New Delhi : The Supreme court today ordered former Uttarakhand chief minister N D Tiwari to provide blood sample for a DNA test in a paternity case. Tiwari was reportedly very upset at the order, questioning if it was appropriate to ask a 86-year-old man to donate blood. When Tenali Rama met Tiwari for his … Continue reading
Hyderabad : “The Koh-i-noor in Britain is a fake that was probably bought at Hyderabad’s Jummeraat Bazaar, a market for stolen goods in the city,” declared H.Y.D. Reddy, Chief Archaeologist, after the original Kohinoor was among the diamonds found during the treasure hunt at the city’s Vidyaranya school. The treasure even by conservative estimates, is worth … Continue reading
Thiruvananthapuram / New Delhi : All trade unions in Kerala have called for a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the state on Friday to protest against Anna Hazare’s statement on alcoholism. Anna’s views on drinking are very well known and he recently referred to the practise in his village to tie a drunkard to a pole and … Continue reading
New Delhi : A family in central Delhi has accused a bakery owner in Lucknow of unethical behaviour on the occasion of the party thrown by the little boy of the house. The Gandhis, an influential family whose forefathers always ordered cakes from Uttar Pradesh, found that the bakery owner, a lady called Mayawati had … Continue reading
Vizianagaram : The Andhra Pradesh High court has asked the CBI to probe into the assets of Telugu Desam president Chandrababu Naidu. The former chief minister decided to talk directly from Vizianagaram, where he is touring, to the people of the state to get his point of view across. Following is the transcript of what … Continue reading
Hyderabad : Chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has decided to return to his first love : Cricket. Kiran has a lot of political trouble on his plate but he surely keeps one eye on the scoreboard. The scoreboard of the Hyderabad cricket team, that is. Which is why, after the team suffered a humiliating string … Continue reading
New Delhi : Sometime in the future : The Guinness Book of World Records is confused. And fed up. They have revised their latest edition eight times already, thanks to the entry `The maximum number of statues in the world’. The record has to be revised, with Mayawati and late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy competing … Continue reading
New Delhi : He has nothing to do with the Telangana imbroglio but from inside Tihar Jail, former Commonwealth Games boss Suresh Kalmadi has suddenly become a player in the statehood dispute. He is busy convincing leaders from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema to agree to bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, give up claim on Hyderabad and … Continue reading
New Delhi : Even as Congress general secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad is engaged in consultations to find a solution to the Telangana imbroglio, the Prime Minister’s Office has received an anonymous letter. The PMO has forwarded it to Mr Azad, with a covering note that the letter contains an out-of-the-box … Continue reading
Hyderabad : In a first in the country, chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has taken oath again as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. The move was necessitated as the cricketer-turned-politician was increasingly feeling as if he was not the CM of the state. There has been unrest in the Telangana region for the last … Continue reading
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