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Hyderabad: Film shooting in and around Hyderabad was affected on Wednesday as more than 20,000 Telugu cine workers began a protest demanding a hike in wages. Large number of cine workers laid siege to the office of the Telugu Film Industry Employees Federation in Jubilee Hills to demand a 45 per cent increase in wages. […]

Hyderabad: Forty six persons were arrested by the Government Railway Police, Secunderabad, in connection with Friday’s violence at Secunderabad railway station even as the police expanded the probe looking into the role played by coaching institutions in instigating and provoking the army job aspirants.| Government Railway Police Superintendent (Secunderabad), B Anuradha at a media conference […]

Ludhiana: Agitators protesting against the Centre’s new Agnipath recruitment scheme for armed forces on Saturday vandalised Punjab’s Ludhiana railway station. The police said that CCTV footage is available and they are identifying the miscreants who attacked the railway station. “Police immediately took action. Around 8-10 persons have been rounded up. Some people have called them […]

Nirmal: Marathon consultations held between Endowments Minister A Indrakaran Reddy and protesting students of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT)-Basar failed to make any headway on Saturday. The students, while expressing happiness at the meeting, however, announced their decision to continue with the protest, which has been on for the last five days […]

New Delhi: Several students along with the members of All India Students’ Association (AISA) on Friday staged a protest over the Central government’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment in the armed forces and demanded its rollback. Holding placards, the students raised slogans against the government and sat in between the old Delhi Police headquarters and the Gate […]

Siddipet: The protest of displaced people under Gouravelly reservoir at Husnabad MLA camp office turned violent as several protesters and a few police staff including ACP Sathish were injured in the incident. When the displaced were staging a protest, the Husnabad Police led by ACP Sathish asked them to vacate the place assuring them to […]

Rajanna-Sircilla: A Shepherd Animeni Kishan has threatened to commit suicide by consuming pesticide in protest against Cooperative Electric Supply Society (CESS) officials’ indifferent attitude in removing electric pole and line passing through his land. A native of Chandrampet, Kishan made an application to CESS officials for removal of electric poles as well as wires from […]

Kothagudem: Tension prevailed at Bhadrachalam Area Hospital on Friday for sometime as family members of a pregnant woman staged protest over alleged negligence of doctors at the hospital. The protesting family members complained that with the negligence of the medical staff foetus died in the womb of a pregnant woman Irpa Vijaya Kumari of Manugur, […]

New Delhi: Protest erupted outside Jama Masjid here after the Friday prayers demanding the arrest of suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma over her controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammed, police said. Scores of people, carrying placards, shouted slogans against Sharma. A senior police officer said that while some of the demonstrators left the site after some […]

Kannauj: Advocates of the Kannauj Bar Association on Monday burnt an effigy of the director of the film ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, and demanded that scenes on Kannauj be removed from the movie. “Through this film, an attempt has been made to defame Kannauj. The wrong scenes pertaining to Kannauj should be removed. If the scenes are […]

Hyderabad: The Jubilee Hills police announced the arrest of one person in connection with the Jubilee Hills gang-rape case. Announcing the arrest at a late night press conference, West Zone DCP Joel Davis said the suspect Saduddin Malik (18), a resident of Puppalguda in Manikonda along with Omer Khan (18) and three others, all minors, […]

Bhupalpally: The row over land at Maha Mutharam village is snowballing into a controversy as the forest officials issued the POR (Preliminary Offence Report) against Maha Mutharam Tahsildar Madhavi as the revenue officials insisted that the land under cultivation by the farmers belonged to revenue department, not that of the forest department. Moreover, a forest […]

Hyderabad: Petrol dealers across the State including Hyderabad protested by not purchasing fuel for a day on Tuesday, demanding an increase in dealer commission which has not been incremented since 2017. However, according to the Telangana Petrol Dealers’ Association, almost all petrol pumps across the State were operated as usual even as the dealers decided […]

Nizamabad: After Osmania University declined permission to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to conduct a physical interaction with the students, Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLC K Kavitha on Wednesday slammed the former Congress chief, saying that he is only coming to the state for politics. Addressing a press conference here, Kavitha said, “Congress leader Rahul Gandhi never […]

Seoni: Two tribal men died after they were allegedly assaulted by a group of 15-20 people over suspicion of cow slaughter in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district, police said on Tuesday. Another person was injured in the incident, they said. The complainant in the case and the opposition Congress in the BJP-ruled state have alleged the […]

Karimnagar: Eerelli Sampath, who was continuing protest in front of the house of his close friend Senigarapu Sathish for the last 13 days, died in Metpalli of Shankarapatnam mandal. He was found dead on Thursday morning when other family members went to the diksha site. Mild tension prevailed in the village when his family members […]

Los Angeles: Rock band Pink Floyd has reunited to record their first new material in 28 years, a protest song against the Ukraine war. Hey Hey, Rise Up! features David Gilmour and Nick Mason alongside long-time Floyd bassist Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards, reports bbc.com. The song is built around a spine-tingling refrain […]

Hyderabad: Tension prevailed at the BJP State office in Nampally for a while on Wednesday when a large number of tribals came to register their protest against union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Bishweswar Tudu’s statement in Lok Sabha that the Centre did not receive any proposal from Telangana government seeking increase in reservation […]

Despite police denying permission for the protest and the curbs imposed across the state, a large number of employees, teachers and pensioners managed to reach here after a call by 'PRC Sadhana Samiti', the joint action committee of all employees' associations.

Hyderabad: The plan to construct a cellular tower in the middle of a densely populated Mangapuram Colony near Loyola College in Alwal is causing concern among the residents. Fearing that the radiation from the tower could lead to public health issues, the residents of the area have been running from pillar to post to get […]