K.B. Tilak

Actress Jaya Prada, recently took to her social media handle to reminisce the first time she faced the camera for her debut film. She was 14, when she started shooting for her first film Bhoomi Kosam.

A petition has been filed in the high court challenging the inaction of the state government and the police in regulating public meetings and roadshows. The petitioner, a senior journalist from Vijayawada, has requested the court to order a judicial inquiry into the kandukuru stampede. Go 1, a state government order issued in response to the petition, is being challenged as draconian.

Veteran actor J V Ramana Murthi passed away here on Wednesday. He was 83. Murthi, who was hospitalised for an ailment, breathed his last at a city hospital.

A court in India issued notices to the state government asking it to regulate public meetings by political parties. One petitioner argued that recent road show accidents have caused many deaths, and the state government is not doing enough to prevent them.

HYDERABAD: Telugu Academy director A Manjulata submitted an action plan on "Telugu language in school education" to school education director Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday.

Freedom fighters' associations in AP are now planning to make a movie on the evolution of the national flag.

HYDERABAD: The Indo-Pak Jubilee Cultural Society on Wednesday called for a complete ban on nuclear tests. The society organised a meeting on the occasion of Anti-Nuclear Day on the subject, 'Nuclear legacy: A continuing danger to all life' at Gandhi Bhavan here.

Noted producer-director Korlipala Balagangadhara Tilak, who introduced Jayaprada to the silver screen, died here on Thursday.

HYDERABAD: Health minister Kodela Sivaprasada Rao on Wednesday said he would start defamation proceedings against freedom fighter K B Tilak for going to the press with his views on the AP High Court's show cause notice on alleged irregularities at the Niloufer Hospital.