Telangana

Hyderabad: Accusing the Centre of playing a double game in paddy procurement, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy on Thursday advised farmers to go for crops that fetch them good prices in Yasangi instead of paddy. Farmers should go for the crops such as pulses and oil seeds which have high demand in the market and […]

Kothagudem: Paloncha-based Nava Bharat Ventures Limited (NVBL) donated Rs 40 lakh to Oxygen Generation Unit located at ITC Limited, Sarapaka in the district. The NVBL unit head and Vice President Y Srinivasa Murthy handed over a cheque for Rs 40 lakh along with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to District Collector D Anudeep in the […]

Peddapalli: The 72-hour strike called by trade unions in Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) was total on the first day on Thursday. Except essential services workers, all others participated in the strike. As part of the strike, activists of various trade unions staged protest demonstration at mines and raised slogans against the Union government’s decision […]

Sangareddy: The Maternity and Children Hospital (MCH) in Sangareddy has performed 3,084 deliveries in the last four months, significantly up from 2,632 deliveries during the corresponding period last year. About 57 per cent (1,754) of total deliveries performed in the hospital during the period were normal deliveries. Increasing from last year November’s 669 deliveries, the […]

Mancherial: Employees of State-owned the Northern Power Distribution Corporation Limited (NPDCL) boycotted duties in protest against ‘false’ cases foisted against certain staffers of the department recently. They staged a sit-in in front of the office of the Superintending Engineer here on Thursday. A Joint Action Committee (JAC), formed by the employees of the corporation, said […]

While ticket price for Nikabhishekam increased to Rs 800 from Rs 500, Nitya Kalyanam was hiked to Rs 1,500 from Rs 1,250

Kothagudem: The three-day strike called by Joint Action Committee (JAC) of SCCL trade unions was a success on the first day on Thursday as workers abstained from work on the day. The JAC comprising trade unions like TBGKS, AITUC, INTUC, BMS and CITU called for the strike in protest against the Central government’s decision to […]

Mahabubnagar: Three persons, including two women, died and three others sustained injuries when an autorickshaw collided with a car near Appayapally on National Highway 167 on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Jyothi and Vijayarani, employees of Devarkadra MPDO office and the autorickshaw driver. According to reports, the incident occurred when the car, which was […]

Hyderabad: Condemning Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal’s remarks that the State government was not supplying rice to the Centre, Telangana Civil Supplies Corporation Chairman Mareddy Srinivas Reddy said it was the Centre which was behaving irresponsibly and unnecessarily blaming the State government on the issue. Interacting with media persons here on Thursday, […]

Karimnagar: Elaborate arrangements have been made for the MLC election from Karimnagar Local Authorities Constituency on Friday. Polling will be held from 8 am to 4 pm. A total of eight polling stations – two each in Karimnagar, Jagtial, and Peddapalli districts and one each in Rajanna-Sircilla and Husnabad of Siddipet districts were established. As […]

Hyderabad: Demanding that the Central government withdraw its plans to auction coal blocks in Singareni Collieries, TRS MPs and MLAs wanted the State BJP leaders to raise the issue in Parliament and support the miners. State BJP leaders, especially MPs Bandi Sanjay and D Arvind, should speak to miners and take up their issue with […]

Sangareddy: The election for MLC from the Medak Local Authorities Constituency is expected to be a cakewalk for TRS since the party has 777 votes from the total of 1,027 votes. The Congress has just 230 votes while the remaining parties including AIMIM have 20 votes. With some leaders such as Tekmal MPP Swapana Ramesh […]

Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader Marri Shashidhar Reddy on Thursday said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress’ plans to make inroads in Telangana will not succeed. “There is no place for TMC in Telangana,” he said. In a statement here, he said TMC was testing the political waters in southern States and that some […]

Kothagudem: Police seized dry ganja weighing around 524.4 kg and arrested two Rajasthani drivers at Housing Board Colony here on Thursday. DSP G Venkateshwara Babu speaking to press persons at Chunchupalli police station in Kothagudem said the seized ganja was worth around Rs 1.04 crore. A lorry transporting the substance was also seized along with […]

Nizamabad: The State government is working on setting up a leather cluster in Armoor in the district and steps are being taken to commence works pertaining to provision of basic amenities in the cluster. The Telangana State Leather Industries Promotion Corporation (TSLIPC) under MSME Cluster Development programme initiated measures for setting up a cluster. The […]

Bhukya Yashwanth, has already proved his mettle by scaling Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak (5895 meters) in August this year besides reaching the highest point in the Trans-Himalaya mountain range in Ladakh in July.

Warangal: The Commissioner’s Task Force sleuths along with Chennaraopet police intercepted two motorcycles near Chennaraopet town in Warangal district on Thursday morning and arrested two person for smuggling ganja. The arrested have been identified as S Veera Babu of Chintur of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh State, and Sameer Haldar of Kalimela mandal of […]

Nalgonda: Arrangements for the election to Nalgonda Local Authorities Constituency for Legislative Council have been completed and polling would be held at eight polling stations in erstwhile Nalgonda district on Friday. The polling staff collected the election related material from the distribution centres on Thursday and reached the allocated polling stations. Polling would be conducted […]

Hyderabad: In order to clear the extra rush of passengers during the festive season, the South Central Railways will run special trains between Secunderabad and Kollam. Train number 07109 (from Secunderabad to Kollam) will be operated on December 17, whereas the returning train number 07110 (from Kollam to Secunderabad) will run on December 19. The […]

Hyderabad: In a quest to improve the quality of bus services and take personal feedback from the passengers, the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation has instructed all its employees, including the senior officials, to travel only by TSRTC buses to and from their workplace every Thursday. Leading by example, the Vice Chairman and Managing Director […]

Mancherial/Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Coal miners launched a three-day strike against the Union government’s decision to auction coal blocks, across mines and opencast projects in Mancherial and Kumram Bheem Asifabad districts on Thursday. Miners belonging to various trade unions including Telangana Boggu Ghani Karmika Sangham (TBGKS), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Indian National Trade Union […]

Out of the 4 crore doses, roughly 2.7 crore were the first dose of Covid vaccines while the remaining 1.4 crore consisted of the second dose of the vaccine.  

Peddapalli: A puncture shop owner, Mukesh Kumar, was murdered by unidentified persons in Raghavapur of Peddapalli mandal late on Wednesday night. A native of Mahuwa district of Bihar state, Mukesh Kumar runs a puncture shop in Raghavapur. According to Chandan Kumar who works in the shop, a lorry driver who came to the shop to […]

Hyderabad: Around 22 persons die by suicide every day in Telangana. That is, almost one person every hour. And this number has been on the rise, from 7,670 deaths by suicide in 2017, to 8,058 in 2020. Many of those who took to the noose, or jumped into lakes, or consumed poison to take their […]