Telangana

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Wednesday declared an all-out war against drug abuse and directed the police and excise officials to eradicate illegal cultivation, sale and consumption of marijuana in the State with an iron hand. He instructed the police officials to set up a special cell led by an officer of the […]

Hyderabad: Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS) on Wednesday decided to reopen the TSWR Institutions physically from Thursday for students of Classes V to degree. The move comes as the High Court on Wednesday gave its nod for the reopening of the residential institutions. In a circular, the TSWREIS has asked all teaching […]

Khammam: The trial run of the first ever smart phone-based e-voting system in the State was conducted here on Wednesday. A dummy election was held to test the mobile voting application under the limits of Khammam Municipal Corporation. Eligible voters who registered their names from Oct 8 to 18 in the app participated in the […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao paid rich tributes to the police martyrs who lost their lives in the line of duty. In a message on the eve of Police Commemoration Day, the Chief Minister said the nation will never forget the services of police martyrs who sacrificed their lives in maintaining law and order. […]

Warangal: Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao paid his respects to poet Maharshi Valmiki on the occasion of the latter’s birth anniversary celebration held here on Wednesday. He garlanded the portrait of the saint-poet, who wrote the ‘Ramanaya Mahakavya’, also known as ‘Adikavya’ at a programme at Warangal Rural Collectorate complex in Hanamkonda.Speaking on the […]

Hyderabad: Following Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s appeal, donations of gold for gold plating of the Vimana Gopuram of the Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in Yadadri continued to pour in from different parts of the State with several politicians and businessmen announcing their donations on Wednesday. Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) announced donation […]

Hyderabad: Union Minister for Culture, Tourism and Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) G Kishan Reddy will visit Ramappa Temple at Palampet in Mulugu district on Thursday to unveil the World Heritage plaque and inaugurate various public amenities. The Ramappa temple is the first World Heritage Site from Telangana State.Later, he will visit the Thousand […]

Hyderabad: Students in the State may have a lesson on the adverse impacts of drug abuse in their syllabus with Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao directing officials on Wednesday to explore the possibility of including a lesson on the menace in school syllabus. Instructing his Officer on Special Duty Deshapathi Srinivas to immediately take measures […]

Adilabad: Three members of an inter-State motorbike lifting gang were arrested in Neradigonda mandal centre on Wednesday. As many as 17 two-wheelers were seized from their possession. The value of the seized bikes was assessed to be Rs 7.5 lakh. Another member of the gang was absconding. Utnoor Additional Superintendent of Police Harshavardhan Srivastava said […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Adivasis observed the 81st martyrdom anniversary of tribal legend Kumram Bheem at historic Jodeghat village in Kerameri mandal on Wednesday. About 20,000 tribal people belonging to several parts of the erstwhile Adilabad district and neighboring Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand made a beeline to the tiny habitation and performed special rituals […]

Bhadrachalam: Tribal devotees from different parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh took part in large numbers in the annual Sabari Smruthi Yatra here on Wednesday. Sri Sita Ramachandra Swamy Devasthanam organised the event to celebrate the legend of tribal woman Sabari’s meeting with Lord Rama ending her 13 year wait to meet him. A ceremonial […]

Khammam: With the State government deciding to procure entire paddy produced in Vanakalam season, officials in erstwhile Khammam have begun preparations for the procurement of the produce.According to officials, it was planned to procure about 6.50 lakh metric tonnes of paddy in Khammam and Kothagudem districts. In Khammam district paddy was cultivated in about 2.64 […]

Warangal: Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science, Warangal (KITSW), B Kiran Kumar was awarded a PhD degree by the JNTU University, Hyderabad. According to KITSW Principal Prof K Ashoka Reddy, B Kiran Kumar submitted his PhD thesis titled “Class Imbalance Reduction and Ant Colony Optimisation based Feature Selection for […]

Hyderabad: Telangana IT and Industries minister KT Rama Rao interacted with the members of European Business Group (EBG) in a webinar on Wednesday and asserted that there is a growing interest among European companies to expand their footprint in the State. He further appealed to the EBG members to consider Telangana when they are looking […]

Medak: District Collector S Harish said the government would set up 311 procurement centres across Medak district this year as they were expecting over 5 lakh metric tonnes of paddy production this Vanakalam. Addressing a review meeting with the officials of departments concerned here on Wednesday, the Collector instructed the officials to keep electronic weighing […]

Suryapet: District Collector T Vinay Krishna Reddy on Wednesday instructed the officials to make arrangements to conduct Intermediate examinations at 44 examination centres in the district with Covid norms.Speaking at a meeting held with officials here, he said that 9,645 students would appear for annual examinations of first-year Intermediate course in the district, which would […]

Hyderabad: The American Telugu Association (ATA) celebrated Dasara on a grand scale in New Jersey on Sunday while following Covid-19 guidelines. About 1,000 people from all across NJ and neighboring States attended the programme held at Royal Grand Manor, Edison.Consulate General of NY Vijay Krishnan and ATA president Bhuvanesh Boojala inaugurated the celebrations with Durga […]

Huzurabad: Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav on Wednesday exuded confidence that the outcome of the Huzurabad by-poll would be a repeat of the Nagarjunasagar Assembly constituency result. “Nomula Bhagath, a youth, defeated senior Congress leader K Jana Reddy in Nagarjunasagar. Rajender is certainly not a bigger leader than Jana Reddy,” the Minister said to […]

Mancherial: Policemen working under Bellampalli police sub-division collected 1,045 units of blood by conducting a blood donation camp to mark Police Martyrs Commemoration Day or Flag Day, Bellampalli and Mandamarri towns on Wednesday. Bellampalli MLA Durgam Chinnaiah was the chief guest of the event. Bellampalli Assistant Commissioner of Police Adla Mahesh said that the police […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: A 35-year-old woman was electrocuted as she came in contact with a live wire while she was cutting grass for cattle at Dahegaon mandal on Wednesday.Dahegaon Sub-Inspector Raghupathi said that the deceased was Thummide Kalavathi, a resident of Dahegaon mandal headquarters. Kalavathi was electrocuted when she was cutting grass in another farmer’s […]

Warangal: A 26-year-old woman from Haripirala village of Thorrur mandal of Mahabubabad district gave birth to a baby boy weighing five kgs at the government-run Community Health Centre (CHC) in Wardhannapet in the district on Wednesday. Speaking to Telangana Today, superintendent of this 30-bed facility, Dr Bethi Narsimha Swamy, an anaesthetist, said that Gaddala Spandana, […]

Hyderabad: The state health authorities here have said that are expecting a Covid vaccine for children to be available in the coming two to three weeks.  The authorities said that under the guidance of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHFW), extensive ground work is underway in Telangana to start vaccinating children, as and when […]

Hyderabad: The results of the Common Post Graduate Entrance Tests (CPGET) 2021 will be released on Thursday. Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) chairman Prof. R Limbadri and Osmania University Vice Chancellor Prof. D Ravinder will announce the results at TSCHE at 3.30 pm. After the announcement, the results will be available on the website http://tscpget.com/CPGET . […]

She described the initiative taken by the Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao to reconstruct the temple as a 'yagnam'.