New Delhi : At a  late night meeting with Seemandhra ministers in the Union Council of Ministers yesterday, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh appealed to them not to insist on resigning over the issue of Telangana.He promised to discuss with Sonia Gandhi setting up of a high-level committee in the party to look into the […]

Hyderabad: The ruling Congress party’s struggle to contain a mass resignation spree after its announcement of a separate Telangana state has shifted from Andhra Pradesh to New Delhi. Four Central ministers including Union Human Resource Development Minister Pallam Raju and Minister of State for Commerce Purandeswari have threatened to resign to protest the bifurcation of […]

Telangana is all set to become India’s 29th state as the Congress Working Committee (CWC) Tuesday urged the government to take constitutional steps in this regard. The new state will comprise of 10 districts including Hyderabad, which will be the common capital for 10 years, during which period the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh will […]

Hyderabad : The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has threatened to intensify its stir for a separate state a day after Centre said that it needs more time to take a decision on granting statehood to Telangana. The Centre deferring a decision on Telangana statehood and skipping its own January 28 deadline has evoked sharp reactions […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad will be hosting India’s first United Nations Conference on Biodiversity on Monday. Tight security arrangements are in place for the summit as it comes a day after the Telangana march that took a violent turn on Sunday with protesters going on a rampage, destroying media vans and public transport vehicles. Hyderabad Police Commissioner […]

New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee (CWC), which met at party chief Sonia Gandhi’s 10, Janpath residence, on Tuesday lauded Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for taking bold initiatives aimed at improving the economic situation of the country. Addressing a press briefing after the CWC meet, Congress spokesperson Janardan Dwivedi said,“The 30-member CWC today passed […]

Bangalore  : Ruling BJP in Karnataka will be staging a state-wide agitation on October 18 in protest against the Union Government’s alleged non-cooperation in easing power problem in the state, BJP State General Secretary C T Ravi said today. Addressing a press conference here, Mr Ravi alleged that the Centre was not taking steps to […]

Hydrabad : Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday said that the Centre would soon resolve the Telangana statehood issue in an “amicable” manner that would “satisfy the aspirations of the people” of the state as the strike in support of the demand entered the 27th day.  Grappling with the pro-Telangana agitation, […]

Madikeri: The separate Telangana agitation has worsened the power crisis in Karnataka and the state will start buying power from Punjab on Saturday, Energy Minister Shobha Karandlaje said Friday. ‘We have no option other than buying power from other states like Punjab. We will start purchasing 300 MW daily from Punjab tomorrow (Saturday) itself,’ Karandlaje […]

Mangalore: Harikrishna Punaroor, a former president of the State Kannada Sahitya Parishad, stated here that the time was ripe to carve a separate Tulu state on the coastal region. Stating that the Telugu people have been demanding a separate state called Telangana in Andhra Pradesh, he said that Tuluvas should exert pressure on the Union […]