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7 farmers die due to crop-loss shock

Distressed over the crop losses in the recent rains, seven more farmers died of shock in the state in the last 24 hours. While three farmers died in Guntur district, West Godavari, Krishna, Prakasam and Nalgonda districts accounted one death each. Thota Apparao died of shock at Rentapadu in Sattenpalle mandal, while Mukteshwar Rao died of cardiac arrest at Attota in Kollipara in Guntur. Hanumantha Rao collapsed in his field on...

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Naidu fast spotlight on farmers

Chandrababu Naidu has managed to do outside the Andhra Assembly what he couldn’t within its four walls — train the national spotlight on the plight of farmers crippled by successive national calamities and inadequate compensation. The Telugu Desam president, who has been on indefinite hungerstrike at the new MLA quarters since Friday demanding higher compensation for farmers, was today forcibly taken into custody in the wee hours after a seven-hour drama...

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Money for nothing. And misery for free by Rohini Mohan

IT WAS a windfall five years ago that taught Panchali Satyavva the power of a lie. It happened one Monday afternoon in Someshwar village of Nizamabad district in Andhra Pradesh. It was raining in sheets and she had just placed a bucket under the steady trickle of water from the roof of her hut. Two men were at her door, holding umbrellas and offering her an unsolicited Rs. 5,000. They...

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Paddy and rice stashed in 1,700 gunny bags seized by officials

In a major catch, District Supply officials and Food Cell police unearthed paddy and rice allegedly stashed in as many as 1,700 gunny bags in a godown of a private rice mill in Keerathurai Mahalipatti here on Sunday. Two workers of the rice mill were detained and a goods vehicle was impounded, officials said. Following complaints from consumers that some ration shops claimed shortage of Re.1-rice, Collector C. Kamaraj formed a special...

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Naidu continues fast at NIMS

The fasting Telugu Desam Party president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, was forcibly shifted by the police to the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in the early hours of Monday, but he continued his indefinite hunger strike from the hospital bed. In spite of a significant deterioration in his health, the 60-year-old Mr. Naidu said he would not call off his protest till the demands of farmers were conceded. After he was...

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