In its bid to enthuse grassroots party workers before the 2014 elections, the Congress plans to hold a series of regional conventions across the State. After giving his opinion on Telangana to the Central leaders, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and the party machinery are getting busy to enthuse grassroots workers with a series [...]
If Chandrababu Naidu comes back to power, he plans to introduce his son into active politics. Lokesh is being trained by his father.
Congress leader TG Venkatesh from Rayalaseema region says he will not mind quitting Congress if statehood is given to Telangana.
The three-day festival will be held at the three historic symbols of the Kakatiya dynasty, and will feature performances by famous artistes. The Telangana region is gearing up for the historic Kakatiya celebrations from today. Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, along with Union tourism minister K Chiranjeevi, will inaugurate the three-day gala in Warangal [...]
When the whole governmental machinery and judiciary failed him, he turned to God, and He helped him! This is what former excise minister Mopidevi Venkataramana must be thinking now. Mopidevi, one of the first to be lodged in the central jail in the Vanpic deal case has not been granted bail since his arrest in [...]
Despite allegations that Telugu Desam Party leaders are being lured away by YSRC, the party remains confident of mopping up seats. A senior party leader says TDP does not consider YSRC as a party.
Rao wants top leaders of each party to be present at the all-party meeting on Telangana, not the mid-level leaders. TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao’s demand to others parties to send their presidents for the all-party meet, not the minions, has caught them off guard. He wants the mainstream parties — the Congress, the TDP [...]
As the ties between MIM and Congress continue to be strained, the former is now warming up to the YSRC and is working towards wooing minorities away from the ruling party.
The aim of the convention was to bridge the gap between the party’s top brass and party workers. However, no such thing was achieved as leaders were only busy giving speeches.
Factionalism, a perennial Congress trait, was seen in abundant measure at the brainstorming session in LB stadium today. At the end of the day nine, resolutions on crucial issues are likely to be adopted.
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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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