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There is a dire need for a strong voice in Parliament to champion the cause of Telangana people, says B Vinod

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Bharat Rashtra Samithi candidate for Karimnagar Lok Sabha seat B. Vinod Kumar. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Banking on the ‘development’ plank, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) heavyweight B. Vinod Kumar, one of the founding members of the TRS (now BRS), is eyeing to win back the Karimnagar Lok Sabha seat, which he represented from 2014 to 2019, in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections slated for May 13. Mr. Vinod is the BRS candidate for the high-stakes Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency, which was the epicentre of the separate Telangana movement. The former vice-chairman of Telangana State Planning Board is spearheading a vigorous campaign using key election slogan ‘Vinodanna Galam Karimnagar Ku Balam’ seeking votes to become ‘people’s voice’ in Parliament. He is pitted against the BJP’s Bandi Sanjay Kumar, incumbent MP from Karimnagar, and the Congress party’s Velichala Rajender Rao. Mr. Vinod claims to have participated in 106 debates and raised 553 questions in Parliament during his tenure as MP (2014-2019). Amid the high voltage electioneering, Mr. Rao talks about his election campaign and the BRS’s …

Kerala Budget 2024 | Opposition Leader accuses Finance Minister of regurgitating old promises and papering over State’s dire economic situation

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Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan (file) | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition in Kerala has accused the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government of delivering a Budget that sought to paper over Kerala’s dire economic situation by regurgitating empty promises. Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan termed Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal’s nearly two-hour Budget speech on February 5 (Monday) an election-eve screed that targeted the Opposition to conceal the government’s alarming fiscal failures. He said Mr. Balagopal had relegated the Budget to the subaltern status of a worn-out political statement speckled with cliched, obsolete and hollow-sounding communist jargon. Mr. Satheesan said Mr. Balagopal destroyed the Budget’s sanctity and used the presentation in the Assembly as a bully pulpit to demonise the Opposition repeatedly. He said Mr. Balagopal used the heavily politicised Budget speech as a fig leaf to cover the embarrassing fact that almost 50% of the funds earmarked for plan expenditure in critical sectors, including social welfare, remained unspent. Mr. Satheesan said successive Budgets presented by Mr. …

Music Review: Tour through Dire Straits’ live output with new box set spanning 1978-1992

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Dire Straits may be best known for their No. 1 song “Money for Nothing” (think Sting singing “I want my MTV!”) that came from their chart-topping 1985 album “Brothers in Arms.” HT Image But as their new “Dire Straits Live 1978-1992” box set shows, the band was much more than any one song or album. Out Friday, the release proves they were also a force live with a deep catalogue that goes far beyond the radio friendly fare that put “Brothers in Arms” at No. 1 for nine weeks in the U.S. Amazon Sale season is here! Splurge and save now! Click here The eight CD or 12 album box set is a showcase for a wide range of Dire Straits songs: the storytelling of “Romeo and Juliet,” the sonic explorations of “Telegraph Road” and “Private Investigations” and more accessible material like “Walk of Life.” However, only 29 tracks are previously unreleased. And the bulk of those come from “Dire Straits Live from the Rainbow Theatre,” a 1979 show available for the first time. Spread …