Hyderabad, March 12 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday served notice to Telangana Jagruthi leader K. Kavitha in connection with the hearing of the Delhi excise policy case in the Delhi High Court.A team of CBI officials personally handed over the notice of the High Court, informing her about the hearing of the CBI’s petition on March 16.Kavitha has been informed that she is at liberty to argue anything against the petition on the date fixed or any other date to which …
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Hyderabad, Feb 17 (IANS) Telangana’s ruling Congress on Tuesday captured power in seven more municipalities while the main opposition BRS took control of one urban local body.Elections to Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons in three municipalities were postponed again due to a lack of quorum and clashes between Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) cadres.Elections to the posts of Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons could not be held on Monday due to various reasons, including violence.Chaos…
Hyderabad, Feb 16 (IANS) Elections to chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of 11 municipalities in Telangana were postponed on Monday as both the ruling Congress and main opposition BRS accused each other of resorting to undemocratic means to capture power in the urban local bodies.Elections in Yellandu, Sultanabad, Ibrahimpatnam, Kagaznagar, Ketanapally, Khanapur, Zaheerabad, Inderesham, Dornakal, Jjangaon and Thorrur have been postponed by the election authorities.Elections to 116…
Hyderabad, Feb 13 (IANS) Telangana BJP president N. Ramchander Rao claimed on Friday that the results of municipal elections made it clear that the political landscape of Telangana is undergoing a decisive shift. Reacting to the results of the elections for 116 municipalities and seven corporations, he stated that the saffron wave is marching ahead in Telangana“BRS is gone: A party that once dominated urban local bodies has witnessed a dramatic collapse. From a towering 1,341 wards earlier, it…
Hyderabad, Feb 13 (IANS) Telangana’s ruling Congress party has won nearly 60 per cent of urban local bodies, the results show on Friday night.The Congress party captured power in 64 out of 116 municipalities and three out of seven corporations.Main Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) bagged 13 municipalities, while Forward Block captured one urban local body.There were no clear winners in 38 municipalities. This triggered camp politics by both Congress and BRS to lure independents and othe…
Hyderabad, Feb 9 (IANS) Campaigning for municipal elections in Telangana came to an end on Monday.Polling in seven municipal corporations and 116 municipalities will be held on Wednesday (February 11).A total of 12,930 candidates are in the fray for 2,996 wards in the 123 urban local bodies.As many as 52.43 lakh voters are eligible to cast their votes in the municipal elections. They comprise 25.62 lakh men, 26.80 lakh women and 640 others.The State Election Commission has set up 8,203 polling c…
Hyderabad, Feb 5 (IANS) Alleging a secret understanding between BRS and BJP for the municipal elections, Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Thursday alleged that the BJP is taking ‘protection money’ to shield BRS leaders in various scams. He challenged the BJP government at the Centre to arrest former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) and his son K. T. Rama Rao (KTR) in the Kaleshwaram and Formula E race cases, respectively.Addressing a public meeting as part of the Congres…
Hyderabad, Feb 5 (IANS) BRS leader R. S. Praveen Kumar has urged Harvard Kennedy School to revoke the certificate awarded recently to Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for the executive education program, citing a large number of criminal cases. In an email sent to President Alan Garber and Dean Jeremy Weinstein on Thursday, Praveen Kumar wrote that Revanth Reddy stands accused in 89 criminal cases, the highest among any Indian Chief Minister, according to affidavits analysed by the Asso…
Hyderabad, Feb 4 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, on Wednesday, appealed to people to vote for the ruling Congress party in the municipal elections to ensure that welfare and development programmes continue in the state. Launching the party’s campaign for the February 11 municipal elections at Miryalguda in Nalgonda district, he promised that Congress would transform municipalities into models of development.Listing out the welfare schemes implemented by the Congress governmen…
Hyderabad, Feb 3 (IANS) Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar will hear the petition for the disqualification of MLA Kadiyam Srihari on Wednesday (February 4).The Speaker has asked Kadiyam Srihari and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA and petitioner K.P. Vivekanand to appear for the hearing.The Speaker, who is the chairman of the tribunal under the 10th Schedule of the Constitution of India, will record the evidence on behalf of the petitioner.Srihari, a former deputy chief minister, is …