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Telangana protests intensify

Pro-Telangana protests have intensified in Hyderabad.Hundreds of students of the Osmania University have taken out a rally to the state Assembly threatening to disrupt the budget session.They are demanding the resignation of all elected representatives from Telangana.

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    Pro-Telangana protests have intensified in Hyderabad.

    Hundreds of students of the Osmania University took out a rally to the state Assembly threatening to disrupt the budget session.

    They are demanding the resignation of all elected representatives from Telangana.
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    A pro-Telangana school student, Sirpuram Yadaiah, set himself ablaze raising slogans in support of a separate state.

    The class 10th student ran towards Arts College sending the police and fellow agitators in a tizzy.
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    The policemen, acted swiftly and doused the blaze by pouring water.He was rushed to the Gandhi hospital and is critical after suffering about seventy percent burns.
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    Over 300 students, who violated prohibitory orders were taken into preventive custody. The rally was a part of the call given by the Telangana Students Joint Action Committee and Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee.
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    Tension prevailed in the area when the processionists sat on the road raising slogans against the police and indulged in heated arguments with the cops.
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    Some pro-Telangana activists threw stones on the car of Osmania University (OU) Vice-Chancellor T Tirupati Rao, damaging its windowpanes. However, Rao was not in the vehicle when the incident occured.
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    In another incident, 150 students were taken into custody after they forced their way by breaking the barricades at the Nizam College hostel near the Assembly.
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    A heavy security blanket was thrown across the city on Saturday as students began their march to lay siege to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly in support of separate Telangana state.

    Over 20,000 police personnel, including para-military and Rapid Action Force (RAF), besides 9,000 city police personnel, were deployed on various roads leading to the Assembly.
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    In the about nine-km long route between Osmania University and the Assembly, a total of 100 check-posts were set up under nine police station limits to keep a watch on the movement of Telangana students rally.
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