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  1. 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...

  2. New Excise policy is as flawed

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    / June 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Andhra Pradesh government has announced the new Excise policy for the current year, replacing the unhealthy auction method by fixing a license fee and by introducing a system of lots being drawn to select the licensees. In the Scheduled Areas, the new policy apparently proposes licenses being given only...

  3. 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...

  4. The Byelection Mode

    Posted by pragnya vadam
    / June 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    People across the state in the 12 districts finally had a chance to see the election results and started to articulate their own opinion on the future of Andhra Pradesh. They are expecting some unusual changes to the state in a few more months or perhaps even, weeks. That Jagan...

  5. Hinglish Tinglish!

    Posted by Rama Menon
    / June 16, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The British quit India long ago but left behind a legacy in the form of English. Despite the heavy regional influence on the language, English continues to connect people from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Gujarat to Tripura. Each region has a specific dialect, which Indians consider their `mother tongue’. Written...

  6. 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....

  7. A wake-up call for Chandrababu Naidu

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    / June 15, 2012 / Leave a comment
    “It is all Chandrababu Naidu’s fault,” a senior Telugu Desam leader told me after the results of the byelections in Andhra Pradesh had delivered a duck for the party. When I asked him to explain, he rewinded to December last year. “All this is the result of the no-confidence motion...

  8. We are like that only, Ms Kiran Bedi

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    / June 15, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Let me begin with apologising to Kiran Bedi. We the corrupt people of Andhra Pradesh have elected 17 MLAs and one MP belonging to two parties that you perhaps see as “corrupt”. A majority of them to the YSR Congress, whose leader Jaganmohan Reddy is in judicial custody in a...

  9. Why is Jagan a leader? Coz he has the mike !

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    / June 13, 2012 / 4 Comments
    Counting of the votes in the by-elections to the 18 Assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat (Nellore) will take place on June 15, and the results are expected by late afteroon. Some compromised-media outlets have claimed, based on manipulated data, that Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSR Congress Party...

  10. A Jagan heat wave on the Andhra coast

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    / June 12, 2012 / 2 Comments
    By the time polling ended at 5 pm today, it was interesting to see how the Congress and the Telugu Desam were speaking in one language. To explain why the majority of the seats look set to go into Jaganmohan Reddy’s pocket. While senior Congress MLA Anam Vivekananda Reddy described...

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