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18 injured in accident near Firozabad on Agra-Lucknow Expressway after bus driver falls asleep
A total of 18 people were injured in a road accident after a bus went off the road and fell into a gorge near Firozabad on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway. The bus driver reportedly fell asleep at around 1 am, which resulted in the accident. → Read More
AIADMK row: Is it game, set and match to Palaniswami in the feud with Panneerselvam?
Former chief minister O Panneerselvam was expelled from AIADMK. Read on to find out more about the political developments in Tamil Nadu. → Read More
DMK’s chaiwala moment? How A Raja gave momentum to EPS’s ‘farmer’s son’ narrative against Stalin
In an election that has been touted as DMK's, the danger of Raja turning out to be the Mani Shankar Aiyar of the party loomed large. → Read More
To neutralise Congress and BJP, KCR chooses PV Narasimha Rao's kin for crucial election in Telangana
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti has picked former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao's daughter Vani Devi for the electoral contest in the Hyderabad-RangaReddy-Mahbubnagar Graduates constituency. Here's how it helps KCR hit several birds with one stone. → Read More
With Covid-19 playing villain, Rajinikanth decides against a political call sheet
Superstar Rajinikanth has finally ended the mystery over his political foray. The star has decided against it after a “warning from God”. Did the actor miss his calling or skip a major failure? TS Sudhir comments. → Read More
A tale of two campaigns in Hyderabad municipal polls. Did TRS err in ignoring BJP’s threat?
Recently, KT Rama Rao, the working president of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), mocked the BJP for its 'polarising' campaign, that has talked about 'a surgical strike on the Old city of Hyderabad'. But is the past coming back to bite the TRS? → Read More
A win for badminton: Pullela Gopichand, Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu biopics in the making
In the wake of several successes on the badminton court for India post the Rio Olympics in 2016, the film industry evinced interest in producing biopics on the life and times of the three of the sport’s biggest Indian names – Pullela Gopichand, Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu. But in spite of basic content on Gopichand and Saina available in the form of biographies, it took time to → Read More
Warnings, standard procedures ignored: Could TDP MLA, ex-MLA murders have been averted?
On 21 September 2004, the formation of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) by the merger of the People's War with the Maoist Communist Centre of India, was followed by the failure of peace talks with then Andhra Pradesh government led by YS Rajasekhara Reddy. By 2006, Andhra's elite anti-Maoist force, the Greyhounds, forced the outlaws to beat a retreat, giving up their → Read More
Gattaiah may have died for TRS leader, but he was a mere pawn in Telangana’s politics
Regunta Gattaiah died on Wednesday; his fight against his burn injuries lasting exactly a week. The pawn was sacrificed in his king's bid to win the electoral battle in Telangana. On 12 September, Gattaiah, a close follower of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) MLA from Chennur in Mancherial district, Nallala Odelu, attempted self-immolation and also tried to set on fire the TRS → Read More
This day, that year: How Hyderabad became a part of the union of India
September 17 marks seventy years of Hyderabad's union with India. It was on this day in 1948, thirteen months after India gained independence that the state of Hyderabad ruled by Mir Osman Ali Khan, the seventh Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty, surrendered to the Indian forces. But in the run-up to D-day, India and Hyderabad were engaged in a game of wits, both sides expecting → Read More
Who is responsible for the deaths of 57 people in the Telangana bus tragedy?
Just last Sunday, footage of a public transport bus in Telangana that was turned into a ‘mobile bar’ for activists of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) went viral. The TRS cadre, that was being ferried to the public meeting on the outskirts of Hyderabad, was consuming alcohol inside the bus. On 2 September, the party had booked 7,300 of the 12,000-odd buses in Telangana, → Read More
As KCR races ahead with Telangana polls, can Congress catch up?
On Friday morning, a list of 60 Congress candidates for elections to the Telangana Assembly started doing the rounds. Most of the names were known leaders who had represented those constituencies in the past. Among them was KR Suresh Reddy from Armoor constituency in Nizamabad district. → Read More
Why Telangana CM KCR may prefer early assembly polls in state
IAS officers, IPS officers, DSPs, Inspectors. In the last week, Government of Telangana has become the ‘Government of Transfers’, issuing orders by the dozen. With the zonal system for recruitments approved by the President of India, locals will get 95 per cent of government jobs in Telangana. Add to this, sops have been announced for just about every community in the state, → Read More
Karunanidhi's death will officially witness a son-rise in DMK – MK Stalin
Thalapathy will now have to take over charge full-time without having the comfort of his father's counsel to fall back on. → Read More
In lynching a techie on suspicion of child lifting, there’s blood on Bidar’s hands
In the beastly manner that it treated a group of people who visited them, Bidar was Hapur revisited. Mohammed Azam, the 32-year-old software engineer who worked in Hyderabad, was dragged away by a mob on Friday evening, his right hand tied with a rope, his face to the ground. This, even as the mob hit him. Seriously injured, this was minutes before the techie succumbed to his → Read More
‘You’re not doing what is expected of you’: What Amit Shah told his cadre in Telangana
“We can come to power in Telangana in 2019. After all, we have RSS shakhas in 2000 villages in the state,” said Murali Manohar, former ABVP president at the RSS Parivaar baithak, organised in Hyderabad on Friday with Amit Shah in the chair. Forty seven representatives of all the front organisations of the extended Sangh parivar were present to brief the BJP president about the → Read More
Kiran Kumar Reddy returns to Congress: Is this a chessboard move for 2019?
In 2014, when Kiran Kumar Reddy quit the Congress party to launch his Jai Samaikhyandhra party, he displayed a souvenir that he claimed was from the Berlin Wall. ``If the Berlin Wall that divided the two countries could fall, Andhra Pradesh can be united again,'' said Reddy at that press conference. Four years later, the only wall that has fallen is the one between Reddy and the Congress. → Read More
Child kidnapping in Hyd an isolated case, shouldn’t be used to fuel further fears
On Sunday, Vijaya who had given birth to a baby girl on June 27, had returned to Hyderabad's premier Government Maternity Hospital in Sultan Bazaar from her village in neighbouring Ranga Reddy district, to get the newborn vaccinated. When her husband had gone to get their Aadhaar cards photocopied, a woman approached Vijaya, offering to take the child for vaccination. Assuming she was a hospital… → Read More
The politics of steel: In the tussle between AP and Centre, Kadapa plant is losing out
On June 20, Rajya Sabha MP of the Telugu Desam Party CM Ramesh and MLC from Kadapa district Ravi sat on a fast-unto-death demanding that the promise to consider setting up a steel plant in Kadapa, made in the AP Reorganisation Act 2014, be honoured. After Ravi's health condition deteriorated, he was shifted to a hospital, but, till Friday noon, a weak Ramesh was still at it. → Read More
'Is she flexible?': How an Indian couple operated a Tollywood sex racket in USA
"Is she flexible?" That was the question posed to the manager of a young Telugu actress sometime last year. On the plate was a trip to the USA, where the actress was expected to be part of an event organised by the Telugu Association of a city in the Midwestern part of the USA, close to the Canada border. The manager's antennae shot up and she made it clear that the question annoyed her. The… → Read More