Nizambad

Claiming that the name of Nizambad, a city in Telangana, is "inauspicious", BJP MP D Arvind on Tuesday said the city, represented by him in the Lok Sabha, should be renamed "Indur", as it was known earlier.

Nearly 700 nominations have been filed for the April 11 Lok Sabha elections in Telangana with Nizambad constituency alone accounting for around one-third of them as the process for filing of papers came to a close Monday.

A court in Medak district today granted bail to jailed MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi in connection with a case for preventing officials from performing their duties, while another court in Nizambad district turned down his bail plea in a "hate" speech case.

Claiming that the name of Nizambad, a city in Telangana, is "inauspicious", BJP MP D Arvind on Tuesday said the city, represented by him in the Lok Sabha, should be renamed "Indur", as it was known earlier.

Nearly 700 nominations have been filed for the April 11 Lok Sabha elections in Telangana with Nizambad constituency alone accounting for around one-third of them as the process for filing of papers came to a close Monday.

A court in Medak district today granted bail to jailed MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi in connection with a case for preventing officials from performing their duties, while another court in Nizambad district turned down his bail plea in a "hate" speech case.