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Eight Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) civilian ward members were administered the oath of office on Friday, but the election of the vice-president did not take place, much to the disappointment of many people who had gathered there.

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday laid down a detailed roadmap for the party to win the crucial Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections due in November.

BANGALORE : The Congress on Friday announced a 71-member AICC list from Karnataka, which includes KPCC president V.S.Koujalgi, Chief Minister S.M.Krishna, Oscar Fernandes, C.K.Jaffer Sharief, B.Shankaranand, S.Bangarappa, M.Veerappa Moily, Margaret Alva, B.Janardana Poojary, K.R.Krishna Murthy.

In a day of flip-flops, a beleaguered Congress high command almost issued a statement on Tuesday to pacify party leaders firmly opposed to splitting the state.

Congress leaders from Telangana fear that the grand old party is being supplanted by YSR Congress in the region.

BANGALORE: A panel of literateurs and educationists including U R Ananthamurty, Mathoor Krishnamurthi and primary and secondary education minister B K Chandrashekhar will meet on January 18 and 19 to review and decide how to present Gandhiji in an interesting manner in text books for kids from primary to high school.

The BJP and Congress shared power in the newly formed Kaup taluk panchayat. In the results of the election announced on Tuesday, Shashiprabha Shetty of the BJP was declared elected president and U C Shekabba Uchila of Congress, as vice-president. Although the election was held on August 10, a subsequent move by the Congress to legally question the process, meant that the result was formally announced on the day.

Marking the fulfilment of a long-cherished dream of the people of Telangana, an independent Telangana high court finally came into being on Tuesday. The new HC will commence operations from January 2. Chief Justice Radhakrishnan, who is one of the 13 judges allotted to Telangana high court, has constituted three division benches.

HYDERABAD: Hours of negotiations and high drama preceded the government's formal announcement that the ban on the People's War would not be extended.

Senior Congress leaders from Telangana converged at MP G Venkataswamy's house to discuss their political future and also on ways to convince the high command to come out with a favourable statement.

HASSAN: The members of the All India Coffee Industry Action Committee (AICIAC) have refuted the recent allegations made by a few growers attached to the Growers' Federation as baseless.

HYDERABAD: The issue of a separate Telangana is snowballing into a major controversy within the Congress party.

HASSAN: Deputy Transport Commissioner, Mysore division, R.V. D'Souza said a ``Citizen Charter'' (information chart) would be set up in all regional transport offices in the state soon, on the lines of the one in Bangalore.

TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday sent feelers to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi expressing willingness to end his ‘fast’ provided he is called to New Delhi for talks.

A meeting of Telangana Congress ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs has set a three-week deadline to the Centre for making a concrete assurance on the introduction of Telangana Bill in the monsoon session of Parliament.

Chief Secretary K Vijayanand has set a March 2026 deadline for APSPDCL to install 2 kW rooftop solar systems for 7.48 lakh SC/ST households, aiming for 415 MW capacity. The state will also provide free rooftop solar to 21 lakh BC households, bringing the total beneficiaries to nearly 30 lakh under various schemes.

TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao landed in Hyderabad on Wednesday evening and was given a rousing welcome by nearly a lakh-strong people from the 10 districts of the new state before he led a victory rally from Begumpet airport to Gun Park.

Barely three days into his new assignment as part-time governor of Andhra Pradesh, E S L Narasimhan seems to have begun ruffling feathers with his perception of the T-problem.

BANGALORE: Kannada films Dweepa, Ekaangi and Neela have bagged the awards for the three best films for the year 2001-2002.