto-death by several other leaders continued across coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema.

Hyderabad, Dec 14 : The Andhra Pradesh police today maintained that Congress MP from Vijayawada Mr Lagadpati Rajagopal and seven others were only taken into preventive custody to avoid chaos and later let off without any case being registered against them.

NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: The war within the Congress party over the Telangana issue intensified Tuesday as unrest raged in Andhra Pradesh against the proposed division of the state.