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Hyderabad: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is likely to tour Telangana during the first week of May. During his two-day tour, he will be participating in a meeting at Warangal and later would convene a meeting with party leaders in Hyderabad. The State unit is yet to finalise the invitees for Rahul Gandhi’s meeting. All these […]

Hyderabad: Transco and Genco Chairman and Managing Director D Prabhakar Rao on Friday clarified that there will not be any interruption in power supply to the agriculture sector in the State. The clarification comes in the wake of reports in a section of the media about ‘unscheduled power cuts’ to the agriculture sector in north […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy sought to know from State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy as to why the BJP State unit was not demanding national status for Palamuru Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS). Urging the BJP leaders to refrain from uttering blatant lies and misleading the […]

Hyderabad: TRS working president and Minister KT Rama Rao launched a scathing attack on BJP State president Bandi Sanjay who commenced his Praja Sangrama Yatra in Palamuru region, notwithstanding the discrimination of the BJP-led union government towards the region. He demanded that Sanjay should first apologise to people of Palamuru for the Centre’s refusal to […]

Hyderabad: There is a drop in fire accidents in the State in 2021, with 7,149 incidents reported as against 7,899 the previous year, according to data provided by the State Disaster Response and Fire Services Department. Officials are attributing the drop to the high number of awareness programmes organised by the department across the State. […]

Karimnagar: BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar said that in order to bring comprehensive change in the lives of Dalits, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was implementing Dalit Bandhu scheme. Minister distributed Dalit Bandhu units to beneficiaries at a programme held in Ambedkar stadium here on Thursday. A total of 769 vehicles worth […]

Khammam: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao stood firmly behind Telangana farmers by his decision to purchase the entire yasangi paddy, stated Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar. He launched a paddy procurement centre at Manchukonda village in Raghunadhapalem mandal in the district on Thursday. The Minister described Chandrashekhar Rao as the true ‘Rythu Bandhu’ for his […]

Hyderabad: From humiliation and doubts over the development of the new State to the refusal of power supply by the Andhra Pradesh government, Telangana faced many problems after its formation in 2014. The rulers in undivided Andhra Pradesh even said Telangana would be plunged into darkness once a separate State is carved out and there […]

Hyderabad: Industries Minister KT Rama Rao held discussions with Australia India Institute’s CEO Lisa Singh on the measures to strengthen relations in the trade and commerce sectors between Telangana and Australia, during their meeting at Pragathi Bhavan here on Thursday. During the meeting, Lisa Singh said Telangana was one among the fast developing States in […]

Hyderabad: Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Thursday said that the hate speech cases registered against AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi would be reopened once the BJP government comes to power in the State next time. Addressing a public meeting at Jogulamba Shakti Peetam temple in Alampur before commencing his second phase of ‘Praja Sangrama […]

Hyderabad: TPCC president A Revanth Reddy demanded union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy to initiate measures for CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in Custom Milled Rice (CMR) procurement in the State. In an open letter to the union Tourism Minister, the TPCC president alleged that huge amounts of irregularities were taking place in the […]

Hyderabad: Social Welfare Minister Koppula Eshwar on Thursday challenged the Congress and BJP to implement Dalit Bandhu scheme in the States ruled by the two national parties. “There is no other great scheme like Dalit Bandhu in the world except in Telangana,” he said. The Minister was speaking after paying tributes to Dr. BR Ambedkar […]

Hyderabad: Telangana chess players and grandmasters Raja Rithvik and Harsha Bharakoti hogged limelight at the National Team Championship, held at the Jalgaon in Maharashtra on Wednesday. Both Raja Rithvik and Harsha played well to guide their team Airports Authority of India (AAI) team to victory in the team championship. Later, Raja Rithvik won a gold […]

Rajanna-Sircilla: Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao said that the word Ambedkar was a slogan for a few political parties. However, it was a policy for the Telangana government. A majority of the people would confine themselves to talk about Ambedkarism. However, they would not show interest in implementation. It was the […]

Hyderabad: IT Minister KT Rama Rao on slammed the Centre for hijacking the achievements of the State government through misleading advertisements. Participating on the eve of 131st birth anniversary celebrations of Dr BR Ambedakar held here on Wednesday, the Minister said: “In the 75 years of Independent India’s history, Telangana State was the first and […]

Hyderabad: The BA2 variant of the SARS-CoV-2, which is behind the recent surge of Covid infections in China, South Korea, Europe and US, has continued to remain the dominant strain in Telangana and in the country, based on the data from Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortium (INSACOG). The genome sequencing of Covid samples by INSACOG, which […]

Hyderabad: Civil Supplies Minister G Kamalakar said paddy procurement would commence from Friday across the State and the exercise would be completed by May end or first week of June. This Yasangi season, paddy was cultivated in 34 lakh acres and 65 lakh metric tonnes was expected to arrive at the procurement centres, he said. […]

Hyderabad: With use of drones for different operations in the agriculture sector gaining momentum, Nova Agri Tech Limited in collaboration with IoTech World Aviation Private Limited will be introducing radar and lidar based drones. These drones are designed in a manner that they avoid collision with obstacles like trees and power cables and can be […]

Hyderabad: Industries and IT Minister KT Rama Rao termed Dalit Bandhu as a revolutionary scheme to provide a level-playing field for Dalits to compensate for their sufferings and empower them for their socio-economic development. He likened the scheme to the Affirmative Action in the US which is a set of laws, policies, guidelines and administrative […]

Hyderabad: A day after Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced procurement of the entire paddy produced in the State, the administration swung into action to make arrangements for purchase of paddy across the State on Wednesday. While Ministers reviewed the arrangements and plans in their respective districts, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar held a teleconference with […]