The state excise department and some nationalised banks have thrown caution to the winds and bent bank guarantee rules to favour liquor retail licencees, it is revealed.

Retailers who provided bank g

The Nellore Lok Sabha by-election has taken an interesting turn with the Congress fielding heavyweight Dr T. Sub-barami Reddy as its ca-ndidate to take on Mek-apati Rajamohan Red-dy, the YSR Congress

Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Friday announced the governme-nt’s decision to bring down Value Added Tax (VAT) on textile goods from the present 5 per cent to 1 per cent.

The move is seen as

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice P.V. Sa-njay Kumar of the AP High Court recused themselves from hearing an appeal by the CID challenging the orders of a single jud

A techie planned and executed the murder of her husband with the help of a gang in Shamirpet police station limits, after she developed an illicit relation with her driver, police said. The gang abduc

The Medical Council of India (MCI) is expected to approve an additional 200 MBBS seats in state medical colleges for the academic year 2012-13, medical education minister Kondru Murali said on Thursda

There are three categories of private degree colleges in the city. Category I (top) colleges charge Rs 30,000 to Rs 50,000, category II (middle-level) colleges between Rs 15,000 and Rs 25,000, and cat

Justice K.C. Bhanu of the AP High Court will take a decision on Friday about the CBI’s petition to cancel the bail granted to Vijay Sai Reddy. He is an accused in Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s disproportio

Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy convened an informal Cabinet meeting on Thursday after returning from New Delhi. He conveyed his intention to hold elections to municipalities and municipal corpora

For the first time, the Congress central leadership is deputing over half-a-dozen special observers to oversee the bypolls to the 18 Assembly and Nellore Lok Sabha constituencies in the state, to ensu