July 28: The Opposition made a valiant bid corner the government on the issue of rising prices on Wednesday in both houses of Parliament on Wednesday. However, in the Lok Sabha, the Speaker, Ms Meira Kumar, came to the rescue of the treasury benches by ruling that the adjournment motion on rising prices moved [...]
Read More... July 28: The electoral fortunes of the Pradesh Congress Committee chief, Mr D. Srinivas, wavered on Wednesday with the Election Commission declaring that the final poll percentage of Nizamabad was 45 and not 51.72 as first assumed.
The low voter turnout of 39.5 per cent proved costly for Mr Srinivas in the 2009 elections. The [...]
July 28: Several bigwigs including politicians and businessmen have started lobbying for the post of chairperson of the Tirumala Tirupati Devastanams (TTD), which is going to fall vacant on August 24.
Apart from the outgoing chairman and former MP, Mr D.K. Audikesavulu Naidu, the five-time Guntur MP, Mr Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, the industrialist, Mr Grandhi [...]