Bhubaneswar, Feb 17, Just imagine climbing a 30-foot-high tree and hanging on to a branch to make a phone call. This is a grim reality in Maoist-hit districts of Orissa where the extremists have been targeting the towers that relay mobile telephone signals.
Hyderabad, Feb 15, Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker N. Kirankumar Reddy Monday accepted the resignations of 12 out of 15 legislators of the Telangana region who had quit Sunday to protest the terms of the Srikrishna committee looking into the demand for a separate state.
Hyderabad, Feb 13, The day-long shutdown call by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of students to protest the terms of reference of the Srikrishna panel, formed on the issue of carving Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh, evoked partial response Saturday.
Hyderabad, Feb 13, The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), which is heading the agitation for a separate state to be carved out of Andhra Pradesh, Saturday decided to postpone its decision to submit resignations of all its elected representatives, following an appeal by the all-party Joint Action Committee (JAC).
Hyderabad, Feb 10, The Andhra Pradesh government has asked the Deccan Chargers team not to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament if the inaugural match is not held in Hyderabad as per the original schedule.
Hyderabad, Feb 9, Many Muslim groups in Andhra Pradesh staged protests Tuesday, mounting pressure on the state government to press for a constitutional amendment for qoutas in higher education and jobs, a day after the high court struck down reservations for the community a third time.
New Delhi, Feb 6, Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who quit as Andhra Pradesh governor after a sex scandal in December last year, says he has “no intention of returning to active politics and is writing an autobiography”.
New Delhi, Feb 3, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here Wednesday to apprise her about the five-member committee that will deliberate on a mechanism for a separate Telangana state and consult all sections of people, political parties and groups in Andhra Pradesh.
Hyderabad, Jan 19, Tension prevailed in the Osmania University campus here Tuesday as students of all varsities in the Telangana region boycotted examinations after one of them committed suicide over the delay in carving out a separate state from Andhra Pradesh.
Chennai, Jan 13, The Indian space agency will launch a series of rockets from its two centres between Thursday and Sunday to study Friday’s solar eclipse and its aftereffects.