New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi on Thursday told a Delhi court hearing a corruption case related to the 2010 sporting event here that he was not involved in procurement of equipment. He said that the OC only gave recommendations for buying timing, scoring and result (TSR) system for the Games and was not involved in the purchase. Kalmadi's counsel Harshad Ponda told Central...
02:29 AM, May 25, 2012
HYDERABAD: Vexed by the adamance of the TRS and the BJP on contesting the Parakal Assembly byelection, the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) has decided to work with no political party in the Telangana region and to show the exit door for its political constituents, particularly the TRS and BJP, for the time being.The TJAC's extended steering committee, which met under the chairmanship of M.Kodandaram here on Tuesday, decided to...
08:39 AM, May 16, 2012
Government sources said that a lady officer has been found guilty and is likely to be charged for leaking the sensitive details out. ...
11:22 PM, May 13, 2012
HYDERABAD: TRS and BJP are continuing to adopt a wait and watch attitude on announcing the party candidate for Parkal Assembly seat. Both the parties wanted to declare the names of candidates on Tuesday but deferred the decision. BJP state committee convened a special meeting at the party office and announced that they would take a decision on the candidate in the coming few days. TRS has also decided to...
07:56 AM, May 09, 2012
HYDERABAD: The very existence of TJAC has become doubtful with its two main constituents _ TRS and BJP _ pulling it in different directions. The TRS wants to send the BJP out of the joint action committee which has been spearheading the Telangana Movement after branding it as a communal party.If the BJP is necked out, it will help the TRS have unrivalled domination of the TJAC and consolidate the...
11:42 AM, May 01, 2012
HYDERABAD: Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) and TRS are on a collision course on several issues. This has led to many Telangana activists wonder how long would the TJAC last.They believe that Parkal byelection would decide its fate.After the Centre's December 9 statement in 2009 on Telangana, TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao constituted the TJAC with Congress, TDP, BJP, TRS, CPI(ML) New Democracy and TNGOs and several other peoples organisations....
10:11 AM, Apr 23, 2012
Hyderabad: The Telangana Political Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Wednesday threatened to intensify the separate statehood agitation once again if the ruling Congress fails to make its stand clear on the issue before the Parliament resumes for the second part of the Budget session on April 24. Congress should clear its stand on Telangana issue as it had promised to deliver the separate state in the 2004 and 2009 elections,...
06:46 AM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday hit out at the Government for being "indecisive" on various crucial issues like Telangana formation and lack of defence preparedness, as recently pointed out by the Army chief, and said it cannot have the luxury of not taking decisions. "Indecision has become the hallmark of this government. Due to this, its own allies have now started creating disturbance in Parliament. This government is not...
09:23 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Hyderabad: Life across Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region was affected on Tuesday due to the shutdown called by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to protest the central government's insensitivity towards the demand for a separate Telangana state, which is driving youth to commit suicide. The shutdown had little impact in Hyderabad but was total in the nine other districts of the region. Barring attacks on a few shops in Khammam, the...
04:15 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: A partial bandh called by the TRS over the demand for separate statehood is currently underway in the Telangana region. Educational institutes have been exempt due to the ongoing Board examinations. Public transport including buses and autos are also plying on the routes. Although schools and colleges are functioning, an exam scheduled for Tuesday at Osmania University was postponed. Meanwhile, cinema halls and malls are expected to remain...
09:50 AM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has called for a bandh in the Telangana region on Tuesday to protest the government's apparent indifference towards the separate statehood issue. A ruckus broke out in Delhi and Hyderabad over the issue on Monday. MPs from the region shouted slogans in Parliament after two students demanding separate statehood for Telangana set fire to themselves. One of the two students died in the...
06:55 AM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has called for a bandh in the Telangana region on Tuesday to protest the government's apparent indifference towards the separate statehood issue. A ruckus broke out in Delhi and Hyderabad over the issue. MPs from the region shouted slogans in Parliament after two students demanding separate statehood for Telangana set fire to themselves. One of the two students died. In Hyderabad, TRS MLAs...
01:55 PM, Mar 26, 2012
HYDERABAD: The outcome of the byelections for the six Assembly seats is being seen not only as an endorsement of the Telangana movement, but also as one that is certain to cast a long shadow on the future of main political players.In the bypoll battle, the TRS has emerged stronger: it won four seats and as a result its tally went up to 16 from 12 in the Assembly. The...
07:54 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: The bypoll results conducted in 12 seats - seven in Andhra Pradesh and one each in Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Odisha - were a mixed bag for the national political parties. While the Congress won in BJP strongholds of Gujarat and Karnataka, it drew a blank in Andhra Pradesh. The Congress-led UDF won the seat in Kerala, while the BJP managed to win in only one...
04:20 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Hyderabad: The ruling Congress on Wednesday drew a blank in Andhra Pradesh bypolls as TRS candidates won four seats, while TRS backed independent, YSR Congress and the BJP won one seats each in the bypoll to seven assembly constituencies in the state. The by-elections to seven assembly seats - Station Ghanpur, Kamareddy, Adilabad, Kollapur, Nagarkurnool, Kovur and Mehabubnagar - six of them in Telangana region, were held on Sunday. The...
01:46 PM, Mar 21, 2012
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