Hyderabad

Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Police this year have booked 202 drug related cases and arrested 420 persons on charges of drug peddling. Apart from this, 23 persons were detained under the Preventive Detention Act. Officials said the SOT and NDPS Cell officials were in constant lookout for drug peddlers and consumers and have developed a strong […]

Hyderabad: This winter season is proving to be harsher than any other year. As the city battles with falling mercury, the Air Quality Index (AQI) of Hyderabad too has deteriorated drastically. As of December 23, several parts of the city including Bolarum, Patancheru and Rajendranagar had a moderate AQI (101-200), indicating that pollution in the […]

Hyderabad: With the effect of northerly winds weakening in the northern parts of the country, it is likely that the night temperatures in Hyderabad will also soar. In the early hours of Thursday, the minimum temperature recorded in the city was 12.2 degree Celsius, whereas the lowest minimum temperature of 9.1 degree Celsius was recorded […]

Hyderabad: From being a bakery spread across 1,200 sq ft in Ameerpet about 30 years back, Country Oven has now become a brand to reckon with. One of Hyderabad’s oldest bakeries, it has been in existence since 1993 and has become the go-to-place for customers from far and wide. And during the season of Christmas […]

In a suicide note purportedly written by the student, he apologised to his parents and said he was ending life because of some personal issues

Hyderabad: Ahead of New Year eve, in one of the biggest hauls involving cocaine in recent times, the Madhapur Special Operations Team busted a drug racket operating from Goa and nabbed three persons including two consumers, who procured cocaine for self-consumption late on Wednesday. Officials seized 183 gm cocaine, 44 Ecstasy tablets and other material […]

Hyderabad: The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Hyderabad Bench, has referred the 13-year-old corporate dispute among the brothers of the Hyderabad-based Sanghi group to the newly established International Arbitration and Mediation Centre (IAMC). This is the first and large corporate dispute to be referred to the new dispute resolution centre. The long-drawn dispute that was […]

Hyderabad: Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, who is known for his magnificent performance on the field, surprised his Instagram fans by dubbing for a dialogue from Allu Arjun’s recent movie, Pushpa: The Rise. In a video uploaded on Thursday, the left hand batsman was seen enacting the iconic dialogue, ‘Thaggede Le.’ Much to our surprise, Pushpa […]

Hyderabad: After successfully developing link roads in several areas of the city, the Hyderabad Road Development Corporation Limited (HRDCL) will now take up development of link roads in fringe areas to ensure seamless connectivity till the Outer Ring Road (ORR). This initiative will help in addressing traffic issues in different areas besides opening up new […]

Hyderabad: At least three persons were reportedly injured when a cut-out of veteran Telugu actor Krishnam Raju erected at the venue of the pre-release event of Prabhas starrer ‘Radhe Shyam’ collapsed at Ramoji Film City on Thursday night. The incident occurred when hundreds of fans gathered at the venue, resulting in mild tension. A group […]

Hyderabad: A 19 year-old student, pursuing a course in multimedia, who posed as a woman and collected nude videos and pictures of young girls after befriending them on Instagram to later blackmail them, was arrested here. According to the Hyderabad cybercrime police, Palakurthi Ajay (19) of Dilsukhnagar and native of Warangal, befriended a minor girl […]

Hyderabad: A five-month-old fetus, wrapped in a plastic bag, was found in the garbage on the roadside at Anjanapuri Colony in Alwal here on Thursday morning. Police suspect it was dumped there by the parents. Locals who noticed the fetus informed the police, following which the Alwal police shifted it to the Osmania General Hospital […]

Hyderabad: In a bid to decrease the dependence on fossil fuels to recharge the batteries, Amar Kumar, a graduate at the TN Narayanan’s lab in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad and his colleagues have assembled a compact lithium-ion battery with photosensitive materials that can be directly recharged with solar energy. According to […]

Hyderabad: Welcoming the festive season, 50 students of Pinnacle Institute of Hotel Management created a beautiful Christmas set-up using food items. Termed as ‘culinary marvel’, the set-up, which is six feet high and 40 feet wide, was completed in 96 hours. The students used several ingredients such as butter, flour, gelatin, icing sugar and bread […]

Hyderabad: IT Principal Secretary Jayesh Ranjan on Thursday said there will be more jobs on offer in the days to come in Hyderabad across mega, mid-scale and small scale IT companies in the city as there was lot of demand for digitisation and digital services, especially following post Covid impact. There are about 1,400 IT […]

Hyderabad: No new Omicron variant infections were reported on Thursday even as six international passengers who arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad tested positive for Covid-19 and their blood samples have been sent for full genome sequencing to ascertain their Omicron status. So far, 38 international passengers who had arrived at RGIA tested […]

Hyderabad: To make the highways signal-free, Hyderabad will soon have two more flyovers, said Mayor Gadwal Vijayalaxmi, after inspecting the Shaikpet, Owaisi flyover works that were taken up under the Strategic Road Development Plan (SRDP). Speaking on the occasion, Mayor said, “In view of increased traffic, the civic body is setting up signal-free highways to […]

Hyderabad: A leading pulmonologist from Hyderabad, Dr Pradyut Waghray, has been nominated into Asia’s top 50 academicians by the EET CRS, a research and branding company in India. The criteria for eligibility includes the number of papers published in indexed journals as a first author, international and national presentations in the concerned academic field, teaching […]

Hyderabad: A woman was set ablaze by a man with whom she was allegedly in a live-in relationship at Moosapet in Kukatpally on Wednesday late night. While the woman died, the assailant who too was injured in the bid, remains critical. Venkata Lakshmi (50), who worked as a contract sweeper at the ESI Hospital in […]

Hyderabad: Efforts by Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) to establish proper treatment and management protocols of Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA) has received a major boost with Indian drug regulatory authorities approving the marketing hydroxyurea for treatment of SCA. In coordination with several research organisations, CCMB had approached Drug Controller General of India […]

Hyderabad: With an aim to upskill girl students in the field of data science, WE Hub has launched a new programme. Being done in partnership with Women in Data Science (WiDS), Stanford University and Mathworks, the initiative aims to upskill girl students. The seven-week programme will offer 100 girl students from selected schools an opportunity […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad could soon join the 100 million sqft commercial space league. Currently, the commercial space is pegged around 76 million sqft and the additional space will come about from more than 40 IT parks, whose works are in various stages. While manufacturing, life sciences and other sectors are growing significantly, the bulk of the […]

Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad (UoH) has extended the last date to register for admissions into its two-year MBA course for the academic session 2022-24 up to January 31, 2022. The MBA course fee is around Rs.1.6 lakh for two years and has a good placement record. There are a total of 75 seats. The […]

Hyderabad: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached movable and immovable assets worth Rs.100 crore belonging to Rebba Satyanarayana and his family members under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)- 2002 for allegedly cheating IDBI bank by taking fraudulent fish tank Kisan Credit Card (KCC) loans. The attached assets are in the form of agricultural lands, […]