The killing of 20 suspected red sandalwood smugglers by the Andhra Pradesh police has landed Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in an embarrassing situation, with the Centre seeking a report into the incident and international organisations accusing him of resorting to cold-blooded murders of innocent woodcutters.
It is nearly 11 months since the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government was formed in the newly carved State of Telangana, but one of the biggest promises of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of providing health cards to government employees has not been fulfilled yet.
General VK Singh, ex-chief of Army and currently Minister of State for External Affairs has done a stellar job in rescuing Indians stranded in Yemen and he deserves every bit of praise that comes his way regarding this aspect.
In a bid to fight the tag of 'anti-farmer' foisted on them by the opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a couple of farmer friendly measures.
Mr. Jagan, in 2013, two forest officials Sridhar and David were lynched to death and their bodies left hanging by these same daily wage laborers otherwise known as red sanders smugglers from Tamil Nadu.
Around 40,000 students from AP have applied for the Telangana Eamcet., 30,000 in Medical stream and 10,000 in engineering stream.
This is how AP PCC President Raghuveera Reddy referred to Chandrababu Naidu and Nara Lokesh.
The media was full of news about the encounter at Seshachalam near Tirupathi a couple of days back. Now a new version of the story has emerged.
In the wake of killing of red sandalwood smugglers, Choudhary said that Babu made it his mission to stop smuggling and adding the money to the state exchequer.
That the BJP has started questioning the need for Pattiseema after Jagan has gone silent on the issue is also worth mentioning.
After facing allegations of corruption as the 'education Minister', G Jagdish Reddy was removed from that portfolio and appointed as 'Energy Minister'.
YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who made a lot of hue and cry over the controversial Pattiseema project and accused the Chandrababu Naidu government of favouring a particular contractor, has suddenly gone silent on the project.
Smuggling of red sanders is a so well planned and organised trade that barring a few, the majority of the persons involved in it do not know who the kingpin is.
The state of the 20 dead bodies and the scenes of the violence has raised serious doubts over the official version of the two encounters between Andhra Pradesh police and alleged red sanders smugglers on Tuesday morning.
The 2001 shoe-bomb plot failed only because an alert flight attendant stopped a man from lighting the fuse of plastic explosives in his shoes.
