The TRS needs to present a new vision and long-term solutions to agrarian distress, unemployment and Hyderabad-centric development. Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao’s (KCR) sweeping victory in Telangana shows that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief has defeated the Congress at its own game of welfare populism. The declaration of the results of the state elections saw […]
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Will An Expensive Vaastu-Compliant ‘Secretariat And Assembly’ Strengthen KCR’s Regime?
Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao laid the foundation stone for a new Assembly-secretariat complex in accordance with Vaastu. Good luck to KCR even as his state faces huge difficulties. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao laid the foundation stone for a new secretariat to be built — reportedly at a cost of Rs 400 crore […]
Checkmate For Chandrababu Naidu – As TDP MPs Join BJP, MLAs May Also Flocked Soon
Is BJP going to wipe out TDP from Andhra Pradesh? Or is the TDP MPs’ and MLAs move to the saffron party actually a clever ploy by Naidu? The situation is clear to observe as the party became extinct and soon dissapeared from the active politics. When the four Rajya Sabha members deserted the Telugu […]
Can Smart Electricity Meters Re-Energise Telangana’s Crumbling Power Distribution Companies?
The dusty electricity meter that records household’s power consumption is acknowledged only once a month, when an agent from the power utility arrives to take the reading and generate a bill. The process is tedious, corruption-prone, and the distribution company has to invest heavily in the manpower required to read every meter, every month. This […]
India’s Drug Problem And The Rising Health Care Cost
What if I told you there was a way to reduce household out of pocket expenditure by about 70% and catastrophic expenditure by 60-70% through merely an improvement in operational efficiency? India has made tremendous strides in life expectancy, maternal and infant mortality rates and HIV prevalence. However, we are now battling with both infectious […]
Water Scarcity Worst-Hit In ‘Slums’, Still Unable To Get Sufficient ‘Drinking Water’ In Hyderabad
Summer season came and gone but the water scarcity still dominates Hyderabad. The worst-case are slum-dwellers. The KCR government promised safe drinking water, Mission Bhageeratha but till time nothing happened, everything remained in promises only. It’s 3 am at BS Maqtha, a densely populated slum in the heart of Hyderabad, just a stone’s throw away […]
Why Andhra Pradesh Rejected Chandrababu Naidu And Telugu Desam Party?
In Telugu speaking states the politician who suffered the biggest losses in 2019 elections was Andhra Pradesh’s three time Chief Minister, N Chandrababu Naidu. A series of political miscalculations led to the decimation of Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party in Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Andhra Pradesh. To begin with, TDP left the National Democratic […]
TRS Working President KTR To Swear In As Telangana CM On July 2!
It’s not a fake news but it may be a big political rumour that Telangana chief minister KCR will step down and flock to national politics and make KTR as a new CM on July 2, 2019. Before the Lok Sabha elections in Telangana, there was a wide talk that TRS chief KCR would be […]
The Plight Of Lawyers And Advocates At ‘Amaravati High Court’ In Andhra Pradesh
It was an out-of-the-blue Presidential order that announced the formation of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on January 1, 2019. This gave High Court lawyers from both the Telugu states very little time to prepare and set their affairs in order before the court was shifted out of Hyderabad to Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh. Close […]
The ‘Fading Glory’ Of Congress Party In ‘Telugu States’
The series of elections in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have not helped the respective State Congress parties to revive their fortunes. While in Andhra Pradesh the party made no efforts in the last five years to bounce back, in Telangana the fortunes of TPCC continues to plummet. It is slipping towards a rather highly embarrassing […]