Hyderabad

Hyderabad: From hating her body to feeling confident in her own skin, Pound Kakar has navigated through the dark lanes of self-doubt. Thankfully, she found her solace in pole dancing and Hyderabad now has its first professional pole dancing studio. What started off as a physical activity to distract her from a strained relationship is […]

Hyderabad: In a much-needed relief to resident doctors and aspiring medicos of government and private hospitals in Telangana, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has given a green signal to start the academic session for last year’s super speciality courses from April 18. The three-year super speciality courses for the academic year 2021 were supposed to […]

Hyderabad: The bodies of two unknown persons, which were preserved at the Osmania General Hospital morgue, got swapped on Thursday after a relative mistakenly identified one of them. According to OGH mortuary officials, the bodies were brought to the mortuary by the Mailardevpally and SR Nagar police in separate cases and were kept for identification. […]

Hyderabad: A businessman was allegedly duped of Rs.25 lakh in Punjagutta. The suspect, who posed as a bank official, had promised to settle a pending loan amount, police said. The complainant, V Ravi Kumar from KPHB who was running a firm at Punjagutta, along with his brother V Raghavender and other partners had borrowed a […]

Hyderabad: The SR Nagar police on Thursday arrested a youngster on charges of luring and raping a minor girl on the promise of marriage. Police said E.Vivek Kumar (20) from Yellareddyguda, allegedly lured the 17-year-old girl on the promise of marriage and took her to a temple and secretly married her in November last year. […]

Hyderabad: Since Hyderabad made its space on PETA’s Most Vegan-Friendly Cities in India in 2019, there has been no turning back for the vegan lovers in the city. In just the past few years, the city has witnessed a boom in the brands serving vegan food products and also simultaneously an increasing number of city […]

Hyderabad: The Banjara Hills police on Thursday took custody of Abhishek Vuppala and Anil Kumar, who were arrested in connection with the raid on the Pudding & Mink pub at Radisson Blu hotel. A local court had granted four day police custody of the two suspects. A police team took them into custody from the […]

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Task Force caught two persons on charges of betting online on the IPL cricket match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab on Wednesday. Police also seized Rs.77,000 from Mohit Agarwal (32), a businessman and punter from Gyan Colony in Nampally, and Mahender Kumar Soni (41), an automobile spare parts trader and […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad is all set to get some reprieve from the prevailing hot summer conditions from Thursday onwards. According to a forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the trough discontinuity from west Vidarbha to South Interior Karnataka now runs from west Vidarbha to North Interior Karnataka across Marathwada at 0.9 km above mean sea […]

Hyderabad: Inclusive Growth Chain (IGC), a start-up incubated in the University of Hyderabad (UoH) by the faculty of the School of Management Studies, Prof. Vijaya Bhaskar Marisetty and Dr. Varsha Mamidi, has won the International Blockchain Hackathon. IGC aims at addressing social and environmental problems in India through Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning […]

Hyderabad: The novel initiative of “One station One Product” that is aimed at making the railway stations a sales and promotional hub for local products has been launched at Kacheguda railway station. The main objective of the concept is to make each railway station a promotional hub and showcase destination for a local product, thereby […]

Hyderabad: The Amberpet police took into custody a youngster for allegedly pelting stones at the house of Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao and damaging a car. The man identified as Siddharth Singh, stays in the house adjacent to the senior Congress leader’s residence. In wee hours of Thursday, he came out of his house and […]

Hyderabad: A person, who allegedly involved in eight burglaries, was arrested by the Meerpet police on Thursday. The police recovered 20 tolas of gold, 1.8 kilogram of silver ornaments and valuables all together worth Rs.18.05 lakh from Basavapuram Nagesh, 43, of Venkateshwara Nagar in Kukatpally. Police said a special team was constituted by the Meerpet […]

Hyderabad: Unidentified persons pelted stones at the residence of senior Congress leader V. Hanumantha Rao in Hyderabad, police said on Thursday . A car parked in front of a former Rajya Sabha member’s house in Amberpet was damaged in the stone pelting. The attack took place on Wednesday night. Police rushed to the Congress leader’s […]

By Epsita Gunti Hyderabad: After Bahubali Haleem, this restaurant in the city has come up with yet another quirky way of having Haleem this Ramzan season. Reaching a whole other level of creativity, Nizam’s Pride has introduced Hyderabad’s first ever Double Decker Haleem. In this dish, Haleem is served with coke. What makes this special […]

Hyderabad: A GHMC worker died in a road accident at Banjara Hills early on Thursday. According to the police, the victim Kiran, was watering the plants on the road median at Banjara Hills when a car hit him. He died on the spot. The police shifted the body to the mortuary for autopsy. A case […]

Hyderabad: The Cybercrime police have booked a case against a man for making offensive comments against Hindu deities and hurting sentiments of the community. The man, Srinath Chowdhary, identified by his social media accounts, made the comments a few days ago, after which actor Karate Kalyani lodged a complaint with the Hyderabad Cybercrime police. Efforts […]

Hyderabad: IT Minister KT Rama Rao on slammed the Centre for hijacking the achievements of the State government through misleading advertisements. Participating on the eve of 131st birth anniversary celebrations of Dr BR Ambedakar held here on Wednesday, the Minister said: “In the 75 years of Independent India’s history, Telangana State was the first and […]

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda police nabbed a Rajasthani trader and seized 2.6 kilograms of opium from him. Acting on a tip off, the Special Operations Teams (LB Nagar) caught Jagadish Chandra Jhat, a trader staying in LB Nagar and hailing from Chittorgarh of Rajasthan. “Jagadish during his visit to Rajasthan was purchasing opium from one Suresh, […]

Hyderabad: The Banjara Hills police on Wednesday arrested three persons and seized six kilograms of ganja from them. The arrested persons were T Narsimha (21), N. Venkanna Babu (23) and Pamidi Manikanta (23). Banjara Hills ACP M Sudarshan said the three were purchasing ganja from Rakesh of Odisha and bringing it to the city in […]

Hyderabad: Mostly dry weather is expected to continue in the city this week, though there are chances of rain by Saturday. On Wednesday, Hyderabad recorded a maximum temperature of 38.2 degree Celsius. While the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) – Hyderabad has said in its forecast that rain or thundershowers would occur in the afternoon or […]

Hyderabad: In order to clear extra rush during holidays, the South Central Railway (SCR) will run four special trains between various destinations. Accordingly, Train No. 07433 Secunderabad-Tirupati will depart at 7.05 pm on April 15 and arrive at 7.50 am the next day and Train No. 07434 Tirupati – Secunderabad holiday specials will depart at […]

Hyderabad: Police forces swung into action after an anonymous call saying that explosives were planted in a train bound from Visakhapatnam to Mumbai on Wednesday morning. Even as tension mounted over a couple of hours, the call was traced to a teenager, who said he was “testing the alertness of the police”. Earlier, security agencies […]

Hyderabad: Allegedly upset over his father scolding him for spending long hours with his mobile phone, a teenage boy died by suicide in his house in Nandigama on the city outskirts on Tuesday. The 17-year-old boy, an intermediate student at a private college in Shadnagar, was reportedly seen with the mobile phone in his hand […]