President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday conferred Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, on former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan and two-time former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, posthumously at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
The setback could derail Rao's ambitions to expand the BRS's influence beyond Telangana and establish a national presence.
With the Congress in power in the state and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) snapping at its heels, the BRS is now fighting an existential battle.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Rajasthan on July 7 and 8 during which he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of about 50 projects worth around Rs 50,000 crore, official sources said Tuesday.
His five-year rule saw the Babri Masjid demolition, the rise of the saffron forces and also the country being placed firmly on a new economic path, away from the Nehru years of public sector socialism.
Polling is underway to elect 119 members of the Telangana Legislative Assembly, with voters queuing up to exercise their franchise amid tight security on Thursday.
2019 was the Bharatiya Janata Party's breakout year, when it stretched the boundaries of what was thought possible and ended up with 303 seats on its own steam. Now it is forced to play defence, on a pitch queered by too many variables, asserts Prem Panicker.
Experts foresee possible scenarios: A BRS government with less majority, a BRS government with BJP and AIMIM support, or a Congress government.
Amit Shah believes Bandi Sanjay Kumar is 'single-handedly' capable of unseating the TRS government in the December 2023 assembly election and there is no need for the BJP's central leaders to jump into the Telangana scene.
24x7 power supply to farmers emerges as a political lightning rod in the state.
The situation raises concerns about whether the promised freebies will once again push the state into a revenue deficit.
The development comes days ahead of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the state to inaugurate various projects.
Narendra D Modi and his party campaigned in these elections uncharacteristically without any big ideas. Of course, winning each election at all costs could be a big idea as well, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Although the BRS is projecting supreme confidence, who will be able to tap anti-incumbency -- the BJP or Sharmila plus the Congress -- remains to be seen.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Telangana president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday said his party, when it comes to power in the state, would abolish minority reservations and provide the benefit to Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and others.
The Telangana unit of the Congress has requested Member of Parliament Ponnam Prabhakar to vacate his Karimnagar seat and make way for party vice president Rahul Gandhi.
Speaking to reporters after visiting the flood-hit Bhadrachalam town in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district, Rao announced allocation of Rs 1,000 crore as a rehabilitation package for the temple town to build colonies in highlands for a permanent solution from flood threat.
In these raids being conducted since Sunday morning, the NIA said, it has seized incriminating materials, including digital devices, documents, two daggers and cash Rs 8,31,500.
The incident, which took place on April 15 evening, came to light on Wednesday after local television channels flashed the CCTV footage showing the alleged torture at the 'Shishu Gruha'.
Over 1,000 people from six villages in Karimnagar district have been evacuated in the wake of flooding as heavy rains continue to lash Telangana for the last few days.
An MP from Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh on Friday filed a complaint against eminent scholar Ashis Nandy, for making remarks alleged to be anti-Dalit at the Jaipur Literature Festival, police said.
A top leader of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist was arrested by the police in Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday. Hailing from Karimnagar district in the backward Telangana region, Amar headed the Janashakti group as its central committee secretary.
Scores of Telangana Rashtra Samithi workers and activists of separate statehood groups were on Monday taken into preventive custody at different places when they tried to stop the convoy of YSR Congress Honorary President Y S Vijayamma who was on her way to hold a 'dharna' in support of weavers' problem in Sircilla of Karimnagar district.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti and Telangana Joint Action Committee have set the tone for the indefinite mass strike from Tuesday with a massive show of strength in Karimnagar district.
A complaint has been lodged in Godavarikhani in Karimnagar district.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao was on Sunday detained near Karimnagar ahead of his proposed fast unto death for separate Telangana.
The police said incident occurred this evening when he was participating in a road show in Husnabad mandal of Karimnagar district. "As he waved back his hands in response to the reception by his fans and supporters, his hand touched an over head electric wire and he collapsed on the roof of his vehicle", an onlooker said.
The fresh additions come a little more than six months after his earlier cabinet expansion on February 19.
Five more deaths were reported in the last week.
Shah had on Tuesday attended a party event in Lucknow where he said that the Opposition is spreading rumours about the CAA.
Balvinder, an electronics engineer who worked in Bengaluru, was reportedly depressed after he failed to crack the civil service exams, which led to him having an argument with his parents and, in a fit of rage, removed his sword and stabbed his father in the head and mother in the abdomen.
One of them is a cleric from Karimnagar district.
Land-locked Telangana, all set to become the country's 29th state soon, is spread over an area of over 1.14 lakh square kilometres, and boasts of considerable mineral wealth under its soil.
Dwivedi, son of BJP's district unit president of Allahabad Ramraksha Dwivedi, had reportedly announced a reward of Rs 1 crore for chopping off the tongue of Owaisi and called the AIMIM chief a 'traitor' who has no right to live in India.
The Andhra Pradesh Police on Wednesday sought seven-day custody of MIM legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi after he was remanded in 14-day judicial custody in Adilabad district following his arrest in a "hate speech" case.
All these trains began from Delhi between March 13 and March 19 - the Duronto Express to Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, the Grand Trunk Express to Chennai, the Tamil Nadu Express to Chennai, New Delhi-Ranchi Rajdhani Express and the AP Sampark Kranti Express.
Most of those who tested positive either recently arrived from African countries or were in contact with such people.
Barely a week after an MBA student from Warangal in Andhra Pradesh ended his life over separate Telangana state, a 23-year-old youth from the district has allegedly committed suicide over "inaction" on part of politicians from the region in pursuing the cause, sources said on Sunday.
Telangana has been witnessing high temperatures for several days now and the highest maximum temperature of 43 degree Celsius was recorded.
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