Telangana

Hyderabad: In the wake of the recent rise of Covid infections in New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, the Telangana health authorities on Thursday issued an alert and urged people to take precautions like wearing masks at crowded locations and Covid booster doses to vulnerable individuals. Director of Public Health (DPH), Dr G Srinivasa Rao […]

Nalgonda: After successfully translocating four 100-year-old trees in Palamoor early this week, Green India Challenge (GIC) has now decided to translocate 50 trees, which are over 50 years old in Nalgonda. The district administration is taking up road widening works in the town and as result 50 trees were getting affected. Accordingly, a request was […]

Warangal: With as many as 10 professors retiring from service this year, the Kakatiya University, the second biggest varsity in Telangana State, is going to face severe academic and administrative issues. And it is unlikely to retain the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)’s ‘A’ grade in the coming cycle. Moreover, the very existence of […]

Mancherial: Leaders of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), an affiliate trade union of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), were forced to call off a meeting and retreat after miners objected to the union government’s move to auction four coal blocks of SCCL and on the issue of income tax on employees of the coal major, during Singareni […]

Mahabubabad: An independent councillor of the local municipality was axed to death in broad daylight at Pattipaka road here on Thursday sending a chill down the spines of many people. The deceased person was Banoth Ravi Naik (34), who got elected from the eighth ward of the municipality. The incident occurred around noon when Ravi […]

Hyderabad: Students of a Class 10 of a government-run school in Telangana’s Mancherial district have been caught on camera drinking beer with biryani. The images of students from the Backward Classes (BC) Boys’ residential school in Dandepally enjoying a party have gone viral on social media, prompting authorities to order an inquiry. The students are […]

Hyderabad: The steady rise in Covid infections in Delhi and other States and the rapid rate at which new Omicron variants are being reported by geneticists is a clear sign that the Covid pandemic is not over yet. Senior biologists and public health specialists here cautioned people that this is not the time to remove […]

By Deepika Reddy Hyderabad: This is in continuation to the last article on GO 36 which aimed to spread awareness on the need to form a separate Telangana State. March 15, 1969 Important incidents of the day: * The Telangana Rakshanala Samaikya Udyamam convened a meeting under the chairmanship of D Hanumanta Rao, president of […]

Hyderabad: A day after the city recorded a maximum temperature of 40.6 degree Celsius, things just got hotter on Wednesday with the thermometer turning red at 41.4 degree Celsius, the highest day temperature recorded so far this year, and the second highest April temperature in the last five years. The day, obviously, was sweltering, with […]

Jagtial: In a tragic incident, a fifty-year-old person died in a road accident just a few hours before his daughter’s marriage. This bizarre incident took place near Jabithapur of Jagtial rural mandal on Wednesday. The person was identified as Baina Narsaiah from Thirumalapur of Gollapalli mandal. Narsaiah, whose daughter’s marriage is scheduled on Thursday, met with […]

Nizamabad: It was a dispute over payment of Rs 25 lakh debt and the subsequent enmity between Santosh and the accused person Jitendar Goud, that was behind the mother-son suicide pact in Kamareddy. The suicides of Santosh and his mother in a lodge in Kamareddy blew into a political issue with the BJP taking up […]

Hyderabad: Plant protection solutions company Nichino India launched a product called Orchestra in Hyderabad on Wednesday. It will help farmers deal with brown plant hopper (BPH) in rice. BPH is one of the devastating pests that cause huge losses to farmers. Nichino India Managing Director Tomooka Naohiro said the product is developed through a joint […]

Hyderabad: TPCC president A Revanth Reddy appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to order a CBI probe into the irregularities in paddy procurement during the last two Kharif seasons in the State. He also appealed to the Prime Minister to extend Minimum Support Price (MSP) for farmers, who taken […]

Yadadri-Bhongir: The district collector Pamela Sathpathi on Wednesday instructed the gynecologists of government and private hospitals to make efforts to bring down cesarean deliveries. In view of the district standing first place in cesarean deliveries, she has held a meeting in the collectorate meeting hall here with the gynecologists of government and private hospitals She […]

Hyderabad: Drinking water supply under the ambitious Outer Ring Road Phase-II project taken up by the State government to cover the colonies outside the GHMC limits and within ORR jurisdiction, has begun. As part of the Rs.1,200 crore project, pipeline works were completed and the supply of water has started in 60 colonies that were […]

Hanamkonda: IT and MA&UD Minister KT Rama Rao said the staff shortage in the municipalities and corporations would be addressed soon as the Cabinet had approved the recruitment of 3712 employees for the Municipal Administration department. “We will absorb the 51 work inspectors in the GWMC. We will appoint a ward officer for a population […]

Hanamkonda: TRS working president and Minister KT Rama Rao has called upon the party cadre to inform the people of unprecedented development made during the seven-and-half year of the party ruling in the newly formed Telangana State. Stating that Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who neither had money nor muscle nor community power when he […]

Hyderabad: With Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan continuing her tirade against the TRS government and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, the TRS leaders launched a counter attack terming her remarks as ‘irresponsible’. Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav felt that the Governor was speaking more like a politician and it was wrong on her part to speak […]

Hyderabad: Education Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy on Wednesday launched competitive examination coaching classes in six universities. Following the State government decision on recruitment to posts in various departments, six universities – Osmania University, Kakatiya University, Mahatma Gandhi University, Palamuru University, Telangana University and Satavahana University – took an initiative to offer competitive examination coaching […]

Khammam: Tension prevailed here on Wednesday as BJP cadres took out a rally in protest against the party activist S Sai Ganesh’s recent death by suicide. Led by the BJP district president Galla Satyanarayana, BJP Kisan Morcha state president Kondapalli Sridhar Reddy they staged a dharna at Ambedkar Centre demanding action against those responsible for […]

Hyderabad: State women’s basketball team, which finished runner-up in the recently-concluded 71st National Basketball Championship held in Chennai, was felicitated by the Telangana Basketball Association in Hyderabad on Wednesday. The women’s team went down to Indian Railway 82-131 in the summit clash to settle for the silver medal. Association president R Sridhar Reddy lauded the […]

Mancherial: BJP’s Madhya Pradesh state in-charge P Muralidhar Rao called upon activists and members of the party to thwart attacks against Hindu religion using digital media platforms. He was addressing a gathering at Under Digital Hindu conclave held under the aegis of Bharath Neethi here on Wednesday. He was joined by former Peddapalli MP Dr […]

Hyderabad: The farm sector is seeing the input costs rise. Effort should be made to lower these costs and increase productivity. Research should be taken up considering the dietary changes happening, said Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy. The Centre should look at ways to make villages stronger as this makes States and in turn the […]

Adilabad: Aboriginal tribals or Adivasis traditionally observed the 41st anniversary of the infamous Indravelli firing incident by paying homage to martyrs at the martyrs’ column in Indervelli mandal centre on Wednesday. Members of the Indravelli Amaraveerula Ashaya Sadhana Samithi and the Tudum Debba, a tribal rights organization, and about 500 Adivasis gathered at the martyrs’ […]