While many Tollywood actors are getting ready to release their second film of the year, Balakrishna, Prabhas & Rana are doing the disappearing act and will not be seen on screen till 2014. While Rana & Prabhas are busy shooting for big budget films, Balakrishn...
The Cyderabad police are all set to arrest Maganti Ramji, producer and son of former TDP minister Maganti Babu, after Soni Pratima filed a case against him for sending inappropriate emails and have reached Nellore to arrest him. The police reveal that they hav...
The hunger strike over the issue of power taken by first by the Left parties, who were forcibly admitted to hospital, and then TDP leaders could well be start of a new political alliance in Andhra Pradesh. Even though YSR Congress looks to corner the Congress ...
Even as the indefinite hunger strike by the TDP MLAs over the issue of electricity in the state enters fourth day, their health has become a major cause of concern. Of the 26 TDP MLAs sitting on fast, at least nine have low BP and sugar levels, and doctors hav...
After the all-party meeting on the Supreme Court's decision on the Babli river project, being built by the Maharashtra government, TDP leader Kadiam Srihari wants the central water commission to keep an eye on the inflows into the reservoir levels in the two s...
An MLA from the CPI has shocked everyone by openly advocating that TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu would have been the ideal Chief Minister. Konamneni Sambasiva Rao said that the current problems can be solved only with a strong leader like Chandrababu at the helm...
The presence of Jr NTR's picture on a flex board announcing the start of Sharmila Reddy's padyatra in Krishna district has set off a political chain reaction. TDP blames Jr NTR's friend Kodali Nani for putting up the flex banner of a family member of the leade...
The TDP has identified five leaders from its party who would be attending the all-party meeting on the issue of the Babli river project across the Godavari. Kadiam Srihari and Mandava Venkateswara Rao are part of the team.
The hunger strike by TDP on the issue of power has entered its third day. The TDP has received support from the leaders of the Left whose fast on the same issue was stopped by the police.
Is Vallabhneni Vamsi has reason to be feel isolated and insulted with the Vijayawada TDP? Vamsi, who is close to Jr NTR, was replaced by Nagoor Meeran as the president of the TDP urban unit. Vamsi's rival Devineni Uma is promoting Kesineni Uma. Under these cir...
TDP leader Dayakar Reddy, part of the TDP MLAs on hunger strike at the Old MLA Quarters in Hyderabad, speaks about the party's demands on the issue of power. They have set forth five conditions to end their strike. The TDP began their fast last night. The Left...
The TDP wants to corner the state government over power shortage. Despite repeated demand by the TDP in the state Assembly last week for a white paper on the power supply situation in Andhra Pradesh -- including their forced stay-over on the Assembly premises ...
Actor Balakrishna reached Visakhapatnam on his way to Payakaraopeta where he will unveil a statue of NTR and also later take part in Chandrababu Naidu's padyatra.
TDP today forced a adjournment of the Assembly after its members reached the Speaker's podium and refused to budge until several issues were discussed. At the core was the privilege issue over naming of the agriculture policy as agriculture budget. The TDP say...
Chandrababu Naidu's padyatra will end on his birthday, April 20, in Visakhapatnam district. A grand meeting has been planned on this day. Naidu began his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padyatra on October 2 last year from Hindupur in Anantapur district. Naidu's birthday...
In this episode of Encounter with Murli Krishna, TDP leader Payyavula Keshav is first asked about the TDP staying away from the no-confidence motion that was tabled in the Assembly last Friday. Keshav clarifies why his party stayed away, which allowed the Cong...
TDP's Mothkupalli Narasimhulu launches a spirited attack on YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's party and the companies and wealth that Jagan had managed to accumulate in span of less than a decade. He also attacked the state government over the woeful power situation in t...
The real face of the TRS and the YSR Congress has been revealed in their efforts to table a no-confidence motion, says TDP leader Revanth Reddy. He said the motion moved by the TRS had no mention at all of the Telangana issue.
Shobha Nagi Reddy once lay at the feet of Chandrababu Naidu when she was in the TDP and now that she is in the YSR Congress party, she has no right to criticise the TDP party chief, says Seethakka, TDP leader.
The Telugu Desam Party defends its stand on abstaining from supporting the motion of no-confidence, in the Assembly, against the Congress government. Bojjala and Devineni clarify why the TDP plans to abstain during today's motion.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi party, which moved a no-confidence motion against Kiran Kumar Reddy government in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, has asked all Opposition parties to unite and support the motion. TRS MLA KT Rama Rao also blasted the Telugu Desam Par...
Nagam Janardhan Reddy, who walked out of the TDP to form his own party, has a verbal altercation with his former colleague Mothkupalli Narasimhulu inside the Assembly premises today. Media persons had to intervene to prevent escalation of the verbal war.
The TDP has asked its MLAs to remain neutral during the no confidence motion in the Assembly. The TRS has issued notice of no confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government that could come up for discussion in the Assembly tomorrow.
TDP leader Mothkupalli Narasimhulu speaks after an adjournment during the second day of the Budget session of the Assembly. Mothkupalli demanded release of water for irrigation for Nalgonda and Warangal districts. He said the state government had failed to use...
TRS leader T Harish Rao renewed his demands that the TDP support his party's no confidence motion against the Congress government. Harish reminded TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu of his statement during the padyatra in which he had said the Congress government nee...
TRS is miffed with the TDP, the main Opposition party in the state Assembly, for declining to support its no-confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government. KCR called TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu a chameleon, said the party's founder NTR would be a...
TRS has tabled a no confidence motion against the state government of chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy. But TDP refused to be a part of it. KCR called TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu a 'chameleon' for not helping to bring down the Congress government, it arch riva...
A Congressman for 30 years, Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy today left the Congress to join Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress. He met Jagan Mohan Reddy at Chanchalguda jail. He is interviewed after meeting Jagan, where he lays out the reasons for leaving the Congr...
The TRS, and earlier the YSR Congress, sought to use the no confidence motion as a means to blackmail the Congress government and hence the TDP had decided not to support the motion being tabled by the TRS, says Chandrababu Naidu. But TRS chief KCR attacked th...
On the first day of the Budget session of the Assembly, Governor ESL Narasimhan delivered his address, that was disrupted by paper balls from the TRS and walkout by the TDP. Chandrababu Naidu says the address has become a mere formality and chief minister Kira...
TDP's Mothkupalli Narasimhulu said the no confidence motion being tabled by the TRS in the budget session is just to seek to blackmail the state government. He also said the YSR Congress supported the motion since it was just seeking to pressure the government...
The Telugu Desam Party boycotts the Governor's address to the state Assembly at the start of the Budget session. TDP leaders address the media to explain the reasons for the boycott, specifically the government's failures to honour its promises made during ear...
The party formed by Jagan Mohan Reddy after he stormed out of the Congress blaming the High Command for side-lining him, the true heir of YS Rajasekhara Reddy, completes two years. For nearly a year now, its president is in jail, and his mother, the honorary p...
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu was on padayatra in the Krishna district for over 27 days. A week later it is time for Sharmila Reddy of the YSR Congress to start her padayatra. As for the Congress cadre, they may not have padayatras as of now, but the recent coop...
In the elections to the MLC nominations, ten candidates from different parties filed their nominations for the ten seats that became vacant. So the election of the party's official candidates is a foregone conclusion.
TDP leader Arvind Kumar Goud comes to the rescue of the TDP after its senior leader Dadi Veerabhadra Rao attacked the leadership for side-lining 'poor' BC leaders like him. Dadi was denied the TDP ticket for the MLC elections, and in anger had hit out at Chand...
Dadi Veerabhadra Rao is an angry man. Denied a ticket for re-election to the Legislative Council, Dadi asked if this was the way the TDP, which had created a 'BC Declaration', respected the BCs? Dadi said because he was a poor BC, the party leadership had igno...
TDP Brothers from Ranga Reddy district, accused in land scams attack the media for bringing their scams out in the open and wow to take revenge on those who were responsible for bringing it out. They also accuse the media of not targeting other politicians, & ...
TDP president Chandrababu Naidu's son Lokesh has finally decided to follow his father's footsteps and is in Kuppam, Chittoor district, for three days to meet the people of his constituency. On the first day, he met with party leaders of the region and urged th...
TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, currently on his padayatra, is expected to make an announcement about the role of women in his party on the ocassion of women's day, at Kaikaluru in the Krishna district. The leader is trying his best to woo women voters by s...
Nara Lokesh, son of Telugu Desam chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu, who is touring Chittoor district, said that there is no safety for the people as the government has failed on the law and order front. He said that the belt shops (country liquor outlets) are aplen...
Chandrababu Naidu continues his attacks on Jagan Mohan Reddy during his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padayatra. He mocked Jagan Mohan Reddy's partymen by saying that while people start a venture by offering coconuts at a temple, in the case of YSRCP, coconuts are brok...
Tandur TDP MLA Mahender Reddy, exposed as having used his political influence to grab land in Mokila in Shankarpally mandal in the Ranga Reddy district, holds a press meet to clarify the issue. Mahender Reddy said that the land in question is just five acres, ...
TDP may go into the Budget session of the state Assembly without its party chief Chandrababu Naidu's presence. Chandrababu Naidu will continue his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padayatra across the state. To chalk out its strategy for the Budget session, the TDP is mee...
TDP leader Varla Ramaiah continues his attacks on Brother Anil. He refers to YSR as his second father-in-law and also calls him 'Anil Sastry', a reference to Brother Anil's original name before he converted to Christianity. Varla said he will soon expose the c...
TDP brothers are a terror for land owners in Mokila of the Shankarpally mandal. This is the story of how Tandur MLA P Mahender Reddy and his brothers have allegedly managed to corner one particular piece of land in Mokila on the outskirts of Hyderabad. In loca...
Ranga Reddy's TDP brothers - they are creating terror in the hearts of land owners in Ranga Reddy's Shankarpally mandal. Tandur TDP MLA Mahender Reddy and his brother Narender form the core of this gang of leaders who have been allegedly using their political ...
This is the complete story of how Tandur MLA P Mahender Reddy and his brothers have allegedly resorted to using every opportunity they can to encroach land they find under litigation or one that is caught in dispute between warring parties. The are manage to m...
TDP leader Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy targets the family of YS Rajasekhara Reddy for the huge increase in their wealth during and after the years when he had become the chief minister. Somireddy said YSR's son and son-in-law amassed huge fortune and they sho...
A village that is all set to give a grand welcome to the 'genext' of the NTR family. The village of Komaravolu in the Krishna district is special to the NTR family. Lokesh Naidu's grandmother Nandamuri Basavatarakam hails from this village. And in anticipation...
Komaravolu village in Krishna district is in a festive mood. The village is the native place of NTR's mother, and this week Chandrababu Naidu will be accompanied by Lokesh Naidu and Balakrishna when passing through this village on his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' pada...
The TDP's Hyderabad city unit has been scarred by infighting over the constitution of the party's city committee. A group of leaders says Talasani Srinivas Yadav is trying to push his own supporters onto the committee, bypassing the normal selection process.
Nara Lokesh Naidu and Balakrishna mingle with villagers of Komavaravolu in the Krishna district. Lokesh Naidu's grandmother Nandamuri Basavatarakam hails from this village. His father Chandrababu Naidu will be visiting this village for the first time. Naidu is...
During the 'Vastunna Meekosam Padayatra', TDP President Chandrababu Naidu appealed to the youth of Andhra Pradesh to strengthen their spirit for the fight against corruption. He also said that the Congress party had become the hub of corrupt politics.
At one time it rode the political spectrum but now the leaders of these parties are crying in public. The latest to join the list of TDP leaders shedding tears in public is Errabelli Dayakar Rao.
It began with AIADMK leader V Maitreyan accusing the UPA of not being sensitive enough to the Tamil people. He then launched into the controversial AgustaWestland chopper deal debate, calling the government the 'fountain-head of scams'. Following his lead, TDP...
TDP leader from Vijayawada, Bonda Uma Maheswara Rao files a PIL in the High Court stating that the state government failed to take adequate action to prevent the twin blasts in Hyderabad last Thursday. He also included the names of the DGP and Hyderabad police...
Hyderabad has seen one blast after another. No lessons have been learnt from previous blasts. And despite the presence of so many intelligence, police and counter-intelligence agencies in the country, not many blasts have been prevented, nor fool-proof prosecu...
Hyderabad has seen one blast after another. No lessons have been learnt from previous blasts. And despite the presence of so many intelligence, police and counter-intelligence agencies in the country, not many blasts have been prevented, nor fool-proof prosecu...
Hyderabad has seen one blast after another. No lessons have been learnt from previous blasts. And despite the presence of so many intelligence agencies, police and counter-intelligence agencies in the country, not many blasts have been prevented, nor fool-proo...
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu, who halted his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' after hearing of the blasts in Hyderabad's Dilsukhnagar area yesterday, paid a visit to the site. He said the state government's negligence in the face of intelligence reports led to the blasts.
The Congress has managed to capture a majority of the district central cooperative banks. Elections to the four DCCBs were postponed. The YSRCP and the TPD have gained one victory each in Kadapa and Khammam respectively. In Warangal, the rebel candidate won ag...
The DCCB elections have given a shock to the TDP. It managed to secure just one DCCB seat, in Khammam. The YSRCP similarly managed to get one seat in Kadapa. The TDP victory in Khammam came with the help of CPI.
Telugu Desam and Congress party workers clashed in Kakinada East Godavari district during the polling for the chairman of the district central cooperative bank elections. Two Congress ministers set up camp very near to the polling booth, leading to the charges...
Hyderabad as India' second capital? This proposal was first made by TDP leader Sudhish Rambhotla during the time when an all-party meeting was called by the Centre at Delhi. Now another TDP leader has joined the chorus of voices within the TDP for the proposal...
TDP leader and Kodangal MLA Revanth Reddy was attacked in the Mahabubnagar district where he had gone on an inspection. The flare-up started with an attack on local TDP workers by supporters of YSR Congress leader Gurunath Reddy's son Jagappa.
Chandrababu Naidu has accused the Congress of shelling out money to buy votes during the cooperative elections. The Congress had secured a comfortable win in the cooperative elections held last week. Naidu was speaking during his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padyatra ...
TDP President Chandrababu Naidu criticised the Congress government and Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy of being extremely corrupt on account of which the people are suffering. Continuing his 'Vastunna Meekosam' programme, Chandrababu Naidu reached Vijayawada ...
TDP leader Mothkupalli Narasimhulu says the arrest of Congress MLA Shankar Rao in an unceremonious manner on Thursday evening is cruel, and demanded CM to institute an inquiry into the incident. Mothkupalli visited Shankar Rao at Care Hospital where he is in t...
The TDP is ready to help out the TRS should it need any help in the formation of managements of cooperative bodies for which results came in yesterday. Errabelli Dayakar Rao, the convener of the TDP Telangana Forum, made this announcement. This is the first ti...
Posters put up to welcome TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu in Vijayawada are being brought down due to the code of conduct in force in view of the MLC elections. Naidu is expected to arrive in the city on his 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padyatra.
Andhra Pradesh is witnessing agitation for and against Telangana. But TDP party workers have chosen to remain neutral and instead devoting their energies to the cooperative elections. Ever since AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement on the delay ...
TDP President Chandrababu Naidu's 'Vastunna Meekosam' programme has come to a halt as a team of doctors from Hyderabad have adviced him to take rest at least for a control till he recovers from joint pains and diabetes.
Questions and doubts continue to rise on whether TDP President Chandrababu Naidu's 'Vastunna Meekosam' programme will continue as the leader is still battling ill health, drawing concern from not only family but party leaders as well. It still remains to be se...
The car of a TDP leader in Medak, Pratap Reddy, was attacked and badly damaged in an altercation between TDP and Congress leaders. The issue revolved around the cooperative elections. A TDP candidate was on his way to file his nomination papers when he was att...
It started as a war between two groups within the TDP in Visakhapatnam. And now it has assumed a larger dimension, with one senior leader threatening to resign from the TDP politburo. Ayyanna Patrudu was angry that his supporters were suspended for clashing at...
Lagdapati Rajagopal finally emerges out of his house after locking himself inside. The Congress MP from Vijaywada has been inside the house since yesterday night when he suddenly disappeared after a press conference. Lagadapati wanted to 'present' the TDP chie...
Lagdapati and TDP supporters are ready for a face-off in the Krishna district. Lagadapati Rajagopal is determined to obstruct Chandrababu Naidu's padayatra. Chandrababu Naidu is to start his padayatra from the Krishna district from Garikapdu, while at Anumanch...
NTR's son Harikrishna says it is wrong on the part of Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal to try to obstruct TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu's padyatra. Naidu's 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padyatra enters Krishna district today.
Police get ready to arrest Lagadapati Rajagopal by moving many of his supporters and arresting some of them. Lagadapati Rajagopal is keeping the police and Congress supporters on tenterhooks. He has locked himself up inside the house in Anumanchapalli in Krish...
Lagdapati Rajagopal has been holed up inside the house of a supporter in Krishna district for more than an hour now. A posse of policemen wait outside, ready to take him into preventive custody. Lagdapati went missing from Vijayawada yesterday night, and made ...
Vijayawada Congress MP Lagdapati Rajagopal is playing politics of hide-n-seek. He is hiding inside a house and refusing to come out, even as the police wait patiently to arrest him for trying to stop the padyatra of Chandrababu Naidu in the district. Lagdapati...
Chandrababu Naidu is battling the wind, the sun and the outdoors to bring his party back to power in the state in the next elections. But his prolonged absence away from Hyderabad and party affairs has lead to party leaders having a field day. Naidu is hard at...
Chandrababu Naidu has finished the Telangana leg of his padyatra and will today enter Krishna district. Here is an analysis of the facts and figures on his padyatra through the region and also an analysis of the promises he had made, including what many feel t...
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu begins his padyatra in Krishna district from today. But since yesterday night Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal and his antics have been giving local TDP leaders, and the police, some cause for concern. Lagadapati has said he will ...
It is a debate over the future of Hyderabad. Should people of Hyderabad be allowed a referendum to decide what the future of the city will be in the event of the creation of a Telangana state. This is the debate in the studio between TRS leader Nayani Narasimh...
Danam Nagendar wants Hyderabad's interests to be protected in case the state is divided. KCR said he has no objection to a referendum on the future of Hyderabad. Palvai Goverdhan Reddy calls Danam a mad fellow, saying it is impossible to assume Hyderabad can b...
It was an occasion to observe the 17th anniversary of NT Rama Rao. But the function to garland NTR's statue in Visakhapatnam turned into a fight between former city TDP chief Pila Srinivas Rao and former minister Bandaru Satyanarayana. Learning of this, Balakr...
It was a TDP party function, the occasion being to observe the 17th anniversary of party founder NT Rama Rao. But infighting within the party came to the fore, with followers of Pila Srinivas Rao and former minister Bandaru Satyanarayana clashing at the statue...
Today is NT Rama Rao's 17th death anniversary. His son and TDP leader Balakrishna took out a rally to NTR Ghat after garlanding his statue at Rasoolpura. His son-in-law and Chandrababu Naidu's son Lokesh Naidu accompanied him.
Lokesh Naidu, and his father-in-law Balakrishna, led the Amara Jyothi rally as part of NTR's 17th death anniversary observances. The TDP rally wounds its way from Rasoolpura to NTR Ghat.