While the growth and development of Andhra Pradesh in the last decade has been lopsided, the bifurcation of the state is not the panacea, feels a leading Indian economist.
Professor Nirupam Bajpai, director of the South Asian programme at New York’s Columbia University, says while Andhra Pradesh has done relatively better in the last ten years [...]
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Posted 22 December 2009
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Summary of comments below: Except a handful of people, comments by people of all regions is that they want the state to stay united. They don’t want an Italian to assume the role of Mountbatten. We had enough damage from one partition. We don’t need another. The key question asked below is, ‘What were the [...]
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Posted 19 December 2009
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VISAKHAPATNAM: The Andhra University students intensified their Samaikhya Andhra agitation on Wednesday with 10 fasting students threatening to commit suicide by jumping from the King George Hospital building on Wednesday. However, they were brought down by the police and confined to their blocks in the hospital later in the day.
The drama began at around 11 [...]
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Posted 19 December 2009
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ANANTAPUR: Emboldened by the spate of fasts taken up by leaders, Congress MLA K Venkatrami Reddy, a close aide of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Wednesday sat on `fast-unto-death’ in protest against separate Telangana even as tension mounted at the Sri Krishnadevaraya University (SKU) campus, where eight students, teaching and non-teaching staff launched hunger strike.
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Posted 19 December 2009
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CHITTOOR: The Samaikhya Andhra movement has spread its wings to the border villages of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka with activists conducting rallies, dharnas, rasta rokos and protest demonstrations in support of united Andhra.
Though the people live in Chittoor district, a majority of them are Tamilians and Kannadigas settled here long time ago. Though they are [...]
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Posted 19 December 2009
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Thanks to the Centre’s announcement of starting the process of a separate State of Telangana, the situation in Andhra Pradesh has reached a flashpoint with MLAs, MPs and Ministers turning into two warring groups. The urgent need of the hour is to defuse the situation and remove mutual distrust. Even bureaucrats have identified themselves with [...]