The Congress party has demanded immediate countermanding of the election to 36 vacant seats of the 100-member Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.
A petition to that effect was moved before the Election Commission by state Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi here Monday evening.
The poll was held here on Jan 7 and the counting was scheduled for Jan [...]
A city court Monday granted bail to two editors of Telugu television channel TV 5 arrested for airing an unsubstantiated story about an alleged conspiracy behind the death of then chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a chopper crash.
The story based on a report by a Russian website had led to attacks on Reliance outlets [...]
Bangalore, Dec 30 (ANI): Flood-hit farmers on Tuesday protested outside Karnataka Assembly, demanding compensation for damaged crops.
Upset over not getting the assured compensation, thousand of farmers marched to Bangalore and tried to lay siege to the state Assembly.
The Congress party has supported the protest.
The [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 27 (IANS) A day after resigning as Andhra Pradesh governor in the wake of a sex scandal he was allegedly involved in, N.D. Tiwari quietly left Hyderabad Sunday.
Chief Minister K. Rosaiah and Chief Secretary Ramakanth Reddy drove to Raj Bhavan to call on Tiwari before he left for New Delhi.
Sources in Raj Bhavan [...]
Ranchi, Dec.27 (ANI): Jharkhand Mukti Morcha President Shibu Soren is confident of forming and running a coalition government in the State, as he today cherishes the support of Bharatiya Janata Party and All Jharkhand Students Union.
Addressing media persons here on Sunday, Soren said: “Apt ideology has to be followed by everyone, and nobody would [...]
New Delhi, Dec.26 (ANI): Congress Party on Saturday welcomed the resignation of Andhra Pradesh Governor and senior Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari from his post.
Reacting on Tiwari’s resignation, Congress party said that Tiwari resigned by taking a high moral ground with his step.
“I think he has taken an appropriate decision, keeping [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 24 (IANS) The political crisis in Andhra Pradesh over the Telangana issue deepened Thursday night with all 13 ministers from the region deciding to resign while 64 legislators – cutting across political lines – have so far submitted their resignations to the assembly speaker.
Minister for Higher Education D. Sridhar Babu told reporters that [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 24 (IANS) As many as 80 legislators from the Telangana region cutting across party lines have decided to quit, while nearly half of them have already submitted their resignations to the assembly speaker, protesting the central government’s move to put on hold the process of forming a Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh.
All [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Thursday appeared to be heading towards president’s rule as the en mass resignations of legislators from the Telangana region triggered a constitutional crisis.
The centre is also likely to appoint a new governor before imposing president’s rule. Governor N.D. Tiwari may be replaced in view of his poor health, [...]
Imphal, Dec 23 (IANS) The ruling Congress party’s Elangbam Suraj Singh won the by-election from the Yaiskul assembly constituency in Manipur, defeating his nearest Independent rival H. Jayadev by over 900 votes, results of which were declared Wednesday.
The Congress candidate won the seat by a margin of just 943 votes.
The by-election, held on [...]
Chennai, Dec 22(ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M. Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday called upon the leaders and students to give up their hunger strike and allied protest demonstrations for and against the carving of a separate Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh.
Addressing the media in Chennai, Naidu said: “I appeal to the [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 21 (IANS) Tension prevailed at a Hyderabad hospital Monday as a large number of pro-Telangana activists gathered and demanded that Congress MP L. Rajagopal, on a fast against the proposed division of Andhra Pradesh, go back to Vijaywada hospital from where he slipped out Sunday night to surface here 15 hours later.
Rajagopal escaped [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 21 (IANS) Nearly 15 hours after making a dramatic escape from a hospital in Vijayawada, Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal reached Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in Hyderabad.
The Vijayawada MP, whose indefinite fast opposing the proposed division of Andhra Pradesh entered the seventh day, got himself admitted at NIMS even as pro-Telangana supporters [...]
Srinagar, Dec 19 (IANS) Mainstream political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir have welcomed the announcement of union Defence Minister A.K. Antony that 30,000 soldiers have been withdrawn from the state, but separatist leaders are cynical, saying the troop cut was not visible.
Antony had Friday said in New Delhi that 30,000 troops had been withdrawn from [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 16 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah Wednesday met Governor N.D. Tiwari as the political deadlock continued over the proposed division of the state.
Raj Bhavan sources said the chief minister apprised Governor Tiwari of the political developments in the state following the Dec 10 announcement of the central government to initiate [...]
Ranchi, Dec.15 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday blamed Congress party of being confused and acting in a haphazard manner over creation of Telangana State by not even taking its State unit into confidence before going ahead with such an important decision.
“BJP was always [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Delhi MP J.P. Aggarwal Monday raised the demand for full statehood for Delhi in parliament Monday, saying full powers would help in speedy development of the city.
‘In parliament, I have demanded full statehood to Delhi, so that it would be easy in taking decisions and ensuring development of city,’ Aggarwal [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 14 (IANS) The political deadlock in Andhra Pradesh over the proposed division of the state continued Monday with ministers and legislators from Telangana region holding a meeting after the state assembly was adjourned sine die amid uproar.
As the protests in Andhra and Rayalaseema continued for the fourth day against the central government’s decision [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 14 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh assembly was Monday adjourned sine die amid uproarious scenes over the proposed division of the state.
With legislators irrespective of their party affiliations completely polarised along regional lines, it had become difficult for Speaker Kirankumar Reddy to run the house.
The winter session of the assembly, which began Dec [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 12 (IANS) The political crisis in Andhra Pradesh deepened further Saturday with all the ministers from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions deciding to resign to protest the central government’s decision to form a separate Telangana state.
All 20 ministers from the two regions held a meeting at a hotel here and decided to submit their [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 12 (IANS) Normal life came to a standstill for the second consecutive day Saturday in several parts of coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh as protests continued against the government’s decision to grant separate statehood to Telangana.
State-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) buses remained off the roads in most of the 13 [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 11 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh stood divided on regional lines Friday with as many as 128 legislators submitting their resignations protesting the decision of the central government to carve out a separate Telangana state.
Cutting across party lines, 128 legislators from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions have submitted their resignations to Speaker Kiran Kumar Reddy.
A total [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 11 (IANS) As many as 102 members of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly have submitted their resignations to the speaker to protest the proposed bifurcation of the state.
Speaker Kiran Kumar Reddy told reporters Friday that 102 legislators of the total 294 legislators had submitted their resignations to him since Thursday.
‘I have [...]
Hyderabad, Dec.10 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh state is faced with a big political turmoil, as 92 legislators have resigned from the States Assembly in protest of the Central Government reportedly giving go ahead for the formation of a separate Telangana state on Wednesday.
The resigning legislators include [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 4 (IANS) Banda Kartika Reddy of the Congress party was Friday elected unopposed as Hyderabad’s first woman mayor after the ruling party agreed to sharing of power with the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) in the civic body.
Kartika Reddy, who was elected as corporator from Tarnaka division in last month’s elections, is also the first [...]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Expressing its full support to the demand for a separate Telangana state, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday accused the Congress party of dilly-dallying on the issue despite wide political acceptance on the demand.
BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar said people, farmers, traders and employees are agitating for Telangana.
‘The Congress has [...]
Hyderabad, Nov.30 (ANI): The activists of ‘Telangana Rashtra Samiti’ (TRS) resorted to violence during their shutdown in Hyderabad on Monday in protest of the arrest of their leader K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
On Sunday (Nov. 29), the police had [...]
Chennai, Nov 21 (IANS) The country’s firecracker capital Sivakasi has been bitten by a numerology bug and wants to add one more ‘a’ to its name so that the town is spelt as Sivakaasi. It is believed that changing the spelling will be propitious.
The 33-member municipal council unanimously passed the resolution Friday.
Several firecracker units [...]
Hyderabad, Nov 17 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government Tuesday decided to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the probe alleged irregularities in the Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) owned by Karnataka Touism Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy.
In a brief media statement, the state government said it has decided to request the centre to order a [...]
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Strongly condemning Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray’s strong reaction to cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar’s assertion of his identity as an Indian, the Congress party said Monday that his comments were not worth a reaction.
‘We would not like to dignify them (Thackeray’s remarks) with a response from this podium, but given [...]
