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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 […]

Kothagudem: The movements of a tiger have been reported at Tokabandhala village in Laxmidevipalli mandal near the district headquarters on Friday. The big cat killed a cow belonging to a farmer in the village. Kinnerasani Division FDO (wildlife management), Damodar Reddy said that the tiger travelled from Asifabad district to Mulug and entered Edulla Bayyaram […]

Kothagudem: Kothagudem Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Venkateshwara Babu distributed school bags to students of Government Primary School at New Gollagudem in the district on Thursday. He distributed bags to about 150 students at a programme organised under the aegis of Chetana Foundation founder Venigalla Ravi Kumar. The DSP said the services of the Chetana […]

Kothagudem: A minor girl and a 28-year-old married man, who were reportedly in a relationship, allegedly committed suicide at Aswaraopet in the district on Tuesday. It is said that the girl, a Class IX student at a government school at Chandrugonda mandal headquarters, went missing after having mid-day meal on Monday. Her parents, Krishnaveni and […]

Participating in the popular 'Evaru Meelo Koteeswarulu' hosted by NTR Junior on Gemini TV, Raja Ravindra became the first ever winner of such huge prize money, among both contestants or celebrity participants, on a Telugu channel.

Kothagudem: A team of doctors at the District Hospital here has successfully performed a critical and challenging surgery on an Adivasi whose facial and other parts smashed in a bison attack last month. It might be noted a 55-year-old adivasi, Mokati Sammaiah of Regulagudem in Paloncha mandal in the district was admitted to the hospital […]

Kothagudem: Police seized 82 kg ganja and arrested four persons at Morampalli Banjar village in Burgampahad mandal in the district on Saturday. Speaking to the media, Burgampahad ASP B Rohith Raj said during vehicle inspections at the village, the police spotted the accused moving suspiciously on two two-wheelers towards Paloncha. When they were stopped and […]

Kothagudem: The outlawed CPI (Maoist) Central Committee staff member and its technology expert, Ravi (Jailal) had died while testing a bomb arrow he developed. In a statement released to the media here on Saturday the Maoist Central Committee revealed the details of his death nearly one and half year after it occurred on June 25, […]

Kothagudem: The movements of a tiger have been reported in the forests of Amararam village in Pinapaka mandal in the district. According to a local shepherd, D Ramesh, the tiger attacked his cattle herd at Jajulacheruvu area in the forests and killed a cow on Friday. On learning about the incident, District Forest Officer (DFO) […]