Showing posts with label telangana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label telangana. Show all posts

Friday, December 11, 2009

Indian plan to create new state hits businesses














MUMBAI: A unit of global drug maker GlaxoSmithKline temporarily halted operations in India's Andhra Pradesh state on Friday as the fallout from a government plan to carve up the southern state mounted.

India's Congress-led government approved a plan on Thursday to create a new state called Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh, home to high-tech Hyderabad city, after more than a week of violent protests and a hunger strike by a leading politician.