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  1. `Auction Mahabubnagar Collector office’

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    / July 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Mahabubnagar collectorate to be auctioned? Yes, that is precisely what a civil court has ordered for non-payment of amount towards land acquisition by the government. The judge ordered the auction by August 22. `The New Indian Express’ reports that the case pertained to Sattaru Balaiah whose land was acquired by...

  2. Is India hostage to Maoists?

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    / April 22, 2012 / 1 Comment
    The first collector of the newly-formed district of Sukma, Alex Paul Menon, clearly hadn’t read how his senior in the IAS, Vineel Krishna in Malkangiri district of Odisha was kidnapped last year. Following pretty much the same pattern of sending Maoists dressed as villagers, Alex, a 2006 batch IAS officer,...

  3. When you are helpless, you turn poetic

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    / February 25, 2012 / 2 Comments
    This is an email received from Sohan Hattangadi from Visakhapatnam. Here he takes to poetry, `inspired’ by the Vizag collector’s resolve that the city will be like Mumbai in a decade.  `The South Reports’ reproduces Sohan’s mail in full :  Our youthful collector said that Vizag will become like Mumbai in 10...

  4. Kidnapping the state’s authority

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    / February 17, 2011 / 1 Comment
    It was Christmas eve of 1987 when the then N T Rama Rao government in Andhra Pradesh was shaken by the news of eleven state government officers (seven of them of IAS cadre) kidnapped by the naxals (then called the People’s War). It was the first time that abduction as...

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