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Khammam: The State government has been working to strengthen the education system in the State and as part of that, English medium has been introduced in government schools, said Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar. He along with District Collector VP Gautham distributed free bilingual (English and Telugu) textbooks and uniforms to students at Kasturba Gandhi […]

Khammam: District Collector VP Gautham directed the officials to speed up construction of double bedroom houses in the district. The Collector visited the house’s construction sites under Khammam Municipal Corporation on Tuesday. He inspected the progress of construction of 96 houses at YSR Nagar, 144 houses at Allipur and 192 houses being constructed at Mallemadugu […]

Khammam: A third year medical student of Mamatha Medical College, Kayitha Vinuthna Reddy has been selected for a research programme in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She will be engaged in a two-months research work in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, informed a release here on Sunday. Vinuthna Reddy […]

Khammam: A seven-year-old boy drowned in an open sump at an under construction apartment at Sri Nagar Colony in Khammam on Sunday. The deceased Ganesh was a child of a watchman working at an apartment in the area. The kid accidentally fell in the sump while he was playing at the site. The local police […]

Kothagudem: TRS MPs, MLAs, MLCs and leaders of erstwhile Khammam district distributed essential commodities and utensils to flood affected families in Aswapuram, Bhadrachalam, Burgampad, Pinapaka mandals in the district Saturday. MPs Nama Nageswar Rao, Maloth Kavitha, Bandi Parthasarathi Reddy and Vaddiraju Ravichandra, Khammam district TRS president, MLC Tata Madhusudan, Government Whip, Kothagudem TRS district president […]

Kothagudem: Water level in river Godavari at Bhadrachalam has been receding and came down to 41 feet at 7 pm with a discharge of 8.47 lakh cusecs on Wednesday. The district witnessed light to heavy rain during the past 24-hours. A highest rainfall of 7.5 cm was recorded in Gundala mandal while in Pinapaka and […]

Hyderabad: One more person with suspected symptoms of monkeypox, with recent travel history, has been identified by the local surveillance teams in Khammam and is being admitted to Fever Hospital, the nodal centre identified for treatment of monkeypox positive cases in Telangana. The blood and lesion samples from the suspected monkeypox patient will be collected […]

Khammam: A 55 year man was killed in a road mishap at Sathupalli town in the district on Tuesday. The incident occurred when a motorbike on which the deceased, P Venkat Reddy of Kothur area was travelling hit by a school bus. He was rushed to the local government hospital where the doctors declared him […]

Hyderabad: A Transport Sub-inspector from the Regional Transport Office approached the Jubilee Hills police alleging she was drugged and raped by a Home Guard from the same department. The woman officer, who was living separately from her husband, was in 2018 transferred to Khammam district, where she met the suspect Swamy, who worked in the […]

Khammam: Several mandals in erstwhile Khammam district received moderate to very heavy rainfall during the past 24hours and many low lying villages were inundated throwing life out of gear. In Khammam district highest rainfall of 12cm was recorded in Kusumanchi mandal, Nelakondapally and Mudigonda mandals received 10.4 and 10.1 cm rainfall respectively while Khammam Urban […]

Mulugu: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s aerial survey of flood affected areas in erstwhile Warangal and Khammam districts was called off due to inclement weather on Monday. In stead, the Chief Minister left by road to inspect the flood affected areas in Mulugu district on Sunday. As a part of his visit, he will first […]

Khammam: Police seized 63 kg of ganja and arrested five youths smuggling the ganja at Choutapalli village in Kusumanchi mandal in the district on Tuesday night. Kusumanchi CI Koppula Sathish and SI Nandeep along with his staff arrested youths Venkatesh, Naveen, Srinivas, Ramesh and Sriram while they were transporting ganja on a two wheeler. Police […]

Khammam: Dalit Bandhu was an innovative scheme introduced by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao giving the beneficiaries total freedom to select units of their choice, said District Collector VP Gautham. The Collector along with MLA S Venkata Veeraiah handed over units to beneficiaries at Kotha Karaigudem in Penuballi mandal in the district on Tuesday. He […]

Khammam: Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar said that the State government was aiming to provide advanced and better medical care to the common man through Basti Dawakhanas. He inaugurated a Basti Dawakhana Pandurangapuram here on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion he said that more Basti Dawakhanas would be set up in Khammam city in the […]

Hyderabad: The southwest monsoon has been active over Telangana with the State recording above-normal rainfall since June which marks the arrival of the monsoon. The State’s average normal rainfall in June is 129.3 mm and this year, it recorded 150.6 mm during the month. Similarly, the State”s average normal rainfall in July is 244.4 mm […]

Khammam: Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar has directed the district administration to be vigilant in view of the incessant heavy rains in the State. On Monday the minister inspected the flood situation in Munneru stream and Kalvoddu area in Khammam along with Mayor P Neeraja, District Collector VP Gautham, Commissioner of Police Vishnu S Warrier […]

Khammam: With torrential rains in upper catchment area and releasing of water from upstream projects water level in river Godavari at Bhadrachalam in Kothagudem district has been rising steadily. Central Water Commission lower Godavari division has released an advisory forecast stating that the water in the river might reach the first warning level of 43 […]

Khammam: Teja variety chilli fetched a record price of Rs 22, 300 per quintal at the agricultural market yard here on Friday. The price offered for the chilli variety (cold storage stock) was said to be a national record. A week ago the same variety of chilli fetched Rs 22, 000. The chilli was sold […]

Hyderabad: Heavy rains continue to lash several parts of the State since last couple of days. Till 8.30 am on Friday, the highest rainfall of 190.4 mm was recorded at Atmakur, Suryapet, followed by 162 mm at Khanapur in Khammam and 154.5 mm at Nagula vancha in Khammam. As many as 20 locations in Suryapet, […]

Khammam: TRS leaders have strongly condemned BJP’s petty politics with regard to allotment of double bedroom houses to the beneficiaries at Tekulapalli in the city. Speaking to the media here on Thursday Mayor P Neeraja, SUDA Chairman B Vijay Kumar, TRS city president P Nagaraju and others refuted the BJP leader’s allegations of corruption in […]