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Mancherial: A farm labourer was killed after being struck by lightning in Kotapalli mandal headquarters on Friday. The victim was Sundilla Ramleela (45), the wife of Devaiah from Kotapalli mandal centre. Ramleela died on the spot after the lightning struck her when she was engaged in a farm activity on the outskirts of Kotapalli. Some […]

Nirmal: Traffic was temporarily suspended on the busy Khanapur-Mancherial road following repairs to Kaddam Narayana Reddy Project in Kaddampeddur mandal on Thursday. Nirmal Superintendent of Police Ch Praveen Kumar advised motorists to use alternative routes to reach their destinations. He suggested that the motorists from Mancherial could go to Nirmal via Jagtial, Metpalli and Khanapur […]

Mancherial: A farmer was drowned in an irrigation tank while he was searching for his missing cattle at kannepalli mandal centre on Tuesday. The incident came to light on Wednesday. Kannepalli Sub-Inspector Suresh said that the victim was Kotrangi Shankaraiah (48), a resident of Kannepalli mandal headquarters. Shankaraiah met a watery grave when he was […]

Mancherial: Chennur Tahsildar imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh against a person for violating bind-over case on Wednesday. Tahsildar and executive magistrate Srinivas Deshpandey imposed the fine against Kothari Devender, for brewing illicitly distilled liquor or locally known as Gudumba within a year after being bounded over before the officials for the same offence […]

Mancherial: You may have heard of spurious cotton seeds, counterfeit currency notes and adulteration of popular brands of groceries. In the latest menace, selling fake insurance cover is going unchecked. Some unscrupulous persons are selling the fake insurance cover for heavy commercial transport carriers duping gullible owners of the vehicles and causing losses to the […]

Mancherial: The annual Gandhari Maisamma Bonalu festival was celebrated with religious gaiety and pomp at Sri Gandhari Maisamma temple on the outskirts of Bokkalagutta village in Mandamarri mandal on the busy Mancherial-Asifabad national highway on Sunday. Facing a drizzle, around 50,000 devotees from various parts of the district visited the temple and offered special prayers. […]

Mancherial: Wearing black badges, members and leaders of the Congress party staged a rasta-roko condemning the union government over interrogation of the party’s national president Sonia Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate, here on Friday. Led by District Congress Committee president Kokkirala Surekha, hundreds of activists gathered at the busy Bellampalli Chowrasta and blocked traffic and […]

Mancherial: In an example of going an extra-mile, authorities of the civil supplies department shipped rice meant for Public Distribution System (PDS) by a boat to remote Sumputam village in Vemanapalli mandal, which was isolated by flooding streams, on Thursday. District Civil Supplies Officer A Prem Kumar visited the flooding stream and ensured that the […]

Mancherial: The torrential rains that lashed the district for six days in a row in the last week affected normal life. They in particular wreaked havoc on nearly 18,000 farmers of the district by damaging standing crops in about 30,000 acres. As per information provided by authorities concerned, crops being raised in 27,592 acres were […]

Mancherial: The 51st anniversary of Sri Quarry Durga Devi temple, popularly known as Durga Devi Jatara was celebrated at the shrine with gaiety and pomp on the outskirts of Ghadpur in Hajipur mandal on Sunday. Braving the drizzle, nearly 30,000 devotees from several parts of the district congregated at the shrine and took part in […]

Mancherial: Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad director Dr K Ramesh Reddy instructed the district authorities to take steps to prevent spread of seasonal diseases in the flood-affected areas. He convened a review meeting with Collector Bharati Hollikeri and District Health and Medical Officer Dr Subbarayudu here on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, Ramesh Reddy told authorities […]

Mancherial: Members of Narisena Global Women Forum (NGWF) local chapter, continued their charity work to help victims of recent floods by providing food, bread, fruits and bedsheets in different parts of the district for the third day on Saturday. Kasam Shiva Keerthi, chapter president said that they distributed meal bread, bananas and bedsheets, towels to […]

Mancherial: An IAF chopper air lifted two shepherds stranded in the overflowing Godavari river on the outskirts of Somanpalli village in Chennur mandal on Thursday. The air force chopper was pressed into service after the local MLA Balka Suman sought help of Municipal Administration minister K T Rama Rao in rescuing the two sheperds. Accordingly, […]

Mancherial: Government whip Balka Suman toured several parts of Chennur Assembly segment which was affected by incessant rains, on Wednesday. Suman toured Devulawada, Laxmipur, Parupalli and Kollur villages in Kotapalli mandal and inspected a rehabilitation centre at Parupalli village. He instilled confidence by interacting with the people taking shelter at the centre. He instructed the […]

Mancherial: Collector Bharati Hollikeri said that the district administration would take full-fledged measures for the convenience of families affected by the incessant rains. She along with local MLA Nadipelli Diwakar Rao visited flood-hit NTR Nagar, Mother and Child Hospital (MCH) and Sripada Yellampalli sagar project on Wednesday. Stating the people dwelling in the low-lying areas […]

Mancherial: Communist Party of India national secretary K Narayana demanded the government to issue documents of ownership (Pattas) and to withdraw cases booked against the tribals of Koya Pochamguda village in Dandepalli mandal. He visited the village and consoled the tribals on Wednesday. Narayana assured that the party would always back the tribals in their […]

Mancherial: Members of Tudum Debba, a tribal rights organisation and various tribal rights bodies staged a rasta-roko on Dandepally-Mancherial road, condemning the ‘indifference attitude’ of forest officials in evacuating tribals at Koya Pochagudem, in Dandepalli mandal centre on Monday. The leaders of the organizations alleged that the officials of the forest department were coercively evacuating […]

Mancherial: District Forest Officer Shivani Dogra said that certain greedy persons were trying to encroach the forest lands even as they own house sites and agriculture fields at Koya Pochamguda village in Dandepalli, resulting in controversies. She along with Jannaram Forest Divisional Officer S Madhav Rao addressed pressmen here on Monday. Stating that the outskirts […]

Mancherial: She can mellifluously render Annamayya Keerthanas in Telugu, sing Urdu qawwalis and even Marathi bhajans. She can effortlessly croon in 17 languages, besides enacting monologues and mimicking popular actors of Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam films. Meet Kattoju Jahnavi, a 16-year old versatile girl from Mancherial district who has been impressing one and all […]

Hyderabad: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) – Hyderabad has forecasted heavy to extreme rainfall in a few districts including Kumuram Bheem Asifabad, Mancherial, Nirmal, Nizamabad, Mulugu, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Mahabubabad, Warangal (Rural), and Warangal (Urban) on Saturday. A red alert has also been issued in these districts. Orange and yellow alerts have been issued in other […]