Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YSR is dead

September 4th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Following are the messages Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi wrote in the condolence book after paying homage to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: In the sad and most untimely demise of Dr.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A "deeply hurt" former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Thursday paid tributes to Andra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy who died in a helicopter crash.

September 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Andhra Pradesh Government on Thursday announced five days of mourning for State Chief Minister Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy who died in a helicopter crash along with four others on Wednesday. The dead bodies have been brought to the Kurnool base camp where after medical preliminaries, they will be accorded a guard of honour.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The country had lost a "popular leader of the masses", senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said Thursday while condoling the death of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.

September 3rd, 2009 AGARTALA - Cutting across party lines, members of ruling Left Front and the opposition Congress in the Tripura assembly Thursday mourned the death of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.

September 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Senior Congressman and Finance Minister in the Late Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy's Government, Konnijiti Rosaiah has been appointed as the caretaker Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Seventy-seven -year-old Rosaiah was overseeing the search operation for Chief Minster Reddy.

September 3rd, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Thursday expressed profound grief over the untimely demise of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.Rajashekhar Reddy, who was killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday. The country, including Andhra Pradesh, has lost an able administrator and a charismatic politician, Chouhan said in his message.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Thursday said that Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's death was "a big loss" for Andhra Pradesh as well as the Congress party.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi government Thursday declared a two-day mourning in memory of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who died in a helicopter crash.

September 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister K. Rosaiah Thursday took oath as the state's caretaker chief minister.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A.K. Antony Thursday condoled the sudden and untimely demise of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy will be given a state funeral Friday while the national flag will fly at half mast in Delhi and all state capitals Thursday and Friday, the government announced.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bell 430 helicopter that went missing Wednesday with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on board was not airworthy and was pulled out of the chief minister's use last year after the state purchased a new Italian chopper, civil aviation sources said.

June 5th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh Minister for Higher Education D. Sridhar Babu was Friday given the additional portfolio of Non-Resident Indian (NRI) issues in the wake of attacks on youths from the state in Australia and the US.

March 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.