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Police crack the whip against small-time agents and sellers by seizing the seeds while being transported from one place to another. But they are drawing flak for failing to detect the masterminds and for not being able to root out the menace.

Locals said that the lorry carrying goods got stuck in mud near the village, hitting traffic and causing inconvenience to motorists on this stretch.

Chinthalamanepalli Sub-Inspector Naresh said that Bottupalli Sadaiah, a daily wage earner was killed on the spot after being beaten on head by Malkala Raj Kumar with an iron pipe.

In the first instance, the unidentified persons mixed a toxic chemical in the tank in which fish was being grown by one Thalandi Balaram at Andugulaguda village, leading to the death of around two quintals of fish.

District Cooperative Officer Mohan told press persons in Dahegaon mandal headquarters that Rs 50 lakh were found to be misappropriated during an annual audit held for financial years 2021-22 and 2022-23 on Saturday.

Asifabad Sub-Inspector Ramesh said that Srinivas (45) was found hanging after picking up an argument with his wife.

He along with Additional Collector (Local Bodies) Deepak Tiwari and Superintendent of Police K Suresh Kumar convened a review meeting with the officials concerned here on Monday.

Rebbena Sub-Inspector D Chandrashekhar said that Tekam Posham, a 70-year old priest at a local deity's temple in Goleti village died on the spot after the bees stung him.

Asifabad Inspector Gadigoppula Sathish said Chunarkar Kalavathi and Akkapelli Ravinder, both from Rahapalli were arrested for their role in the murder of Chunarkar Ravinder (38), a farmer on Friday morning.

Jadhav Nikhil, a Grade XI of the school was among 15 students picked for the course. He is currently learning the course offered by the ABVIMAS.

Panchayat officials said certain developers were not converting agricultural lands into commercial ones in order to evade a tax under the Non-agriculture Lands Assessment Act (NALA), causing losses to the government.

Wadai Umesh took poison as he was reportedly depressed after his marriage with Pavani, whom he was not interested to accept as life partner.

The cause of the bear's death was yet to be ascertained. 

Koutala Sub-Inspector N Madhukar said that unknown persons burnt the electric motor, transformer and starter belonging to a minor lift irrigation scheme built at the river as they could not copper wire from the motor and transformer.

Tension broke out when persons of one community attacked members of another community using sticks, iron rods, knives and axes.

Rauthu Sattaiah, a farmer, alleged that the staffers at the centre were secretly stealing around three kilograms of grains per bag by tampering with the weighing machine.

The RO issued an order to release Rs.4,000 towards basic arrangements at 676 stations that were identified in the district on May 9.

The officials said that Syed Arif and Isaq Ahmed of Kaghaznagar town were booked for allegedly diverting the rice grains.

The six confessed to committing the offence to make a fast buck.

One woman, Gajireddy Uma, 35, allegedly attempted to kill herself by consuming a pesticide when she could not bear the mental and physical harassment of her husband Suresh on Friday night.