VIJAYAWADA: TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu will take oath as the new chief minister of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday along with his council of ministers. The swearing-in ceremony will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, BJP chief JP Nadda, Union minister Bandi Sanjay and other NDA leaders.Jana Sena chief…
NEW DELHI: TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday clarified his party’s stance regarding the formation of the upcoming Union government in India. In a press briefing, he expressed his firm support for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which is at its lowest point in the last 15 years.Chandrababu Naidu said, “You always want…
Amidst the excitement of Lok Sabha elections, the two big assembly polls saw major upsets as BJP uprooted Naveen Patnaik’s BJD, ending an unbroken 24-year stint in Odisha, and N Chandrababu Naidu made a dramatic comeback in Andhra Pradesh with his TDP-led alliance ousting YSRCP’s YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.BJP rode anti-incumbency sentiment against Naveen, harping…
TIRUPATI/COIMBATORE/HYDERABAD: NIA on Tuesday arrested a techie from Andhra Pradesh‘s Anantapur district and a former convict who was in transit in Telangana in connection with the Rameshwaram cafe blast in Bengaluru on March 1. The probe agency also searched houses of two doctors in Coimbatore.NIA sleuths searched the residence of a retired principal in Rayadurgam…
NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday made an appeal to the women voters across the country, reaffirming her party’s commitment to provide an annual sum of Rs 1 lakh to a woman from poor families if voted to power.In a video message, Sonia noted the significant role played by women in the…
Andhra’s Assembly polls on Monday will decide the fate of not only CM Jagan Mohan Reddy but also the governance model he’s built in the last five years.Soon after taking office in 2019, Reddy initiated a volunteer system akin to ‘customer relationship managers’ at banks. In a bid to create a single-point contact for delivery…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused Congress of “stabbing Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar in the back” by giving reservations based on religion.Addressing a election rally in Madhya Pradesh, PM Modi said, “Congress provided reservation on the basis of religion in 2004, stabbing Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, architect of the Constitution, in the back.”“Our Constitution…
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LONDON: Two Indian students were Wednesday found dead in the water at a popular sightseeing spot in Scotland. The bodies of the two men were recovered on Wednesday night by emergency services from the water at the Linn of Tummel, picturesque roaring waterfalls surrounded by rocks situated northwest of Pitlochry in Perthshire, where the rivers…
NEW DELHI: Mainstreaming the 46 lakh dropouts/missing children in secondary and senior secondary level is top priority of Centre in the first 100-days of the next govt as well as of the five-year agenda for school education. One of the plans is to enable students who don’t qualify for classes XI and upwards to allow…
