The Election Commission of India today released a notification for conduct of 2014 general elections in Telangana.
The Telangana State has 119 MLA seats and 17 MP seats and the elections will be held on April 30. While it was stated that nominations of candidates were being accepted from April 2 to 9, scrutiny will be held on April 10 and withdrawals of the same will be allowed till April 12. Results will be announced on May 16. (NSS)
The Lions Club of Hyderabad will be hosting a community lunch event on April 4 at 12 noon at Home for Aged, Musheerabad.
The Lions World Lunch Relay is a great opportunity for residents to learn more about the Lions Club of Hyderabad, its work and opportunities to get involved. “We want to share the great things we’re doing in the community, and let others know how they can help”, said Lion Suresh Jagnani, Lions Club president.
Prof. V. Sudarshan, Election Officer, Osmania University Teachers Association (OUTA), has said about 98 per cent of teachers of Osmania University have cast their votes in the OUTA Elections-2014 held today.
OU Vice Chancellor Prof. S. Satyanarayana and Registrar Prof. K. Pratap Reddy exercised their vote at the University College of Science, OU. Counting of votes will be taken up on Thursday at 1 pm in the Office of the Principal, University College of Science, Osmania University, a release stated. (NSS)
Apparently peeved at defections and failure to curb the same despite tall promises by leadership of respective parties, some political parties have adopted wait and watch policy.
AP Munnuru Kapu Maha Sabha has requested YSR Congress Party president Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy to give party tickets to Adam Vijay Kumar from Secunderabad Assembly seat and Seelam Prabhakar for Sanath Nagar Assembly seat.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrasekhara Rao today exuded confidence that his party would form government in the new State by hundred percent after the ensuing general elections.
Prominent sports journalist and analyst Revelli Narendar died in KIMS hospital on Wednesday morning following brief illness. He was 49.
Narendar belonging to Ragampet under Choppadandi mandal of Karimnagar district started his journalistic career in 1986 by joining a daily “Jeeva Gadda” published from Karimnagar. Later, he moved to Hyderabad and worked in various newspapers and TV channels. Narendar’s wife Usha is also a journalist.
BJP is likely to stich an alliance with TDP in Andhra Pradesh and talks between the two are in the final stages.
Sources said while BJP is likely to get a total of 13 Lok Sabha seats out of a total of 42 in the state, it will also get around 55 Assembly seats as part of the alliance.
“The talks with TDP are in the final stages and the discussions have been good,” BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
Javadekar, who is also in charge of party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, equated alliances with marriages which involve long negotiations.
Gujarat High Court Wednesday rejected suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma’s plea seeking direction to lodge FIR against Chief Minister Narendra Modi in a case of alleged snooping of a woman by former state Home Minister Amit Shah on behest of one ‘Saheb’.
Justice G R Udhvani, while rejecting the plea, observed that there are alternative remedies available and asked him to approach the magisterial court.
The court said that the petition is not maintainable under Article 226.
Article 226 contains the provision for filing a petition before the Gujarat High Court.
AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday vowed to defeat BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Varanasi and denied speculation that he might join the BJP.
Addressing impromptu meetings in east Delhi in support of AAP candidate Rajmohan Gandhi, Kejriwal launched a vicious attack on both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress.
“If my aim was to reach Parliament, then I would have fought the Lok Sabha election from a safe seat,” the former Delhi chief minister thundered from atop an open vehicle.
Rubbishing the latest poll survey which was carried out by a national media house, YSR Congress said it has no sanctity and it seems to be conducted only to project TDP though a magnifying glass without going into the ground realities.
“The size of the sample shows that the survey carried out by CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS has taken a very small size and has taken up the exercise only to project TDP and Chandrababu Naidu. The credibility of the channel is at stake as the survey has many loopholes,” party senior leader Dr MV Mysoora Reddy told reporters here on Wednesday.
The COVA and Koshish Theatre Group are organising a free one month summer theatre training camp from 1st May for children and youth between 10 and 35 years.
Selected candidates will continue to receive free theatre training twice a week throughout the year by Dr. Gopi Krishna, Doctorate in Theatre Arts and other experts. Koshish was started 14 years back by COVA and members of the group have performed hundreds of plays on social issues in Hyderabad and other cities of India winning national awards.
Targeting Rahul Gandhi over his party’s alliance with fodder case convict and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked if the Congress Vice President plans to guard the country’s resources by allying with leaders accused in scams.
Referring to Gandhi, he said the “shehzade” had said that the country needs its 1.25 crore people to act as watchmen guarding its resources but he was himself relying on tainted leaders.
The Central Crime Station of Hyderabad City Police has issued an FIR against Mohammad Faisal Ali Shah, the suspended Mutawalli of Dargah Yousufain, on the charges of financial irregularities.
The FIR has been issued based on a complaint lodged by the Andhra Pradesh State Wakf Board. The FIR has been issued under the Sections 406, 403 and 420 of Indian Penal Code and and Sections 61 (2)(A)(1) and Sections 101 of Central Wakf Act, 1995.
Experienced Pakistan all-rounder Abdul Razzaq has called for the axing of Mohammad Hafeez as the national T20 captain and said he was to blame for the team’s disastrous exit from the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.
Mincing no words, Razzaq said Hafeez should be removed as captain as he had pursued a policy of personal likes and dislikes while selecting the team with the national selectors remaining silent spectators.
Slamming his estranged cousin and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray today said it was Uddhav who had felt the need to forge an alliance with him.
“I was not waiting for his call. I never expressed need. You (Uddhav) showed the necessity. When BJP leaders come to meet me, you criticise them through your newspaper. Why should we tolerate this?” Raj said, addressing a campaign rally for his party’s candidate from Kalyan-Dombivli Lok Sabha constituency, Raju Patil, this evening.
India today defeated traditional rivals Pakistan by six runs in a low-scoring but close qualification play-off match of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 here to secure a direct ticket in the 2016 edition of the tournament.
By virtue of this win, India finished joint fifth along with New Zealand in the tournament. Earlier in the day, the Kiwis eased to six-wicket win over Sri Lanka in another qualification play-off here.
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha today said his son Jayant got the party ticket to contest from the Hazaribagh LS constituency on his “own merit”, amidst opponents accusing him of promoting dynasty politics.
“Only after I declined to contest and suggested to give the ticket to younger generation, BJP president Rajnath Singh asked me to allow my son Jayant to take my place, to which I agreed,” Sinha said at a press conference here.
Two bombs targeting security posts near Cairo University exploded in quick succession today killing a police general, followed by a third blast as police and journalists gathered at the scene.
Witnesses said the blasts sent up a cloud of smoke and dust near the campus, the scene of repeated clashes in the past few months between Islamist students and police.
The third bomb struck close to the main gates, where police investigators and journalists had gathered, causing no casualties.
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A complaint was filed before the Election Commission today, seeking action against forest officials alleging breach of the Model Code of Conduct, after they accompanied cricketer Sachin Tendulkar during his recent visit to the Gir lion sanctuary in Gujarat.
The Right to Information (RTI) Activists’ Association of Junagadh lodged a complaint before the state Election Commissioner today seeking action against officers who accompanied Tendulkar on March 22.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday made a strong appeal to minorities ahead of general election, pitching to help nurture the cause of secularism and met Muslim delegation led by Delhi”s Jama Masjid Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari The meeting with Bukhari was the first direct one between the hereditary cleric of one of Delhi”s important mosques and the party in 30 years. In the 80s, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had sought similar support from Bukhari”s father Syed Abdullah Bukhari, who was a staunch Congress supporter.
The Election Commission of India has asked the Gujarat Energy and Petroleum Minister Saurabh Patel to disclose his relationship with the Ambani family.
The EC has asked Saurabh Patel to do so, in connection with his complaint against Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, who had accused him of favouring Reliance, being the “son-in-law of the Ambani family”.
“We have asked him to disclose his relationship with the Ambani family,” Special Chief Election Officer of the Gujarat state Ashwin Kumar told PTI.
Describing BJP’s Delhi-specific manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections as a bundle of lies, Congress in the national capital today dismissed it as a “document of betrayal”.
“Promising full statehood for Delhi is nothing new to the BJP and it is trying to mislead the Delhi’s people through its election manifesto,” Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh told a press conference.