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Wednesday, April 8, 2026
TopicNara Lokesh

Topic: Nara Lokesh

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel gets started on building India’s largest greenfield steel plant in Andhra

Project will eventually produce 18 MMT of steel annually, while providing direct & indirect employment to a lakh people. 'We're creating a steel city,' says CM Naidu.

A seat at the table—and beyond? Nara Lokesh’s dinner diplomacy earns praise, but also unsettles allies

CM Naidu’s son is said to be crafting an independent political identity, an effort that seems to have discomfited some alliance members. But he’s largely earning praise for ‘PR game’.

Andhra Pradesh missing from Budget spotlight, why Chandrababu Naidu’s still happy

Sitharaman in the 2026-27 Budget has shifted focus away from Amaravati and Polavaram. But TDP is confident about leveraging allocations to accelerate Andhra’s 'next phase of growth'.

Naidu’s new appraisal ranks ministers on e-file clearance speed—CM 6th fastest, Lokesh 9th, Pawan 11th

The rankings prompted Naidu to note some ministers took an unacceptable average of 15 days to clear files as he offered to sit with any minister or officer to understand intricate files.

‘Centre poaching firms from Karnataka for BJP states with no tech ecosystem’—Priyank Kharge doubles down

Priyank Kharge’s comments came amid his war of words with Andhra IT Minister Nara Lokesh & Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over the Centre's preferential treatment.

Andhra vs Karnataka battle gets spicier: $15 bn Google investment adds tadka to Lokesh-Priyank squabble

GenNext politicians bicker on social media, twitterati join in, take sides. Latest round of war of words after US-based tech giant announces strategic investment for India’s first AI hub in Vizag.

‘Scavenging’ vs ‘arrogance’—Priyank spars with Lokesh over invite to Bengaluru firms to move to Andhra

Andhra IT minister responded to a news post on social media about companies moving from Bengaluru's Outer Ring Road to city’s north, drawing sharp response from his Karnataka counterpart.

IAS officer in Naidu’s CMO ruffles feathers—‘slammed door on one TDP MP, had spat with another’

Misra, a 2009-batch IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh cadre, was serving as director in the Centre’s Department Of Financial Services before his posting in the CMO as additional secretary last year.

Payback time for TDP: Naidu’s party breaches Jagan’s Pulivendula, YSRCP candidate loses deposit

YSRCP’s charges of 'large-scale bogus voting, murder of democracy' in Pulivendula same as those levelled by Naidu 4 years ago when YSRCP had penetrated his bastion, Kuppam.

Nasscom, craft rum & now aerospace, Lokesh swoops in to pitch AP as alternative to Karnataka

Lokesh appears to be taking a page from book of former Telangana minister KTR. TDP-led govt, he says, ‘is operating like a startup, showing that hunger and fire’.

On Camera

Mamata Banerjee vs the Election Commission—Why India needs an annual voter list revision

We cannot absolve the Election Commission of all the blame, but we must emphasise that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee must shoulder the lion’s share of the responsibility for these exclusions.

Stocks fall, oil prices climb as Trump issues fresh threat to Iran ahead of his deadline

Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.

Western theatre against Pakistan to be headed by IAF, Northern theatre under Army to focus on China

India's military to get Vice Chief of Defence Staff along with one Theatre Commander from each of three services, it is learnt.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.