6 Assassination Attempts that Almost F#@ked the World

We could play the what-if game all day. "What if Hitler had really been killed in the Operation Valkyrie assassination plot?" Answer: Not a hell of a lot would be different.

But that's not always the case. Some assassination attempts have come dangerously close to changing the world in horrifying ways. We're not saying we'd be living in a land of breakdancing dinosaurs and chocolate flavored rainbows if a few things had gone the other way ... we're just saying we might all be Nazis.

#6.

The Kaplan Incident

The Target:

Vladimir Lenin

If Successful:

The Nazis would have won World War II.

Fanny Kaplan, besides sounding like an LSAT prep teacher slash old-time burlesque dancer, was a political revolutionary during the Bolshevik Revolution. Unfortunately for her, she wasn't a Bolshevik, but a Socialist Revolutionary and her party was banned by Lenin shortly after he came into power. Already a little messed up in the head from a stint in a Siberian prison, Fanny figured assassinating Vladimir Lenin would be the perfect way to get her party back on track.

So she fired three shots at him on August 30, 1918. He survived the assassination attempt, and showed her what was what by having her and a few thousand others assassinated three days later.

But What if She Succeeded?

The Bolshevik Revolution would have collapsed. And the Nazis would have won WWII.

By 1918, Lenin's ability to inspire crowds and his willingness to kill the crap out of anyone who opposed him was the only thing keeping the loose factions of the newly triumphant Bolsheviks together. Especially since his Czar-loving opposition, awesomely called the White Russians, were backed by the better funded Allies.

Delicious, delicious opposition.

Without Lenin, the White Russians would have won the struggle for control of Russia, and a non-communist, possibly even democratic government would have eventually emerged. So Joseph Stalin wouldn't have been around to kill tens of millions of Russian people, which would have been super, but there also would have been no "Uncle Joe" to drag Russia kicking and screaming into modernity so that they could have the military badassery to kill eight out of every 10 Germans that died in WWII.

Of course, that also means Hitler's ill-fated invasion of Russia may have been a raging success, providing the Nazis with the much needed manpower, raw materials and crops they needed to win the war. So, yeah, thanks Fanny. Thanks for failing.

You know your country's in for some hard times when "not shooting the tyrant" is the best option.

#5.

Giuseppe Zangara and The Man in The High Castle

The Target:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

If Successful:

A Fascist planet.

In February 1933, America was in the anaconda vice hold of the Depression and Franklin Roosevelt was less than a month away from his first inauguration. But a five-foot tall bricklayer named Giuseppe Zangara nearly undid the 20th century when he showed up at an FDR speech in Miami with the intention (we think) of killing the president-elect.

Fortunately, Zangara was so short that he had to stand on a wobbly folding chair to get his shot, which missed. Then the surrounding crowd knocked the short out of him as Zangara fired wildly in FDR's general direction.

Awww.

But What if He Succeeded?

Aside from the tragic loss of one of the most influential figures in history, how would the assassination of FDR have affected everyday life as we know it? According to one expert, we'd be living in something out of a science fiction novel. In fact, somebody did write a science-fiction novel about it, and he was none other than the legendary Philip K. Dick.

In 1963's The Man in the High Castle, Dick imagined the assassination of FDR as a "point of divergence," in history, triggering a domino of events starting with a weak Vice President Garner taking office. Unlike FDR, Garner maintains the stance of isolationism through the war. The Allies lose without America's help and, shortly thereafter, the Axis powers turn their attention to conquering the U.S. Which they do, in 1948.

Because Hitler's still alive, but debilitated by syphilis (?), his under-Fuhrer is the guy who starts rolling out the Mein Kampf agenda. Specifically, the eradication of the world's inferior races. And, oh yeah, Germany's unstoppable rocket program gets the Swastika on the moon, Mars and Venus, which is important because colonizing the solar system with National Socialism is all the rage.

You try weathering a Venusian summer without short shorts.

If looking at the Axis map below isn't enough to thank your god for Giuseppe Zangara's height/aim/planning deficiencies, then you're either a Fascist or maybe you just think Philip K. Dick was full of shit.

Basically everybody's Fascist but Canada.

#4.

Kyujo Incident

The Target:

Japanese Emperor Hirohito and other officials, when they were on the verge of surrendering WWII.

If Successful:

Japan would be a barren wasteland.

By mid-August 1945, the war in the Pacific was just about over. The USSR had bounced Japan's ass out of Manchuria; Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still smoldering; and Emperor Hirohito was finally ready to announce he was going to call it a day and surrender.

But not everyone on Team Japan was cool with surrendering to the Allies. So officers of the War Ministry and the Imperial Guard concocted the plan to prevent Hirohito's announcement of surrender, namely by assassinating all of the peaceniks except for the emperor, who would be placed under "protective custody."

Then the plan would be to broadcast an alternate speech declaring Japan's intention to fight down to the last man, woman and child. Fortunately, four officers went A-Team on the conspirators' asses and the whole shebang fell apart at the last minute.

But What if They Succeeded?

Japan would be a barren wasteland. And we'd all probably be radioactive mutants.

Had Hirohito not surrendered, the Allies would have implemented Operation Downfall, an apocalyptic plan that would have resulted in millions of Allied casualties and tens of millions of Japanese casualties. One military planner estimated that SEVEN atomic bombs would have been ready for detonation by X-Day, which was scheduled for November 1, 1945.

And as if this scenario wasn't horrific enough, the U.S. had absolutely no idea what the fuck they were doing with nuclear warfare, and were prepared to send troops into ground zero with no radiation gear whatsoever only 48-hours after the atomic bombings.

And don't think that it would have just been American troops dropping into Radiationland. Allied troops from Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand would have also been invited to the poison party.

Keep your nukes close, and your infantry closer.

And then they'd all have gone home and got started on that baby boom we've heard so much about. Would the next generation have been born with grotesque deformities? Or superpowers?

The world will never know.

The Spanish Armada Fails to Off Elizabeth I

The Target:

Queen Elizabeth I

If Successful:

The U.S.A. would not exist.

Way back in 1588, England was just an isolated island with a lot of enemies and Spain was the undisputed champion of the New World. But Spanish King Philip wanted more, specifically he wanted his kid on the throne in England and to make it Catholic. Which meant he needed Elizabeth I out of the way.

Peace.

So like all dads hoping to usurp the last Protestant heir to the House of Tudors, Philip built up an Armada to get the deed done. Unfortunately for him, poor planning and shitty weather got his Armada's ass kicked all around the British Isles. To this day England credits their win to the notion that God is a Protestant.

But What If They Succeeded?

Viva los Estados Unidos!

Or something like that. Had Phillip successfully wiped out Elizabeth, the ongoing Catholicism versus Protestantism death match would have ended with a bloody Elizabeth/Protestant England knocked out cold and a victorious Philip/Catholic Spain doing a salsa-infused victory dance around the ring/Europe.

Spain is here represented by Don Flamenco.

The implications of a Spanish victory over England would have been huge. Like, we all speak Spanish now, huge.

Instead, the Armada was defeated and England was on its way to dominance. Had the Armada landed, Philip would have eradicated Protestantism, which would have meant no funding of English religious colonies in the New World, no British empire (in fact, no United Kingdom at all) and, of course, no American Revolution.

Instead, Spain would have continued their takeover of the New World, but with an undefeated navy backing up their endeavors. Not only would Europe and North America have been dominated by Spain, but the destruction of the Protestant faith would have probably knocked out the Enlightenment as well, because the non-Catholic arm of the Christian church was a little more open to new ideas back then. So we'd all be getting our science from the Creation Museum. In Spanish.

#2.

The Gunpowder Plot

The Target:

King James I and Parliament

If Successful:

The U.S.A. would not exist even more than in that last entry.

On November 5, 1605, a handful of pissed-off British Catholics thought they'd get the religious tolerance ball rolling by blowing up King James I and Parliament. The plan was simple: get 36 barrels of gunpowder in the basement of the House of Lords, light it, run, assume the revolution was underway.

Google Image result for "The Revolution."

Except the revolution never even got their drum machine set up, because Protestant James was tipped off about his pending assassination days before. Conspirators were subsequently discovered and executed in horrific Saw-like manners.

But What if They Had Succeeded?

The U.S.A. wouldn't exist (not as you know it, anyway).

The idea, according to some historians, is that the act of terrorism would have actually sparked a whale of a backlash against the country's Catholics. Like, Salem Witch Hunts where targets aren't accused of sexing it up with the Devil, but religioning it up WITH THE POPE.

As it played out, King James' son Charles went pretty easy on the Catholics and reversed a lot of anti-Catholic policies. But in this alternate universe where Catholic terrorists blew up his dad, you can imagine how that would have changed things.

That Charles would've gone bananas for Protestantism, probably turning England into a hard-lined Protestant absolute monarchy. England would have become one of the most frigid, God-fearing, stuck-up places on the planet, thus making the whole voyage of the Mayflower unnecessary--the Puritans would have had no reason to leave.

Without the Mayflower, we wouldn't have the Mayflower Compact, the document that established a watered down form of democracy in the colonies. And without a thriving, orderly, colonial system to develop the continent, the U.S.A. would have likely remained a Loose Collection of Multinational Settlements.

L-C-M-S! L-C-M-S! These colors don't run!

Spanish, French, Russians, Native Americans and Dutch settlements, to be precise.

So just when you start wondering if America totally made a deal with the Devil (or God?) to thwart these "the U.S.A. would never have happened" assassination scenarios, we're going to submit another one. Behold:

#1.

The Tory Conspiracy

The Target:

George Washington

If Successful:

The British would have won the Revolutionary War, the U.S.A. would not... well, you know.

On June 21, 1776 several pro-British Americans, or Tories, were implicated in a plot to assassinate General Washington and recruit enough Loyalists to take on the Yankee army. Included in the conspiracy were several of Washington's personal bodyguards, as well as the ex-governor of New York and then current mayor of New York City.

Only one conspirator, Thomas Hickey, was actually put on trial for treason. He was executed in front of no less than 20,000 spectators one whole week after the plot was discovered. And thus American Justice was born.

But What if They Succeeded?

The British would have won the Revolutionary War.

By most accounts, the Continental Army should have lost the war anyway. But without Washington's leadership of the underfunded, under clothed farmer-soldiers and his brilliant strategy of avoiding major battles whenever possible, the revolution would have ended in a short, sputtering anti-climatic disaster.

Especially since most of the entire army nearly called it quits at the end of their enlistment terms in December of 1776. It was Washington's charisma and handsome jowls that persuaded them to continue on. And when they did, he had congress change their enlistment terms so that they'd stick around for the length of the war. Without him and Monsieur King Louis, the British would've had thrashed the colonies in short order.

Alternate Universe America, January, 2010.

Source: http://www.cracked.com/article/18360_6-assassination-attempts-that-almost-f2340ked-world_p2

Jolie's Hips make girls look younger!!!!

Women, who have full, firm lips like those of Angelina Jolie’s, look much younger than they really are, a study has Revealed.



Jolie’s lips have been voted the most desirable in the world in a poll where women longed to look like the beautiful actress. Researchers believe that even if a woman gets wrinkles and her hair loses its sheen and begins to grey, fuller lips can save the day.

The experts also found why lips become shrivelled or stay firm is mainly determined by genes not just external causes like sun damage. The findings of the Unilever study at seven world universities appear to confirm that a full pout is a key sign of sexual allure, reports the Daily Express .

Previous studies have also determined facial attractiveness is a combination of large eyes and full lips as well as the relationship between the face contour and the eyes, mouth and nose. Lip shrinkage usually begins between the ages of 30 and 40.

'3' Idiots

R Madhavan cannot stop smiling after scoring a huge hit in 3 Idiots, co-starring Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Sharman Joshi.

The actor's performance has been much appreciated, and Bollywood seems to have opened its doors even wider to him.

He tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf how his life has changed after the film's release.

How is life after the success of 3 Idiots?

I think we moved from happiness to supreme happiness to ecstasy. Now, we're numb. I don't know how to react any more because the film has broken Sholay's record. It has touched people the way we expected it to. I have seldom met someone, who has not seen the film more than once. So obviously, the film has stuck a chord somewhere. I think (director) Raju Hirani is the true superstar of the film.

But how has your life changed after its release?

Let us put this way: I cannot eat paani puri on the road. But I'm not complaining.

People have come and told me that they could open up and speak to their fathers in real life just like my character, Farhan Qureshi did in 3 Idiots.

Ambani Brothers Hand In Ysr Death ?

Rumors getting spicy with the news that the death of Ap Chief Minister Y s Rajshekar Reddy is not an accident but an assassination and a murder .

A local news channel reportedly based on a Russian magazine telecasted the news that ysr was murdered with a great planning and the culprits are none other than Reliance Brothers Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani.

As the the record in the black box hasn’t revealed till now which is suspicious is being the oil for the fire to make the rumor stronger. It is said that Mareppa heard some unofficial talk regarding the black box material stating that YSR shouted and also quarreled with pilot. But that is kept under wraps as big names may come out” and Mareppa himself stated this in his interview.

It is said that Reliance is allegedly involved in the sabotage of the helicopter that carried him to his fateful death, reports a news channel TV5. The Godavari Gas Basin issue is supposedly the bone of contention.

Congress workers and ysr followers are now on a rampage and state-wide Reliance outlets and offices have been forcibly shut down.

Meanwhile we have seen a article of a blogger making is analysis of ysr death and its reasons as follows ….

many people think that YSR died accidentally and few think that Sonia Gandhi got him killed.
But fact is different !
in Godavari basin, 38 lakh crores worth of natural gas and oil reserves were found.
Reliance group asked for that contract on which CM of AP had to sign.
YSR asked for 5000 crores as bribe before elections.
Mukesh Ambani offered only 200 crores.
YSR refused and the matter went to sonia gandhi.
She called upon YSR and warned him not to play with ambani’s mafia network.
She already was furious on YSR for making large amounts in AP but not giving them to party for elections.
So Ambani guys gave 100CR to mafia and sonia , inspite of knowing this , kept quiet.
Now she made dummy Rosaiah who will sign on any papers for his life.

YS Jagan wanted CM post but Sonia knew that this young fellow is more head strong and adamant than his father so she didnt allow him.
Now he funded both KCR(500 crores) and Lagadapati(1500 crores) to make pro-telangana and pro-samaikyandha agitations and disturb rosaiah’s govt.
They both paid other MLAs, corporators, student unions and few rowdy gangs to create nuisance in state.
Sonia enquired about all this and now exposed N.D.Tiwari (his videos were shot much before elections when he rejected mining contract to a pimp from UP, but they waited for right time to change governer) and wantedly brough narasimhan, who is ex- intelligence bureau chief.
Now Sonia gandhi expects narasimhan to kill every one who creates nuisance in state and restore rosaiah’s position till 2014

However this article was written a couple of days back before the rumors has been tele casted and to co incidence this is the same as the rumors going on….

The russian magazine website is now down for some reasons and this is also said to be a plan of reliance brothers.

The 5 Most Predictable Aviation Disasters of All-Time

We take air travel for granted, but sending massive amounts of machinery hurtling into the air is still a risky endeavor. Sometimes, things go wrong and you find yourself on the business end of an emergency landing in the Hudson River.

The worst part is, you just never can tell when disaster is going to strike. Well, maybe sometimes you can...

#5.

First Hot Air Balloon Flight Ends in Tears (and Explosions)

On September 19th 1783, a sheep, a cockerel and a duck embarked on an untethered hot air balloon ride from the front courtyard of the Palace of Versailles. Incredibly, that's actual history and not the opening line of a joke.

The mastermind behind this animal-tastic adventure was Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier. Prior to sending a bunch of farm animals off to their inexplicably avoided death in a hot air balloon (how he get them back down to Earth is anyone's guess), Monsieur Rozier was renowned for his research in flight technology.

Rare photo of Monsieur Rozier

After his first foray into balloon flight resulted in zero animal deaths, Rozier concluded that there was no reason humans shouldn't be all up in hot air balloons also. With one unprecedented win under his belt already, he was able to convince King Louis XVI to allow him and a nobleman named Francois Laurent d'Arlandes to become the first human untethered hot air balloon pilots.

After several successful flights, Rozier decided that he was above the laws of physics and logic and decided to make a trip across the English Channel using what he dubbed his "hybrid balloon." The balloon featured two compartments. One was heated by an open flame which was fueled by brandy, a fact we have deemed to be completely fucking rad.

Dad called it fuel for a reason

Rozier decided to foolishly fill the other compartment with highly combustible Hydrogen instead of the more reasonable choice, Helium, just because that element wouldn't be discovered for another fifty years. Besides, who has time for determining the capacity for explosiveness when there are awesome hot air balloon flights to embark on?

Roughly fifteen minutes into the English Channel flight, the flame and the hydrogen predictably found each other and joined forces to form a Voltron like explosion of awesome and carelessness. Surprisingly, the explosion wasn't fatal, but that 1,500 foot plummet to the unforgiving ground beneath them most certainly was.

Of course, the lesson the world learned from this was that there had to be much more awesome ways to go down in one of these things. Like...

#4.

First Female Balloonist Ends In... Well, Guess

Throughout history, there have been women who have attempted to carry on their husbands' work after he passed on. Not a problem if the husband was a day laborer or a prostitute or something. But in the case of Marie Blanchard, her husband was a goddamned balloon pilot. Not exactly the kind of thing you just pick up on the fly (GET IT?!?!?).

You think they just give out these babies?

Nevertheless, after Blanchard's husband died from a heart attack (followed by a fall from a hot air balloon, of course) in 1809, Marie continued his rich tradition of balloon demonstrations. Though inexperienced in balloon piloting, she made up for it with an even more astounding failure to understand anything at all about combustible gasses and what happens when you shoot off fireworks around them.

Don't even act like you don't want to keep reading now.

One night (yes, night) Marie took her balloon into the air and, figuring that piloting a flying death trap in the dark wasn't crazy enough, decided to launch fireworks from the balloon. Fireworks! Within minutes, Marie let one fly too close to the balloon and the flame ignited the hydrogen inside.

Wait 'til you land before celebrating

After an undoubtedly flamboyant fall from the sky, Marie caught a break and landed on the roof of a building. But to the horror of the crowd below, she then slipped from the roof to the street below where her neck caught a far less lucky break. Marie not only earned the distinction of being the first woman balloon pilot, but also the honor of being the first woman to die in one.

#3.

The Flying Flea

Would you fly in a plane designed by a man hell bent on convincing the world that flight science was a scam? Of course you would, because flying is awesome. If you don't believe us, look no further than the story of Henry Mignet (we chose to link to that site mostly for the bitchin' background music).

During WWI, he convinced a friend of his in the French Air Force to let him taxi a plane (the driving portion of a flight before takeoff). For most people, this would be enough. For Mignet, it was not. He decided to add a little bit of the ol' "let's gun this bitch and see if we can fly it" to the end of his taxi maneuvering. Not surprisingly, he crashed. This was the moment he decided flight science is a scam.

"This is bullshit!"

To alleviate this, he designed his own "aircraft," dubbed it The Sky Louse and released the design to the public.

Mignet's original "Sky Kill PainCopter" was deemed impractical

According to people that have actually built them, the Louse resembles a coffin with a motor on front and is constructed from spare wood, nails, glue and a motorcycle engine. Look for a KISS version to be available sometime next year. Interestingly, the Louse contains none of the conventional features of an airplane such as rudder pedals or engine cowls. It does, however, contain an extra (albeit unnecessary) set of wings behind the cockpit.

Upon its release, the numerous people that built and tried to fly them (as if you wouldn't have) found that if they sent the plane into a steep enough nose dive, the Louse would lock into that position and crash. As far as why people continued this experiment after the first few times, we have no idea.

#2.

Better off Wet

If you asked an old-school airplane designer to draw you a picture of an airplane, you would HOPE it looked like this:

And in fact that was made by designer Gianni Caproni, who designed perfectly normal and functioning planes...until he decided to throw all of his design experience to the wind and design a plane that looked like this:

Holy shit! There are many words that come to mind when looking at the picture above (Photoshop being among them), but we assure you, it's real. Rather than design a plane that resembled designs he knew worked, Caproni decided to build a plane that would allow us to laugh at him 88 years later.

Question: If you call a plane with two wings a bi-plane, what is a plane with nine wings called?

Answer: Hilarious.

Built from a houseboat, Caproni intended for the Caproni Ca.60 to be a 100-passenger transatlantic machine of awesome and excellence, something unheard of in the early 1900's. But still, Caproni had very few naysayers. Given his fame as a designer, it would have been like telling Henry Ford, "Honestly, that whole gas thing is probably a mistake."

Ford to naysayers: Go fuck yourselves

Unsurprisingly, the Caproni Ca. 60 made only made one flight. And by "flight" we mean "it lumbered its way to a cruising altitude of 60 feet before crashing to the ground and shattering just 15 seconds later. Somehow, Caproni survived. Even more impressive is the fact that his reputation pretty much came out intact also.

#1.

The Gimli Glider

In 1983, Canada had recently switched from the British Imperial system of measurements to the Metric System like a bunch of weirdos. During a preflight check, Captain Robert Pearson discovered the fuel gauge had malfunctioned. As this was one of only four all computerized planes in Canada's fleet (they have six now), Pearson contacted Air Canada's Maintenance Control and asked what to do, as the plane no longer conformed to the MEL (minimum equipment list).

Rather than telling him to cancel the flight, they told him the plane was fine to fly as long as he was certain he had enough fuel. As Canada had only recently switched to that newfangled Metric System thing, Pearson had a difficult task ahead of him.

He knew two things to start with. 1) He needed 22,300 Kg of fuel to get to his destination and 2) there were 7,682 liters of fuel already in the tanks. In order to know how much fuel he needed, Pearson had to know how many liters are in a kilogram. With his back against the wall, Pearson turned to the most obvious source of mathematical information...the guy driving the fuel truck. The number they came up with was 1.77.

Not a mathematician

Unfortunately for Pearson, he and the man driving the gas truck were only partially right. 1.77 is the correct number if you are converting liters to POUNDS. In order to get kilograms, you multiply by .8. In other words, Flight 143 had 20,302 pounds in its tank. And because a pound weighs less than half of what a kilogram does, the plane didn't even have half of the fuel it needed.

When the first engine failed, Pearson planned to land at the nearest major airport, but when the fuel ran out completely a few minutes later, Pearson made an even emergencier landing at an abandoned Air Force base in Gimli.

When he arrived, he was forced to land a 300,000 "glider" at an abandoned air force base that, it turned out, was not abandoned. There was a drag race being held there that day. No one bothered to tell the pilot that, probably figuring a bunch of drag racers were acceptable collateral damage.

Luckily, only a few passengers were injured and no one was killed. For his unbridled weights and measurements prowess, Pearson received a medal. And a suspension from Air Canada, which is probably just as good as a medal.

Starting a new sort of business

As everybody know about the software companies, we are working with them and we are paid salaries. But the scenario is like they think we are working under them. And that makes us very vexed if we are under some pressure from work and affecting our personal life. I was experiencing this since the past three months. I was able to cope up with work and due to which my personal life was about to go out of control.

So to deviate myself from all the hurdles and achieve something big (just a dream) I have started taking steps to establish a business where we put our skills to develop a culture which is not like a corporate. I have started a website http://www.verticalinfoedge.com/ with the help of my friends and the circle I have. I got some projects pipe lined and am yet to get start.

Am actually feeling better after deviating myself to the other things. After the big start, I am doing great in my personal life too. So, guys whenever you feel your life is looking something different, do something different in life, may be it succeeds, who knows??? But am sure you will get some peace outta it.

KCR sinking, Parliament urges him to break fast

Andhra Pradesh has been put on high alert as Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K Chandrashekhar Rao's health continues to deteriorate.

Rao's deteriorating health and the agitation for a separate state of Telangana also echoed in Parliament on Wednesday as both the Houses debated the issue with MPs urging him to break his fast and insisting that the Centre look into the matter urgently.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also spoke to MPs from Andhra Pradesh and expressed concern over KCR's health

While Lok Sabha MPs asked Centre to intervene and resolve the Telangana tangle, in Rajya Sabha Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs forced an adjournment on the issue.

"We are very concerned about KCR's health. I on behalf of every body would appeal to him that we are as concerned about Telangana but we are also concerned about his health," said BJP MP and Leader of Opposition LK Advani.

"Andhra situation is very explosive. Government should have taken note of it as it erupted," said Janata Dal (United) President Sharad Yadav.

Congress MP Jaipal Reddy also appealed to KCR to end his hunger strike.

Rao, popularly know as KCR, has been on hunger strike for the past 11 days demanding that a state of Telangana be carved out of Andhra Pradesh.

Doctors attending KCR at the state-run Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in Hyderabad are trying to convince him to break his fast.

"He (KCR) is not cooperating. He is refusing anti-biotics and IV. He is conscious but very weak," said a doctor attending KCR. He added that till now KCR's vitals signs were stable.

A medical bulletin issued by NIMS said that though KCR was conscious and speaking, but he has been refusing to take medicines and antibiotics.

Doctors said that if he did not take food and medicines, his condition would start to deteriorate.

Meanwhile, police have begun a crackdown on protestors in Hyderabad and forcibly evicted students from Osmania University hostels in Hyderabad on Wednesday morning.

TRS protestors and students also clashed with police outside the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Wednesday morning.

There was an uproar in the Andhra Assembly on Telangana issue for the second day on Wednesday with Speaker Kiran Kumar Reddy first adjourning the House for 15 minutes and then for the entire day.

Chief Minister K Rosaiah appealed to the MLAs to let the Assembly function claiming that Centre was considering the issue of a separate Telangana state but TRS MLAs supported by BJP and the Communist Party of India (CPI) gathered near the Speaker’s podium shouting slogans forcing the adjournment.

Andhra Opposition leaders including Telugu Desam party chief N Chandrababu naidu also appealed to KCR to end his fast.

Rosaiah will also be coming to Delhi on Wednesday to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi and discuss the issue.

Prohibitory orders banning the assembly of five or more people at a place under Section 144) of the Code of Criminal Procedure will also clamped by 1800 hrs IST in all 10 districts of Telangana including Hyderabad.

Andhra Pradesh government has shut down all universities, colleges and hostels in the region till December 19 to pre-empt the Assembly Chalo (march to the Assembly) rally called by the TRS and the students unions on Wednesday.

"We hope that people who are intending to come and lay siege on the Assembly will be prevented. We will try and see that there will not be any violence and there will no inconvenience to the general public," said Hyderabad Police Commissioner B Prasada Rao.

"We are getting inputs that anti-social elements will be mixing with the protestors to create unrest. We will be deploying heavy forces, special police and paramilitary forces. Osmania University is on a 15 day holiday. We will make sure that the students vacate the hostels," added Rao.

There has been heavy deployment of security forces in Telangana region including Hyderabad with authorities having called in 8,000 policemen. Rapid Action Force and Central Reserve Police Force platoons have also been deployed in the region.

Police officials say the heavy deployment has been necessitated because TRS is planning to bring in its supporters from neighbouring districts and for the Assembly Chalo rally on Thursday.

Security forces have also set up check points at all entry points in Hyderabad to prevent Telangana supporters from entering the city.

Senior Congress leaders in Delhi including Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram have been keeping a close watch on the Telangana agitation in Andhra Pradesh and are also in contact with leaders from the state to finds a solution.