The SIT has secured important leads about the role of Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami's south India chief Mohammed Abdul Shahid alias Bilal.
The bandh called by Telangana Rashtra Samithi against a reported proposal by the Group of Ministers, appointed to chalk the road map for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, to merge two districts of with the proposed state has hit normal life in the region.
At least 15 people, most of them patients, were injured when a fire broke out in a corporate hospital at Somajiguda area in Hyderabad on Tuesday
A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered after being kidnapped by a man suspected to be a habitual offender in Bollarum areain Hyderabad.
With investigators trying to put together pieces of evidence, nearly 40 people have been questioned by police and central probe agencies for their suspected role in the twin blasts in Hyderabad.
According to police sources in Hyderabad, Quadri, who runs a watch repair shop, was in constant touch with Shahed alias Bilal, the alleged mastermind behind the masjid blasts.
A teenage student was killed in Hyderabad on Tuesday when she was run over by a bus after she fell from a two-wheeler which got stuck in a pothole-ridden road near Anand Theatre at Begumpet, police said.
A 32-year-old US-returned engineering graduate was arrested in Hyderabad when he was allegedly on his way to Dubai to join the Middle East terror group Islamic State, the Cyberabad police claimed on Friday.
Heavy rains on Wednesday morning caused water-logging in many areas and massive traffic jams in Hyderabad, leading to people stuck on the roads.
Music School tries hard to make a case -- like 3 Idiots and Taare Zameen Par before -- to let children follow their artistic passions and not try to fit them into pre-set moulds, to which people might nod their heads in agreement before packing their children off to coaching class, notes Deepa Gahlot.
The kidnapping, illegal confinement and rape of a college girl for 17 months is threatening to blow up in to a major issue in Hyderabad. The family of the hapless victim has been running form pillar to post for justice and stringent action against the perpetrator.
B Naresh, was accused of making the remarks on Ayyappa and hurting the religious sentiments of the devotees and Hindus at large, while addressing a meeting in Vikarabad district on December 19, the police said.
An uneasy peace prevailed in the curfew bound old city area of Hyderabad with stray incidents of violence overnight in Aliabad and Sultanshahi localities of the city.
Harkat-Ul-Jihadi Islami commander Shahid alias Bilal was the mastermind behind the August 25 twin blasts and May 15 Mecca Blasts in Hyderabad, which claimed over 50 lives, his brother Majid confessed to the police.
Although the Hyderabad blasts bear the signature of the Indian Mujahideen, the police and the Intelligence Bureau say that it is too early to pin point the blame on the infamous terror outfit.
A man has been arrested in Ranchi in connection with the twin Hyderabad blasts which claimed 16 lives on February 21, the police said on Monday.
The AIMIM chief questioned whether the public will have any faith in the Constitution and law and order of the country after this incident.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde visited the blasts site at Hyderabad's busy Dilsukh Nagar area on Friday morning along with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and other senior officials.
The Gujarat police have arrested a former Janashakti leader Amar from Kushaiguda area in Hyderabad on Monday evening, official sources said.
A Maharashtra ATS team, involved in Pune explosion probe, is in the Andhra Pradesh capital to coordinate with investigators probing the Hyderabad twin blasts, which is suspected to be the handiwork of Indian Mujahideen.
The list also includes two notorious fugitives -- Sukumara Kurup, never nabbed in connection with a murder and Dr Edadi Omana -- who had given the slip to the investigating agencies, and have remained untraceable for several years.
Almost 18 months after the twin bomb blasts rocked the city and 43 people died in the biggest ever terror attack on the city of Hyderabad, the investigators have found a dump where the terrorist had hidden the left over material after making the explosive devices.
A major lead that has emerged in Thursday's Hyderabad twin blasts investigations -- in which 16 people were killed and 114 injured -- is that the plan to attack the Sai Baba temple at Dilsuknagar was changed at the last minute.
The Muslims in the Old City of Hyderabad would be reminded of the police action against them following the Mecca Masjid and twin blasts. However, this time around, they say that the police have not jumped the gun and would look to investigate this matter in a free and fair manner.
Rejecting the charge that his party was trying to poach Telangana Rashtra Samiti MLAs, Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has scripted the raids at a farmhouse and demanded a probe by a sitting judge.
The woman broke a glass bottle and slit throats of her two daughters, Ashvitha, 8, and Tavishka, 3, on Wednesday night at her residence.
The Hyderabad task force police on Sunday arrested 14 people from Bangladesh, suspected to be Inter Services Intelligence agents, at the Secunderabad railway station.
Garima Lohia, Uma Harathi N and Smriti Mishra secured the second, third and fourth ranks respectively in the examination, results of which were declared on Tuesday.
An army man was on Monday taken into custody by the Neredmet police in Hyderabad for allegedly trying to abduct and misbehave with a 19-year-old girl student, police said.
BCCI and Cricket Australia officials reviewed the security arrangements in Hyderabad and met the city's police commissioner ahead of the second cricket Test between India and Australia, scheduled to be held from March 2-5.
Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Hyderabad on Tueday, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Telangana Joint Action Committee leaders launched a stir over the Telangana statehood demand.
P Ramya, who met with the accident while she was returning from school, had slipped into a coma.
In its application, the investigating agency stated that the accused need to be taken to Maharashtra and Rajasthan and it also wanted to question them on the possibility of recovering more explosives.
The details of the torture and humiliation endured by the 21 Muslim youths, who were detained after the twin blasts in Hyderabad last year, are finally coming out of the closet.
The woman claimed that after meeting the accused on a dating app she went to the hotel with the man on May 30 where she was sexually assaulted.
Acting on a tip-off, the commissioner's special investigation cell arrested the accused on Friday near Secunderabad railway station while moving under suspicious circumstances with a travel bag.
The police reached the spot and brought the situation under control.
Based on a complaint by a Mumbai-based man, the JJ Marg police on Tuesday registered the case against the four accused hailing from Lucknow, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kashmir, he said.
An Indian engineer was among nine people killed when a gunman opened fire at a crowded mall in Dallas in the US state of Texas, authorities said on Monday.
As the three-hour-long relaxation in curfew in Hyderabad passed off peacefully on Sunday, police commissioner A K Khan was seen playing cricket on a deserted road near the Charminar. After visiting the affected areas during the curfew relaxation period on Sunday morning, Khan found a group of journalists playing cricket.
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