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Warangal: TRS MLA from Narsampet constituency Peddi Sudarshan Reddy has called for a one-day bandh in the Assembly constituency in the district on Saturday (June 18) to register a protest over the killing of Damera Rakesh of Dabeerpura village of the constituency in the police firing at Secunderabad railway station on Friday. Holding the BJP […]

Washington: The US has said it condemns the controversial remarks made by two now-suspended BJP functionaries against Prophet Mohammad and encourages India to promote respect for human rights. The BJP on June 5 suspended its national spokesperson Nupur Sharma and expelled its Delhi media head Naveen Kumar Jindal after their controversial remarks against the Prophet. […]

Deploying bulldozers to target the houses of the accused in criminal cases and political opponents has been a disturbing trend, fraught with communal overtones. The ‘bulldozer justice’, being mastered by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, is a direct assault on the fundamental constitutional rights of citizens. What is appalling is the way the […]

Hyderabad: The BJP appears to have a purifier effect on ‘tainted’ leaders who join the party. How else does one explain the phenomenon of leaders from opposition parties facing serious charges of corruption and financial irregularities suddenly turning up squeaky clean once they join the saffron party? From Himanta Biswa Sarma to Jyotiraditya Scindia, from […]

Hyderabad: The Central government’s ill-thought-out Agnipath scheme for short-term recruitment in the Indian Armed Forces has come under tremendous fire from various sections of the society, including ex-servicemen, doctors, engineers, politicians and members of the BJP too. Voicing extreme concern over what is being described as a disastrous move, they demanded that the BJP government […]

Hyderabad: The meticulously constructed ‘pure as white’ image that Prime Minister Narendra Modi donned for the past eight years seems all set to crumble with several skeletons smacking of favouritism towards the Ambani and Adani Groups tumbling out of the cupboard now. What is striking is that Modi’s foreign jaunts, touted by the ruling BJP […]

Hanamkonda: Scores of BJP activists led by party district president Rao Padma have staged a protest with electronic gadgets like TV, washing machine, fan and others over the steep hike in the power tariff in front of the NPDCL head office at Nakkalagutta here on Wednesday. They have demanded that the power Discoms roll back […]

Suryapet: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Wednesday opined that alternative agenda rather than alternative political parties required for the country in the present context of the situation. Speaking to the media here, Jagadish Reddy said that the people were looking for the alternative agenda and alternative policies in the country. People would build the […]

Hyderabad: The Bowenpally police booked cases against a few persons in connection with trouble that cropped up after a protest in support of now suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on Monday night. Trouble broke out when one person Kanne Prakash of the BJYM and a resident of Alwal along with a group of persons staged […]

Patna: After Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the time has come to rewrite history, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar claimed how could anyone change the history of the country. Shah had earlier said that historians have not pointed out the past incidents and rulers of the country. “Those who wrote the history explained the […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Joint Action Committee has given a call for a ‘Million March’ to protest against the reported anti Prophet comments of now suspended BJP party spokesperson Nupur Sharma. Mohd Mushtaq Malik, convener of the T&AP JAC, said 35 Muslim and other secular organizations would come forward to organize the march […]

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has complete clarity and was heading in the right direction, equipped with a well-researched agenda to prevent the country from falling into a deep abyss of communal politics, said former MP Vundavalli Arun Kumar. He felt that only a handful of Chief Ministers like Mamata Banerjee, Chandrashekhar Rao […]

Hyderabad: Mild tension prevailed at Hasmathpet in Alwal when a group of persons reportedly took out a rally in support of suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on Monday evening. According to the police, around 8 pm, a group of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) workers took out a rally holding posters of ‘We Support Nupur […]

New Delhi: The Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind has moved an application in the Supreme Court seeking to issue directions to the State of Uttar Pradesh that no precipitative action be taken in Kanpur District against the residential or commercial property of any accused in any criminal proceedings as an extra-legal punitive measure. The development came a day […]

Karimnagar: BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar opined that Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was the only alternative to the BJP at the national level. Though people were not interested in the BJP government at the centre, they had to bear the saffron party since there was no other alternative. Even if the […]

By Arun Sinha The Kashmir Files, the film centred on the exodus of Hindus from Jammu & Kashmir at the height of the separatist militancy in the 1990s, drew a picture of the then prevailing environment, which can be encapsulated as follows: one, the Central government was totally indifferent to the slaughter and sufferings of […]

New Delhi: New Delhi is in the grip of hectic political activity ahead of the Presidential election. The ruling BJP is reportedly making moves to rope in at least 15 MPs from Congress to vote for the BJP Presidential candidate. To ensure a good margin, the party is also planning to woo Congress MLAs from […]

Hyderabad: Amid TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s efforts to take the BJP head-on at the national level, NRIs from various countries came together to extend their support in his endeavours. They strongly felt that the nation needs his leadership for qualitative change in national politics. The participants of a video meeting, organised […]

Karimnagar: BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar advised the public to be cautious towards a section of the people who were trying to create conflict between Hindus and Muslims. He also advised the people to maintain restraint towards the political leaders those trying to make politics in the name of religion. Minister made […]

New Delhi: The continuing erosion in the support base of the BJP in national politics is turning into a major cause of concern for the central leadership of the saffron party, particularly Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and this has prompted them to look elsewhere, particularly the newer groups, to fill the yawning gap. In an […]