Andhra Pradesh infrastructure and investment minister, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, resigned from the cabinet as well as the state Assembly this evening.
A Special CBI court today dismissed the bail pleas of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law BV Srinivas Reddy, arrested in connection with alleged illegal mining activities.
TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao and a delegation of Telangana political Joint Action Committee (JAC) today left for the national capital to press for an early decision in favour of the separate statehood for Telangana.
Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and is understood to have submitted a report on his consultations with party lawmakers from Andhra Pradesh on the Telangana issue.
The proponents of separate Telangana state today intensified their protests as part of the ongoing general strike that began on September 13.
Andhra Pradesh BJP on Thursdayday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene an all-party meeting to discuss and resolve the issue of separate statehood for Telangana region, which is witnessing a crippling general strike for over two weeks now.
In spite of reports emanating from New Delhi that Congress party will shortly announce a formula to end the Telangana deadlock, the agitation in the region is showing no signs of relenting.
The 16-day-old Telangana stir took a new turn on Wednesday with the resignation of 32 MLAs belonging to opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in support of the demand for a separate state.
Traffic was thrown out of gear in several parts of Hyderabad as Telangana groups staged road blockades to intensify the ongoing movement for a separate Telangana state. Police arrested dozens of leaders and activists.
The Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC), spearheading the new state demand, on Monday announced another round of agitation including a shutdown in Hyderabad, a fresh rail blockade and laying siege to the houses of Congress leaders. HT reports.
The CBI, probing "illegal" mining and irregularities in the allotment of leases to Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), will submit a status report before the Supreme Court on September 30, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Local trains and a few long-distance ones were given the green signal as the 36-hour rail roko agitation in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, called by the the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC), ended on Sunday evening.
Popular Telugu film star Mahesh Babu is playing a character from Telangana in his latest release Dhookudu and delivering heroic punch lines in the region’s accent, perceived to have been made fun of in the past to invoke mirth on screen. Prasad Nichenametla reports.
By using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Andhra Pradesh police will put in place a close-range surveillance system to keep an eye on the Maoist activities in the dense forests of the state, a top police official said on Sunday.