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By Amitava Mukherjee The Congress is now going through a customary charade. As it happens after every other election, a group of senior Congress leaders has voiced its despondency at the miserable performance of the party at the recently concluded State elections. This is not the first time that the leaders feel ‘pangs of conscience’ […]

Hyderabad: TRS MPs staged a walkout from Lok Sabha on Tuesday after Speaker Om Birla failed to respond to their pleas for discussion on paddy procurement from Telangana State. Earlier, the MPs along with other Opposition members disrupted the proceedings in the Lower House with their vocal protests on the hike in fuel prices, paddy […]

New Delhi: Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi while addressing the parliamentary party on Tuesday said that the revival of the party is essential for democracy and the results of elections were “shocking” and “painful”. In her address she said, “Our dedication and determination, our spirit of resilience is under severe test. Unity at all levels […]

Hyderabad: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi held a marathon meeting with Telangana Congress leaders in New Delhi on Monday evening and discussed a host of issues, including current political situation and preparations for the next Assembly elections in the State. Senior Congress leaders, including Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Sanga Reddy MLA T Jagga Reddy, […]

Hyderabad: Countering opposition parties remarks on TRS Government’s failure in curbing drug menace in the city, Government Whip Balka Suman said among those detained during the raids at Radisson Blu, majority were relatives of BJP and Congress party leaders. “In fact, the pub is being operated by a BJP leader who contested as an MLA […]

Hyderabad: Former IPS officer Gongi Reddy Raghava Reddy, who belonged to the last batch of the erstwhile Hyderabad Police Service, breathed his last on Monday. He was 94. Reddy, who passed away at AIG Hospital at 5.15 pm on Monday while undergoing treatment, is survived by two daughters and a son. According to relatives, he […]

By Arun Sinha The Congress is not a sinking ship. It is a ship trapped in a fierce storm. It is taking severe beatings but it is not ripped apart yet and it is not going down below the surface. It is like a battered Air India waiting for a Tata to take it out […]

Hyderabad: Women and Child Welfare Minister Satyavathi Rathod lashed out at the Opposition parties for a well-planned and malicious campaign against the K Chandrashekhar Rao government in Telangana through misleading statements in Parliament. She clarified that the State government was supplying fortified rice and also wheat to all the Anganwadi centres in Telangana. She was […]

Amaravati: The Telugu Desam Party Members of Parliament refusing to sign the memorandum submitted to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking withdrawal of the decision to privatise Visakhapatnamj steel plant, which came as a shock to the Opposition parties which were fighting the issue for over a year. The YSR Congress Party Rajya Sabha member […]

By Arun Sinha Ramchandra Guha, one of our most highly respected historians and political commentators, recently suggested that Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi “quit politics immediately” in order to save the Congress and democracy. Although many other political commentators have come to seriously question the vote-catching ability of the three Gandhis, Guha has […]

Hyderabad: The Railways is carrying out a total 16 projects (nine new lines and seven doubling) costing Rs 31,281 crore for 2,495 km length falling fully/partly in Telangana which are under different stages of planning/ approval/ execution. Of this, 155 km length of nine new line projects at a cost of Rs 3,338 crore and […]

Hyderabad: TRS working president and Minister KT Rama Rao found fault with Congress former president Rahul Gandhi over the latter’s remarks on the ongoing paddy procurement issue, terming that he was clearly misinformed and misguided on ground realities. Rahul Gandhi criticised both the TRS and BJP governments for politicising the issue. In a series of […]

Hyderabad: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s uninformed comments on the contentious paddy procurement issue on Tuesday triggered a war of words between the TRS and Congress leaders in social media platforms, with the pink party castigating the MP for not taking a stand on the crucial ‘One Nation, One Procurement’ policy sought by Chief Minister K […]

Khammam: Protests by Left and other political parties continued in erstwhile Khammam district on the second on Tuesday as part of the two-day nationwide strike. A massive protest rally was taken out by trade unions of the Left, TRS, Congress and other parties and a human chain was formed at ZP centre in Khammam. Municipal […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday announced a three-phased campaign, “Mehngai-mukt Bharat Abhiyaan”, against price rise under which it will organise rallies and marches across the country from March 31 to April 7. Congress general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala told a press conference here that in the first phase of the campaign, Congress […]

Hyderabad: The simmering differences among State Congress leaders peaked on Tuesday with Sangareddy MLA T Jagga Reddy, who was stripped of the posts he held, hit back saying his fight was with TPCC president A Revanth Reddy and not with the party. “My personal image is being tarnished deliberately in social media. I want to […]

Hyderabad: Several BJP-ruled States in the country took more loans than Telangana, contrary to the allegations leveled by the local BJP and Congress leaders in the State. The statement of the union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary’s in Lok Sabha on Monday was apparently unpalatable for the opposition parties leaders, as it laid […]

Hyderabad: Congress MLA T Jagga Reddy on Sunday said Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A Revanth Reddy spoiled the party. “He (Revanth Reddy) is not playing a fair game. He is going on his personal lines,” Jagga Reddy said. Interacting with media persons after a meeting with senior party leaders in a hotel here, […]

Aurangabad: Suggesting an alliance with ruling Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress in Maharashtra, AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel has said that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) can become a “comfortable car” from the three-wheeled autorickshaw which can prevent the BJP from coming to power. Jaleel’s overture was rejected by the Uddhav Thackeray-led party while BJP took […]

Bengaluru (Karnataka): Stating that Congress is a perennial party and is deeply rooted in the minds of people, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Friday said that that the Congressmen should change their attitude in order to bring it back to power in the country. The statement from Moily came after the dissident leaders […]