A 19-year-old engineering student allegedly died by suicide in Hyderabad, following a financial dispute with friends over sharing the cost of a party bill, police said on Monday.
This is the third big success in the past fortnight for security forces pushing relentlessly against the Maoists with the aim of ending the menace by March 2026.
According to television reports, MIM supporters attacked media vans in Adilabad, where a shutdown is being observed on Wednesday.
Two people were killed when police opened fire to quell clashes between two communities in Bhainsa town of Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh on Friday. Six others were seriously injured. The District Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar said that the trouble broke out during the Durga immersion process when it was passing in front of a mosque in Panjeshah.
High nitrate levels have been found in groundwater of 440 districts across India, with 20 per cent of the samples collected exceeding the permissible nitrate concentration, the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has said in a report.
Tension continued to grip the riot-hit Bhainsa town of Adilabad district a day after four persons were killed and 15 others were injured in communal clashes and police firing. As an indefinite curfew continued for the second day on Saturday, the entire town wore a deserted look with armed police patrolling the streets.
The communal violence in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday took a violent turn with miscreants burning alive six members of a family in a village in the early hours of Sunday.
The situation in Jainoor town in Kumuram Bheem Asifabad district remained peaceful on Thursday a day after a protest by tribal organisations against an autorickshaw driver's alleged attempt to rape and murder a tribal woman sparked communal tension prompting authorities to impose a curfew.
Gandhi answers several such light-hearted questions in a more than two-minute video released by the Congress on its social media channels.
The third phase of the Lok Sabha elections for 94 seats will take place on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, covering 12 states.
The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday increased the polling time for the Lok Sabha elections in Telangana by an hour in view of heatwave conditions prevailing in the state.
The prime minister has been unveiling a slew of development projects running into lakhs of crores of rupees at various places as he turns the spotlight on his government's development and welfare agenda in the run-up to the general elections expected to be held in April-May.
Due to heavy rains and waterlogging over the tracks at several locations on South Central Railway network, as many as 99 trains were cancelled and four trains were partially cancelled while 54 trains were diverted, an SCR official said.
Long queues were seen at outpatient department ticket counters in government hospitals, where senior doctors joined their junior colleagues in the protest.
According to an Andhra government statement, Naidu 'reposed confidence' in the PM's leadership.
Three Lok Sabha MPs, including its former Telangana president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, figured on Sunday in the BJP's first list of 52 candidates.
'Merchandise plays a key role in creating buzz about a specific party.'
The Bharatiya Janata Party replaced at least 25 sitting MPs with new faces as the party released its second list of 72 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on Wednesday.
Three of the BJP's sitting Lok Sabha members - Bandi Sanjay Kumar (former Telangana BJP chief and Karimnagar MP), Dharmapuri Arvind (Nizamabad MP) and Soyam Bapu Rao (Adilabad MP) will contest in the elections.
The share of candidates who were successful among the BJP was 56.5% in 2019. It was 5% for the Congress.
Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad Yadav had thrown barbs at the prime minister over his having no family.
In order to pacify the dissidents, the party's central leadership had to replace Bandi Sanjay Kumar with Union Minister G Kishan Reddy as state president of the BJP.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would sound the poll bugle of the party for the coming assembly elections in Telangana by addressing a public meeting at Khammam on Sunday.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested a top Maoist leader as it carried out raids at 62 locations across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in the Communist Party of India-Maoist conspiracy case, an official said.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samiti has pinned hopes on the development work his government undertook during the past ten years, while opposition Congress and BJP bank on anti-incumbency and the alleged failures of the incumbent.
The chief secretary said that as the state is witnessing heavy rains over the last three days, the collectors should be on high alert and take all steps to prevent loss of life, cattle or damage to any property.
Relief work gained momentum on Saturday as rainfall came to a halt in many parts of the state. When contacted, a senior official told PTI that 16 people lost their lives in rain-related incidents as per the reports received till Saturday afternoon.
The block will affect the movement of long-distance as well as local trains.
In these raids being conducted since Sunday morning, the NIA said, it has seized incriminating materials, including digital devices, documents, two daggers and cash Rs 8,31,500.
The Adilabad court on Wednesday directed the authorities of the Adilabad jail where Akbaruddin Owaisi is currently lodged -- to treat the MIM leader as a VIP prisoner. The jail authorities will not have to agree to Owaisi's demands for a different mattress and a cot. He will receive home-cooked food for his meals and may even get a separate television set.
A local court on Friday granted bail to Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi in connection with a hate speech case registered against him.
A court in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday extended until February 12 the judicial remand of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Member of Legislative Assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi in a 'hate' speech case.
Hours after his arrest, police in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday night began questioning Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi in one of the cases related to alleged "hate speech" filed against him there.
Foiling a major terror plot, four suspected Pakistan-linked terrorists on their way to Telangana to deliver explosives were nabbed in Haryana's Karnal on Thursday and arms, ammunition and IEDs were recovered from their vehicle, senior police officials said.
The Andhra Pradesh police arrested two persons -- Chandrabhanu and Jadhav Vinod alias Vinayak -- in connection with the burning of six members of a family in Vatoli village of Adilabad district during the recent communal riots.
After Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, petrol price has crossed the Rs 100-per-litre mark in Leh, in almost all districts of Andhra Pradesh and parts of Telangana after fuel prices were again hiked on Friday. Petrol price was increased by 27 paise per litre and diesel by 28 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. The hike - 18th in the last one month - took fuel prices across the country to a historic high. In Delhi, petrol hit an all-time high of Rs 94.76 a litre, while diesel is now priced at Rs 85.66 per litre.
Police in Adilabad district of Telangana have also registered a case against five persons who allegedly repeatedly raped the minor over the past 16 months.
Gandhi will embark on a 15-kilometre padyatra in Telangana's Adilabad district on Friday, highlighting the issues of farmers.
The victims belonged to a marriage party.
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