Hyderabad, The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday evening issued government orders allowing the CBI to prohibit sale, pledge and transfer of ownership of properties belonging to Jagan and his associates. These include Jagati Publications (Sakshi newspaper), Indira TV (Sakshi TV), Janani Infrastructure, belonging to YSR Congress president Jaganmohan Reddy, properties owned by N Sunil Reddy and Koneru Rajendra Prasad, accused in the Emaar scam. The government orders, numbering 87, 88 and 89, were not made public but were issued after chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy gave clearance. The orders were in response to CBI seeking permission to attach properties in the Jagan assets case of which it has conclusive evidence of being part of a quid pro quo arrangement. CBI estimates about Rs 1,172 crore quid pro quo investment in Jagati Publications. CBI valued the publication's office and machinery at Rs 243.64 crore. CBI can now file petitions in district courts seeking permission to attach the properties. The court will then call the investigating agency and the accused and after hearing them, will decide the matter. If the court rules in favour of the attachment, it can ...
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Hyderabad, For the second day in a row, the Telangana statehood issue rocked the Andhra Pradesh Assembly leading to two adjournments this morning. When the House began at 9am, TDP and TRS legislators from the region stormed the Speaker's podium holding placards and raising slogans demanding that the House pass a resolution seeking creation of Telangana state. Speaker Nadendla Manohar rejected an adjournment motion moved by TRS, TDP, BJP and CPI in this regard. Amidst the sloganeering, the Speaker initially adjourned the proceedings for 15 minutes. The Congress MLAs from Telangana too joined the protest, standing at their respective seats, when the House re-assembled after more than an hour. As the din continued, the Speaker asked the ministers concerned to move the demands for grants of their respective departments and adjourned the House for 30 minutes the second ...
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New Delhi, Congress has decided to nominate mega star Chiranjeevi to Rajya Sabha, consolidating PRP's merger with the party in Andhra Pradesh. The party has also fielded Uttarakhand dissident Harish Rawat loyalist and former minister Mahendra Singh Mehra to the upper house from the state. The decision seems forced by the standoff over Congress decision to make Vijay Bahuguna the chief minister. It was felt that fielding an "outsider" would have risked cross-voting from protesting MLAs and they have settled for a local. While the choice of Mehra satisfies the local equation, he being close to Rawat and being a Thakur makes the decision a balance between the various factors that are at the core of party protest in the hill state. Instead, Congress has nominated Satyavrat Chaturvedi, the present retiring MP from the state, from Madhya Pradesh. Congress has interestingly decided to field its candidate Abdul Mannan from West Bengal, a clear decision to put TMC chief Mamata Banerjee under pressure. The TMC has been insistent that Congress stay out of RS race and instead transfer its vote to its fourth candidate. Congress is ahead of TMC in terms of votes at its disposal for ...
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New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to six Andhra Pradesh ministers and eight IAS officers on a plea alleging that the CBI was not proceeding against them despite having sufficient evidence that they helped former Congress leader Y Jaganmohan Reddy accumulate massive illegal assets. A bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari issued the notices to the ministers and the IAS officers and sought their stands on the petition filed by an advocate, Sudhakar Reddy. The petitioner alleged that these six ministers and eight IAS officers were also holding ministerial and other key positions under the then chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, during whose tenure his son Jagan Mohan accumulated huge wealth, disproportionate to his legal income. Reddy, in his petition, said even though the CBI had registered a number of cases against several others in the disproportionate assets case against Jagan Mohan Reddy, but it failed to register any case against these 14 persons. The notice was issued to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), six Andhra Pradesh ministers and eleven IAS officers serving in the state at the time. An apex court bench headed by Justice ...
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Hyderabad, Stating that the number of ex-cadre posts in Andhra Pradesh was already in excess of the stipulated number, the Union ministry of personnel and training has rejected a state government proposal to hand super-time scale promotions to 1996 batch IAS officers. The state has 95 ex-cadre posts at present although the sanctioned strength is only 41. "No other state has so many ex-cadre posts as AP. Despite repeated warnings from the Centre, the state government continues to dole out promotions to IAS officers by creating new posts," a senior official pointed out. Navin Mittal, Muddada Ravi Chandra, Luv Agarwal, M Dana Kishore, Sashi Bhushan Kumar, B Janardana Reddy, K Sunita, Vani Mohan, L Sashidhar and M Purushottam Reddy are the 1996 batch IAS officers who are awaiting promotions this month. Two days back, all seven officers belonging to the 1987 batch IAS, namely JS Venkateswara Prasad, Neerabh Kumar Prasad, Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, D Sreenivasulu, Aditya Nath Das, Vasudha Mishra and P Krishnaiah, were awarded super-time scale promotion. "Only in Andhra Pradesh are the officers of a particular batch getting promoted at one go. "There is no system in place to ...
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Hyderabad, The agitating medicos in Andhra Pradesh today called off their about a month-long stir following an assurance from the government over their demands. The breakthrough came following the talks the junior doctors held with the state medical education minister K Murali Mohan in the wee hours today. "The minister gave us an assurance of hiking the stipend from April 2012. We were flexible on the issue of increasing the stipend, but we stressed on improving the infrastructure in hospitals in the interest of public health," a leader of the Junior Doctors' Association told reporters after the talks. According to him, the government gave assurances on upgrading the emergency departments in the hospitals by spending Rs 65 crore over the next four months. The government has also agreed to upgrade the casualty wards in the teaching hospitals over the next few months by providing various facilities, he said. The government is also ready to improve library facilities for the medicos and also ensure transparency in conducting entrance exams for the post-graduate courses, he said. Saying that the government is committed to public health, the minister ...
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Hyderabad, Contrary to the popular image of Andhra Pradesh being a major software destination, the IT sector is lagging behind electricity and manufacturing sectors in terms of attracting investment in the state, according to a recent study undertaken by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham). As per the study, Andhra Pradesh could attract investment proposals worth Rs 12.09 lakh crore till 2011 end. The power sector took the lion's share of 32.5%, the manufacturing sector stood second with 21.7% of the share, while the services sector that includes IT could get only 19.8% of the share and stood at third position. The other sectors in the list include irrigation and real estate sectors with 11.6% each and mining with 2.8 %. Gujarat and Maharashtra are in the first two positions among 20 industrial states and Andhra Pradesh stood third in the most-preferred investment destinations among 20 states in the country, according to the study. The state was however, ahead of Karnataka and Orissa. Together, the top five states attracted 53.56% of the total investments worth Rs 120.34 lakh crore. While Gujarat attracted investment proposals worth Rs 16.28 lakh ...
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Moga, February 4 (Doaba News Service)- Rice traders in the state have been importing raw rice of poor quality from outside states and mixing it with locally produced rice, the milling of which is in progress these days. It’s strange that this is being done at a time when the state already has a buffer stock of rice over 80 lakh metric tonnes and paddy 95 lakh metric tonnes under the milling process in the state. But rice millers are allegedly mixing quantities of low-priced rice grains imported from other states with FCI stocks and selling the better rice in the open market at higher prices. The entire procurement of paddy in Punjab is sent to private millers for cleaning, shelling and polishing of grains. Millers return the finished product back to the FCI for the central pool. It is learnt that during the past two months, after the rice milling process began in the state, raw rice of various varieties worth crores of rupees is being imported from other states like Bihar, UP, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka by rice millers/traders, the maximum quantities of which are mixed in locally milled rice, and is being given to FCI stocks. This practice is going on particularly in ...
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