Hyderabad: A man who allegedly tried to immolate himself near the State Assembly on Monday was rescued just in time by security personnel at the spot. According to the police, the man Raju came to the spot with a bottle of fuel and started walking towards the Assembly. He suddenly emptied the fuel on himself […]
Visakhapatnam: After initially announcing that the entire Cabinet would be changed barring only a few, Jagan’s decision to retain nearly half the team–11 out of 25 –as ministers appears to have stirred a hornet’s nest. At least two former ministers–Mekathoti Sucharita who held the Home portfolio and Balineni Srinivasulu Reddy who handled Environment and Forests […]
Amaravati: Four members of the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were suspended from Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for the rest of the budget session on Tuesday. Taking serious note of the unruly behaviour of the legislators, Speaker Tammineni Seetharam announced their suspension. The TDP members created a ruckus in the House to demand a debate […]
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and member of G-23 group Ghulam Nabi Azad met party interim president Sonia Gandhi at her residence on Friday. Earlier, G-23 leaders, who have been calling for sweeping reforms in the grand old party, met on Wednesday to discuss the party’s debacle in the recently concluded Assembly elections in five […]
Amaravati: For a fourth consecutive day, members of main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were suspended from Andhra Pradesh Assembly as they continued to stall proceedings demanding debate on Jangareddygudem hooch tragedy. Speaker Tammineni Seetharam suspended 11 MLAs from the House for one day after the government moved a resolution. Like the last three days, […]
Hyderabad: In what was perhaps the most hard-hitting, fact-packed, sans rhetoric speech yet, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday laid bare the BJP government’s brazen moves to upstage the States and weaken the federal structure of the country through its policies, particularly on the fiscal front. “As per the Constitution, India is a union […]
Karimnagar: The state government has allocated ten acres of land for the construction of Venkateshwara Swamy temple in Karimnagar. In this regard, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao handed over land allocation orders to BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar and TTD Hyderabad local advisory committee chairman GV Bhaskar Rao in the Assembly on […]
Hyderabad: Telangana State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday welcomed the announcement by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao in the State Assembly to reinstate field assistants. In a statement issued here, he said the party fought in support of field assistants and demanded that the State government reinstate them and letters were also written […]
Hyderabad: CLP leader Mallu Batti Vikramarka on Tuesday lashed out at the BJP government at the Centre for its discrimination towards Telangana in sanctioning projects and allocating funds. “Telangana is one of the leading contributors to India’s GDP. Yet, the Central government does not allocate projects and creates hurdles in development works taken up in […]
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has on Tuesday said that GO 111, which was issued in 1996 to prevent undue industrialisation and heavy construction activities in 83 villages and pollution of Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar, would be revoked shortly. Replying to a query in the Assembly, the Chief Minister said the GO had […]