If the amendment Bill on VAT introduced yesterday is passed, it will push up the prices of small but utility items and food will become dearer in AP, and the public will not know what hit them. Postnoon special report.
On the seventh day of meeting, the Speaker finally begins a Q&A session without much interruption. Hyderabad: The suspension of TRS and BJP MLAs from the House for two days brought much needed relief in the Assembly on the seventh day of its meeting. Though the House began amid the TDP’s demand to allow its [...]
There is no improvement in the jam the Assembly has been witnessing for the past six days. Neither the government nor the Opposition took any initiative to break the deadlock. The sixth day of the ongoing session of AP Assembly witnessed similar situation as in the past days. When Speaker announced the proceedings as open [...]
The parties vehemently came down on the TRS and termed the call given by its chief as unilateral.
Many took him earlier to be a shy introvert, not eager to hog the headlines. The media repulsed him. He was indeed all these as MLA and Speaker. But his detractors seem to forget that as a Virgo, he has a shrewd mind and a revengeful mentality that gives him ideas for the knockout punch. [...]
The government has introduced an amendment to the APMPR Bill, making one year service in rural government hospitals mandatory for medical practitioners to get a licence. The rural areas of the State, deprived of proper medicare, can now look forward to quality medical help with the government making it mandatory for medical practitioners to work [...]
Assembly continues to be in turmoil with each Opposition party following its own agenda. For the third day, House discussed nothing.
Today, the government introduced two crucial Bills but the opposition, in total disarray, failed to take note of it. Each party following its own agenda caused great loss of time and money.
Assembly will be in its element from tomorrow. Numerous issues await the House and fireworks are expected. The much-awaited Assembly session began today on a damp note as the House took up the condolence motion on the recent death of Telugu Desam Party MLA Ambati Brahmanaiah and adjourned for tomorrow. CM N Kiran Kumar Reddy [...]
Disqualification of 15 MLAs belonging to Congress and TDP came as a foregone conclusion, and no party, barring YSRC, is ready for a snap poll for seats vacated. The expulsion of 15 MLAs from the House has vertically divided political parties in the State. While the ruling Congress and opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) seemed [...]
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Ajay Hotchandani As is the routine every morning, I wake up, toss and turn for about an hour trying to find the motivation to get out of bed. Somewhere between eating and showering, I check my email and have a glance at the news on Google. Later that day I had to go pick my [...]
According to a survey of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials, there are about 620 buildings and another 100 on the outskirts that need immediate demolition in the twin cities. The GHMC engineers’ wing has certified that these 700 old buildings including 200 in Secunderabad could fall any time. Do we need to lose a [...]
The forest department has taken to task many of Hyderabad’s fortune-tellers for the alleged torture and cruel treatment of parakeets under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Raids were conducted by the State Forest Department officials and members of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau in Chirkur, Kukatpally and Ameerpet areas that led to the rescue of [...]
One step forward, two steps back
There are positive signals from the G8 summit regarding the plan of action that must be pursed in Syria. Russian leader Vladmir Putin, the man who is the main hurdle to the creation of some means formidable to bringing down Assad, has hinted that he may allow removing Assad provided there is a plan for [...]
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