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…
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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 …
Hyderabad, Feb 2 (IANS) Telangana Jagruthi President K. Kavitha said on Monday that if the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged phone-tapping case during the previous BRS regime, summons her, she would appear before the team and cooperate.Kavitha, daughter of former Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) President K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) reiterated that she suspects her and her husband’s phones were tapped too.“If the SIT issues notice, I will appear before it and…
Hyderabad, Feb 2 (IANS) BRS Working President K.T. Rama Rao on Monday slammed Hyderabad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar for what he called “deciding to be both judge and jury” in the alleged phone tapping case.Rama Rao was reacting to the statement issued by Sajjanar after the questioning of BRS President and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao by the Special Investigation Team (SIT).Sajjanar, who is heading the SIT, had issued a brief statement about the nearly five-hour examination of…
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (IANS) BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao on Sunday alleged that Telangana has once again been denied its rightful share in the latest Union Budget. Reacting to Union Budget 2026-27 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament, he accused the BJP-led Centre of continuing a discriminatory approach towards the State for more than a decade and questioned the Congress-led State government’s inability to secure even minimal allocations.KTR said Chief Minister…
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the telephone-tapping case examined Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and former chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for nearly five hours at his residence here on Sunday.The SIT team left KCR’s Nandi Nagar residence around 8 p.m. after examining him based on the statements given by the accused, including the main accused T. Prabhakar Rao, former chief of Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB).The team, comprising six officia…
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (IANS) The examination of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and former chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the telephone-tapping case was underway at his residence here on Sunday.Amid tight security, a team of SIT officials reached KCR’s house at 3 p.m. in Nandi Nagar in Banjara Hills.The officials were seen carrying documents, believed to be related to the case. The former chief minister was apparently being examined on the basi…
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao reached his residence in Hyderabad on Sunday ahead of his examination by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the telephone-tapping case.KCR, as the BRS chief is popularly known, will be questioned by SIT officials at 3 p.m. on Sunday at his residence in Nandi Nagar in Banjara Hills.Police have tightened security around KCR’s house. Barricades have been erected to stop any gathering n…
Hyderabad, Jan 27 (IANS) Telangana’s main opposition party BRS on Tuesday sought Governor Jishnu Dev Varma’s intervention for a probe by CBI or a sitting judge into the alleged corruption and financial irregularities in the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL).A delegation of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) led by party working president K. T. Rama Rao met the Governor and submitted a representation highlighting alleged irregularities related to tender, procurement, policy, and CSR funds…