 | BC leaders flay Kapu appeasement, assert demand for 50% quota in legislative bodiesBC organisations on Sunday asserted their long-standing demand for 50 percent reservation in Legislative bodies even as they warned of “intense agitations” if socially developed communities such as th |
 | No one cares about student suicides in Andhra PradeshUnderplaying the issue, HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao puts the figure of those who had committed suicide in private junior colleges this year at seven and 35 during the last seven years. |
 | Mechanism to monitor private colleges needed: anti-student suicide commission memberD Chakrapani, member of the committee constituted to propose measures to be taken to prevent student suicides talks about regarding his study and the recommendations. |
 | Inflexible study hours, unfair expectations tighten noose in Visakhapatinam collegeThe study hour begins as students, a majority of them half asleep, gather for class that continues till 8 am. |
 | Andhra: Students harassed & living in constant fear at many Vijayawada Management collegesStudents are beaten with sticks to wake on time and are under immense pressure throughout the day till their study hours gets over at 10 PM. |
 | Corporate colleges not abiding by the rules: SFIThe SFI activists presented roses to lecturers and requested them to stop conducting classes at Narayana college in Guntur on Sunday. But, the college management refused to stop conducting classes, pr |
 | Little girls forced into sexual slavery as devadasis in Tamil Nadu, Andhra; NHRC issues noticeThe National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh governments over the alleged prevalence of the banned Devadasi system. |
| 6 months on, Uddanam victims still waiting for promised Ugadi giftDespite the promise of the government to supply water purified by reverse osmosis (RO) plants to the victims of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Uddanam region of Srikakulam district, the project remai |
 | In letter, Mudragada gives December 6 ultimatum to CM Chandrababu Naidu on BC status to KapusKapu patriarch Mudragaada Padmanabham, in a letter to Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N Chandrababu Naidu, asked him as to when he would fulfil the wishes of the Kapus by granting |
 | Will Naidu’s Jalasiri ki Harathi quench the thirst of parched Rayalaseema?The nerve-racking Nandyal byelection, which saw both the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Opposition YSR Congress fighting it out house-to-house down to the last voter, is finally over. |
| Guntur has the highest number of NOC violators: Fire service DGThe AP State Fire Service department has conducted surprise checks across the State and identified 482 locations as hazardous premises |
| Govt to make agriculture profitableCivil Supplies Minister Prathipati Pulla Rao has said the State government is committed to making agriculture profitable to better safeguard the interests of small and marginal farmers. |
 | Jagan Reddy’s latest: Hang Chief Minister for ignoring promisesJagan Mohan Reddy has cautioned the electorate of Nandyal of yet another attempt by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu to take them for a ride with tall promises which “he never intends to fulfil”. |
 | Telugu Desam Ministers’ chorus: Mad Jagan needs treatmentYanamala says YSRC chief is living in a delusion that if he abuses his rival, he will get more votes; he will not become CM even if he does tapas, says Srinivasulu. |
| Jagan case: High Court quashes CBI charges against retired IAS officerHyderabad High Court quashed the charge sheet filed against him by the CBI in the illegal investments case of YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy. |
