Hyderabad

Hyderabad: A youngster, who attacked a girl for rejecting his proposal a month ago, died, allegedly by suicide, in his house at Jeedimetla on Tuesday night. B Prem Singh, 21, was found hanging to the ceiling fan in his house by his family members.  Singh was arrested last month after he barged into the house of a […]

Hyderabad: The first lung transplant surgery at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) was carried out on Wednesday when donor lungs from a brain dead 47-year-old daily wage earner, were transported through a green channel in the early hours from Medicover Hospitals, Madhapur to NIMS Punjagutta. Thanks to the green channel created by the city […]

Hyderabad: The threat posed by the latest coronavirus variant, Omicron, has prompted authorities here to postpone the Sunday Funday programme at Tank Bund. Urban Development Special Chief Secretary Arvind Kumar tweeted on Wednesday saying in view of the uncertainties regarding the new coronavirus variant and keeping precaution as a priority, the event would not be […]

Hyderabad: Breaking stereotypes and barriers, Jai Bharathi, founder, Moving Women Social Initiatives Foundation (MOWO), and her team travelled on two-wheelers across the country covering more than 20 cities and 11,111 km. Moving Borders Tour which went on for more than 40 days was organised by the MOWO in association with Shell Foundation and the UK […]

Hyderabad: The General Body Meeting of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will be held on December 18 and the Standing Committee meeting has been slated for December 8. Any infrastructure or development with a budget of more than Rs 2 crore taken up by the civic body has to be approved by the Standing Committee, […]

Hyderabad: The city, which has been witnessing cloudy skies and cold weather for the last few days, might soon get some light rains. This, according to a forecast from the India Meteorological Department, Hyderabad, is due to a depression forming over the Bay of Bengal which might intensify into a hurricane by December 2, causing […]

Hyderabad: TRS party Malkajgiri parliament constituency in-charge Marri Rajashekar Reddy, along with Labour Minister Ch Malla Reddy, on Tuesday, inaugurated the district science fair at Medchal Government Boys High School. The science fair has been designed and sponsored by Rajashekar Reddy and is being held in association with MLR Group of Institutions and the Institute […]

Hyderabad: Gattipally Shivalal might be just three feet when it comes to height, but he is standing tall in the dwarf community now by becoming the first dwarf in the country to earn a driving licence. The 42-year-old, who works at a private company in the city, saw the need to be self-reliant since it […]

Hyderabad: Realtor S Sreedhar Rao, who went on from getting bail in a cheating case into a wanted man in a sodomy case in just a few hours last Friday, now has a lookout notice issued against him. This means the cops and security agencies will be on the watch for him from all police […]

Hyderabad: In a bid to curb drug peddling and substance abuse in the State, the Telangana Police have developed a Drug Offenders Profiling Analysis and Monitoring System (DOPAMS) for profiling Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) cases. It will be supported by the CCTNS software being used by the State Police. DOPAMS will enable the […]

Hyderabad: Malla Reddy University (MRU) on Tuesday organised an orientation programme for para medical students. The programme was designed to help students get acquainted with the university and its structure. Addressing the students, Labour & Employment Minister Ch Malla Reddy urged the students to stay true to themselves and follow their dreams. Malla Reddy Health […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education on Tuesday said the vocational practical examinations IPE-2021 for Intermediate regular first year students of 2020-21 batch will be held as internal home examinations from December 3 to 7. The Board asked all principals of junior colleges offering vocational streams to inform students about a feasible time […]

Hyderabad: New guidelines to screen international arrivals from at-risk countries, where the new variant of SARS-CoV-2, Omicron, has been reported, has come into force at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad, from Tuesday midnight. Adequate manpower, including senior doctors, and infrastructure have been arranged by the State government to implement the new guidelines, which involves conducting […]

Hyderabad: A man, who raped a 16-year-old girl on the pretext of marriage four years ago, was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment by a local court. The court also imposed a fine of Rs. 2,000 on him. Odde Pochaiah alias Ashok, 22, a resident of Turkayamjal village in Adibatla, had befriended the victim […]

Hyderabad: The US Agency for International Development (USAID), President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, organised the premiere of the documentary ‘Mitr Clinic – Pride and Beyond’, featuring India’s first comprehensive health clinic for the transgender community in Hyderabad on November 30. The documentary showcases how USAID, the Government […]

Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) General Manager, Gajanan Mallya, undertook the annual inspection of the carriage workshop, Lallaguda, on Tuesday. He was accompanied by officials, including J K Jain, Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer and Prasoon Chakraborty, Carriage Workshop Manager, throughout the inspection. Some of the activities undertaken at the Lallaguda workshop include periodic overhauling […]

Hyderabad: A 19-year-old man died allegedly by suicide at his house in Shamshabad on Monday night. According to the police, Lakshimikanth Reddy, a resident of Raghavendra colony in Rallaguda under the RGIA police station limits, was living with his mother. He was reportedly into a relationship with a woman for the last few months. His […]

Hyderabad: The Jubilee Hills police registered a case against one person for posting a morphed photo of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Facebook. According to the police, the person with the Facebook profile under the name Krishna Reddy posted the picture and made defamatory and false comments about the Chief Minister. On a complaint […]

Hyderabad: An all-encompassing electric mobility solution by Hala Mobility was launched on Tuesday. The T-Hub-incubated startup which was part of the Lab32 project cohort 6 has unveiled its user application for customers. The application allows customers to book their rides, rentals, charging stations or service needs and it also showcased its keyless smart app. Founded […]

Hyderabad: Centre for Staff Training and Development of Dr BR Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU) in collaboration with Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) on Tuesday launched the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Online Course Development for SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds), an initiative Ministry of Education. Teachers of KG […]

Hyderabad: A 50-year-old man was murdered and the body was left in a car at Trimulgherry on Monday night. According to the police, the deceased was identified as Vijay Bhaskar Reddy, a resident of Alwal. Locals found the car parked in an open ground at Trimulgherry on Monday night and alerted the police, who on […]

Hyderabad: A woman was murdered, allegedly by her husband who was reportedly in an inebriated condition at their house in Maheshwaram on the city outskirts on Monday night. A dispute between the two is suspected to have led to the killing, police said. The couple, A Narasimha and A Mangamma (35), both natives of Kandukur, […]

Hyderabad: It was somewhere in the late 2000s that there was a sudden surge witnessed in the elevation of Indian-origin executives to head global multinationals and mostly tech giants. While Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella and Shantanu Narayen were made the CEO of Microsoft and Adobe respectively, many other India-born and Indian-origin executives rose the ranks to […]

Hyderabad: A total of 19 scientists from Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), have been featured in Stanford University’s Global Data Base of Top 2 per cent of the most cited researchers, according to a press release. Compared to other CSIR laboratories, the CSIR-IICT also tops the table with the highest number of scientists […]