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  1. Court presses `mute’ on Jagan

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    / July 18, 2012 / Leave a comment
    “Khaaaaamosh”. That is what the judge has told Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, he should be, when he goes to cast his vote in the Presidential elections at the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Thursday. Jagan has been told he cannot speak to anyone else while he is taken along with police...

  2. Jagan wants to `campaign’ from jail

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Even as he is being interrogated in CBI custody, Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has moved a petition in the Andhra Pradesh High court seeking permission to be allowed to use print and electronic media for campaigning. The Director General of Prisons has been made a respondent in the case. This...

  3. TRS fishing in troubled waters

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    / March 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The proposal of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) to field Kesava Rao as a candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections is just an empty balloon being floated by K Chandrasekhar Rao to put pressure on the Congress that it renominate Kesava Rao for another term. Six seats are falling vacant...

  5. Trivandrum circa 1900

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    / July 15, 2011 / 4 Comments
    These are the photographs of Zacharias D’Cruz, taken from British Library Online galleries (www.bl.uk) as per the Terms and Conditions of Use for the Online Gallery Notes, Favourites, Personal Galleries, and Tag Features. Courtesy (c) British Library Board. All the Shelfmarks are below the picture All these Photographs were taken...

  6. `Amul’ Rahul, A Taste of VS

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    / April 12, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By T S Sudhir It would seem no one in the Congress is fond of Amul Butter. How else is it that the tag line of Amul, which reads `The taste of India’ escaped the collective consciousness of India’s grand old political party. By describing Rahul Gandhi as an Amul baby, `Very Smart’ Achuthanandan had...

  7. Why I am campaigning for the Congress in Kerala

    Posted by Jagadish
    / April 5, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Jagadish Most people of Kerala who are surprised to see me campaign for the UDF in these assembly elections do not know that I have always been a Congressman. In fact, I was an active member of the Kerala Students Union (the youth wing of the Congress) and was...

  8. LDF’s hibernation before shutdown

    Posted by Ramesh Chennithala
    / April 5, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Ramesh Chennithala   It goes without saying that the UDF has no role in the recent order by the Supreme Court and the Election commission to stop providing rice for Rs.2. What UDF was against was that, when there is an identification card, the LDF was going from door...

  9. Kerala’s musical chairs

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    / April 2, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By T S SudhirAs I pack my bags to travel to Kerala, I admit it is with a sense of meeting the known. Just about everyone expects the UDF to come to the party, after five years of LDF management. Compare this with elections next door, where the Karuna vs...

  10. A new low

    Posted by Nara Chandrababu Naidu
    / March 28, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By N Chandrababu Naidu Andhra Pradesh’s agriculture minister, Y S Vivekananda Reddy, by his behaviour in the Andhra Pradesh assembly on March 28 plunged the House’s record to a new low. He manhandled a Telugu Desam legislator when the House was in session. Even states like Bihar, Orissa, Karnataka that...

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