He is a CBI officer with a fan following of his own. Single-handedly he made the acronym CBI known to even the ordinary unlettered villager in the most remote villages of Andhra Pradesh. Whether it is son of a former CM, power mining don and his henchmen, top ...
Single-handedly he made the acronym CBI known to even the ordinary unlettered villager in the most remote villages of Andhra Pradesh. Whether it is son of a former CM, power mining don and his henchmen, top businessmen, ministers, IAS officers, this IPS office...
After the arrest of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the CBI joint director VV Lakshminarayana became a household name. His fan clubs sprouted across the state. He became a hero among the common man for bringing the high and mighty to books. But he faced bouquets and bri...
CBI's joint director in Hyderabad VV Lakshminarayana is handling a variety of cases. Cases as high-profile as Jagan Mohan Reddy's disproportionate assets, OMC mining case, Emaar case, Sohrabuddin encounter case, Satyam Ramalinga Raju case - the joint director ...
Single-handedly he made the acronym CBI known to even the ordinary unlettered villager in the most remote villages of Andhra Pradesh. Whether it is son of a former CM, power mining don and his henchmen, top businessmen, ministers, IAS officers, this IPS office...
Single-handedly he made the acronym CBI known to even the ordinary unlettered villager in the most remote villages of Andhra Pradesh. Whether it is the son of a former CM, power mining don and his henchmen, top businessman, minister, IAS officers, this IPS off...
The CBI has now fixed its sight on KVP Ramachandra Rao, the once all-powerful advisor, and importantly confidante and friend to the former Chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. KVP has been asked to appear before CBI today in connection with the ongoing investi...
TDP's Mothkupalli Narasimhulu launches a spirited attack on YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's party and the companies and wealth that Jagan had managed to accumulate in span of less than a decade. He also attacked the state government over the woeful power situation in t...
A Congressman for 30 years, Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy today left the Congress to join Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress. He met Jagan Mohan Reddy at Chanchalguda jail. He is interviewed after meeting Jagan, where he lays out the reasons for leaving the Congr...
TDP leader Varla Ramaiah one again launches an attack on Brother Anil, YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's brother-in-law. Varla attacks Anil over his sudden increase in wealth as also the whereabouts of his first wife before he converted to Christianity.
Chandrababu Naidu continues his attacks on Jagan Mohan Reddy during his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padayatra. He mocked Jagan Mohan Reddy's partymen by saying that while people start a venture by offering coconuts at a temple, in the case of YSRCP, coconuts are brok...
TDP leader Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy targets the family of YS Rajasekhara Reddy for the huge increase in their wealth during and after the years when he had become the chief minister. Somireddy said YSR's son and son-in-law amassed huge fortune and they sho...
Kadapa's ex-mayor Ravindranath Reddy, arrested after his surrender before the court three days back in the forgery case related to DCCB elections in the district, was sent to the central jail. Ravindranath had absconded after the TDP had filed a case of forger...
Road and Buildings minister Dharmana Prasada Rao, and YSR Congress party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's former accountant Vijay Sai Reddy, presented themselves before the CBI court in Hyderabad today as part of the hearing into Jagan's disproportionate assets case.
Former mayor of Kadapa P Ravindranath Reddy was arrested and sent to remand till March 11. Ravindranath faced a case of forgery against him during the recent cooperative body elections in the district. He had gone absconding for the last few days and reappeare...
Ex-mayor of Kadapa and YSR Congress leader P Ravindranath Reddy has been arrested in a forgery case after he was refused bail and had to surrender after absconding for more than 20 days. Ravindranath had allegedly lodged a complaint with forged signature in a ...
Jagan Mohan Reddy's illegal assets case is getting murkier day by day as the CBI has filed a petition, questioning the Supreme Court's decision to grant bail to the second accused Vijay Sai Reddy. The hearing for the same will take place on 22nd Feb. Reddy is ...
Tollywood actor Srihari meets Jagan Mohan Reddy in Chanchalguda jail. Srihari says he will stand by Jagan and will contribute in any way possible to Jagan's political party.
Jagan Mohan Reddy's sister Sharmila Reddy has no moral right to conduct a padayatra in the Telangana region, says Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha. She said that the YSR Congress party has not expressed a clear stand on the issue of Telangana and therefo...
In this episode of Encounter with Murli Krishna, Anakapalle MP, Sabbam Hari, talks about the dilemma of a person elected on a Congress ticket working actively for a rival party, Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress party. Hari also answers questions of other YSR C...
Thursday was a busy day at the Nampally criminal courts. The special CBI court gave orders relating to the extension of remand of the accused and also took on record the presence of minister Dharmana Prasad Rao who was asked to appear before the court in the J...
There seems to be no respite to Jagan Mohan Reddy's plight as his bail application has been rejected by the Andhra Pradesh High Court in the alleged disproportionate assets case. The CBI had filed an affidavit in court saying there has been a delay in the inve...
Jagan Mohan Reddy's application for bail has been rejected by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, once again. The High Court has asked the CBI to file a consolidated chargesheet in the case, and said Jagan could once again approach the CBI special court that is hea...
The hearing in the Andhra Pradesh High Court on the bail petition of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has been completed, but the court postponed its decision till tomorrow. His lawyers pleaded before the court that a conspiracy has been hatched against Jagan so as to ens...
The two-day long Congress conclave, titled 'Chintan Shivir', will begin today in Jaipur. The conclave is expected to discuss the 2014 general elections, rise of Jagan Mohan Reddy, Telangana statehood, direct cash transfer scheme, and the issues of women securi...
YSR Congress party has been accused of being the mastermind of the recent statements of MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi that attacked the Hindu religious sentiments. Mysoora Reddy, the YSRCP spokesperson formally says he condemns the speech made by Akbaruddin and al...
Achil Vandhavai | Two Indian soldiers are brutally murdered by the Pakistan Army near the LoC, with one of them even decapitated. Should India speak up against Pakistan violence? Also discussed, the political crisis in Jharkhand due to JMM's pull-out from the ...
Are Akbaruddin Owaisi and his elder brother Akaruddin Owaisi trying to stoke communal passions so as to checkmate the formation of a separate Telangana state? The MIM set about its rallies and meeting across the Telangana region to explain to its supporters wh...
A CBI court in Hyderabad has rejected the memos filed by Dharmana Prasad Rao and Mopidevi Venkata Ramana. Now, the lawyers can argue directly in the Court.
Andhra Pradesh Governor ESL Narasimhan has finally taken a decision on the charges against Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao from Jagan's case, and has returned the file by the Cabinet which requested him to exclude the Minister from being prosecuted in the case. ...
At his rally in Nizamabad, Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief KCR went after TDP's Chandrababu Naidu and the YSR Congress party. He said if these parties don't make their stand on Telangana clear on December 28 at the all-party meeting on the issue, then these par...
YSR Congress party president Jagan Mohan Reddy was taken to the CBI court at Gagan Mahal from the Chanchalguda jail. The CBI demanded an extension of his remand, and the Court extended it till December 19. The High Court had rejected his bail petition earlier....
Former minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana's bail plea was rejected by the High Court today. This is the third time that his bail has been rejected by the High Court. Mopidevi was arrested by the CBI for his role on VANPIC land allotment scam.
YSR Congress leader Udayabhanu makes a shocking statement--they would if needed break the walls of jail and release Jagan Mohan Reddy. Reacting to this, TDP's Devineni Uma has demanded that a suo moto case be registered against Udayabhanu for this statement, a...
The TRS has called Sharmila Reddy's comment on TRS chief KCR as typical of a Seemandhra leader's false ego. TRS leader Jitender Reddy says Sharmila's comment shows her culture. He also said if her father YSR was alive, he too would have been languishing in jai...
The 'tandri congress, pilla Congress' or 'mother-son' Congress party is destroying the state, says Chandrababu Naidu. His reference was to YSR Congress party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy and his mother, and the party's honorary president, YS Vijayamma. Naidu says s...
Is Konda Surekha leaving the YSR Congress party? Does she want to return to the Congress? Are there differences between her and YSR Congress party leadership, and between Surekha and her husband Konda Murali? Konda Surekha is a politician whose devotion to for...
Andhra Pradesh's ministers are in a soup again. The ministers, whose names figure as having issued 26 controversial GOs, had asked for legal aid from the state government to fight the legal battle, since they said the GOs were issued as part of their ministeri...
It has been quite some time since Jagan Mohan Reddy has been in jail. Starved of any programme that would keep the YSR Congress party in the limelight, the party is now all set to use the services of his sister Sharmila Reddy for a 'padyatra'. Sharmila has ear...
The YSR Congress party leaders met the party office to discuss their future course of action. Konathala Ramakrishna brief the media about the issues the party would take up.
Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao files a petition in the CBI court seeking abstention from the court proceedings in the Jagan Mohan Reddy disproportionate assets case. Dharmana's petition mentions that he is recently bereaved as his mother had died.
Businessman Nimmagga Prasad will continue to remain in jail, for some more time. On Monday the High Court dismissed his bail petition. The CBI special court has already denied him bail, twice. Nimmagadda is the main promoter of VANPIC ports, whose name has b...
One shock after another shock. A day after the Enforcement Directorate ordered attachment of his properties worth Rs 51 crores, his bail petition was dismissed. What are the legal options open to him? His mother says it is a conspiracy by the TDP. Jagan Mohan ...
The Supreme Court has dismissed the bail petition filed by Jagan Mohan Reddy. The CBI's counsel Mohan Parasaran argued that since it was prominent political personalty who was an accused in the disproportionate assets case, there was fears of evidence being ta...
The Supreme Court has rejected Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail plea. The 40-year old MP had moved the Supreme Court for bail against the Andhra Pradesh High Court order, which denied him relief. The CBI arrested Jagan Mohan Reddy on the allegation that he pressured ...
In a huge setback, YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail has been rejected by the Supreme Court. The CBI arrested Jagan Mohan Reddy on the allegation that he pressured companies to invest in his father's business empire. The YSR Congress Chief was taken ...
YSR Congress chief waits for the Supreme Court to deliver its verdict on his bail plea four months after he was arrested for disproportionate assets. The Enforcement Directorate attaches his Rs 52 crore worth property, a move Reddy's family calls foul play and...
Finally the ED has come out with details of how Jagan Mohan Reddy's wealth grew in such a dramatic manner during the years when his father was the chief minister. This release from the ED, was based on the CBI case, and covers cases under the money laundering ...
It is a shock to jagan Mohan Reddy who was expecting to be release from jail on bail. But suddenly, in the Jagan Mohan Reddy disproportionate assets case, the Enforcement Directorate announced attachment of Rs 51 crore worth of properties related to the case. ...
Maoist leader Jagan has released a letter questioning the presence of TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao in Delhi and his silence on the issue Telangana and the September 30 Telangana March. The letter from Maoists also asked what KCR was doing confabulating with C...
The Supreme Court today postponed the hearing in the bail application filed by Jagan Mohan Reddy, in the disproportionate assets case, to September 28. The CBI had filed a petition opposing the bail.
Is KVP Ramachandra Rao the new weapon in the armoury of the Congress High Command to combat the influence of the YSR Congress party? Can KVP act effectively to reduce the latent attraction of many Congress leaders towards Jagan Mohan Reddy? KVP was behind the ...
What have you done for BCs that I have not done- this is what each party in Andhra Pradesh is challenging other parties with. One party says it has appointed a BC as leader, YS Vijayamma says she will give tickets to 100 backward community leaders. TDP has a B...
Anam Vivekananda Reddy says as wife of then chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, YS Vijayalakshmi failed to discourage her son from indulging in corrupt practices, and he forced many ministers to toe his line. As a result of this today many ministers belonging...
Jagan Mohan Reddy's arrest was held as legal by the Supreme Court. But on his other petition alleging denial of bail, the SC issued a notice to the CBI asking it to reply on Jagan's plea that he will cooperate with the investigation, and won't tamper with any ...
The leaders of Congress and YSR Congress are busy playing mind games with one another and Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy from YSR Congress says some ministers from the Congress party are in touch with him and are giving them details about the party, leading to probl...
Watch a smiling and energetic looking MV Mysoora Reddy in Encounter with Murali Krishna. Mysoora is an well-read politician but his career has seen numerous ups and downs, and he has changed parties quite often. So the man who called Jagan Mohan Reddy the 'Pri...
YS Vijayalakshmi's tour of Sircilla and the police efforts to prevent TRS partymen from disrupting her 'deeksha' has brought to fore the issue of regionalism in Andhra Pradesh, and also of his own partymen branding Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy a covert of ...
Gudivada is TDP's fortress. It is the home town of TDP founder NTR. But with the loss of face that followed Kodali Nani's support to Jagan Mohan Reddy, TDP's Krishna district unit is looking to Balaiah to contest from Gudivada and restore TDP's prestige.
Manchu Mohan Babu and Manchu Vishnu visit Jagan Mohan Reddy in Chanchalguda jail. Jagan is Mohan Babu's relative. Mohan Babu also met Matrix Prasad at the jail. Listen to his dialogue on fate and other issue.
The TDP was closely watching the Supreme Court hearing on the petition filed by YS Vijayamma seeking an inquiry into the Chandrababu Naidu's disproportionate assets. And they were happy when the SC dismissed the petition. Earlier Vijayamma has filed a similar ...
Is the TRS now changing its relationship with the YSR Congress party? Now the TRS is equating the YSR Congress on the same level of hostility as it treats the TDP and Congress. Watch this discussion on crucial issue of why any party can't move around in Telang...
YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy withdraws his bail plea from the Supreme Court. He is all set to file a fresh bail plea in a few weeks time. Jagan Reddy is a prime accused in the a disproportionate assets case and has been lodged inside the Chanchalguda j...
Please order an investigation into Chandrbabu Naidu's assets, just as the inquiry being conducted into assets of my son, demand YS Vijayamma. Her lawyers argue in the Supreme Court for the same sort of inquiry into Chandrababu Naidu's assets as being conducted...
Andhra police lathicharge several supporters of the TRS during a demonstration in Telangana. The TRS was opposing Jagan Mohan Reddy's mother Vijayamma's visit to Telangana for a weaver's programme. The demonstration turned violent before the police began lathi...
Is the Congress party and the YSR Congress coming close to an understanding or forming an alliance? The YSRCP voted for UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential polls. TDP leader Revanth Reddy alleges that YSR Congress has been making wild allegation...
TDP leader Revanth Reddy points to reports of negotiations in Delhi between the Congress High Command and the YSR Congress party. Revanth alleges the YSRCP voted for Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential elections, and points calls its double-faced for its earl...
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has been called many names. And one of them is being a 'covert' YSR. Now that the Congress is still continuing YSR's flagship welfare programmes, the dilemma is to how to impress the public that it is the Congress' programmes, ...
Congress minister Botsa Satyanarayana says the backwards classes are the Congress' patent. He was responding to questions being raised over the state government providing legal aid to the ministers who were arrested or were named by the Supreme Court in its o...
Enforcement Directorate officers are questioning YSR Congress party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy inside the Chanchalguda jail. This is the second time that ED is interrogating Jagan. He is being questioned about alleged money laundering and investments into his com...
Despite Jr NTR calling a press conference to clarify that he had no hand in his friend and TDP's suspended Gudivada MLA meeting Jagan Mohan Reddy, an incident has marred what seemed a settled issue. A group of people attacked Jr NTR's office. No police complia...
The CBI court has rejected the additional chargesheet to the first chargesheet filed by the CBI in the Jagan Mohan Reddy disproportionate assets case. The CBI court faulted the CBI on adding the names of company officials in place of the company as an entity.
Chandrababu Naidu sold a Rajya Sabha seat for Rs 300 cr. Naidu is playing cheap tricks by suspending him. Naidu should answer why he suspended me, asks Gudivada MLA Kodali Nani. At his press meet in Gudivada, Nani says the patent for backstabbing and corruptio...
Will Kodali Nani will formally announce his break with the TDP? Nani has called a press meet at 10 am at Gudivada and this is expected to be his first announcement on his course of action after the TDP suspended him for meeting Jagan Mohan Reddy at the Chancha...
Have you heard of a top police officer himself being the target of spying by jealous officers? This episode of 30 Minutes deals with precisely this situation that is happening with a police officer in Andhra Pradesh. He is police officer who is at the centre ...
Chandrababu Naidu is grieved at his party's Gudivada MLA Kodali Nani's behaviour. The talk among the TDP is that despite twice being given the ticket from Guidvada, Nani has chosen to leave the party. Naidu is mulling what further action can be taken against N...
Gudivada MLA Kodali Nani meets Jagan Mohan Reddy and YS Vijayalakshmi. The TDP immediately suspends him. The man caught in the middle is Jr NTR, close friend of Nani. What is happening to TDP and Nani? Is Lokesh Naidu being brought in? TDP leaders called Nani'...
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu, speaking to his party workers, says Jagan Mohan Reddy won because of the sympathy generated due to his arrest. Naidu also blamed the statement made by Azad, on Jagan becoming a Congress Chief Minister, for influencing the voters i...
Jr NTR's close aide Kodali Nani has decided to join Jagan Mohan Reddy? TDP's Gudivada MLA Nani met Jagan Mohan Reddy in jail and YS Vijayamma at her Lotus Pond residence. Nani has been in touch with leaders of Jagan's YSR Congress party for some time now, and ...
The High Court has dismissed Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail plea. Jagan had deployed a team of top lawyers from Delhi to fight this petition. And it is rare that bail pleas are dismissed. What were CBI's arguments against Jagan's bail?
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has dismissed bail petition filed by YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy in the disproportionate assets case. Meanwhile his mother Vijaya Lakshmi is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as she claims that the CBI is tar...
In what appears as a huge setback, Andhra Pradesh High Court has dismissed bail petition filed by YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy in the disproportionate assets case. Bail was denied after the CBI argued that granting bail to the accused at this time may h...
At its review of reasons for defeat in the recent Assembly elections, the TDP cadre and party leaders have put forward several reasons as to the reason the TDP secured a zero.
The honorary President of the YSR Congress Party, YS Vijayamma, has sought an appointment with the Prime Minister. Jagan Mohan Reddy's mother is likely to discuss the alleged injustice meted out to her son in the disproportionate assets case. She is also likel...
CBI's joint director VV Lakshminarayana, until now hardly seen to make or issue statements, has in a complaint to the police said he is being selectively targetted. Lakshminarayana said the release by YSR Congress leaders of his call lists and the list of SMSe...
The Enforcement Directorate is also conducting an investigation into the Jagan Mohan Reddy disproportionate assets case, the OMC mining case and the Emaar case. The CBI was the first to investigate these cases. So far the ED was left to examine the chargesheet...
The CBI has sent a complaint to the Hyderabad police against the people who published the call lists of its officers who were investigating the Jagan Mohan Reddy disproportionate assets case. A few leaders, allegedly belonging to the YSR Congress party had rel...
Officers of the Enforcement Directorate made their way to the Chanchalguda jail to interrogate accused in the Jagan Mohan Reddy disproportionate assets case. Most of the accused in this case have already been arrested by the CBI. The ED will interrogate the ac...
BJP's presidential candidate PA Sangma meets YS Vijayamma, honorary president of the YSR Congress meeting at her Lotus Pond residence, to seek her support for his campaign. Earlier he was turned away from meeting Jagan Mohan Reddy at the Chanchalguda jail sinc...
Jagan Reddy to remain in Chanchalaguda jail till July 4, according to the latest CBI Special Court verdict. Taking the safety plea into consideration, Jagan Reddy was produced before court through video conference. However, the court did not provide reprieve t...