
Fifty turmeric farmers from Nizamabad district of Telangana plan to contest the election against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency to highlight their problems.

Senior IAS officer L V Subrahmanyam, who has been appointed as the chief secretary of Andhra Pradesh government by the Election Commission during the interim period till the election process is completed, is said to be asserting his position.

Yet another Telangana Congress MLA announced that he is defecting to the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi, taking the overall number of defectors from the Congress into the TRS to 11.

Tension prevailed at the Telangana Board of Intermediate Education (TBIE) here for a second consecutive day on Tuesday as students continued their protest over the goof-ups in intermediate examination results.

Strange and shocking it may sound. But it's a reality being witnessed in Telangana every day in the morning for the past one week.

It looks like former Rajahmundry MP and senior politician Vundavalli Arun Kumar has not got entry into the YSR Congress party, though he wanted to make a reentry into active politics.

Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and Lok Sabha member from Anantapur J C Diwakar Reddy, who calls spade a spade on any issue, might have admitted that he had spent Rs 50 crore for the victory of his son J C Pawan in the recent Lok Sabha elections in his constituency.

YSR Congress party general secretary and Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy generally appears to be very soft-spoken and intellectual material.

In yet another blow to the Congress in Telangana, senior leader and legislator Gandra Venkatramna Reddy Monday night quit the party and announced that he was joining the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).

Finally, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has got the much-needed rest for him, physically and mentally.

Senior IPS officer and former Andhra Pradesh intelligence chief A B Venkateshwar Rao, who was sacked from his post by the Election Commission, got yet another plum post on Monday.

The Sri Venkateswara Temple at Tirumala here owns 9,259 kg of gold deposited with various banks and in its treasury, a senior temple official said on Monday.

This year USCIS received 201K H-1B applications, which is an increase of nearly 11,000 petitions compared to the previous year.

Ever since the polling for elections to the assembly and Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh was completed on April 11, almost all the surveys predicted that the YSR Congress party will wrest power from the Telugu Desam Party after May 23, when the results are announced.

Known for his controversial remarks, senior Telugu Desam Party leader and sitting MP from Anantapur J C Diwakar Reddy does not mince words when he wants to put forth his view point, even if it causes a lot of embarrassment to the party.