Hyderabad: The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) bagged the Nellore Lok Sabha and 14 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, after results of the state by-polls were declared Friday. The counting of votes began at 8 a.m. Friday amid tight security in the constituencies spread over 12 districts. About 70 percent polling was recorded in Nellore and an [...]
New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Friday met to decide on its nominee for the July 19 presidential poll. The meeting is being held at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 7, Race Course Road residence.UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi arrived a little earlier to discuss the issue of who would be the ruling alliance’s nominee for president [...]
New Delhi: As the opposition slammed the government for mishandling the 2012 presidential poll, Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani Friday drew a parallel with what happened in 1969 when then prime minister Indira Gandhi’s call for a conscience vote led to the defeat of the official Congress candidate.This was the first time this had happened [...]
Kolkata: Asian Games gold medal-winning athlete Pinki Pramanik, first detained and subsequently arrested on charges of “rape” after being accused of being a man, was presented in a West Bengal court Friday by the police seeking an order for a gender determination test in a government hospital. “Pramanik was formally arrested on charges of rape and [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have agreed to work together for strengthening the “resilience of the global economy” to deal with the Eurozone shocks and boost global growth. The two “leaders agreed on the importance of steps to strengthen the resilience of the global economy in response to persistent risks [...]
At pre-dawn, before the world woke up, some 200-strong police led by the assistant commissioner of police M Kistaiah took positions and laid a virtual siege to the Chanchalguda central jail where YSRC chief Jagan Mohan Reddy is lodged. The police closed the Dabeerpura-Nalgonda cross road, a half kilometre stretch, to thoroughfare. Nobody was [...]
Avarice and cruelty have no limit, it seems. In an apparent coldblooded murder for more dowry, a young woman was led to commit suicide by her greedy husband in LB Nagar basti under the Jeedimetla police limits three days ago. Jeedimetla police sub inspector Veeranna said R Swarna, 24, had been married for barely to [...]
The wind of Jagan sentiment has swept away the Congress and the TDP with a solitary win for TRS. The rebel YSRC, which had challenged the mighty Congress party on its way to a virtual win with it leading in 15 of the 18 Assembly (two officially declared) seats at the time of going [...]
Not unexpected, the rules of the game have suddenly changed. The umpire has vanished without trace.The sweep by the renegade YS Jaganmohan Reddy in the 18 by-election results is going to upstage the Kiran government as the bypoll is nothing but a semi-final to the crucial 2014 general elections. This is the second consecutive [...]
Real estate is a long term investment; the buyer should look for long term profits rather than immediate returns. On the flip side, the annual returns a buyer gets from investment is limited to 2 to 4 per cent after deducting taxes and maintenance costs. It is a matter of pride to own a house. [...]
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Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
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