Hyderabad: Alleging that Congress has been "deceiving" people on separate Telangana issue, BJP on Saturday said the UPA government should move a Bill on the formation of the state in the coming budget session of the Parliament. Addressing a public meeting organised at the Nizam College Grounds on the conclusion of 24-day 'Telangana Poru Yatra' (struggle for Telangana), former BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu said the Congress party should have...
12:30 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Hyderabad: The state government issued a go on Wednesday for withdrawing cases filed against students for taking part in the agitation for and against bifurcation of the state. The government issued the go in pursuance of a decision taken at the recent cabinet meeting. It may be noted that the government had already withdrew cases registered against 499 persons earlier. Now cases against 167 more persons would be dropped on...
10:53 AM, Feb 02, 2012
Hyderabad: The leaders of pro-Telangana employees of Andhra Pradesh government, who have been in the forefront of separate statehood agitation, on Sunday met Union Minister and Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad here. "We have come here to urge him to table the bill for formation of separate Telangana during the Budget session of Parliament," K Swamy Goud, a union leader, told reporters after the meeting. According to Gaud, Azad...
02:13 PM, Jan 22, 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
HYDERABAD: Osmania University, once the epicentre of the Telangana movement, is now seeing students ditch the agitating mode to prepare for various competitive examinations. The campus, the scene of many pitched battles between the police and students even a few months back, has completely changed in nature. Says V Srinivas, an MA student of journalism and communication, These days we are busy attending coaching classes. No student wants to let...
07:53 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday launched 'Telangana Poru Yatra' with party president Nitin Gadkari promising a separate Telangana state if the party is voted to power at the Centre. Addressing a public meeting at Maktal in Mahabubnagar district to formally flag off state BJP chief Kishan Reddy's yatra, Gadkari assured the people that the party would strive for a bill in the coming session of parliament to...
05:49 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Hyderabad: Major industries minister J Geeta Reddy and information technology minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah, both from Telangana, have differing perceptions over the likely flow of investments into the region. The two minister at first, at a press conference on Monday, dismissed as baseless the contention of some Telangana protagonists that the region was neglected in the matter of new industries. They even reeled out statistics in support of their argument. But...
12:40 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would flag off a 22-day-long yatra in support of the separate Telangana statehood demand, in Mahabubnagar district on January 19. BJP national president Nitin Gadkari will flag off the 'Telangana Poru Yatra' (Struggle for Telangana). "The aim of the yatra is to mount pressure on the UPA government to move a Bill in the coming budget session of the Parliament for carving out a...
05:25 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Nizamabad (AP): Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's fast over farmer issues at Armoor in Nizamabad district in Telangana went off smoothly on the second day on Wednesday with supporters visiting him in good numbers. Raising slogans, Telangana supporters tried to express their protest at the fast venue but they were removed by police. Alleging that Jagan, who hails from Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, has an anti-Telangana attitude,...
10:41 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Hyderabad: YSR Congress party leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy's 48-hour fast in Armoor town of Telangana to highlight the problems of farmers entered the second day on Wednesday amid tight security. A large number of farmers and supporters queued up at the hunger strike camp to call on the Kadapa MP and son of late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Jagan, as the young leader is popularly called, began his fast...
04:50 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Nizamabad: YSR Congress leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy began his fast on Tuesday night on farmers' issues at Armoor in Nizamabad district of Telangana region amid protests by Telangana supporters. Alleging that Jagan has an anti-Telangana stance, the statehood supporters squatted on the roads, burnt tyres, pelted stones on his convoy and voiced their protest in various other forms at several places while he was on his way to Armoor...
11:36 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Kadapa MP and YSR Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's convoy came under attack on Tuesday when stones were pelted by pro-Telangana activists on the vehicle carrying him in Andhra Pradesh's Medak. Jagan Mohan was on his way to Nizamabad where he will hold a two-day fast in support of farmers when the stone-pelting incident took place. Police arrested several pro-Telangana activists for targeting Jagan Mohan. Meanwhile, Telangana Rashtra...
04:32 PM, Jan 10, 2012
YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy began his fast at the Nizamabad district which falls in the Telangana region of AP. The TRS has threatened to obstruct his tour demanding he make his stand on Telangana clear ...
11:56 AM, Jan 10, 2012
Hyderabad: The TRS, the Telangana political Joint Action Committee (JAC) and Congress leaders from the region on Monday voiced stiff opposition to Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's fast to be held at Nizamabad district on Tuesday. "Jagan has an anti-Telangana attitude. He never spoke in support of Telangana. He has tried to evade a clear stance on the separate statehood demand (by saying that the decision on it has...
01:52 AM, Jan 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Will YSR Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy have to face as much an angry crowd and receive as many brickbats as TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu did in Warangal on January 6 when he visits Nizamabad district on January 10. Though the TRS leaders are saying that they will apply the same yardstick to Jagan and disturb his programme, the conviction in their voice is lacking. TRS leader...
11:06 AM, Jan 09, 2012
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