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A group of local youth targeted the convoy of manakonduru TRS MLA Rasamayi Balakishan at Gundlapalli of Ganneruvaram in Karimnagar district on Sunday. The group allegedly hurled slippers and blocked the MLA’s cavalcade and raised slogans.

The audio of Prabhudeva and Hansika starrer ‘Gulebakavali’, the remake of Tamil film ‘Gulebagavali’ is out, and the composers Vivek-Mervin have nailed it! Jeevitha Rajashekar unveiled a new promotional image for the film, while director N Shankar released the first audio CD at an event in Hyderabad.

In the Telangana assembly, three out of the four MLAs with a PhD degree are from the SC and ST communities. While there are only 26 post-graduates in the 119-member house, 15 of them are from SC and ST groups. Although educational qualifications are not mandatory for legislators, there has been a recent debate on the subject. Political analysts believe that although the Constitution does not impose restrictions, the demand for educated lawmakers has increased. The assembly also has six well-educated women MLAs.

In a live interaction with party leaders and cadre on Facebook on Saturday, he called upon them to get prepared for elections that are likely to be held in November or December this year itself.

15 doctors, including three orthopaedic doctors, have won in the high-stakes assembly elections in Telangana. Interestingly, none of the victories are from the city. The doctors who won include Dr Palvai Harish Babu, Dr Tellam Venkata Rao, Dr R Bhoopathi Reddy, Dr Ram Chander Naik, Dr Vamshi Krishna, Dr Murali Naik, Dr K Satyanarayana, Dr Mynampally Rohit, Dr Vivek Venkataswamy, Dr Parnika Reddy, Dr P Sanjeeva Reddy, Dr Kalvakuntla Sanjay, Dr M Sanjay Kumar, M Ragamayee, and Dr Kuchukulla Rajesh Reddy. The future minister for health and family welfare is still a suspense.

Dommati Sarvesham was an ardent devotee of Lord Ayyappa. A toddy-tapper, Sarvesham went to Sabarimala on January 9 to seek the Lord's blessings. But now his family is eagerly waiting for his body to arrive.

It was Congress bashing all the way at the plenary of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Friday. Party president K Chandrasekhar Rao and MLAs who spoke at the meeting spared no effort to term Congress leaders ‘ignorant’ and ‘sanyasis’.

Notwithstanding TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s hard talk that indiscipline and groupism would not be tolerated, the party leadership is very much worried about infighting and differences within the party in various districts ahead of the January 22 municipal elections. The party leadership believes this could impact the results though it is confident of winning the elections.

Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) leaders are considering taking a plunge into electoral politics by contesting in the upcoming polls.