
New Delhi: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has called for a bandh in the Telangana region on Tuesday to protest the government's apparent indifference towards the separate statehood issue. A ruckus broke out in Delhi and Hyderabad over the issue on Monday. MPs from the region shouted slogans in Parliament after two students demanding separate statehood for Telangana set fire to themselves. One of the two students died in the...

06:55 AM, Mar 27, 2012

New Delhi: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has called for a bandh in the Telangana region on Tuesday to protest the government's apparent indifference towards the separate statehood issue. A ruckus broke out in Delhi and Hyderabad over the issue. MPs from the region shouted slogans in Parliament after two students demanding separate statehood for Telangana set fire to themselves. One of the two students died. In Hyderabad, TRS MLAs...

01:55 PM, Mar 26, 2012

United Nations: Defying US and Israeli opposition, Palestinians asked the United Nations on Friday to accept them as a member state, sidestepping nearly two decades of troubled negotiations in the hope this dramatic move on the world stage would re-energize their quest for an independent homeland. In the West Bank, the core of that hoped-for state, a Palestinian man was shot dead in a clash with Israeli soldiers and settlers...

09:36 PM, Sep 23, 2011

London: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari has supported the demand for a separate Telangana state and assured the protagonists of the cause that his party will fulfill the long-standing aspirations of the people of the region if it returns to power. The BJP has always been in favour of smaller states and was the first national political party which adopted a resolution for a separate Telangana state if...

10:30 AM, Jul 18, 2011

Jerusalem: Israel has threatened to renounce all past agreements, including the crucial Oslo Accords, if the Palestinians continue their unilateral pursuit of statehood through the United Nations in September. "The unilateral move at the UN is the end of the Oslo Accords and would be a violation of all agreements that we have signed until now," Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said during a meeting in Jerusalem with European foreign affairs...

05:53 PM, Jun 18, 2011

New Delhi: Congress top brass is virtually burning the mid-night oil to find a solution to the Telangana statehood demand amid threats by party MPs, MLAs and ministers from the region to quit en masse if a decision on the issue is not taken soon. Party President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today took stock of the situation in Andhra Pradesh in a two-hour long meeting of Congress...

02:52 PM, Jun 18, 2011

New Delhi: As Andhra Pradesh waits with bated breath for the report on Telangana statehood issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday reviewed the political and security situation in the state with his senior cabinet colleagues. The five-member Justice Srikrishna committee, which went into the demand for Telangana state, may submit its report to Home Minister P Chidambaram tomorrow, a day before the term of the committee expires. It will...

07:17 PM, Dec 29, 2010

New Delhi: Justice (retd) B N Srikrishna, who heads the panel examining the contentious issue of statehood for Telangana, on Tuesday said the committee will present its report by the December 31 deadline and stressed that it would be comprehensive". "The report will be given to the government before December 31. We will make sure that it is given before December 31," Srikrishna said. "We have gone into all aspects....

06:06 PM, Dec 28, 2010

The United Naga Council will resume an economic blockade of Manipur for 20 days from Wednesday. ...

10:11 AM, Aug 02, 2010

Osmania University was tense Saturday as yet another student committed suicide in the campus. ...

12:05 AM, Aug 01, 2010

Vidarbha region comprises of 11 districts of Maharashtra. ...

12:39 PM, Jan 20, 2010

He was at the Prime Minister's House for over two hours. ...

03:34 AM, Jan 05, 2010

More than 1,000 activists staged a peaceful demonstration. ...

03:15 PM, Dec 23, 2009

Sporadic incidents of violence were reported from some areas. ...

01:05 PM, Dec 18, 2009

Chiranjeevi has decided to oppose the division of the Andhra state. ...

05:13 PM, Dec 16, 2009