With Telangana high court giving a strong direction to the state government to call the leaders of employees’ unions of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) for talks on Saturday morning, all eyes are on what chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao would do now.
The striking employees of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) are going ahead with the state-wide shutdown on Saturday even as the Telangana High Court once again suggested to the TSRTC management to hold talks with the employees as early as possible.
Leaders of the Left parties and people's organisations observed a day-long fast here on Thursday in support of the strike by employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC), which entered its 13th day.
The proposed public meeting of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at Huzurnagar on Thursday has been cancelled.
Even as the Nampally court was hearing the bail petition of V Ravi Prakash, former chief executive officer of popular Telugu television channel TV9, the Hyderabad police booked him in yet another case against him on Thursday.
The indefinite strike by employees of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) entered the 13th day on Thursday as no end appears in sight to the impasse despite High Court directions to both the government and employees to find a negotiated settlement.
Ever since the employees and workers of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation workers went on strike, an uneasy atmosphere is prevailing in the riling Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
It looks like Hyderabad is losing its charm these days, particularly in terms of the real estate. The much-talked-about and the much-hyped-about the city is heading to be no more a darling of the settlers, if one goes by the real estate trends these days.
At a time when TRS president and chief minister KCR and some of his cabinet colleagues have alleged that the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) employees had been agitating under the influence of opposition parties, a TRS MLA came up with a strange allegation, triggering a new controversy.
Narendra Modi’ popularity is at an all-time high following the scrapping of Article 370 in Kashmir.
Did the Telangana police try to tamper with the first information reports (FIRs) pertaining to suicide of two RTC employees?
Following a serious reprimand from the Telangana high court on Tuesday, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao is most likely to come down a bit and initiate the process for negotiations with the striking RTC employees.
In a swift development, newly appointed Governor of Telangana Tamilisai Soundararajan rushed to New Delhi on Tuesday, following a call from the Centre.
Within a day of announcing that he was ready to hold talks with the striking employees and workers of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC), Telangana Rashtra Samithi secretary general and Rajya Sabha member K Kesava Rao backtracked on his words.
Suicides, shutdowns, 'Vanta varpu' or cooking on roads and 'Dhoom Dham' or the cultural programme were all part of the movement for statehood to Telangana. With the employees of state-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) using the same tactics for their ongoing strike, history appears to be repeating itself in Telangana.