Telangana protesters on Tuesday tried to enter Parliament compund and were arrested. ...
12:12 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Congress MPs from Telangana on Friday dropped enough hints that they would quit the party if it did not honour its word on granting statehood for the region. For the record, however, they said they would wait for the Centre's decision on the issue till January 28 even as they were highly critical of AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement that any decision would not be taken in haste....
03:01 PM, Jan 25, 2013
New Delhi: Security has been tightened across Hyderabad as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the city later in the day. The PM is expected to inaugurate a session at the ongoing UN Biodiversity Summit in the city. However, pro-Telangana activists are expected to hold protests against the Centre's delay on the issue of separate statehood. Sources said that the activists were planning to release black balloons upon Manmohan Singh's arrival....
07:44 AM, Oct 16, 2012
Hyderabad: The agitation for separate statehood by pro-Telangana groups is set to intensify in Hyderabad. The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) is planning a silent protest at Indira Park on Tuesday. Activists are expected to begin an indefinite hunger strike too amidst tight security for the ongoing 19-day UN Conference on Biodiversity. On Monday, a bandh called in 10 districts of Andhra Pradesh evoked low-key response. There were minor incidents...
10:14 AM, Oct 02, 2012
Hyderabad: Pro-Telangana students on Monday clashed with police which used teargas shell to quell the protestors at Osmania University campus in Hyderabad even as the bandh called by different groups favouring separate statehood had little impact in the state capital and Telangana districts. A group of activists under the banner of Telangana students and Osmania University Joint Action Committee (OU-JAC) held protests in front of the OU Police Station located...
02:43 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid has said that the Centre is not trying to delay a resolution to the Telangana issue, but trying to find a middle path on the matter. "It's not that we're dragging our feet or procrastinating. We're trying to find a middle ground so that in future, there are no problems or lasting biterness," he said. Hyderabad was brought to a complete standstill on Sunday after ...
12:33 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Hyderabad: Several educational institutions in Telangana region, including Hyderabad, have shut down on Monday following a bandh call by pro-Telangana groups. Telangana student unions including Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee gave a bandh call on Monday, protesting the alleged high-handedness of police during the 'Telangana March' in support of the separate statehood demand on Sunday. State Road Transport Corporation said it had not cancelled bus services, but rescheduled them...
11:38 AM, Oct 01, 2012
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11:27 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom said in a tell-all interview on Wednesday that Rajiv Gandhi shielded Italian businessman Quattrochi. ...
09:53 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Hyderabad: Road transport was affected in several parts of Telangana in Andhra Pradesh on Monday as agitators raised road blockades, demanding separate statehood to the region. The movement of vehicles on national and state highways was disrupted as activists of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other constituents of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) squatted on the roads. Leaders and hundreds of activists in...
01:14 PM, Jan 17, 2011
Hyderabad: Real estate prices and investments in Hyderabad have dropped following the Telangana protests, raising questions over Hyderabad's future. Brand Hyderabad is about pearls, biryani, Charminar and Information and Technology. But for a year now, the city's also been a hotbed of pro-Telangana support. The Osmania University campus - a centre of politics - remains tense after the Srikrishna panel's report became public. Students continue to agitate for Telangana despite...
09:48 PM, Jan 11, 2011
Media persons allege well-planned attack on them by police. ...
08:52 AM, Feb 15, 2010
