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Hyderabad: With festival holidays extending into the weekend, it is the right time to plan a long drive. And Kuntala waterfalls in Adilabad which are now in full glory thanks to the recent rains, is one such destination. Kuntala is the highest waterfall in Telangana, cascading from a height of 50 meters (150 feet). The […]

Hyderabad: Telangana was among the few Indian States that got its timing in imposing and lifting Covid restrictions right during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The decision to impose restrictions like night curfew during the initial stages and later implementing strict lockdown at the right time worked out well for just a few […]

Hyderabad: This Dasara festival will be etched in the memory of close to 200 women forever since they got appointment orders to work as linewomen on par with linemen and carry out electrical repair works on poles. For the first time in the country, women will be working as junior linewomen in Telangana and climb […]

Hyderabad: Use of carry bags and Single-Use Plastics (SUPs) below 75 microns thickness is now officially banned in the State, with the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department issuing orders giving effect to the ban from Thursday. Simultaneously, the department is gearing up to implement the orders strictly across the State. Besides the ban on […]

Hyderabad: Telangana has categorically informed the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) that the Board cannot object to hydel power generation at Srisailam on grounds that it affects the water requirements of Andhra Pradesh outside Krishna Basin. The State also sought certain modifications to the summary record of discussions in the 14th meeting of the KRMB. […]

Hyderabad: The State government has constituted a Sub-Committee with Irrigation and Command Area Development Engineer-in-Chief C Muralidhar as Chairman to study the draft rules and operation protocol prepared by the Central Water Commission (CWC) with respect to Priyadarshini Jurala Project, Srisailam Dam and Nagarjunasagar Dam. The committee will advise on the follow up action and […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana government has said it was utilising its allocated share of water in River Krishna ever year judiciously and conservatively and carrying over the rightful part of water out of its equitable share to the next water year to meet the drinking water requirements and also to meet the delayed inflows in the […]

Hyderabad: LOT Mobile stores which has rapidly expanded in nine years and is marching towards opening 150 stores, has now signed up with a new brand ambassador, Rashmika Mandanna. Director of LOT, M Akhil said Rashmika’s energy, attitude and enthusiasm is in perfect sync with their brand and with the same enthusiasm, LOT has planned […]

Warangal: The Task Force police arrested four persons for their alleged involvement in preparation of spurious toddy during a raid on a toddy compound under Inthezargunj police station limits on Thursday. According to a press note by the Task Force, Pogaku Sarangapani, who runs a toddy compound at Laxmipuram in Warangal, and three others were […]

Hyderabad: T-Works, an initiative of the Telangana government that nurtures a culture of makers and innovators, has successfully designed, developed, and tested its indigenous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). It covered 45km in 33 minutes. Following the development, T-Works is now among the few organisations in India that can design, […]

Hyderabad: Following reports of dip in coal supplies in the country, senior officials from New Delhi enquired about the coal availability in the mines of Telangana, Bihar and Jharkhand. Following reports on decline in coal supplies, senior officials from the Union Ministry of Coal have been holding video conferences regularly with officials in Telangana and […]

Hyderabad: Online bus ticketing platform redBus said it was witnessing high demand for intercity bus travel across the country for the festive season. The Bengaluru-Hyderabad-Bengaluru route is seeing the highest number of bookings, it said. Other top to and fro segments include Bengaluru-Chennai, Chennai-Coimbatore, Chennai-Madurai, Kolkata-Durgapur, Delhi-Manali, Pune-Goa, Bengaluru-Goa, Mumbai-Pune and Bengaluru-Coimbatore. About 40 lakh […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy and Tourism Minister V Srinivas Goud blamed Congress for the backwardness of erstwhile Mahabubnagar district. They accused the Telangana Congress leaders of supporting the Andhra leadership even though the latter brought sufferings to people of Telangana and dared them to show a Congress-ruled State which was better than Telangana. […]

Karimnagar: Choppadandi MLA Sunke Ravishankar, who adopted ten orphan children, on Wednesday presented new clothes to them on the occasion of Dasara festival. Besides providing new clothes, the MLA and his wife had lunch with the children at his camp office in Choppadandi. Ravishankar adopted ten children including eight belonging to Choppadandi constituency and two […]

Hyderabad: Chandrayangutta police Sub-Inspector S Venkatesh was placed under suspension for dereliction of duties on Wednesday. Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar issued an order in this regard. Following a complaint against the SI alleging dereliction of duties, the Commissioner suspended the officer with immediate effect. An enquiry was initiated against him as well. Now you […]

Hyderabad: After ushering in the green revolution post Statehood, Telangana is now riding the wave of blue revolution with the State surging ahead in fisheries, thanks to several key interventions by the government to strengthen production factors including stabilising Water Spread Area (WSA), free fingerling stocking and welfare schemes for the fisherfolk. Not only have […]

New Delhi: The Central government on Wednesday notified the appointment of seven judges in Telangana High Court. According to an official communique of the Ministry of Law and Justice, President Ram Nath Kovind, in consultation with Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, appointed–7 judges in Telangana High Court, 3 judges in Orissa High Court and […]

Hyderabad: The Health Department has decided to declare a vaccination holiday on October 14. Earlier, vaccination holidays were declared on October 15 and 16 and now it was decided to include October 14 also. In the month of October, all remaining Sundays i.e., October 17, 24 and 31, will also be holidays. Now you can […]

Kothagudem: The newly introduced Central farm laws were harmful to the country and farmers, said noted film actor, director and producer R Narayana Murthy. Speaking at a meeting held at the CPM office in Bhadrachalam in the district on Wednesday, he said that during the Covid crisis, all the people across the country wore masks […]

The Chairman, along with Mayor P Neeraja, released fishlings, supplied free of cost to fishermen by the government, into Lakaram Tank here on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, he said the TRS government was promoting caste-based professions on a large scale in the State.