Four Andhra techies killed in United States car crash

Four Indian IT students, including three girls, were killed and another was injured when an off-duty and apparently drunk policewoman crashed her car into their vehicle on a highway in the US State of Missouri early on Saturday.

The five, all from Andhra Pradesh and studying for MS degree in Information Technology in Eastern Illinois University, were returning home in a Honda Accord when the policewoman’s SUV , speeding in the wrong lane, hit them head-on in Des Peres, authorities said.

Four of the students — Anusha Anumolu (23), Satya S Chinta (25), Anita Lakshmi Veerapaneni (23) and Priya Muppvarapu (23) — died on the spot while Nitesh Adusumilli (27), who was at the wheel, was seriously injured.

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Election Commission orders transfer of Andhra DGP

The Election Commission on Wednesday ordered the transfer of Andhra Pradesh DGP S S P Yadav who praised Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy during an official visit to Kurnool and Mahbubnagar. THE Election Commission on Wednesday ordered the transfer of AndhraPradesh DGP SSP Yadav who had reportedly praised Chief Minister Y S Rajsekhara Reddy during an official tour on March 8 and 9 to Kurnool and Mahbubnagar districts. The EC also sought a panel of names from the state Government by Friday for Yadav’s replacement,an EC spokesperson said.Yadav is at present on a week long tour to Singapore to attend a conference on home land security.

State Chief Electoral Officer I V Subba Rao had earlier sought an explanation from the DGP after opposition parties complained that he had praised the CM’s initiatives to strengthen the police force at a meeting of police officers of Kurnool district.

Opposition parties had alleged that he had violated the model code of conduct by speaking in favour of the ruling party and government at a meeting that was actually held to educate police officers on the model code for elections.

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Naidu to approach Centre on Y S Rajashekhar Reddy’s ‘Satyam route of corruption’

After last week’s unruly scenes in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, a battery of state Opposition leaders, led by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, arrived in New Delhi armed with thick bound volumes containing allegations against Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhar Reddy for distribution to the media. Naidu began his tirade against his successor in a crowded press conference where an audio-visual presentation was arranged as an expose on the “Raja of corruption”. Eventually, a technical snag left the presentation bereft of its visual element and only a loud commentary remained to go through the alleged corporate scams involving YSR and his family.

“If Satyam is the largest corporate scam in the country, the acts of the CM make his’ the largest political scam. Ramajingam Raju has confessed to his misdeeds and gone to jail and now it is the turn of the CM to do so,” Naidu said. After the press meet, Naidu said he and leaders of the TDP, TRS, CPI, CPI(M) will meet the President and the Prime Minister to “expose the manner in which the CM has floated front companies with jet speed and violated a host of Central laws”.

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In Naxal's latest den, police station can't fill up vacancies

With barely a dozen cases being registered every year at the local police station, this may sound like an island of peace. Nestling in the lap of verdant forests and the Chinna Godavari river on the Andhra Pradesh border, Motu tehsil in Malkangiri, the district worst-hit by Naxalism in Orissa, is far from idyllic it is one of the origin points of the Red Corridor in the state, the den of Naxalites.

Motu is also a transit point for Naxalites from Andhra Pradesh who cross the Sileru and Saberi rivers and then fan out across the state. Only the local tribals can walk in Motu without any fear. An outsider, a government official or even a policeman is always at risk here. Locals say nobody can enter Motu without the Naxalites getting to know. Four-wheelers are never used for fear of land mines and even riding a two wheeler is risky.

But a police station does exist in this den of radicals.While Naxalites have been looting and rampaging po lice stations across the state - the latest being in Nayagarh about 90 km from Bhubaneswar - Motu police station has somehow survived. There has been only one attack on the police station - way back in August 2001 when two policemen were killed. But even then, the attack was successfully repulsed by security personnel. There have been

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