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  • Tableau of Andhra Pradesh at Rajpath during the full dress rehearsal for the upcoming Republic Day Parade, in New Delhi.

    PTI Photo/Atul Yadav
  • Roosters fight during 'Bhogi' festival celebration, in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh.

    PTI Photo
  • A knife tied on the leg of a cock during 'Bhogi' festival celebration, in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh.

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  • Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu during a visit to the Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineering & Technology (CIPET), in Vijayawada.

    PTI Photo
  • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launches Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-50 carrying CMS-01 communication satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), in...

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  • India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-50 is set to launch CMS-01 communication satellite on Thursday from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), in S...

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  • Left-wing party supporters participate in a rally in support of farmers' agitation over farm reform laws, in Guntoor district.

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  • A patient being assisted by others to get down from an ambulance, at a district government hospital in Eluru of West Godavari district. Health experts have established the role of ...

    PTI Photo
  • Andhra Pradesh CM Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy meets patients who fell ill, suspectedly due to water contamination, at a hospital in Eluru town, Godavari district.

    PTI Photo
  • Another award-winning photo of a farmer’s funeral after he killed himself in Andhra Pradesh

    Photograph by Jitender Gupta
  • Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy makes an aerial survey to take stock of the widespread devastation caused by Cyclone Nivar across the state of Andhra Pradesh.

    PTI Photo
  • Fishermen pull their boats along the shore before the landfall of Cyclone Nivar, at Kothapatnam in Prakasam district.

    PTI Photo
  • Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan along with family members prays at Venkateswara Temple, in Chittoor district.

    PTI Photo
  • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the 51st mission of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying the all-weather earth imaging satellite EOS along with nine in...

    PTI Photo/R Senthil Kumar
  • Indigenously built ASW Corvette ‘Kavaratti’ to be commissioned at Visakhapatnam today by General MM Naravane, Chief of Army Staff.

    PTI Photo
  • Temple staff sort laddu offerings to be sold to devotees during Navratri festival, at the Kanaka Durga temple in Vijayawada.

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  • Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman interacts with farmers during her visit to Jakkula Nekkalam village of Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh.

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  • Villagers evacuate from a flood affected area on a boat, following release of surplus water from Prakasam Barrage into the Krishna river, at Pamula Lanka village near Vijayawada.

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  • People visit Undavalli Caves as seen on World Tourism Day, at Undavalli in Guntur district.

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  • Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa during their visit to the Lord Venkateswara temple, in Tirumala, Chittoor district.

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  • Andhra Couple Who Killed Daughters Planned On Taking Their Own Lives As Well: Police
    Last week, a couple in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district killed their two daughters based on the belief that they will come back to life after being ‘cleansed of all evil’
    Jan 27, 2021
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Bizarre! Andhra Couple Kill Daughters, Believe They Will Come Back To Life
    After killing his two daughters and hoping they would come back to life, the man called one of his colleagues to inform him of the killings
    Jan 25, 2021
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Andhra Pradesh ASHA Worker Dies After Receiving Covid-19 Jab; Unions Protest
    ASHA workers staged a demonstration in front of the Government General Hospital in Guntur demanding that a compensation of Rs 50 lakh be paid to the deceased's family.
    Jan 24, 2021
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Insider Trading Nothing To Do With Sale, Purchase Of Land: Andhra HC Quashes Amaravati Land Proceedings
    The judgment delivered by Justice Cheekati Manavendranath Roy debunks the 'insider trading' theory that the YSR Congress had been harping on since 2016
    Jan 20, 2021
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Andhra Pradesh: BJP Leaders Arrested Over Yatra To Protest Lord Rama Idol Desecration
    The head of Lord Rama's idol at the famous Ramateertham hill temple was found defaced on December 28 night.
    Jan 05, 2021
    | PTI
  • Heartwarming! Proud Cop Father Salutes DSP Daughter In Andhra; Pic Goes Viral
    Circle Inspector Y Shyam Sundar bumped into DSP Yendluru Jessy Prasanthi, who also happens to be his daughter, during a police meet on Sunday
    Jan 04, 2021
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Four HC Chief Justices Transferred, 4 Judges Elevated As High Court Chief Justice
    A couple of transfers and elevations may take place in January, sources said.
    Dec 31, 2020
    | PTI
  • ISRO Successfully Launches PSLV C50 Rocket
    The trusted polar satellite launch vehicle PSLV-C50 successfully injected the satellite into the predefined orbit, ISRO said.
    Dec 17, 2020
    | PTI
  • Eluru Mystery Disease: Union Health Secretary Briefs VP Naidu On Health Situation
    Reportedly, more than 600 people were hospitalised in Andhra Pradesh's Eluru city due to the mysterious disease
    Dec 12, 2020
    | PTI
  • AP Mystery Disease: Number Of People Falling Ill Has Rapidly Declined, Say Officials
    Experts have opined that organochlorine and lead could be the primary causative agents that triggered the disease.
    Dec 09, 2020
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Magazine
  • Polls Apart In Jagan Panchayat
    Yedugiri vs Nimmagadda makes for a champion fight in Andhra. Should there be local polls? Who should conduct it? The ball ping-pongs between HC, EC and political grandees.
    Jan 13, 2021
    | M.S. Shanker
  • The NEWS
    In case you missed it: News and newsmakers from India over the past week
    Dec 09, 2020
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  • Just A Second
    Do deputy chief ministers count in the leader-takes-all play?
    Nov 19, 2020
    | G.C. Shekhar Giridhar Jha Bhavna Vij-Aurora Preetha Nair Puneet Nicholas Yadav Ajay Sukumaran Abdul Gani
  • Jagan Jolt Number 65
    Jun 05, 2020
    | M.S. Shanker
  • The CM Won’t Wait
    Apr 24, 2020
    | M.S. Shanker
  • The Jaganaut Can’t Fly
    Mar 18, 2020
    | M.S. Shanker
  • An Andhra Triplet
    From two states with a capital to a state with three? Not yet.
    Jan 30, 2020
    | M.S. Shanker
  • V For Vendetta? Andhra CM Jaganmohan Reddy Ups Tirade Against Arch-Rival Chandrababu Naidu
    From demolishing Chandrababu Naidu's riverfront house to putting a spanner in Amaravati's works, Jaganmohan Reddy wants his pound of flesh in bitter Andhra politics
    Aug 07, 2019
    | M.S. Shanker
  • The Subcontinental Menu
    Aug 07, 2019
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  • Lives, Businesses In Jeopardy As Amaravati Looks Into An Uncertain Future
    From poor farmers to construction giants, the limbo over Amaravati as a dream city in the Jagan Reddy regime has messed up lives and livelihood
    Jul 31, 2019
    | G.C. Shekhar
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Blog
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    Vizag’s Jinxed Wait to Become 'Smart City'
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    Iftaar Dressing, Chandrababu Eshtyle
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    Cyclonewatch: Phailin Updates
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    The Most Trusted Ally
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  • Answer That Phone, Dammit!
    Answer That Phone, Dammit!
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    ‘Cash For Votes A Way Of Political Life In South India’
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  • Quotas For Muslims
    Quotas For Muslims

    R Jagannathan in the DNA:

    Slowly and cynically our politicians have started laying the groundwork for the next communal buildup. First, we had the Sachar report, which has now become the basis for the Muslim community’s claim to victimhood. Next, we have had state governments using quotas to woo the Muslim voter. On the same day on which the Andhra Pradesh high court struck down the state government’s orders on Muslim quotas, the West Bengal government rushed in to announce 10 per cent job reservations.
    ...
    Nobody is saying that Muslims don’t need jobs, education and other support systems to develop. But what is the need to help them as Muslims? When below-poverty-line (BPL) families can be helped without communal identification and NREGA benefits can be given on socio-economic grounds, Muslims can be helped the same way.

    He makes a very clear point.  Apart from the constitutional issues, even in terms of implementation, it would be far more preferable to revisit the whole quotas and reservations debate. It is time to do away with all caste based quotas as well, instead of coming up with religious based ones. Building consensus for affirmative action -- which need not just be quotas or reservations -- only on measurable indices such as income, education level of families etc would be far easier and effective.

    Also See:  Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment of February 8 striking down quotas for Muslims, which goes on to say:

     91. Turning to the present case, there is no material placed before this court by the State Government to prove the valid classification which has got nexus with its policy and object to be achieved. The material is not sufficient to show that such a classification is based on intelligible differentia and the basis has rational nexus with the policy and object to be achieved under the statute. In view of the above, the impugned Act has to be struck down as violative of Art.14 of the Constitution being irrational and illegal.

    92. Further, the standards applied to the data by the Commission are equally applicable when the Government determines to provide benefit of such an inquiry. The State should produce material before the Court to show that there was a proper inquiry and relevant criteria adopted and the decision is reasonable, but mere expression is not sufficient. In the absence of any data with regard to social backwardness or educational backwardness, the action of the State Government in providing reservation to socially, educationally backward classes among Muslims have to be struck down as the data lacks the criteria of the material for determining social backwardness and criteria for educational backwardness. The Commission has utterly failed to have a statewide social and economic survey combined with educational survey and also failed in conducting test of income and occupation for selecting the individuals who compose a backward class. In the absence of criteria basing on the inaccurate data, it can be said that the Commission has not formulated any standards for the application of income or occupation tests and also in respect of the educational backwardness. Further there is no correct data furnished either by the State Government or by the B.C Commission that whether in the opinion of the Government, the present identified classes of Muslims are inadequately represented in the services of the State. Even in the counter filed on behalf of State Government with reference to the state average in determining the educational backwardness, it did not disclose the group wise percentage of literacy. On the basis of meager data collected by the Commission for the assessment of educational/employment backwardness, it can be said that the data is unsatisfactory. It is un-understandable as to how the Commission could prepare a report within two days and it shows that the Commission has acted in haste and without proper application of mind. As the B.C Commission has acted in a hasty manner and without any scientific survey, I am of the opinion that the data collected is not sufficient for the Government to come to the conclusion that specific classes of Muslims can be classified as ‘backward class’ for the purpose of Articles 15(5) and 16(4) of the Constitution of India. The Commission has not proceeded on correct lines to assess the social and educational backwardness as indicated in other cases or has followed any criteria for such assessment. In the absence of any such material, it has to be held that the State Government has utterly failed to discharge its onus of proof to establish that the reservations are for socially and educationally backward classes of citizens and that the enactment is based on sufficient material to support the classification. If the court perceives that the identified classes exist, then the Court will uphold such law for the purpose of doing social justice, but in the instant case the exercise of identifying specific group of backward classes is not rational; therefore the Court cannot uphold the law made by the State. The same has to be struck down for want of sufficient material or appropriate data.

    CONCLUSIONS

    93. For the above said reasons, it has to be held:

    (1) the State Government has got the power to refer to the State Commission for identifying backward classes to provide reservation to socially and educationally backward classes under the provisions of the said Act;

    (2) the State has got power for making any special provision, by enactment, for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens relating to their admission to educational institutions and public employment;

    (3) in the present case the investigation made by the Statutory Commission is not sufficient, and the report submitted by it is not based on real facts, data or analysis and is without any proper survey. The Commission limited its’ survey to 6 Districts only (within 3 days from 23-6-2007 to 26-6-2007) leaving the other parts of the State;

    (4) the report should be held to be mechanical, perfunctory in nature and is without application of mind as the Commission followed the report of Mr P.S. Krishnan in verbatim.

    (5) The principle of strict scrutiny and intermediary scrutiny as laid down in Archana Reddy’s case is not in conformity with the guidelines framed in Indra Sawhney & Ashok Kumar Thakur’s case;

    (6) the impugned Act No.26 of 2007, dated 13-8-2007, which is based on the said report of the Commission is invalid, unconstitutional, being violative of Articles 14, 15(4), 15(5) and 16(4);

    Feb 13, 2010
  • Kandala Balagopal RIP
    Kandala Balagopal RIP

    I did not know Kandala Balagopal personally. But I heard about his death with an indescribable sense of loss. Ironically, in these pages we remembered him on the occasion of another death recently -- for his 2004 EPW essay that documented YSR's rise to power through terror.  A couple of  years back, Outlook featured him in its alternative power list:

    A relentless crusader for human rights for three decades now, Andhra Pradesh HC lawyer Balagopal has fought cases from extra-judicial killings of political dissenters to atrocities against Dalits and women. And he has often suffered personal attacks for his efforts, by the police and others shamed by his exposes. But he has never faltered. His reports on encounter killings, backed by painstaking investigative work, had such credibility that even the state could not ignore it. He doesn’t take legal fees from poor clients. And he travels endlessly across rural India, giving a voice to the opinions and problems of the poor—from farmers and tribals being displaced by SEZs in Nandigram or Visakhapatnam, to beedi workers seeking minimum wages, to tribals trying to protect their homes and forests. One of the most respected civil liberties activists in the country, Balagopal has inspired an entire generation to engage with the causes he espouses.

    Lawrence Liang has a moving tribute at the Alternative Law Forum that deserves quoting at length:
    A sense of irony is the only way for me to describe how I felt when I heard about Balagopal’s death. Ordinary people leading ordinary lives die of heart attacks. And despite the simplicity with which he led his life and interacted with people, every time one met Balagopal or heard him you always  knew you were in the presence of someone extraordinary. Whenever he left after any meeting, Balagopal left you a little scared about whether you would ever see him again. As a result of the position that he took- against the violence of the state as well as the violence of the Maoists, you were always left with the lurching fear that any point of time, you would be given the news that Balagopal had been killed in an encounter.

    At the same time it is perhaps not surprising that despite living a life which was scripted towards a violent death, it was only appropriate that his death transcended any partisan act of violence...If Balagopal was a regular anti violent activist or a pacifist, then there would have been nothing surprising about his stance on violence, and to argue for the importance of non violence would hardly be an act of courage. But for someone who had spent a better part of his life in struggles, and in battles against the impunity of the state, the commitment to an ethical position on violence becomes a deeply ethical choice of bravery.
     
    In an ironic way Balagaopal could be seen as a true inheritor of the Gandhian legacy, of leading a particular kind of life, and through such a life aspiring to change the world around you...
    Read more here
     
    The Alternative Law Forum has also put up two useful documents that provide a bit of the flavour of the man's ideology:
    • Interview of Dr. Balagopal by Janam Saxi and
    • Beyond violence and non-violence - K Balagopal

    ETA: A group of human rights activists have set up a wonderful site to act as a permanent memorial and an archive on the work of K Balagopal and to highlight the work of human rights initiatives: Remembering K Balagopal

    Oct 09, 2009
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