Sudhakar Rao

Following an alleged security lapse at Lok Bhawan, Police Commissioner S Dev Datta Singh met Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati to discuss enhancing surveillance and security. The Governor expressed dissatisfaction with current arrangements, emphasizing the need for advanced technology and more personnel to ensure seamless operations at the high-security state facility.

Efforts being made by TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao for the past two months to poach on Telugu Desam Party (TDP) cadres seem to have hit a roadblock with T activists expressing their reservations in inducting outsiders.

SURAT: At 8 am everyday, nineyear old Noza Ram walks four kilometres from his cramped dwelling to Sai Krupa textile market in Udhna, where he works for to 12 hours.

In the district 84,917 citizens who are above 80 years, and 31,754 physically disabled persons are identified for voting at their doorstep. It is for the first time such an exercise is being taken up.

The city sizzled at 39.6 degree Celsius on Monday recording the highest maximum temperature so far this summer. In fact, last year's maximum temperature recorded during March was 38.9 degrees.

The school education department on Saturday issued orders revising the sankranti holidays for schools commissioner of school education, Suresh Kumar. The state government earlier issued a notification declaring six days of holidays for sankranti holidays from January 11 to January 16, but on Saturday it revised the earlier order as per the instructions of education minister Botsa Satyanarayana. The fresh notification stated that the holiday schedule is revised upon receiving a huge number of requests from the public. Meanwhile, parents are unhappy over the sudden change in the schedule of holidays many of them had made bus and train reservations for January 10 or January 11 and they would not have to postpone their journey. Similarly, they booked return journey tickets on January 16. "Sankranti is an important festival for us most of the people celebrate in their native villages," said K Sudhakar Rao, a parent. "Train and bus reservation is a key issue as ticket fare will be very high if we book tickets at the last minute. We have reserved tickets to Visakhapatnam for January 10, but we have to cancel them now and book afresh. Apsrtc buses are almost full and we are now forced to book tickets in private buses at higher prices." said K Rambab

SURAT: On any given day, around 1,500 people flock the place with various complaints, many of who return back with no solution as their voices drown in the prevailing chaos.

Two persons died on the spot while three others were critically injured after their car lost control and crashed into a culvert in Kovur area in Nellore district on Tuesday.

The morning was dedicated to a retrospective of Badri’s work, after which he was felicitated by Sudhakar Rao.

Yesteryear cricketer KR Rajagopal passed away due to kidney-related ailment here on Friday. Rajagopal, who turned 82 last month, was a top-order batter and wicketkeeper.

APSRTC executive director U Sudhakar Rao said the bus, which comes with a price tag of Rs 56 lakh, would have air condition, a television set and push-back seats.

Almost five months ahead of the assembly polls, the Karnataka government on Wednesday appointed former Karnataka chief secretary and retired IAS officer Sudhakar Rao as chairman of the 7th Pay Commission to revise the pay scale of the government employees and pensioners.

After a video showing a Chaitanyapuri inspector assaulting a BJP worker surfaced on Wednesday, Rachakonda commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat has directed LB Nagar DCP Sunpreet Singh to conduct an inquiry into the incident.

HYDERABAD:The surgical team of Kamineni Hospitals headed by Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Avinash Dal along with Dr Sudhakar Rao, Dr P V Sai Satyanarayana and Dr Sumeet Roy successfully performed a surgery on a large isolated secondary mass of a cell tumour of bone occupying most of the left side of the chest of a patient on Friday.

A central team is expected to assess rain damage in Karnataka by next week, chief secretary Sudhakar Rao said here on Monday.

The Karnataka State Cricket Association has reasons to cheer as 12 officials, including the existing six, being inducted into various sub-committees of the Board of Control for Cricket in India during its AGM in Chennai on Sunday.

The AP high court on Friday issued notices to the Union information & broadcasting ministry and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) over removal of two free-to-air vernacular news channels by cable operators. Kadumanchi Venkatesh, a lawyer from Dachepalli in Guntur district, moved the HC over blockade of the news channels without giving any reasons and no prior intimation.

Senior bureaucrat S V Ranganath is tipped to be the next chief secretary when incumbent Sudhakar Rao retires on Sept. 2.

A circular issued by chief secretary Sudhakar Rao asking officials not to attend meetings convened by leaders of opposition in both Houses of the legislature, has created a stir.

The government has set up a committee headed by chief secretary Sudhakar Rao to control the spiralling prices of essential commodities.

Kolaventi Kaveri Lakshmi Bai, mother of suspended anaesthetist Dr Sudhakar Rao Kolaventy, on Thursday moved the AP high court with a habeas corpus petition seeking directions to authorities to produce her son before court.

The high court on Friday declined to give interim orders in the PIL filed challenging the recent amendments made to AP Excise Act. The high court bench headed by Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice M Satyanarayana Murthy said the courts do not run the government.

A 46-year-old married man was sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined Rs 75,000 on Thursday for sexually assaulting a minor girl.

AP high court on Friday stayed all further proceedings in the case registered against Amaravati Parirakshana Samithi leaders.

Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday announced the constitution of the 7th Pay Commission to revise the salary of state government employees.

The Karnataka cabinet has approved the implementation of the seventh Pay Commission's recommendations, effective from August 1. The commission, chaired by K Sudhakar Rao, proposed a 27.5% increase in the basic salary of over seven lakh state government employees. This adjustment is anticipated to cost the government an additional Rs 17,440.15 crore annually.

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