With the UPA government giving finishing touches to the Telangana Bill and Hyderabad emerging as the most contentious issue, political parties are busy readying their moves. MIM President Asaduddin Owaisi and his brother
Crowd of devotees at Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, Kerala.
Body of Sreekumar, who died in the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College due to wrong blood transfusion, is being taken for inquest on Tuesday. Anil Kumar, brother of the deceased is seen on extreme left - DC/Peethambaran Payyeri
Kerala Minister V.S. Sivakumar hands over the revised encyclopedia to Cultural Secretary Rani George IAS in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and Minister K.C. Joseph are also seen - DC/A.V. Muzafar
Athlete Tintu Luka makes an appeal to Kerala CM Oommen Chandy for the offer of government land for her house after accepting GV Raja Award on Tuesday. K. Muraleedharan MLA is also seen - DC/Peethambaran Payyeri
National Patriotic Forum activists observing the 5th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks by lighting lamps at Marine Drive in Kochi on Tuesday - DC/Arunchandra Bose
Kerala CM Oommen Chandy inaugurated the Kudumba Shree Travels, a taxi line run by women drivers, in Thiruvanathapuram on Tuesday. Minister M.K. Muneer, MLA K. Muraleedharan are also seen - DC/A.V. Muzafar
Students and teachers of Naipunya Institute of Management and Information Technology near Angamali taking part in a cake mixing ceremony at the institute on Tuesday - DC/Arunchandra Bose
Lorry that fell on to a comfort station when the side wall of the road collapsed at Barton Hill in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. The driver and the locals in the comfort station miraculously escaped - DC/Peethambaran Payyeri
Actor Jayasurya cheers for the participants as he sits next to the timers during an event on the final day of the Kerala School Athletics Championship at the Maharaja's College ground in Kochi - DC/Sunoj Ninan Mathew
Anas Babu E.B. of St George HSS, Kothamangalam takes the gold in senior boys pole vault in the championship - DC/Sunoj Ninan Mathew
Olympian P.T. Usha hugs her trainee Jessy Joseph, who won the 800 metre run (Senior Girls) in record time in the Kerala School Athletics meet on Tuesday - DC/Sunoj Ninan Mathew
Athletes of St George School, Kothamangalam celebrate after winning the Best School title in the 57th Kerala School Athletics Championship at the Maharaja's College ground in Kochi on Tuesday - DC/Sunoj Ninan Mathew
Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah and Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa during a meeting at Rajbhavan in Chennai on Tuesday.
Prime Minister's Advisor T.K.A. Nair releasing a souvenir along with others at the STICON 2013, a convention on tiny and small industries, organised by Tamil Nadu Small and Tiny Industries Association, in Chennai on Tuesday.
The Board of TVS Group Company, Sundaram Clayton Ltd, has decided to confer certain additional responsibilities on Lakshmi Venu, the daughter of TVS Motor Company Chairman, Venu Srinivasan and daughter-in-law of Infosys Chairman Narayanamurthy.
A powerful bomb explosion Tuesday night in a coastal village close to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant left five people, including three children, dead on the spot. Picture shows a blast victim undergoing treatment at a government hospital in
Devotees take part in Deepotsava of Mursaveermath in Hubli, Karnataka on Tuesday.
Members of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike stage a protest at Mysore Bank Circle in Bangalore on Tuesday against the Maharashtra Ekikarana Samiti (MES) MLA Sambaji Lakshman Patil on his speech in non-Kannada languages during winter session at the Suvarna
Dipankar Bose of SBI felicitates actor Shwetha Shrivatsav, writer Dr Channaveera Kanavi and table tennis player Archana Vishwanat during a Kannada Rajyotsava celebration organised by State Bank of India at ADA Rangamandira in Bangalore on Tuesday.
Members of Green India Organisation take part in a condolence rally to commemorate victims, who lost their lives in 2008 Mumbai terror attack, on the 5th anniversary of the attack in Mysore on Tuesday.
"I will continue to sit on dharna in the well of the House unless the Siddaramaiah Government extends Shaadi Bhagya Yojana to all communities," Yeddyurappa, who is the Karnataka Janatha Paksha supremo, told reporters.
KJP President B.S. Yeddyurappa continued with his dharna in the well of the Karnataka Assembly on Tuesday during winter session at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belgaum on Tuesday demanding extension of ‘Shaadi Bhagya’ scheme to all community BPL
Firemen carry the body of Padma, 45, recovered from the debris of a collapsed house in Bangalore on Tuesday. <a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/131126/news-current-affairs/gallery/bangalore-building-collapse-pictures">Click here for more</a>
An earthmover works to clear the debris of a collapsed house as it looks for survivors in Bangalore on Tuesday. Five persons including a 18-month old girl were buried alive when their house collapsed after incessant rains over the last few days in
Picture shows Burmese children standing next to the kits stacked at the relief camp - DC/P.Surendra
Members of Hyderabad Zakat and Charitable Trust distributing kits containing food grains and other essential items to the Burmese people at a relief camp in Balapur near Hyderabad on Tuesday - DC/P.Surendra
Farmers show to TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu their paddy crop damaged in the destruction caused by Cyclone Helen in a village in West Godavari district on Tuesday.
Jagan is seen hugging an elderly woman in this picture.
Jagan also consoled elderly women and interacted with them during the visit.
YSR Congress President Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy interacting with farmers, who lost their standing crops in the destruction caused by cyclone Helen, in Cheyyeru village in East Godavari district on Tuesday.
Two Nigerians held in fraud case produced at a press conference at CP office. Police seized SIM cards and mobile phones from them - DC/S.Surender Reddy
Colors Dhaba (earlier name is Sony Dhaba) at Bowenpally is being demolished by the Cantonment officials in Hyderabad on Tuesday - DC/S. Surender Reddy
A woman, who was attacked by an unknown robber in her house at Jillalguda of Meerpet in Hyderabad, speaks to media on Tuesday. The offender got into the house on pretext of wanting to take the house for rent and snatched away the woman's gold chain
A BJP delegation led by Venkaiah Naidu submitting a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for immediate release of input subsidy for crops damaged by the cyclones, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The Congress leaders from Telangana briefed the media outside Raj Bhavan after they met the Governor E.S.L. Narsimhan in Hyderabad - DC/S.Surender Reddy
Congress Ministers from Telangana called on Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan on Tuesday.
Congress President Botsa Satyanarayana seen along with other party leaders at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
Iran is looking at investments from other countries worth USD 120 billion in various sectors, the leader of an Iranian trade delegation said, according to a press release issued by the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (
An Iranian delegation, led by Yahya Ale-es Hagh, President of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture called on Major Industries Minister Dr J Geetha Reddy at the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
Kiran Kumar Reddy also inaugurated 'Solar Photovoltaic System' on the roof top of his Camp Office in Hyderabad on Tuesday. <a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/131127/news-current-affairs/article/ap-cms-camp-office-gets-solar-energy">Read on here</a>
Andhra Pradesh CM N. Kiran Kumar Reddy in a meeting with government officials reviewing the preparations to face the cyclone storm Lehar which is expected to hit the AP coast on November 28, Thursday.
Asadudidn Owaisi recently met the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh to strongly oppose any move to make Hyderabad a Union Territory or joint capital of the two states.
Andhra Pradesh and South India in pictures: November 26