
The Hyderabad police on Tuesday booked a case against All India Congress Committee general secretary Digvijay Singh for making hate comments in his twitter against madrassas, accusing them of spreading hatred.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is planning to go for an early election to the state assembly, if one were go by the suspicion of the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership in Telangana.

As expected, the announcement of names of the MLC seats under local bodies’ quota in various districts of Andhra Pradesh has triggered a big revolt in the ruling Telugu Desam Party.

The Andhra Pradesh government is planning to offer $1 million as the first prize in a competition for the best business plan submitted by a start-up in the financial technology (fintech) domain, said a senior official here.

The last rites of Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was shot dead in the US last week in a suspected hate crime, would be performed Tuesday at Jubliee Hills, family members said.

Political circles in Andhra Pradesh are agog with rumours that Telugu Desam Party founder-president N T Rama Rao’s daughter and former union minister Daggubati Purandeshwari is all set to join the YSR Congress party headed by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy sooner or later.

Power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan has categorically declared several times in the past that he has no ambition of coming to power in Andhra Pradesh.

Telugu Desam Party general secretary Nara Lokesh might have chosen the backdoor entry to enter the cabinet of his father N Chandrababu Naidu by getting nominated as an MLC under the MLA’s quota, which is the safest route to power.

It is often said that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is the most insecure politician in the state. Some people say he suspects his own shadow and fears that he might be pulled down from power any time.

YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Monday strongly protested the inauguration of the new building for Andhra Pradesh assembly with “stolen property.”

The surprising appearance at the Monday’s politburo meeting of the Telugu Desam Party headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu was that of his elder brother-in-law Nandamuri Harikrishna, father of popular young hero Junior NTR.

The YSR Congress party is understood to have finalised the names of former MLA Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas alias Nani and former TDP leader Gangula Prabhakar Reddy in the MLC elections under the MLAs’ quota.

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) has upped the ante against Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who had described the Congress leaders as “sannasulu” and “fools.”

YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy seems to have decided to pay his arch rival Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in his own coin in the ensuing MLC elections.

Hyderabad: Telangana Minister for NRI Affairs K.T. Rama has expressed shock and anguish over the spate of attacks the US, the latest being the killing of Hyderabad engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla.