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  1. Prohibition in Tirupati?

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    / June 25, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The demand for total prohibition in the temple town of Tirupati has become the latest political weapon with newly elected MLA Karunakar Reddy of the YSR Congress sitting on a fast over the issue. Reddy who was TTD chairman during Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s regime said, “Let us wash the...

  2. Kerala Airways to connect Kerala with the Gulf?

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    / June 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    After Malayalees in the Gulf bore the brunt of the Air India strike by having to pay through their nose to buy tickets on private airlines during the summer, the Kerala government has once again mooted the idea of `Kerala Airways’. Another proposal to make the Gulf closer to home...

  3. Jaya hikes NREGA wages in Tamilnadu

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    / June 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Tamilnadu will now receive 13 rupees more per  day as wages. The Jayalalithaa government has hiked employment daily wages from Rs 119 a day to Rs 132. The hike is expected to benefit more then 25 lakh workers under...

  4. Chiru doubts Cong return to power in 2014

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    / June 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Marriage festivities of his son, actor Ram Charan over, Chiranjeevi donned the role of a politician once again. And fretted and fumed over the Congress performance in the byelections. The party won just 2 of the 18 assembly seats and also lost the Nellore Lok Sabha seat by a huge...

  5. Jagan’s party targets CBI’s Lakshminarayana

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    / June 22, 2012 / 3 Comments
    The YSR Congress has decided to go for the jugular. And its target is CBI joint director V V Lakshminarayana, who is heading the probe into Jaganmohan Reddy’s disproportionate assets case. Disclosing the call details of mobile phones used by the Lakshminarayana, which showed several phone calls made to crime...

  6. AP govt awards Rs 50 lakh to Saina

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    / June 22, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Andhra Pradesh government has announced a Rs 50 lakh incentive – the highest so far – to badminton champ Saina Nehwal for her three titles in 2012. The cash award comes just five weeks ahead of the London Olympics where Saina is a serious medal prospect for India. Saina...

  7. Ex-CBI judge arrested in Gali bribe case

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    / June 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Suspended judge of the CBI court in Hyderabad, Pattabhi Rama Rao has been arrested. Rao who was first Additional special judge is accused of accepting a 5-10 crore rupees bribe to pass bail orders in May in favour of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, who is in jail for alleged...

  8. Seemandhra is indifferent to division of AP

    Posted by Konatham Dileep
    / June 18, 2012 / 4 Comments
    Telangana activists have time and again maintained that there is nothing called as a “United AP Movement” (Samaikyandhra Movement). The so called ‘movement’ that started on December 10th 2009 can at best be called an “Anti-Telangana Movement” propelled by Seemandhra Plutocrats. This stand has been vindicated by the results of...

  9. No photographs in Kerala jails

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    / June 18, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Strictly no photographs inside jails in Kerala. That was the purpose of a special drive undertaken inside several prisons in Kerala amidst tight security on Sunday. And around 350 portraits of political leaders, film actors and social activists were removed. Interestingly, Kannur central jail had portraits of a number of...

  10. Withdraw Amul ad on Jagan, says Reddy from Andhra

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    / June 15, 2012 / Leave a comment
    A couple of weeks ago, Amul created and released the ad on jailed Kadapa MP Jaganmohan Reddy and in no time, it went viral. Now the Amul team has reportedly received a call from a lawyer, also a Reddy from Andhra Pradesh, asking it to pull out the ad punning Jagan....

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