A huge drama has unfolded within the Congress party after the dramatic midnight announcement by Home Minister P Chidambaram to initiate the process of creation of a separate state of Telangana on Thursday.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, in an exclusive interview to rediff.com’s Tahir Ali, has said that the increase in American troops will only provide the Taliban with more opportunities to attack. It has also claimed that the Pakistani Army’s operations have done no damage to its strength and that it is as strong as it was earlier.
In the aftermath of the announcement to form a separate state of Telangana, the Congress party is now facing new problems.
Even as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and others celebrated the Centre’s announcement to initiate the process for carving out a separate Telangana State, over 200 people were taken into preventive custody on Thursday after widespread protests in Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions of the state.
Pakistan will respond “effectively” if India’s alleged involvement in acts of terrorism within the country was proved, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday.
“Indeed, nearly all of the jihadi groups operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, the Pakistani Taliban, the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network, LeT, and others have joined together in an extended terrorist network that shares the same goals, including destabilising Afghanistan and destroying the Pakistani state,” said Congressman Howard Berman, chairman of the House [...]
Bullet ridden bodies of four members of the Communist Party of India – Marxist were found on the road in Maoist-affected West Midnapore district in West Bengal on Thursday. A note, believed to have been left behind by the Maoists near the bodies, said the men were accorded the ‘extreme punishment’ by ‘people’s verdict’ as [...]
With the Centre blinking on the issue of formation of Telangana, Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh on Thursday decided to revive his demand for Harit Pradesh to be carved out of Uttar Pradesh after the Parliament session.
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