Hyderabad: Presidential candidate P.A. Sangma was Monday denied permission to meet YSR Congress Party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy in Chanchalguda Central Jail here. Sangma drove to the jail to call on Jaganmohan Reddy to seek his party’s support for his candidature. The jail officials, however, refused to give him permission to meet the member of parliament.Sangma, [...]
New Delhi: Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani revealed Monday that Pranab Mukherjee had called him soon after his candidature for the presidency was announced, but did not ask for support. Mentioning the call by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the day Mukherjee’s candidature was announced, Advani said, “Shortly thereafter, I received yet another [...]
Shimla: A court here Monday framed corruption charges against union minister and former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh.Special Judge B.L. Soni pronounced the order in the court.The prosecution had filed the chargesheet against the couple in October 2010. According to the police, the couple was booked Aug 3, 2009 on [...]
Mumbai:In a bid to prop up the battered currency, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Monday hiked the limit of overseas investments in government and corporate bonds and announced a slew of other measures to improve market sentiments. The limit of overseas investment in government bonds has been raised by $5 billion to $20 billion [...]
Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam deteriorated further today as more than 1000 villages were affected after an embankment of river Brahmaputra in worst affected Dhemaji district was breached in the early hours. Dhemaji district administration sources said that the swollen Brahmaputra River breached more than 100 metres of the Matmara dyke at Bengtola at [...]
Apart from regular RTI activists, citizens fail to make use of the Act. Hence, in order to raise awareness about RTI, Hyderabad activists have started a forum called Educators in RTI Service The first model of making RTI a part of the education sector is being launched in Hyderabad today. The United Forum (UF) for [...]
“Etu Brutus?” Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy might be asking this to his colleague and PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana, after Botsa reportedly gave a post-poll analysis to the high command where he blamed the CM for unilateral decisions on candidates in the 18 Assembly bypoll for the dismal performance of the party. If anyone in [...]
Vijayawada turned tense as TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal planned dharnas against each other on Monday. The TDP chief announced that he would stage a dharna demanding construction of a fly-over at the Kanaka Durga temple. The party is alleging that the State government has been ignoring the proposal, which has [...]
In one week three young wives were either killed or driven to suicide by avaricious husbands and their families. Recently, a young woman ended her life after harassment One more woman E Ratna has reportedly committed suicide by hanging following physical and mental torture by her husband for money, the Madannapet police report. This is [...]
The prediction of international weather forecasters that India may get below normal rainfall during the ongoing Monsoon is yet to reach the State government. While the Union agriculture ministry seems to be hurrying its steps to avoid a drought-like situation in the country that was seen in the year 2009, the State government does not [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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