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Hyderabad: Telangana on Thursday reported 592 Covid positive infections out of which 331 were from areas under GHMC, 60 from Rangareddy and 45 from Medchal-Malkajgiri districts. The number of active Covid cases on Thursday reached 4,997 and 477 individuals recovered taking the overall recoveries to 7,95,421, the Covid health bulletin said. The health department conducted […]

Hyderabad: The cash registers of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) haven’t had a break from ringing in the last three months, with the property tax collection racing towards Rs.1,000 crore, which is a record collection for the first quarter of any fiscal year. Already, in the three months of April to June, the civic […]

Hyderabad: With the rains here, the threat of seasonal diseases are more than ever. And that is on top of a steadily rising number of Covid-19 cases. To contain the spread of vector-borne diseases in the city, a series of measures are already underway with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) deploying 2,375 staffers to […]

Hyderabad: Travelling on the crucial Sardar Patel Road, or from anywhere in Secunderabad towards the Begumpet side, has been nothing less than torture recently due to traffic restrictions imposed on account of the Picket Nala work at Rasoolpura, which has been dragging on for over 70 days. And now, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials […]

Hyderabad: The State government’s flagship double bedroom housing scheme is all set to record major accomplishments very soon. With construction of 64,556 units already completed, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is now working on a target to complete another 35,444 dwelling units by March 2023. Municipal Administration & Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao on […]

Hyderabad: To provide a better experience while traveling on city roads, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is laying 146 km of Vacuum Dewatered Cement Concrete (VDCC) roads this financial year with an outlay of Rs 158.67 crore. Till July, the corporation was able to lay eight kilometres of the VDCC roads at a cost […]

Hyderabad: Conservation works at the Mecca Masjid, one of the largest mosques in India, is lagging behind schedule, albeit due to lack of expert hands with the Department of Heritage and the Department of Roads & Buildings to take up electrification works at the heritage structure. The State government had sanctioned a budget of Rs […]

Hyderabad: The BJP State unit has ridiculed the ruling TRS party’s rally to welcome Opposition Parties Presidential candidate Yashwanth Sinha here on Saturday. Never in the history, was a bike rally organized and flexis and banners put up for Presidential elections. The ruling TRS party has made a mockery of the Presidential elections, charged the […]

Hyderabad: To promote eco-friendly Ganesh idols, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is conducting awareness campaigns in schools. As part of the exercise, the civic body officials, along with the school management, encouraged the students to use clay idols instead of the ones made with Plaster of Paris (PoP). “The students were briefed on the […]

Hyderabad: To make intersection points safe for pedestrians, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has set up 68 pelican traffic signals with advanced technology on the main squares of schools, colleges, and hospitals. This has been done on the lines of cities abroad. The pelican signals are manually-controlled signals, which on pressing the button will […]

Hyderabad: Just two days ahead of the BJP national executive meeting in Hyderabad on June 2, the BJP State leadership got a shocker even as it is busy in the arrangements. Four BJP corporators in GHMC along with the BJP floor leader in Tandur municipality joined the ruling TRS in Hyderabad on Thursday. The BJP […]

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has imposed penalties on BJP leaders for raising unauthorised banners and advertisement elements in different parts of the city. The BJP has put up hoardings with photographs of party leaders and the issue was brought to the notice of GHMC’s Enforcement Vigilance & Disaster Management (EVDM) through Twitter following […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Monday reported 477 Covid positive infections out of which 258 were from areas under GHMC, 107 were from Rangareddy and 56 from Medchal-Malkajgiri districts. On Monday, the number of active Covid cases reached 3,960 while 279 individuals have recovered taking the overall recoveries to 7,91,461, the Covid health bulletin said. The health […]

Hyderabad: Justice Radha Rani of the Telangana High Court on Monday heard inconclusively arguments on construction of a foot over bridge at Mahendra Hills, Secunderabad. The judge was dealing with a petition filed by Balajee Arun Educational Society. The petitioner contended that the GHMC was refusing permission to them to construct the bridge linking the […]

Hyderabad: The State government’s Transferable Development Rights (TDR) approach, that had even earned praise from Niti Aayog, is turning out to be a win-win situation for property owners, builders/ developers apart from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and other State government departments. NITI Aayog recognised the Online TDR Bank application as one of the […]

Hyderabad: As part of their social responsibility, the trend of corporates joining hands with the administration to protect and revive water bodies in Hyderabad and its surburbs is on the rise. Leading builders and infra developers, such as Vamsiram Builders, Jain Constructions, Green Leaves Infra, Vaishnaoi Group and Meenakshi Infrastructures, have also volunteered to be […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Sunday reported 434 Covid positive infections out of which 343 were from areas under GHMC, 34 from Rangareddy and 25 from Medchal-Malkajgiri districts. With no fatalities getting reported, the total number deaths due to Covid-19 has remained at 4, 111 while the number of active Covid cases on Sunday reached 3,762. A […]

Hyderabad: Efforts to tackle the menace of urban flooding, which has emerged a major threat in the city, especially to people residing in low-lying areas, during heavy rains, are gathering steam with a series of works worth a whopping Rs 2,250 crore to fix water-logging issues in such localities in progress. Some of the major […]

Hyderabad: More than 10 days after the Southwest monsoon advanced into the State, Hyderabad is still waiting for the real feel of the monsoon as it has only been seeing sporadic showers, none of them too heavy. Saturday, too, was no different, with a few light showers reported in parts of the city. Most other […]

Hyderabad: For better traffic management at junctions in the State capital, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has rolled out new Adaptive Traffic Signal Control (ATSC) systems that change traffic signal colours based on real-time traffic data. Developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the state-of-the-art adaptive control algorithm known as Composite […]