Telangana Protests In Delhi

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday left for New Delhi as part of his tour to attend national-level political and social programmes, official sources said.

No "Shaheen Bagh-like protest" would be allowed in Hyderabad, city's top cop said on Saturday. Delhi's Shaheen Bagh has emerged as the epicentre of protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA in the last two months.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, who was detained in Hyderabad last evening ahead of a planned protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, said this morning that he was "being sent back to Delhi". He also claimed that his supporters were thrashed by cops before he was detained.

Hundreds of women joined Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal in the national capital today to protest the horrific gang-rape and murder of a 26-year-old woman in Telangana last week

Dozens of people gathered at the Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Monday to protest the rape and brutal murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian last week which caused widespread outrage in the country.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu began a day-long hunger strike in New Delhi this morning to demand special status for the state and urge the centre to fulfil promises made when Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh in 2014. The protest comes just a day after PM Modi held a rally in Andhra Pradesh, roasting Mr Naidu for allege...

Among thousands who thronged the national capital to register their protest against increasing expenditure and decreasing farm income, there were wives of farmers who had committed suicide. At least four women, wives of cotton farmers from Telangana who killed themselves, had marched to the parliament. They had hung photographs of their husbands ar...

Discontent surfaced over the first list of candidates announced by Congress and TDP for the coming Telangana assembly polls with aspirants who failed to get the berth, crying foul and supporters of some staging protests today. Former PCC president Ponnala Lakshmaiah, who had also served as a minister in Congress governments till 2014, rushed to Del...

The government today fought to push its Telangana bill through the Lok Sabha, in the face of loud protests in Parliament against the plan to divide Andhra Pradesh to create a new state, which led to repeated disruptions. The ruling Congress is determined to see its proposal through, even if it means passing the bill in chaos without a discussion, b...

YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, in Delhi today to protest against the creation of Telangana, launched a sharp personal attack on Congress President Sonia Gandhi. In an exclusive interview to NDTV, he said that not even the British had done as much harm as Mrs Gandhi had to his state, Andhra Pradesh. "The INC now stands for Italian National Co...

Two Metro stations near Parliament House will remain shut today in view of possible protests over the Telangana issue.

Eight trainloads of people from Andhra Pradesh have arrived in Delhi to participate in protests against the division of the state to create Telangana after a bill to facilitate the new state was introduced in the middle of unprecedented violence in Parliament last week.

The Congress has expelled six of its Andhra Pradesh MPs for disrupting Parliament with their protests against the division of their state to create Telangana. The MPs had incessantly blocked proceedings in the Lok Sabha, which is likely to debate a bill to create the new state on Thursday. Sources say the Congress hopes to send a strong message to ...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy is sitting on a 'dharna' at Jantar Mantar in the heart of the capital, in protest against the move to bifurcate his state to create a new Telangana state.

The Congress top brass has summoned Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who has raised a banner of revolt over the Centre's plans to create Telangana, and the party's rebellious Seemandhra MPs to the capital in an attempt to mollify them and get them on board the state bifurcation bill. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said emphat...

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday left for New Delhi as part of his tour to attend national-level political and social programmes, official sources said.

No "Shaheen Bagh-like protest" would be allowed in Hyderabad, city's top cop said on Saturday. Delhi's Shaheen Bagh has emerged as the epicentre of protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA in the last two months.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, who was detained in Hyderabad last evening ahead of a planned protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, said this morning that he was "being sent back to Delhi". He also claimed that his supporters were thrashed by cops before he was detained.

Hundreds of women joined Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal in the national capital today to protest the horrific gang-rape and murder of a 26-year-old woman in Telangana last week

Dozens of people gathered at the Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Monday to protest the rape and brutal murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian last week which caused widespread outrage in the country.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu began a day-long hunger strike in New Delhi this morning to demand special status for the state and urge the centre to fulfil promises made when Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh in 2014. The protest comes just a day after PM Modi held a rally in Andhra Pradesh, roasting Mr Naidu for allege...

Among thousands who thronged the national capital to register their protest against increasing expenditure and decreasing farm income, there were wives of farmers who had committed suicide. At least four women, wives of cotton farmers from Telangana who killed themselves, had marched to the parliament. They had hung photographs of their husbands ar...

Discontent surfaced over the first list of candidates announced by Congress and TDP for the coming Telangana assembly polls with aspirants who failed to get the berth, crying foul and supporters of some staging protests today. Former PCC president Ponnala Lakshmaiah, who had also served as a minister in Congress governments till 2014, rushed to Del...

The government today fought to push its Telangana bill through the Lok Sabha, in the face of loud protests in Parliament against the plan to divide Andhra Pradesh to create a new state, which led to repeated disruptions. The ruling Congress is determined to see its proposal through, even if it means passing the bill in chaos without a discussion, b...

YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, in Delhi today to protest against the creation of Telangana, launched a sharp personal attack on Congress President Sonia Gandhi. In an exclusive interview to NDTV, he said that not even the British had done as much harm as Mrs Gandhi had to his state, Andhra Pradesh. "The INC now stands for Italian National Co...

Two Metro stations near Parliament House will remain shut today in view of possible protests over the Telangana issue.

Eight trainloads of people from Andhra Pradesh have arrived in Delhi to participate in protests against the division of the state to create Telangana after a bill to facilitate the new state was introduced in the middle of unprecedented violence in Parliament last week.

The Congress has expelled six of its Andhra Pradesh MPs for disrupting Parliament with their protests against the division of their state to create Telangana. The MPs had incessantly blocked proceedings in the Lok Sabha, which is likely to debate a bill to create the new state on Thursday. Sources say the Congress hopes to send a strong message to ...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy is sitting on a 'dharna' at Jantar Mantar in the heart of the capital, in protest against the move to bifurcate his state to create a new Telangana state.

The Congress top brass has summoned Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who has raised a banner of revolt over the Centre's plans to create Telangana, and the party's rebellious Seemandhra MPs to the capital in an attempt to mollify them and get them on board the state bifurcation bill. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said emphat...