HYDERABAD: The Life Insurance Corporation Housing Finance Ltd (LICHFL) has targeted to distribute Rs. 3,500 crore towards housing loans in the current financial year, as against Rs. 2,500 crore of last year. Inaugurating a three-day property show, ‘Sonta Inti Sambaraalu’ at Satyasai Nigamagamam here on Friday,Director and Chief Executive of LICHFL V K Sharma said [...]
New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for Parliamentary democracy, a scuffle broke out between Congress leader Rashid Alvi and Bharatiya Janata Party leader SS Ahluwalia in the Parliament complex on Thursday in full media view. The two senior politicians were coming out of a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on unique identity number (UID), [...]
HYDERABAD: Government should market Brand Hyderabad to bring companies to the city. When Hyderabad emerged as an information technology hub, there was an incredible marketing campaign about the City along side the infrastructure creation from the government. This changed people’s perception of Hyderabad. Even though, there is infrastructure development in the last two years, there [...]
Now, it is time to earn his wages. The Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy is in an expansion mode as are many aspirants. After hosting high-tea for his Cabinet colleagues and others who helped him tide over the no-confidence motion, the CM left for Delhi today to greet party president Sonia Gandhi on her birthday. [...]
Hyderabad: The recent imprisonment of three Pakistani cricketers by a London court involved corruption. The three had allegedly been party to a spot fixing scandal that took the world by storm. In this case, based on a bet, they would not act as they were supposed to. So, inaction involves corruption and neglect of duty [...]
New Delhi: The Opposition’s call for home minister P Chidambaram’s ouster intensified on Thursday with a special CBI court permitting Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy to prove his claim of the minister’s alleged complicity in the 2G spectrum scam. Sensing that the government appeared to be on the back foot after having given in to [...]
KOLKATA: More than 70 patients in Kolkata’s well known AMRI hospital were killed along with three staffers when a blaze started in the basement of the annexe building early Friday and toxic fumes quickly spread to the other floors, trapping hundreds of people. Six directors of the hospital were arrested by the police. The tragedy unfolded [...]
Residents of the busy Yousufguda area woke up to find the dead body of a woman stuffed in a bag. The unidentified woman‘s body was found by the police stuffed in a plastic sack near an electric transformer in Lakshminarasimha Nagar. The police said the woman’s throat was slit. According to Sudarshan, inspector of Banjara [...]
India’s most popular pilgrim centre, Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam (TTD), is experiencing fireworks over morality ahead of the New Year.A major controversy is brewing between Tridandi Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swamy and the TTD administration. The Jeeyar’s comment that the temple has been turned into a club and much of its sanctity has been lost has kicked [...]
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But… Seriously Ajay Hotchandani The theory of the Black Hole states that in the Hole, time and space don’t exist. So if you’ve entered this hole, you can take as long as you want to get ready, and you can store as many suitcases, with clothes you will never wear, above the cupboard (don’t deny [...]
BJP must survive the battle within
The second innings of UPA has been nothing short of tumultuous, marred by massive scams in every sector from rural job schemes to military purchases. When allies themselves are eyeing the jugular of the Centre, relief comes from an unexpected quarters — a divided BJP that is struggling to keep its house in order. The [...]
HR speaks Deepak Karamungikar Workplace politics is a harsh reality in India. When you take up a new role at a well-established organisation, the first few days seem fine. The smiles on everyone’s faces deceive you into believing that all is well. But a few days later, the cracks appear and a few months into [...]
Can England retain their crown?
England’s credibility is on the line as they take on West Indies in the first Test at Lord’s on Thursday. The heavy defeats in the Middle East and the Sub-Continent over the last few months have raised a lot of questions over whether England can sustain their No 1 ranking in the long run. They [...]
Live by your wits, you poor chump!
The guiding motto of a government is protecting the weak from the strong; the weak both in social and economic spheres. I am sure 9 out of 10 MPs and ministers do not know this driving dictum. Let us just take a cursory glance at the way our government has ‘protected’ the weak in the [...]
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