At age 11, Agastya Jaiswal of Hyderabad is already making news headlines as a "child prodigy". The boy has managed to pass the Class XII senior secondary school examinations at least six years ahead of schedule.
The Telangana legislature on Sunday unanimously passed a bill to hike the reservation quota for backward Muslims and the Scheduled Tribes to 12 and 10 per cent respectively.
Critical or negative remarks on social media against the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) or the Chandrababu Naidu government in Andhra Pradesh may soon land netizens in trouble, or even behind the bars.
A day after Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's purported disinterest in expanding business to "poor countries" like India created controversy in social media, parent company Snap Inc denied the allegation, saying no such remark was made, reports said on Sunday.
The latest viral photo that is doing rounds on Facebook is copy of a registration of a political outfit.
All five members of the BJP on Sunday were suspended from the Telangana legislative assembly as they tried to stall the proceedings to protest the bill for raising the reservation quota for Muslims in the state.
Sreenu Vaitla's Mister started off on a surprisingly dull note in spite of the big names associated with it.
He used to be one of the hotshot directors in Telugu cinema industry and every superstar wanted to work under him.
The unrest among the senior party leaders in the Telugu Desam Party that erupted following denial of cabinet berths in the recent expansion by party president N Chandrababu Naidu continues to go unabated.
Former Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal, who has virtually been in a political oblivion for the last three years, is back in the news. Indications are that he might stage a return to politics.
The Telangana government on Saturday decided to hike the reservations for the socially and economically backward among Muslims to 12 per cent from the existing four per cent.
TDP MP from Chittoor, N. Shivaprasad, has raised the banner of revolt against the party leadership and said he could contest as the candidate of many other parties in the next elections.
The sudden outburst by Telugu Desam Party MP from Chittoor N Sivaprasad against party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday accusing the latter of cheating the Dalits has raised many eyebrows.
The decision taken by the Telangana government to enhance reservations for Muslims in education and employment has naturally gone down well with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Having failed to delineate a cogent and credible line on secularism, the Congress will have to articulate a new position to find its way back into political reckoning.