Hyderabad | 1 hour ago
IPL matches shifted out of Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad, Feb 13 - Indian Premier League - supremo Lalit Modi tweeted Saturday that all Deccan Chargers' games have been moved out of Andhra Pradesh due to political unrest over the Telangana issue.Modi posted on the Twitter that all the seven matches, including the opening game, have been shifted out of Hyderabad and Vishakhapatnam. State capital Hyderabad was scheduled to host five matches and ... read more

New Delhi | 2 hours ago
Telangana panel holds its first meeting
New Delhi, Feb 13 - The government-appointed Telangana panel headed by Justice B.N. Srikrishna held its first meeting here Saturday and decided to issue a public notice inviting political parties and organisations to give their views on the issue of a separate state.'Once the government issues the notice, we will go to Andhra Pradesh and meet up with these groups,' V.K. Duggal, former union home s ... read more

New Delhi | 2 hours ago
All IPL matches shifted out of Andhra Pradesh
New Delhi, Feb 13 - Indian Premier League - supremo Lalit Modi tweeted Saturday that all Deccan Chargers' games have been moved out of Andhra Pradesh due to political unrest over the Telangana issue.Modi posted on Twitter that all the seven matches, including the opening game, have been shifted out of Hyderabad and Vishakhapatnam. State capital Hyderabad was scheduled to host five matches and Vish ... read more

8 hours ago
Partial response to Telangana shutdown call
Hyderarabad, Feb 13 - The day-long shutdown call by the Joint Action Committee - 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.Normal life remain unaffected in most parts of Hyderabad and three of nine districts of Telangana region with the state-owned Andhra Pradesh Stat ... read more

Hyderabad | 8 hours ago
TRS defers decision on resignations over Telangana tussle
Hyderabad, Feb 13 - The Telangana Rashtra Samiti -, 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 -.TRS parliamentarians, all its 10 members of the Andhra Pradesh assembly and lone member of legisl ... read more

Hyderabad | 12 hours ago
Telangana shuts down to protest Srikrishna panel guidelines
Hyderabad, Feb 13 - A day-long shutdown began in Hyderabad and nine other districts of Telangana region Saturday in response to a call by the Joint Action Committee - of students to protest the terms of reference of the Srikrishna panel on the issue of carving out a state of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh.Shops and business establishments remained closed while state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road ... read more

Bangalore | 1 day ago
India plans to build seed reserves for hard times
Bangalore, Feb 12 - India plans to build seed reserves to ensure national food and income security to millions of its farmers, reeling under the impact of a deficit monsoon and a harsh drought in 2009, a top official said Friday.'We are working with the seed industry to produce surplus high-yielding, pest and disease-resistant seeds to build reserves that can be used in the event of crisis arising ... read more

Hyderabad | 1 day ago
It's back to shutdown, resignations over Telangana
Hyderabad, Feb 12 - It is back to shutdown, protests and mass resignations in Andhra Pradesh with Telangana leaders cutting across party lines Friday rejecting the terms of reference of the Srikrishna panel on the statehood issue.Describing the terms as 'baseless, meaningless and mindless', the Telangana Rashtra Samiti - announced that its MPs and 11 legislators would quit. Legislators of the r ... read more

Hyderabad | 1 day ago
Telangana leaders reject panel terms; TRS MPs, MLAs to quit
Hyderabad, Feb 12 - Telangana leaders cutting across party lines Friday rejected the terms of reference of the Srikrishna panel on the statehood issue, and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti -, describing the terms as 'baseless, meaningless and mindless', announced that all its MPs and state legislators would resign.Leaders of main opposition Telugu Desam Party, Bharatiya Janata Party - and the TRS rej ... read more

Hyderabad | 1 day ago
TRS rejects Srikrishna panel's terms of reference
Hyderabad, Feb 12 - The Telangana Rashtra Samiti - has rejected the terms of reference announced by the central government Friday for the five-member Justice B.N. Srikrishna committee looking into the issue of statehood for Telangana.TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao, whose 11-day fast in December had forced the central government to announce that the process for formation of Telangana state would b ... read more