Kiran Reddy had no option but to resign: Shinde
Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday said Kiran Kumar Reddy was opposed to the division of Andhra Pradesh and was left with no other option but to resign as chief minister after the Centre's decision to split the state.
By HT Correspondent | PTI, New Delhi
UPDATED ON FEB 19, 2014 03:21 PM IST
Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday said Kiran Kumar Reddy was opposed to the division of Andhra Pradesh and was left with no other option but to resign as chief minister after the Centre's decision to split the state.
"A decision to create the state of Telangana by dividing Andhra has been taken. He was opposed to it. What other option did he have?," Shinde said.
Reddy today quit the Congress and resigned as Chief Minister and MLA, a day after the Lok Sabha passed the Telangana bill.
He had been relentlessly opposing the Centre's decision to carve out a separate state of Telangana.
Covid-19: A year later, how politics changed and did not change
By Prashant Jha
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 12:30 PM IST
No one had thought that the idea of video conferencing between the prime minister and state chief ministers or between the prime minister and world leaders would become such a regular occurrence that it wouldn’t be even seen as a departure from the older physical format of meetings
State-wise list of domestic Covid-19 restrictions
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ayshee Bhaduri, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 12:20 PM IST
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UP: 17-year-old missing girl’s body found in Aligarh field
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 12:00 PM IST
The girl had gone missing on Sunday afternoon and her family suspect she was raped before being strangled to death. Angry villagers attacked the police on Sunday evening, hours after the body was found, leaving a personnel injured in stone pelting
Modi govt worked for farmers unlike farm leaders who paid lip service: Nadda
By Sudhir Kumar, Varanasi
UPDATED ON MAR 01, 2021 11:58 AM IST
- Nadda claimed that since the BJP was working to carry the country forward, therefore, those with the opportunity to work in the BJP were lucky
‘Is that it? Didn’t even feel it’: PM Modi tells nurse after getting Covid shot
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 01, 2021 11:19 AM IST
Niveda said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was given Covaxin, the vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical firm Bharat Biotech Limited.
Covid-19 vaccination phase 2 begins. Here’s how to register for jab on Co-Win
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 10:14 AM IST
- Co-Win's citizen self-registration module will ensure fool-proof identification of deserving candidates for receiving the vaccines, the government has said.
Fuel prices hold steady for 2nd consecutive day after Saturday's record high
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ayshee Bhaduri, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 01, 2021 10:13 AM IST
- The prices of petrol and diesel in New Delhi on Monday stood at ₹91.17 per litre and ₹81.47 per litre respectively.
Chinese hacker groups target at least dozen Indian organisations
UPDATED ON MAR 01, 2021 10:15 AM IST
Among the organisations that were targeted were NTPC Limited, five key regional load dispatch centres that help in the management of the national power grid by balancing electricity supply and demand and two ports, says the study by Recorded Future, a US-based company
India's single-day Covid-19 cases drop to 15,510, tally over 11.11 million
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Meenakshi Ray, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 09:41 AM IST
The health ministry dashboard also showed that 14,301,266 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 so far in the first phase.
New curbs, night curfew in Punjab from today as Covid-19 cases continue to surge
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ayshee Bhaduri, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 09:20 AM IST
- The decision to bring in a slew of new rules to help the state curb the rising number of cases was taken by Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh after a meeting with health experts and senior officers on February 23.
UP launches Covid vaccine drive for elderly: 22.5K to get jab today
By Gaurav Saigal
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 09:08 AM IST
Apart from the government hospitals, approximately 1,544 private hospitals in the state will also facilitate inoculation from March 4, with some of them beginning today itself. The approximate population of 50-plus people in the state is 35 million
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PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 09:01 AM IST
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Farm laws protests LIVE: PM says private enterprises need to enter agri sector
By hindustantimes.com, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 01, 2021 12:30 PM IST
- Protest enters Day 96, stalemate continues between protesting farmers' unions and Centre.
India begins next phase to vaccinate its elderly and ill against Covid-19
By Rhythma Kaul
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 08:44 AM IST
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Many mobile games violent, addictive...PUBG just one example: Prakash Javadekar
PTI, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 08:27 AM IST
Union minister Prakash Javadekar said his ministry has decided to form a gaming centre to teach courses related to VFX, gaming and animation
