As many as 40 villages in Dharmabad taluk of Nanded district in neighbouring Maharashtra state expressed their desire to get merged with Telangana state.

Reason: the people are fed up with the Maharashtra government for neglecting them for years and they were impressed with the recent pro-farmer measures like Rythu Bandhu being taken up by the Telangana government.

This was highlighted recently when one of the village sarpanches submitted a letter to TRS MLA from Armoor Bajireddy Goverdhan asking the Telangana government to take over their villages.

On Friday, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s son and state IT minister K T Rama Rao described it as a major achievement for the government.

“It is a unique compliment for the chief minister as he could impress even the people of the neighbouring state,” he said.

He even tweeted that their MLA also supported the demand of the villagers.

“Can there be a better compliment? I wonder,” he said and also attacked an interesting clip from a Hindi television channel which telecast the same.

In their representation to Bajireddy, the village sarpanch Baburao Kadam said the villagers were deprived of even basic amenities such as roads and water.

The facilities currently available in the neighbouring villages in Telangana were much better than in Maharashtra, the sarpanch said.

Despite the fact that Karnataka’s JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy arrived at the swearing-in ceremony as Chief Minister along with his wife Anitha, the photos that go viral on the internet shows that he’s also married to heroine Kutty Radhika, with whom he has a daughter Shamika too.

Neither Kumaraswamy nor Radhika speaks about it openly because Hindu Marriage Act will make the incumbent CM a criminal then. Polygamy is a crime! Forget about the laws and rules, but now, dance clippings of heroine Radhika are going viral on the internet. Clips that showcase her dancing skills alongside actor/dancer Salman on the Kannada TV show ‘Dance Dance Juniors’ to the one where she attempted a Belly Dance as well.

And these clips are breaking the internet as netizens are showing quite an enthusiasm to catch those passionate moves of CM’s wife on the floor. Though Radhika has secretly married in 2006, which is confirmed by her in 2010, she always wanted to make a film on dance. Like the Hindi film ABCD, she wants to come up with the film “I Hate Dance”, but it never materialised. Currently, she’s back to films after 4-year hiatus and picking up some character roles.

Radhika acted in Tarakaratna’s Bhadradri Ramudu as the leading lady way back in 2004 and featured in a couple of other unreleased Telugu films too.

Giving a Friday shock to Modi-Shah combine, the Congress-JD(S) combine in Karnataka has won the Trust Vote easily. This is a big setback to BJP as it poured cold water on the remaining hopes that it had to grab the power in Southern state. BJP somewhere still had some hope that the alliance of JD(S)-Congress would get cracks while distribution of power. Banking on it, BJP’s candidate had even filed nomination for Speaker who later withdrawn fearing defeat. Soon after JD(S)-Congress won the Floor Test by achieving the magic figure, BJP MLAs staged walkout.

Earlier speaking in the Assembly, two-day CM Yeddyurappa has ‘targeted’ Congress leader and former minister DK Shivakumar and ‘rued’ over him saying he was “responsible for all” indicating at his loss of power. Angry Yeddyurappa cursed Shivakumar that he would get for what he did.

Meanwhile, Shivakumar is sulking against his party that he was not “rewarded” well. Shivakumar played crucial role in keeping the flock intact avoiding horse-trading/poaching from BJP that lacked required numbers.

Here is the news that may not go down well with Narendra Modi and his fans. As per a fresh survey, majority in country today opined that Narendra Modi is not worth of another chance to rule India. In a sample of 15,859 people from 19 states, 47 percent voted against Modi rule in 2019. While the 39 percent voted that Modi deserves power in 2019, the rest (14 percent) have opined that they have not decided yet – keeping their options open. The survey was conducted by ABP News-CSDS Mood of the Nation survey.

What’s more startling is that the survey numbers are close to the numbers recorded for the UPA in July 2013 ahead of 2014 elections. The survey held nine months before 2014 general elections indicated that 39 percent were against Congress-led UPA then, whereas 31 percent were in favour of Manmohan Singh as the PM while remaining 30 percent were undecisive then. Proving the survey right, UPA was restricted to only 60 seats in 2014 giving a rousing victory to Modi-led BJP.

Meanwhile, the fresh survey indicated that anti-Modi sentiment is high among country’s religious minorities whereas Hindus are very slightly in favour of Modi but even they are found to be divided into half. Among Hindu voters, 44 percent are in favour of Modi being given a second chance whereas 42 percent are opposing him. While Dalits and Adivasis are expressing strong dissent against Modi, the percentage of OBCs opposing him are at 42 percent. If elections are held right now, 32 percent of voters said they would vote for Modi.

The survey’s results proved a sharp decline in the image of Modi. The same survey which was conducted five months ago stated that 34 percent would vote for him if elections are held right away then. This two percent drop is hinting the downfall of Modi.

Steep increase in petrol prices and taxes, lack of proper services, implementation of GST, Demonetisation, broke out of bank scams all said to have worked against Modi.

Telangana Industry minister KT Rama Rao presented a specially designed memorial – replica of Charminar, to Andhra Pradesh Tourism Minister Bhuma Akhila Priya.

Akhila along with her fiance Bhargav called on KTR and invited the latter to their wedding to be held in Hyderabad on August 29.

Akhila and Bhargav got engaged on May 12 in Anantapur district. KTR extended warm greetings to the couple and assured he will attend the function.

US president Trump government’s move to cancel work visa to certain categories of H-4 Visa holders is in the last stage, the authorities told the US court. The H-4 visas are issued to the spouses of H-1B visa holders. This latest move would affect nearly 70,000 Indian techies.

The H-4 visa is an Obama-era administration’s executive order where spouses of H-1B visa holders too could legally work in the US. The rule is currently in final clearance, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told a federal court yesterday.

The proposal, after getting DHS’ clearance, will be sent to the Office of Management and Budget for review under Executive Order for regulatory and planning review. Last week, a group of 130 US lawmakers led by Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal appealed to the Trump administration to continue issuing work authorisation to certain spouses of non-immigrant workers holding H-1B visas.

Nearly 93% of the total H-4 visa holders in the US having work authorisation are Indians. The final notification to rescind the work authorisation is expected to be published in June.