As expected, the announcement of the first list of 65 candidates by the Congress for the Telangana assembly elections triggered unrest in the aspirants who were denied tickets.While some unsuccessful aspirants staged protests, some others quit the party in protest and announced that they would contest as independents.

Senior Congress leader and former MLA Vijaya Rama Rao who was denied party ticket from Station Ghanpur constituency, announced that he would contest as an independent.In Serilingampally constituency, former MLA Bhikshapathi Yadav alleged that the party leaders betrayed him by promising him ticket and denying it now.

Former MLA Narayana Rao from Vikarabad constituency resigned from the Congress party in protest against denial of ticket from neighbouring Tandur constituency, which was allotted to Rohith Reddy.Similarly, another Congress leader Nayini Rajender Reddy, who expected the Congress ticket from Warangal (West) constituency, is also planning to quit the party after he was denied the ticket.

Former minister Suddala Devaiah, who was hopeful to get the Congress ticket from Choppadandi constituency, was denied the same and he said he would announce his future course of action soon.Protests were sldo witnessed at NTR Trust Bhavan, the headquarters of the Telugu Desam Party office, by those who could not get the tickets. The TDP released its first list of 10 names in the early hours of Tuesday.

Bengaluru: Infosys will soon open a technology hub at Richardson in the US state of Texas where it will hire 500 American techies by 2020, said the global software major on Wednesday.”The new hub will drive expansion and create jobs in Texas to reinforce our commitment to workforce development in the US,” said the city-based IT major in a statement here.

The new employees would include graduates from Texas universities and colleges. They would benefit from upskilling through its training curriculum.”The new technology and innovation hub will focus on telecommunications, retail and banking sectors,” said the statement.

The investment in Texas reinforces the outsourcing firm’s commitment to driving digital transformation for American enterprises by leveraging talent from the area alongside the best global talent available.The investment in Texas is part of the company’s strategy to drive digital transformation of American businesses.

“Digital is changing every industry, and our hubs will allow us to co-locate, co-innovate and co-create alongside our clients,” said Infosys Chief Operating Officer U.B. Pravin Rao on the occasion.

A drunk woman created quite the scene on an Air India international flight recently when the crew decided not to serve her more alcohol.”I am a f**king international lawyer.” “Rich Indian f**king money grabbing b**tard.” “You f**king stupid c**t.”

These were among the choice abusive phrases the woman directed at a decidedly calm and composed crew during her incessant rant. She also spat at the flight’s pilot.Videos of the woman’s rowdy behaviour have gone viral on social media. She was reportedly arrested after the Air India flight landed at London, its destination.

The exact sequence of events onboard the London-bound Air India flight remains unclear.What we know is that the woman’s rant began when the flight’s cabin crew complained to the commander that the woman had gotten too drunk.The commander then instructed his crew not to serve her any more liquor.This made the passenger, who was sitting in business class, angry, and she started abusing the flight crew.

In the videos shared on social media, the woman’s speech is audibly slurred.

Telangana Jana Samithi president Prof M Kodandaram, who has compromised on the number of seats allotted to his party as part of seat sharing in Maha Kootami, had to make yet another sacrifice for the big brother, the Congress party.

On Tuesday, he decided to give up Jangaon assembly seat which his party was allotted to his party as part of the alliance to make way for former Pradesh Congress Committee president Ponnala Lakshmaiah.Ponnala was thoroughly dissatisfied with the party ignoring his name in finaliding the list of candidates as his constituency Jangaon was allotted to Kodandaram.

He rushed to New Delhi on Tuesday morning to bring pressure on the party high command to make changes in the seat sharing with the alliance partner and see that he would get renomination from Jangaon.He told the party high command that he had been loyal to party for the last 35 years. Ignoring a senior like him, that too a BC leader, to accommodate a Reddy candidate would cause immensedamage to the party, he said.

When Kodandaram came to know about it, he volunteered to drop out from the contest from Jangaon in favour of Lakshmaiah. He, however, is asking for another suitable constituency.

New Delhi: YSR Congress leaders and MPs on Monday met President Ramnath Kovind and submitted a memorandum seeking his intervention for ordering a judicial inquiry or a central agency investigation as the State Government has been trying to dilute October 25 attack on Leader of Opposition YS Jagan Mohan Reddy at Vizag airport.

‘We have urged the President to intervene to institute a judicial probe or an inquiry by an independent agency as the accused person has reason as to why he should try to eliminate the leader of our Party. There is every reason to believe that there is a conspiracy behind the attack as there are many loopholes in the investigation,’ they said after submitting the memorandum to the President at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan here.

Unless there is an impartial inquiry, the facts of who is behind the attack will not be known. There is no proper reply as to why the accused was given a No Objection Certificate before taking him into employment and if was hired beyond the one month period. How the sharp knife could be brought into the airport unless there was the hand of higher-ups is to be found out, they said.

‘We believe that the conspirators include Chandrababu Naidu, DGP, Adinarayana Reddy, Yarapathineni Srinivasa Rao, film star Shivaji, restaurant owner Harshavardhan among others.

Those who met the President include, MPs V. Vijaysai Reddy, Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy and party senior leaders YV Subba Reddy, Mekapati Rajamohana Reddy, YS Avinadh Reddy, Varaprasad, Ummareddy Venkateswarlu and others who said that the President has responded positively.