A day after Congress MLA Ramesh Kumar from Chintalapudi joining the YSR Congress party, TDP MLA Praveen Kumar Reddy, representing Tamballapalli constituency in Chittoor district, has made his intentions clear that he might join the YSR Congress party.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhara Rao met suspended TDP MLA Harishwar Reddy at latter’s residence in Old MLA Quarters here on Tuesday.
At least 16 people were killed and over six million people faced power outages amid gale-force winds as superstorm Sandy slammed into the US’ East Coast, triggering a long night of misery and causing damage worth billions of dollars.
The situation in one of the world’s most advanced cities New York became so desperate that nurses in at least one hospital manually pumped respirators to keep patients alive. Dramatic scenes were witnessed as the tragedy unfolded.
Hyderabad, October 30 (INN): The Civil Services Examination Coaching Academy of Maulana Azad National Urdu University will conduct the interviews for the Integrated Extensive Coaching Programme – 2013 on November 5.
The interviews will be held in Academy’s Office on 1st Floor, ITI Building, at MANUU Campus in Gachibowli between 10.30 am and 1.30 pm. The short listed candidates have been asked to attend the interview with their Hall Tickets and Certificates for verification.
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There are indications that Telangana Nagara chief and MLA Nagam Janardana Reddy and his group might join the TRS soon.
Nagam who has come out of TDP protesting against its chief Chandra Babu Naidu’s non-committal stand on Telangana has been continuing to fight for Telangana under his banner Telangana Nagara Samiti. TDP MLAs Hariswar Reddy and Venugopalachary have also quit the party and were with Nagam since then.
After quitting TDP, Nagam has also resigned to the Assembly and got re-elected as an independent member.
YSR Congress leader Sharmila continued her tirade against the TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu as she entered Raptadu constituency from where Paritala Sunita has been elected to the Assembly, on Tuesday afternoon.
Sharmila has also criticized the Congress for joining hands with the TDP as it was unable to face her party. Alleging that Babu had no interest on people’s problems, Sharmila said if he had, he would have definitely moved a no-confidence motion against the Congress government. She said the very fact that he was not moving that motion
Hyderabad, Oct.30 (NSS): Telugu Bhashodyama Samakya Telangana Region secretary Aruvarangam Prabhakar has demanded the State government to set up a special Ministry and also constitute an Authority for developing and protecting Telugu language and implementing Telugu as the state official language.
The BJP’s mouthpiece Kamal Sandesh Tuesday said India Against Corruption (IAC) activist Arvind Kejriwal is “digging holes in democracy with foreign funds”.
The editorial in the latest issue of Kamal Sandesh said: “One who could not remain loyal to Anna, how can he be loyal to the nation? He (Kejriwal) is digging holes in democracy with foreign funds.”
It also hit out at Kejriwal over his attack on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari, saying that Kejriwal had “distorted” information provided by the party leader.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has conducted a review by phone with Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy and DGP Dinesh Reddy on the situation in old city where tension prevailed yesterday.
Clashes between two community groups took place in the old city during Bakrid festival. Home Minister has explained to the chief minister that heavy police force has been deployed at sensitive areas as violence took place at Kulsumpura, Meerchowk,Sabzimandi, Ziaguda areas due to rumors.
The TDP has suspended MLA Praveen Kumar Reddy of Tamballapalli constituency in Chittoor district, after he reportedly met the YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in the Chanchalguda jail.
The party said in a release here Tuesday that the action was taken against the MLA for anti-party activities.
After skipping poll campaign in Himachal Pradesh, BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday cancelled his meeting in New Delhi with Karnataka leaders and asked the party leadership to handle the political situation in the state where B S Yeddyurappa is adamant on forming his own party.
A statement issued by the BJP on Tuesday said Mr. Gadkari has authorised Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley and General Secretary in-charge of Karnataka Dharmendra Pradhan to meet the state leaders from the southern state to discuss the challenge posed by dissident leader B S Yeddyurappa.
The rift between NDA allies Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in Bihar, over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s projection as the alliance’s prime ministerial candidate, again surfaced Tuesday.
Soon after state BJP president C.P. Thakur told newspersons here Tuesday that Modi will be the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) if he won the forthcoming assembly elections in Gujarat, JD-U leaders expressed their strong reservation against this projection of Modi and even threatened to snap ties with the BJP.
Fifty-five village panchayats will hop-on the information super highway in the next few weeks as part of an ambitious UPA-II initiative to connect 2.5 lakh local government bodies through broadband.
This was disclosed by Sam Pitroda, Advisor to Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations at a conference — ‘Decade of Innovation: India @ Year 2’ — organised here by the Department of Science and Technology and CII.
Less than a week after BJP president Nitin Gadkari’s name surfaced in an alleged wrongdoing in his business, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Tuesday accused his party of inaction against its corrupt leaders.
Without naming Gadkari, Gandhi, addressing an election rally here – her second in the state – said: “No other party has fought corruption as we have. The people against whom we had evidence we took action. I want to ask the BJP what action has it taken against its own leaders who are accused of graft?”
Pesky calls and messages are a menace not only for common people but also for Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, who said that he too is a victim of the unsolicited communications and has discussed these issues with telecom regulator.
“Trai is taking it up (pesky calls/SMSes issue). I also face lot of problem. Every two minutes I get such SMS,” Sibal told reporters at the Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit here.
“People…Used international servers (to send such SMSes), but that also has been stopped. I met Trai Chairman. He will ensure that this is not going to happen anymore,” he said.
The much-delayed Kudankulam nuclear power project is expected to become operational shortly, Ratan Kumar Sinha, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission said on Tuesday.
“The work on the construction of the first of the two 1000 MW Light Water Reactors (LWRs) at Kudankulam is complete,” Sinha said addressing a function in Mumbai to commemorate the 103rd birth anniversary of Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the founder of India’s nuclear programme.
“The operation of unit-1 is expected to commence shortly and the commissioning of the second unit is expected to follow early next year,” he said.
With 36 new cases reported Tuesday alone, the resurgent dengue in the national capital is inching towards the 1,000 cases mark. The total of patients reported this season now stands at 985, official data revealed.
Of 36 new cases, 10 were reported each from the East Delhi Municipal Corporation and the North Delhi Municipal Corporation areas, while the remaining 16 occurred in the South Delhi Municipal Corporation area, the data showed.
Since dengue hit the capital this year, South Delhi Municipal Corporation continues to top the list with 371 cases so far this year from areas under it.
JD-U on Tuesday attacked criticised the shifting of S Jaipal Reddy from Petroleum to Science and Technology Ministry in the Cabinet reshuffle alleging that he was “punished” to “appease” industrial giant Reliance.
“I am totally perturbed that during our life time we would see such period when a corporate house like Reliance becomes even more powerful than Government.
“An honest minister like Jaipal Reddy has been punished for protecting national interest,” party President Sharad Yadav told reporters.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said here Monday that his relationship with filmmaker Yash Chopra was much beyond films and that of late he was more like a father figure to him.
“Yash ji and I used to talk about life. I had a relationship with him which was beyond films and more than films. We never sat down and discussed much about the film,” he said at a promotional event for their upcoming film “Jab Tak Hai Jaan”.
The love story stars Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif and was Yash Chopra’s last film. The filmmaker passed away Oct 21 after being diagnosed with dengue.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) to examine and make recommendations on all issues likely to be raised by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the sharing of Cauvery water at the panel’s scheduled meeting on Wednesday.
“We hereby direct CMC to examine all issues as may be raised on behalf of the states and make recommendations,” a bench comprising Justices D.K. Jain and J.S. Khehar said.
The bench said both the states shall comply with all the recommendations made by the CMC in letter and spirit.
Within hours of RBI slashing the cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 0.25 per cent, SBI on Tuesday hinted at a likely reduction in lending rates soon.
“Our bank, it’s for Alco (asset liability committee) to take a view. But we would prefer a more secular rate cut with the adjustment in the base rate because we have almost (done) rebalancing of the portfolio… but it is for Alco to take a final view,” SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said.
“I think our Alco would meet in a day or two,” he said.
Manoj Tiwary led a fine batting display by India A, who were 369 for nine at stumps on day one of their practice match against England XI at the Brabourne Stadium on Tuesday.
Tiwary (93) top-scored for the home team with other substantial contributions coming from Abhinav Mukund (73), Yuvraj Singh (59) and Irfan Pathan (46).
Fast bowlers R. Vinay Kumar (25) and Parvinder Awana (11) were batting at close of the play. India A scored at an impressive 4.10 runs per over.
The old city of Hyderabad was tense Tuesday, a day after communal clashes over flags being burnt left 10 people injured.
There was no untoward incident since Tuesday morning, a police official said, adding that 17 people were arrested for the violence that broke out late Monday in Kulsumpura area of the city.
The violence, which broke out after unidentified people set ablaze religiously significant flags, resulted in 10 people, including three policemen, being injured. Five shops were also set ablaze. An assistant commissioner of police was among those injured.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed anguish over tardy progress in cleaning of river Yamuna and appointed an expert committee to find out what has been achieved in the last 18 years by governments of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana after spending thousands of crores of rupees for the purpose.
“This marks a new beginning and let’s not look back in the rear view mirror,” was the message conveyed by chief of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia in her meetings with the top leadership here, signalling a change in BNP’s anti-India stance.
Zia, who arrived on Sunday for a week-long visit at the invitation of the External Affairs Ministry, was the first foreign dignitary to meet newly-appointed Salman Khurshid as External Affairs Minister and hold talks on a range of key bilateral issues, including activities of insurgent groups, Teesta water sharing and border mangement.