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Information and Public Relations Minister DK Aruna on Wednesday turned down the demand for resignation of elected representatives from the Telangana region.

Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy on Wednesday reviewed the security arrangements for the on-going global bio-diversity conference.

Dinesh Reddy, along with DGP (Law & Order) SA Huda, Additional DGP (P&L) Krishna Prasad and Cyberabad Commissioner Ch Dwaraka Tirumala Rao visited the venue of the conference and reviewed the arrangements. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the Convention on Bio-Diversity (CBD) on October 16 and therefore, the DGP has issued necessary instructions to the officials for ensuring fool-proof security.

Almost a month after staying in New Delhi, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao returned to Hyderabad on Wednesday evening.

Before leaving for Hyderabad, KCR told reporters that he came to New Delhi on the invitation of Congress leaders. Describing the talks with the Congress leaders as successful, he said that another round of deliberations on the Telangana issue would be held soon. KCR did not elaborate on when and where the final round of talks would be held with the Congress leaders.

Naxals fired a rocket launcher at a police station in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district today, but it missed the target and failed to explode, police said.

The incident took place at Golapalli police station in Naxal-affected Sukma district.

Sukma Superintendent of Police Abhishek Sandilya told PTI that the ultras fired a rocket launcher at Golapalli police station. However, since the projectile missed the target, there was neither damage nor casualties in the incident.

–Agencies

Human Rights activist Prof Haragopal on Tuesday alleged that the state government was trying to defame the Telangana movement citing few violent incidents during the Telangana March.

Speaking at a media conference here, Prof Haragopal reminded that Union Home Minister Susheel Kumar Shinde himself had thanked the Telangana people for conducting the Telangana March peacefully. In spite of this, how can the police file cases against T JAC leaders, he questioned.

Lok Satta Party founder-president Dr Jayaprakash Narayan has said that he whole-heartedly supports formation of Telangana State as part of a comprehensive and amicable solution. The Telangana people have repeatedly expressed their aspiration for a separate State and it cannot be ignored in a democratic society, he added.

Perhaps, for the first time, the Congress has given ‘clarity’ to contentious Telangana issue to all those who watched a national TV channel (NDTV). A day after the successful congregation of T-activists on the Necklace Road in the State capital under the “Telangana March” or “Sagara Haaram”, the national channel rightfully so organized an interesting debate on bifurcation of the State involving a host of pro and anti, besides neutrals during the prime time on Monday night.

The West is waging economic war on Iran in a vain effort to make it yield on its nuclear activities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, amid a steep plunge in the value of his country’s currency. Western sanctions hitting oil exports generating foreign currency revenues and

restricting Iran’s ability to repatriate those revenues “is a hidden and heavy war on a planetary scale,” he told a news conference in Tehran.
“It’s a battle. They have managed to diminish a little our oil sales, but we are going to compensate for that,” he said.

There is all possibility of mid-term elections to the Lok Sabha by February-March next and the ruling Congress dispensation would lose badly, Janata Party national president Subramanian Swamy claimed today.

Considering the present situation, there would be mid-term polls to the Lok Sabha in February or March next, he said while briefing reporters on the deliberations of the party’s TamilNadu State General Council meeting, here.

–Agencies

Telangana Political Joint Action Committee leaders Vittal and Srinivas Goud have said that every separate Telangana protagonist has a right to seek the resignation of Minister for Panchayath Raj K. Jana Reddy.

The leaders participated in the ‘Mouna Deeksha’ at Bapu Ghat here today. They condemned Jana Reddy’s remarks against JAC leaders. They asked Jana Reddy as to why he did not attend the JAC meetings, even while the JAC was launched in Jana Reddy’s house.

With the protests intensifying over the demand for Telangana, the Centre on Monday said there was no forward movement on the issue.

“There is no forward movement,” Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters here when asked about the Central government steps for resolution of the sensitive issue.

Asked about the claim by a senior Andhra Pradesh Police officer that the Left Wing Extremists were supporting the separate state movement, Shinde said, “That was his information. I can’t say anything on it here”.

Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday began his 117-day long padyatra from Hindupur of Anantapur district.

Before proceeding to Hindupur Naidu, accompanied by his wife Bhuvaneswari and son Lokesh, visited the NTR ghat and paid floral tributes to the samadhi of NT Rama Rao. Later he also garlanded the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at MG Road in Secundrabad on the ocassion of Gandhi Jayanti on Tuesday.

Telangana Political Joint Action Committee Chairman Prof M Kodandaram on Tuesday accused the State Government of unleashing a propaganda attributing violence to the Telangana movement.

Talking to reporters before launching a “Mouna Deekhsha” (silent protest) at Bapu Ghat on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi here, Kodandaram said that the movement seeking statehood for the region has been peaceful. However, the State Government has been attributing violence to the movement to defame its leaders and activists and also to suppress the movement, he alleged.

The Sunday’s Telangana Political JAC-sponsored “Telangana March” or “Sagara Haram” on the Necklace Road turned out to be the greatest-ever show of pro-Telangana activists’ congregation on Sunday.

The metropolitan city was almost under siege by the people, who descended from near and far-flung areas in the region. All through the “Sagara Haram” meeting, “Jai Telangana” slogans rent the air and the ‘Pink Party” (TRS), which claimed to be the true champion of the T-cause, was relegated to the background.

Telangana TDP Forum convenor Errabelli Dayakar Rao has demanded that the Congress MPs of the region stage dharna in front of AICC president Sonia Gandhi’s residence if they were really sincere on Telangana statehood.

Speaking to the media, Dayakar Rao alleged that the Congress leaders were misguiding the Telangana people on formation of separate Telangana State. He announced that the TDP would support a Telangana Bill if it was introduced in Parliament.

–Agencies

Congress MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao on Monday denied the allegations that Seemandhra leaders were obstructing the formation of Telangana formation.

Talking to reporters here, Sambasiva Rao said that the leaders from Andhra and Rayalaseema region were just expressing their opinion that they were against the bifurcation of the State. He said that the Seemandhra leaders believe that Andhra Pradesh would develop if it remains united. The division of the State would also divide its resources and opportunities, he said.

A day after threatening to give mass resignation, the Congress MPs from the Telangana region have softened their tones stating that they would mount pressure on the High Command to take a favourable decision on the statehood issue.

Congress today advocated “patience and peace” on Telangana saying the issues related to separate statehood demand were “contentious” and required engagement of all stakeholders in Andhra Pradesh.

Noting that he understands the “emotion and anxiety” involved in Telangana, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said these are “contentious” issues for which there are “no easy solution”.

“There is a need to be patient…there is a need to stay engaged.

–Agencies

Prof Kodandaram, Convenor of the TJAC made light of the state police chief Dinesh Reddy making aerial survey to oversee the Telangna March at Necklace Road.

Peoples’ balladeer and Telangana United Front leader Gaddar has said here that no power on earth can stand before the peoples’ power.

He said that the separate Telangana movement has now turned into a people’s movement.

One youngster tried to immolate himself at the Telangana Bhavan, TRS headquarters office here, today, leading to tension. Telangana activists who were present there, however, doused the flames, saved him and sent him to the Hospital for treatment.

The youth complained that there was delay in formation of separate Telangana state only because of the political parties and the leaders. He poured kerosene over his body and set afire. Alert people around, came to his rescue and saved him.

–Agencies

After a hours of sporadic incidents of stone pelting and lathi-charge at different places in the city, the Telangana March had a bitter climax with the police forcibly evicting the Telangana activists from the Necklace Road.

Justice Altmas Kabir, the seniormost judge of the Supreme Court, was on Saturday sworn in as the 39th Chief Justice of India.

He was administered the oath of the office by President Pranab Mukherjee.

Justice Kabir has succeeds SH Kapadia, who demitted office on Saturday. He will be the Chief Justice of India for nine months, till July 19, 2013.

Andhra Pradesh BJP unit chief G Kishan Reddy today lodged a police complaint alleging that he received a death threat from a Pakistani national on a social networking site.

In a complaint registered at the cyber crime department, Reddy stated that he had received a threatening message on the Facebook, posted by one Ikram Shah, a Pakistani national, poliec said.

According to police, the youth had asked Reddy to desist from making statements against the Muslims who were staging protests against a controversial film deemed offensive to Islam, or else he would be eliminated.

Telugu Desam Telangana Forum convener Errabelli Dayakar Rao on Saturday said that the Forum members would stage dharna at Martyrs Memorial at Gun Park expressing solidarity to the Telangana March.

Talking to media persons here, Errabelli Dayakar Rao said that the Forum members, before staging dharna at Martyrs Memorial, would pay rich tributes to Konda Lakshman Bapuji at his Ghat at Jaladrushyam. Stating that the TPJAC members did not seek their support for the Telangana March, he said that the Forum has openly extended solidarity to the March considering Telangana state formation.