In what could indicate a major shift in the political landscape of Andhra Pradesh, Jana Sena chief and film actor Pawan Kalyan said he would not hesitate to join hands with YSRC chief Jaganmohan Reddy to fight the decades-old Uddanam kidney disease issue.
Venkaiah Naidu's vice-presidentship will cut off the right-hand man of AP CM Chandra Babu Naidu.
It was Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nara Chandra Babu Naidu's intention to stay by Venkaiah Naidu when he was filing his nomination for the vice president's post.
Telangana Telugu Desam Party on Saturday accused the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government in general and IT minister K T Rama Rao in particular, of encouraging pub culture in the city in the name of promoting tourism and IT, which was the prime cause of increasing drug menace in the city.
Strange are the ways of veteran Telangana Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Telangana assembly K Jana Reddy. Many a time, he took his own party leaders by surprise by showering praises on ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his schemes. And the very next moment, he criticised the government.
Former minister and Kapu strongman Mudragada Padmanabham has dared Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to put him in jail or even hang him, but asserted that he would not withdraw his plan to take out the padayatra.
The Telangana government has given its nod for the prosecution of BJP MLA Raja Singh in a case related to hate speech filed nearly four years ago. The case against the lawmaker was filed in the city's Shahinayathgunj police station.
Telangana CM KCR, who thought of pacifying the agitated Telugu film industry by saying that the film personalities being interrogated by the Special Investigation Team of the excise and prohibition department were not the accused in the drug peddling case but were only the victims, had to take back his words hurriedly.
Bharatiya Janata Party does not have the strength or the support from the people of Telangana or for that matter in the entire south, barring may be Karnataka and it has no option to join hands with the regional forces if it wants to sustain.
The threat by the Tollywood big stars, directors and producers that they would shift their base to Visakhapatnam if the Telangana government does not stop targeting the film personalities over the drug racket seems to have had its impact on chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
As directed by the Hyderabad high court, YSR Congress party MLA from Mangalagiri Alla Ramakrishna Reddy on Friday paid the second instalment of of Rs 17.44 crore to the Endowments Department of Andhra Pradesh to take possession of the controversial Sadavarthi lands in Chennai.
Hyderabad woke up on Friday to the reports of a Youth Congress leader, M Vikram Goud, son of former Andhra Pradesh minister M Mukesh Goud, being shot at by some unknown miscreants at his residence at Gayatri Hills area in Banjara Hills.
The ED has attached assets worth over Rs 148 crore in connection with its money laundering probe in cases related to YSR congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy and others, the agency said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is moving its plans systematically to kick out Telugu Desam Party from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), if the reports coming from the national capital are to be believed.
The much-publicised and hyped “Chalo Amaravati” padayatra by former minister and Kapu strongman Mudragada Padmanabham from his house in Kirlampudi village in East Godavari district on Wednesday has turned out to be a flop show as it did not evoke much enthusiasm from people across the state.
