Anti-telangana Protests

• Telangana Bill passed in Lok Sabha: row over blackout; Kiran Kumar Reddy to resign, float new party

  A controversial bill to create Telangana by dividing Andhra Pradesh was passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday amid protests, but its live telecast was cut off in an unprecedented blackout. The bill will now be taken up in the Rajya Sabha. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy plans to resign today and float his own party while anti-Telangan...

• Telangana bill passed in Lok Sabha amid TV blackout

  A controversial bill to create Telangana by dividing Andhra Pradesh was passed in the Lok Sabha today amid protests, but live telecast was cut off in an unprecedented blackout. The bill will now be taken up in the Rajya Sabha. Anti-Telangana politicians like Jagan Mohan Reddy have called a shutdown in Andhra Pradesh.

• Jagan Reddy brings trainloads of anti-Telangana protesters to Delhi

  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.

• Congress expels six MPs for anti-Telangana protests in Parliament: 10 developments

  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 ...

• Seemandhra strike: ATMs run out of cash in Vijayawada

  ATMs in Vijayawada and other parts of Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh have run out of cash following the closure of cooperative banks since Friday due to the ongoing strike against the bifurcation of the state.

• Telangana: Power crisis in Vijayawada, curfew in Vizianagaram

  After two days of protests, it's a calmer Sunday for the Seemandhra region of Andhra Pradesh. The 13 districts of Seemandhra, as the Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions are jointly called, witnessed total shutdown over the last two days following the 48-hour strike called by anti-Telangana protesters against the cabinet decision to carve out a s...

• State divided because someone wants son as PM: Jagan Mohan Reddy

  As he stepped up the anti-Telangana protests by beginning an indefinite fast today, YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy blamed Congress president Sonia Gandhi for 'dividing the state'. Without naming Mrs Gandhi, the 40-year-old leader told NDTV, "Someone wanted their son to become PM and divided the state."

• Jagan Mohan Reddy, on indefinite fast against Telangana, says Centre does not want united Andhra Pradesh

  In front of around 1500 supporters at his Lotus Pound residence in Hyderabad, YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy stepped up the anti-Telangana protests today by beginning an indefinite fast. According to sources, the 40-year-old leader's fast will continue till a huge public rally he is planning in Hyderabad on October 18.

• Anti-Telangana protests paralyse Vijayawada as students, parties rally against bifurcation

  Protests have intensified in Vijayawada in central Andhra Pradesh. Highways NH 5 and NH 9 have come to a stand-still. Vehicles had been blocked on the arterial highway that connects Chennai, and other important locations on the southeast coast such as Srikakulam, Vishakhapatnam, all the way to Kolkata in West Bengal.

• Chandrababu Naidu, Jagan Mohan Reddy have now backtracked, says Digvijaya Singh on Telangana protests

  The cabinet on Thursday cleared major steps for carving out a separate Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh.

• Roads to Tirupati blocked as part of anti-Telangana state protests

  All roads to Tirupati are blocked by large groups protesting against the government's decision to proceed with the division of Andhra Pradesh. Devotees heading to the famous Tirumala temple are completing their journey by foot.

• Anti-Telangana groups call 48-hour bandh in Seemandhra

  The supporters of united Andhra Pradesh today called a 48-hour bandh from tomorow in Seemandhra regions in the backdrop of the Union Cabinet's approval for formation of separate Telangana state.

• Anti-Telangana protests: Petition seeking protection for pilgrims visiting Tirumala filed

  A petition seeking to protect Tamil Nadu pilgrims visiting the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Thirumala in Andhra Pradesh in the backdrop of continuing anti-Telangana stir has been filed in the Madras High Court.

• Anti-Telangana protesters block road to Tirupati

  Thousands of Lord Venkateswara devotees had a tough time today as traffic to the hill shrine came to a halt due to the one-day total strike called by anti-Telangana protesters.

• Union Minister of State for Tourism K Chiranjeevi gheraoed by anti-bifurcation protesters

  Union Minister of State for Tourism K Chiranjeevi today faced the ire of united Andhra Pradesh supporters who surrounded him in Hyderabad and demanded that he resign from his post.