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				Applications for liquor shops in the erstwhile Karimnagar district dropped to 7,565 from 10,709 last year despite an extended deadline. Officials cited increased tender fees and the absence of major elections as reasons for reduced participation by traders. 
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				RJD president Lalu Prasad on Sunday expelled his elder son Tej Pratap Yadav from the party, besides declaring "he shall have nothing to do with the family" 
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				The move seems to be aimed at reorganising the state unit of the Congress and strengthening the party at the grassroots level. 
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				The BJP could manage to get just eight seats out of 119 during the last assembly elections, he said, adding that there was a need to look into the reason behind people not voting for the party in assembly elections 
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				Hired vehicles owners staged a rasta-roko demanding immediately payment charges of their services during Lok Sabha polls here at IB Chowk on Friday. 
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				As the Vote-on-Account budget expires on July 31, a full-fledged budget will be presented in the upcoming session. 
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				The extension was necessitated as the commissions could not function fully by holding hearings due to the Lok Sabha polls. 
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				Expresses displeasure that keeping people behind bars "without trial" has continued in the country since the British rule 
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				In a letter addressed to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday, he said the people of the State voted against the Congress as it failed to implement all the promises made to them. 
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				Now that the Lok Sabha elections are over, the authorities have prepared proposals to take up the road repairs across the State. 
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				Two TDP members- Ram Mohan Naidu and Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani were sworn into PM Modi's 71-member Council of Ministers on Sunday evening. 
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				Tharoor beat Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar by 16,077 votes to register his fourth straight victory from the constituency. 
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				In alliance with the Samajwadi Party, Congress contested the Lok Sabha polls on a 63:17 formula, securing victory on seven out of its allotted 17 seats. 
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				The NOTA votes declined by nearly 50 percent when compared to last elections. 
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				The Italian PM emphasized that both nations will collaborate on various issues benefiting their people and strengthening their bond. 
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				The party retained all the sitting seats - Secunderabad represented by G Kishan Reddy, Karimnagar by Bandi Sanjay, Nizamabad by Dharampuri Arvind and Adilabad by G Nagesh. 
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				They also felt that as the elections were for the Lok Sabha, national issues like unemployment, reservations, communal rhetoric and corruption, might have played a major role. 
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				While two parliament segments Karimnagar and Nizamabad were retained by the BJP, the party bagged two new LS seats in the form of Malkajgiri and Medak. 
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				The I.N.D.I.A bloc had secured sizeable seats to oppose anti-people welfare decisions of the BJP–led union government, he said. 
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				Latest trends from May 13 Lok Sabha polls show AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi maintaining a 70,000-vote lead over BJP rival K Madhavi Latha in vote counting.