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  1. Kiran baiter quits his MLA seat

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    / November 29, 2012 /
    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...

  2. Jaya in Bangalore to get Cauvery water

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    / November 29, 2012 /
    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...

  3. `Third umpire’ rules Azhar not out

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    / November 8, 2012 /
    Mohammed Azharuddin would finally be a relieved man. The Andhra Pradesh High Court has ruled that his life ban from cricket is unsustainable by law. The former India captain who was banned twelve years ago on charges of match fixing, has been fighting a legal battle against BCCI’s decision. Now...

  4. Yerran Naidu dies in road accident

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    / November 2, 2012 / 3 Comments
    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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    / October 31, 2012 / 2 Comments
    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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    / October 30, 2012 /
    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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    / October 26, 2012 /
    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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    / October 25, 2012 /
    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. Only Hindu administrators for Hindu temples in Kerala

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    / October 25, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Only Hindu MLAs who believe in God will be entitled for election to the membership of the Devaswom Boards in Kerala, a decision that has now come under attack. The three Devaswom Boards administer the temple of Travancore, Kochi and Malabar. Of this the Travancore Devaswom Board is the richest...

  10. Hyderabad beckons. In 2013

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    / October 24, 2012 /
    It has come as an pleasant surprise for most Hyderabadis that their city has been selected by Lonely Planet as the 3rd best city to travel in 2013. In its note, Lonely Planet says : “Hyderabad was once the capital of a filthy-rich princely state. After India’s independence, the palaces...

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