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Hyderabad: Telangana has requested Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to look into the dire needs of in-basin areas of the State and take the initiative to undo the injustice meted out to the areas in the basin. In a letter to the Board Chairman, Telangana Irrigation and Command Area Development (CAD) Engineer-in-Chief (General), Ch Muralidhar, […]

Hyderabad: The oath taking ceremony of former Speaker V Madhusudhana Chary, who has been elected as MLC under Governor quota, was conducted in the Legislative Council Chairman’s chambers by protem Chairman V Bhoopal Reedy here on Sunday.  Madhusudhana Chary was accompanied by Home Minister Mohd Mahmood Ali, Excise Minister V Srinivas Goud, Animal Husbandry Minister […]

Hyderabad: A delegation of Ministers and TRS MPs left for Delhi on Saturday evening, to ascertain the Centre’s stance on procurement of paddy from Telangana beyond the initial agreement of 60 lakh tonnes (approximately 40 lakh tonnes rice). They have sought appointment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush […]

Hyderabad: Telangana reported 185 new Covid infections and one fatality on Saturday taking the cumulative number of deaths to 4,014 and the total number of positive cases so far to 6,79,430. The number of active cases in Telangana, as on Saturday, was 3,761. The authorities on Friday conducted 41,484 Covid tests of which results of […]

Hyderabad: Twelve international passengers from at-risk and non-at-risk countries who arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here tested positive for the Omicron variant, Director of Public Health Dr G Srinivasa Rao said on Saturday. With this, the total number of international passengers who arrived at RGIA and tested positive for the Omicron variant has […]

Hyderabad: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice NV Ramana on Saturday emphasised the need for adopting Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods which can provide great support to the Indian judicial system by preventing matters from going to the Courts. He said the ADR methods were beneficial to the litigants for resolving disputes in a cost […]

Hyderabad: Invoking the Preventive Detention Act on offenders is helping the Rachakonda Police bring the crime rate down in a major way. Officials said the detaining of repeat offenders, preventing them from continuing on streaks of different criminal activities, apart from stopping crime, was also sending a strong message to others. Since 2016, 481 offenders […]

Hyderabad: Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar said more focus was being laid on creating awareness on road discipline among drivers and pedestrians and the government developed certain applications and installed surveillance cameras to monitor road safety measures. The Chief Secretary held a meeting with World Bank team and concerned departments on Road Safety at BRKR Bhavan […]

Hyderabad: The investment flow to the startups has been increasing in the State. This year, despite the Covid impact, startups have secured funding worth $886 million (about 6,550 crore) compared to $371 million (about Rs 2,767 crore) in 2020 and $313 million (about Rs 2,316 crore) in 2019. The investment inflow increase is about 138 […]

Hyderabad: Telangana is the third top performing State in the country in implementing Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) project in the country, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoH). The MoH has conducted a summit on good practices adopted by all the States in the country in implementing Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and […]

Hyderabad: While it is too early to predict the behaviour of the Omicron variant, medical condition of a few early Omicron positive patients in Hyderabad has indicated that the new variant-driven Covid infections could be less severe and need not require hospitalisation and critical care. Senior health officials here on Friday said they have some […]

Hyderabad: Telangana State Commission for Backward Classes plans to visit Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to study Socio-Economic-Educational and Employment Survey for the Backward Classes or Caste conducted in the two States. This will be followed with visits to Maharashtra, Chattisgarh and Orissa where the caste survey is under progress. The decision to this effect was […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana Blockchain District, anchored by the Telangana government and Crypto unicorn CoinSwitch Kuber, on Friday launched the India Blockchain Accelerator. The four-month accelerator is part of the efforts of the State to make Telangana the ‘Blockchain Capital of the World’. Telangana will provide the required regulatory framework to enable and promote blockchain growth. […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister and TRS President K Chandrashekhar Rao has once again decided to take the warpath and expose the BJP-led Union government’s anti-farmer policies as well as discrimination towards Telangana. The TRS cadre will stage State-wide protests on December 20 i.e. Monday, protesting against the Centre’s anti-farmer policies and demand the Centre to spell […]

Hyderabad: Telangana State men and women’s basketball teams qualified for the National Championship, scheduled to be held in Chennai from December 23 to January 30, after their impressive performance in the 71st National South Zone Basketball Championship in Chennai. Telangana women remained unbeaten in the ongoing South Zone tournament to clinch the title and make […]

Hyderabad: Telangana government is aiming to make the State a hub for cyber security services and cyber warriors for the country and to enable this, a cyber legislation is being drafted, which is the first such effort by any State in India. Speaking at the inauguration of Cotelligent’s Cyber Warrior Centre of Excellence at Hyderabad […]

Adilabad: A flock of around 50 red-crested pochards was spotted in an irrigation tank of Jainath mandal centre in Adilabad district for the first time on Thursday. An Adilabad-based Wildlife photographer Lingampalli Krishna said he captured photos of the rare and migratory birds on Friday. Krishna said that he discovered the flock in the tank […]

Hyderabad: As the pan-India movie ‘Pushpa- The Rise’ is out for screening in theaters from Friday, the movie has grabbed all the attention. With blockbuster bookings, theatres in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are fully occupied. With a huge hype around, ‘Pushpa’ has been termed as Allu Arjun’s ‘One-man Show’, as per the reports from theaters. […]

Hyderabad: The Indian School of Business (ISB) and Telangana’s State Board of Technical Education and Training (SBTET) inked a memorandum of understanding on strengthening employability skills in Telangana for undergraduate students. The MoU was signed by ISB Deputy Dean Prof Deepa Mani and SBTET Secretary Dr C Srinath in the presence of IT and Industries […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad is evolving in to a banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) hub. However, the India as a country is lacking skills in the actuarial sciences, which is one of the important aspect of the insurance sector. To bridge this gap, Telangana will focus on creating manpower that is trained in actuarial sciences sciences, […]