Additional police and paramilitary forces have started taking positions in Hyderabad, especially around the picturesque Hussain Sagar lake and Tank Bund to scuttle the plans of Telangana organisations to bring lakhs of people from the districts as pat of their 'Million March' on Thursday.
Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat has thrice been honoured by the International Association of Chiefs of Police for his unusual efforts in community policing and welfare. The only Indian police officer to be honoured thus.
The Hyderabad police have registered a case against a Hyderabad Member of Parliament for defying curfew orders, even as it arrested 165 people in connection with communal clashes that broke out in Old City area last week."A case has been registered against Hyderabad MP and MIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi and seven others for staging a protest in front of the Charminar police station on Sunday by defying curfew orders," ACP (Coordination) Dwarka Thirumala Rao said.
'Replacement of the CM with a more acceptable face may be a good start towards resolving Manipur's problem.'
The 7th metropolitan sessions judge of the Nampally court acquitted Mohammed Abdul Kaleem, Mohammed Abdul Raoof alias Imran, Shujauddin, Mohammed Faseehuddin, and Mohammed Sohail who were arrested in September last by the special investigations team.
Jehangir was assisting Mujib in making CDs and sending them to Hizbul Chief Syed Salahuddin in Pakistan.
According to the Union home ministry data, tabled in Parliament last week, 10,61,648 women above 18 years and 2,51,430 girls below that age went missing between 2019 and 2021 across the country.
Left workers and others on Thursday held a protest at the US Consulate over the ill-treatment meted out to Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade in New York.
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, a strong political stakeholder in Hyderabad, has expressed apprehensions that the central government was contemplating giving the city the status of an Union Territory while creating Telangana state and warned that the party will fight tooth and nail against any such move.
The very hazy images that the police have managed to get from the close circuit television implicate three men who may have planted the bomb at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad.
An anonymous caller informed the hospital staff on Sunday morning that a time bomb was planted underneath a scooter and would go off within 15 minutes, Kakinada Deputy Superintendent of Police Surya Rao told PTI.
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 indefinite curfew was on Sunday clamped in some parts of the walled city in Hyderabad, following communal clashes over alleged desecration of a religious place.
33 people were killed in the crowded eatery in Kothi area of Hyderabad on the evening of August 25, 2007. This is the third charge sheet against seven accused in this case. The Octopus had earlier filed two separate charge sheets in another blast at Lumbini Park Laserium and an unexploded bomb recovered at a crowded place in Dilsukhnagar on the same day about two years ago.
With the Hyderabad police rounding up several Muslim youth for questioning in connection with last week's twin blasts in Hyderabad, some civil rights groups are up in arms and say witch-hunting will only prove fatal to the probe. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
An email threatening large scale bomb blasts at several important places in Hyderabad on Independence Day on Friday has created a major flutter in the city police and has forced the administration to put the police force on a high alert. The email, proclaiming to be from the terrorist organisation Al Qaeda, threatened the bomb blasts at important government offices and public places including the Imax Theater on the lines of last year's twin blasts.
The protests at the Osmania University, which has been the nerve centre of the movement, have intensified and two buses have been burnt down despite heavy police presence. Protests were also witnessed at the Dharna Chowk locality in Hyderabad.
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 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.
As the infuriated mob blocked traffic and targeted RTC buses demanding action against the officials of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation for the removal of the road side 'Pochamma temple', the police used lathis to disperse the crowd.
Syed Maqbool and Imran Khan, who are currently lodged in Tihar Jail in New Delhi following their arrest by the Delhi Police in the August 2012 Pune blast case, were handed over to NIA for their custodial interrogation after the agency alleged they had in July last year recced Hyderabad's Dilsukhnagar area where the blasts occurred.
Asadullah Akhtar alias Tabrez, one of the prime suspects in the Hyderabad twin bomb blasts, was brought to the city on Thursday amid tight security.
While probing the twin blasts which killed 16 people in Hyderabad on Thursday, the special team constituted by the city police is looking into the possible role played by some local groups.
The three day-old curfew in the sensitive old city of Hyderabad will be relaxed for the first time on Thursday for two hours in the morning, city police commissioner A K Khan said.
In the wake of high alert sounded in the city on possible terror attack, the incident has baffled security personnel and the Central Industrial Security Force that mans the security of the airport.
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.
A techie from Bengaluru has come under the scanner of the Hyderabad police for his alleged role in terror activities.
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.
The AIMIM chief questioned whether the public will have any faith in the Constitution and law and order of the country after this incident.
She possessed a visa valid till 2008 and also other relevant documents.
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.
The quantum of sentence for the convicted Indian Mujahideen operatives will be announced next Monday.
Bassi said his transfer to Andaman and Nicobar Islands on October 24 is "malafide and derails a sensitive probe" and added that allegations against Asthana are "grave".
The police reached the spot and brought the situation under control.
The local police said that the building was undergoing some modifications when it collapsed.
Two days after twin blasts rocked Hyderabad, a team of the National Investigation Agency raided several places including villages in Bihar's Darbhanga and Samastipur districts in search of operatives of Indian Mujahideen, police officials said on Saturday.
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed three bills to replace the colonial-era criminal laws by voice vote.
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.
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