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Kothagudem: Police seized a huge cache of ganja worth Rs 1.65 crore at Brindavanam village of Chunchupalli mandal in the district on Monday and arrested one person. Superintendent of Police (SP) Sunil Dutt speaking to the media persons at Chunchupalli police station in Kothagudem informed that the local police while conducting vehicle inspections stopped a […]

Kothagudem: Three village committee members and two militia members of CPI (Maoist) party surrendered before Kothagudem SP and a CRPF 141 Bn official here on Thursday. Superintendent of Police (SP) Sunil Dutt giving details of naxal’s surrender to media persons said the surrendered naxal activists belong to Kondavai village of Cherla mandal in the district. […]

Kothagudem: The State government and Telangana police have been making persistent efforts to keep the State free of Maoist activities, Director General of Police (DGP), M Mahender Reddy said on Wednesday. The DGP was speaking after a tour of Maoist-affected areas on the inter-State border in Mulugu and Kothagudem districts apart from visiting a police […]

Khammam: As the stage is set for the opening of licenced retail liquor shops for the new liquor policy period 2021-23 on Wednesday, Adivasi, SC and Goud associations are gearing up to check benami traders. The associations wanted the officials to safeguard the reservations the State government provided to the communities ensuring a livelihood to […]

Kothagudem: Four Maoist sympathisers hailing from Chhattisgarh were arrested by police in Cherla in the district on Tuesday. Sodi Sona, Sodi Sonu, Sodi Urra and Madakam Sandeep were naxal sympathisers arrested by a joint team comprising Cherla police, CRPF 151 Bn and 204 CoBra personnel during inspections in Cherla, informed Bhadrachalam ASP, Dr. Vineeth G. […]

Kothagudem: Police seized dry ganja worth Rs 1.2 lakh and arrested two persons at Manugur in the district. An auto rickshaw and two mobile phones were also seized. In a statement, ASP Dr. Shabarish P on Saturday informed that SI Purushotham and staff conducted vehicle inspections at Hanuman temple area on Friday evening. Two persons […]

Kothagudem: A goods train derailed after the Maoists sabotaged a railway track in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh State. The goods train was on its way to Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh carrying iron ore from the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) mines at Kirandul in Dantewada district. Railway traffic on Kirandul-Visakhapatnam route came to standstill following […]

Kothagudem: A massive protest rally was taken by the district Congress leaders here on Thursday demanding the State and Central governments to take steps to procure entire paddy produced by farmers in the State. The rally was led by the TPCC Vikalangula Vibhagam chairman Muthineni Veeraiah and district Congress leader Naga Seetharamulu. Speaking to the […]

Kothagudem: Police arrested five persons and seized dry ganja worth Rs 47.68 lakh from them at Housing Board Colony here on Thursday. DSP G Venkateshwara Babu informed media persons that a team of police while conducting vehicle inspections found two cars moving suspiciously. Upon inspection of the vehicles, police found around 238.4 kg ganja hidden […]

Kothagudem: TRS candidate for Khammam Local Authorities’ Constituency (LAC) MLC election, T Madhusudhan has urged local bodies’ elected members in the district to support him in the election. He along with MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy held a meeting with the elected members at Paloncha on Thursday. The candidate said that all the elected members of […]

Kothagudem: A massive protest rally was taken by the district Congress leaders here on Thursday demanding the State and Central governments to take steps to procure entire paddy produced by farmers in the State. The rally was led by the TPCC Vikalangula Vibhagam Chairman Muthineni Veeraiah and district Congress leader Naga Seetharamulu. Speaking to the […]

Kothagudem: Proving the fact that love can overcome any hindrance, a man has married a physically challenged and orphaned woman despite his parents’ disapproval. Twenty eight-year-old Nuti Vasantha Rao of Yellandu fell in love with Madakam Narasamma of Manugur, both belonging to Scheduled Tribes, after they met in a marriage ceremony of their relatives an […]

Khammam: A team of Khammam Excise Enforcement wing has nabbed a ganja smuggler at Bhadrachalam in Kothagudem district on Wednesday. Acting upon the directions of Excise Deputy Commissioner G Anjan Rao, the team carried out inspections at Ambedkar Centre, Nellipaka road, bus stand area, Gollagatta road and Degree College area in Bhadrachalam town. During inspections, […]

Kothagudem: Officials at Kachanapally (Komararam) police station in Yellandu mandal in the district had an unusual take at an MPTC member, against whom they opened a rowdy sheet. A large portrait of Komararam MPTC member, Ajmeera Biccha was being exhibited on a window by the side of the police stations’ main door. It was in […]

Kothagudem: Police arrested seven Maoist militia members, including a minor, in Kurnapalli forests of Cherla mandal in the district on Monday. ASP Dr Vineeth G said that Cherla police and CRPF personnel spotted the militia members and caught them when they tried to escape. At the directions of Maoist Cherla Area Committee secretary Aruna, they […]

Nalgonda: A Class VI student was severely injured when she jumped from the BC Residential School building on Devarakonda road in Nalgonda on Sunday. According to the police, the injured student was a resident of Kothagudem village. Police said the incident occurred after her parents dropped her at the school. she returned to the school […]

Kothagudem: Tiger scare has been haunting the people living in forest fringe villages in the district. A big cat which has been moving around the forests and villages for the past few days in different mandals was sighted for the second day in a row in Tekulapalli mandal in the district on Sunday evening hours. […]

Kothagudem: Subsidised sewing machines were distributed to members of a Mutually Aided Cooperative Society (MACS) at Nava Bharat Women’s Empowerment Centre at Paloncha in the district. As many as 30 women who were trained by the Women’s Empowerment Centre were given sewing machines as part of 68th All India Cooperative Week celebrations under the aegis […]

It was the first instance in Kothagudem district wherein a recorded evidence of tiger's presence came into public domain, though the forest officials caught tiger movements in camera traps many times recently and in the past.

Kothagudem: The works related to the development of Bruhat Palle Prakruthi Vanams in all mandals have been going on at a brisk pace in the district. The State government after developing over 19,000 Palle Prakruti Vanams in the villages across the State planned to develop one Bruhat Palle Prakruthi Vanam in each mandal headquarter or […]