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Hyderabad: This Sunday, get ready for some scintillating Garba and Dandiya on the bund road abutting the Hussain Sagar in the heart of the city. In tune with the ongoing Navaratri and Dasara festivities, the activities lined up as part of the Sunday-Funday event at Tank Bund promise to come up with some memorable festive […]

Hundreds of women clad in traditional attire recited songs and danced to the tunes in praise of Goddess Gouramma.

Hyderabad: Cyberabad Police Commissioner M.Stephen Raveendra along with his family and families of other police personnel celebrated ‘Bathukamma’ at the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate premises on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, Raveendra said Bathukamma festival is a replica of the rich culture and tradition of Telangana. “The festival is celebrated with fervor by the people of […]

Hyderabad: Bathukamma, the festival of colours and melodies that celebrates women as well, began in the city on Wednesday. The celebration of togetherness, a culture and tradition unique to Telangana, saw women coming together with the floral arrangements for the nine-day long festival. In the GHMC limits, Mayor G Vijaya Laxmi, Deputy Mayor Mothe Srilatha […]

Mancherial: Womenfolk who could not celebrate the annual Bathukamma festival last year on account of Covid-19 pandemic, celebrated the floral festival with enthusiasm and in large numbers this year, thanks to the extensive vaccination drive that seems to have kept the spread of Coronavirus under check. After a low-key affair last year, women were excited […]

Hyderabad: It was a Bathukamma festival with a difference on the first day of the nine-day festivities on Wednesday in Huzurabad as the women took part in it with a song that highlighted the anti-people’s and anti-farmer’s policies pursued by the BJP government at the Centre. Bathukamma made with colourful flowers was placed on empty […]

Hyderabad: The children of classes I and II of Delhi Public School, Nacharam celebrated the Bathukamma festival with full glee on October 5. To celebrate the colourful and exclusive festival of Telangana, little ones dressed in traditional attires and displayed beautiful arrangements of flowers which is also called as Bathukamma. A special assembly marked the […]

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday greeted the people on the occasion of the beginning of Bathukamma festival, the symbol of Telangana culture and the State government’s official festival. He said the Telangana women folk and girls will decorate Bathukamma with a variety of flowers and worship nature amidst happiness and fervour. […]

Hyderabad: Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan extended wishes and warm greetings to all the women in Telangana State on the commencement of Bathukamma celebrations. “Bathukamma is a very special festival associated with Mother Nature and is essentially a celebration of life by women of Telangana. Bathukamma marks the reunion of families and visit of daughters of the […]

Nirmal: Forest Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy said that the State government was gifting Bathukamma sarees to women helping them celebrate the floral festival with happiness. He took part in the distribution of Bathukamma sarees at Ellapalli village in Nirmal mandal and participated in a similar event in Nirmal town on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, […]

Hyderabad: This year, the Bathukamma song is on entirely different level, with Oscar winner AR Rahman composing music for the song and nationally acclaimed film director Gautham Vasudev Menon shooting the film. The song will be officially released online on October 6. Bathukamma, the floral festival of Telangana, will commence on the same day. According […]

In a teleconference with officials and elected representatives of Siddipet on Friday, the Minister said the sarees were made in 19 colours, 17 designs and 289 shades.

Adilabad: Arrangements have been made for distributing Bathukamma saris to eligible beneficiaries in erstwhile Adilabad district from October 2. As many as 8.95 lakh saris would be given to women aged above 18 and beneficiaries of food security scheme cards, helping them celebrate the floral festival with pride in Nirmal, Adilabad and Kumram Bheem Asifabad […]

Hyderabad: Distribution of Bathukamma sarees will commence from October 2 across the State. Bulk of the sarees have already been dispatched to the districts to begin the exercise. Bathukamma, the floral festival is expected to commence on October 6. This year, the Handlooms department placed orders for sarees in 30 designs and in 20 different […]

Hyderabad: MLC K Kavitha on Tuesday launched the posters for United Kingdom Telangana Jagurthi’s mega Bathukamma event, which will be held in East London on October 10. The launch ceremony was held here and dignitaries from Telangana Jagruthi participated in the event. Over 1000 participants have already registered for the mega Bathukamma event so far. […]

Hyderabad: The festival season is here and it is time to plan your visit to the bank accordingly. A message doing rounds on social media says banks will be closed for 21 days in October which is not correct, bank officials clarified. “In Telangana, there are ten closed holidays for banks in October. These include […]

Mahabubnagar: Tourism Minister V Srinivas Goud said the State Government was according top priority for weavers’ welfare and appealed to the people to wear handlooms garments. Addressing at the National Handloom Day celebrations programme here on Saturday, the Minister said handlooms garments were comfortable to wear and appealed to the people to wear garments in […]

The 31-year-old Sircilla-based weaver and an ardent follower of the Chief Minister toiled for about 20 days to create the machine.

Mulugu: Superintendent of Police (SP) Sangram Singh Ganpatrao Patil called on top Maoist leader Bade Damodhar’s mother Bathukamma at Kalvapalli village of SS Tadvai mandal in the district on Friday and assured all assistance to her. Stating that several Maoist leaders and cadre were suffering from Covid-19, he asked them to surrender to the police […]

Representatives of Telangana Jagruthi Students Federatio nalleged that Aadi, had in an event made comments demeaning the Bathukamma festival and also the Telangana dialect