New Delhi: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging her arrest in a money-laundering case related to the Delhi excise policy irregularities matter. Kavitha was arrested by the ED team on Friday in Hydrabad and was later brought to Delhi. Kavitha was arrested after a day-long questioning followed … Read more
New Delhi: The Rouse Avenue court in Delhi Saturday remanded K. Kavitha — a Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC and daughter of former Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao — to seven days of Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody in the Delhi excise policy case. The federal probe agency arrested Kavitha from her residence in Hyderabad … Read more
Hyderabad: At a time when the Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) are slugging it out over the looks of Telangana thalli (a symbolic mother goddess for the people of the state), chief minister Revanth Reddy has laid the foundation stone for former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s statue in front of the state secretariat — … Read more
According to the paper, which reviews the governance of the crucial electricity sector during the nine-and-a-half years of BRS governance in the state, the financial health of the power sector in Telangana was “precarious” and a “matter of grave concern”. “Of the total debt, Rs 30,406 crore was borrowed as working capital primarily to pay … Read more
Hyderabad: K. Kavitha, the daughter of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), has praised the Ayodhya Ram Mandir consecration on social media as “a blessed event that will fulfill the wishes of millions of Hindus”— a post that has has created a buzz in Telangana political circles. “Subha parinaamam (propitious outcome). The … Read more
New Delhi: Exit polls released Thursday evening are keeping the BJP ahead in Rajasthan and the Congress in Telangana and Chhattisgarh, while Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram are too close to call. It should be mentioned here that exit polls, conducted after voters have cast their ballots, are not definitive and have gone horribly wrong before. … Read more
Hyderabad: On Monday, after darshan at Tirupati in the morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in a mega road show in Hyderabad in the evening. The 2.5km procession went from the RTC cross-roads to the statue of V.D. Savarkar in Kachiguda, and was joined by some of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates for the … Read more
Hyderabad: At around lunchtime Monday, Anuj Gurwara, a professional who dons many hats in the media industry, put out a video message in which he likened the city of Hyderabad to its signature dish, biryani. In the three-minute video, Gurwara used the complex process of making biryani as a metaphor to explain how so many … Read more
Hyderabad/Warangal: Siva Prasad, 21, bristles at Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief K. Chandrashekar Rao’s promise of increasing monthly old-age pensions from Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 if the Telangana electorate gives the chief minister a third consecutive term. “This CM, who denies jobs to the youth, wants to hike pensions for our elders. Who needs … Read more
On a Congress poll campaign vehicle circling Vangara’s streets — blaring songs beseeching voters to “choose maarpu (a change) this time” — a small image of PV’s face, alongside those of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi as well as Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, is tucked away in a corner of the banner that has Sonia Gandhi’s life-size … Read more