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  1. 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...

  2. Obama is the Salman Khurshid of America

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    / May 4, 2012 / 1 Comment
    How else does one explain the campaign that President Barack Obama is running to get his tenure extended at White House by four more years. In a no-holds barred campaign, Obama has accused Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of outsourcing jobs to India when he was the Governor of Massachusetts....

  3. Kiran buys peace with Botsa, transfers cop

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    / April 5, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Prodded by Ghulam Nabi Azad, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana have decided to smoke the peace pipe. Atleast for now. Their rift was seen as one of the reasons why the Congress government in the state is in a state of limbo. And...

  4. A confused Congress in Andhra Pradesh

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    / April 1, 2012 / 3 Comments
    After the last round of byelections in Andhra Pradesh, where the Congress drew a blank, a senior non-Congress leader from the state was asked by a member of the Congress High command in Delhi, what he thought of the future of the Congress in Andhra Pradesh. “Only the final rites...

  5. Why did the women voters complain?

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    / March 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Members of self-help groups of women in Warangal and Adilabad Districts of Andhra Pradesh are up in arms against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government alleging discrimination in political sops. Wanna know what their complaint is? Their protest is not against payment for votes but that they were discriminated and paid...

  6. 7 down, 17 to go in Andhra Pradesh

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    / March 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    For a party that did not even have a candidate initially to winning the seat by 1800 votes is certainly an achievement. By winning an assembly seat which forms part of K Chandrasekhar Rao’s Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha constituency, the BJP has punctured the TRS claim of being the sole spokesperson...

  7. Anam wears Chiru mask

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    / March 14, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live You can always count on MLA and Nellore strongman Anam Vivekananda Reddy to make politics colorful. And he is giving his brand of comic touch to the poll campaign in the hot coastal weather. Standing atop the vehicle and waving to the crows is what...

  8. Lessons from Lucknow for Hyderabad

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    / March 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In 2009, I was at an election meeting in Malkajgiri Lok Sabha constituency, waiting for Rahul Gandhi to arrive when I found Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s Man Friday grumbling. Let us call him Mr X here. Mr X started talking about how meetings like these were a waste of YSR’s...

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