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Hyderabad: Telangana reported 336 new Covid infections and one fatality on Tuesday taking the cumulative number of deaths to 3,898 and the total number of positive cases to 6,62,202. The number of active cases in Telangana, as on Tuesday, was 5,282. The authorities today conducted 76,481 Covid tests of which results of 2,015 samples were […]

Karimnagar: BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar slammed the Centre for showing discrimination in procuring boiled rice from Telangana. The Union government which purchased 1.13 crore metric tonnes of boiled rice from Punjab in the Yasangi season, was refusing to procure the same rice from Telangana, he pointed out. Though it was the […]

Hyderabad: The results of the entrance test for admissions into Class 6 in Telangana State Eklavya Model Residential Schools Society were released by TTWREIS secretary, Ronald Rose on Tuesday. Selected candidates have been instructed to report at their respective schools from September 15 to 24 to complete admission formalities. Candidates can view their results by […]

Hyderabad: A senior most naxalite leader Dubasi Shankar who went by the name of Ramesh in the Maoist party was arrested along with his associate by Odisha police near Biparguda village on Tuesday, according to information reaching here. Dubasi Shankar, a native of Medak district and currently the member of the Andhra Orissa Special Zonal […]

Kothagudem: Two hunters were electrocuted when they came in contact with live electric wire traps set up to kill wild animals in the forests in Mulakalapalli mandal in the district during wee hours on Tuesday. The incident took place in the forests located in between Pusugudem and Madharam villages in the madal. The deceased were […]

Hyderabad: CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka hailed the State government’s Dalit Bandhu scheme and said no other State in the country had taken up such an initiative for the welfare of Dalits. The Madira MLA thanked the Chief Minister for selecting Chintakani mandal in his constituency for taking up the Dalit Bandhu pilot project. He […]

Hyderabad: Coming down heavily on the State BJP unit for conducting Padayatras, Panchayatraj and Rural Development Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao wanted BJP leaders to exert pressure on Central government to sanction the projects allocated to Telangana as per AP Reorganisation Act. Kazipet Coach Factory, Bayyaram steel factory and tribal university were three prominent assurances made […]

Hyderabad: Telangana State has received bountiful rains so far this monsoon with five districts receiving large excess rainfall (more than 60 per cent of the average normal rainfall), 21 districts getting excess rainfall (ranging from 20 to 50 per cent of the normal) and seven districts receiving normal rainfall. Significantly, not even a single district […]

Hyderabad: The State government on Monday urged the Centre to increase funding to Telangana State under the Central Sector Schemes or Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) by at least 10-folds from this financial year. Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy submitted a representation to Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje in this […]

Hyderabad: TPCC president A Revanth Reddy on Monday alleged that the government cheated Dalits and Girijans in the State in the last seven years and called on party cadre to make the Dalit-Girijan Dandora programme at Gajwel on Friday a grand success. “Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao failed to fulfil the promises made to Dalits. […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday revealed the State government’s plans on various aspects of the ambitious Telangana Dalit Bandhu scheme, stating that the intention was to have adequate budgetary allocation in the next budget. Next year alone, at least two lakh Dalit families would be covered under the scheme that aims at […]

Medak: Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and BJP national Vice-President Raman Singh on Monday claimed that the party would form the government in the State in the next Assembly elections “since Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s downfall is imminent.” Addressing a Praja Sangrama Yatra rally at Pothamsettypally in the district on Monday, the senior BJP leader […]

Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje on Monday emphasised the need to promote agriculture exports to facilitate doubling of farmers’ income within a fixed time frame. She assured that the Centre would consider the Telangana government’s request for extending cent per cent subsidy to encourage oil palm cultivation. Addressing […]

Hyderabad: The State government has issued guidelines to convey its ‘No Objection’ to the Andhra Pradesh government in respect of certain employees/officers who were allotted/deemed allotted to the Successor State of Telangana, but had sought their transfer to Andhra Pradesh on a permanent basis. Accordingly, such employees/officers should apply to his/her Head of Department (HoD) […]

Hyderabad: The State government has issued guidelines to convey its ‘No Objection’ to the Andhra Pradesh government in respect of certain employees/officers who were allotted/deemed allotted to the Successor State of Telangana, but had sought their transfer to Andhra Pradesh on a permanent basis. Accordingly, such employees/officers should apply to his/her Head of Department (HoD) […]

Hyderabad: The 15-member Women’s Parliamentary Committee appreciated the State government’s initiatives in introducing programmes like KCR Kits and Kalyana Lakshmi, and said Telangana was a model for other States to take up such welfare measures. The Committee also showered praise on the government for encouraging setting up of Nutri gardens, saying such gardens would be […]

According to the Telangana State Planning Development Society, a depression is likely to form over the northwest Bay of Bengal off north Odisha-West Bengal coasts during the next two days

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Hyderabad: Telangana will seek early release of pending GST (Goods and Services Tax) compensation to the State at the 45th GST Council meeting scheduled to be held at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh on September 17. The State government, which had strongly opposed the Centre’s attempt to impose ‘backdoor GST’ on liquor in the name of […]

Hyderabad: Suravaram Pratapa Reddy was a multi-faceted personality who left his indelible mark on Telangana’s social consciousness and also worked for uplift of the downtrodden as well as development of society as a whole, said Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy. He said Pratapa Reddy was a dynamic person who organised community lunches nearly 80 years […]