Telangana

The RTC received the Renewable Energy Development Corporation and Energy Conservation Award.

Hyderabad: Telangana sent a strong signal to the BJP government at the Centre on Monday that it will not tolerate its anti-farmers’ policies and brazen discrimination of the State in paddy procurement, as thousands of farmers joined TRS leaders and activists across the State to protest against the Union government’s stubborn attitude. Cities, towns and […]

Warangal: Internationally acclaimed micro artist from Warangal Mattewada Ajay Kumar created another wonder in the form of a micro sculpture in which he depicted the Supreme Court building and the 48th Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana, in the eye of a needle. While the court building measures 1.4 mm in height and […]

Khammam: K Chandrashekhar Rao is the only Chief Minister in the country who was giving priority to the welfare of poorer sections, stated Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar. The minister distributed Kalyana Lakshmi and Shadi Mubarak cheques to beneficiary families by visiting their homes riding on motorbike here on Monday. He distributed the cheques to […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: One of the two workers who sustained serious injuries in an explosion of an electrical transformer in Sirpur Papers Mill Limited (SPM) of Kaghaznagar town, died at a hospital in Hyderabad on Monday. The deceased was Pudari Laxminarayana, (52), a resident of Kapuwada in Kaghaznagar town and a contract-based worker of the […]

Nalgonda: Tension prevailed at Clock Tower Centre in the town on Monday when ABVP activists burnt the effigy of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao even as TRS leaders and activists were staging a protest in the same place. A group of ABVP activists reached the Clock Tower Centre and burnt the effigy demanding justice for […]

Hyderabad: Telangana will see investments of Rs 6,000 crore in electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing over the next five years. The investments are based on EV companies’ outlay in manufacturing capacities, mostly in EV components and assembly-line production, followed by investments in battery manufacturing. Emerging clusters in the State such as Chandanvelly-Sitarampur and Divitipalli are drawing […]

Siddipet: Finance and Health Minister T Harish Rao on Monday said Telangana was the only State in the country to celebrate Christmas as an official festival. The Minister was speaking after inaugurating the first Christian Bhavan in Telangana built at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore, at Gajwel, five days ahead of Christmas. The Minister […]

Kothagudem: A retired SCCL employee allegedly committed suicide by jumping to death from a bridge on Murredu stream in the town on Monday. The deceased was identified as Kondapaka Satyanarayana (65), a resident of Vidyanagar Colony in Chunchupalli mandal, Kothagudem town, after serving in SCCL at Manugur in the district. The reasons for his extreme […]

Karimnagar: TSRTC, Karimnagar region, has decided to open a petrol bunk near RTC workshop in Karimangar town. For this purpose, it has allocated 10,000 square feet of land in the RTC workshop that is spread over 50 acres. TSRTC, which leased the land to Hindustan Petroleum Company for a period of 30 years, entered into […]

Siddipet: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leaders were up in arms on Monday in protest against the BJP government at the Centre which has decided not procure Yasangi Paddy from the State, pushing the paddy farmer into distress. Finance Minister T Harish Rao, who participated in the protest programme organised by the party in Gajwel, said […]

Medak: In a tragic incident, three teenagers died in a road accident at Chegunta Mandal headquarters in Medak in the early hours of Monday. The victims were Palle Rakesh (21), his younger brother Palle Pradeep (17) and Pandla Aravind (15), all the three are residents of Uulli Timmaipally. According to Chegunta Police, Rakesh was taking […]

Hyderabad: As about 51 per cent of the Intermediate students failed to clear the first-year exams in Telangana, student activists have called for a bandh of all junior colleges for two days from December 20 alleging that the Board failed in fairly conducting the evaluation. While the National Students of Union of India (NSUI) gave […]

Nalgonda: Tension prevailed at Clock Tower Centre in the town on Monday when ABVP activists burnt the effigy of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao even as TRS leaders and activists were staging a protest in the same place. A group of ABVP activists reached the Clock Tower Centre and burnt the effigy demanding justice for […]

Hyderabad: The TRS activists along with farmers launched protests against the anti-farmer attitude of the BJP-led Central government in all villages across the State. They took to the streets raising slogans over the Centre’s discrimination on farmers’ issues especially paddy procurement in Telangana and also condemned it’s nonresponsiveness to the State government’s requests on the […]

Adilabad: MLAs belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party staged a protest against the Union government’s decision to not to procure paddy produced in Yasangi season, across the erstwhile Adilabad district on Monday. Forest minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy expressed anger over the Union government’s move. He opined that the Centre was showing stubborn attitude […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy demanded that the Central government should give a written assurance to the Telangana government over enhancing targets for paddy procurement during the Vaanakalam (Kharif) season. He sought Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal to increase the Vaanakalam target from 60 lakh tonnes of paddy (i.e. 40 […]

Warangal: People in large numbers led by the TRS party leaders have staged dharnas, and other forms of protests including the ‘Chavu Dappu’ processions against the BJP led Central government for its anti-farmer policies including its denial of paddy procurement for the Yasangi from Telangana. While Minister Satyvathi Rathod led the protests at the agriculture […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based husband-wife duo Susurala V S Suresh and Mythreyi Kondapi has launched a first-of-its-kind tech-enabled device for physiotherapists and patients called Pheezee. The device aims to revolutionise the way patient assessments are done in the physiotherapy and rehabilitation space. After working on developing the product for two years and testing it in rehab centres […]

Hyderabad: Tracking and tracing of international passengers arriving from non ‘at-risk’ countries to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad has become a challenge for surveillance teams of the State Health Department, as there is a lot of scope for such passengers to ‘slip through the cracks’ and trigger rapid transmission of Omicron variant among the […]

Hyderabad: The present situation of the Omicron-driven Covid pandemic is indicating that the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is not as lethal as the Delta variant, which caused the second wave and claimed lives of many, senior health officials here on Sunday said. However, they added that there was no need for people to panic. Making […]

Mancherial: Till recently, she was just another daily wage earner, singing folk songs while she went about agriculture activities. She was struggling to make both ends meet and was living in her unfinished house. This self-trained folk singer, Kummari Durgavva, turned into an internet sensation overnight for rendering the song, Adavi Thalli, in Pawan Kalyan’s […]

Hyderabad: Big Boss Telugu 5 journey of 106 days ended on a high note with VJ Sunny lifting the coveted trophy, while Shanmukh Jaswanth and Sreerama Chandra emerged as the first and second runners-up respectively. VJ Sunny took home Rs 50 lakh cash and a plot worth Rs 25 lakh. SS Rajamouli, Alia Bhatt, Ranbir […]

Hyderabad: Textiles and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao on Sunday lambasted the Union government for its proposed move to hike the GST on textiles and handloom products from the present five per cent to 12 per cent, effective January 1 next. “The textile and handloom sectors are already reeling under the impact of Covid […]