Osmania Agitation

• Telangana 'rail roko' agitation: Congress MPs detained; clashes at Osmania University

  As a three-day 'rail roko' agitation began in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh today, several pro-Telangana leaders were taken into preventive custody by the police.

• Pro-Telangana activists to bring agitation to Delhi

  Sensing delay, Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) plans to shift action from Osmania University in Hyderabad to Jantar Mantar in Delhi, so they can catch Delhi's attention.Meanwhile, the students' wing of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has planned a rally today. And in the afternoon, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLAs will start a campaign in t...

• Telangana turmoil: Osmania postpones exams

  In the latest fallout of the agitation over a separate state of Telangana, protestors upset over the suicide of an engineering student met Osmania University authorities and forced them to cancel examinations on Wednesday.

• Osmania Vice Chancellor's car attacked

  Intensifying their agitation for a separate Telangana state, hundreds of students took out a march to the state Assembly even as some activists pelted stones at the car of Osmania University Vice Chancellor in Hyderabad.

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  Pro-Telangana student sets himself on fire

  A pro-Telangana school student set himself ablaze raising slogans in support of a separate state at Osmania University, sending the police and fellow agitators in a tizzy.

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  Agitation over Telangana re-ignites; Hyderabad shuts down

  It was a day when Hyderabad shut itself down, almost by force by the Andhra Pradesh police.

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  Telangana trouble: Heavy security for Osmania students' protest

  Students of Osmania University have threatened to lay siege to the House when the state budget is presented on Saturday.

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  Police ordered to leave Osmania Campus

  A protest rally on Hyderabad's Osmania campus to demand the resignation of all elected representatives from Telangana turned into a street-fight between the students and the security forces, leaving more than 25 injured. Subsequently, the Andhra Pradesh High Court ordered the police out of the campus.

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  Telangana clash at Osmania, 20 injured

  Over 20 people were injured when students agitating over creation of a separate Telangana hurled stones at them on the Osmania University campus.

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  Telangana agitation: Students' year at stake

  Protests for and against a new Telangana state in Andhra Pradesh have forced colleges to shut, jeopardising the future of lakhs of students.

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  Osmania agitation: Americans unfazed

  Despite telling his fellow countrymen not to travel to the troubled hotspots of India, specifically Hyderabad, Obama would be astounded to know 19 of them have landed not just in Hyderabad but inside Osmania University, the ground zero of the Telangana agitation.

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  Gandhigiri in Osmania University

  The students at the Osmania University in Hyderabad, which has emerged as the nerve centre for the agitation for a separate Telangana state movement, took their self-chosen role as revolutionaries struggling for a separate state rather seriously. "Beat us, sir, beat us," Osmania University students dared the police, pleaded with them, even fell at ...