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
As protests continued in Hyderabad for the second day in demand for separate statehood for Telangana, Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said that if voted to power, his party would form Telanagna state within 24 hours of forming the government. The government had earlier promised to announce a decision on Telangana issue on January 28 but on Sunday it said that it still needed time to...
02:39 PM, Jan 28, 2013
The Telangana stir has intensified on Monday with activists and police clashing at Indira Park in Hyderabad. The Ranga Reddy district court has now admitted a petition against former home minister P Chidambaram and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde accusing them of cheating the people of Telangana with their statements. The court has directed the police to register a case. ...
02:23 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Stepping up the pressure on the government over the Telangana statehood issue, TRS MLA Harish Rao said that in the coming days they will intensify their agitation. Rao also said that they will ask pro-Telangana leaders in the Andhra Pradesh cabinet to quit. ...
10:21 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Pro-Telangana activists are upset with yet another delay on the statehood issue and have threatened to intensify the protests in Hyderabad. This came after the Centre deferred the Telangana decision once again on Sunday. After a meeting of top Congress leaders, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde issued a statement saying the consultation process is still on and a final decision cannot be reached now. ...
07:41 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Mild tension prevailed at Indira Park here tonight when a group of pro-Telangana activists gheraoed three Congress leaders of the region and allegedly pelted stones at their vehicles. A group of pro-Telangana activists raised slogans against Congress MPs - Ponnam Prabhakar and G Vinod - as well as senior party leader K Keshava Rao when they went to Indira Park to express solidarity with protesters staging a 36-hour 'samaradeeksha' protest...
01:51 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Pro-Telangana leaders lashed out sharply against Centre's postponing of taking a decision on Telangana statehood. "It is disappointing for us. It is pressure from some MPs who are working for the YSR party. They are masterminding and putting pressure on high command," Congress MP Madhu Yashki Goud said. ...
11:10 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday accused the Centre of "betrayal" on the Telangana issue and threatened to intensify their agitation for a separate state. Some Congress leaders were also critical of the statements made by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad that the "consultation process" on Telangana statehood would continue and a final decision on it may take a little more time....
10:10 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Hyderabad was tense on Sunday following incidents of violence over the Telangana separate statehood issue. While stone-pelting was reported outside Osmania University, police fired teargas shells to ward off a students' march to Raj Bhawan. ...
03:16 PM, Jan 27, 2013
In a bid to mount pressure on the Centre over the Telangana separate statehood issue, Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader KT Rama Rao on Sunday morning courted arrest while the Telangana Joint Action Committee said that they would go ahead with its 36-hour hunger strike, despite a ban. Police had denied permission to TJAC for the strike. ...
11:48 AM, Jan 27, 2013
