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Hyderabad: Textiles and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao on Sunday lambasted the Union government for its proposed move to hike the GST on textiles and handloom products from the present five per cent to 12 per cent, effective January 1 next. “The textile and handloom sectors are already reeling under the impact of Covid […]

Hyderabad: Textiles Minister KT Rama Rao, demanding the Centre drop its proposal to hike GST on textiles and handlooms from five per cent to 12 per cent on Sunday, said that SCs, STs and BCs who constitute 70 per cent of the families in the handloom sector would be the worst hit by the decision. […]

Hyderabad: The Lake Police at Hussainsagar saved five persons who had come to the lake to end their lives due to various reasons since Saturday. A couple which had married without the consent of the elders of their families came to the lake to end their lives when their parents asked to search for some […]

Medak: YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) president YS Sharmila launched her “Rythu Avedhana Yatra” from Medak distinct on Sunday. She met the family members of three farmers who committed suicide in Lingampally and Kanchanpally villages of Kowdipally Mandal. She met the wife and children of 25-year-old Gundla Srikanth who committed suicide at Kanchanpally village. Later, she […]

Warangal: Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Sunday said the Centre was yet to respond to several issues facing the judiciary in the country, including the establishment of a Judicial Infrastructure Corporation and extending financial assistance to lawyers who lost their livelihood due to Covid pandemic. Justice Ramana, who was speaking after inaugurating a […]

Siddipet: The first bio-gas plant in Telangana to produce CNG from household waste will be inaugurated in Siddipet on Monday. The plant, costing Rs 6 crore, has been set up at Swachha Badi in Basavapur. With the objective of putting wet waste collected from households in Siddipet town to best use, the civic authorities built […]

Hyderabad: Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TS BIE) has announced dates for payment of attendance exemption fee for private candidates to appear for the intermediate public examinations to be held in 2022 with arts/humanities combinations. For the grant of attendance exemption, candidates have to pay a fee of Rs.500 and the last date to […]

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. […]