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
Hyderabad: Anumula Revanth Reddy on Thursday took oath as Chief Minister of Telangana, becoming the first Congress CM of the youngest state in India. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan administered the oath of office to him at the the sprawling Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium in Hyderabad. Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu also took oath as the Deputy CM of … Read more
Hyderabad: “My life’s sole objective, from now on, is dislodging KCR from power,” roared Anumula Revanth Reddy in a road show in Hyderabad in July 2015, after the Telangana High Court granted bail release from the Cherlapally jail on the outskirts. It took him eight years and five months, and a change in political affiliation, … Read more
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) increased its seat count in Telangana to eight but the state party chief, G. Kishan Reddy, decided to make a 116 km journey from Hyderabad to Kamareddy constituency to congratulate Katipally Venkata Ramana Reddy. And with very good reason. Ramana Reddy, 54, just defeated the outgoing chief minister K.Chandrashekar … Read more
Hyderabad: Telangana Congress chief and Malkajgiri MP Revanth Reddy won the Kodangal assembly seat by over 32,500 but lost Kamareddy — the second seat he contested — to Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Katipally Venkata Rama Reddy. Revanth Reddy won Kodangal — his home constituency that he lost in 2018 — by 32,532 votes. While he … Read more
New Delhi/Bhopal/Hyderabad: Free electricity, farm loan waivers, two-wheelers for girls, and financial assistance for women were among the many inducements — or ‘freebies’ as some may call them — that dominated the campaigns of parties across most of the five states that voted between 7 and 30 November. The impact of these ‘freebies’ can be … Read more
Hyderabad: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary and former Telangana unit chief, Bandi Sanjay, was trailing in Karimnagar assembly constituency, with his nearest rival, MLA Gangula Kamalakar of the BRS, having a lead of 2,405 votes as of 12 noon. Sanjay is an MP from Karimnagar, having won the seat in 2019. The assembly … Read more
NEW DELHI: The over 9-year rule of K Chandrasekhar Rao in Telangana has come to an end and with this his dreams for an immediate national role also seems to have crash-landed. The people of Telangana have voted out the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi and handed over power to the Congress, 10 years after the … 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
Medak: In 2019, two years before Rupla Pathloth died, his family decided to give away to a scrap dealer one of his most prized possessions — a broken matka that he received as a gift from Indiramma, as former prime minister Indira Gandhi is popularly called in this part of the world, in 1980. “Woh … Read more