
Goa's Art and Culture minister Dayanand Mandrekar's statement on Wednesday, when he said that women are so immersed in TV serials, that they forget to make tea or enquire about their husbands, who return weary from work, has triggered controversy.

If the reports coming from the Andhra power corridors are to be believed, chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is said to be extremely unhappy with the quality of construction in the interim secretariat complex at Velagapudi.

The government on Thursday clarified that the exemption limit for seizure of gold jewellery and ornaments during searches for black money is 500 gm for married women, 250 gm for unmarried women and 100 gm for every male member of a family.

The so-called flash survey conducted by Andhra Jyothy Telugu daily on the prospects of the political parties if mid-term elections are conducted now seems to have satisfied the ego of Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.

YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is virtually counting days to get the opportunity of coming to power in Andhra Pradesh at any cost.

There is a popular dialogue by Gireesham, the lead character in the famous Telugu drama Kanya Sulkam: “Appudappudu opinions change chestutene kaani politician kaaneradu” (One cannot become politician without changing his opinions every now and then).

Industrialists proposing to set up their units in Andhra Pradesh are very much worried over rampant corruption in the state, though AP government has claimed to be at the top in the Ease of Doing Business rankings.

If Supreme Court takes it seriously, ace director Ram Gopal Varma might as well land up in jail for making fun of its judgement on the national anthem.

The main reason given by the government for demonetising high denomination notes was to curb black money. Various estimates have been made of the quantum of such money -- which is not expected to be deposited in banks -- ranging from Rs 3 lakh crore to Rs 5 lakh crore.

Even as broader uncertainty looms over the fate of the H-1B visas under the incoming Donald Trump administration, some recent changes by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) make them friendlier to those already on them.

The reports that Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao's son and Information Technology minister K T Rama Rao is going to be the chief guest at the audio release function of Dhruva, the forthcoming film of young mega hero Ram Charan Teja

Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu's repeated pleas to the banks to deliver more new currency to the state appears to have been met little success with bankers making only meagre allocations of new notes for his native Chittoor district.

The official Twitter account of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was hacked this evening and multiple abusive tweets were posted on its timeline.

Pawan Kalyan has already made it clear that he would be contesting the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections in 2019.

Former Peddapalli MP G Vivek, who shuttled between Congress and Telangana Rashtra Samithi before finally returning to the TRS, has now been appointed as advisor to Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on inter-state affairs.