Widespread corruption in the Congress government seems to

an open secret in Andhra Pradesh, but the political impact is

unclear. One media contact told us the man on the street expects

it. He said: "corruption is inalienable. It is rather acceptable."

Another reporter said citizens are fine with corruption so long as

some the money flows down to them, adding that as long as Congress

continues to spread the wealth it actually "strengthens its position

in the state." A third journalist observed that at a minimum the

Congress is consolidating its political base "offering small

contracts to party workers, making them happy." [More]

This is an exert from the preface of a book on India by Patrick French, titled “India: An intimate biography of 1.2 billion people”.

An Indian man walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to India on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $ 5,000. The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for the loan, so the Indian man hands over the keys of a new Ferrari parked on the street in front of the bank. He produces the title and everything checks out. The loan officer agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. [More]

Former telecom minister A Raja will base his defence on trying to shift the responsibility of the 2G spectrum scam on the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA), which includes the Prime Minister and the finance and home ministers, among several others. [More]

Big Bomb is going to explode in couple of days. 2CDs of billionaires swiss accounts data (around 2000 accounts) is in the hands of wikileaks now. Pray for Indians names.. Thanks to wikileaks for cleansing up the nations.. [More]

UPA government breaking 60 years record in 3 years : From 1948 through 2008, India lost a total of $213 billion in illicit financial flows (or illegal capital flight). These illicit financial flows were generally the product of: Corruption, bribery and kickbacks and criminal activities. The present value of India’s total illicit financial flows is at least $ 462 billion. Global Financial Integrity report says.. [More]

NTR is no more. [More]

People in India say 'Politics is a good business nowadays'. Is this correct ? Political JAC is a profit motivated activity and has a number of opportunities to make profit which may at times be at social cost. If you read this article in full, I guess, you will understand why there are so many political JACs in telangana region of Andhra Pradesh and their operational problems and the competitions to break the monopoly of a particular JAC. [More]

Global vibrant Gujarat summit : India Inc commits over Rs 1.5 lakh crore investments to Gujarat.

Shame on Andhra Pradesh and thanks to hopeless fellows from TRS for taking my state back to 20 years.



Here are the Gifts to Gujarat (or) you can say the results out of great efforts from Gujarat:

Adani Group - 80,000crores - infrastructure sector (ports and power generation)

Anil Ambani Group - 50,000crores - Gas,Coal based power projects & 3 cement plants

Essar Group - 30,000Crores - power, refining, ports and water infrastructure

Larsen&Tubro - 15,000crores - infrastructure projects

Mahindra&Mahindra - 11,000crores - multiplier investment through city development

HCC - 12,000crores - renewable energy park

Sujlan Group - 6,000crores - 1000MW power generation

General Motors - 450crores - expansion of plant production



ICICI - branches in 2000 villages

Reliance Industries - to make Pandit DeenDayal University as world class University

TATA - to develop rural transportation.

TTK Prestige - new kitchenware plant

Essel Group - education improvement in 25 schools in Ahmedabad. [More]

This area of investment which is 3 times better than any residential / commercial property .

Keeping the purpose of maintaining fair prices and seeing the present trend in similar communities elsewhere , investment in this project seems to be very attractive and the following tells you why .

This is turning out to be a very good investment option for the non retired people also as they are getting back their money in full from the occupants and to be returned only on their vacating the accomodation . The investor on the other hand owns the property and the deposit can be invested in saving schemes which are secure and gives returns of a minimum of 9-12 % pa. This highly favourable returns when compared to the rental values of the residential or commercial buildings should be an incentive for the people planning their retirements or NRIs .

Chennai, projected to reach a population of 10 million by 2025, 'has so far this year created over 100,000 jobs - more than any other Indian city outside of the much larger Delhi and Mumbai,' Forbes says. [More]

below is the questionnaire of SKC (Sri Krishna Commission) member Prof. Ravinder Kaur of IIT Delhi. SKC member asked the IIT students from Andhra Pradesh to answer the following questions. Guys.. Go through these questions and let me know what do you feel about these questions? Are they sending any message to you in favour of separate Telangana or in favour of United Andhra Pradesh state? Or can't determine?

When i try to draw some message from the following questions, for me it looks totally in favour of a separate state with a small concern of state capital Hyderabad and a bit of concern on future demands for separate states which can be a headache for UPA government. Is it the UPA predetermined to separate Telangana from Andhra Pradesh? [More]