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Hyderabad: The workers of BJP disrupted the speech of a Telangana minister at an official ceremony for the foundation stone laying of national highway projects. The incident occurred in the presence of Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, G. Kishan Reddy and V.K. Singh. Raising slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’, the BJP workers created an uproar when state […]

Hyderabad: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl killed her father over property dispute in Telangana’s Mahabubabad district on Friday. According to police, the incident occurred in Vemunuru village of the district. Prabhavati attacked her father Venkanna (46) with a stick, resulting in his death. She was angry with her father for not giving her […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Thursday reported 40 positive Covid-19 infections, taking the cumulative number of Covid infections in Telangana to 7,91,946. With no fatalities reported, the overall number of deaths as on Thursday has continued to remain at 4,111, the health bulletin said. The health department conducted 14,662 Covid tests on Thursday out of which results […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana government is developing a special mobile app for farmers taking up oil palm cultivation in the State. The effort follows Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao setting a target of oil palm plantations in five lakh acres in the current financial year. Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, who held a meeting with officials on […]

Hyderabad: Telangana has done stupendously well in the area of Renewable Energy (RE) installations, surpassing the 2022 RE capacity targets with the State achieving a mind-boggling 248 per cent in super fast time. The achievement is particularly significant since 27 States have not even achieved 50 per cent of their targets and will have to […]

Siddipet: The Finance Minister T Harish Rao has called upon the farmers to take up Oil Palm cultivation since there was a shortage of Palm Oil in the country in the wake of the Ukraine- Russia war. Since Malaysia and Indonesia have also suspended the exports of Palm Oil to India, the Minister has said […]

Hyderabad: In a slight increase in daily Covid infections, Telangana on Wednesday reported 49 positive cases, which is the highest in the past one month. Since the middle of March, the daily Covid positive infections in Telangana have been hovering between 20 and 30 positive cases. With no fatalities reported, the overall number of deaths […]

Hyderabad: The TRS has demanded the Central Government to resolve the Telangana share in River Krishna water under section 3 of the River Water Dispute Act and also instruct Brijesh Kumar tribunal to resolve the issue at the earliest. Moving a resolution to this effect at the TRS plenary here on Wednesday, MLC K Srihari […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Haj Committee through a draw of lots selected Khadimul Hujjaj (haj volunteers) for Haj pilgrimage 2022. State Haj Committee, executive officer, B Shafiullah said that a total 157 applications were received out of which 129 applicants were found eligible and admitted in the draw of lots. Those selected are Nayeem Kaiser […]

Hyderabad: Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), Telangana on Wednesday released notification for eligible candidates to exercise their web-options for final mop-up phase of counselling for vacant seats for Post Graduate diploma and degree courses in affiliated Government and private medical colleges for the academic year 2021-22. Accordingly, candidates notified in the provisional […]

Hyderabad: Days after Karnataka Rural Development Minister KS Eshwarappa tendered his resignation amid the row over a contractor dying by suicide, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao said that such an incident wouldn’t take place in the state. The contractor Santosh Patil had died by suicide which had triggered a political controversy in Karnataka. “We […]

By JR Janumpalli Telangana on June 2, 2014, became the 29th State of India. Many new States were created after independence — some on a linguistic basis and some on tribal identities, geography and culture. The statehood of Telangana was different from other new States. It was for political freedom. It was a demerger of […]

Hyderabad: A solitary case of the BA.2.12.1 variant with L452Q mutation, the new sub-lineage of Omicron variant which is being linked to the surge of Covid infections in New Delhi and New York, was reported in Telangana by the geneticists from Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG). Samples from Covid positive individuals in Hyderabad were collected […]

Hyderabad: Tearing into the divisive political tactics of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday called communal polarisation of society a cancer. Warning that falling into the trap of political parties that survive by provoking communal sentiments could cause permanent damage to the country, he said communal violence would drive away […]

Hyderabad: TRS working president and Minister KT Rama Rao on Tuesday stated that the failures of the Congress were the strength of the BJP and no one including election strategist Prashant Kishor can rescue the Grand Old Party. Even as Prashant Kishor declined the offer made by the AICC, Rama Rao reminded that the TRS […]

Hyderabad: The proclamations of the Telangana Congress leaders including TPCC chief A Revanth Reddy over the party’s revival in the State, anticipating that the political strategist Prashant Kishor would join them, were shattered with the latter declining the offer made by the grand old party. After TRS signed up the political consultancy I-PAC which was […]

Hyderabad: Unable to bear the daily suffering at the hands of their liquor and drug addict son, a couple in Telangana strangled him to death. The shocking incident occurred in Rajanna Sircilla district on Monday. G. Balaiah Goud and his wife Lavanya killed 23-year-old Nikhil with the help of their two other sons. According to […]

Hyderabad: In yet another blatant attempt to stake claim for development for which the union government has no role at all, Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan made a vain bid to give credit to the Centre for an initiative that is completely funded and taken up by the Telangana government. The Governor, on Monday, in a tweet […]

Shillong: Sreeja Akula wore down Mouma Das 4-1 in the women’s singles final, to win her maiden national crown, becoming the first woman from Telangana to achieve the feat at the 83rd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships here on Monday. Sreeja, who won her first national ranking title in 2019 during the North […]

Hyderabad: The State government would focus on cultivation of cotton and red gram as an alternate to paddy during the upcoming Vaanakalam crop season this year. For this, the Agricultural Extension Officers (AEOs) have been directed to conduct field visits, identify suitable lands through soil testing and create awareness among farmers to shift to alternate […]