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Though the victory of YSR Congress candidates Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy and his mother Y.S. Vijayamma in the by-elections to the Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly constituencies was considered a foregone conclusion by the ruling party, its impact was reflected in the Secretariat. Most of the Ministers kept away from the Secretariat on Friday. [...]
Anna Hazare arrested, taken to unknown location
Social activist Anna Hazare was arrested by the Delhi Police ahead of his proposed fast against corruption on Tuesday. Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Shanti Bhushan and Manish Sisodia have also been put under preventive arrest by the Delhi police. Hazare has been arrested under Section 107/51. He will now have to appear before a magistrate [...]
August 16, 2011 | More
Close to 13 lakh State government employees, pensioners and their families would soon be able to avail cashless medical treatment at corporate hospitals under the Arogyasri scheme. Modalities to implement the scheme are being worked out and the scheme touted as ‘Arogyasri Plus” is expected to be launched in a few months from now. Talking [...]
Frustrated by the unilateral decisions being taken by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao, prominent socialist politician, who fought for freedom during Nizam’s period Konda Lakshman Bapuji on Tuesday announced the formation of a new ‘Telangana Joint Action Committee.’ This new TJAC will fight for the cause of Telangana statehood, while taking the views [...]
Around 15,000 private schools would be closed in support of the general strike beginning on August 17, the Telangana Private Schools Management Association (TPSMA) said in Warangal on Sunday. TPSMA had decided to take part in the general strike after a round-table at Deshaipet in the town where managements of 10 private schools attended to [...]
Government employees in Telangana Monday launched protests ahead of their indefinite strike from Aug 17, demanding a separate Telangana state. The employees began “work to rule” protest, by refusing to work beyond 5 p.m. and also held lunch-hour demonstrations, as a prelude to the strike. Raising slogans of “Jai Telangana”, the employees gathered in the [...]
Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy, a senior Telugu Desam party leader had alleged that KVP Ramachandra Rao, the former advisor to the government has played an important role into the irregularities during YSR regime. Speaking to media persons in NTR Trust Bhavan on Saturday, he said that if the CBI enquiry is ordered against KVP along with [...]
Congress calls Anna corrupt?
New Delhi: The Justice PB Sawant Commission report so often quoted by Anna Hazare’s adversaries, both political and otherwise, resurfaced 48 hours before Anna Hazare’s proposed fast for Jan Lokpal Bill. Ahead of his indefinite fast on the Lokpal issue, the social activist lashed out at the Congress for calling him corrupt according to the [...]
August 15, 2011 | More
Washington: In a bid to trump Microsoft’s Bing, Google will start to populate individual users’ search results with posts that have been shared publicly by their connections on Google+. The new feature, which works only when users are signed in to their Google accounts, aims to tailor results to individual tastes, the company said Friday. [...]
A sketch of Delhi’s Red Fort takes guard on the Google home page on the occasion of 15 August 2011, India’s 65th Independence Day. The Red Fort has an important place in the history of Delhi and that of India. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, the fort was built in 1648 during [...]