The voice of jailed MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is facing sedition charges for his alleged "hate speech," was on Tuesday recorded by Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) even as a local court extended his judicial remand in the case till February 19. Akbaruddin's voice was recorded in the court of Judicial First Class Magistrate in Nirmal town of Adilabad district by the APFSL experts and the sample will...
04:31 PM, Feb 05, 2013
After MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi's hate speech rocked Hyderabad, now VHP leader Praveen Togadia has shown how he is another side of the same coin. Praveen Togadia allegedly made an inflammatory speech on February 1 near Adilabad district, the same district where Owaisi made his hate speech. ...
03:32 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Andhra Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has met the Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, even as speculation is rife that the UPA government is mulling setting up of Telangana Territorial Council along the lines of the Bodo Territorial Council pact to solve the Telangana statehood issue. ...
12:21 PM, Feb 05, 2013
The government has decided to solve the Telangana impasse along the lines of the Bodo Territorial Council pact, sources said. Congress leaders are mulling the option of setting up a Telangana Territorial Council, which will have its own elected executive members, they added. ...
08:55 AM, Feb 05, 2013
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, accused of sedition for his "hate speech", was on Monday booked in a similar case, police said. Based on a complaint filed by city corporator Raja Singh, a local court had last month directed the Mangalhat police to investigate a speech made by Akbaruddin at Nanded in Maharashtra in 2012, which allegedly targeted a particular community. ...
10:59 PM, Feb 04, 2013
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging the appointment of Justice NV Ramana as a judge of Andhra Pradesh High Court on the ground that a criminal case was pending against him at the time of his elevation to the bench. A bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam also imposed a cost of Rs 50,000 on the petitioner who had sought quashing of appointment of the judge. ...
01:40 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy met Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad in the capital on Monday to discuss the Telangana row. These talks come after the Centre went back on its promise last month to grant statehood to Telangana. ...
10:33 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy would leave for Delhi on Monday to meet the central leadership and is expected to hold a discussion on the Telangana demand. Reddy is leaving for the national capital by a morning flight, official sources said on Sunday night. ...
04:41 AM, Feb 04, 2013
A day after former minister and Congress MLA P Shankar Rao was picked up in connection with a land encroachment case, police on Friday booked him for allegedly "threatening and abusing" the Neredmet Station House Officer. On a complaint lodged by Neredmet Circle Inspector P Srinivas, a case was registered against Rao under sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 506...
04:41 AM, Feb 02, 2013
The Nizamabad police is interrogating MIM legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi on February 1, facing sedition charges for his alleged "hate speech" in December last year, police said. Akbaruddin, who is in judicial remand and lodged at the Adilabad district jail, was brought to Nizamabad town this morning and was being questioned by Investigating officer at the Armed Reserve headquarters, they said. ...
03:25 PM, Feb 01, 2013
An MP from Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh today filed a complaint against eminent scholar Ashis Nandy, for making remarks alleged to be anti-Dalit at the Jaipur Literature Festival, police said. Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar on February 1 filed a complaint against Nandy at the Two Town police station here. ...
01:22 PM, Feb 01, 2013
![Cong MPs want to remain in party and still want to be protagonists of Telangana cause: K Nageshwar]( "Cong MPs want to remain in party and still want to be protagonists of Telangana cause: K Nageshwar")
Political analyst & independent member of Andhra Pradesh legislative council K Nageshwar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Telangana conundrum. ...
03:08 PM, Jan 31, 2013
An engineering student, allegedly committed suicide for the cause of a separate Telangana state at Pavanpuri Colony in Hyderabad on Wednesday, the police said. The body of N Dinesh Chandra, a third-year B Tech student in a private college, was found hanging in his room they said, adding that a death note was also found in the room. ...
05:32 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Amid mounting pressure, Congress on Wednesday said it was not against formation of Telangana, signalling that a decision on the vexed issue of a separate state has been put on the fast-track. "Congress is not against the formation of Telangana state. We are in the process of taking a decision but then formalities have to be completed," party spokesperson PC Chacko said. ...
06:30 PM, Jan 30, 2013
The Telangana protests are set to get louder in the national capital on Wednesday as seven Congress MPs will be arriving in Delhi this morning and are expected to hand over their letters of resignation to Sonia Gandhi. ...
06:39 AM, Jan 30, 2013
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy Tuesday condemned Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader K Chandrasekhara Rao's "disgraceful" remarks against Congress leaders and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Addressing a news conference Tuesday evening, he said the Congress party can't tolerate such "disgraceful remarks". ...
09:05 PM, Jan 29, 2013
The Telangana crisis continues as seven Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh have said that they will send their resignation letters to party President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday. The MPs, after being summoned by the party high command, will land in Delhi on Wednesday. ...
02:24 PM, Jan 29, 2013
A midnight statement three years ago on the formation of Telangana, by the then Home Minister P Chidambaram, that was aimed at ending TRS chief K Chandrashekhara Rao's fast unto death opened a pandora's box. But just a few days later the Centre went back on its word by appointing a committee headed by Justice BN Srikrishna to decide on a separate state of Telangana. ...
01:54 PM, Jan 29, 2013
The Telangana crisis intensified on Monday with Congress MPs from the region announcing that they would resign as parliamentarians and party members if Telangana state was not formed. While seven MPs wrote a letter to party president Sonia Gandhi saying that either Telangana state be formed at once or their resignations be accepted, nine ministers have said that they would "observe restraint" for the time being. ...
09:07 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Seven Congress MPs from Telangana on Monday threatened to resign from the party as the protests intensified. The MPs said they will send in their resignations to Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday. If they do resign, it would make the UPA's position in Parliament even more precarious. ...
05:16 PM, Jan 28, 2013
