1. Saina for Congress in Gujarat?

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    After using children from Sri Lanka in one of its ads to show malnutrition in Gujarat, now the state Congress has used badminton star Saina Nehwal in its ad campaign. According to Saina’s father, no permission was sought from the player or her family for using her photograph.
  2. Kiran baiter quits his MLA seat

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    Peddireddy Rama Chandra Reddy resigned from the Andhra Pradesh assembly today, since his demand that the chief minister should be replaced was not met by the Congress leadership. Reddy who has a long-running feud with Kiran Kumar Reddy (both hail from Chittoor district) had said he will resign by November...
  3. Jaya in Bangalore to get Cauvery water

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    At 3 pm today, the chief ministers of Tamilnadu and Karnataka will meet in Bangalore to discuss sharing the waters of the Cauvery river. This will be the first time in 15 years that the two CMs will meet on the issue. The meeting comes after the Supreme court caustically...
  4. Yerran Naidu dies in road accident

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    Tragic news from Srikakulam where senior TDP leader and former Union minister Yerran Naidu was killed in a road accident when his car collided with an oil tanker. He was returning from Visakhapatnam, Naidu was a four-time MP and four-time MLA and the TDP’s face in Delhi for many years...
  5. Man tweets about Karti Chidambaram, gets arrested

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    After the Chinmayi incident, one more arrest related to tweeting. A small scale industrialist was arrested on the charge of posting `offensive’ messages on the social networking site Twitter against Karti Chidambaram, son of the Union Finance minister. The man was subsequently let off on bail. Karti had filed a...
  6. Cyclone Nilam threatens the TN-AP coast

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    The coastal districts of Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh too are bracing for a cyclone – Cyclone Nilam. The deep depression which had formed in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclone and will make landfall on Wednesday between Nagapattinam and Nellore. At landfall, the wind speeds are expected...
  7. Who’s in, who’s out from Andhra Pradesh

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    Chiranjeevi : In Kotla Suryaprakash Reddy : In Balram Naik : In Krupa Rani : Should we? Renuka Chowdhary : Well … Do we have space for her? I mean, as in two ministers from Telangana … N Yellaiah : Well … K Sambasiva Rao : Naa … too pro-United....
  8. SUN TV buys Hyderabad IPL team

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    Hyderabad stays on in the IPL. After Deccan Chargers franchise was terminated after the Deccan Chronicle group defaulted on payments, the BCCI had invited bids and today Sun TV group won the bid and will pay 85 crore rupees per year. The second best bid was from PVP Ventures at...
  9. Maradona magic in Kerala

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    If Kerala, the land where soccer is religion is going crazy, blame it on the man responsible for the infamous `hand of God’ goal. Diego Maradona, the God of soccer for lakhs of football fans in God’s own country is in Kannur on Tuesday and Wednesday to inaugurate a jewellery...
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    Some photographs taken from Facebook which shows how Facebook actually has invaded different parts of our real life too. The first photograph is courtesy Sandeep Verma and shot in Kochi in Kerala. The photograph of the pandal is courtesy Sabyasachi Amitav.

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