Telangana

Nirmal: Superintendent of Police Ch Praveen Kumar felicitated Dodle Anwitha, a police constable and writer of Basar police station for bagging national award, Empowering IT Police with IT, here on Tuesday. It may be mentioned that Anwitha was chosen to present the award for outstanding services to the Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and Systems. […]

Hyderabad: Seven more international passengers who arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad have tested positive for Omicron variant on Tuesday, taking the overall number of Omicron positive infections to 62 in Telangana. Authorities also detected three Omicron positive infections from Hyderabad with no travel history or close contact with those who travelled recently. […]

Hyderabad: Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said Telangana has been in the forefront of oil palm cultivation and exuded confidence that the State would emerge as the leader in cultivation of the crop in the country in the coming years. Addressing the business summit on National Mission on Edible Oils- Oil Palm here on […]

Karimnagar: NABARD Chairman Govinda Rajulu Chinthala said the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) has completely transformed the parched fields of Telangana into lush green fields similar to Godavari districts (Konaseema) in Andhra Pradesh. “When I was working in Hyderabad some years ago, parched lands used to appear on either side of the road on any […]

Hyderabad: Jal Shakti (MoJS) Secretary Pankaj Kumar on Tuesday assured that the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of half a dozen irrigation projects in Telangana on Godavari River would be cleared soon. He gave this assurance during a video conference with the Chief Secretaries of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Somesh Kumar and Sameer Sharma, respectively, on […]

Khammam: Modern technology was being deployed to lay roads in Khammam city to ensure quality and durability, Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar said on Tuesday. The minister said that with the Chief Minister’s Special Development Fund (SDF) of Rs 30 crore, as many as 140 roads were being laid in different municipal divisions in the […]

Hyderabad: The State government on Tuesday accorded permission to the Director of Prohibition and Excise department to permit license holders of bars, licensees of event permit managements and in-house licensees of Tourism Development Corporation to serve liquor up to 1 am on the intervening night of December 31 and January 1. Permission was also accorded […]

Hyderabad: Crop protection company Dhanuka Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad to jointly provide technical know-how and support to farmers in Telangana, besides exploring joint research in the areas of crop protection and use of drones in agriculture. Dhanuka Group chairman RG Agarwal showcasing drones […]

Khammam: The stage is set for the inauguration of the city’s newest attraction, a cable-stayed suspension bridge built across Lakaram tank in Khammam city. IT, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K T Rama Rao is scheduled to throw open the bridge to the public during his visit to the district on January 2. The […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Tuesday achieved an important milestone in containing the Covid pandemic by administering the first dose of Covid vaccines to 100 per cent of eligible beneficiaries. The health department on Tuesday completed administering the first dose of Covid vaccine to all the 2,77,67,000 eligible beneficiaries in Telangana. On Monday, the department had covered […]

Peddapalli: Two youngsters died and another received serious injuries when their motorcycle rammed into a wall at Jawaharnagar in Godavarikhani in the earlhy hours of Tuesday. According to police, Shivaram, Mahesh and Siddu, residents of Ramnagar in Godavarikhani, were on their way to Rameshnagar from Jawaharnagar when they hit the wall of a work shop. […]

Hyderabad: Buoyed by the success of Basthi Dawakhanas in areas under Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), the State government on Tuesday has decided to expand the concept and establish a total of 288 similar healthcare facilities in 141 municipalities across Telangana. The 288 Basthi Dawakhanas across other urban centres in Telangana will be established in […]

Hyderabad: In an endorsement of the developmental activities initiated in the healthcare sector by the State government in the last few years, Telangana has emerged among the top three Indian States to have best quality healthcare facilities in the Health Index (HI) rankings that were released by NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog on […]

Mancherial: In a joint operation by sleuths of Ramagundam commissionerate Task Force and Prohibition and Excise department, a man was arrested for allegedly preparing adulterated toddy in Thandur mandal centre on Monday. A total of 410 litres of adulterated toddy, three kg of ammonium chloride (solid state), two kg of lemon salt, two kg baking […]

Hyderabad: The State leadership of both the Congress and BJP came under fire on Monday from TRS leaders for indulging in low grade and opportunistic politics in the State. While TPCC president A Revanth Reddy was scheduled to hold a ‘Rachabanda’ at Erravalli under Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s Gajwel Assembly constituency on paddy procurement […]

Rajanna-Sircilla: Two more Omicron cases have been reported at Gudem village in Mustabad mandal on Monday. The villagers, who imposed a self-lockdown for a period of 10 days from December 23 with the report of one Omicron case, were a worried lot over the latest development. It may be recalled that a 28-year-old Gulf migrant […]

Nalgonda: Rema Rajeshwari, a 2009 batch IPS officer, became th first woman Superintendent of Police (SP) of Nalgonda district when she assumed charge on Monday. She is also the first woman IPS officer from her home district Idukkki in Kerala. Rema Rajeshwari had earlier worked as Additional SP(Admin) of Nalgonda district in 2014. She took […]

Hyderabad: Coming down heavily on the Opposition parties, Agriculture Minister Niranjan Reddy accused the Congress and the BJP of colluding with each other in Telangana for their own political gains despite their being arch-rivals at the national level. He demanded that leaders of both the Opposition parties stage protests in Delhi rather than in Telangana […]

Adilabad: Superintendent of Police D Uday Kumar Reddy said he was happy to be posted as Superintendent of Police of the district since he had worked here for 18 years in different positions. Speaking to the media after assuming charge on Monday, Uday Kumar went down memory lane and recalled his association with the district. […]

Hyderabad: India is in the second position in consumption of palm oil at 10.2 million tonnes after Indonesia (12.75 million MT). Of the total imports, palm oil accounts for 60 per cent worth Rs 60,000 to Rs 70,000 crore per annum. The crude palm oil production in the country is about 2.5 lakh tonnes annually […]

Hyderabad: A two-judge Bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy on Monday disposed of a contempt petition filed against Principal Secretary Revenue, Somesh Kumar as well as the district Collector and RDO Vikarabad. The contempt was filed for non-compliance of orders of the High Court […]

Karimnagar: UGC autonomous committee will visit Sri Raja Rajeshwara (SRR) Government Arts and Science College here for two days on Tuesday and Wednesday, to inspect various aspects to provide autonomous status to the college. Committee Chairman Prof K Bairappa (Karnataka), members Prof Omkarnath Upadhyay (Lucknow), Dr R Prabhakar (Chennai), and Dr P Bala Bhaskar (government […]

Khammam: The Central government was adopting double standards in purchasing paddy from Telangana State, TRS Lok Sabha leader Nama Nageswara Rao said on Monday. “The BJP government at the Centre is not responding to the State’s appeals to buy paddy produced by farmers. It is sad that the Centre which has been purchasing paddy from […]

Hyderabad: Telangana reported 182 new Covid infections and one fatality on Monday taking the cumulative number of deaths to 4023 and the total number of positive cases so far to 6,80,844. The number of active cases in Telangana, as on Monday, was 3,417. The authorities on Monday conducted 37,839 Covid tests of which results of […]