1. CPI(M) goes red in the face in Kerala

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    The knives are out in the sickle and hammer party. Former chief minister V S Achuthanandan, for long at the receiving end of the Pinarayi Vijayan-led faction within the Kerala CPI(M), seems to have decided to take the bull by the horns. His visit to slain Revolutionary Marxist Party leader...
  2. `Your Honour’ is in the dock

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    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...
  3. Aaj India bandh hai, kal aana

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    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 news. For Raj’s absence would mean hopefully lesser number of...
  4. With Jagan in, Mom and Sis step out

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    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 three days, demonstrated a headstrong attitude and even misbehaved with CBI officials....
  5. Anand, champion of the world

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    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 team, consisting of Grandmasters like P Harikrishna, K Sasikiran, Parimarjan Negi won the...
  6. An opportunity for Kiran to do a KKR

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    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 – had triumphed. Will KKR win the Andhra Pradesh Political League as...
  7. BJP – Beautiful Jaya Prada – may join BJP

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    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 Indian screen’, has said, “she is getting lots...
  8. I don’t fear arrest, says Jagan

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    “I am going in for prayers, I will be with you in ten minutes,” says Jagan, when we meet at the appointed hour this morning. In another two hours, he would be face to face with the interrogators from the CBI for the second day running. The Christian influence is...
  9. Blame it on YSR & Son

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    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 out by the Congress leadership in Delhi. Allow CBI to net half a...
  10. My name is Aam aadmi and I am not a VIP

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    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 to the nearest petrol bunk. Typical aam aadmi reaction, I hear u...

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