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Chandigarh: In less than 24 hours after his security was withdrawn by the government, singer-turned-actor-politician Sidhu Moosewala was shot dead by gangsters close to his ancestral village in Mansa in Punjab, police said. He was 27 years old. He was travelling in his vehicle when the assailants fired at the singer and his two friends. […]

Suryapet: Nalgonda MP and senior Congress leader N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday urged Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao to clear the pending bills of Palle Pragathi programme before launching of its fifth phase on June 3. Speaking at Rachhabanda programme held at Mattampally in the district, Uttam Kumar Reddy said that hundreds of crores […]

Hyderabad: A few State Congress leaders raised objections and differed with TPCC president A Revanth Reddy’s remarks that Reddy community members were more competent as leaders over other castes. AICC Programme Implementation Committee Chairman A Maheshwar Reddy on Tuesday said there were no differences between Reddy and Velama communities. “TPCC president Revanth Reddy remarks that […]

Hyderabad: Telangana’s demand for caste-based census has just got strengthened with Bihar joining the chorus. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday initiated efforts to hold an all-party meeting on caste-based census, which has become a highly emotive issue in the State. Telangana was probably the first State to have the Assembly pass a resolution […]

Nalgonda: Congress senior leader V Hanumantha Rao on Monday said that he would bring the comments of TPCC president A Revanth Reddy praising a caste to the notice of the party high command. Participating in Rachhabanda of the Congress held at Kondamadugu of Bibinagar mandal, Hanumanth Rao said that Revanth Reddy made such comments in […]

New Delhi: Congress on Monday appointed Sarat Pattanayak as its new Odisha unit President, replacing Niranjan Pattnaik who resigned from the post after the party’s poll debacle. In the state, the Congress has been decimated since the Biju Janata Dal came to power and has been ruling the state for more thsn two decades, while […]

Hyderabad: Telangana Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Sunday accused the BJP-led central government of only “cheating” in the name of price reduction on fuel and demanded it to bring the cess on petrol and diesel to the level prevailing in 2014. All claims of reduction (tax cut on fuel by the Centre) is humbug […]

New Delhi: A day after the reduction in excise duty on petrol and diesel, the Congress on Sunday said that the step was a political gimmick and not relief to people, as it was like ‘three steps forward and two steps back’. Addressing a press conference here, Congress spokesperson Gaurav Vallabh said that the BJP […]

Hyderabad: Countering the opposition parties criticism over Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s national tour, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy demanded implementation of Telangana’s welfare and development programmes in the BJP and Congress ruled States. Opposition parties should desist from petty politics. The Telangana Government has so far extended Rythu Bima benefits to 80,755 families, the […]

Hyderabad: The State unit of Congress on Friday found fault with Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s national tour and demanded that he address the alleged issues faced by farmers in the State. AICC spokesperson Dasoju Sravan on Friday accused the Chief Minister of going on a national tour only to derive political mileage at the […]

Mancherial: Former Chennur MLA Nallala Odelu and his wife Bhagyalaxmi who is also the ZP chairperson shifted their loyalties to the Congress party. The couple and their sons joined the party in presence of the party leader Priyanka Gandhi in New Delhi on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, Odelu alleged that he was humiliated and […]

Hyderabad: TRS MLC K Kavitha on Wednesday slammed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for his remarks against regional parties, stating that the Congress would end up being a ‘tail party’ in the country while regional parties would take the lead. Taking a swipe at the Congress over its recent discussion on the revival of the party, […]

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Congress Committee working president Hardik Patel, who recently expressed discontentment with the state party leadership, on Wednesday resigned from Congress. Taking to Twitter, Patel said, “Today I took the courage to resign from the post (Gujarat Congress Committee working president) and primary membership of the Congress Party. I am sure that my decision […]

By Arun Sinha Prashant Kishor, who won great fame as an election strategist in the past eight years, has sprung a surprise on the nation: he would no longer be an election strategist but a ‘political activist’. That is a significant turn in his career, but whether that will mark a significant turn in Indian […]

Hyderabad: The State Congress unit has decided to propagate the party’s Warangal Declaration extensively across the State, besides conducting Racchabanda programmes from May 21 to June 21. The assurances made under Warangal declaration will be promoted among people by setting up flexies and distributing pamphlets across the State. These flexis would be set up IKP […]

Kohima: The opposition Congress in Nagaland on Wednesday demanded ballot paper voting system in the Assembly polls, slated for early next year, replacing the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), as, according to it, these had been proven several times to be tampered. Nagaland Congress President K.Therie said that the EVMs can be “reset”. “EVMs […]

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Pandit Sukh Ram passed away on Wednesday. He was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he suffered a brain stroke. “He was admitted to AIIMS and was undergoing treatment for the brain stroke,” his son Anil Sharma told ANI. His grandson Aashray […]

Hyderabad: Narayanpet District Congress chief K Shivakumar Reddy was booked by the Punjagutta police on charges of raping a woman on the pretext of marriage. According to the police, Shivakumar met the victim in 2020 and expressed his intention to marry her. When the woman questioned him on his previous marriage, Shiva Kumar convinced her […]

Bhupalpally: Launching a scathing attack on Congress and BJP for their ‘unfounded allegations’ on the TRS government, Health Minister Harish Rao said that the people of Telangana were clever and they would not be carried away by the false propaganda. He said that the newly created Telangana State had witnessed unprecedented and astounding development in […]

New Delhi: A day after the price of Liquefied petroleum gas cylinder was hiked by Rs 50, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday compared LPG prices between the UPA tenure and the present BJP government at the Centre. The hike in the LPG prices has attracted criticism across the Opposition parties with the Trinamool Congress […]