Centre releases 209 crore rupees to flood-hit AP, KarnatakaOctober 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Centre has released Rs 209.1 crore from the Calamity Relief Fund to flood-hit Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka to tackle the situation. Andhra Pradesh will receive Rs 156.84 crore while Karnataka will get Rs 52.26 crore, an official release said.
Floods send vegetable prices soaring in Andhra PradeshOctober 7th, 2009 VIJAYWADA - Apart from wreaking large-scale havoc and rendering thousands homeless in Andhra Pradesh, floods have affected the price of vegetables as well. The vegetable sellers cite shortage of vegetables due to the floods and so have found a valid reason for hiking the prices, upsetting the people's budgets badly.
Sonia undertakes aerial survey of flood-hit districts of Andhra PradeshOctober 5th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Congress President Sonia Gandhi today undertook an aerial survey of the flood-affected Kurnool and Mahabubnagar districts of Andhra Pradesh. Sonia Gandhi was accompanied by State Chief Minister K Rosaiah and State Congress President D Srinivas.
Madhya Pradesh Govt. seizes hoarded sugarAugust 18th, 2009 GWALIOR - The food and civil supplies department of the Madhya Pradesh Government has seized illegally stocked sugar from godowns across the state. Food and civil supplies officials backed by state police have raided sugar mills and godowns across Madhya Pradesh in the last three days.
Fake currency seized in Punjab, four heldAugust 4th, 2009 NAWANSHAHR - Punjab police busted a fake currency racket here and arrested four people including a resident of Nepal. Counterfeit Indian currency notes with a face value of rupees 565,000 were recovered from the men arrested in Nawanshahr city.
Andhra HC stays state govt's order of funding Christian pilgrimagesJuly 22nd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Staying the state government's order of providing financial assistance to Christian pilgrimage to Bethlehem and Jerusalem, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday ruled that the state government should not spend public money for any such pilgrimage. A division bench headed by Chief Justice A R Dave gave this ruling in response to a Public Interest Litigation challenging the constitutional validity of the order issued by the minorities welfare department on July 21 last year.
Fake currency seized in New DelhiJuly 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Police here arrested five men for smuggling counterfeit Indian currency worth one million rupees. Police recovered bundles of notes in the denomination of 500 rupees from them.
Sikkim NCP chief's son held with 'unaccounted' cashApril 23rd, 2009 GANGTOK - The son of the state unit president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was arrested Thursday after he was found in possession of an 'unaccounted' sum of Rs.10 lakh, the state police said. 'The arrest took place around 4 p.m.
Polling begins in second phase of Indian electionsApril 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Polling stations in 140 constituencies across 12 states opened at 7 a.m. for the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
Sporadic violence, huge cash seizure in Andhra PradeshApril 15th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Hours before the first phase of polling in Andhra Pradesh, sporadic incidents of violence took place Wednesday while police seized over Rs.30 million (Rs.3 crore) in cash at different places. The opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders were attacked allegedly by the workers of the ruling Congress in Mahbubnagar and West Godavari districts.
Now, chicken packets to woo voters in Andhra PradeshApril 15th, 2009 HYDERABAD - With the poll panel and police in Andhra Pradesh making things difficult for political parties to distribute cash and liquor, candidates are coming out with novel methods - like distributing packets of chicken to woo the voters just hours before the polling. Following a complaint by the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP), police seized several packets of chicken Wednesday in Narsingpur village of Karimnagar district.
Rahul Gandhi promises inquiry into Swiss bank allegationsApril 11th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Determined to prove that the Congress has a clean image, party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has promised to set up an inquiry into the BJP allegations that the party had salted away lakhs and crores of rupees into Swiss banks. "You elect us.
It's raining currency notes in Andhra PradeshApril 1st, 2009 HYDERABAD - It may be a time of global recession but it's raining money in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh as politicians use all means to woo voters. In ongoing search operations across the state, the police have seized cash worth over Rs.50 million during the last 10 days.
Andhra govt. sends DGP candidates list to ECMarch 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Andhra Pradesh Government on Friday forwarded the names of three Police officers to the Election Commission for it to name the State's new Director General of Police (DGP). The names were forwarded after the Election Commission had ordered the transfer of current DGP S.
Election Commission to check liquor flow in Andhra PradeshMarch 17th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Taking a serious view of the liquor flow in Andhra Pradesh ahead of next month's polls, the election authorities Monday asked the state government to furnish on daily basis the details of production and supply of liquor in the state. The authorities also ordered closure of all belt shops or the illegal outlets of licensed liquor shops, within three days.
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