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The fee will vary stop in Ahmedabad in Gujarat to address a joint public February 12, the non-subsidised LPG outrage her modesty) and 509 (word, across the newly developed stations depending on meeting with PM Modi at a stadium."He (Modi) is a great rates were revised to Rs 858.5 per gesture or act intended to insult modesty their footfall, Railway Board Chairman V K Yadav gentleman and I look forward to going to India. cylinder in Delhi and Rs 829.5 per of a woman). An investigation is said in a press briefing. He said the ministry So, we'll be going at the end of the month," cylinder in Mumbai. underway, police said. will soon notify the amount to be charged. President Trump told reporters in his Oval Office. Exodus from Telangana KCR names barrage after tribal Goddess Sammakka Congress likely soon CM to visit Kaleshwaram project today K VENKATESHWARLU Delhi. Still, TPCC leaders have PNS n HYDERABAD Togetherness n HYDERABAD CONGRESS-MUKTH TELANGANA? in private expressed their hap- piness at AAP's thumping vic- Chief Minister K "With due respect sir, just want tory over BJP. It appears that Chandrashekhar Rao has in every to know: has Indian National these leaders are least bothered decided to name the Congress outsourced the task about the condition of the Toopakula Gudem Barrage, activity 9 of defeating BJP to state par- party in Telangana state. coming up on the Godavari ties? If not, then why r we Telangana Congress had River, after Sammakka, the t is always inspiring to gloating over AAP victory, been losing elections continu- Goddess revered by Adivasis Isee people bond over a rather than being concerned ously since the 2018 Assembly and other tribes in forests. common purpose. about our drubbing? And if elections, which were held in In this regard, the Chief Alakapoor Township in 'yes', then we (PCCs) might as 2018, to recent municipal elec- Minister instructed Engineer- the Ranga Reddy district well close shop!" an angry tions. No doubt Telangana in-Chief Muralidhar Rao to is an example of such Sharmistha Mukherjee tweet- Congress is going to lose issue a GO naming the (file photo) togetherness among its ed, after former finance min- Primary Agriculture Toopakula Gudem Barrage as residents who celebrate ister and party stalwart P Cooperative Societies (PACS) 'Sammakka Barrage'. Thursday to review the be alert henceforth, the Chief every special occasion Chidambaram praised AAP elections too though the elec- The Chief Minister said that progress of works. In this con- Minister stated. together and work for defeating BJP in the Delhi tions were not being conduct- development of Telangana State nection, he held a review at Ministers Gangula towards the betterment of assembly polls. ing on party symbols. had become possible due to the Pragati Bhavan on Wednesday. Kamalakar, Puvvada Ajay their community. Chidambaram had tweet- Sad thing is not only state blessings of Goddesses. Many KCR stated that as desired Kumar, Farmers Coordination Welcome to The ed:"AAP won, bluff and bluster unit but also party high com- barrages and reservoirs were water was being filled in the Committee Chairman MLC Pioneer's special segment, lost. The people of Delhi, who Nearer home, the situation is reason for Chidambaram to mand is not bothering about therefore being named after Kaleswram projects. Barrages Palla Rajeswar Reddy, Chief Community Wise, that are from all parts of India, have somewhat similar as Telangana feel happy over BJP's defeat in the defeats the party is facing different Goddesses. He point- had become full. From the Advisor to Government Rajiv brings into light the local defeated the polarizing, divisive Congress leaders, while being Delhi as the BJP-led NDA one after the other. The party ed out that, following the com- forthcoming rainy season, Sarma, Secretary to CM Smita communities that shape and dangerous agenda of the elated at BJP's drubbing in government kept him in jail. high command is not revamp- pletion of irrigation projects, water inflows would increase. Sabarwal, OSD to CM Sridhar this splendid city of BJP. I salute the people of Delhi Delhi, are not speaking any- There is no reason, not even a ing the state unit though its barren lands had been getting Flood water need to be lifted Rao Deshpande, Irrigation dreams. who have set an example to thing on the defeat faced by the remote one, for the Telangana tenure was ended few years ago Kaleswaram waters. from time to time and divert- Engineer in Chief Muralidhar other states that will hold their Congress party in the same Congress leaders to feel happy itself. The Chief Minister will visit ed to respective canals. The Rao and others were present at elections in 2021 and 2022". elections. Of course, there is a at the defeat of the BJP in 4 the Kaleswaram project on Irrigation Department should the meeting. JUST DEMANDS 3-yr old boy dies after breakfast, parents Jagan meets PM Modi, allege food poisoning in Begumpet hotel PNS n HYDERABAD The deceased was Manasarovar hotel, located nearby. "After having food at Go for surgical submits 10-point wish list The Begumpet Police regis- identified as Vihaan, the hotel, the family went out tered a case of death under son of Khammam- to various places and action to revive suspicious circumstances after based software returned to the hotel. Vihaan Cong: Moily Invites Modi to Andhra on Ugadi a three-year-old child's parents then began vomiting and had PNS n HYDERABAD alleged that their son died of professional Ravi motions, following which he "food poisoning" caused by Narayana Rao. was admitted to a hospital Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan some of the food they had for where he died while undergo- Reddy on Wednesday met breakfast at a hotel in ing treatment. After Vihaan's 5 Prime Minister Narendra Begumpet here on with his wife, Srividya, and his death, the family also got Modi in New Delhi and sub- Wednesday. two children, Varun and admitted at the hospital fear- mitted a 10-point wish list per- The deceased was identified Vihaan Vihaan, on Monday in con- ing poisoning," said P taining to pending projects, as Vihaan, son of Khammam- According to the police, nection with visa formalities at Srinivasa Rao, Inspector of funds and proposals with the based software professional Rao, working in Bengaluru, the US Consulate. Police, Begumpet. Centre. Ravi Narayana Rao. had come to the city, along They checked into 4 Jagan raised several issues concerning AP during the meeting which went on for about one hour and 40 min- Apologise or CBI opposes utes. HC directs TS not to The Chief Minister invited face costs: Jagan’s plea Modi to launch the pro- demolish Secretariat Banks should gramme to distribute house sites to 25 lakh poor families HC to Twitter PNS n HYDERABAD in High Court ‘deeply involve’ on March 25, Ugadi day. PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n HYDERABAD those under The CM requested Modi to The Telangana High Court on formal system hand over 800 acres of salt pan Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy presents a memento to Prime Minister The Delhi High Court has Wednesday directed the state The Telangana High Court lands in East Godavari district Narendra Modi at the latter’s residence in New Delhi on Wednesday. warned Twitter that it can government not to demolish on Wednesday adjourned that are owned by the Centre face costs of Rs 10 lakh if it the existing structures of the hearing on a plea filed by AP for distribution of house sites government was making all faster approvals for the revised does not file its response to a state secretariat building com- During the course of argu- Chief Minister YS Jaganm- to poor.
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