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  1. Sowing the seeds of democracy in Andhra Pradesh

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    / June 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Andhra Pradesh’s top cop Dinesh Reddy is candid enough to admit that the magnitude of the unaccounted for money seized during the campaign period in these byelections has shocked him. While the Andhra Pradesh police confiscated some 30 crores worth of cash and jewellery, the Election Commission through its officers...

  2. Jagan to stay in prison till June 25

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    / June 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Jaganmohan Reddy’s judicial custody has been extended till June 25. Which means, when the byelection results come on June 15, he will be inside Hyderabad’s Chanchalguda Central Prison. The CBI, accusing him of not being cooperative during interrogation and giving evasive replies, has sought the court’s permission for conducting narco...

  3. Money, smile aur dhoka

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    / June 10, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Anyone feeling depressed that the rupee is going down should see the bundles of cash seized by the authorities during the current round of byelections in Andhra Pradesh. A total of 54 crore rupees (in cash and jewellery) – all unaccounted for – has been confiscated. Compare this with 2009...

  4. Tamanna sparkles in `Endukante Premante’

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    / June 9, 2012 / Leave a comment
    “Endukante Premante” (Because it is Love) is the new film on the block. Stars a twinkling Diva Tamanna. And energetic star Ram – who carries himself like a miniature Pawan Kalyan-cum-Mahesh Babu-cum-Ravi Teja. Produced by his Chartered Accountant uncle “Sravanti” Ravi Kishore whose family consists of CPAs and CAs and...

  5. Will Brand Andhra Pradesh be a casualty?

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    / June 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    As another minister in Kiran Kumar Reddy cabinet, Information Technology minister Ponnala Laxmaiah is interrogated by the CBI, uncomfortable questions are being raised about the impact of this on Brand Andhra Pradesh. After all, so many senior ministers being summoned for interrogation and one of them, Excise minister Mopidevi Venkataramana,...

  6. 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...

  7. Gabbar Singh is `Dabangg’ in Tollywood

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    / June 5, 2012 / Leave a comment
    According to `Business Standard’, as on June 1, `Gabbar Singh’ (Telugu remake of Dabangg) grossed Rs.128 crores in box office collections taking it closer to Dabangg’s Rs.173 crores. This makes the remake catapult into the all-time five grossers. That’s the power of mass-masala fares and box-office magic which eludes realistic...

  8. How Jagan’s stock nosedived at 10 Janpath

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    / June 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The last time I met Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was the day before he was arrested by the CBI. I remember asking him if anyone from the Congress in Delhi was in touch with him. He replied in the negative. My source had however told me some functionaries in the...

  9. `Your Honour’ is in the dock

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    / June 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Pardon this unparliamentary phrase but if sources in the CBI are to be believed, the s*** from Bellary has hit the ceiling in Hyderabad. The Andhra Pradesh High court Chief Justice Madan Lokur on his last but one day in office suspended First Additional Special Judge for CBI cases, T...

  10. Special CBI judge suspended in AP

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    / June 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Shocking news from the Andhra Pradesh judiciary. A special CBI judge who had granted bail to mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy last month, has been suspended by the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High court, following allegations of corruption. There was suspicion that the judge, Pattibhiram was bribed which...

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