With Jagan Mohan Reddy completing a year in jail after his arrest in a disproportionate assets case, his wife Bharathi on Sunday attacked the Central Bureau of Investigation, alleging it was controlled by partisan interests and had delayed probe to keep him in prison.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from farmers and their associations, and the Centre to a plea by the Andhra Pradesh government challenging the high court decision which said the state legislature "lacked competence" to make any law for shifting, bifurcating or trifurcating the capital.
With the five-year term of Reserve Bank of India Governor Y V Reddy coming to an end soon, names of his deputy Rakesh Mohan and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia are emerging as potential successors, a media report said in London.
According to the officials of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, one of their sanitary workers was badly injured due to the storm and calamitic conditions in the state.
Three of the fence-sitters rule fairly large states Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha that together send 63 members to Lok Sabha -- where the Congress or other opposition parties have been pushed to the margins.
T S Sudhir speaks to K T Rama Rao, TRS member of legislative assembly and son of party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, on how the Parkal by-poll result will help the Telangana cause and the bitter political rivalry between his party and the BJP.
On Monday, June 10, 2024, Prime Minister Narendra D Modi held the first meeting of his Cabinet at his residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg.
The Andhra Pradesh high court will give its verdict on Saturday on the Central Bureau of Investigation's petition seeking the custody of YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy. The court will also pass its judgement on a quash petition challenging Jagan's arrest on charges of corruption and other economic offences.
Rejecting allegations that the Central Bureau of Investigation was acting against YS Jagan Mohan Reddy at the behest of the government and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the ruling party on Monday accused the YSR Congress chief and his family of making baseless accusations for the sake of "political benefit".
A Central Bureau of Investigation court on Thursday denied interim anticipatory bail to Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in connection with the alleged disproportionate assets case pending against him.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam seems to be fighting back in Tamil Nadu ahead of the Lok Sabha elections with the party recording an eight per cent increase in its vote share in the past month, while Congress turns out to be Telangana's first choice at the Centre, according to a pre-poll survey.
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday issued attachment orders on properties worth Rs 51 crore in its money laundering probe against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy and his associates.
'It has changed the political character of India by ejecting socialism as an ideology from the Constitution of India.'
Another issue on the party's agenda is the expansion of the ruling NDA, which has seen steady depletion in the recent years with traditional BJP allies like the Janata Dal-United and Akali Dal leaving the grouping.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi is all set to move a No-Confidence Motion against the ruling Congress government in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.
A local court in Vijayawada remanded Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu in judicial custody for 14 days in an alleged multi-crore corruption scam on Sunday.
Lashing out at Congress President Sonia Gandhi for "playing with the lives of Telugu people" and "murdering democracy in broad daylight", YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday called on Telugu people to give 30 Lok Sabha seats to his party in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections to stop the division of Andhra Pradesh.
The Board Of Control For Cricket In India chief and managing director of India Cements, N Srinivasan, has said that he has done nothing illegal. Srinivasan has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation for questioning in connection with the Jagan Mohan Reddy disproportionate assets case.
Eleven MLAs from the Congress and the Telugu Desam Party have expressed their willingness to quit their respective parties and join Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress, say sources close to the leader.On Friday, Congress MLA A Nani had openly supported YSR Congress chief Jagan.Today, Congress leader Ranga Rao from Bobili constituency announced his decision to quit the Congress and join Jagan. He is likely to formally join the YSR Congress by Saturday evening.
An arrest in this case is imminent, but it may not take place immediately, says Vicky Nanjappa
The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth Rs 143.74 crore in connection with its probe in the money laundering case against YSR Congress party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy. The attachment order, under criminal provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, is the third by the agency after it issued two separate attachment orders of Rs 51 crore and Rs 71 crore earlier, in this case.
In a major setback to YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Central Bureau of Investigation court on Monday rejected all three petitions which had challenged the CBI action freezing accounts of three of his holdings.
YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy will legally oppose the move by the Central Bureau of Investigation to freeze various accounts connected to him, including those of Sakshi TV, Janani infra and Jagathi publications. CBI, which is probing a case of disproportionate assets against Jagan Mohan Reddy, has frozen the accounts of the above mentioned companies as it believes that money procured illegally is parked in these three companies.
In fresh trouble for YSR Congress chief and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Central Bureau of Investigation is freezing the accounts of three companies owned by him, including the Sakshi TV.
Rao's death triggered a political slugfest in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh with the Telugu Desam Party holding the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government there responsible for the veteran leader's suspected suicide.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to file an additional chargesheet against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy before the CBI court on Thursday
The BJP is focusing determinedly on the seats it lost in 2019, with the hope of winning these either independently or with the aid of its allies.
The Karnataka high court on Tuesday rejected a petition challenging the fast undertaken by Anna Hazare in connection with the Lokpal Bill. A division bench comprising Justices Ram Mohan Reddy and Venugopal Gowda stated that there is no violation in undertaking such a protest.
BJP leaders Manohar Lal Khattar, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Bandi Sanjay Kumar and Ravneet Singh Bittu may be among the new faces in the Union council of ministers which will be sworn on Sunday evening along with Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed a supplementary charge-sheet in the alleged disproportionate assets case of Kadapa Member of Parliament Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. It is a supplementary charge-sheet for the first charge-sheet which was filed against Jagan on March 31, according to CBI's Deputy Legal Advisor B Ravindhra Nath.
Dressed in traditional finery, Muslims across India offered prayers at mosques and eidgahs on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr on Thursday, marking the end of the holy month of Ramzan.
Sangma met YSR Congress honorary president and Jagan's mother Y S Vijaya Lakshmi and other important leaders of the party at her residence here and urged them to support him.
The court converted Naidu's four-week interim medical bail in this case into absolute bail and ordered the former chief minister's release on regular bail, considering his age, old age-related ailments, non-flight risk and other reasons.
Board of Cricket Control in India chief and India Cements Managing Director N Srinivasan on Monday appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the disproportionate assets cases against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The arrest of YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy has sent shockwaves through the Congress, with most senior leaders dubbing it as a suicidal move, and which has the potential of finishing off the party in Andhra Pradesh.
In an interview with rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, senior Andhra Pradesh Congress leader Madhu Yaskhi, who has been battling for the cause of Telangana, speaks in great detail about how Jagan's arrest could affect his political fortunes in the time to come.
Rallying behind her son, Vijayamma, mother of YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy along with other members of her family staged a dharna outside the Dilkusha Guest Huse in Hyderabad.
YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy will be questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation for a third day in a row. After being questioned for nearly seven hours on Saturday, the CBI has directed Jagan to be present for questioning on Sunday at 10.30 am. Jagan, who left the CBI office after today's questioning, told media personnel that he had given certain clarifications to answer the questions related to the illegal assets case that the agency is probing.
YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday walked free after being questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation for about seven hours in the illegal assets case.
YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday walked free after being questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation for about seven hours in the illegal assets case.
