As many as 73 persons died in Telangana and 80 deaths were recorded in Andhra Pradesh due to severe heat wave conditions.
The explanation of the ruling Congress leaders that United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi was trying her best to evolve a broad consensus did not cut much ice with the voters.
Speaking to newsmen in Hyderabad on Thursday, Singh recalled, "The Congress has never supported anything which BJP has brought in." He lambasted the BJP for its 'double-speak and inconsistency' on the Telangana statehood issue.
The overcrowded state-run bus had swerved off the road and hurtled down a hillside into a gorge on Tuesday, killing 57 people and injuring 28 others in one of the worst highway tragedies in recent memory.
Both TRS and BJP are contesting on the separate statehood plank while the Congress is banking on development of the region and TDP has expressed its support for "Samaikya" (United) Andhra Pradesh.
The complainant stated that Reliance group has consented to allot a petrol bunk to him at Peddapalli and for this purpose he even accepted to give his land for market price.
Police said the Naxalites were attempting to blast a bus depot in Karimnagar district.
The Janashakti, which a 71 member-strong underground unit, has been reduced to half its strength, police claim.
Asked about BJP's role in the efforts to oust the Dharam Singh government, Bharti said, "It is justified if the intention is to help people and not to make money."
Telangana Rashtra Samiti, headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao, will form the government in Telangana, after results revealed that the party won 63 seats to clinch power in the 119-member assembly in Telangana.
Jagan maintains a cordial working relationship with the BJP leadership. This may help him get additional financial support from the Centre.
The brutal weeks-long heat wave has killed more than 2,000 people, authorities announced on Saturday, with the toll highest in Telangana at 541.
The boy jumped in front of a train in Peddapalli area on Wednesday.
Locals alleged that the road that was closed some time ago over safety issues was reopened at the insistence of TSRTC officials to save on fuel.
Maruti has committed Rs 5 crore towards the programme.
It was a picture of unity at Mahboobnagar where Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Telugu Desam Party Chandrababu Naidu shared the stage.
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Miffed over the TDP's decision to field candidates from same constituencies as the BJP, the senior leadership has directed Naidu to pull them out or steer clear of the rally on Tuesday. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Stifling heat has killed more than 1,242 people in India in less than one week.
'In his demise, the world of Telugu language and literature has lost a bright star. The void caused by his loss can never be filled.'
Eight terrorists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India escaped from the Central Jail in Bhopal on Monday by killing a security guard and scaling the prison wall with the help of bed sheets, following which some officials responsible for jail security have been suspended.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-Telugu Desam Party alliance in Andhra Pradesh has run into rough weather over seat sharing.
One of the two Indian teachers from Karnataka, who was kidnapped in Libya, allegedly by the Islamic State terror group and released subsequently, on Tuesday, said they were treated with respect by the abductors and not tortured in captivity.
High alert has been sounded across India that five members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, who had fled from a Madhya Pradesh jail in 2013, are planning to carry out terror strikes on instructions of Pakistan's spy agency Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence.
Three Members of Parliament were on Thursday rushed to a hospital in Delhi after they complained of choking and burning eyes following a pepper spray attack by a member during introduction of Telangana Bill in Lok Sabha while another MP was admitted for a heart condition after he collapsed during the fracas.
An engineering graduate from Hyderabad, who joined the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has died "while fighting in Syria".
Torrential rains and resultant deluge in 16 districts of Andhra Pradesh last week left 53 persons dead and caused a loss of Rs 3,756 crore, but the situation is returning to normal with floodwater receding.
He had alleged that 'Telangana police has set up a bogus ISIS site which is radicalising Muslim youths'.
KCR is now having to resort to the lowest common denominator in elections: Reservations.
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