Hyderabad

Hyderabad: What began last Thursday as a gruesome case of an innocent six-year-old girl child being sexually violated and strangled to death, ended exactly a week later, with a mangled body on the railway tracks indicating closure of sorts for the victim’s family. From around 10 am, phones buzzed nonstop and social media went into […]

Hyderabad: A 27-year-old woman, the caretaker in a school in Barkas in the Old City, who sexually abused and also used a lit cigarette on a minor boy in the school washroom, was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment, on Thursday. The sentence was pronounced by the special court for POCSO Act cases here […]

Hyderabad: Majority of the cyberattacks happen due to a weak password policy and a recent analysis shows that implementing a robust password policy reduced the likelihood of being attacked by 60 per cent. Kaspersky’s new Incident Response Analytics Report demonstrates that just implementing an appropriate patch management policy decreases the risk of incidents by 30 […]

Hyderabad: Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samithi on Thursday thanked the Supreme Court for allowing the immersion of Lord Ganesh idols made of Plaster of Paris (PoP), in Hussain Sagar and surrounding water bodies. In a statement, the Samithi general secretary, Bhagavanth Rao said, “We wholeheartedly welcome the timely judgement which has taken care of the sentiments […]

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Cybercrime police have booked cases against 16 people for watching child pornography. The case was booked following information provided by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to the Telangana State Crime Investigation Department. “Some international agencies who monitor sexual abuse of children alerted the NCRB about some persons from the country browsing […]

Hyderabad: The Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Limited (TSSPDCL) has made all necessary arrangements for providing uninterrupted and reliable power supply for safe passage and immersion of Ganesh idols at immersion locations and lakes in Hyderabad, its Chairman and Managing Director G Raghuma Reddy. With a view to meet the additional power demands at […]

Hyderabad: Medulance Healthcare, ambulance and paramedical services aggregator on Thursday announced its partnership with NephroPlus, the Hyderabad-based network of dialysis centres, to help patients access dialysis services either at home, at the dialysis centre or on wheels, a press release said. The collaboration will bring easy access to high-quality, safe and affordable dialysis services across […]

Hyderabad: IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao on Thursday announced that the State government would set up over 12,000 Digital Telangana Centres at Gram Panchayat level to provide digital services to citizens even in remote locations. “Basic Artificial Intelligence training will be provided to all technology graduates to prepared them for the next […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Thursday came out with a crystal clear roadmap to step up substantially the scorching pace it has already set for the growth of IT and ITeS sector in the State in the next five years through its second Information Communication Technology (ICT) Policy. “In the past year, Telangana saw a […]

Hyderabad: IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao on Thursday launched a unique one-stop portal “Startup Telangana” that will offer a holistic support mechanism for startups in the State. ‘Startup Telangana’ will be a one-stop destination for the entire startup ecosystem in the State. The portal will cater to all startup-related services in a […]

Hyderabad: The Plastic Surgery department of Osmania General Hospital (OGH) has for the first time successfully performed a free ‘Augmentation Mammoplasty’, a cosmetic surgery to enlarge and enhance breasts, on an 18-year-old-girl from Nalgonda district. The young daughter of a taxi driver from Nalgonda, from an underprivileged background, had approached the Plastic Surgery wing of […]

Hyderabad: GradRight, a higher education focused fintech firm born in Hyderabad, is trying to change the way students finance their education by bringing together students, banks, and universities on a single platform, bringing down the loan research and approval time from 2-3 months to just 3-4 days and saving lakhs for each student. The company […]

Actor Vennela, along with top models in the city and fashion lovers, will attend the grand curtain raiser.

Hyderabad: Medulance Healthcare, ambulance and paramedical services aggregator on Thursday announced its partnership with NephroPlus, the Hyderabad-based network of dialysis centres, to help patients access dialysis services either at home, at the dialysis centre or on wheels, a press release said. The collaboration will bring easy access to high-quality, safe and affordable dialysis services across […]

Hyderabad: A retired Indian Army personnel has adopted a Lion Tailed Macaque at the Nehru Zoological Park here on Thursday. According to the zoo authorities, 84-year-old A.Krishna Murthy, Indian Army (Retd) and a resident of Hyderabad visited the Nehru Zoo and offered to adopt a Lion Tailed Macaque for a period of six months. For […]

Hyderabad: Sixteen trainee officers successfully completed 139th Air Traffic Surveillance Services (ATSS) Course in an impressive graduation ceremony held at Air Traffic Control Officers Training Establishment (ATCOTE) at Air Force Academy, Dundigal, here on Thursday. Air Marshal Sanjeev Kapoor, Commandant, Air Force Academy was the Reviewing Officer on the occasion. The young military Air Traffic […]

Hyderabad: Surgeons at SLG Hospitals, Nizampet have conducted a 12-hour-long surgery on a 48-year-old patient who was suffering from a rare form of inflammation of heart arteries known as ‘Takayasu’s Arteritis’, a medical condition in which large and medium-sized blood vessels are inflamed and damaged. The patient B Venkatesham, a native of Siddipet, was admitted […]

Hyderabad: Two women were found murdered in Trimulgherry here on Thursday. The victims were identified as Naga Pushpa, who worked at a private hospital, and Kumari. Police suspect Naga Pushpa’s husband Chinna Babu to be behind the murder. An extramarital affair is suspected to have led to the killing. The Trimulgherry police are investigating. More […]

The arrested persons were M.Srikanth Reddy, Ch.Venkatesh and T.Kondal Rao. One suspect, Venkata Raju, was absconding.

Hyderabad: Rythu Bandhu Samithi president Palla Rajeshwar Reddy was sworn in as the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Graduates Constituency MLC here on Thursday.  Rajeshwar Reddy retained the MLC by winning with a majority of 12, 806 votes over his immediate contender Teenmar Mallanna, in a four-day counting battle. Telangana Legislative Council Protem Chairman V Bhoopal Reedy administered the […]

Hyderabad: IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao on Thursday launched the second IT Policy. Telangana launched its first IT policy in 2016 after the State came into being in 2014. The first policy has done exceedingly well and largely stands excluding disruptions happened in the last 18 months due to Covid-19 pandemic. The new […]

A bench headed by chief justice N.V. Ramana made it clear that the court will allow it for the last time - the immersion of idols -- this year, and no more immersion from next year.

Hyderabad: Relatives of the six year-old rape victim feel that the suspect in the case, Pallakonda Raju, deserved a more brutal death. “We had demanded the government hand him over to us so that we would have publicly lynched him,” a relative said. The family members received the news of the Raju’s alleged suicide from […]

A cheque of Rs 20 lakh was handed over to the family members of the victim girl by the Ministers as compensation.