Category: South

Appealing to the students across the country to condemn strongly the recent incident at JNU, Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said tolerance did not mean accepting in silence slogans in support of ‘desh drohis’ (traitors). “How can we keep mum when slogans were raised in support of Afzal Guru, who was hanged […]

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, on Thursday, announced that senior citizens over the age of sixty could travel for free on government buses starting February 24. Making a statement in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Ms. Jayalalithaa said through the implementation of this scheme, the AIADMK government has fulfilled all the promises it made in the 2011 election manifesto. Ms. Jayalalithaa said the […]

As a first step towards making the dream capital a reality, the State government kick-started the activity by laying the foundation stone for a temporary capital aka Interim Government Complex at Velagapudi in Guntur district on Wednesday. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone amidst Vedic chants and performed ‘bhoomi pooja’. Even as villagers and guests were captivated […]

The Kapu Aikya Garjana, public meeting conducted by former Andhra Pradesh Minister Mudragada Padmanabham, demanding the inclusion of Kapus in the list of Backward Classes, turned violent with the agitators setting the Ratnachal Express and the Tuni police station on fire on Sunday. Thousands of people belonging to the Kapu community reached V. Kotthuru village by afternoon to attend the […]

A ‘selfie’ moment ended in a tragedy for a 16-year-old student who was run over a speeding train while trying to click a picture of him beside the train. Dinesh Kumar, a Class XI student, was walking along the railway track with a friend at suburban Vandalur on Sunday evening when the incident happened, police said today. He tried to […]

The Pune based organisation, Bharatiya Chatra Sansad, in partnership with MIT School of Governance, has honoured Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu with “Aadarsh Mukhyamantri Puraskar” (Model CM Award) in its 6th annual session on Saturday. The Sansad has stated that Chandrababu Naidu has become icon for good governance in the country and is one of the seven living […]