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  1. Who runs Andhra Pradesh? Hic !

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    / April 6, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The chief of the Special Investigation Team probing the liquor scam, K Srinivas Reddy, is at sea. Literally because he is now IG of the Coastal Security Wing. For all practical purposes, worse than a loopline posting, where the 1994 batch IPS officer can spend all day sitting by the...

  2. Meet AP’s Al Capone

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    / February 8, 2012 /
    It is yet to ascertained whether Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, the Honorable Minister for Excise, takes a baseball bat to the heads of snitches, like Al Capone had a reputation of doing. To those who came in late, Al Capone was a mafia boss in Chicago back in the 1930s, when...

  3. Andhra’s liquor tragedy should be a wake-up call

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    / January 4, 2012 / 2 Comments
    By E A S Sarma The unfortunate liquor tragedy that took place on December 31, 2011 at Porata Nagar tribal hamlet near Vijayawada resulted in the death of 19 persons. It is significant that this tragedy should come on the heels of the findings of the State’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB)...

  4. Andhra Pradesh hits a low with liquor trade

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    / January 4, 2012 / 3 Comments
    By Dr Jayaprakash Narayan   We need a thorough overhaul of the liquor policy in the wake of the illicit liquor and toddy tragedies in Andhra Pradesh. Nationalization of the retail liquor trade, strict curbs on the number of retail outlets and making panchayats responsible for eradicating the illicit menace are some of...

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