Archive for December 3rd, 2011

TRS wants govt to stay?

TRS wants govt to stay?

| December 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

TRS leader K Tarakarama Rao today (Saturday) said that the future of Congress Government was in hands of the TDP. Talking to the media at the media point in the morning Tarakarama Rao said that if the Government falls due to the no-confidence motion, then the bill for Telangana cannot be passed. He was of [...]

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Where are the laptops given to MLAs? With their kids, of course!

Where are the laptops given to MLAs? With their kids, of course!

| December 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

Hyderabad: Speaker Nad­endla Manohar Reddy wants to run a paperless Assembly session, possibly from the New Year. But where are the laptops and iPads that were given to legislators? And do all the stakeholders have the necessary accessories to go with the gadgets? Evidently not. The Speaker had earlier announced that all the members would [...]

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Will YS Vijayamma lose her primary membership?

Will YS Vijayamma lose her primary membership?

| December 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

Will YS Vijayamma, the lone official MLA from YSR Con­gress, lose her primary membership? It’s a contested point. Some officials of the Legislature say she must mark her presence today or else she may be served with a notice of disqualification (six months of absence), if not outright disqualification. But some other officials say it [...]

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CBI chargsheets Gali in OMC case

CBI chargsheets Gali in OMC case

| December 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

HYDERABAD: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed charge-sheets on Saturday in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case, meeting the 90-day deadline from the date of arrest of the main accused Gali Janardhana Reddy, former Tourism Minister of Karnataka. The CBI, which investigated into the case for more than two years, arrested Janardhana Reddy, the [...]

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Owaisi laments, Karthika adamant

Owaisi laments, Karthika adamant

| December 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

The alliance partners in GHMC, the Congress and the MIM, are facing off as Congress leader and current mayor Banda Karthika Reddy has not yet vacated the mayoral office as per the agreement between the two parties and governance has suffered Hyderabad: A crisis of governance has gripped the GHMC, termed the ‘second government’ of [...]

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Nearly half of parliament session lost to protests

Nearly half of parliament session lost to protests

| December 3, 2011 | 1 Comment

New Delhi: Nearly half of parliament’s 21-day long winter session has been lost to protests ma­­i­nly over foreign equity in ret­ailing, leaving the government’s legislative agenda unsettled. With the opposition and so­me members of the ruling Uni­ted Progressive Alliance (UPA) vociferously seeking withdrawal of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail, the stalemate over the [...]

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Quality retail spaces will turn very costly

Quality retail spaces will turn very costly

| December 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

Enquiries for quality ret­ail space are likely to re­main robust in 2012, as major Indian retailers are on an expansion mode in major cities and also select Tier II and Tier III cities. If permitted, the foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi brand retail is ex­pected to catalyse a lot of de­m­and from international retailers. [...]

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ISB gets AACSB accreditation

ISB gets AACSB accreditation

| December 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

HYDERABAD: The Indian Sc­h­ool of Business (ISB) has an­n­ounced its accreditation by the Association to Advance Coll­egi­ate Schools of Business (AACSB), making it the first business school in South Asia to be recognised by this premier global body. This acknowledgement by the oldest and longest serving global accrediting body for business schools implies that ISB, [...]

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Couples today prefer to have a single child

Couples today prefer to have a single child

| December 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

Couples today prefer to have a single child so that the child can receive their full love and attention They say, ‘Two’s company’, but new age couples would rather make it one less and are happy with the single-child norm. Madhu Pandit, a housewife and mother of a five-year-old, is content and does not intend [...]

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Overstepping the thin red line

Overstepping the thin red line

| December 3, 2011 | 1 Comment

The landscape of Indian cinema and television has had a tremendous transformation. In this new avatar, no topic is too bold, too risque or too much! David Frost, the great British journalist and writer once said — “The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you [...]

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