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
Hyderabad: Hyderabad will be hosting India's first United Nations Conference on Biodiversity on Monday. Tight security arrangements are in place for the summit as it comes a day after the Telangana march that took a violent turn on Sunday with protesters going on a rampage, destroying media vans and public transport vehicles. Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma assured that there will be no compromise on the security to the 19-day...
08:24 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Hyderabad: The Congress sources on Sunday evening said that the party will "definitely" decide on Telangana issue by October. This comes after activists held a march in Hyderabad demanding a separate state - Telangana. Raising slogans of 'Jai Telangana' amid the beating of drums and singing songs by Telangana artists, men, women and children from various sections asked the central government to make Telangana a separate state. The march, however,...
11:41 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Hyderabad: Almost one lakh people took to the streets in Hyderabad on Sunday to press for their demand of a separate state " Telangana. They clashed with police, broke barriers and tried to enter prohibited areas as police lathicharged them, lobbed tear gas shells and used water cannons to disperse the crowds. Many private, police vehicles and OB vans were damaged in the violence and all regional news channels were...
11:23 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Hyderabad: 11.36 pm: The Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) had to call off their protest rally because of rains. The pro-Telangana group announced that it will continue with its protest programs like hunger strikes etc from October 2 onwards. The activists will meet on Monday to plan their further course of action. 10.26 pm: Decision on Telangana definitely this month, says Congress sources. 10.11 pm: Twenty to 25 policemen injured...
05:20 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Hyderabad: Violence erupted at the Osmania University campus in Hyderabad on Sunday after pro-Telangana students clashed with the police when they were prevented from taking out a rally to join the 'Telangana March'. Scores of slogan-shouting students broke the barricades on the campus and pelted stone at the police who retaliated by firing tear-gas shells while some students were also taken into preventive custody. Pro-Telangana activists belonging to different students...
01:12 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Hyderabad: 4.39 pm: Incidents of violence reported around Hussain Sagar lake area in Hyderabad. Police lathicharged, used tear gas and water canon to disperse unruly mob. A few media vans also reported to have been damaged by the protesters. 3.00 pm: Huge crowds present at protest venue. Security arrangements tight. Paramilitary forces on standby. 2.48 pm: Telangana leader P Govardhana Reddy slams the Andhra Pradesh government for halting trains from...
11:11 AM, Sep 30, 2012
Hyderabad: The Nizams' City - Hyderabad - is all set for a massive rally on Sunday in support of a separate state - Telangana. The Hussain Sagar lake will be focus of the rally which is expected to be attended by all parties. The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) has promised a peaceful demonstration. However, the authorities are not taking any chances and there is unprecedented security all across the...
07:13 AM, Sep 30, 2012
Hyderabad: In a move which angered Telangana protagonists, the railways have cancelled over 40 trains and all local and sub-urban train services in Hyderabad in view of Sunday's Telangana march. In an attempt to prevent people from other districts of Telangana from reaching Hyderabad, the South Central Railway cancelled 12 express and 25 passenger trains. Another two express and five passenger trains have also been partially cancelled. The railways also...
11:38 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Visakhapatnam: The UPA Government at the Centre would soon find a permanent solution to the Telangana issue after taking into confidence people of all the regions in the state, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee President B Satyanarayana said on Saturday. Addressing a press conference in Visakhapatnam, the PCC President said that the UPA Government was actively involved in the matter and trying to build a consensus by holding consultations with political...
09:46 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Hyderabad: There is extra security in Hyderabad on the occasion of Ganpati visarjan on Saturday. The police is alert given that the procession is happening a day before a massive Telangana rally on Sunday. The DGP has appealed to the Ganesh Pandal organisers to wrap up the immersion by Saturday midnight keeping in mind Sunday's Telangana march. This comes after the Andhra Pradesh Government gave its approval for a massive...
10:33 AM, Sep 29, 2012
Hyderabad: Bowing to the pressure from pro-Telangana groups, the Andhra Pradesh government on Friday night decided to allow the Telangana march in the city on Sunday. After several rounds of talks between ministers from Telangana and leaders of Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC), Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy agreed to give permission for the march but with certain conditions. The JAC has been allowed to conduct the march on...
09:18 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Hyderabad: With barely two days left for the Telangana march, pro-Telangana groups and the Andhra Pradesh government are heading for a confrontation. After refusing permission for the September 30 march, police have started rounding up pro-Telangana activists in the region. Those arrested Thursday include a Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) legislator in Nizamabad district. Police have also stepped up security in the city and checking of vehicles entering the state capital....
03:20 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Hyderabad: Under pressure from pro-Telangana groups, Andhra Pradesh cabinet ministers from the Telangana region on Thursday met and decided to call on Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to seek permission to take out a march on Sunday. The decision to carve out a separate Telangana was put on hold in December 2009 following protests. On Sunday, marchers will seek to revive the momentum for the formation of Telangana state....
01:49 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Hyderabad: Protests over Telangana hit Andhra Pradesh once against as the students of Osmania University on Thursday clashed with police while attempting to take out a rally. The protests over the government's delay in granting a separate state status to Telangana have grown louder. A protest rally is expected on September 30 and thousands are expected to participate in it. There is heavy police deployment in Hyderabad, which is set...
01:45 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Hyderabad: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to immediately resolve the Telangana issue. TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu sent a letter to the Prime Minister, demanding that he immediately convene an all-party meeting on the issue. Blaming the Congress for the delay and uncertainty, Naidu said no decision was taken even on the report of the Srikrishna Committee. He alleged that the Congress, Telangana...
12:44 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government is going out of its way to make the India debut of the International Biodiversity Summit a success. The summit begins on October 1 and despite protests planned by the Telangana supporters a day before, the government has said that the event will be smooth. The Nizams' city will woo over 8000 delegates from 193 countries at the summit. The Telangana Joint Action Committee's (TJAC)...
02:23 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: The principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in no mood to back down after the Congress Working Committee, that met on Tuesday morning, endorsed the recent economic policy decisions taken by the government and also slammed the Opposition for playing "negative politics". BJP leader Rajnath Singh said that it was their party that was standing guard over the country's treasure as the Congress tried to turn the...
12:48 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee on Tuesday did not discuss the demand for a separate state of Telangana in its meet, that was largely dominated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's economic reforms. Telangana was not discussed even as Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chadrashekhar Rao has been camping in Delhi hoping for a formal announcement from the Centre on Telangana. Earlier, sources had also indicated that a Congress-TRS...
11:52 AM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: 12.20 pm: PM's economic reforms anti-common man, says BJP leader Rajnath Singh. He compares the UPA to East India Company saying its policies were similar to the British company that exploited the poor. 11.47 am: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Prakash Javadekar takes on Sonia Gandhi and the Congress and says that the government has introduced anti-people reforms. "We don't want these types of reforms. Those are not...
09:32 AM, Sep 25, 2012
