Congress Working Committee to meet as PMO confirms death of Andhra CM, four others (Lead:-YSR)

NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD - The Working Committee of the Congress Party will meet in the national capital on Thursday to decide on the leadership issue in Andhra Pradesh after the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy had died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday.

Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy’s brief profile

HYDERABAD - : Dr. Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy famously known as Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy or YSR was a popular political figure in the South Indian politics.

Congress flags to fly at half mast

NEW DELHI - The Congress ordered party flags to be flown at half mast all over the country following the death of its leader, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, in a helicopter crash.

Congress mourns death of ‘dynamic chief minister’

NEW DELHI - The death of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was a “tremendous loss”, a shocked Congress party said Thursday.

Bodies of YSR, four others recovered

HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others have been killed, officials in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) confirmed Thursday, more than 24 hours after his helicopter went missing in a densely forested area.

One of the saddest moments of my political career: Andhra Governor

HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh Governor N.D. Tewari on Thursday described the tragic death of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajshekhera Reddy and four others in a helicopter crash about 40 nautical miles east of the Kurnool mountaineous area as one of the saddest moments in his career, and added that it would take him some time to recover from it.

YSR wanted Greyhound experience to be replicated elsewhere

NEW DELHI - Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy believed that the “Greyhound commando experience” in his state must be replicated in other areas to counter the spread of Maoist violence in the country.

Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy: Biography

HYDERABAD - A doctor by training, Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, or YSR as he was popularly known, was known for his strong administrative skills and whose second stint as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh this year broke a 53-year-old jinx for the Congress party.

Andhra CM Rajasekhara Reddy killed in crash, bodies recovered

HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has been killed, officials in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMAndhra CM Y.S. O) confirmed Thursday, more than 24 hours after his helicopter went missing in a densely forested Maoist stronghold of the state. “The bodies have been recovered. They will be taken to Hyderabad for post mortem,” a PMO official in Delhi told IANS.

Andhra Pradesh CM’s missing chopper located near Kurnool

HYDERABAD - The Army confirmed on Thursday morning that the Air Force has homed in on the missing chopper carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajshekhera Reddy and four others about 40 nautical miles east of the Kurnool mountaineous area.

ISRO to use CARTOSAT to search for missing Andhra CM

HYDERABAD - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will conduct two fly-bys at 9.30 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. respectively with the help of CARTOSAT One and Two as part of their intensified search operations for missing Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajashekhara Reddy on Thursday.

Intensified search operations for missing Andhra CM resume

HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI - Search operations for missing Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy resumed at first light on Thursday morning.

As always, YSR wanted to know people’s problems

HYDERABAD - Known as a people’s leader for his several initiatives for their welfare, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was on his way to launch yet another mass contact programme when the helicopter carrying him went missing in the dense Nallamalla forests, before it was found nearly 24 hours later Thursday.

YSR’s helicopter traced

HYDERABAD - The missing helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has been traced in Nallamalla forests in Kurnool district Thursday morning, a defence official said.