The passing of bills without Parliament, including the treasury benches, having any real understanding of what they contained through any rigorous process has accelerated through the Modi era, points out Aakar Patel.
Later, Puneri Paltan beat Bengal Warriorz 49-44.
Bharat Hooda powered Telegu Titans to a 45-37 win over U Mumba in the Pro Kabddi League in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.
In the absence of Sehrawat, Narwal took charge of the raiding department, while a combined defensive performance inflicted an early 'all out' on the Haryana Steelers. The Steelers were trailing by six points 10 minutes into the game.
'For the first time in this country, perhaps the first time anywhere, we are going to use backwardness index.' 'It is a fundamental shift in the discourse in the country's social justice.'
It was a star-studded evening at Abu Dhabi as Rohit Sharma met Iker Casillas at the NBA Games 2024 in Abu Dhabi on Friday.
In the 2nd match of the day, Dabang Delhi registered a crucial win over Puneri Paltan.
Vijay Malik shone bright with 14 points to help Telugu Titans edge past Bengal Warriorz 31-29 and register their third straight victory in the Pro Kabaddi League in Noida on Thursday.
Surinder Dehal and Pardeep Narwal were in fine form for the Bengaluru Bulls, who inflicted an ALL-OUT on the Telugu Titans, midway through the second phase.
Dhoni and his wife Sakshi joined forces with CSK bowling maestro Dwayne Bravo for an energetic round of Dandiya.
Thackeray said leaders of the Congress and other parties are holding talks with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Telegu Desam Party (TDP) head Chandrababu Naidu to explore the possibility of their entry into the bloc.
In the purported five-second clip, Reddy is seen addressing a poll rally in Nalgonda on Tuesday and is heard saying in Telegu 'Sonia Gandhi is going to give the CM position to me if the party comes to power. There is no one senior to me here'.
This 18-year old actress of mixed parentage is a promising talent in Telegu cinema.
In other matches on the day, Telegu Titans and Tamil Thalaivas finished the match at 40-40, while U Mumba beat Bengaluru Bulls 46-30.
The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau on Monday arrested a second party legislator Sandra Venkata Veeraiah after interrogating him in connection with the case.
The police said ever since Chandrasherkar has been jailed, the prison had become a hub of illegal activities which he carried out with the help of jail officials.
Banerjee also alleged that instead of using the spyware for the security of the country, it was used by the central government which she claimed purchased it, for "political" reasons against Judges and officials.
Jhunjhunwala passed away early on Sunday morning due to a cardiac arrest, a source in his newly set up airline said.
The Bombay high court on Friday extended till February 5, the date of surrender for poet Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case who is currently on medical bail, before Taloja prison authorities in Maharashtra.
Leading the congratulatory messages from the film industry for the ace shuttler were Aamir Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
The no-confidence notice moved by 6 Congress parliamentarians against the UPA government on the Telangana issue has found favour with 84 more Seema-Andhra leaders.
A call made by Mamata Banerjee to Vijayamma, wife of late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Dr Y S Rajashekhar Reddy and mother of Jagan Mohan Reddy, is adding frown lines to the faces of Congress and Telegu Desam Party leaders alike.
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Many of her political opponents raised a hue and cry over the issue.
Raising pitch to suspend operation Green Hunt, Naxal sympathiser and Telegu poet Varavara Rao on Sunday dubbed Maoist leader Kishenji's encounter as a "political murder".
Slain Maoist leader Kishenji's body was identified by his niece Deepa Rao at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital morgue on Saturday morning as preparations were on for the post-mortem in the presence of forensic experts, police said.
In an interview with rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, Keshav explains his stand on the issue and says that the best way to solve the problem is to educate the people of Telangana about the benefits they would have if they remained in Andhra Pradesh.
In Andhra Pradesh, as the Congress government tightens the noose on Jaganmohan Reddy with the arrest of his close aide in alleged corruption cases, the YSR Congress camp is training its gun on Chandrababu Naidu.
Hemalatha, wife of Telugu poet Varavara Rao who was arrested for alleged links with Maoists, said he was arrested several times earlier also and no case has been established against him... "He wants to spread his ideology through the pen (writings), not the gun."
While the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh grapples to keep its flock together following the resignation of 29 members of legislative assembly in support of beleaguered YSR Congress president and member of Parliament YS Jaganmohan Reddy, the latter's next move would totally depend on the Telegu Desam Party.
With the Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly rejecting the resignations of all members of legislative assembly from the Telangana region, the Congress MLAs are locked up in a meeting to decide on the next course of action.
In a major setback to Telegu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu, the Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday ordered an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation against him. The court, while disposing off a petition, ordered the CBI to conduct a detailed probe into the assets and wealth owned by him. The petition was filed by Vijayamma, wife of late chief minister Y S Rajasekara Reddy.
This is what the Union government has to offer to the people of Telangana: We will ensure Hyderabad is no longer a free zone. As talks between the Union government and the Telangana members of legislative assemble and members of Parliament continue, the deadlock continues as well.
Five MLAs - three from the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti and two from the Telegu Desam Party -- were suspended for seven days from the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for unruly behaviour during Governor E S L Narasimhan's address to the joint Legislature session. T Harish Rao, K Sammaiah, Vidyasagar (all TRS), A Revanth Reddy and P Mahender Reddy (both TDP) were suspended.
The Andhra Pradesh Legislature descended into chaos today when Telangana Rashtriya Samiti and Telegu Desam Party MLAs hailing from Telangana region virtually manhandled Governor E S L Narasimhan during which the mike and the lectern were uprooted and chairs on the podium pulled down.
The Telangana Rashtriya Samiti, spearheading the Telangana statehood movement, rejected a fresh appeal by Home Minister P Chidambaram to participate in Thursday's meeting to discuss the Justice Srikrishna report, even as Congress held hectic parleys with its leaders from Andhra Pradesh on ways to deal with the situation.
The much-hyped no-confidence motion proposed by the Telegu Desam Party is expected to be a no-show.
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.
Sixteen years after he dethroned his father-in-law N T Rama Rao to become the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Telegu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday broke his silence and said the "revolt" was only made to save the party and the state.
The political fate of former Kadapa member of Parliament Jagan Mohan Reddy and his mother Vijayalakshmi will be decided with the counting of votes on May 13. Vicky Nanjappa takes stock of the situation at ground zero.
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