Keeping the promise made to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the Praja Rajyam on Tuesday unanimously decided to extend unconditional support to the ruling party in the ensuing Rajya Sabha elections.

Keeping the promise made to the Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, the Praja Rajyam Party on Tuesday unanimously decided to extend unconditional support to the ruling party in the ensuing Rajya Sabha elections.

MLAs belonging to the Praja Rajyam Party intend to take their budding relationship with the Congress a step deeper by sharing power with the Congress in the Rosaiah Cabinet. The MLAs are aiming for at least four berths and are going to exert pressure on Mr Chiranjeevi to agree to a merger.

Twenty-four people, including eight policemen, were on Friday injured in violence that broke out during a tour of Congress MP Y.S. Jaganmohan to Telangana, following which he was taken into preventive custody, forcing him to abandon his visit.

GMR Infrastructure on Tuesday said that its net profit has declined 43.31 per cent to Rs 158.40 crore in the fiscal 2010 from Rs 279.45 crore in the same period a year ago.
Revenue, however, has gone up by 14 per cent at Rs 4,566.5 crore in FY10 from Rs 4,019.2 crore in FY09. The decline in net profit, according to the company, is mainly due to the absence of revenues from the decommissioned 235 MW barge mounted power plant during the year.

Foreign investors seem to be warming up to India’s power sector again, after a long gap.
Hyderabad-based infrastructure firm Gayatri Projects on Tuesday signed an agreement with Singapore- based Sembcorp to set up a 1,320 mw thermal power plant in Krishnapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

After covering nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, international treaties may soon move to the another realm — cyberspace. A conflict in cyberspace can be extremely devastating, warn experts. India is amongst the countries that are particularly vulnerable amongst the major economies.

At least 23 persons were killed and three others missing as Cyclone Laila wreaked havoc in coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh.
According to an official communiqué issued by the state disaster management department, seven persons were killed in Krishna district, five in Prakasam, four each in Guntur and Nellore, two in East Godavari and one in Visakhapatnam.

A highly competitive Indian small car market has set-off alarm bells for the country’s undisputed market leader Maruti Suzuki, which is chalking out new plans to maintain the lead.

Andhra Pardesh chief minister K.