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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 […]

Hyderabad: The State Assembly on Monday witnessed pandemonium for a while after Congress MLA Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy made baseless remarks against Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav during the discussion on budget. Rajgopal Reddy faced the ire of Industries and Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao and other Ministers and MLAs, who demanded that the […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said the State government has chalked out plans to promote oil palm cultivation in 20 lakh acres against the Central government’s indicated potential area of 10.90 lakh acres in the State. Under this initiative, the State government signed pacts with 11 companies to take up oil palm area expansion […]

Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet reshuffle is on the cards and it is likely to be taken up after the present budget session of the Assembly. Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy was said to have broached the topic at the Cabinet meeting held to approve the budget here on Friday. He had recalled that at […]

Hyderabad: Apart from the youth in Andhra Pradesh, political party leaders too have appreciated Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s announcement to fill over 91,000 government jobs. Welcoming the Chief Minister’s decision, former Minister JC Diwakar Reddy said it was a historic announcement. “Leave alone State Governments, I don’t think even the Central government would have […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court ordered notices to the Legislative assembly secretariat in connection with the suspension of the three BJP legislators for rest of the session. The matter came up before Justice Shameem Akther on Wednesday. The allegation was that the three BJP legislators T Raja Singh, Eatala Rajender, and M. Raghunandan Rao had […]

Hyderabad: Much to the delight of unemployed youth, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will make a major announcement for their benefit in the State Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. He revealed the same at a public meeting in Wanaparthy on Tuesday. He also sought people’s support in his fight against the divisive forces of the nation […]

Hyderabad: The TRS government, known for its innovative welfare initiatives for various sectors, has come up with a novel scheme for construction workers – motorcycles on subsidy. In the first phase, one lakh beneficiaries would be given motorcycles on subsidy. Guidelines of the scheme would soon be formulated by the government, Finance Minister T Harish […]

Speaker P Srinivas Reddy announced the suspension as they began raising slogans in the House even as the Finance minister T Harish Rao was presenting the State Budget in the House that commenced its session on Monday.

Hyderabad: Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundarajan has given her recommendation for the presentation of annual budget in the Assembly, which is slated to commence its sessions from Monday, according to a press release issued by the Raj Bhavan here on Saturday night. The gubernatorial communique assumed significance as the Telangana legislative assembly sessions would commence without […]

Hyderabad: Less than a week before Telangana introduces its budget for 2022-23 in the Assembly on March 7, the GST revenue in the State presented a promising picture with an impressive 18 per cent growth in 2021-22 at the end of February. The State’s cumulative GST collections stood at Rs 28,987.39 crore as on February […]

A bench headed by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar said the suspension could have only been for a session of the House. It further added that the resolution for suspending the 12 BJP MLAs for a year was illegal and declared it ineffective.

Suryapet: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Saturday made it clear that there was no chance for early elections to the Legislative Assembly in the State. Speaking to the media on the sidelines of an official programme held at Suryapet, Jagadish Reddy said that the TPCC former president N Uttam Kumar Reddy was dreaming about […]