Revenue officials, on demolition drive in the Green Fields Colony in Malkajigiri area of Secunderabad, faced opposition from locals whose houses were declared illegal and were being demolished. The Green Fields Society had complained to the Collector that thei...
Demolition of houses in Green Fields Colony in Khanajiguda of Malkajgiri on northern outskirts of Hyderabad and Bandla Ganesh make news in this bulletin at noon.
Revenue officials demolish houses and compounds in the Green Fields Colony in Khanajiguda of Malkajgiri, at the northern outskirts of Hyderabad. Nearly 64 acres in this colony were encroached by Dayanand, the brother of former minister P Shankar Rao. The story...
Until recently, former Congress minister Dr P Shankar Rao wrote letters to the MRO and even filed petitions in the Supreme Court claiming his brother Dayanand had a stake in the land on which the Green Fields Colony was created. But now, his daughter claims he...
DGP Dinesh Reddy says a high-level CID team headed by DIG Krishna Prasad is inquiring into the events leading to the so-called arrest of former Congress Minister P Shankar Rao last week. Shankar Rao was taken to the police station with just a lungi on him. His...
Former minister Shankar Rao's daughter Sushmitha fires on all guns at the police for the unceremonious arrest of her father on Thursday evening, that snowballed into a major issue after his health deteriorated and he had to be admitted to Care Hospital. Here S...
Finance minister Anam Ramnarayan Reddy says the arrest of Shankar Rao was humiliating to an elected public representative and that due care should have been taken in view of his health condition.
Congress MP, and relative by marriage of former minister P Shankar Rao, G Vivek met Union Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to complain against the unceremonious manner in which he was arrested. He also says it was a civil case and not a police case, and that ...
Dalits have approached the state human rights commission over the unceremonious arrest of former minister and MLA Shankar Rao from his house on Thursday. Dalits say the arrest and humiliation to Shankar Rao was made because the CM, the DGP and the Home ministe...
'He abused us. We waited for him for an hour. He bluntly refused to accompany us. He refused to change, said he is a Dalit and will come 'this way' itself, as in a lungi and unbuttoned shirt'. This is the police version of arrest of MLA and former minister P S...
Dalit organisations are protesting the arrest of Congress MLA and former minister P Shankar Rao. The protesters allege that despite being a heart patient, Shankar Rao was unceremoniously arrested in a forgery case on Thursday. Since it was a civil case, it did...
TDP leader Mothkupalli Narasimhulu says the arrest of Congress MLA Shankar Rao in an unceremonious manner on Thursday evening is cruel, and demanded CM to institute an inquiry into the incident. Mothkupalli visited Shankar Rao at Care Hospital where he is in t...
MRPS leader Manda Krishna Madiga said it was a well-hatched conspiracy by chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, Home minister Sabitha Indra Reddy and DGP Dinesh Reddy to humiliate Congress MLA P Shankar Rao. He cited as evidence the allegations made by Shankar Rao...
MLA and former minister P Shankar Rao's unceremonious arrest by the police on Thursday for what is a civil dispute is a case of police over-action, says Congress minister Danam Nagender.
The political fallout of the unceremonious arrest of Congress MLA and former minister P Shankar Rao from his house and protests by Dalit groups is the topic being discussed now at a meeting of Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy and chief minister Kiran Kumar Red...
Congress MLA Shankar Rao is under mental stress, had difficulty in breathing and needs rest. Shankar Rao was arrested yesterday from his house in just his lungi and unbuttoned shirt. His condition deteriorated under the stress and by evening he had to be shift...
Congress's top leaders came out in support--although not too vehement--of Shankar Rao who was taken into police custody from his house wearing a lungi and an shirt that remained unbuttoned. But police say they were forced to bundle him out of his house as he r...
Doctors at Care Hospital say they are keeping a watch on Congress MLA and former minister Shankar Rao, who is admitted there following health issues after he was taken into custody on Thursday. Police say they just wanted to serve a notice on the MLA at his ho...
Rarely has a MLA, and a ruling party politician to boot, been arrested in such an unceremonious way. with his lungi still untied and shirt buttons open, Congress MLA and former minister Dr P Shankar Rao was hurriedly escorted out of his house in Musheerabad to...
On Thursday evening, there was high drama outside Gandhi Hospital as Dalit organisations raising slogans protesting against the arrest of MLA Shankar Rao, who was admitted in the ICU after he fainted. The ruling party MLA Dr P Shankar Rao, taken into custody f...
The police will produce ruling party MLA and former minister Shankar Rao before the magistrate today. The MLA was, earlier on Thursday evening, bundled out unceremoniously from his house in Musheerabad as he faced a case of non-bailable offense related to case...
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Congress MLA Dr P Shankar Rao's daughter Sushmita said her father has been put under pressure and harassment just because he was Dalit. Her angry statement comes in the backdrop of police raid on their house in Hyderabad in connection with a case file by a pe...
MLA Dr P Shankar Rao attacks Seemandhra leader and Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao for his statement on Telangana leaders. Shankar reminds Rayapati about the scandals surrounding his business ties with China.
A war of words breaks out between two Congress leaders in Andhra Pradesh. Former Minister P Shankar Rao, who swears loyalty to the Gandhi-Nehru family, targets MLC Pulla Padmavathi. This infighting within the Congress is becoming commonplace in the state.
Is Chiranjeevi being called in to Delhi to sound him about a bigger role? Why is the CM,, Shankar Rao, and nearly every top Congress leader from Andhra Pradesh in Delhi right now?
In a clear case of dissidence, within the Andhra Pradesh Congress, its leaders are engaging in blame game, with the CM being reduced to a mute spectator.