
Governor C Vidyasagar Rao is expected to decide by this afternoon who will take oath as Tamil Nadu's next Chief Minister and, sources said, is likely to invite E Palanisamy. Governor Rao had heard competing pitches on Wednesday

When the Telangana movement was at its peak, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders under the joint action committee (TJAC) used to hit the streets with agitations and rallies almost every day. The colleges were shut down and students were forced to come on to streets.

V K Sasikala Natarajan, who have been virtually ruling the AIADMK since the death of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, is now going to face the real jail life at Parappana Agrahara in Bengaluru.

It has become a fashion for all the major political parties to commission their own surveys among people periodically to find out their pulse. Since these are commissioned surveys, the results would be on the same lines of their expectations. Yet, such results would give them some self-satisfaction.

More than anybody else, it is Telugu Desam Party leaders who are on cloud nine over the conviction of AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala by the Supreme Court in connection with the corruption case.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to give more time to AIADMK General secretary Sasikala and asked her to surrender immediately.

The selection of popular glamorous heroine Samantha as the brand ambassador for promotion of handlooms by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government has angered the opposition.

After she was found guilty by the Supreme Court for corruption, VK Sasikala, who has been ordered to serve a four-year sentence, took care of some important business for her party, the AIADMK, which governs Tamil Nadu.

Former minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy and his elder brother Anam Vivekananda Reddy had enjoyed a lot of reputation when the Congress party was in power. They virtually ruled the Nellore politics and decimated their rivals.

Senior actor-turned-politician Nandamuri Balakrishna, who had been facing headaches in his assembly constituency Hindupur till recently due to highhanded behaviour of his political personal assistant Sekhar Naidu, has got a replacement.

The Karnataka DGP will get in touch with his Tamil Nadu counterpart because Sasikala has to surrender immediately before the trial court in Bangalore.

Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is good at putting up big shows at the cost of public money, but when it comes to spending on developmental and welfare schemes, he puts up a poor face.

Ravela Kishore Babu’s speech at a function in Vijayawada has stirred a hornet’s nest.

When any allegation is made against a TDP Minister or MLA, a battery of TDP leaders, launch a scathing attack on the YSRCP on all media.

The YSR Congress party on Monday described the just concluded National Women’s Parliament (NWP) at Vijayawada as nothing short of a kitty party, as it has ended with no constructive outcome.