Ahead of the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, actor-turned-politician Vijay’s rising political activity is creating ripples in his neighbourhood.
It appears Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) seems to be losing interest in electoral politics.
Even as the controversy over the latest CBI-led special investigation team report on the alleged adulteration of ghee used in Tirumala laddu prasadam has triggered a sharp war of words between the Telugu Desam Party-led coalition and opposition in Andhra Pradesh, the unusual silence of Hindu groups and seers of various mutts has baffled the Naidu government.
Questions are being raised about how the ruling coalition in Andhra Pradesh is being run. It appears the government is looking less like a partnership and more like a single-party system.
If speculation doing rounds in a section of social media is correct, The Times of India, one of India’s most influential English-language newspapers, could witness a major ownership transition in the coming days.
The famed Sri Raja Rajeshwara Swamy temple at Vemulawada in Rajanna Sircilla district, often referred to as Dakshina Kashi, has once again entered political discourse in Telangana amid long-standing superstitions linking visits by political leaders to loss of office.
The sudden arrival of Andhra Pradesh deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan at the Undavalli residence of chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday morning for a one-on-one meeting has raised a lot of curiosity in political and administrative circles.
Senior Congress leader and former Telangana minister T Jeevan Reddy is said to be contemplating call it quits to the party, in protest against the humiliation meted out to him by the party in general and chief minister A Revanth Reddy in particular in his constituency Jagitial.
A series of land grabbing allegations, including the latest regularisation of 55 acres of land encroached by TDP MP in Visakhapatnam, massive corruption by the TDP leaders at the grassroots level and the violent attacks on the YSR Congress party leaders have fast eroded the support base of the ruling coalition, analysts say.
The Andhra Pradesh government is reportedly preparing to transfer Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Executive Officer Anil Kumar Singhal following serious observations made by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the adulterated ghee supply scandal linked to the famed Tirupati laddu prasadam.
The Congress' Tamil Nadu received an alliance invitation Thursday – to join hands with actor Vijay and his Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, and "get back to their old glory" in the state.
The unusual silence of the Telugu Desam Party-led coalition government over the allegations of a massive land grabbing in Visakhapatnam against former chief secretary K Jawahar Reddy during the previous YSRCP government, has become a talking point in the political circles in the port city.
The Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation (APMDC) is preparing to clear long-pending sand transport and contract dues dating back to the previous YSRCP government, amid mounting pressure from contractors and repeated complaints.
As YSR Congress president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy announced his plan to take out padayatra, one-and-a-half years before the next assembly elections in the state, his former aide and ex-Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy is also said to be planning his own padayatra across the state.
Stage is said to be ready for anointing Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh information technology minister Nara Lokesh as the working president of the party.
