The Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) is spearheading a region-wide bandh in Telangana today. Security has been tightened all over the area, including in Hyderabad. 165 trains and 5,200 buses have been cancelled.
Mount Opera, an amusement park in Hayat Nagar, has been attacked, and there has been a lathicharge in the area. Shamshabad saw a rally by the JAC, post which around 100 of its members were arrested.
There are disturbances in other parts of Telangana as well. A cell tower was destroyed in Thorrur mandal in Warangal, and in Karimnagar, a bank has been attacked.
3 students from the Osmania University who have been fasting for a separate Telangana state are in a serious condition in Gandhi hospital, but have locked themselves inside, preventing doctors from coming in.
The JAC is a body of students and activists, and politicians who hail from all political parties, with a common aim of separate statehood for Telangana.