HYDERABAD: Vexed by the adamance of the TRS and the BJP on contesting the Parakal Assembly byelection, the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) has decided to work with no political party in the Telangana region and to show the exit door for its political constituents, particularly the TRS and BJP, for the time being.The TJAC's extended steering committee, which met under the chairmanship of M.Kodandaram here on Tuesday, decided to...
08:39 AM, May 16, 2012
Hyderabad: The Telangana political Joint Action Committee (JAC) would meet in Hyderabad on Saturday to finalise its future course of action about the resumption of separate statehood agitation. JAC leaders, including TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, who held a meeting in Hyderabad on Friday, decided to continue their talks on Saturday. The TRS president had earlier threatened to intensify the agitation from mid-January. During September and October last year, the...
08:38 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: It's Formation Day in Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. But in Andhra, Telangana leaders have decided to boycott the celebrations, even as the government promised a decision on statehood post-the festival of Eid. The Telangana Joint Action Committee and freedom fighters association have declared November 1 a 'betrayal day'. The JAC have decided to wear black flags and badges. The freedom fighters association are likely to sit on...
08:12 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Hyderabad: Pro-Telangana government employees are set to return to work on Tuesday. Reports say they temporarily called off their 42-day long strike for separate statehood late on Monday after the government gave in to nine of their demands. After a lot of discussions between the two sides, the government finally caved in and accepted the nine demands laid down by the protestors. The employees have agreed to resume work but...
07:35 AM, Oct 25, 2011
Hyderabad: The Telangana Joint Action Committee is slated to meet on Tuesday evening to decide on their future course of action. The strike on the other hand will continue with employees sitting in protest. Teachers, who had joined the protest earlier by carrying on with classes but refusing to accept salaries, have called off their strike. The decision came after negotiations with the government became a success. Meanwhile, the Telangana...
07:30 AM, Oct 18, 2011
New Delhi: Pro-Telangana groups have called for a bandh on Monday after the state government clamped down on the agitation. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrashekhar Rao's son KT Rama Rao was arrested on Saturday and released on bail on Sunday. TRS MP Vijayashanti was also granted bail on Sunday. Andhra Pradesh state government also warned private schools of 'de-recognition' if they failed to function normally from Monday. Rao...
08:00 AM, Oct 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Telangana agitation has entered its nineteenth day on Saturday and the Centre has once again failed to find a way out. Sources have said that government employees in the state now face a salary cut for skipping duty on the days of the strike. On Friday, the Congress found interlocutor Ghulam Nabi Azad's internal report on the claim for a separate Telangana state inconclusive. Sources added that...
07:16 AM, Oct 01, 2011
Hyderabad: The proponents of separate Telangana state on Thursday further intensified their protests as part of the ongoing general strike that began a fortnight back. Hawkers on Thursday stopped delivering newspapers as part of the 'Sakala Januma Samme' (strike by all sections of people) which began on September 13. Telangana Political Joint Action Committee (JAC) Convener M Kodandaram was taken into custody in Secunderabad where he was participating in a...
02:08 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Hyderabad: Intensifying the movement for a separate Telangana state, the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Monday called for a shutdown in Hyderabad on September 30 and a three-day 'rail blockade' across the region next month. After a meeting of the steering committee, the JAC announced that a large-scale road blockade would be held in Hyderabad on September 28. "There will be road blockade at at least 100 places," said...
06:58 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh state secretariat on Monday resounded to traditional Telangana songs as the protest for a separate Telangana reached the doorstep of Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy's office. In a novel protest, the striking employees at the secretariat sang traditional Telangana folk songs and danced. A group of women employees in front of 'C' block, which houses the chief minister's office, did the 'Bathukamma' or the dance...
03:50 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Karimnagar: Though people of Telangana consider YSR Congress (YSRC) chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy as one who stands for unity of the state, the party has begun playing a role in the Telangana movement. The YSRC has two leaders in Telangana, Konda Surekha in Warangal and K Satyavati in Khammam district, and both resigned on September 13 in protest against the delay in formation of Telangana state. Their resignations are...
09:07 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Hyderabad: The administration remained paralysed in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday as the indefinite strike by over 400,000 government employees continued for the second day. Delivery of civic services was hit in 10 districts of Telangana as employees stayed away from work to demand formation of separate Telangana state. The 'people's strike' called by Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) did not have much impact in Hyderabad, but was...
04:31 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Hyderabad: The Telangana political Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Thursday decided to hold the proposed strike in the region from August 17, in a phased manner. "The all-people's strike is widely understood to be the strike of state government employees, teachers and other staff. It may actually turn out to be so. (But) We thought it is not correct to put the entire burden on the employees, hence, we decided...
07:25 PM, Aug 11, 2011
Hyderabad: Dozens of students were arrested and the Osmania University was under siege on Monday as police attempted to foil the indefinite fast by students demanding separate statehood for Telangana. Students coming to Hyderabad from various parts of Telangana were nabbed. Police have since Sunday night also arrested students, including some leaders of the Osmania University Joint Action Committee (OU JAC), on the campus and from hostels, officials said. Preventive...
11:24 AM, Jul 11, 2011
Hyderabad: The Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC), which is spearheading the movement for a separate Telangana state, has called for a two-day shutdown in the region beginning Tuesday. JAC, which comprises the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other political and non-political groups, has also called for a rail blockade July 8 and 9. TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao appealed to people to make the 48-hour...
05:29 PM, Jul 04, 2011
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