The cabinet Saturday discussed the vexed issue of statehood for Telangana but could arrive at no decision on the roadmap ahead, informed sources said.
‘There was a meeting between the cabinet and the cabinet committee on economic affairs. It lasted about 10 minutes,’ the sources said.
‘The main dilemma is that within the (Congress) party, there seems [...]
Andhra Pradesh police Friday night arrested two editors of Telugu television channel TV 5 for airing a ‘baseless and malicious’ report about an alleged conspiracy behind the death of the then chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a chopper crash last year. The report sparked violence in the state and attacks on Reliance stores.
Crime Investigation [...]
Police have registered cases against owners of the Telugu TV channel TV 5 for airing a ‘baseless and malicious’ report about an alleged conspiracy behind the death of chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a chopper crash last year. The report sparked violence in Andhra Pradesh and attacks on Reliance stores.
Police booked a case against [...]
Civic authorities in Delhi Wednesday urged the central government to give ownership rights to 340,000 slum dwellers as this will help in battling a deficit of Rs.80 crore every year which they spend in maintaining slum clusters.
‘The families living in (slum) colonies should be given ownership rights (over the land and the shanty). The approval [...]
Leaders of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Tuesday met union Home Minister P. Chidambaram and requested him to advice the Delhi government to let them work for better management of its slum department.
‘Delhi Mayor Kanwar Sain, leader of MCD house Subhash Arya and Standing Committee chairman Ram Kishan Singhal requested Chidambaram to advise the city [...]
Dozens of pro- and anti-Telangana activists protested in the capital Tuesday when Home Minister P. Chidambaram was chairing a multi-party meeting to resolve the controversial issue of statehood to Telangana by hiving off a part of Andhra Pradesh.
The demonstrations were held outside the home ministry when leaders from Andhra Pradesh were deliberating on a mechanism [...]
Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday appealed to political parties in Andhra Pradesh to halt agitations and ensure law and order as they deliberated a mechanism to break the logjam on the issue of statehood to Telangana.
He also denied that the central government had acted in haste in announcing its nod to creation of a separate [...]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday slammed the ruling Congress for its ‘conspicuous silence’ over the escape of three Pakistani terrorists from a city hospital here last week.
‘It has been three days (since the escape) and there is no trace of them,’ BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here.
The BJP described as a ’serious [...]
Hyderabad, Jan 2 (IANS) There is no respite in Andhra Pradesh from shutdowns and protests over the issue of statehood for Telangana as political parties and student groups have called for another shutdown in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema Monday.
Tpolitical he parties and student bodies met in Vijayawada Saturday and formed a Joint Action Committee (JAC) [...]
Hyderabad, Jan 2 (IANS) The Christian community of the Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh has urged the central government to invite it for talks on the formation of a separate Telangana state.
Voicing their concern over the recent attacks on churches, pastors and Christian officials, the Christian leaders from both Catholic and Protestant churches said they [...]
Guwahati, Jan 1 (ANI) : In a recent revelation it has come to light that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders neglected to teach their children in the Assamese language, for which they are fighting for.
A reason for this is that before being arrested, [...]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) The home ministry Friday sought a report from the Maharashtra government following reports that Neetu Singh, a Nepali citizen and a final-year student at Pune’s Film and Television Institute was reportedly deported at the behest of her influential husband Amaresh Singh, a Nepali Congress politician.
‘Yes, we have sought a report [...]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that it would take another two to three years to curb the Maoist menace.
He expressed concern over the situation in the Maoist infested areas in the eastern region and said that despite the deployment of the paramilitary forces, the State governments have failed [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 31 (IANS) Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao is confident that Telangana state would be a reality in 2010.
Talking to reporters here Thursday, Rao appealed to people of Andhra and Rayalaseema regions to bid adieu to 2009 by parting as friends.
KCR, as Rao is popularly known, also advised leaders of the [...]
Panchkula/New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Disgraced former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra, Thursday landed in deep trouble as her brother emerged from the shadows after 16 long years and filed a fresh case accusing the cop of abetting her suicide.
The dramatic development, accompanied by brother Ashu’s first meeting with [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday dismissed the charge of flip-flop on the part of Centre on Telangana issue.
Interacting with the media after releasing monthly report card of the Home Ministry, Chidambaram said the meeting of political parties from Andhra [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday expressed his displeasure over the handling of Ruchika Girhotra molestation case but said he can not pronounce any judgement.
Releasing Home Ministry’s December month report card [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Rejecting any rift in the government over new visa rules, Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday said the 60-day cooling-off period for tourists have been relaxed ’slightly’ and assured that it will not affect an ‘overwhelming number’ of short-term visitors.
‘There is absolutely no difference. I have talked to (External Affairs Minister) [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Asserting that the government had done ‘no flip-flop’ over separate statehood to Telangana, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday said the Jan 5 meeting of eight political parties from Andhra Pradesh had been called to devise a ‘mechanism’ and ‘lay a road map’ on resolving the controversial issue.
‘There is no [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday said there was ‘nothing wrong’ in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) taking over terror-related cases from state governments and it should not be construed as an infringement of powers.
‘The NIA can take over any case related to terrorism,’ Chidambaram told reporters, rejecting the Kerala government’s [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday rejected any rift between the home and external affairs ministries over the new visa guidelines, saying they ‘are not only on the same page, but also singing from the same song’.
‘There is absolutely no difference. I have talked to (External Affairs Minister) S.M. Krishna,’ Chidamabaram [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday said he was ‘very unhappy’ with the way that the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case had been handled over the last 19 years.
‘I am unhappy with the way charges have been framed, the trial has been conducted and the accused (Rathore) punished (in the Ruchika case). [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 31 (ANI): All the 13 cabinet ministers from Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday decided to withdraw their resignations after the Centre’s announcement on holding discussions with all recognised political parties of the state.
State [...]
Chandigarh/New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) Former Haryana director general of police S.P.S. Rathore, convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra 19 years ago and now facing fresh charges, was Wednesday refused interim bail by a court.
District and sessions judge S.P. Singh said the anticipatory bail application moved by Rathore will be taken up on the next [...]
Bangalore, Dec 30 (IANS) The Communist Party of India (CPI) has favoured formation of Telangana as a separate state but only after evolving a consensus among the people and other political parties in Andhra Pradesh.
‘We support Telangana as a separate state. But the process should be taken up after forging a consensus through wider consultation [...]
New Delhi, Dec 30 (ANI) : Ruchika Girhotra’s father, Subhash, and the family’s advocate Pankaj Bhardwaj met Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday to discuss the molestation case.
Emerging from the meeting, Advocate Pankaj Bhardwaj, said: “We are very satisfied with the meeting. He knew the entire case [...]
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) The central government has called a meeting Jan 5 of leaders of eight recognised political parties of Andhra Pradesh to discuss the Telangana issue and look at ways to break the logjam. Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday sent out the letters to the political parties.
Chidambaram’s invitation comes after a day-long [...]
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) The father of Ruchika Girhotra said after meeting Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday that he was hopeful of getting justice following fresh charges against former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore whose molestation apparently led his daughter to commit suicide.
Describing his meeting with Chidambaram at the latter’s office here as ’satisfactory’, [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 29 (IANS) Lawyer Pankaj Bhardwaj, who fought Ruchika Girhotra’s molestation case free of cost for the last 13 years, said he will meet union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi Wednesday and place all the facts and evidence of the case before him.
‘I had got a call from the home minister’s office [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) In the wake of complaints from people that police were reluctant to register FIRS, the home ministry is considering treating complaints to the police stations as compulsory FIRs.
According to an official source, this follows ‘after the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case in which the complainants said that police were unwilling to [...]
