Construction work for the proposed 12-million-tonne Posco steel plant resumed on Tuesday after remaining suspended for 10 days following protests by the local people, even as the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) asked the state government to immediately withdraw police forces from school buildings in the project area.

After a brief lull, tension gripped the Osmania University campus on Tuesday as students clashed with the police. They were protesting the arrest of Telugu Desam leaders Mr Nagam Janardhan Reddy and Mr Harishwar Reddy as the latter were trying to enter the campus to meet a group of students fasting since the last six days demanding the elimination of Clause 14 (f) in the Presidential Order.

With the Telangana Rashtra Samiti, CPI and the BJP leaders joining the resignation spree on Tuesday, the total number of resignations rose to 100.

Though the Centre might consider imposing President’s Rule, it will not rush into a definitive conclusion regarding bifurcation of the state.

In possibly the biggest such political action in India, 83 state legislators, including 11 state ministers, from the Congress, Telugu Desam, Praja Rajyam and Independents, and 10 MPs submitted their resignations as planned on Monday, plunging Telangana into turmoil and the Andhra Pradesh government into a crisis.

Eleven-year-old Sanjay shudders recalling the gunshot that felled his friend Dilshan inside the Army officers’ quarters near the Island Ground on Sunday. His version, explained to this newspaper even as his father Rajesekar, a coolie, kept comforting him against breaking down, left no doubt that it was indeed a bullet that killed the boy,

The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) has called for a 48-hour bandh on July 5 and 6 demanding the Congress-led UPA government to initiate the process of bifurcating the state and introduce a bill in the ensuing Monsoon Session of Parliament.

The Telangana movement on Tuesday gathered further steam with TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao and party MP Vijay Shanthi resigning from their Lok Sabha membership in support of the demand for a separate state.

Following en masse resignation of Congress and TDP MLAs from Telangana region, all 11 MLAs of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on Tuesday resigned from their posts on the separate statehood demand.

Four rebel Telugu Desam MLAs submitted their resignations on Sunday for a separate Telangana state.