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…
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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 …
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…