
New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday criticised YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's arrest by the CBI, calling it an act of political vendetta by the Congress. "The timing of the arrest is questionable," BJP leader Balbir Punj said. "It looks like political vendetta. The CBI is the instrument of the UPA," he added. Meanwhile, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) welcomed the YSR Congress chief's...

08:43 PM, May 27, 2012

New Delhi: A partial bandh called by the TRS over the demand for separate statehood is currently underway in the Telangana region. Educational institutes have been exempt due to the ongoing Board examinations. Public transport including buses and autos are also plying on the routes. Although schools and colleges are functioning, an exam scheduled for Tuesday at Osmania University was postponed. Meanwhile, cinema halls and malls are expected to remain...

09:50 AM, Mar 27, 2012

Hyderabad: Rocked by the Telangana issue, the Andhra Pradesh Assembly was on Monday adjourned for the day without transacting any business. MLAs belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti and the Telangana Telugu Desam Forum stormed the Speaker's podium as soon as the House began after a three-day holiday and raised slogans demanding that a resolution be passed seeking creation of a separate state. Amidst the din, Speaker Nadendla Manohar adjourned...

12:26 PM, Mar 26, 2012

Hyderabad: Stage is set for the crucial by-elections to seven Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday. Six constituencies Kollapur, Nagarkurnool, Mahbubnagar, Kamareddy, Adilabad and Station Ghanpur are in Telangana region, while the seventh, Kovur, is in coastal Andhra. The by-elections are being dubbed as "quarter-finals" before the "semi-finals" over the next few months, when 17 other constituencies will have by-elections. The elections are critical for the Telangana Rashtra Samiti,...

07:24 PM, Mar 17, 2012

New Delhi: Three Congress MLAs from Telangana region are likely to join Telangana Rashtra Samiti on Sunday, a move which will deepen the crisis in the ruling party in Andhra Pradesh over the separate statehood issue. Protesting Congress' dilly-dallying on the separate statehood issue, MLAs Jupally Krishna Rao from Kollapur in Mahbubnagar district, S Satyanarayana from Ramagundam in Karimnagar and T Rajaiah from Station Ghanpur in Warangal resigned from the...

12:21 PM, Oct 30, 2011

Hyderabad: All examinations scheduled to be held from Thursday in Osmania University have been postponed after violence rocked the varsity when pro-Telangana students clashed with police in support of the separate statehood demand. "All the Osmania University exams to be held from July 7-11 are postponed. There will be no change in the exams schedule beginning from July 12. The revised dates of the postponed exams will be announced later,"...

06:13 PM, Jul 06, 2011

Hyderabad: The Telangana fire continued to burn at Osmania University in the city with violence breaking out at yet again on Wednesday. There was stonepelting by the students aimed at the police personnel deployed on the campus. Police had to use tear gas to disperse the angry mob. The Telangana Rashtriya Samiti on Tuesday called for a two day bandh in state of Andhra Pradesh demanding the formation of a...

01:06 PM, Jul 06, 2011

Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) activists on Monday pelted stones at the convoy of TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu when he was proceeding to Mahbubnagar in the Telangana region, leaving some TDP workers and media personnel injured. Tension prevailed in Parigi as police chased away the protestors who raised slogans against Naidu and in support of Telangana. Some TDP workers and some media personnel were injured in the stone pelting,...

01:41 PM, Sep 13, 2010

Self-immolation bid by student provokes violent protests. ...

09:51 PM, Feb 20, 2010

TRS leader Rao rejects terms of reference of the Srikrishna panel. ...

09:23 AM, Feb 13, 2010

Govt's attempt to put issue on backburner may soon fail. ...

03:56 PM, Jan 20, 2010

Hyderabad and nine other districts of region shut down. ...

11:25 AM, Jan 20, 2010

Political parties and student bodies met in Vijayawada on Saturday. ...

11:31 PM, Jan 02, 2010

The Centre has called for a meeting of eight political parties on the issue. ...

03:02 AM, Dec 31, 2009

Pro-Telangana agitators on campus plan protests on January 3. ...

10:56 PM, Dec 27, 2009