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Hyderabad: The Regional Director of WHO, South-East Asia Region, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh on Thursday said that confirmation of Omicron variant in India was not unexpected. The senior WHO representative said that the ‘response measures for all variants, including Omicron, is the same as that for SARS-CoV-2. Comprehensive and tailored public health and social measures […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad completed the formalities of picking up remaining two wickets to crush Tripura by an innings and 161 runs on the fourth and final day of the Elite Group D match of the Cooch Behar tournament in New Delhi on Thursday. Needing two wickets in the day, B Punnaia removed Pamir Debnath while Murugan […]

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Commissioner’s Task Force team on Thursday raided a gutkha manufacturing unit at Chandrayangutta and arrested two persons, from whom stuff worth Rs 3 lakh was seized. According to Task Force (South) Inspector S Raghavendra, Mohd Sikander and Mohd Parvez Alam, both residents of Mallapally were illegally manufacturing gutkha at a house in […]

Hyderabad: Directorate of Distance Education (DDE), Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) on Thursday extended the last date for registration for follow-on courses with a late fee up to December 11. According to DDE Director in-charge Prof Mohd Razaullah Khan, 2019 batch semester programme students were not required to pay the registration fee as they […]

Hyderabad: Last date to apply for both fresh and renewal of Central Sector Scholarship Scheme, Ministry of Education, has been extended up to December 15. Similarly, last date for institutional verification has been extended up to December 31.College and university students can apply through the website https://scholarships.gov.in/. For a list of provisionally selected candidates (81,594), […]

Hyderabad: Quantela entered into an agreement for management control of the Indian business of TerraCIS Technologies (TTL), a provider of land governance and smart city solutions. Supported by investment partners, Gateway Partners, and Avenue Capital Group, Quantela will assume immediate operational control of TerraCIS’ business in India, and 100 per cent ownership through a restructuring […]

Hyderabad: Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) and Indian Army signed a contract worth Rs 471.41 Crore for Refurbishment of IGLA – 1M missiles, on Wednesday in New Delhi. The refurbishment will increase the life of the missiles by 10 years. In addition to the refurbishment, BDL will also deal with manufacturing and supplying of guided missiles […]

Hyderabad: Xfinity, Market King, Summer Night. Bisate, Bandit King, Saffron Art & Blue Origin mpressed when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race course on Thursday morning. SAND:800m:Appenzelle (G Naresh) 1-2, 600/46, moved well. Pinatubo (Akashrajput) 1-3, 600/47, handy. Xfinity (Afroz Khan) 55, 600/42, in good form. Havelock Cruise (Kuldeep Singh) 1-3, 600/47, moved […]

Hyderabad: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan visited Hyderabad on Wednesday as part of a nationwide tour to promote his film Antim: The Final Truth. Thousands turned up at the Forum Sujana Mall in Kukatpally to get a glimpse of their favorite actor. The mall echoed with Sallu Bhai and Salman Bhai chants.   Khan, while addressing […]

Hyderabad: In the early hours of Thursday, at about 3 am, about 150-200 people are going to come together to accomplish a mammoth task – cooking and feeding 21,000 people over a span of two days. A Hyderabad-based e-learning solutions company CommLab India’s employees are all set to cook and distribute 21,000 packets of Hyderabadi […]

Hyderabad: The Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE) of IIIT Hyderabad has been selected for the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India. A total of Rs 5 crore was sanctioned to the incubator by the Experts Advisory Committee (EAC) after evaluating IIIT-H […]

Hyderabad: Cyberabad Police Commissioner M Stephen Raveendra on Wednesday reviewed the progress of the investigation into POCSO cases and instructed officials to complete the investigation within 60 days. Instructing the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit to close down places where illegal activities were carried out, he asked officials to check on activities of those involved in women […]

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 […]

Hyderabad: In a faraway corner of the city, Naveed Qureshi’s farmhouse is home to about 15 exotic swans from various parts of the world. A third-generation breeder of exotic birds, Naveed was always fascinated with birds since he was quite young. And now, after taking care of and breeding various species of swans for about […]

Hyderabad: A photographer was killed in a road accident at Rajendranagar on Wednesday. According to the police, the deceased was identified as Kothuri Balakrishna (34), a resident of Aliabad in the old city. The incident happened when the handle of the scooter hit a traffic stopper placed on the road while he was going towards […]

Hyderabad: Two persons allegedly committed suicide in separate incidents in Gachibowli on Tuesday night. In the first case, an IT employee, Shatabdi Mondal (32) from Gujarat, who lived in My Home Vihanga in Gachibowli, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her house. Her flatmates saw her hanging in the room and alerted her […]

Hyderabad: The Narsingi police have identified three bank accounts into which socialite Shilpa Chowdhary transferred the money she allegedly collected from several persons on the pretext of investments in real estate. Two of these bank accounts have been now frozen by the police. The police learned that she diverted funds collected from the public for […]

Warangal: Gratitude does not come easy to most people. For 55-year-old Dasari Hanmaiah, a businessman from Hyderabad, however, a humanitarian gesture by a person more than three decades ago in troubled times placed him in eternal debt of the latter, so much so that he rushed to Kishtapuram Thanda in Palakurthi mandal of Jangaon district […]

Hyderabad: Overnight batters Dheeraj Goud (101 not out, 190 balls; 9×4) and Rishith Reddy (101 not out; 116 balls; 9×4, 4×6) slammed unbeaten centuries as Hyderabad took control on the third day of the four-day Elite Group D match against Tripura in the Cooch Behar tournament at Jamia Milia Islamia ground in New Delhi on […]

Hyderabad: The detection and subsequent reporting of Omicron (B 1.1.529), the new variant of SARS-CoV-2, across the world, has made public health officials and general public in Hyderabad and the neighbouring districts of Rangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri, realise that the battle against Covid-19 has not been won yet and the pandemic could as stay for a […]