According to reports from Delhi, the centre seems to have made up its mind not to mess up with law and order function in Hyderabad and leave it with the Telangana State. The government had for sometime considered use of Article 258A of the Constitution to allow a council headed by the governor to take charge of police and public order, land administration, urban administration and higher education. However, that seemed to run into many constitutional and administrative complications. So, law and order is likely to be placed in the hands of the new Telangana state government. A sub-group of officials within the Union home ministry will address this issue so that both State capitals function from Hyderabad even as ...

The Centre is considering the option of letting tribunals decide the tricky issues of how Telangana and the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh should share water and power. A beleaguered Delhi wants to avoid direct responsibility if these sensitive issues later turn politically explosive, government officials told The Telegraph. “Each of the two proposed states is at the other’s throat,” an official said. Secretaries from key Union ministries met this afternoon to discuss how each should approach the division of assets between the two states. Union home secretary Anil Goswami chaired the meeting. A bureaucrat said: “The Group of Ministers on Telangana will be given alternatives (by the ministries) that would include leaving the decision to a tribunal.” Sources said ...

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao, popularly known as KCR, on Friday said he was not in the race to be chief minister of the Telangana state, and clarified that his party would not merge with the Congress at this juncture. “The issue of merger can be discussed only after the Telangana Bill has been passed by both Houses of Parliament,” he said at a press conference at the party’s office. Echoing the views of TRS legislature party leader Etela Rajender and former Member of Parliament B Vinod Kumar, who had said that there would be no merger of the party with the Congress, KCR made it clear that he was totally inclined to see a leader like ...

Governor ESL Narasimhan, who has been in Delhi for the last two days, has reportedly pressed for the early completion of the Telangana process in his meetings with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other Union ministers. The purpose of summoning the governor to Delhi is to get clarifications on the preparedness of the police at the time of introduction of the bill in Parliament and subsequent Presidential assent. The Centre also is said to have sought clarification from the governor whether the division would unleash any violence in Rayalaseema and coastal region and encourage the Maoist elements in the state. The governor’s inputs are expected to encourage the Centre to expedite the T process as they sought to debunk the ...

Does it look like a Telangana story in Africa? తెలుగు జాతి అని చెప్పి భూములు occupy చేసిన ఆంధ్ర బడ నేతలు అంటున్న తెలంగాణావాదులు!