A naxal commander was killed in a shoot-out with the police in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, the police said.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister N.Kiran Kumar Reddy will visit New Delhi on a two-day trip on Friday to confer with the Congress leadership on the contentious statehood issue, ahead of the all-party meeting to be convened by the Centre.

A proposal to introduce a Common Medical Entrance Test was on Thursday officially put on hold with the Centre and the state governments deciding to have more discussions in the matter before taking any decision.

Andhra Pradesh governor E.S.L. Narasimhan has become controversial for all major political parties, including the ruling Congress, in Telangana.
The Congress, Telugu Desam, Bharatiya Janata Party and Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders from the region have branded Mr Narasimhan “anti-Telangana” and

The Justice Srikrishna Committee has recommended a united Andhra Pradesh with constitutional measures for the socio, economic and political empowerment of Telangana as the “best way forward” to “continue the development momentum of all three regions”.

The Srikrishna Committee report evoked spontaneous protests in the hotbed of Telangana movement, Osmania University, on Thursday where students torched an RTC bus at the Arts College.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday hit out at Justice Srikrishna Committee report giving six options and said his party will not accept anything short of Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital.

Contrary to apprehensions, the Justice Srikrishna Committee report to be out on Thursday will not leave scope for any section to agitate, for the committee will give several options, including carving out a separate Telangana state and justify every option.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has called a meeting of all party MPs from Telangana on Wednesday. Sources said that the prime objective of the meeting will be to once again warn the MPs not to comment on the Telangana issue till the party high command takes a decision about it.

The Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is going to demand that all the representative parties in Parliament should be involved in the dialogue on Telangana.
The party plays a decisive role on Telangana in Hyderabad and its surroundings.