The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday awarded the Rs 12,132 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) project to leading construction group L&T.

Slamming the Congress-led UPA government for allegedly using the CBI to target the BJP in the Sohrabuddin case, senior party leader M.

Congress leaders from the Telangana region are planning to meet party president Sonia Gandhi in the next few days after the humiliating defeat in the recent byelections in Andhra Pradesh.

It was business as usual for World No. 2 Gagan Narang as he won the bronze medal in the 10-metre air rifle event at the ongoing World Championships in Munich on Saturday and became the first Indian to seal a place in the 2012 Olympics in London.

APCC chief D. Srinivas’ poll debacle in Telangana had some unthinkable ramifications as an engineering graduate took his own life on Saturday at the Osmania University campus to keep a promise made to Goddess Maisamma. P. Eshan Reddy had allegedly promised the goddess to make the ultimate sacrifice if Mr Srinivas lost the bypolls.

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti-BJP alliance swept the July 27 bypolls surfing atop a Telangana tsunami that completely drowned the Congress, including state party chief D. Srinivas, and the Telugu Desam, and has the potential to unfold the road map for the future of the region.

Osmania University here was tense on Saturday as yet another student committed suicide in the campus, demanding the formation of separate Telangana state.

It was a landslide victory for the Telangana Rashtra Samiti candidates in 11 out of 12 Assembly constituencies that went for bypolls in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh on July 27.

The ideal Indian man is now five kg heavier and the ideal woman weighs 10 kg more than their ancestors in the pre-Independence era.
The Centre has fixed the weight of the Indian “reference man” at 60 kg and the Indian “reference woman” at 55 kg. These figures will now be taken as the standard weight for Indian adults. The earlier values, fixed before Independence, were 55 kg (men) and 45 kg (women).

Counting of votes in the byelections held for 12 Assembly constituencies in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh has begun.