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Hyderabad: The Central government on Thursday made it clear that the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project was not eligible for inclusion under the National Project (NP) status in the absence of investment clearance. This was stated by the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Bishweswar Tudu in Lok Sabha while replying to a question raised by […]
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Hyderabad: The TRS MPs staged a walkout in Lok Sabha in protest against the Central government’s stubborn stand on the issue pertaining to hike in prices and GST taxes. TRS leader Nama Nageswara Rao insisted on a debate on the issue in Lok Sabha when the four-day parliamentary session began on Thursday. When the Speaker […]
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New Delhi: There were around 9.79 lakh vacant posts in central government departments against the sanctioned strength of 40.35 lakh, as on March 1, 2021, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. According to the annual report of pay research unit of department of expenditure, there were 40,35,203 sanctioned posts under various ministries/departments of the […]
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Hyderabad: TRS MPs on Tuesday staged a protest in Parliament against the rise in prices of essential commodities, GST on food items and inflation besides rising prices of petrol, diesel and LPG cylinder. They staged the demonstration with placards in front of the Gandhi statue on the Parliament premises. Soon after the session began, the […]
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Hyderabad: With Parliament sessions scheduled to commence from Monday, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will be chairing a TRS Parliamentary Party meeting on Saturday afternoon to discuss the strategies to be adopted by the party in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. The Chief Minister is expected to direct the TRS MPs to protest against the […]
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Mumbai: Digging in his heels, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday expressed determination to fight the political crisis gripping his government and took on Cabinet Minister Eknath Shinde, saying the rebel leader’s son is a Lok Sabha MP and should his son Aaditya Thackeray not also grow politically as both sides showed no signs […]
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New Delhi: The process to file nominations for the presidential election began on Wednesday with the Election Commission issuing a notification calling upon the electors to fill the vacancy. The election is scheduled to be held on July 18. The nomination process began on a day when various opposition parties are meeting in Delhi to […]
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New Delhi: Continuing to raise the issue of unemployment, BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Saturday said over 60 lakh sanctioned central and state government posts are vacant in various sectors when joblessness is at its highest level in three decades. The MP from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh Saturday tweeted a chart mentioning government jobs sector-wise. […]
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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’ […]
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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 […]
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Hyderabad: Despite stiff opposition to interlinking of rivers by the TRS government, the Central government on Thursday informed the Lok Sabha that the feasibility reports of eight proposals to link Mahanadi-Godavari, Godavari-Krishna and Krishna-Pennar had been completed. Of the eight proposals, Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of Godavari (Ichampalli) and Krishna (Nagarjunasagar) and Krishna (Nagarjunasagar) – […]
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Hyderabad: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) continued to its tirade against the double standards of the BJP-led union government and demanded for a discussion on categorisation of scheduled castes in the Parliament. The TRS MPs moved an adjournment motion in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Thursday in this regard. After the motions were […]
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While modern technology is an effective tool in criminal investigation, one must not lose sight of the dangers of violating the personal space of individuals and undermining their fundamental rights while using these tools in solving crimes. The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022, introduced in the Lok Sabha recently, breaches the thin line between inviolable […]
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Hyderabad: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Wednesday demanded that the union government take up a nation-wide caste census and revise the reservations for various castes accordingly. The party moved a motion for suspension of rules to discuss caste census in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in this regard, reminding that the BJP government at […]
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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 […]
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Hyderabad: The TRS MPs on Friday staged a walkout from both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha protesting against the Centre’s failure to sanction new Navodaya Schools to Telangana in the last eight years. TRS Parliamentary Party leader K Keshava Rao and Lok Sabha floor leader Nama Nageshwara Rao issued notices of adjournament motion […]
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Hyderabad: For third consecutive day, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi members staged a walkout from Lok Sabha on Thursday after Speaker Om Birla rejected an adjournment motion notice over the employment situation in India. They raised slogans against the Central government for its failure to implement the electoral promise of providing two crore jobs per annum […]
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New Delhi: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MP Nama Nageswar Rao on Thursday moved an adjournment motion notice in the Lok Sabha over the employment situation in India. In his notice, the MP submitted that there are over one million jobs lying vacant “under the control of Central Government”. “Paradoxically, it is against the 2 crore […]
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Hyderabad: Tension prevailed at the BJP State office in Nampally for a while on Wednesday when a large number of tribals came to register their protest against union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Bishweswar Tudu’s statement in Lok Sabha that the Centre did not receive any proposal from Telangana government seeking increase in reservation […]
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Suryapet: Tribal associations took out rallies across the district and burnt effigies symbolising the Centre protesting against statement of the union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Bishweswar Tudu in Lok Sabha saying that the Centre did not receive any proposal from Telangana government seeking an increase in reservation for Schedule Tribes to 12 per […]
