This news did not feature on any TV news channel, certainly not in Delhi. Television reporters did not ask aam janta to react to this new Rajya Sabha MP. And no, it did not trend on Twitter either.

Raj Thackeray is a reformed man. He is not taking part in the Bharat Bandh today. “Holding a bandh has become an old weapon. It is better if some thought is put into finding solutions,” he said.

This is good […]

The tap of news hasn’t stopped leaking from sources at the CBI and Dilkusha Guest House. The how and why the CBI decided to arrest Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Sunday evening after he reportedly evaded questions for […]

At the same time that Viswanathan Anand was battling Boris Gelfand of Israel at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in the World Championship, the Indian team was playing in the Asian Nations Cup in China. The […]

The two Italian marines, accused of killing two Kerala fishermen, have been granted bail by the Kerala High court on surety of Rs 1 crore each. Two Indians need to give guarantee and the marines have been […]

The DMK is now flexing its political muscle by threatening to pull out of the UPA government, over the petrol hike. Calling the hike “atrocious”, the DMK today spoke at length about the party voicing the […]

A member of `The South Reports’ mailed us this rather interesting portrait of former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. This adorns the walls of the GMR Institute of Technology in Rajam in Srikakulam district of […]

The fuel shortage in Chennai continues for the third consecutive day. Petrol pump owers say the shortage is due to lack of supplies from oil companies. Many petrol bunks in the city are in fact shut and the […]

The arrest of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy merely exemplifies the rotten state of politics in Andhra Pradesh. Gloating over his arrest by the CBI or accusing the CBI of vindictive action are both uncalled for. All […]

I don’t think cricketer-turned-politician Kiran Kumar Reddy would have found the time to catch the finals of the IPL last night. If nothing else, he can take heart from the fact that a KKR – Kolkata Knight Riders […]

The last four hours or so have been like a suspense thriller ever since news filtered out that Jaganmohan Reddy will be arrested today. It is no surprise that he eventually has been arrested given the fact that he […]

She has not changed in all these years. Yes I am talking of Jayaprada and am not talking only about the way she looks. The actor, described by a person no less than Satyajit Ray as the most beautiful face on the […]

Sale and consumption of gutka and pan masala is now banned in Kerala. The Kerala government has passed the order under which violators of the law can be imprisoned for up to six years and fined up to 5 lakh […]

The gloves are off. And the Congress gameplan is now clear. Blame it on YSR. And his son.

If the resignation letter of Excise minister Mopidevi Venkataramana is anything to go by, this is the strategy worked […]

It is 10:30 am. Jagan is setting out on his election campaign trail in Macherla in Guntur district. It is hot as hell, the mercury hovering around 43 degrees. But that’s not the worry for YSR Congress party […]

Dear Dr Manmohan Singh,

Pranaam.

No, I am not Shahrukh Khan, lest you associate this line only with the Wankhede boy. Yesterday evening, the moment I heard the news of the hike in price of petrol, I rushed […]

The move by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy to accuse the Congress-Telugu Desam of conspiring to arrest him and then foment trouble in Andhra Pradesh and use that as a pretext to postpone the byelections scheduled for June […]

Kadapa MP and YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has accused the Congress and the TDP of conspiring to arrest him in the next 3-4 days in the disproportionate assets case.

“It is being talked about […]

If Narayan Dutt Tiwari had a choice, he would never give his DNA sample for a test. But May 26 it would be, when complying with the orders of the Delhi High court, he would have to provide his DNA sample. This is […]

This site (gvmc.gov.in) appears to be made more for the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) rather than for the public for whom the corporation exists.

GVMC collects taxes from us and is supposed […]