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  1. Meet AP’s Al Capone

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    / February 8, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It is yet to ascertained whether Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, the Honorable Minister for Excise, takes a baseball bat to the heads of snitches, like Al Capone had a reputation of doing. To those who came in late, Al Capone was a mafia boss in Chicago back in the 1930s, when...

  2. Cabinet expansion bears Kiran’s stamp

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    / February 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    (Source : AP News Live) Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy never fails to surprise the media. In the latest expansion of the ministry too, he kept the cards close to his chest till the last minute. The selection – Uttam Kumar Reddy (Huzurnagar, Nalgonda) and Prasad Kumar (Vikarabad, Rangareddy)...

  3. Chiranjeevi’s 10-year-old fans

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    / January 25, 2012 / Leave a comment
    If Chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy is to be believed, only 10-year-olds admire Chiranjeevi. Speaking at a public function in Madanapalle, Reddy said “if the voting age had been reduced to 10 years in 2009, Chiranjeevi would have become CM. But the Congress came to power since it was kept...

  4. Andhra Pradesh in pause mode

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    / January 19, 2012 / 1 Comment
    By T S Sudhir Trust the Congress to try cure a patient in paralysis with iodex. Today’s cabinet expansion with two trusted lieutenants of Chiranjeevi inducted into the Andhra Pradesh cabinet does precisely that. At a time when the government needs to go under the knife to inject more dynamism,...

  5. Horsing around in Andhra Pradesh

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    / December 5, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By T S Sudhir It is that silly season when MLAs of the Andhra Pradesh assembly turn into horses. Chandrababu Naidu, who was the Principal of the Viceroy School of Horse Trading way back in 1995, has returned to conduct a crash course. He may not be able to unseat...

  6. Andhra Pradesh ke hamam me sab nange hain

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    / November 13, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Andhra Watch   As I went through newspaper reports about how IAS and IPS officers in Andhra Pradesh are now protesting against criminal action initiated against them for their role in several controversial acts to please their political bosses, I am amazed at the attempts to plead `not guilty’....

  7. Operation Andhra Pradesh

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    / October 9, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By T S Sudhir The red light is not glowing outside the operation theatre. For power is in short supply in Andhra Pradesh. Inside, a team of surgeons led by `Dr’ Pranab Mukherjee is trying hard to save the patient on the table: Andhra Pradesh. The upper part of the patient’s body...

  8. Kiran’s cabinet of woes

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    / August 2, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Andhra Watch The period between June 18 and August 2 will go down in the administrative history of Andhra Pradesh as a `blank era’. It will be known as a period without any cabinet meetings, video conferences or district collectors conference. Caught between the Telangana agitators and the high...

  9. Kiran, the last batsman at the crease

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    / July 20, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Andhra Watch   When he was chosen to head Andhra Pradesh in November 2010, the former Hyderabad cricketer N Kiran Kumar Reddy would have never thought he would be a captain without a playing XI. Sample this. On July 19, Kiran Kumar Reddy was the only member of his...

  10. At the wheel, Kiran spends a fortune

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    / July 14, 2011 / 4 Comments
     By Andhra Watch   It is a case of the car moving in reverse even as the driver thinks he is driving in top gear. Kiran Kumar Reddy has pampered himself with some brand new toys even as people wonder if there is a government in place in Andhra Pradesh....

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