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Khammam: Economic offences and POCSO Act cases increased in Khammam district in 2021. According to the annual crime report released by the Khammam Police Commissionerate, as many as 291 economic offences have taken place in 2021 while a total of 237 such offences were reported in 2020. Cyber crimes have come down with just eight […]

Khammam: English New Year was celebrated in a spirited manner across the erstwhile Khammam district on Saturday. At an event organised at the District Collector VP Gautham’s camp office in Khammam ZP Chairman L Kamal Raju, MLA S Venakata Veeraiah, DCCB Chairman K Nagabhushanam, Mayor P Neeraja, MLC B Lakshminarayana, CP Vishnu S Warrier extended […]

Khammam: IT and Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao’s visit to Khammam scheduled on Monday has been postponed. It might be noted that as per earlier schedule, the IT Minister was supposed to inaugurate a cable-stayed suspension bridge at Lakaram tank in Khammam, lay the foundation stone of Tribal Welfare Residential School […]

Hyderabad: The admissions for the Sports Authority of Telangana State (SATS) sports hostels and academies will be held on January 6 and 7, 2022 at various places in the State. Interested athletes should attend the trials at respective venues with birth certificate, study certificate, doctor fitness corticated and Covid-19 negative certificate along with two passport […]

Kothagudem: A man who lost both his legs in a freak accident at Yellandu in the district died while undergoing treatment at District Hospital in Khammam on Thursday. The deceased, Mohammed Ishaq (50), an animal skin trader of Jagadamba centre, was going to Station Basti on his bicycle to collect animal hides. As a goods […]

Khammam: An MBA graduate from Khammam has received the ‘Super Woman Award’ from Forever Star India Awards (FSIA). She was presented the award in the women entrepreneurs’ category in recognition of her entrepreneurial skills with which she has been running beauty-related enterprises and working for women’s empowerment through workshops and lectures. Farah received the award […]

Khammam: As many as 28 engineering graduates of Swarna Bharathi Institute of Technology (SBIT) in Khammam secured jobs in campus placements, informed the college Chairman, Gundala Krishna. In a statement here on Wednesday he said the multi-national company TCS has recently conducted online campus placements and offered jobs to the SBIT students with an annual […]

Khammam: Modern technology was being deployed to lay roads in Khammam city to ensure quality and durability, Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar said on Tuesday. The minister said that with the Chief Minister’s Special Development Fund (SDF) of Rs 30 crore, as many as 140 roads were being laid in different municipal divisions in the […]

Khammam: The stage is set for the inauguration of the city’s newest attraction, a cable-stayed suspension bridge built across Lakaram tank in Khammam city. IT, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K T Rama Rao is scheduled to throw open the bridge to the public during his visit to the district on January 2. The […]

Hyderabad: Warangal crushed Nizamabad 35-20, 35-30 in the boys final, while Khammam girls defeated Warangal 35-30, 35-29 in 66th Juniors state inter-district Ball Badminton Championship 2021 at HAL Balanagar on Sunday. Results: Boys Final: Warangal bt Nizamabad 35-20, 35-30; Semis: Nizamabad bt Ranga Reddy 35-20, 35-30, Warangal bt Medak 35-30, 35-25. Girls Final: Khammam bt […]

New Delhi: A parliamentary committee will next month invite officials of the State Election Commissions in Telangana and Bihar to showcase the use of technology, including biometric systems to authenticate genuine voters, in conducting local body polls. Sushil Modi, Chairperson of the Department-related Standing Committee on Law and Personnel, said the panel would invite the […]

Khammam: The action was sought against a contractor who failed to pay salaries pending for 20 months to contract workers serving in Covid ward at Government District Headquarters Hospital. A dharna being staged by the contract workers reached its third day on Thursday. Telangana State Municipal Staff and Outsourcing Workers Union (AITUC) State general secretary […]

Khammam: TRS party was making sincere efforts to resolve the issue of SC categorisation, stated the party Lok Sabha leader and Khammam MP Nama Nageswara Rao. He gave the assurance to Madiga JAC State campaign secretary Gaddala Nageswara Rao who met the MP at his residence in New Delhi on Wednesday. The JAC leader met […]

Khammam: The NDRF 10th battalion conducted a mock drill at Munneru stream here on Tuesday to create awareness among district officials on emergency rescue operations. The members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) demonstrated at Prakash Nagar bridge in the stream how persons affected by floods or drowning accidentally could be rescued using materials […]

Khammam: Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar has distributed Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak cheques to beneficiary families in various municipal divisions here on Tuesday. The minister handed over the cheques to 233 Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak, totally worth Rs 2.23 crore and 351 CMRF cheques worth Rs 1.45 crore as part of his two-day […]

Khammam: In a tragic incident, a man allegedly committed suicide a day after his son’s death by suicide at Sathupalli town in the district. Sources said Challa Bhanu Prakash, a 10th class student of a private school near Mamta Hospital area in Khammam, was allegedly admonished and suspended by the school management for celebrating his […]

Khammam: CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka has demanded the State government to withdraw the GO No: 317 issued for allotment of staff to new local cadres. The leaders of Joint Action Committee of Teachers’ Organisation (JACTO) and Upadhyaya Sanghala Porata Committee (USPC) met the Congress leader here on Saturday and submitted a memorandum explaining possible […]

Khammam: In a notable display of honesty, an auto rickshaw driver here has returned gold jewellery worth Rs 2 lakh to a passenger who forgot the ornaments in his auto. The driver Kampelli Ravi of Anand Bhavan autostand of TRSKV TATU handed over the jewellery to police on finding the ornaments in the vehicle on […]

Khammam: In a freak accident a ninth class student had broken his two legs after falling into Munneru stream from the bridge across the stream in Khammam.   The student, B Eshwar of Indiramma Colony in Naidupet area on the outskirts of Khammam was studying in Government High School at Nayabazar in the city. On […]

Khammam: Chakali SC Sadhana Samithi State president Kothakonda Srilakshmi called upon the community members to intensify the movement seeking to include the Rajaka community in the Scheduled Castes list (SCs). Speaking to media persons here on Tuesday, she suggested setting up of full-fledged committees in five Assembly constituencies in Khammam district and in Khammam city […]