Month: December 2010

Hyderabad, December 31: After the Srikrishna Committee submitted its report to Union home minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi today, the question uppermost on the minds of people across the region is: Will he or won’t he?

Hyderabad, December 31: CLAIMING that the law and order situation during the Telangana and Seemandhra agitations in the past one year was maintained effectively, directorgeneral of police K Aravinda Rao today said that there was no occasion when the police came under criticism from any quarters while handling the agitations as per law.

Hyderabad, December 31: Protesting against the Raipur sessions court sentencing rights activist Binayak Sen to life imprisonment on charges of sedition and alleged Naxalite links, speakers at a ‘free Binayak Sen’ campaign here today demanded that the charges against him and Pijush Guha and Narayan Sanyal be dropped and Section 124 (A) IPC repealed.

Hyderabad, December 31: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today urged the State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) and the member banks to go to the rescue of farming community by promptly rescheduling the kharif crop loans and sanctioning fresh advances.

Addressing the 172nd SLBC Meeting with special focus on the agriculture sector at Jubilee Hall here, the chief minister also requested them to pass on the interest waiver benefit of the state government to the affected farmers.

Hyderabad, December 31: On the day when the Srikrishna Committee on Telangana submitted its report to the Centre, the Osmania University witnessed a lull of activity. “It’s just a calm before the storm. If the committee report goes against the wishes of Telanganites or the Centre delays the creation of Telangana state in spite of the committee’s recommendation, the campus will once again boil,’’ a student said.

Hyderabad, December 31: IRRESPECTIVE of the Srikrishna Committee’s recommendations, the Telangana Students Joint Action Committee (TSJAC) has decided to launch a battle for statehood with a massive show of ‘student power’ in the city on January 19.

The TSJAC also gave a call to all public representatives from the region, irrespective of their party affiliation, to resign and join the Telangana movement should the committee report go against the aspirations of the people of the region.

Guntur, December 31: The indefinite fast of TD president Chandrababu Naidu followed by the party’s farmers’ convention, Rytu Kosam, appear to have helped the TD supremo finally shed his antifarmer tag and come around as the friend of the farmer.

Hyderabad, December 31: The Telangana Rastra Samiti has decided to continue the movement for separate Telangana state in the new year, which it described as ‘Udyama Nama Samvatsaram’, to achieve its political goal. The party wants to build up more pressure on the Centre for introduction of a bill in Parliament for creation of separate state.

Speaking at a meeting in Mahaboobnagar district today, party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao called upon Telangana activists to continue the struggle unitedly till the goal was achieved.

Hyderabad, December 31: Continuing to come down hard on ‘corrupt’ babus, AntiCorruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths today cracked down on two government officials in the city and the neighbouring Ranga Reddy district and unearthed assets worth more than Rs 3.20 crores in documentary value alone. The market value of the assets would be more than Rs 8 crore, officials said.

ACB sleuths conducted raids on the Vanasthalipuram Hills residence of Alladi Laxminarayana, the assistant director of Institute of Preventive Medicine, Narayanguda around 6.20 a.m.

Hyderabad, December 31: The 34th annual convocation of the Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU), held on the campus here today, was marred by proTelangana slogans.

As soon as vice chancellor P Raghava Reddy began his convocation address, some students seated in the front row of the balcony began shouting ‘Jai Telangana’ slogans and interrupted his address. The students were rounded up and whisked out of the auditorium by the police.

Hyderabad, December 31: BJP senior leader and Rajya Sabha member M Venkaiah Naidu has demanded that the Congress-led UPA government take a political decision for creation of Telangana state without any further delay.

Addressing a news conference here today, the BJP leader said the Srikrishna Committee would not help the government to resolve the Telangana issue since it can be addressed only at the political level. The government should take a political decision by considering people’s wish and administrative convenience to ensure development of all the three regions of the state.

Hyderabad, December 31: Telangana students today forced cancellation of the counselling for admission to the Ph.D programme in education protesting against the Osmania University accepting applications from ‘non-local’ students who hail from the Andhra and Rayalaseema regions.

Hyderabad, December 31: Task Force sleuths today arrested a pimp who was working for a person running an online flesh trade. The arrested, Mohammed Khaisar, is a car driver from Begumpet who came in contact with Sahil, who runs a flesh trade through a website.

Hyderabad, December 31: Virtually ‘caught’ in the midst of software firms and techies at the Raheja IT Park, the elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) has decided to move its field office to a more secure, hassle-free and accessible place and has zeroed in on Begumpet.

Working from the second floor of Maximus 2B Tower, Raheja IT Park at Gachibowli, the NIA is finding it difficult to maintain secrecy over its operations, especially with regard to interrogation of terror suspects. Further, it finds the office not easily accessible and risky for the IT firms in the area.

Hyderabad, December 31: Two co-brothers died while their relative suffered injuries after the two wheeler in which they were travelling rammed into a roadside tree on the outskirts of the city today. The duo were coming to the city after attending the birthday party of one of the victims.