When the Telangana RTC unions went on strike, they presented 26 demands on the table. But what got highlighted the most was its demand to merge the RTC with the government, something […]
In the Telangana bus strike, everyone is a loser
Jagan’s emphasis on school infrastructure and English medium is praiseworthy
It helps that National Education Day (birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad) and Children’s Day (birth anniversary of Pt Jawaharlal Nehru) fall within three days of each other. The Andhra Pradesh government has […]
Decoding the Supreme Court verdict on Karnataka MLAs
The Supreme Court, in a nutshell, has done a bit of a balancing act with its verdict on Karnataka. While it has upheld the then Speaker Ramesh Kumar’s decision to disqualify the […]
Telangana dumps Globarena after Intermediate Exam fiasco, trains counsellers
The Board of Intermediate Education has gone back to the Centre for Good Governance to provide it with the technical back-up for the conduct of the Intermediate exams. This was after the […]
EPS predicts a Rajini-Kamal flop show
Edappadi Palaniswami has turned an astrologer. The Tamil Nadu chief minister has predicted that Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth would meet the same fate as Sivaji Ganesan. No, he was not referring to […]
What will it take for AIADMK to dump its banner and flagpole culture?
Can the AIADMK, for heavens sake, eschew its pathetic culture of erecting its banners and flagposts everytime it has a party event or a family function of a party member? Because its […]
TN Seshan, the officer who demonstrated the Election Commission could bite
The country remembers Thirunellai Narayanswamy Seshan as the man who gave teeth to the Election Commission and made it a body to respect and fear. But those in the Tamil Nadu IAS […]
Hyderabad introduces the Any Time Idli
It is an innovation that is bound to please Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a self-confessed lover of the typical Chennai breakfast of idli-sambar. What would make the PM more happy is that […]
Hunger drove Divya to a school everyday. This is what happened next
For the past many months, Divya would look forward to the mid-day meal during lunch time at the Government Deval Jhamsingh Primary school in Navodaya colony in Mehdipatnam in Hyderabad. No, Divya […]
Telangana : Tales of distress amidst mess in land records and corruption
The morning after Mandal Revenue Officer Vijaya Reddy’s ghastly murder, a video of a dharna by revenue department officials at the Gundala tehsildar office in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district went viral. It showed […]
AP Chief Secretary ouster : Naidu will be pleased with Jagan’s decision. Here’s why
Chandrababu Naidu has no reason to approve of any decision that his bete noire Jaganmohan Reddy takes. But he would take a vicarious pleasure in witnessing the humiliating ouster of Chief Secretary […]
The Three Mistakes of LV Subramanyam
If YS Jaganmohan Reddy wanted the message to go out loud and clear to the IAS and IPS officers in Andhra Pradesh, the consensus is that he succeeded. The manner in which […]
High drama in AP : The Inside story of why the Chief Secretary was shunted out
In order to understand why Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary LV Subramanyam was shunted out rather unceremoniously, you need to rewind to what happened last Tuesday. During a videoconference on Spandana programme to […]
Chief Secretary vs Principal Secretary in Jagan regime. What’s cooking?
The simmering tension in the top echelons of the Andhra Pradesh government has come to the fore. At the heart of it is a tussle for one-upmanship taking place at different levels. […]
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