New large salad ingredient for india: Telangana region

New Delhi, December 10, 2009. - The Great Indian salad identities will soon have a new political ingredient, after the government's decision to create southwest Telangana region following a hunger strike "until death" undertaken by a local leader.
"It will start the process of forming Telangana state. An appropriate resolution will be presented at the Regional Assembly (Andhra), "said Indian Minister of Interior, P. Chidambaram, according to a statement issued last midnight.
The people of Telangana had decades complaining of government neglect and economic backwardness suffered in the State of which are broken off, Andhra, the Telugu language sharing the twists and turns but with an accent of its own.
Telangana leaders began calling for the separation of the two regions in the 1970s, and took a violent protest in 1979 when 369 people were killed in clashes and police firing.
And popular pressure led to major Indian parties, the Congress Party government today and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party - to support the claim of the telanganos in different elections, but none took the final step in coming to power.
Until I decided to be brave regionalists: twelve days ago, the leader of the formation Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), K. Chandrasekhara Rao, initiated a "fast unto death" which generated a wave of student protests and seems to have softened the present Government, the Congress Party.
Minister's announcement was greeted with joy in the city of Hyderabad, a major service center, and the ten Telangana districts that make up supposedly located in the impoverished inland areas in north Andhra.
According to IANS, several leaders and activists of TRS went last night to celebrate the decision outside the Nizam Institute of Medical Science (NIMS) where Chandrasekhara Rao announced shortly after ended his fast and drank lemon juice.
"It's a step in the right direction and welcome. Expect to see a clear roadmap for the formation of Telangana state, "said the son of the striker, and also a deputy-, K. Tarakarama Rao on the announcement of Chidambaram.
The resolution must obtain the approval of the Assembly of Andhra, where the Congress Party has a majority, and from there travel to the central Parliament, to be approved by law the status of State for the Home of the telanganos.
To complete the division of Andhra and Telangana, will be in the first 13 coastal districts-nine, the richest, and four inside-with some 40 million people, while the second will have a population of about 35 million people.
Besides, the Government shall decide the role of the city of Hyderabad, located in the heart of Telangana but considered key by the Andhra leaders, who have called him a status of "Union territory" to serve as capital to both states .
Since independence in 1947, the creation of the Indian states has pursued an ad hoc: some regions achieved their goal by cultural or historical reasons, while others were merely an attempt to accommodate interest in the complex Indian political puzzle.
Under the process set beats the feeling of belonging in India, subject to breaches of religion, ethnicity and caste, which often serve overlapping and make it a challenge to form regions based on a single block of identity.
After a period of stability only apparent, the Government of India it agreed in 2000 to the creation of three new regions, driven by the urge local leaders: Jharkhand (northeast), Chattisgarh (center-east) and Uttarkhand ( north).
After Telangana, everything suggests that the fragmentation process will not stop: strongly demand the status region of Gorkhaland political leaders in Bengal (northeast), or of Bundelkhand in Uttar (north).
To achieve its goal, will accompany the 28 regions and seven territories currently drawn on all maps of the country, which in any case must be replaced to include Telangana if the Government concludes the legislative process promised.

Authorities attributed to "foreign terrorists" the attacks in Hyderabad

New Delhi, 26 Aug 2007. - The Indian city of Hyderabad (South India) today morning paralyzed by the attacks on Saturday, killing at 42 people and wounding dozens, work, officials said, of "terrorist groups International Pakistan and Bangladesh. "
In the hospitals of the city continue admitted 70 people, wincing from affected families, for which the regional government has already announced compensation.
In a press appearance after an emergency meeting, the regional governor of Andhra, YS Rajasekhara Reddy, said the bombings were the work of "international terrorist groups."
"Most of the time, international terrorist organizations are responsible for these horrific acts (...) We can not have intelligence networks in Bangladesh and Pakistan," said Reddy, who denied a failure of Indian intelligence services.
The two explosions, almost simultaneously, occurred on Saturday in an outdoor auditorium in Hyderabad, with 10 deaths, and in a crowded fast food restaurant located five kilometers from the first point, which killed 32 people.
According to Reddy, for the moment no arrests in connection with the bombings in Hyderabad, a city that was hit by another attack on 18 May when a bomb killed nine people inside the central mosque in Mecca, and gave rise to riots with police that killed five people shot.
Although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday, several Indian media today pointed to the Islamic group Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HUJI), which researchers also responsible for the explosion of the mosque.
The security forces have already determined that the perpetrators of the blasts used timers, unlike the mosque, which used a mobile telephone and hid in black plastic bags bombs, consisting of ammonium nitrate and metal balls.
In addition, hours after the explosions, security forces recovered two unexploded devices with a cinema, which reinforces the theory that it was a large-scale conspiracy, according to a police source quoted by IANS.
Regarding the possible role of the HUJI, the NDTV television channel reported that research teams are assessing the role of Mohammed Abdul Sahed (aka "Bilal"), who allegedly participated in the bombing of the mosque, but the bombs in both attacks have a different composition.
In his appearance, Reddy announced that the families of the dead will get a donation of 500,000 rupees (about $ 12,140, ​​8,900 euros) and a public work, while the injured will aid of 20,000 rupees (about 485 dollars, 350 euros) Places the explosions were very busy: in the auditorium, located in the Lumbini Park, about 500 people witnessed a laser show, while the restaurant is in a popular shopping area on weekends.
The authorities immediately declared a red alert in Andhra which spread to the adjacent region of Tamil Nadu.
At night, many people succumbed to injuries in hospitals, who lived a flurry to meet the victims of the blasts.
The Indian minister Shivraj Patil is scheduled to arrive today in the city where the authorities of Andhra will hold a meeting of all parties.
The opposition Conservative Party Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party has called for its part the Government to make public a statement with major attacks in recent years, accusing him of showing "soft" on terrorism.
Both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pratibha Patil and the leader of the Congress Party government had yesterday expressed its condemnation of the attacks and their more "serious concern".
In Hyderabad, a city that has developed strongly in recent years thanks to the computer services industry, is scheduled today the conclusion of 10,000 marriages because astrologers have considered "auspicious" day.
With a sizeable Muslim minority, Hyderabad experienced violent riots in the 70 and 80.

At least 30 dead and 60 wounded in two blasts in south India

New Delhi, 25 Aug 2007. - At least 30 people were killed and 60 injured today when two bombs explode in the city of Hyderabad in southern India, official sources reported.
The blasts took place at 19.45 local time (14.15 GMT) at the Lumbini amusement park, near the headquarters of the regional government of Andhra, and in the cafeteria Goku Chat in the commercial area of Koti, about five kilometers.
The latter was the bloodiest action, with 24 deaths, said the regional minister of Interior, K. Jana Reddy, told the Indian agency PTI.
Reddy added that according to preliminary investigations, it was a "terrorist act", the interior minister, Shivraj Patil described as "horrible."
Intelligence sources quoted by the television channel NDTV said that the action was "meticulously planned and executed" and that the authors used timers and explosives "high intensity".
Speaking to IANS Indian agency, the information minister of Andhra and Energy Mohammed Ali Shabbir, confirmed the death of six people in the Lumbini Park blast, which took place when some 500 spectators, including many children, watched a show laser.
The blast occurred in the outdoor auditorium and next to a lake when the function had just begun and, according to witnesses, was so powerful that some people jumped into the air.
"The show started and after a while we hear an explosion. People started to run back and forth in complete disarray, "he told a television station a security guard at the park.
According to the agency IANS, half an hour after the explosion there were three bodies of children between the chairs Lumbini Park auditorium.
Another three people died and in the hospital, where doctors claim that several injured are in critical condition.
The Hyderabad police commissioner, Balwinder Singh, said the death toll in the explosion could be higher because the place is crowded with families who come to spend the day at weekends.
Hyderabad was taken shortly after the blasts by dozens of ambulances arriving in the affected areas to transport the injured to hospitals and Osmania Gandhi, the latter notorious for hosting the wounded from the explosion of May at the Mecca Mosque of the city, with nine deaths.
After cordoning off the area, police quickly recognized that this was an attack, while the prime minister of the region, Rajasekhara Reddy visited the affected area and appealed for calm to the population.
The opposition, however, accused the government of having neglected security in a city recently hit by terrorist violence and denounced the lack of security checks at Lumbini Park, where anyone can enter on payment of 10 cents.
The city, where tomorrow is scheduled to hold mass wedding of 10,000, is on high alert and authorities have initiated security checks at train stations and buses, PTI reported.
On May 18, Hyderabad was attacked in the central Mecca mosque, where thousands of Muslims had gathered to celebrate the Friday prayers.
Now, the intelligence services are investigating whether the pumps have to do with that explosion, which led to a wave of violent clashes with police in which several people were shot.
Between the calls to the tranquility of the authorities, both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the leader of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi expressed concern about the incident and condemned the attacks.

Hyderabad, calm tense after attack on mosque and police brutality

New Delhi, 19 may 2007. - The southern city of Hyderabad India woke up today with an atmosphere of tense calm following the attack reported Friday in a mosque and after learning that some of the 16 dead were killed by police gunfire.
"Eleven people died in the explosion inside the mosque during prayers, and five died under police fire in the old city after the attack", said the governor of the region of Andhra Pradesh, YS Reddy, was quoted by the agency India PTI.
In Hyderabad, the shops were closed and public examinations were postponed, following a strike called to protest the bomb blast, but police brutality.
The attack occurred inside the Macca Mosque, one of the oldest and largest in India, where thousands of devotees were preparing to make the mandatory Friday prayers, at around one thirty in the afternoon.
In the mosque there were four bombs hidden in lunch boxes, but ultimately only one of them exploded, while the others were later cleared by police.
The explosion sparked panic among the worshipers, who fled in stampede and, outside the religious center, demonstrated violently in the old city against the security forces, which suppressed shot in riot gear and the protests.
While this was happening, the dead and wounded, the last 61 in total, were taken to a nearby hospital where an examination revealed that some of them had gunshot wounds, said the television channel NDTV.
The regional governor, who had acknowledged in a statement before the death of "two or three people" because of police action, later apologized for the actions of the police, ensuring that prompted an investigation "if the facts warrant."
Reddy, who was in New Delhi when the attack occurred, he announced his return to Hyderabad after news of what happened and today visited the scene of the attack, which also announced compensation for the families of the victims and call for calm.
Reddy's announcement comes after the first investigations of Police, announced today the discovery of a mobile phone card with one of unexploded ordnance.
With this card, which is allegedly a member of the Islamic terrorist group "Harkat-ul-Jihad" (HUJI), researchers now say there is a direct connection between the attack on Friday and the explosions that took place in the city of Malegaon (west) on September 8, 2006.
At that time, two bombs placed near a mosque, also in day of prayer, killed 31 people in a town that had suffered severe religious conflicts in the past.
"It's a terrorist attack that seeks to provoke clashes between different religious communities in India," he said today in Hyderabad Minister Shivraj Patil, who today visited the mosque next to Reddy.
The Mecca Mosque, apart from one of the largest Islamic centers and old from all over India, is considered sacred by the devotees of this religion in Hyderabad, capital of the region of Andhra Pradesh, where Muslims account for 10 percent of the population.
The authorities have already announced an aid of 9,000 euros, a house and a government job for each of the families of the deceased, including those killed in police firing.
In Hyderabad, while the search for the smallest of 10 years Salman, who disappeared after the explosion at the mosque, concluded today with a happy ending after a day of uncertainty: the boy was only slightly injured-and-in another hospital.

Major cities on high alert after blast in mosque killing seven people

New Delhi, 18 may 2007. - Authorities in India said today the state of alert in major cities, after the attack that has claimed the lives of seven people in a crowded mosque in Hyderabad (south) in which a bomb exploded as thousands of faithful prayed.
The explosive, "unsophisticated" and was kept in a lunch box, police said, was detonated with a mobile phone at 13.25 local time (07.55 GMT) in the Mecca Mosque of Hyderabad.
Following the explosion killed seven people and wounded 35 others.
After moving to the area, security forces found two unexploded ordnance, which were deactivated.
"It seems to be a terrorist act," the minister said Indian Shivraj Patil.
Inside the mosque were some 10,000 faithful, full day of prayer, who fled in panic when they hear the detonation, while the wounded were taken to hospital for care Osmania.
Police later cordoned off the area where he was deployed a Rapid Action Battalion in riot gear trying to control the protests of hundreds of Muslim worshipers who threw stones at security forces.
The Mecca Mosque, apart from one of the largest Islamic centers and old from all over India, is considered sacred by the devotees of this religion in Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh, where Muslims account for 10 percent of the population .
Although the police have not yet revealed any details about the authorship, the attempt has awakened the ghosts of religious conflicts affecting the country from time to time, hence the authorities are quick to declare a state of alert in the major cities shortly after the explosion.
In Bombay (Western India), protesters stoned several buses, but local police said the situation was under control, while in the national capital, New Delhi, the authorities tightened security in religious institutions, train stations and metro stations, bus terminals and shopping centers.
"It has been declared a high alert level because of what happened in Mecca Mosque. Police surveillance is kept constant, "a police source in Calcutta (east), was quoted as saying India PTI.
Security forces have not made ​​public any theory about the motive for the attack, although India has suffered similar actions in the past, such as occurred in the western town of Malegaon on September 8, 2006.
At that time, two bombs placed near a mosque, also in day of prayer, killed 31 people in a town that had suffered severe religious conflicts in the past.
But also today the explosion occurred the same day as the special court which will hear the bloody Mumbai attacks 14 years ago had to start giving the first convictions.
The slaughter of Bombay, which killed 257 people, occurred on March 12, 1993, when thirteen bombs exploded in a chain trains as a group called revenge for the thousands of Muslim killed by Hindu extremists in the riots following the demolition of an old mosque.
In the absence of a final version, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, YS Rajshekhar Reddy, who was visiting New Delhi and travels back to Hyderabad.
"In the last two and half months, we received some information that some elements 'antisocial' were trying to break the peace. We take all measures, but still these things happen, "said Reddy told reporters.