Category: Politics

For Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao, his resounding victory in the Lok Sabha bypoll in Karimnagar is “sweet revenge” against the ruling Congress, particularly Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi. KCR, as he is popularly called, had quit the Manmohan Singh Cabinet on August 22, in protest against […]

Riding on the crest of Telangana sentiment for a separate state, Telangana Rashtriya Samithi president and former Union minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has scored a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha by-election in Karimnagar constituency in this backward region even as the Congress has wrested Bobbili Lok Sabha seat in north coastal Andhra from the […]

Telangana Rashtra Samithi members were on Monday suspended from the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly for disrupting the proceedings for the fourth consecutive day.  Seventeen TRS members, who were suspended for a day, were evicted from the House by marshals when they refused to leave. However, dissident TRS legislators, who were not participating in the protests, […]

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has been named as the most popular chief minister in the country, according to the latest India Today Mood of the Nation poll. Dr Reddy, who won accolades for his pro-poor, particularly farmer-friendly administration, and brought many laurels to the state in different sectors, has been rated as best […]

Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader and Union Minister of State for Rural Development A Narendra on Sunday declared that he and TRS president and Union Minister for Labour K Chandrasekhar Rao will quit the United Progressive Alliance government on August 22.  In an informal chat with media-persons in Hyderabad, Narendra warned that TRS will intensify the […]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday announced an additional assistance of Rs 200 crore for flood-hit Andhra Pradesh from the National Calamity Fund. This takes the total assistance from the central government to Andhra to Rs 400 cr. Two days ago, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil announced an advance release of Rs 200 cr under […]

The Andhra Pradesh government has extended the ban on Communist Party of India-Maoist and seven of its frontal organizations for one more year. The organisations on which the ban has been renewed are: CPI-Maoist, Radical Students Union, Radical Youth League, Rythu Coolie Sangham, Singareni Karmika Samakhya, Viplava Karmika Samakhya and the All India Radical Students […]

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil arrived at Vijayawada on Wednesday morning on a seven-hour visit to the flood-affected areas of the state. Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy and others received Mrs Gandhi and Patil at the Gannavaram airport. Later, Sonia, accompanied by Patil, Dr Reddy and Andhra Pradesh […]

Justice P S Narayana of the Andhra Pradesh high court on Friday issued contempt notices to Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Dr K Keshava Rao for their ‘derogatory’ comments following an order that the judge had passed during the recent panchayat raj elections. The two leaders have […]

Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Kishenchand Advani on Tuesday evening challenged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to bring a bill on separate Telangana state in the ensuing session of Parliament from May 10.a Addressing a public meeting in Hyderabad as part of his ‘Bharat Suraksha Yatra’, Advani said the Congress had promised to create a separate […]