'There can be no Telangana without Hyderabad'

The five-decade-long agitation for a separate Telangana state may be bearing fruit with the announcement on Wednesday night by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram that the process for forming the......

Civil Rights activist K Balagopal passes away

Noted civil rights activist K Balagopal died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Hyderabad, family source said on Friday. Balagopal (57) was taken to the hospital at Mehidipatnam in the Hyderabad on......

Y S Rao resigns as chairman of ICHR, cites 'personal reasons'

Only 16 months into his tenure as chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research, Yellapragada Sudershan Rao has resigned from the post citing “personal reasons”. While there......

Eminently funny historians

All those of us who care about books should welcome the appointment, as head of the Indian Council of Historical Research, of Yellapragada Sudarshan Rao. This is not because Rao has so far......