Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Dr K Keshav Rao has submitted his resignation to the party high command, after the Hyderabad police filed a case of murder against his son Venkat on Monday.
The state government has appointed a five-member high-level expert committee to probe the collapse.
The victim was 35-year-old B Prashant Reddy, Venkat's close friend and business partner.
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials blamed the heavy rains for the accident.
With this, the number of persons arrested since September 5 goes up to 14.
The new anti-terror body named 'Octopus' will be headed by an additional DGP and will have various wings
Three people have reportedly died in the explosion.
The SIT has secured important leads about the role of Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami's south India chief Mohammed Abdul Shahid alias Bilal.
Parents have not got any ransom calls yet.
United Progressive Alliance chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said that the twin bomb blasts that rocked Hyderabad recently were the handiwork of forces inimical to India's progress.
Led by Communist Party of India-Marxist state secretary B V Raghavulu and CPI state secretary Dr K Narayana, over 2,000 Left cadres, activists from farmers associations and slum-dwellers, including women, gathered near Ramoji Film City around 9 am.
The proposed force will be given training on par with international standards and modern facilities.
The TDP said that the "state's constitutional machinery has broken down and there is total collapse of law and order."
Thirty persons were killed and nearly 60 injured in two powerful near-simultaneous blasts at a crowded park and a popular eating joint in Hyderabad on Saturday evening.
Chief Justice of AP High Court G S Singhvi administered the oath of office to the new governor at a simple ceremony at Raj Bhavan.
The state Cabinet, which met in Hyderabad on Tuesday, approved a proposal to increase the security cover for the chief minister.
Farhatullah, also known as Mohammed Majidullah Khan, had declared that his party activists were all set to kill Taslima and accused the MIM activists for treating her with kid gloves and foiling his party men's plans.
The incident happened three months ago.
On Thursday, the city police had arrested three MIM legislators for their bid to attack Taslima Nasreen when she was in the city to release a Telugu translation of her controversial novel "Shodh."
The trouble arose at the book-release function of a Telugu translation of one of Nasreen's controversial novels at the Hyderabad press club.
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