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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.

Sixty litres of the illicitly distilled liquor was seized, while 4,000 litres of ferment was destroyed.

According to relatives, Ch Shwetha (27) from Navgaon Basti in the town died after giving birth to a stillborn at Shailaja Hospital in Kaghaznagar.

Rebbena Sub-Inspector D Chandrashekhar said a case was registered against Vijay for thrashing Athmaram Naik, a BJP candidate from Asifabad Assembly constituency.

A total of 24,197 metric tonnes of paddy grains produced in the Vanakalam season-2023 was handed over to millers expecting 16,211 metric tonnes of rice to be returned by May 15 this year.

Koutala Inspector Sadiq Pasha said that Thorrem Vengal Rao (28) from Baregudem, Athram Mahesh (26) of Arkaguda and Dunna Narasimha belonging to Elkapalli village received fatal injuries, resulting in instantaneous death.

As for the paddy exposed to rains, only the Civil Supplies department is able to come to the rescue of the farmers. It has been purchasing paddy soaked in rain to meet the requirement of parboiled rice mills.

The contractor Abeeb alleged that he was forced to wait for receiving the payment of the bills relating to the work for eight months.

ACB Adilabad in-charge DSP VV Ramana Murthy said the SI, Rajya Laxmi, was caught red-handed while receiving the bribe from Yahia Khan of Coal Chemical Complex in Naspur of Mancherial district, who was booked in a road mishap in Buruguguda village in Asifabad mandal on March 31.

The average groundwater level of the district plummeted to 10.19 metres in March this year as against 8.94 metres in March 2023 reflecting a decline by 1.25 metres.

Bejjur Forest Range Officer Dayakar handed over the compensation to Gurle Shankar from Pedda Siddapur.

A 25 to 30-year-old male elephant which strayed into Telangana recently from Maharashtra after getting separated from its herd returned to the neighboring State on Saturday.