While the BJP went back to the drawing board to recraft its political and governance outreach and regained momentum by notching up surprisingly big wins in a string of assembly polls, the burst of fresh optimism in the main opposition Congress and other INDIA bloc parties fizzled out.
The theme for this year is "Yoga for One Earth, One Health" echoes India's vision of global wellness.
Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu's only son Nara Lokesh will soon follow in his father's footsteps and may contest the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The preferred format would be for the top BJP leadership in the government to reach out to the alliance leaders on a case-to-case basis.
Andhra Pradesh's IT and Electronics Minister Nara Lokesh has pitched port city of Vizag in his state for setting up a data centre to Google Cloud CEO, saying the new government in the state has taken various initiatives for supporting industry that will help it transform into a cloud infrastructure hub. The state is focused on setting up data centres in Visakhapatnam and the minister invited Google Cloud to establish its data centre in the port city.
While the coalition will not be unstable because of pressures, the effort from partners will be to constantly remind the central government and the BJP how much it is dependent on them.
Breaking the five-day-long stand-off, the Maharashtra government has decided to release all Telugu Desam leaders, including its president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu by withdrawing the cases registered against them.
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister is on a three-day visit with the hope of bringing the Grand Prix to India.
Having largely developed the Telangana region during its rule in Andhra Pradesh, only the Telugu Desam could rebuild a modern Telangana once the new state comes into existence, party president N Chandrababu Naidu said in Hyderabad on Saturday.
The chief minister wondered why the prime minister could not even say he would do justice to AP by rectifying the mistakes.
After the meeting with Kalam, Third Front leaders appealed to the United Progressive Alliance, the National Democratic Alliance and other parties to support Kalam for a second term in office.
Trump's tariffs, falling shrimp prices, and fears of additional US levies, spark a crisis in Andhra Pradesh's politically vital aquaculture sector.
'We want to ensure that no government in J&K will be formed without our support.'
The condition of Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu "deteriorated" further on Tuesday even as he continued with his indefinite hunger strike seeking justice for farmers for the fifth day.
Sharing of dais with Narendra Modi in New Delhi and numerous other indications that N Chandrababu Naidu was fast heading towards renewed friendship with the Bharatiya Janata Party has left the Muslim leaders of Telugu Desam Party fuming with anger and frustration.
Telugu Desam Party supremo Chandrababu Naidu's visit to the Karnataka Raj Bhavan on Tuesday has set tongues wagging in Andhra Pradesh.
TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu consistently emphasises, among others, the issue during his campaign, alleging that the state has been supplying poor quality liquor while profiting immensely from 'inflated' prices, running to thousands of crores of rupees.
A war of words between Chandrababu Naidu and YSR Rajasekhar Reddy lead to commotion in the House.
The Supreme Court on Friday junked a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged use of animal fat in making Tirupati laddus under the previous Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy-led regime.
The Telugu Desam president and a leading figure in the third front N Chandrababu Naidu has ruled out the possibility of any body being projected as the prime ministerial candidate of the third front before the elections.
Telugu Desam president and former Andhra Pradesh chief miniser Chandrababu Naidu has dismissed the entry of former Indian cricket team captain Mohamemd Azharuddin as inconsequential and said that his joining the Congress party will not have any impact on the party.
The petition filed by the wife of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister late Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy says that there is no real record to show the income Naidu earned, as his only source of income was from his career as a politician.
India must urgently adopt 'open sky' policy to give a fillip to the tourism industry, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said on Thursday.\n\n\n\n
Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu has condemned Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's claim that he met him on the Telangana statehood issue.
Fasting Telegu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu was shifted to the ICU of a hospital as his condition worsened further even as Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy appeared unwilling to accept his demand for enhanced compensation to rain-hit farmers.
A day after he was sent packing to Andhra Pradesh along with his supporters, Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu slammed the Maharashtra government on Wednesday saying it treated them as "political prisoners" during their five-day detention at Dharmabad in the neighbouring state.
Emotional scenes were witnessed across the country as the last rites of those killed in shelling by Pakistan during the recent military conflict with India were performed on Sunday.
In a letter to the prime minister, he had demanded Dr Singh to visit Mudigonda village to console the families of the police firing victims.
Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu has said a "Third Front" would form the next government at the Centre and his party would play a decisive role in that.
'All my wealth I earned in the US. It is all money earned transparently. I have paid all taxes.'
'The karyakartas who wanted to contest were disappointed and it took some time to explain to them why we needed an alliance.'
He was accompanied by his wife N Bhuvaneswari and mother N Ammanamma.
They met at Modi's residence in New Delhi a day after the NDA won a majority of seats in the Lok Sabha election, paving the way for him to take the oath for a third consecutive term, a first for any ruling alliance since 1962.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy on Tuesday dared Leader of Opposition and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to agree to an enquiry commission to investigate the wealth accumulated by them and their family members over the last three decades. Dr Reddy lambasted Naidu for alleging that he was making Rs one crore per hour through corrupt means. In fact, during his nine-year rule, Naidu was used to earning income on an hourly basis, the CM alleged.
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