A group of more than 100 Indian IT professionals on H-1B visas today knocked on the doors of US lawmakers to get the country-specific quotas for permanent residency removed, saying the limitation resulted in massive green card backlogs for them.
Attached to their harness, 245 men and women simultaneously leaped off a 30-metre-high bridge and swayed like pendulum in a world record attempt in Hortolandia, an hour from Sao Paulo.
While the Congress high command appears to be very eager in admitting Telangana Telugu Desam Party working president and MLA A Revanth Reddy into the party, it is also facing a threat of senior party leaders calling it quits sooner or later.
YSR Congress party is most likely to boycott the ensuing winter session of the Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly commencing on November 10. The session is likely to last 10 days.
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The Congress got a boost with OBC leader Alpesh Thakore joining it in the presence of party Vice President Rahul Gandhi who attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on demonetisation and GST, calling it a "Gabbar Singh Tax" that has ruined India's economy.
In a big jolt, although not unexpected, the CBI special court on Monday rejected the petition of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy seeking exemption from appearing in the court for a period of six months in the wake of his proposed padayatra scheduled to commence on November 2.
Telangana Telugu Desam Party president A Revanth Reddy has been in touch with the Congress high command in New Delhi not in the last few days, but for the last six months, if the allegations levelled by his own party leaders are to be believed.
Telangana Telugu Desam Party working president and Kodangal MLA A Revanth Reddy is all set to be expelled from the party not withstanding his claim that he was still with the TDP and blamed the media for the reports on his joining the Congress party.
While the immediate impact of demonetisation was seen in the long queues outside ATMs and felt through acute cash shortage, its anniversary is an appropriate vantage point to assess the less visible and generalised effect on the economy of what was easily the most disruptive measure post-Independence.
Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone for Andhra Pradesh's new capital city Amaravati exactly two years ago, not a single brick has been laid for the development of the capital so far.
It was on October 22 in 2015 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stone for Amaravati, the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh, amidst a lot of fanfare and massive publicity.
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Fourteen companies have so far come forward to set up units with a total investment of over Rs 3,000 crore in the proposed Kakatiya Mega Textile Park in Telangana's Warangal district, an official statement said.
Those who have been closely observing Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for the last one and a half decades, can vouch for the fact that his electoral predictions had never come true.