Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh. Occupying 650 square kilometres (250Ā sqĀ mi) along the banks of the Musi River, located on the Deccan Plateau in the northern part of South India. At an average altitude of 542 metres (1,778Ā ft), much of Hyderabad is situated on hilly terrain around artificial lakes, including Hussain Sagar lake āpredating the city's foundingānorth of the city centre. Hyderabad City has a population of about 6.9 million, with about 9.7 million in Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, making it the fourth-most populous city and sixth-most populous urban agglomeration in India. With an output of US$74Ā billion, Hyderabad is the fifth-largest contributor to India's overall gross domestic product.
Barely a fortnight after the gang-rape and murder of a veterinary doctor in Hyderabad, the Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Wednesday cleared a bill that proposes the death penalty in cases of sexual abuse of.. IndiaTimes - Published
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices S A Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna said the Telangana HC was already looking into the incident and only thing needed to be done was to appoint a former SC.. IndiaTimes - Published
A 23-year-old rape victim was set ablaze by a gang of men, including the alleged rapist, as she made her way to court in the northern India on Thursday, police said. Mia Womersley reports
A girl from India's Hyderabad has shattered two world records - for breaking tiles with one hand and making the most number of origami models. David Doyle reports.
The next hearing has been proposed for Thursday, in which PILs demanding independent probe into the incident will be taken up. DNA - Published Also reported by •IndiaTimes
At least two of the four youths suspected of raping and murdering a young veterinarian, who were later killed in a police āencounterā, were minors, according to their family members. The families.. IndiaTimes - Published
Hailing action taken against the accused by the police, Andra Pradesh chief minister Jaganmohan Reddy said, "Hats off to Telangana CM KCR and police officers for what they did." DNA - Published
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider granting hearing on Wednesday on one of the PILs seeking an SIT probe into the killing of four men, arrested on charge of gangrape and murder of a.. IndiaTimes - Published
The decision was taken by the police against the backdrop of two brutal incidents of murder and rape cases that happened in Hyderabad and Telangana. DNA - Published
"People are saying that Telangana police taught a lesson, government gave a message to the country," Telangana government minister on the encounter of gang-rape accused. DNA - Published
On the evening of her alleged rape and murder, the 27-year-old veterinarian from Hyderabad had left office early to see a skin doctor in Gachibowli. Usually she would step out of her house at about.. IndiaTimes - Published
Justice cannot take the form of revenge, Chief Justice of India S A Bobde said on Saturday, a day after four men suspected of raping and murdering a young veterinarian were shot dead by the police in a.. IndiaTimes - Published
Certain members of civil society have claimed that the Hyderabad police had actually displayed a predilection for 'taking the law into their own hands'. DNA - Published
On Friday, Twitter remained sharply divided over the āencounterā of those accused in the Hyderabad rape and murder case. On Friday, several hashtags around the encounter dominated online discourse,.. IndiaTimes - Published
Renuka, 17-year-old wife of Ch Chennakesavulu, 20, one of the accused, was crestfallen. She wailed: āIt is unjust to kill four persons for the murder of one person. Take me to the same place and kill.. IndiaTimes - Published
Father of the Unnao rape survivor, who was set on fire on Thursday morning by five people, including two accused of raping her, praised the Hyderabad police action in which all four arrested in the.. IndiaTimes - Published
Taking suo motu cognisance of the āencounter killingā, the NHRC said on Friday that it would send a team led by a senior police officer to Telangana to probe the matter. āThe team will file a.. IndiaTimes - Published
Chatanpally was Ground Zero on Friday as people swarmed all over the village in Mahbubnagarās Farooqnagar mandal, Telangana. The obscure village of 7,000 people on National Highway 44 was buzzing all.. IndiaTimes - Published
Vishwanath Chennappa Sajjanar was superintendent of police of Warangal district then. Eleven years later, four men - Mohammed Areef, Shiva, Naveen and Chennakesavulu - accused of gang-raping a.. IndiaTimes - Published Also reported by •DNA
The killings occurred at Chattanpally village near Shadnagar, a stoneās throw from where the suspects were alleged to have set the womanās body on fire after killing her. Police had taken the.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Indian sports fraternity on Friday lauded the police for killing the four men accused in the rape and murder of a woman veterinarian in Hyderabad. The four accused were killed in 'retaliatory'.. IndiaTimes - Published
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said both Hyderabad and Unnao incidents are "shameful" and demanded stringent legislation to deal with cases of rape. IndiaTimes - Published
Low conviction rate, tardy probes and prolonged trials result in 70 per cent rape cases remaining unattended in the judicial system and this, experts say, explains the public jubilation over the.. IndiaTimes - Published
Amnesty International India on Friday sought an independent investigation into the alleged extrajudicial killings of four underātrial prisoners by the Hyderabad police. The four had been arrested a.. IndiaTimes - Published
All four accused in the Hyderabad gangrape and murder case were killed in an encounter by the Telangana Police in an encounter in Shadnagar in the wee hours of Friday. DNA - Published
Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad city, an action applauded by her family and many citizens outraged over.. Reuters - Published
Many Indians took to social media on Friday to applaud the police killings of four men accused in the gang rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinarian in the southern city of Hyderabad. Reuters - Published
"I don't know the facts about what happened, but I can say this much, whatever happened, an inquiry should be made into it," Chidambaram told reporters when asked for a reaction on the incident during.. IndiaTimes - Published
Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian in the city of Hyderabad, a police official told Reuters, drawing applause from her family.. Reuters - Published
The Hyderabad rape-murder case and Unnao gang rape case, the Kathua rape case, have all brought back the focus to the fact that women in India are just not unsafe. IndiaTimes - Published
Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who allegedly raped and killed a 27-year-old veterinarian in the city of Hyderabad, drawing applause from her family and many Indians outraged by a fresh.. Reuters - Published
"What happened this morning, has made me really happy. Hyderabad police killed all four accused in the rape and murder of a young veterinarian in an encounter. I would like to thank and congratulate.. IndiaTimes - Published
Locals who gathered at the spot of the encounter, chanted slogans of 'Police Zinadabad'. While some showered them with rose petals, others offered them sweets. DNA - Published
All four accused in the rape and murder of woman veterinarian in Telangana have been killed in an encounter with the police. Cops claimed they tried to escape while the crime scene was being.. IndiaTimes - Published
Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian in the southern city of Hyderabad last week, a senior police official told Reuters. Reuters - Published