Chandrababu Naidu and his Telugu Desam Party in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
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In last July, 32 people were killed in a fire on a passenger train in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
In 1996, more than 2, 000 people were killed or lost at sea when a cyclone struck India's major crop-growing state of Andhra Pradesh.
This year's rain levels will be particularly critical given the drought in the western state of Maharashtra and the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
The south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was hit by Cyclone Laila which left at least 23 people dead and forced more than 50, 000 people to be evacuated to shelters.
When Bill Gates was looking for a location for Microsoft's second software development center outside the U.S. (the first was in Israel), he chose Hyderabad, capital of the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
The problem was worst in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where some farmers who took large loans to buy new Bt Cotton seeds committed suicide when their yields were so poor that they couldn't repay their debts.
There were at least two outbreaks of election related violence on Tuesday: up to eight people were injured in clashes in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, and in Indian-administered Kashmir the former central government minister, Maqbool Dar, escaped a hand grenade attack while touring his constituency.
Mr Singh has inducted half-a-dozen ministers from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, where the Congress has been fast losing ground to a breakaway group led by the son of a former loyalist leader who died in a helicopter crash and the mounting movement for a new Telangana state.
With a population of 40 million, the proposed state comprises of 10 of Andhra Pradesh's 23 districts including Hyderabad, India's sixth biggest city.
He didn't offer further details or say whether there was specific information about an attack on Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state and home to the local units of several overseas companies such as Microsoft Corp.
Speaking in parliament Friday, federal Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that Thursday evening's blasts occurred at a bus stop and a canteen - about 150 metres from each other - in the Dilsukhnagar neighborhood of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state.
Two researchers, Karthik Muralidharan of the University of California at San Diego and Venkatesh Sundararaman of the World Bank, tested that idea in 300 state-run schools in Andhra Pradesh in India.
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