Reddy To Retire as politician from 2019

Noted leader from Rayalaseema region and ruling TDP MP from Anantapur JC Diwakar Reddy seems vexed with the political life he enjoyed in the last 40 years. He declared that he will not contest 2019 election as he decided  to retire from active politics.

As an elected MP , Reddy said he will continue in the post until his term ends . Later, he will not take part in the electoral battle he fought as MLA and MP from his native Anantapur district. He expressed anguish over diminishing the role of legislators in the legislative bodies and confined the MLAs and MPs to cast their vote during debates in the houses. 

Reddy joined TDP before 2014 election as he strongly opposed the Congress decision to the bifurcation of the state. He has been minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, Kotla Vijayabhaskar Reddy and other congress governments in the undivided Andhra Pradesh. Speculations doing rounds that JC Reddy's son will foray into politics and stepped into his father's shoes before the 2019 election.

Here are the Assets of Nara Family

Nara Lokesh On Wednesday declared his family's assets and claimed that Nara family is the only political family to announce its assets and liabilities for the sixth consecutive year.

Lokesh said that his father and AP CM Chandrababu Naidu's net worth is Rs 6.7 crores. 'He has assets worth Rs 3.73 crore, a bungalow worth Rs 3.68 crores in Jubilee Hills and a 1993 model Ambassador Car worth Rs 1.52 lakhs. He also has liabilities worth Rs 3.06 crores to Bank of Baroda,' Lokesh added.

Nara Bhuvaneswari, wife of Chandrababu Naidu, has net assets worth Rs 24.84 crore. Her total assets including jewellery, lands and share in Heritage, which amounts to Rs 38.66 crores whereas she has liabilities worth Rs 13.82 crores.

Nara Lokesh claimed to have total assets worth Rs 14.5 crores and liabilities worth Rs 6.35 crore to take his net worth to Rs 8.15 crore. His assets include a land in Madinaguda and a bungalow in Jubilee Hills.

Lokesh's wife Brahmani owns total assets worth Rs 12.75 crore and her net worth is Rs 12.33 crore.

Lokesh's son Devansh has total assets to the tune of Rs 11.32 crore.

After revealing his family's assets, Lokesh handed a book containing the full details to media. He also divulged that his father-in-law and actor Balakrishna has lent Rs 2 crore to his family.

Lokesh also said that his family derives income from Heritage, a public listed company established in 1992. 'Heritage is being operated with utmost transparency and it has received several awards. Although there were several inquiries instituted by the ruling parties in the past, none could prove the allegations,' he said.

Retail giant Future Group was earlier in talks to acquire Heritage Fresh. Future Group's honcho Kishore Biyani was reported to have offered a lucrative deal but somehow the deal didn't materialize or the assets of Nara family would have been much bigger. 

Facebook to join IPL officially?

Global social media giant Facebook is reportedly bidding to buy the digital rights of tenth season of Indian Premier League, one of the world's leading cricket tournament. India-based IPL is attracting many of the world's biggest companies including Twitter, Reliance Jio and Amazon Co. This unconfirmed development would apparently make it the biggest digital deal in cricket till date.

Speculation has it that Facebook already transferred 10,000$ to buy the bidding papers from BCCI and October 25th is the tentative date for an official announcement. This deal between BCCI and Facebook shows how big Mark Zuckerberg is betting on India.

Considering the internet's spread across the villages in India, there's a no-look-back situation for digital media and at the same time, there's no dearth for cricket fans on social media sites. Earlier this year, Facebook keenly tracked the season 9 of IPL where all eight teams collectively recorded a phenomenal 14 Crore viewership.

Also, every 9 of 10 Twitter users in India are considered to be steadfast cricket fans. Statistically, in 2016, Twitter witnessed 56% growth in tweet count compared to last year and logged 1.06crore tweets during IPL-9. It also could be a sign of the start of period of increased internet users, particularly in villages.

However, Facebook refused to either comment or rule out the reports. Other giants are seriously racing up to battle Facebook with a proper bidding deal. 

Donald Trump rakes up H-1B visa again!

During his recent election rally, the Republican US Presidential nominee Donald Trump has once again kicked up the H-1B Visa row and vowed to protect jobs for Americans.

Trump alleged that US companies are importing low-wage workers from other countries on H-1B visas, which is leading to the continual rise in the unemployment in the country.

"Many mothers across this nation are worried their sons and daughters not finding jobs after college, and they are right to be worried. Outsourcing jobs to other countries is one of the biggest threats to this great nation. Companies are importing low-wage workers on H-1B work visas to snatch jobs from college-trained Americans," Trump allegedly told cheering supporters.

Trump pledged that he would protect the jobs of young Americans and make sure every able college graduate finds a good job. Trump also said that he would protect the well-being of the lawful immigrants and curb the illegal foreign worker admission. His plan is to select immigrants based on their ability of having a financially self-sufficient life in the US.

H-1B work visa is the most sought-after for IT professionals, particularly for Indian IT sector. According to recent reports, Trump is working towards establishing new immigration controls to ensure that jobs are offered to educated American workers first. He allegedly calls it a way of securing the jobs for the Americans.

Babu's Government Set To Shock Telangana?

After the Telangana's Singareni Collieries stopped coal supply to Andhra Pradesh citing defaults in dues without prior notice, the angry Chandrababu government is all set to give a strong return shock to the KCR government in the similar fashion. 

Andhra Pradesh is yet to clear Rs. 2,000 crore to the Singareni Collieries Ltd. On the other hand, AP is supposed to get more than Rs. 4,000 crores from several Telangana electricity companies.

This gave a direct access to the AP government to hold talks with Coal India without depending on the Singareni  Collieries Ltd. If the talks with Coal India end up being fruitful, AP will permanently bud goodbye to the Singareni Collieries Ltd and even issue ultimatum to Telangana about not supplying electricity unless the dues are paid.

Singareni Collieries Ltd is close to Andhra Pradesh and this helps in cost cutting in terms of transportation charges. However, the coal quality in Singareni is below par in comparison with the coal that is imported from Coal India.

If AP Genco's efforts pay off after talks with Coal India, AP will put an end to taking coal from Singareni Collieries and would also rethink its game plan in supplying electricity to Telangana.

'Wedding on Wheels' Package for 5.5 Cr

Aimed at the ultra-rich class people, Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), is devising plans to start a 'Wedding on Wheels' package, which comes at a jaw-dropping price of Rs 5.5 crore.

This package consists of a week-long extravaganza aboard the Maharajas' Express. Apart from enjoying the week-long wedding festivities, the guests-cum-passengers can also traverse through Incredible India in one of the luxurious trains of Indian Railways. Booking the entire train for an eight-day wedding package will cost differently for different packages.

The cost is about Rs 5.5 crore for the Heritage of India tour, from Mumbai to Delhi through Ajanta, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Jaipur, Ranthambore and Agra. For the Indian Panorama tour that starts and ends in the National Capital after covering Jaipur, Agra, Gwalior, Khajuraho, Varanasi and Lucknow, the cost is a bit less.

Not just the weddings but IRCTC is also planning to host high class corporate events, film shoots, fashion events etc. in this package, which will come into effect from December this year.

The train has 43 guest cabins - 20 deluxe, 18 junior suites, 4 suites and 1 Presidential suite fitted across 24 coaches. The minimum fare per person for the eight-day Heritage of India tour starts at Rs 4.5 lakh and goes up to Rs 16 lakh for the presidential suite.

Chandrababu's New Journey Begins In Velagapudi

Andhra Pradesh CM Nara Chandrababu Naidu has begun a new journey in his governance as he inaugurated the Chief Minister Office on the first floor in Block-I of the interim government complex (IGC) at Velagapudi in Amaravati this morning at an auspicious muhurtham of 8:09 am.

Even though Babu wanted to step into his chamber yesterday on the occasion of Vijaya Dasami and kick-start his administrative works, astrologers advised him against it as Tuesday is considered inauspicious for new beginnings.

Amidst vedic chants and special prayers, Chandrababu performed the pumpkin breaking ritual and stepped into his chamber. With CM and the rest of his cabinet ministers taking charge at the Velagapudi IGC, the state governance has finally gotten its c/o address.

This is the fifth time for Chandrababu to perform prayers in Amaravati in the last fifteen months. Babu performed bhumi puja for Amaravati construction works on June 6th last year. Later on, Babu and PM Modi performed puja at Uddandarayunipalem to inaugurate the capital city construction works on October 22nd last year.

PV Sindhu - Flying High

The first Indian woman to win a Silver medal in Olympics, PV Sindhu is living the life of a bigger celebrity than any superstar we have, after her historic win in Rio.

What followed the Silver medal in 2016 Olympics were the cash rewards from competing state governments, luxury cars and several other expensive gifts, handful of lucrative brand endorsement deals etc.

The ace shuttle player has now graced the cover page of JFW magazine confidently wearing a modern outfit. The tall sportswoman, who always poses to camera sporting her glittering smile, seems to be making the most of her newly found fame.

Sindhu's cover story on JFW magazine was titled 'Flying High': PV Sindhu on Life After Rio.

KCR's Smartest Move Ever

The twenty one newly formed districts of Telangana are considered as a boon for the jumping japangs of many other political parties who are in the TRS. Inspired by TRS' Akarsh launched by KCR, several MLAs of TDP, Congress have ditched their parties and jumped into TRS. And to accommodate all these leaders and give seats to them in the next elections is definitely a major challenge to KCR and TRS party.

With forming new districts KCR played it very smart and it forced the Centre to form new constituencies and thus to accommodate more leaders in the next elections. This tactic will help KCR to give befitting counter TDP, Congress in Telangana who are hoping that the leaders who wouldn't get ticket would comeback to their parties.

This isn't all. With formation of new districts, Centre has to allot new IAS and civil service officers which is difficult given it's not practical to allot new officers and already there's a scarcity of civil service officers. This gives Telangana government to promote its group officers to the next level and accommodate the people they want in the posts.

On other hand, the new districts have also boosted the property prices and realty business has shot up in the new district headquarters which in turn many TRS leaders get advantage of the new move. And by all these, it's a win-win-win situation for KCR and TRS whereas it's a big blow to Opposition parties. In this way, it's politically smartest move by KCR.

Hitech CM's Dashboard Rule!

The tech savvy AP CM Chandrababu Naidu has brought yet another radical reform in the functioning of his government. 

From now onwards, Naidu will monitor the functioning of the all departments on dashboard installed in his new Chambers established in the newly constructed temporary Secretariat in Velagapudi in Guntur district.

The dashboard will update the chief minister the day to day progress in the developmental programmes, welfare scheme, Revenues to state exchequer and expenditure incurred on programmes.

The new technology will also help Naidu to know the details of agricultural activities and ground water levels. He will have access to every minute detail in every village instantly.

To bring more transparency and to reach the benefits if the schemes to the needy, Naidu said the dashboards will be installed at all assembly constituencies and district head quarters.

Sops to Party Workers, Warnings to Leaders

Addressing the 3rd day training session being held in KLCE in Guntur on Thursday, TDP fund welfare coordinator and party General Secretary Nara Lokesh brushed off tiff with his father Chandrababu Naidu over ministerial berth.

On the occasion, Lokesh delivered a stern warning to leaders saying they will be neglected as well if they neglect party workers. He added that Party is closely monitoring the works done by each leader and periodical reviews have been reaching to Chandrababu's desk. 'Leaders will be decorated with key posts only based on their efforts for the growth and welfare of the party. Only one post will be allotted to one member,' Lokesh announced.

Through a detailed Powerpoint presentation, he also announced that Rs 2 lakh will be deposited in the accounts of each party worker who has worked since the inception of TDP, in 1983. And, the interest earned on the principal amount will be disbursed to cadre on a monthly basis. The beneficiaries for this scheme will be identified by MLAs of each constituency and after receiving the names from them, the details will be thoroughly verified before enrolling them to reap the benefits of the scheme.

Flipkart CEO turns sales executive

Over the last one week, it was clearly seen how big e-commerce sites like Amazon, Flipkart and snapdeal has grown up on us. The three major online giants wooed customers with exciting festive offers till yesterday and according to a report, they had a business run of 6500 crore in just 6 days - that's apparently 20% bigger than the previous year.

However, Flipkart claimed to be the king of online sales as it banked a total of 3000cr on 'Big Billion days'. Now, with a view to boost iPhone 7 sales, the CEO of Flipkart Binny Bansal is turning into a sales executive and that's part of their sale strategy for the newly-launched smartphone. Yes, the most-sought after CEO will directly home deliver the iPhone 7 gadget to the first customer who books it.

Also, the company is offering a special surprise to its initial set of customers who book iPhone 7. The pre-bookings for iPhone 7 and 7 plus, prices ranging from 60,000-92,000, have already begun on Flipkart's official website. According to Flipkart, iPhone 7 takes first place in the list of gadgets with high number of bookings.

Let us wait and watch other rivals including Amazon and Snapdeal is going to counter this strategy and how it's going to benefit Flipkart. 

KCR Bows Down, New Count Is 30?

In what can be termed as shutting down of agitation for new districts in Telangana, the state Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao responded positively to create three more districts, from the already planned 17, which would take total number to 30. During a meet with cabinet members and party legislators, CM KCR seems to have reacted in favor of 3 new districts where the government faced severe protests from opposition parties - Gadwal (Mahabubnagar), Sirisilla (Karimnagar) and Jangoan (Warangal).

The continuous agitations by Congress party members, DK Aruna in Gadwal (Mahabubnagar), K Mrutyunjayam in Sirisilla (Karimnagar) and Ponnala Lakshmaiah in Jangoan (Warangal) doesn't seem to have gone unnoticed. Also, members of Telangana Joint Action Committee staged protests in support of formation of new districts. Earlier last week, Congress party MLA of Gadwal, DK Aruna submitted resignation as part of her protest for new district.

'Let's not disappoint people demanding for new districts and we shall agree on their demand,' is how KCR seems to have sounded at the meeting. The TRS government had already declared 17 new districts to the existing 10 which would come into effect from 11th October to coincide with Dussehra. Given this promise by KCR, it remains to be seen whether the 3 districts will come into effect from Dussehra or will they find a new date.

On the other day, KCR directed officials to re-moniker Shamshabad district as Ranga Reddy and adjusted few mandals of Ranga Reddy into Mahabubnagar. However, Congress and TDP still allege that redrawing Telangana's district boundaries is KCR's strategy to fix his political opponents.

KTR gets 'Global Champion' award

Telangana Information Technology Minister KT Rama Rao was conferred with the Global Champion of Digital Literacy Award by Certiport.

KTR has been progressive and created a great amount of buzz around investment in Telangana for the T Hub, a leading incubator to bring in innovation, entrepreneurship and initiatives to embed the Digital India campaign in Telangana. 

Digital Telangana is a program designed to meet the supply and demand for technology skills, said Jan Day, Certiport Vice President of International Sales, who gave the award to KTR at his residence today. He said, he was impressed to see first-hand the vibrancy of Hyderabad and KTR is very deserving of this award. 

The other leaders recognized with this prestigious award include Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebato Shittu, Minister for Communication, Federal Republic of Nigeria and Governor Avila of the State of Mexico.

Pic Talk: Babu's Fun time with Devaansh

As a Chief minister of AP State, Chandrababu is way too busy to spend some personal time with family and he expressed his wish to play with his little grandson Devaansh, many a time. Finally, Babu grabbed some time to fly to Hyderabad to spend good time with Devaansh and here is the picture of himself and his wife Bhuvaneswari along with grandson. 

Chandrababu has been quite a bit busy than earlier, right after the capital city works began and he started to rule the state from the new capital Amaravati. Hectic schedules and investment campaigns are not allowing Chandrababu to spare family time these days. Looks like his recent visit to Hyderabad left him refreshing. 

Google's first laptop - Get More Details Here

Going by latest set of reports, Technology giant Google is gearing up to launch its first laptop within few months. The hardware is likely to run on Google's newest operating system 'Andromeda', a hybrid OS which merges the major features of Android and Google chrome.

Internally termed as 'Bison', the ultra thin pixel 3 laptop will come with a 12.3 display and completely supports tablet mode too. Bison is speculated to be powered by either Intel core M5 or Core i5 processor wherein it'll be supplemented by 8GB and 16GB RAM for 32GB and 128GB hard disks respectively. With 10mm thickness and finger print scanner, the price of this Google's hardware may start from 799$.

Reportedly, the Andromeda OS is also coming in a Huawei-made Nexus tablet which would likely hit the markets by end of this year or early 2017. Being named as Huawei 7P, Google's tablet comes with 7 inch display and 4GB RAM. Andromeda OS, being the mix bag of Chrome and Android, is something to looking forward for and it'll first be introduced in all Nexus-tablets.

Google, which recently launched a counterpart to WhatsApp in the form of Allo, is considering to target Apple's MacBook with 'Bison'. Also, the company is planning to release its pixel smartphone at an official event next week. 

TDP leader votes for YSR Congress

Giving a big shock to the ruling TDP in Andhra Pradesh, Telugu Desam leader and Councellor of Pedana Municipality in Krishna district L Sunitha supported rival YSR Congress party in the election for Chairman post.

Her crucial vote helped YSR Congress to win the Municipal Chairman post. Sunitha openly defied the party whip and supported opposition party. She expressed anger over TDP leadership for not recognizing her service to the party.

The TDP and YSR Congress won 11 each seats in the Municipal elections and Sunitha vote played crucial in winning the Municipal Chairman post.

Sunitha also criticized that the government not releasing funds for the development of the Municipality and she was also not invited to official programmes. -

4 Imax, 40 Multiplexes In AP @ 500 Cr

Multiplex culture is ever-increasing in India. The multiplex bandwagon has gone beyond the metros to redefine entertainment in B and C class towns. While the first phase saw emergence of multiplexes in metros and now this growth is spreading to Rank 2 and 3 cities.

Coming to the actual point, Chennai’s top multiplex player, SPI Cinemas originally named Sathyam Cinemas will be investing Rs 500 Cr to build 4 Imax theatres and 40 multiplex complexes in Vijayawada, Vizag, Guntur and Tirupathi cities in Andhra Pradesh.

This really is good news for movie lovers in AP. And this project will give abundant force to the evolution in theatre exhibition sector in the state.

Representatives of SPI Cinemas met Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu today and explained him the progress of project works. The CM asked them to complete the projects within the specified time.

Briefing about SPI Cinemas, it is an Indian multiplex chain and film production company owned by the SPI Group, headquartered in Chennai. SPI Cinemas operates Sathyam, Escape and other large multiplex complexes in Chennai and other cities in South India. SPI is notable for being the first multiplex operator in India to equip its screens with the Dolby Atmos and Auro 11.1 sound systems.

IT Raids on KCR's follower In Hyd

TRS MLA from Pathancheru assembly constituency G Mahipal Reddy's house was raided by Income Tax department in Hyderabad.

The IT officials searched the houses and offices of Reddy in the city and his constituency. The TRS leader has been involved in realty business in the city.

The officials seized some confidential documents regarding the assets owned by Reddy. 

The TRS leader has been in the eye of storm recently for attacking a company and damaged the properties over the death of an employee. Based on a complaint lodged by the company management, local courts sentenced two year imprisonment in the case also.

China's Surprise Gift to Telangana

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's dream to install India's largest Hanuman idol will get realized soon. Noted sculptors in China have come forward to create the monolithic giant idol. 

On the request of KCR, China agreed to sculpture the idol and shift to Telangana in a year. The idol will be installed in the temple town of Yadadri formerly known as Yadagirigutta. A team of officials led by noted architect Anand sai will leave China soon to submit the designs to the sculptures. 

KCR has prepared a master plan to promote Yadadri as one of the prominent pilgrimage centre on the lines of Tirumala in Andhra Pradesh. He strongly believed the giant Hanuman Idol will help to attract more number of pilgrims to the emerging temple town in the country.

The blueprint to give a face-lift to Yadadri was also approved in which big cottages for all sections of people and huge shopping malls will come up in the precincts of the temple.