The former junior defence minister Pallam Raju has got a promotion. He is the new Human Resource Development Minister. Speaking to reporters, he said that the reshuffle had rectified the representation of Andhra Pradesh in the Cabinet. He added that it was time to strengthen the party base in the southern state. ...
03:48 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Manmohan Singh Cabinet is set for a major makeover on Sunday. This is expected to be the last big Cabinet reshuffle before the 2014 General Elections, and this time, the theme privileges young blood over the old guard. The embattled Law Minister, Salman Khurshid is the frontrunner for the Ministry of External Affairs, the post left vacant after SM Krishna resigned. Commerce Minister Anand Sharma is also...
07:21 AM, Oct 28, 2012
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu entered Telangana on Monday as part of his ongoing "Vastunna Meekosam" foot march. Winding up the Rayalaseema-leg of his 117-day foot march on the 21st day, Chandrababu arrived in Rajoli in Mahbubnagar district to a rousing reception by scores of TDP leaders and workers, and ignoring protests by pro-Telangana forces, went ahead with his padyatra. The Telangana Joint Action Committee attempted to...
05:38 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Hyderabad: With the first International Biodiversity summit in India coming to an end, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has said that discussions on Telangana are ongoing but no time frame can be given for a solution to the dispute. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN the Chief Minister talked about Brand Hyderabad, Telangana and Congress's chances in 2014 and also denied accusations of being partisan. "The International Biodiversity summit is...
07:14 AM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: Under fire on the corruption front, the government seems to be fast-tracking a decision on the contentious Telangana issue. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde met President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday to discuss the issue. The meeting comes on the heels of Congress war room meeting which Shinde attended on Thursday night. Congress sources have told CNN-IBN that a decision on the separate statehood question could be made soon....
01:44 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Hyderabad: Under fire on the corruption front, the government seems to be fast-tracking a decision on the contentious Telangana issue. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is expected to meet President Pranab Mukherjee to discuss the issue. The meeting comes on the heels of Congress war room meeting which Shinde attended on Thursday night. Congress sources have told CNN-IBN that a decision on the separate statehood question could be made soon....
11:07 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Hyderabad: Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the city on Tuesday, TRS and T-JAC leaders launched a stir over the Telangana statehood demand. A group of pro-Telangana activists, who took out a rally and tried to release black balloons in the air near People's Plaza at Necklace Road in Hyderabad, were taken into custody and a gas cylinder used for filling the balloons was seized, an officer attached...
03:59 PM, Oct 16, 2012
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: At a time when the movement for a separate Telangana state appears to be entering a decisive phase, the differences among its protagonists have come out in the open. The Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) are at loggerheads, a fact that became clear during the Telangana march here last Sunday. The supporters of a separate state within the ruling Congress too have divided...
12:26 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Hyderabad: Hyderabad police on Friday arrested a group of Telangana activists for staging a protest over the re-installation of statues of eminent Andhra personalities at Tank Bund, on the banks of the Hussain Sagar Lake. Those arrested include Telangana Jagruthi president K. Kavita, daughter of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao. The atmosphere was tense near Tank Bund as protestors squatted on the road, disrupting traffic on the...
10:21 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Hyderabad: After camping in New Delhi for 23 days, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhara Rao returned to Hyderabad on Wednesday with the hope that the final round of talks with the Congress leadership would be held soon on the Telangana issue. Under criticism from other pro-Telangana groups for his failure to extract a firm assurance from the Congress on the formation of a Telangana state, KCR, as Chandrasekhara...
10:13 AM, Oct 04, 2012
"I can assure people of Hyderabad and Andhra Pradesh that law and order will be dealt with firmly. We hold organizers of the rally responsible for violence," says the Andhra Pradesh CM Kiran Kumar Reddy in an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN's Preeti Singh. ...
05:45 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Even as the renewed demand for Telangana has seen a spate of violence, AP CM Kiran Kumar Reddy maintains that there has been no misinformation to the Centre. ...
09:16 PM, Oct 02, 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
New Delhi: Congress on Monday advocated "patience and peace" on Telangana saying the issues related to separate statehood demand were "contentious" and required engagement of all stakeholders in Andhra Pradesh. Noting that he understands the "emotion and anxiety" involved in Telangana, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said these are "contentious" issues for which there are "no easy solution". "There is a need to be patient...there is a need to stay engaged....
03:58 AM, Oct 02, 2012
Hyderabad: A day after the 'Telangana March', the ruling Congress MPs and Andhra Pradesh ministers from Telangana region on Monday discussed ways to take forward their struggle for achieving separate statehood. The meeting was attended by several Congress MPs, Deputy Chief Minister C Damodar Rajanarasimha and other ministers from Telangana region. "We discussed yesterday's (Sunday) 'march' in detail. The Deputy Chief Minister and other ministers would talk to the MLAs...
08:47 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu will launch a padayatra (foot march) from Hindupur in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. The Leader of Opposition is expected to cover over 2000 km in 117 days covering about 13 out of 23 districts of the state in the first round of "Vastunna...mee kosam" (I am coming....for you) yatra. Hindupur is a stronghold...
05:57 PM, Oct 01, 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
Hyderabad: Pro-Telangana students on Monday clashed with police which used teargas shell to quell the protesters at the Osmania University campus here 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 OU-JAC held protests in front of the OU Police Station located on the varsity campus and...
02:25 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
