Bollywood box-office report of the week Nov 28, 2008
45 lakhs from Warangal, 10. 50 lakhs from Mangalore and 2. (GlamSham)
YSR son rises, so does his son-in-law Nov 26, 2008
The 36-year-old evangelist was not reachable but his office said that he was an engineer by education, This is the first time that Anil Kumar is attempting to preach at a mega event in Hyderabad: his earlier crusades last year in Bhimavaram, Rajahmundry and Warangal had pulled huge crowds. Politicians of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) are seeing red. (India Times, India)
Chiru booked under SC/ST atrocities act Nov 20, 2008
WARANGAL: A court here on Wednesday directed the Kazipet police to register a case against Chiranjeevi under the SCevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. This was after one Arepally Kumara Swamy of AP Reservation Parirakshana Samithi moved the court, alleging that the PRP chief had humiliated them by calling by their caste name, dalits. (Times of India)
Andhra student shot, kin rush to US Nov 17, 2008
WARANGAL: The news of 24-year-old Shashank Pulluru who was shot at by some unidentified persons in Tennessee, came as a shock for his family and friends in his native town. Shashanks mother Arundhati, a teacher, and his sister Rashmi fainted on hearing the news early Sunday morning. (India Times, India)
Another Indian student shot at in US Nov 16, 2008
Pulluru, stydying at the Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro in Tennesse hails from Warangal in Andhra Pradesh. The reason behind the shoot out was still not known. (India Times, India)
Tension prevails as PRP, TDP workers clash Nov 6, 2008
Some TRS workers had hurled eggs at Chiru during his roadshow at Narsampet in Warangal district. Text. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Chiru gets egg on his face Nov 5, 2008
NARSAMPET (WARANGAL): It was fruits a few days ago. But the metamorphosis was such that Chiranjeevi realised -- sooner than later -- that politics is not all bed of roses and bouquets. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Narrow escape for passengers as train catches fire Sep 24, 2008
The passenger train, which was going from Secunderabad to Kakinada, caught fire in the early hours of Aug 1 in Warangal district. Padmavati Express, which left Secunderabad railway station in Hyderabad on Tuesday evening, later continued its journey to the temple town of Tirupati. (Hindustan Times)
Fire breaks out in Tirupati-bound train Sep 24, 2008
The passenger train, which was going from Secunderabad to Kakinada, caught fire in the early hours of August 1 in Warangal district. Padmavati Express, which left Secunderabad railway station on Tuesday evening, later continued its journey to the temple town of Tirupati. (Sify.com, India)
Now, Andhra woos Tata Nano with 1000 acres Sep 20, 2008
Locations in Medak and Warangal are also being 00004000 shortlisted for the small car. What would also be in the states favour is that it has not seen any major agitation over land acquisitions for special economic zones so far. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Controversy over minor girl's death Sep 5, 2008
WARANGAL: The death of a seven-year-old girl due to AIDS virus on Vinayaka Chavithi day has been clouded in mystery with her parents alleging that their daughter contacted HIV after she underwent blood transfusion a 00004000 t a hospital here. The distraught parents Kadari Butchaiah and Komala, who initially refused to take her body from the MGM government hospital, said she underwent blood transfusion at a children's hospital in the city. (Times of India)
Trains for Chiranjeevi fetch Rs 1.35 cr Aug 29, 2008
Two trains each were started from Secunderabad , Kakinada, Ongole and one each from Warangal, Karimnagar, Narsaraopet, Narsapur , Ankapally, Samalkot, Rajahmundry, Eluru , Guntur and Nandyal. According to SCR officials, 297 coaches ferried around 1. (India Times, India)
Tatas magic in Andhra Pradesh Aug 27, 2008
The journey really began when we hit the road to Warangal, 00004000 in Telangana district, about 150 kilometers from Hyderabad. Shyamsukha (manager SCV passenger, Tata Motors ), Askari (CEO, Insight) and Khadeer (manager strategy ation, Insight) have the challenging task of introducing Tata Magic the passenger version of Tata Motors Tata Ace into a market dominated by well-entrenched , three-wheeler people mover brands. (India Times)
'Twenty die' in India train fire Aug 1, 2008
Five coaches of the train were gutted in the fire, said police in Warangal district where the blaze broke out ... Railways officials said train services between Warangal and Khammam stations have been disrupted. (BBC News)
At least 32 dead after train catches fire in India Aug 1, 2008
Police officers stand guard in Warangal near the coaches of Gautami Express train which caught. World Video. (Yahoo News)
Gautami Express catches fire; 15 charred to death Aug 1, 2008
HYDERABAD: At least 15 passengers were charred to death and many others injured when a fire broke out in a moving train in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh early Friday ... Warangal district Superintendent of Police VC Sajjanar said 15 bodies have been found in the charred bogies and many more could be trapped inside. (India Times, India)
Goud limps alone in 'T' race Jun 25, 2008
Naidu held a video-conference from Srikakulam with TDP leaders of Warangal, Adilabad, Karimnagar, Medak and Nizamabad to check if there was any fallout of Goud's resignation. He announced that the second meeting of the TDP core committee on Telangana will take place in the first week of July and indicated that newly-elected Warangal MP E Dayakar Rao wou 00004000 ld replace Goud in the panel. (Times of India)
Sun TVs SFM to launch in Shillong on 13 June Jun 13, 2008
SFM already operates in Chennai, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar, Tirupati, Madurai, Tuticorin, Lucknow, Bhopal, Pondicherry, Kozhikode (Calicut), Indore, Vijayawada, Varanasi, Tiruchy, Rajahmundry, Kanpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Mangalore, Kannur, Allahabad, Jabalpur, Mysore, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, Nasik, Vadodara, Rajkot, Aurangabad, Ahemdabad, Warangal, Nagpur, Kochi, Gulbarga and Asansol. SFM will launch four more stations across the... (Indiantelevision.com)
TRS chief Chandrasekhar Rao resigns Jun 3, 2008
The Congress wrested Adilabad Lok Sabha and five Assembly seats from TRS while TDP snatched Warangal Lok Sabha and four Assembly seats. The TRS had forged an alliance with Congress in the 2004 elections and won 26 Assembly and five Lok Sabha seats. (Sify.com, India)
Rao offers to quit as TRS chief Jun 1, 2008
The Congress wrested Adilabad Lok Sabha and six Assembly seats while the TDP, which lost power in the 2004 elections, got a fresh lease of life when it bagged Warangal Lok Sabha and five Assembly seats. . (Sify.com, India)
Congress fares badly in byelections too May 26, 2008
The four Lok Sabha seats are Adilabad, Karimnagar, Hanamkonda and Warangal. After the battering in Karnataka, the Andhra bypolls present a do-or-die scenario for the ruling Congress in the state. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Eight schools draw blank May 16, 2008
The eight schools are Indira High School, Gulab Singh Lane, Nehru High School Kachiguda, both from the city, Zilla Parishad (Girls) Urdu Medium High School, Achampet, Mahbubnagar, Vidhya Bharathi Residential High School, Panagal, Nalgonda, Srisai Gurukula Vidhyalaya, Pragathisingaram, Warangal, Brilliant Convent School, Mancherial, Zilla Parishad High School, Gangapur, Adilabad, Zilla Parishad High School, Khiridi, Adilabad. "The number of schools which has got zero percentage has come down from... (Times of India)
Docs' strike hits patients hard Apr 8, 2008
"I came all the way from Warangal to undergo family planning operation. When I came earlier, they asked me to come today. I have to spend a lot of money again and I do not know how long I have to wait," said G Vijayamma, a daily-wage earner. The strike seemed to have taken its toll on the doctors too. (Times of India)
Common Man's Chip Mar 22, 2008
"At present, in Warangal and Karimnagar it's in a scale up mode and already two lakh people have opened accounts," says Ashok Chandak, senior director (global sales) in NXP India. The exercise is based on what NXP calls near field communication (NFC) technology, a short-range wireless connectivity technology that enables consumers to securely exchange and store all kinds of information, simply by bringing two devices close together. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
Naxal blood soaks state border Mar 19, 2008
In the Manala encounter in Karimnagar district in 2004, 10 naxals were killed, while the Maoists had lost 11 of its cadre in 2001 in the Mukhnoor encounter in Warangal district. Get personalised news stories on mobile. (Times of India)
When Anil Kapoor Broke Down Jan 15, 2008
Suspecting a tribal woman to be involved in the murder of her husband, other residents of her village in Andhra Pradesh's Warangal district disrobed her in public, thrashed her, and paraded her round the village. The shocking incident occurred Saturday at Jalli tanda, a tribal hamlet of Chennaraopeta mandal (circle) in Warangal district, about 250 km from here. (NEWSPost India)
Lead India: Soumya dutifully bows out Jan 6, 2008
The debate about whether she would make it back to the show was finally put to res 00004000 t. Mishra, a serving police officer in the Naxal-hit Warangal district, did complete the task assigned to her with aplomb. But duty once again called and prevented her from making it for the shooting of the fifth episode. (India Times, India)
Top naxal picked up in Andhra Dec 19, 2007
HYDERABAD: Maoist party south Telangana secretary and action team member Kavali Yadagiri alias Sudhakar alias Pandu (41) was taken into custody by police in Medak district, while a woman naxal surrendered before police in Warangal on Tuesday ... Chetti Prameela alias Swarnakka alias Vidya, commander of Venkatapuram special guerrilla squad in Khammam district, who has been underground for 15 years, surrendered in Warangal on Tuesday ... In all, 23 cases were registered against her in Khammam and... (India Times, India)
Lead India: Show with a difference Dec 15, 2007
For Soumya Mishra, Hyderabads Lead India winner and a senior cop in the naxal-infested region of Warangal, her debut on television involved a few pleasant surprises. Foremost among these is a re-union with a childhood friend, who managed to track her after seeing her on television. (India Times, India)
Lead India: Meet the judges Dec 8, 2007
If Delhi's Sanjiv Kaura is a lieutenant in the 124th Sikh Regiment, Hyderabad's Soumya Mishra is a superintendent of police in Warangal. Kolkata's Dipayan Dey is working with the local population to save the wetlands and Lucknow's Abha Singh is director of postal services in Lucknow. (India Times, India)
Maoists turn to Net for making rocket launchers Dec 2, 2007
And the brain behind the making of such rocket launchers for the rebels is 32-year-old Thota Kumaraswamy, alias , alias Srinivas Reddy, currently in police custody in an undisclosed location, confirmed Soumya Mishra, Senior Superintendent of Police, Warangal, of Andhra Pradesh. After laying their hands upon the literature pertaining to rocket launchers used by the Maoists during the operation, the Andhra police carried out raids at different places. (India Times, India)
Readerspeak: English is a necessary evil Nov 19, 2007
Dharmendra, Warangal, says: English is good for the development but not at the cost of our own languages. The main problem what we are facing is that we are learning English and not giving any attention towards our language. (India Times, India)
Bangladeshi shocks police Nov 13, 2007
Subsequently, he worked as Imam in Jamia Masjid in Warangal town and returned to Hyderabad a few months ago. He was trying to get a passport with the help of two other Bangladeshis, Mirza-ur-Rehman and Mohammed Younus, whom he met when he was in Deoband. (Hindu)
Tide turns against Indian Maoists Oct 19, 2007
A top Naxalite leader, known as Somanna, was reportedly killed in a July gun battle with police in Warangal district. However, Naxalite supporters allege he was arrested and executed in a staged manner the following day. (Asia Times Online)
Readerspeak: Team India, bring the cup home Sep 24, 2007
Saurav Sen, Warangal, says: Indian Youth at its best. Let's rock the world. (India Times, India)
Rain kills 21 in three days Sep 20, 2007
Seven deaths each have been reported from Kurnool and Guntur districts, the highest in the state, followed by Anantapur with four, two in Warangal and one death in Mahbubnagar ... At least five tanks breached in Anantapur, followed by two in Warangal, while six minor irrigation sources in Karimnagar were reportedly damaged ... Ten people from Karimnagar, two each from Warangal and Khammam and one from Adilabad died after being struck by lightning, he said. (Times of India)
Kidnapped boy back home after getting 'a new life' Sep 9, 2007
The police rescued him in Warangal district. It later emerged that the kidnap plan had been hatched by his chauffeur in collusion with some criminals. (Gulf News)
Kidnapped Satyam official rescued Jul 25, 2007
T S Sudhir Wednesday, July 25, 2007 (Hyderabad) Sources in the Hyderabad Police have told NDTV that V Satyanaryana, General Manager of Satyam Computers, who was kidnapped on Tuesday has been rescued from Warangal district. He will be back in the state capital later in the day. (NDTV.com)
Abducted Satyam executive rescued Jul 25, 2007
Satyanarayana was kept in a house at Nekkonda village in Warangal district and was rescued late last night, police sources said. Police located the area of his confinement with the help of mobile phone signals, sources said. (Hindustan Times)
Monica finally walks free Jul 25, 2007
NATIONAL: Pratibha Patil to take over as the 13th President of India today n YS Dadwal likely to be the new Police Commissioner of Delhi n Dadwal likely to pip Kiran Bedi to the post of Delhi CP n Satyam Computers executive V Satyanarayana rescued from Warangal n Satyanarayana was abducted from Hyderabad on Tuesday n Monica Bedi released from Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad n Monica Bedi released in the fake passport case n Monica: I got justice, I thank God for hearing my prayers n 1993 Mumbai... (Times Now.tv)
Ghanaian busted in India for "419" Jun 6, 2007
Warangal, India (The Hindu) -- Indian police arrested a youth from the Republic of Ghana on the charge of collecting money from a local businessman promising him millions in return ... PICTURE: Soumya Mishra, SP, with the arrested Ghana youth Kwamena Apele in Warangal on Tuesday ... Sensing foul play, Agarwal asked them to send someone to collect the amount in Warangal. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Farmer's son motivated to join civil service after sister's death May 16, 2007
He secured first rank in ECET-1998, did B. Tech from National Institute of Technology, Warangal. Revu secured third place in GATE-2002 and did Masters in Engineering (ME) in Signal Processing from Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore. (NewKerala.com)
Farmers not reaping tech yieldAddMyLinkImage("/news/181_1951203,00050001.htm", "Farmers not reaping tech yield"); Mar 15, 2007
The arrival of genetically modified crops has added another level of complexity to farming in the developing world, according to a new US study in one of India s key cotton-growing areas the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh. Focusing on cotton production in Warangal district, Glenn D. Stone, a sociocultural anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, has found several factors affecting farmers ability to adjust to new developments by practical methods ... In Warangal, from 2003 to... (Hindustan Times, India)
Andhra Bank to open 150 bio-metric ATMs Feb 20, 2007
5 lakh and the bank is not constrained by funds to expand its network, Ramakrishnan said adding that the bank was also planning to launch smart card pilot project in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh to pay wages and pensions. The bank is implementing this project in association with four other banks Canara Bank, Syndicate Bank, Union Bank of India and State Bank of Hyderabad. (Business Standard)
Congress revives alliance with TRS Feb 19, 2007
The names the party nominees announced are: T. Babji (Srikakulam), G. Rudraraju (East Godavari), Ganga Bhawani (West Godavari), I. Venkaiah (Krishna), Srinivas Rayapati (Guntur), Jai Chandra Naidu (Chitoor), Shivam Reddy (Anantpur), Srinivasulu (Kurnool), Jagadeeshwar Reddy (Mehboob Nagar), R. Venkatram Reddy (Nizamabad), Prem Sagar Rao (Adilabad), Venkatrama Reddy (Warangal), Mallu Batti (Khammam) and Goverdhan Reddy (Nalgonda). The party, however, upheld announcement of names for... (Daily News & Analysis)
TRS cries hoarse over Sai Baba's Telangana stance Jan 24, 2007
TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao said in Warangal on Monday that there was nothing wrong in reacting to the comments of Sai Baba. His comment against the demand for a separate Telangana state is part of a conspiracy hatched by the anti-Telangana leaders. (India Times, India -- Community News)
