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Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is gearing up to further improve its recycling initiatives in the city by generating wealth out of waste. As a part of the exercise, efforts are underway to set up two Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste recycling plants, one each in the southern and northern parts of the […]

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) invited entries from citizens, Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs), NGOs and startups to come up with suggestions and solutions to improve sanitation. Among others, involvement of people, solid waste management, plastic waste management and incorporating technology are the sectors where suggestions were sought. The top three solutions selected at […]

Hyderabad: Telangana reported 156 new Covid infections and no fatalities on Monday. The cumulative number of deaths so far has reached 4,015 while the total number of positive Covid infections was at 6,79,720. The number of active cases in Telangana, as on Monday, was 3,642. The authorities on Monday conducted 33,140 Covid tests of which […]

Hyderabad: Long before the city wakes up, this tribe sets out on their job, armed with brooms and dustpans, keeping the streets of Hyderabad clean every day, week after week and round the year. And their job continues, much after the morning walkers and joggers return home and even when they head to their offices, […]

Hyderabad: Precautionary measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus are underway in the city. While the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is strengthening 30 isolation centres located in different parts of the city, officials of the Department of Health, Medical & Family Welfare continued with their fever survey in Tolichowki for the third consecutive […]

In a series of tweets on Saturday, the Minister quoted a Telangana Today report, pointing out how Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt was ‘unaware of ground realities’

Hyderabad: Justice B Vijaysen Reddy of Telangana High Court on Friday directed Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to detail the rules and regulations pertaining to pubs. The court was dealing with a petition filed by Jubilee Hills Residential Association complaining about the alleged nuisance created by pubs. The petitioner complained that apart from creating nuisance, […]

Hyderabad: The health authorities on Thursday sounded an alert in a residential area in Hyderabad where two cases of Omicron were detected among foreigners. Teams of health workers along with the employees of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) were conducting door to door surveys in Paramount Colony in the Toli Chowki area. All the foreign […]

Hyderabad: Following two Omicron cases reported from Tolichowki, the civic administration has swung into action and taken up a series of measures in the area. Since the two persons, one from Kenya and another from Somalia, reside at Tolichowki, the authorities have imposed restrictions in the area and are treating it as a containment zone. […]

Hyderabad: A two-Judge panel of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice N Tukaramji on Wednesday directed the State Government not to shift the Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI) from Mallepally. The panel was dealing with a letter converted to a PIL written by 133 students of the ITI College […]

Hyderabad: Following the Omicron variant of Coronavirus scare, the police department has intensified its drive against mask violators and booking cases against them. According to police officials, the department has booked 9,89,340 cases so far in 2021 as against 3,26,758 cases in 2020. Most of these cases were registered in GHMC limits. Though it has […]

Hyderabad: Issues related to urban flooding in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits and its vicinity are expected to recede in 2022 by monsoon. At a recent meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and attended by Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) department Special Chief Secretary, Arvind Kumar, the deadline to complete […]

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has intensified its efforts to help street vendors in the city. After disbursing Rs 10,000 each to 40,237 street vendors under the PM’s Street Vendor Atma Nirbhar Nidhi Scheme, the civic body has now started disbursing the second installment of loans and the loan amount being sanctioned this […]

Hyderabad: For many pet parents who consider their animals as family members, when they pass away due to old age or some ailment, the void left is a huge one. The pets are a companion some use as crutch to get by in the harshness of the real world. Usually, when pets pass away unless […]

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Sunday took up an intensive exercise of spraying disinfectants at educational institutions in the city. In several government schools across the city, sodium hypochlorite was sprayed and on the request made by management of some private schools, a similar exercise was taken up there also by the […]

Hyderabad: To decrease congestions and ensure smooth flow of vehicular movement, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is developing junctions in different parts of the city. Presently, works pertaining to 11 new junctions are under progress and in addition to them, 14 more junctions will be developed and the works will commence soon, the GHMC said in a […]

Hyderabad: The immensely popular Basti Dawakhana network in the city is getting even bigger. Strengthening the healthcare infrastructure for economically weak sections, the State government will make operational 32 Basti Dawakhanas on Friday. Another 92 Dawakhanas are in various stages of being made operational. These are apart from the 226 Basti Dawakhanas that are already […]

Hyderabad: Telangana reported 189 new Covid infections and two fatalities on Thursday taking the cumulative number of deaths to 3,995 and the total number of positive cases so far to 6,76,376. The number of active cases in Telangana, as on Thursday, was 3,680. The authorities on Thursday conducted 36,883 Covid tests of which results of […]

Hyderabad: A two judge panel of the High court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Tukaram on Wednesday, while extending time to the GHMC to respond to a bunch of writ pleas and PILs, made clear that if the counters are not filed on the said day, the Commissioner will have to be […]

Hyderabad: In view of the increased traffic in the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been initiating several public transport safety measures aimed at streamlining the traffic and checking accidents. The civic body is also setting up new traffic signals at various junctions to regulate the traffic congestion in the city. Under these […]