Hyderabad

Hyderabad: You may have booked seats for your favourite movie. Now, Hyderabad’s techies are seeing a different kind of advance booking, with many tech firms bringing in the concept of booking a workstation in advance in case an employee decides to work from office. With the hybrid model of working taking over the IT sector, […]

Hyderabad: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Balvinder Singh the Promoter – Director of the PCH Corporation Ltd and other PCH group companies under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in a case relating to defrauding banks to the tune of Rs 370 crore. Balvinder Singh was arrested on Tuesday. He was produced before […]

Hyderabad: Uppal MLA Bethi Subhas Reddy was penalised of Rs 1.2 lakh by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) for setting up advertisement elements and banners. The GHMC’s Directorate of Enforcement Vigilance & Disaster Management (EVDM) imposed the penalty on Thursday for unauthorised advertisement elements and banners that were set up in Habsiguda. The issue […]

Hyderabad: In a novel initiative to improve mother and child healthcare services, the Telangana government has decided to add one more layer of high-end Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facilities for children below 16 years by establishing specialised Paediatric ICUs in all the 33 districts with a cost of Rs 86.90 crore. As part of the […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s popular annual trade fair ‘Numaish’, which was abruptly shut down a day after inauguration on January 6 due to surge in Covid-19 cases, is likely to be reopened later this month. With health authorities declaring that the third phase of the pandemic is over in the state, All India Industrial Exhibition Society, the […]

Hyderabad: Announcing a passenger friendly offer, the TSRTC on Thursday said passengers could now travel in AC Garuda plus buses on par with AC Rajadhani buses fares with immediate effect. In a press release issued here, TSRTC VC&MDVC Sajjanar said these fares were applicable in scheduled services as well as special services operating to Medaram […]

Hyderabad: The foundation stone for Strategic Nala Development Programme (SNDP) works, being taken up with an estimated cost of Rs 12.86 crore, was laid at Erragadda by Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav on Thursday. “The nala running from AG Colony to Sanath Nagar is 2,423 metres long and currently with Rs 12.86 crore, 830 […]

Hyderabad: As part of the ongoing special demolition drive taken up by Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority along with District Task Forces and Urban Local Bodies under Commissioner & Director of Municipal Administration, four unauthorised structures were demolished on Thursday. A two-storied building on a land parcel measuring 800 square yards and a six-storied building on […]

Hyderabad: A history-sheeter triggered panic in the city for a couple of hours before being caught by the Golconda police from the emergency ward of a hospital on Wednesday night. Fareed alias Khaja Fareed (27), a resident of Nampally allegedly involved in 16 cases, was suffering from mental health issues as well. On Wednesday around […]

Hyderabad: A major effort to tackle the threat of urban flooding is progressing across the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits with 52 works under the Strategic Nala Development Programme (SNDP) being underway at a brisk pace. Seventeen of these works are being executed on a war footing and tenders have been floated for the remaining […]

Hyderabad: Two persons were awarded life imprisonment by a local court for raping a 70-year-old woman at Malkajgiri three years ago. The men, Chinnappa Anthony George (50) and Nenavath Ajay Kumar (53), both painters noticed the victim at a bus-stop on December 17, 2019 at Malkajgiri and took her to their house. “Anthony and Ajay […]

Hyderabad: Nights in Hyderabad could get colder. Weather experts predict that the night temperature in Hyderabad, and a few neighbouring districts, is likely to dip by three to five degrees over the weekend. Looking at the situation, India Meteorological Department, Hyderabad, has issued a yellow alert for the city and other districts. An average minimum […]

Hyderabad: BioAsia, Asia’s largest life-sciences and healthcare forum, will be held virtually on February 24 and 25. This year, the 19th edition of the event, will deliberate on the pandemic, the learnings, progress made so far and also discuss on the future of healthcare to support and enable global collective recovery to pivot beyond the […]

Hyderabad: Fine dining restaurants seem to be all the rage in Hyderabad right now. Another luxury dining restaurant called Voila opened its doors in Road No. 36, Jubilee Hills recently and is grabbing many eyeballs for not only its plush interiors and décor, but also its unique fusion menu, lip-smacking food, and tantalising cocktails. The […]

Hyderabad: A former sub-inspector of police was arrested by the Jubilee Hills police on charges of threatening a person with an air gun after collecting Rs.39 lakh from him assuring to settle a land dispute. The arrested man, Alam Kishan Rao, who stays in the Yousufguda police quarters, had introduced himself as a DIG rank […]

Hyderabad: Aiming to encourage cashless transactions and to increase digital payments, the South Central Railway has introduced an additional facility for rail users for payment of ticket fare through QR (Quick Response) code for purchasing tickets through Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVMs). Through this facility, after entering the journey details, while paying the ticket fare, […]

Hyderabad: Two natives of Madhya Pradesh were arrested by the Mailardevpally police for swapping ATM cards of people visiting ATM centres and withdrawing money using those cards. The arrested persons were Ajay Sahu (24) and Vipin Kumar Sahu alas Dadu (21), both residents of Rajendranagar and natives of Madhya Pradesh. Their accomplice, Sanskar Pawar alias […]

Hyderabad: Social Welfare Minister Koppula Eshwar on Thursday visited the towering statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at Narmada valley in Gujarat to study it for expediting the construction work of 125-feet tall statue of Dr. BR Ambedkar near Imax here. Photo gallery, laser show and other amenities provided at Vallabhbhai Patel’s statue were examined by […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based Paradise Food Court, one of the largest biryani chains in the world, is ramping up its operations and plans to go global by 2024 and expand 10-fold by opening 500 company-owned restaurants pan-India by 2026-27. The company which has 50 restaurants in 13 cities in six States of India plans to add another […]

Hyderabad: Women entrepreneurs from rural areas of Telangana now have a chance to become part of the startup ecosystem. State-led incubator for women entrepreneurs, WE Hub has announced a first-of-its-kind year-long rural incubation programme. The incubator has called for applications for the newly launched programme and it is aimed at accelerating existing enterprises as SMEs […]

Hyderabad: With an aim to provide a one-stop solution to OTT content consumers, Airtel has launched its Xstream Premium that aggregates content from 15 video apps. The platform provides a single login, single search and single subscription and is available for viewing across all types of screens. The new video streaming service is available at […]

Hyderabad: Two-time olympic medalist and Padmabhushan awardee PV Sindhu on Thursday said that India has great potential to emerge as a sports super power on account of the availability of an extremely large talent pool. “However, in order to achieve this cherished goal, efforts should be made at grass roots level to inspire school children […]

Hyderabad: In a move to strengthen its mother and newborn healthcare facilities, the Fernandez Hospital has inaugurated its third human milk bank at its Bogulkunta in-patient facility. The hospital, which launched its first milk bank in 2007, receives approximately 1000 litres of expressed milk annually, which helps over 500 neonates in the NICU, a press […]

Hyderabad: A 31-year-old football player from Uganda, Okwara Joseph, who was suffering from coronary artery disease with severe left ventricular dysfunction, was treated by the cardiology team of Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad, by implanting latest Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) known as JARVIK 2000. Last April, while playing a football match in Uganda, Okwara Joseph experienced […]