Aravind Reddy

Officials of enforcement wing of the excise department on Wednesday arrested a person for allegedly being in possession of 40 blots of banned LSD.

Cases were registered against TRS legislators and their followers under various sections of the railway act for interrupting the railway services during a two-day rail roko programme observed as part of Sakala Janula Samme.

The Crime Investigation Department is stumped by the huge number of land transactions done by the 324 benami firms of Satyam.

The stamps and registration department has not issued any orders to freeze transactions on the land belonging to the firms.

Pintu Yadav migrated from Nalanda district of Bihar to Medak to work in a rolling mill at Patancheru. He was also slapped a fine of Rs 2,000 under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and another Rs 1000 under section 376-f of IPC.

Amidst mounting suspense on whether it would merge with the Congress or forge an electoral alliance, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) postponed its crucial politburo joint meeting.

The Karnataka high court on Wednesday granted bail to cricketers CM Gautam and Abrar Kazi nearly five weeks after they were arrested in connection with Karnataka Premier League (KPL) spot-fixing scandal.

By 2 pm, five TRS MLAs – E Rajender, T Harish Rao, K Tarakarama Rao, K Eashwar and P Vinay Bhaskar – submitted their resignations to the Assembly secretary and they were followed by suspended party legislators K Sammayya, K Vidyasagar Rao and E Ravinder Reddy. Three TRS MLAs, G Aravind Reddy, N Odelu and C Ramesh Rao faxed their resignations.

The government's two-page statement has come a day after BJP claimed that the issue of assaults against party leaders would be raised in Parliament.

Police in Andhra Pradesh seized a large cache of explosives and IEDs from the homes of Abubacker Siddique and Mohammed Ali, two terror suspects linked to Al Ummah. Arrested by Tamil Nadu's Anti-Terrorism Squad, the duo had been living in Rayachoti for two decades under aliases.

Three Intermediate students committed suicide in separate incidents and another student died under suspicious circumstances on Tuesday after the board exam results were announced. Meanwhile, education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy has appealed to the students not to resort to extreme steps as the government has already announced advanced supplementary exam schedule.

Tamil Nadu Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) apprehended two long-absconding terror suspects, Abubacker Siddique and Mohammed Ali, in Andhra Pradesh's Annamayya district. Both carried a reward of Rs 5 lakh each and had been on the run for nearly three decades. Abubacker was wanted in connection with multiple terror cases across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka, including blasts and a murder.

CB-CID sleuths have filed a chargesheet in the sessions court at Tirunelveli in a case pertaining to the seizure of explosives from Melapalayam in Tirunelveli.

A software engineer working for a multi-national company allegedly killed himself after administering overdose of sleeping pills to his seven-year-old daughter at one of the rooms in the Jungle Resorts within the Bannerghatta Biological Park on Friday night.

HYDERABAD: The city may face a shortage of drugs for about four to five days before April 1, when the Value Added Tax (VAT) regime comes into place.

Upset over the terms of reference for the Srikrishna committee, 15 Telangana MLAs submitted their resignations to the Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday afternoon.

All 387 offices of registrars and sub-registrars in the stamps and registration department across the state which have been breeding centres for corruption are in a major overhaul.

Contrary to the BJP leadership’s claims that Muslim fundamentalists had systematically eliminated five Sangh Parivar functionaries in the state in the last one year, police investigations so far show that three of the murders had no communal angle to them.

Senior BJP leader L K Advani, who was in town on Thursday to pay tribute to the slain BJP leader ‘auditor’ V Ramesh, urged chief minister J Jayalalithaa to give personal attention to the Ramesh’s murder case investigation.