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Kiran Kumar Reddy joined the BJP in the presence of Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and hit out at the Congress leadership for its inability to accept people's verdict and make course correction.
Defending his decision, Kiran Kumar Reddy said that he took this decision for the Telugu people and it was not a selfish act. He not only resigned as the chief minister but also as the MLA and Congress member with immediate effect.
There is no major change in the original Telangana draft. The demand of Seemandhra leaders to make Hyderabad a Union Territory has been rejected.
The Congress continues to be scarred by the Telangana turmoil. Three notices for no-confidence motions were moved against the UPA government by the TDP, the YSR Congress and the Seemandhra Congress MPs in Parliament on Friday.
24 hours after the Union government bit the Telanagna bullet, it‘s an open revolt in Andhra Pradesh. After tourism minister Chiranjeevi, it was HRD minister Pallam Raju and MoS railways Kotla S Reddy who resigned from the Union government.
Unique Identification Authority of india (UIDAI) chairman Nandan Nilekani saod that they target enrolling 60 crore people by 2014. As of now, 45 crore people had been enrolled. If that target is achieved, every one out of two residents in India will have an Aadhar card.
The Hyderabad twin blasts were taken up by the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj called for political unity, saying, "The nation needs to be united, the political parties need to get united. The moment that happens, we will be capable in fighting terror."
Facing flak for slashing gas supplies to fuel-starved power plants across the country so that requirement of one station in Maharashtra can be met, the Oil Ministry today kept in abeyance its order diverting Reliance Industries' KG-D6 gas to Dabhol plant.
With the output halving at RIL's KG-D6 fields, gas-based power plants in Andhra Pradesh are bearing the brunt with most of them struggling to achieve even a 35-40% plant load factor due to falling gas supply. The state government has now sought the central government's intervention, reports CNBC-TV18's Appaji Reddem and Sandeep Srikanth.
To acknowledge the contribution of the IT sector towards the growth of the state and to chalk out the way forward, the government of Andhra Pradesh organises an annual IT summit in Hyderabad called Advantage Andhra Pradesh.
Polling today began in the crucial by-elections to the 18 assembly segments and one Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh, results of which are expected to give a new direction to the state politics.
The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh will be put to the floor test on Monday; the Speaker had admitted the opposition Telugu Desam Party's no-confidence motion last week.
