Nearly 40 days after he was arrested in a hate speech case, MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi walked out of jail today.
A man committed suicide Saturday while hundreds of other depositors were left in the lurch after a finance company in Andhra Pradesh shut down, police said.
MIM legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi, who faces "hate" speech cases at Nirmal in Adilabad district and also in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh, was granted bail on Friday by different courts.
Doubting the UPA government's intentions in conducting an impartial probe into the VVIP chopper deal, BJP today demanded that a Special Investigation Team be set up to investigate the matter under a monitoring mechanism.

Saffron activists today forced young men and women who celebrated Valentine's Day to get "married" and held demonstrations in Andhra Pradesh.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa returned to Colombo today after praying at the Lord Venkateswara Temple at Tirupati.

DMK chief M Karunanidhi today led a state-wide protest in Chennai against the visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to India, accusing him of making efforts to 'annihilate' the Tamils in the island republic.
Rajapaksa trying to erase Tamils in Lanka: KarunaUnidentified persons damaged the life-size statue of late Andhra Pradesh chief minister NT Rama Rao at Jawahar Nagar on the outskirts of Hyderabad late on Thursday night, triggering widespread protests by the Telugu Desam Party cadre in the state.

A large number of activists of Tamil groups from Tamil Nadu today entered Tirupati to stall the visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is scheduled to arrive there in the evening.
YSR Congress Party leader Sharmila, who suspended her 'padayatra' due to knee injury, resumed her march in Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh today.

Cultural and religious intolerance continued to bully and browbeat its way across India, touching down in the Kashmir Valley and Uttar Pradesh in the north and Andhra Pradesh down south. HT reports.

A gunman of Narasapur MLA in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh was on Monday taken into custody after he allegedly filmed a woman on his cell phone while she was taking bath, police said.
Amid mounting pressure frompro-Telangana groups for an early decision on the statehood issue, Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and discussed the matter.
Star batsman Sachin Tendulkar offered prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Tirupati in the wee hours today.