Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Healthcare infrastructure at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) is being augmented in a major way by the State government, with 200 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds approved and to be ready by mid-January. Health Minister T Harish Rao, who inaugurated various new facilities at the Institute here on Tuesday said the 200 […]

Hyderabad: Rajya Sabha MP Joginapally Santosh Kumar, who has been promoting Green India Challenge for the last few years, along with TRS MLA of Uppal Bethi Subhas Reddy planted saplings in the Uppal Bhagayath Layout on Tuesday as part of his birthday celebrations.     The MLA and others appreciated the efforts of Santosh Kumar for initiating and taking forward […]

Hyderabad: An early morning public concert ‘Shubhodayam – Music Unlock Series’ is going to be held at Buddha Statue, Hussain Sagar Lake. The event is set to take place on December 12 between 7 am and 8.30 am. Ramprapanna Bhattacharya will be performing a Sitar Recital. He will be accompanied by Thakur Harijit Singh on […]

Hyderabad: The Integrated Traffic Management System (ITMS) smart cameras that have been installed at major junctions across the Rachakonda Police Commissionerate are proving helpful in traffic enforcement. These cameras on average capture about 800 traffic rule violations each day and generate e-challans. Rachakonda Traffic Wing officials said a majority of the violations included driving in […]

Hyderabad: An increase in incidents of moving cars catching fire is being witnessed on the city roads in recent times, with these accidents endangering lives of not only of occupants of the car but also of other citizens. In the last 10 days, at least five incidents were reported in and around the city including […]

Hyderabad: The State government is likely to procure S-gene RT-PCR test kits that can be employed as a proxy test to detect the presence of the Omicron variant. The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 does not have an S-gene, which is also commonly known as S-gene dropout. Due to this specific character of the Omicron variant, […]

Hyderabad: The ongoing pandemic shattered several hopes and dreams. Suffering major financial setbacks during the time, many artists locked their brushes and paints and took up mundane jobs to run their kitchen. To bring back the colours on canvas, city-based artist, Manohar Chiluveru, started a global art project called Hope Kosmos that aims at creating […]

Hyderabad: Putting Hyderabad on the global commercial hub map and bringing it on a par with cities like Paris, Singapore, London, New York and Stockholm is the International Arbitration and Mediation Centre (IAMC). This new centre will not only solve domestic arbitration issues and lessen expenses involved but is also putting the capital city of […]

Hyderabad: A statistical officer at GHMC has been charged for alleged inappropriate behaviour and misconduct with a woman computer operator in the GHMC Charminar Zonal office. The women computer operator had reported the issue to Mayor G Vijaya Laxmi on Monday, who immediately instructed Additional Commissioner (Sanitation) Santosh Badavath to take action against the official […]

Hyderabad: The city traffic police on Monday seized a motorcycle at Amberpet on which 179 challans were imposed for various traffic violations as the owner failed to clear the penalty amount of Rs 42,475. The motorcycle, which was registered in the name of P Rathnaiah, had challans pending for various violations like signal jumping, helmet-less […]

Hyderabad: Health Minister T Harish Rao on Monday directed health officials to expedite the works related to construction of the 200-bed super specialty hospital at Patancheru. The proposed super-specialty hospital with a cost of Rs 150 crore at Patancheru will exclusively provide tertiary health care services to workers and their families in the Patancheru industrial […]

Hyderabad: A local court on Monday sentenced a man to rigorous life imprisonment on charges of raping a minor girl at Langer Houz two years ago. The man, Pausula Pedda Pakirappa (38) lured the minor girl aged seven years and sexually violated her after kidnapping her when she came out of her house. On a […]

Hyderabad: Mines Safety Deputy Director (retired) V Lakshmi Narayana said the sacrifices of miners who work in adverse conditions to extract minerals and resources were invaluable. Addressing a webinar organised by MEAI Hyderabad Chapter on Monday, he stressed on the need to cut down mishaps in the mining sector and wanted the mining engineers and […]

Hyderabad: The Narsingi police, who are investigating the multi-crore fraud case registered against socialite turned Telugu movie producer T Shilpa Chowdary suspect the cheating was preplanned. Sources said Chowdary, who was recently questioned on the details of her transactions, was learned to have found that contrary to her claims of being a millionaire and socialite, […]

Hyderabad: The family members of a 23-year-old housewife Aerukonda Ashwini, hailing from Veliminedu village, Chityal mandal, Nalgonda, who was declared as brain dead by attending team of neuro-physicians, have donated the organs of the deceased, as part of the Jeevandan organ donation initiative. On December 2, Ashwini had sustained grievous injuries in a road accident […]

Hyderabad: The Meerpet police arrested a woman and her brother on charges of murder on Sunday. According to the police, S Saroja (30), a widow and her brother J Srinu (21), both tile making workers, were residents of Jillelaguda in Balapur. The victim K Redya (45), also a tile making worker from Saroornagar, was their […]

Hyderabad: A motorist died on the spot after his bike went out of control and crashed into the patrol car of Shamirpet police station at Medchal here on Monday evening. The man, K Anjaiah (40), a construction worker from Peddamma Colony at Shamirpet, was on his way home after work when the mishap occurred. Police […]

Hyderabad: City Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar handed over 56 mobile phones, together worth Rs 8 lakh to the owners on Monday. The owners had lodged complaints on the Hawk-Eye app after they lost the devices. The police tracked them using technology and returned them to the owners. “So far the IT cell of the Hyderabad […]

Hyderabad: The services of home guard officers and their efforts are priceless, with their role in law and order maintenance being commendable, Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat said here on Monday. Speaking at the 59th Rising Day of home guards at his office, Bhagwat said home guard officers were an integral part of the Indian […]

Hyderabad: Even as drunk driving claimed four lives in the city in barely 12 hours on Monday, two more were injured when the motorcycle they were riding crashed into a car ahead of them at the Puppalguda toll gate in Narsingi on Sunday night. The bike riders were allegedly drunk. The injured persons are Shiva […]

Hyderabad: Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) officials conducted a raid on Vishwa Karma Industries at Ranga Reddy district where they were packaging and selling water bottles with “ISI” mark though they did not obtain the mandatory license from the BIS. The officials seized 28 jars of 20 litre capacity from the premises. The officials warned […]

Hyderabad: Upset over financial problems, a soon-to-be bridegroom died, allegedly by suicide, at his house Rajendranagar late on Sunday. The victim, Avinash Kharge (26), a native of Karnataka, was a software employee staying with his parents and siblings at Shivrampally. Police said. Avinash had borrowed personal loans of nearly Rs 15 lakh from various banks […]

Hyderabad: IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao and top officials from the Industries Department will visit Germany in January, and hold meetings with industry, commerce bodies and SMEs to attract investments to the State. The delegation will hard sell the investment opportunities in Telangana State, Industries Principal Secretary Jayesh Ranjan said at the German […]

Hyderabad: Ambassador of Germany, Walter J Lindner, visited the University of Hyderabad (UoH) campus on Monday. He was accompanied by Sebastian Fuchs, Embassy spokesperson, Johannes Hoeber, Cultural Counsellor and Amita Desai, the Director of Goethe Zentrum. Vice Chancellor, UoH, Prof BJ Rao welcomed the Ambassador and his team and gave a brief introduction about the […]