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New Delhi:  Delhi Police has arrested a man accused of murdering a retired Indian Air Force officer in the national capital, an official said here on Tuesday. According to the official, the accused identified as Bhullu Singh, a resident of Bihar, was nabbed from Cyberabad, Hyderabad, Telangana on December 15. Furnishing details about the case, […]

Hyderabad: The high-end Covid-19 laboratory at Gandhi Hospital, which was conducting RT-PCR tests to confirm Covid infections during the first and second waves in Telangana, has now started conducting genetic sequencing to ascertain the Omicron variant, senior health officials on Monday said. The full genome sequencing of the blood samples of Covid positive international passengers […]

Hyderabad: Telangana delegation of six Ministers and MPs is camping in Delhi for the last two days and is still waiting for an appointment with Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal. They have also sought the appointment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there has been no response so far. On Monday, Telangana […]

Hyderabad: Telangana reported 156 new Covid infections and no fatalities on Monday. The cumulative number of deaths so far has reached 4,015 while the total number of positive Covid infections was at 6,79,720. The number of active cases in Telangana, as on Monday, was 3,642. The authorities on Monday conducted 33,140 Covid tests of which […]

Hyderabad: It’s official now! The BJP government at the Centre has admitted that additional Central assistance in the form of loans for externally-aided projects in Telangana was going south while grants were nil for the past four years since 2017-18. The revelation by Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary in Parliament on Monday […]

Hyderabad: Telangana sent a strong signal to the BJP government at the Centre on Monday that it will not tolerate its anti-farmers’ policies and brazen discrimination of the State in paddy procurement, as thousands of farmers joined TRS leaders and activists across the State to protest against the Union government’s stubborn attitude. Cities, towns and […]

Hyderabad: Telangana will see investments of Rs 6,000 crore in electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing over the next five years. The investments are based on EV companies’ outlay in manufacturing capacities, mostly in EV components and assembly-line production, followed by investments in battery manufacturing. Emerging clusters in the State such as Chandanvelly-Sitarampur and Divitipalli are drawing […]

Warangal: People in large numbers led by the TRS party leaders have staged dharnas, and other forms of protests including the ‘Chavu Dappu’ processions against the BJP led Central government for its anti-farmer policies including its denial of paddy procurement for the Yasangi from Telangana. While Minister Satyvathi Rathod led the protests at the agriculture […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based husband-wife duo Susurala V S Suresh and Mythreyi Kondapi has launched a first-of-its-kind tech-enabled device for physiotherapists and patients called Pheezee. The device aims to revolutionise the way patient assessments are done in the physiotherapy and rehabilitation space. After working on developing the product for two years and testing it in rehab centres […]

Hyderabad: Tracking and tracing of international passengers arriving from non ‘at-risk’ countries to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad has become a challenge for surveillance teams of the State Health Department, as there is a lot of scope for such passengers to ‘slip through the cracks’ and trigger rapid transmission of Omicron variant among the […]

Hyderabad: The present situation of the Omicron-driven Covid pandemic is indicating that the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is not as lethal as the Delta variant, which caused the second wave and claimed lives of many, senior health officials here on Sunday said. However, they added that there was no need for people to panic. Making […]

By J R Janumpalli It is a general refrain from a disappointed section of Telangana society, the disgruntled ‘dual citizens’ of Telugu States in Hyderabad and the opposition parties, “what new have we got in Telangana State which was not there earlier” — the same politics, the same political parties and the same administration, etc. […]

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, […]