It's natural for all television channels to vie for rights to air the audio release functions of big heroes and big films. To the channels, the opportunity to grab a programme which is likely to have high TRPs and making good advertising moolah are the main draw.
Prior to bifurcation, it was promised that the newly carved Andhra Pradesh will be given special status. Though technically, it was the erstwhile Congress government that made the big promise, BJP which saw it coming supported the proposition.
A 41-year-old Indian-born investment banking executive described as "extraordinary" by his colleagues has died in a fiery suburban train crash just outside the city.
To date, the TRS has not been able to prevent the spate of farmer suicides in its State. The situation is only bound to get worse in summer, with the CM KCR himself declaring that the farmers are going to face a potentially tough summer.
Do you know how much the AP CM is asking the Centre for construction of the new capital? Rs 20,000 crore and that is just in 'immediate assistance'. God only knows what the final figure would be.
One gossip under discussion in film nagar is heroine Anjali's life story in the recent hit movie Ladies and Gentlemen.
Despite recent unilateral decisions of KCR such as the one to raze the existing secretariat, conducting an Eamcet separately, freezing the bank accounts of AP institutions or Telangana drawing excess water from Srisailam etc, not a single word of caution has been uttered by the Governor.
If one were to compare the manifesto of the AAP with that of the BJP, it is clear that Kejriwal has once again planned for some fantastic schemes, schemes that would require huge funding and are not easy to deliver on.
Can the media make or break a government? Maybe yes, maybe not! Arvind Kejriwal is a classic case study.
During the election campaign, Chandrababu announced an across-the-board loan waiver for farmers and promptly won the polls. However, after becoming the CM, Naidu put a lot of riders to his promise such as making Aadhar mandatory, loan waiver only up to Rs 50,000 and a host of other things completely diluting his promise.
Former Minister T G Venkatesh, who had switched his loyalty from Congress to Telugu Desam Party soon after Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated, is known for his controversial remarks. And on Thursday, too, he lived up to his reputation.
The raging controversy surrounding Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao's move to shift the Chest Hospital from Erragadda to relocate the State Secretariat there is all set to be thrown into the court of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
There is a saying in Telugu: “Devudu Varamichchina, Poojari Varamivvadu” (God grants boons, but the priest does not pass them on to devotees). Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao is now playing the rule of poojari for the people of Telangana.
Political parties are likely to spend around Rs.200 crore on the campaign for the Feb 7 Delhi assembly polls, with most of the spending being on advertisements in the print and electronic media, a business chamber said Thursday.
President Pranab Mukherjee has presented the visitor's award for best varsity to the University of Hyderabad for its high standards in academic excellence, a release said Thursday.