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Hyderabad: The State government will encourage small and marginal dairy farmers in Telangana through State-owned Vijaya Dairy, said Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav. Vijaya Dairy, which was making losses before the State formation, has been transformed into a profit-making company with a turnover of Rs 750 crore. It has increased milk procurement from one […]

Hyderabad: After a successful stint with the first cohort, Telangana government-led incubator for women entrepreneurs WE Hub has announced the opening of applications for the second cohort of its UPsurge programme. The pre-incubation programme being implemented in partnership with the Australian Consulate General, Chennai aims to help nascent entrepreneurs establish an enterprise of their own. […]

Hyderabad: The new food processing policy primarily aims to provide value addition and better pricing for the farmer, besides ensuring that consumers get good quality products, said Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar. Participating in a conference organised by industry body FTCCI on ‘Telangana Food Processing Policy’, the Chief Secretary said land has been identified for setting […]

Hyderabad: Former Minister Nagam Janardhan Reddy found fault with the State government for failing to raise the issue of unauthorised projects being taken up by the Andhra Pradesh Government during the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) meeting held recently. “Despite several appeals to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, he had not approached Supreme Court over […]

Techie-turned-animal rescuer Sanjeev Nag has saved hundreds of street dogs over the last decade

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the inauguration of the renovated temple of Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy at Yadadri, scheduled to be held between October and November. The muhurat for the inaugural ceremony is yet to be finalised by seer Sri Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamy. Prime Minister Modi […]

Hyderabad: There is biryani. And then, there is the rest. For true-blue Hyderabadis, biryani is food for the soul. And that is why foodies here experiment different varieties of biryani. If it was the Zafrani Biryani that recently became a trend, the latest is the ‘Nalli Biryani’. More popular in the northern parts of the […]

Hyderabad: Three persons died and two others sustained injuries at Kaniki village, Kumaram Bheem Asifabad on Friday. The incident occurred when they were on their way to their house on a bullock cart. In a separate incident at Vastavapuram village in Nirmal district, two families, including one from Hyderabad, got stuck in floodwaters. However, locals […]

Karimnagar: Prof Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University, Hyderabad, presented Best Farmer Award to a progressive farmer Katla Srinivas. The award was presented through virtual mode on the occasion of university’s seventh formation day on Friday. Srinivas was selected for the award for practicing integrated farming in his 6.5 acres land in Thirumalapur of Ramadugu mandal. […]

Hyderabad: The Shamshabad Police Special Operations Team along with the Sanathnagar police on Friday caught two persons on charges of impersonation and cheating at least 100 persons after promising them double bedroom houses under the Dignity Housing Scheme. Police recovered Rs 37 lakh, gold worth Rs 15 lakh, automobiles and other material, all together worth […]

Hyderabad: The Ministry of Power (MoP) has asked all the State governments and Union Territories (UTs) to hand over 33 kV systems from Discoms to the State Transmission Utility (STU) for better planning, loss reduction and increased supply reliability. In a letter addressed to the Chief Secretaries of all State governments and UTs along with […]

Hyderabad: Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani on Friday appreciated various initiatives taken up by the Telangana government for the development and welfare of women in the State. She said the ‘Balamrutham’, introduced to provide improved supplementary nutrition to children aged between seven months and three years and the growth monitoring special […]

Hyderabad: Startups can compete for a grant of up to Rs 10 crore each for developing high-technology solutions against specific requirements posted by the DRDO-Technology Development Fund (TDF). TDF has been established to promote self-reliance in defence technology as a part of the ‘Make in India’ initiative. It is a programme of the Ministry of […]

Hyderabad: The Meerpet police apprehended three juveniles on charges of extortion at Nandanavanam here on Friday. Officials seized a dummy pistol and a mobile phone, all worth Rs 25,000 from them. Police said they were involved in eight cases so far. The juveniles, all in their early teens, were close friends and residents of Nandanavanam […]

Hyderabad: Continuing the investigation into the Karvy Stock Broking Limited cheating case, the Hyderabad Central Crime Station police on Friday arrested Y. Sailaja, a Company Secretary working for Karvy, on charges of falsely creating the company resolution and misrepresenting the HDFC bank to obtain loans. Police said Sailaja, being the Company Secretary, had created a […]

Hyderabad: A special round of counselling for TSPOLYCET-2021 admissions will be held between September 1 and 15, according to Commissioner of Technical Education and Convenor, TSPOLYCET-2021, Navin Mittal on Friday. As part of the special counselling, candidates can exercise their options between September 5 and 6 and freeze their options on September 6. Provisional allotment […]

Hyderabad: The Punjagutta police solved the gold theft case reported in the last week of August and caught two persons on Friday. Police recovered over 2,052 grams of gold ornaments worth Rs.1 crore from them. The arrested persons were Gulab alias Gulab Mali (32), a worker at a jewellery in Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai and […]

Hyderabad: In view of the visit of Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu to the Aurobindo International School in Vidyanagar here on Saturday, there will be certain traffic restrictions in the city. From 8.50 am, there may be restrictions at Jubilee Hills check post, NFCL, Taj Krishna, Ansari Manzil, RTO Office, VV Statue, Khairatabad flyover, Necklace Rotary, […]

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The desi charpai – from a New Zealand-based ANNABELLE’S store – titled the charpai as a “vintage Indian daybed”.