1. Much ado about a chair

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    Old timers say the incident reminds them of the unsavoury episode at Hyderabad’s old airport at Begumpet in 1982 when Rajiv Gandhi as Congress general secretary insulted chief minister T Anjaiah. Thirty years on, Ghulam Nabi Azad reportedly sat on chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy’s chair at the CM’s camp...
  2. Yeddy wants birthday gift

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    The chief minister-in-waiting in Karnataka, B S Yeddyurappa wants a birthday gift from Nitin Gadkari. And nothing short of the CM’s post or atleast the state chief’s job would do. Yeddy turns 70 on February 27 and has said he will announce his plans on Monday. This is the not...
  3. Kiran’s ‘health’ problems

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    Every health bulletin of the Kiran Kumar Reddy government since the last cabinet expansion has arrived at the same conclusion : `All is not well’. Especially in the health ministry. Dr D L Ravindra Reddy, the health and medical education minister has taken the CM’s decision to bifurcate his ministry and...
  4. Mopidevi, Ravindra not to resign

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    Source: AP News Live Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, under cloud over allegations of excise kickbacks, is not resigning. Nor will D L Ravindra Reddy, seething with discontent over chopping off his ministerial wings, will put in papers, as was widely reported in the press. Both the Ministers apparently changed their...
  5. Cabinet expansion bears Kiran’s stamp

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    (Source : AP News Live) Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy never fails to surprise the media. In the latest expansion of the ministry too, he kept the cards close to his chest till the last minute. The selection – Uttam Kumar Reddy (Huzurnagar, Nalgonda) and Prasad Kumar (Vikarabad, Rangareddy)...
  6. Chiranjeevi’s 10-year-old fans

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    If Chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy is to be believed, only 10-year-olds admire Chiranjeevi. Speaking at a public function in Madanapalle, Reddy said “if the voting age had been reduced to 10 years in 2009, Chiranjeevi would have become CM. But the Congress came to power since it was kept...
  7. Andhra Pradesh in pause mode

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    By T S Sudhir Trust the Congress to try cure a patient in paralysis with iodex. Today’s cabinet expansion with two trusted lieutenants of Chiranjeevi inducted into the Andhra Pradesh cabinet does precisely that. At a time when the government needs to go under the knife to inject more dynamism,...
  8. Kiran’s tryst with his destiny

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    By T S Sudhir If over 280 MLAs of the Andhra Pradesh assembly felt as if they were having a tryst with destiny on the intervening night of December 5 and 6, they were only fooling themselves. As the quality of the debate barring very few exceptions, degenerated into an...
  9. Water for Tamilnadu, Safety for Kerala

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    By Oommen Chandy The stability of Mullaperiyar dam has always been a source of anxiety in Kerala. However, in the past few days anxiety has given way to panic. The immediate cause of this panic is the repeated tremors experienced in the vicinity of the Mullaperiyar dam. There have been...
  10. Report card time

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    By Kiran Kumar Reddy When I took over as chief minister last year, there were many problems, both within the party and outside. All through my tenure, media was speculating on when Kiran Kumar Reddy is going to be replaced but people are the best judge on how I have...

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