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Hyderabad: The Telangana State Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (TS EAMCET) 2022 for the AM stream scheduled for July 14 and 15 has been postponed. The Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) took this decision in view of the forecast of heavy rainfall in the State for the next three days. The […]
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Hyderabad: Heavy inflows into the major irrigation projects in Godavari basin in north Telangana are keeping officials of the Irrigation department on their toes, prompting them to increase outflows and discharge water from the projects downstream. With the water levels touching 699.70ft as against 700 ft at Kadam project in Adilabad district, officials issued a […]
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Hyderabad: South Indian actor Naga Chaitanya is gearing up to allure his fans with his next film ‘Thank You’. The trailer of this highly-anticipated movie was released by the makers on Tuesday. Establishing the themes of self-discovery, the theatrical trailer of Thank You depicts Naga Chaitanya’s character navigating his way through life and love. Naga Chaitanya […]
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Hyderabad: The Telangana State Polytechnic Common Entrance Test (TS POLYCET) 2022 results were declared on Wednesday with over 75 per cent of candidates qualifying the entrance test. While a total of 1,04,362 students appeared, 79,038 (75.73%) candidates in the MPC and 79,117 (75.8%) qualified in the MBiPC streams. The results were declared by Commissioner of […]
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Warangal: With the incessant rains battering many parts of erstwhile Warangal district, streams and rivulets are overflowing, and road connectivity for many villages was cut off in the Agency area. Low-lying areas were inundated causing hardships to the people living those areas. The River Godavari is swelling hour by hour. The water level at the […]
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Mumbai: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is probing a drug case linked with the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in 2020, alleged that his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty received multiple deliveries of ganja from other co-accused. As per the NCB’s draft charges, Chakraborty, who was also arrested in the drug case and later walked […]
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Hyderabad: A Nepali gang struck at the house of a businessman at Kukatpally and decamped with cash, gold and silver ornaments on Tuesday night. The house owner Damodar Rao had appointed a Nepali couple seven months ago. The couple stayed in the servant quarters in the house. On Tuesday around 8 pm, Damodar along with […]
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Singapore: Olympic medalist PV Sindhu made a winning start to her Singapore Open 2022 campaign, defeating Belgium’s Lianne Tan in the first round of the Women’s singles category on Wednesday. Playing on court 1, PV Sindhu won the match within two straight games by margin of 21-15, 21-11. She was extremely dominant against her Belgian […]
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Bengaluru: Karnataka High Court has quashed a man’s petition seeking permanent alimony from his working wife. “The husband with a capacity to earn does not have any right to ask for permanent alimony from his wife,” the court underlined in its order. A division bench headed by Justices Alok Aradhe and J. M. Khazi passed […]
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Nirmal: Kaddam Narayana Reddy reservoir, one of the oldest medium irrigation projects of Telangana, received record level inflows by 5.09 lakh cusecs, panicking people living in different villages downstream on Wednesday. According to information provided by the authorities of the irrigation department, the project saw inflows of 509,025 cusecs and the water level reached to […]
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Yadadri-Bhongir: Three calves were killed in the attack by suspected Hyenas at Botham Bavi hamlet of Puttapaka grama panchayat of Sansthan Narayanpur mandal on Tuesday night. A farmer Nomula Narsimha found the calf dead in his cattle shed located on Jangon road at the village on Wednesday morning. Head of one of the killed calves […]
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Mumbai: The rupee started the session on a flat note against the US dollar on Wednesday amid a rally in the equity markets and easing retail inflation. A strong greenback against major currencies and foreign capital outflows kept investors cautious in early trading, forex dealers said. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened strong […]
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New Delhi: Erasing two-day of losses, Indian stock indices gained marginally in early trade on Wednesday. The latest softening of global crude oil prices and signs of inflation slowly receding are likely to have lent support to the equity markets. Global crude oil prices have fallen below the psychological level of $100 per barrel after […]
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San Francisco: Popular music streaming platform Spotify has announced that it has acquired an interactive music trivia game Heardle. The platform said that they see Heardle also as a tool for musical discovery. “Playing Heardle might just help you to rediscover old tracks you may have thought you would forgotten, discover amazing new artists, or finally […]
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New Delhi: India logged 16,906 new coronavirus infections pushing the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,36,69,850, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,25,519 with 45 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active Covid cases have increased to 1,32,457. They comprise 0.30 […]
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San Francisco: With an aim to force Elon Musk to follow through with his $44 billion Twitter acquisition deal, the microblogging site has now sued the tech billionaire as he walked out of the deal. The lawsuit, filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery this week, comes after the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said that he […]
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Colombo: Amidst severe public protest and an ultimatum to resign by protestors who took over the President’s House in a violent protest on Saturday, Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left the country secretly, an emigration officer confirmed to IANS on early Wednesday. President Rajapaksa had left for the Maldives together with his wife and a […]
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Lucknow: In a shocking incident, an 82-year-old retired female teacher was mauled to death by her pet pit bull dog in Kaiserbagh locality here. The woman was alone in the house at the time of the incident and was later found in a pool of blood by her son. She was rushed to the hospital where […]
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Mumbai: Seems like something is brewing between Vijay Deverakonda and Sara Ali Khan. Sara will be seen marking her presence in a new episode of ‘Koffee With Karan’ with Janhvi Kapoor. Ahead of the premiere of the episode, the makers unveiled a promo in which Karan Johar asks “Sara, give me the name of a […]
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Rio de Janeiro: At least six people were killed and two others were wounded after a shootout between police officers and alleged criminals in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second-largest city, police sources said. The Rio de Janeiro Civil Police said the event took place in the favela of Manguinhos in the North […]
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Kiev: Ukraine has become an associate member of the Multilateral Interoperability Program (MIP), which coordinates technological cooperation of the armies of NATO member states, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has said. “Ukraine has strong IT (Information Technology) potential and it is a worthy NATO ally. I am sure that we will bring our expertise to […]
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New Delhi: The Common University Entrance Test (CUET) 2022 for UG Admissions will be conducted in two phases between July 15 and August 4, said University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman, M Jagadesh Kumar on Tuesday, adding that the admit cards for the candidates appearing in phase one have been issued on Tuesday. The admit cards […]
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By Seela Subba Rao Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have evolved into a vibrant industry exhibiting a variety of business models. In India, they exist as NGOs (registered as societies or trusts), Section 25 companies, NBFC-MFIs and other NBFCs. Commercial banks, regional rural banks, cooperative banks and other large lenders have played an important role in financing […]
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The pandemic has exposed India’s creaky healthcare system, abysmally low public spending and skewed priorities when it comes to addressing the challenges of infectious diseases. It also laid bare the gaping holes in the 125-year-old Epidemic Diseases Act, which is devoid of provisions for the management of a Covid-like national health emergency. Learning lessons from […]
