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Hyderabad: Last week, US-based insurance player Mass Mutual announced that its workforce crossed 1,100 people. This is more than double from 500 people it wanted to have in Hyderabad. The company first made its Hyderabad plans public in January and was up and running in about two months. The company went from paperwork to pay […]

Hyderabad: Home based isolation to recover from Omicron variant driven Covid-19 infections could play a vital role in the next few months in Telangana. With studies indicating that Omicron is highly transmissible and at the same time possibly less severe than the Delta variant, the State healthcare machinery is gearing up to the possibility of […]

Hyderabad: Telangana is on the verge of reaching an important milestone of administering the first dose of Covid vaccines to 100 per cent of eligible beneficiaries. At present, 99 per cent of eligible individuals have already been vaccinated with the first dose and the all-important landmark of 100 per cent vaccination is expected to be […]

Khammam: Religious harmony was the hallmark of Telangana and every religion is given equal importance by the State government, Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar said on Wednesday. The Minister was speaking after distributing new clothes as Christmas gifts to poor Christians offered by the government at Tabernacle Church at Sahakara Nagar here. India as well […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday said post Covid impact, Telangana was back on development track and was being ranked among the top States in progress being achieved in the country. “Seven years ago, per capita income of Telangana was about Rs 1 lakh. In 2021, it increased to Rs 2.37 lakh. Telangana […]

Hyderabad: In a futile attempt to blame Telangana government over delay in paddy procurement, Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy fumbled over establishing facts and indirectly admitted the Centre’s failure in lifting the rice stocks from the State. He fumbled several times despite help from the BJP State leaders at a press conference in Delhi […]

Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Tukaramji on Tuesday reserved order on a writ appeal filed by the State against an order of a single judge in allowing a writ petition questioning land acquisition process to acquire the land for police academy. A single […]

Hyderabad: Telangana insisted for a written assurance from the Centre which has promised to enhance the target of paddy procurement for Kharif Marketing Season 2021-22, upon fulfilling the initial target of 60 lakh tonnes (i.e., 40 lakh tonnes rice). With Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal informing that he would consult the […]

Hyderabad: Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal’s attempts to stick to the script that he has been playing out on paddy procurement from Telangana boomeranged on him when he called up the railway and FCI authorities to arrange for rakes and make arrangements to lift rice stocks immediately from godowns. This comes […]

Hyderabad: The State government has accorded permission to enhance the basic honorarium of all Home Guards in the State by 30 per cent. This is subject to the enhanced remuneration that shall be paid with effect from June 1, 2021 payable in the month of July 2021. The enhancement of remuneration should be applicable to […]

Hyderabad: T-Works, the largest proto-typing facility created by the Telangana State government, and semiconductor and electronic component distributor Mouser Electronics announced a partnership under which the latter will support T-Works with procurement of high-end prototyping equipment in the electronics test and measurement fields. This agreement follows multiple partnerships between the two entities over the years, […]

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 […]