Andhra bids YSR a tearful adieu

Lakhs of people on Friday bid a tearful farewell to charismatic Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who was killed in a helicopter crash, as his body was interred in his family’s expansive estate here after a state funeral.

The last rites were performed in this rural town in Pulivendla constituency after a galaxy of national leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and leader of the Opposition LK Advani joined a sea of humanity that had all parts of the state to bid adieu to him in Hyderabad.

60-year-old Reddy’s son Jaganmohan (36), the cynosure of all eyes against the backdrop

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Andhra to invite fresh bids for metro project this week

The Andhra Pradesh government will be inviting fresh global bids for the quagmired Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) Project on July 16. The government had, last week, cancelled the project awarded to Maytas Infra, as the company could not achieve financial closure even three months after the deadline expired.

The process would be completed by November 15, municipal administration minister Aanam Ramanarayana Reddy said.

“We want to put the metro on tracks within the next three to four years,” he said. The minister was speaking after a high-level review meeting on the HMR Project, chaired by chief minister of Andhra Pradesh Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.

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