Telangana

Khammam: The Central government has been adopting a step-motherly attitude towards Telangana State in paddy procurement, Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar said on Saturday. “The Food Corporation of India’s (FCI) policy in paddy procurement was not correct. Farmers in the State are worried as the Centre was dilly-dallying with regard to paddy procurement. The farmers […]

Suryapet: ANMs and medical staff have taken up a door-to-door Covid vaccination drive in all the wards in Suryapet town to achieve 100 per cent coverage of eligible population. Suryapet Municipal Commissioner P Ramanujula Reddy inspected the drive in wards 34 and 25 of the town and convinced some labourers who refused to take the […]

Yadadri Bhongir: District Collector Pamela Sathpathi has issued orders surrendering Gundala tahsildar Ulpala Dayakar Reddy to the office of Chief Commissioner of Land Acquisition following allegations of sexually harassing a woman employees in the office. Surveyor at the Tahsildar office D Lalitha complained to the District Collector on December 8 that the tahsildar has been […]

Hyderabad: The TSIIC-TIF-SME Green Industrial Park at Dandumalkapur in Yadadri district will be fully operational next year. The works, which started two years ago, were affected due to the pandemic and are now back on track. The industrial park is expected to attract about Rs 2,000 crore investment from members. Most of this would go […]

Hyderabad: The State government’s repeated appeals to the farming community in the State appears to have yielded some result with farmers shifting to the cultivation of alternative crops to paddy during the ongoing Yasangi this year. Farmers have taken up cultivation of paddy in just 7,012 acres as of December 8 against the season’s normal […]

Hyderabad: Conventional degree courses appear to have returned to gain popularity among students. This is an indication from the increasing number of students enrolling into these courses through the Degree Online Services, Telangana (DOST). According to the details available with Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE), as many as 2,29,154 students enrolled in BA, […]

Hyderabad: State unit of Congress party has extended its support to the 72-hour strike by Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) employees in protest against the Central government’s move to privatise four coal blocks in the region. TPCC president A Revanth Reddy, in a statement here on Friday said: “Even during Covid-19 pandemic, SCCL generated revenues […]

Karimnagar: MPTC from Rekonda of Chigurumamidi mandal, Chada Shobha came on a stretcher to cast her vote in the MLC polls in Karimnagar. Shobha, who underwent surgery on her leg, is undergoing treatment in a private hospital. To exercise her vote, she arrived at Karimnagar ZP polling station in an ambulance from the hospital. Polling […]

Hyderabad: Regional Passport Officer (RPO) Dasari Balaiah on Friday advised people to contact the Regional Passport Office directly for any passport and related services and not to contact any middlemen. “All are advised to use the official website and mobile app for passport and passport related services and not to fall prey to touts,” he […]

Mahabubabad: Non-Residents of India (NRIs) from the district including Vennam Siri, Venneam Vijayakanth Reddy, Ramasahayam Srinivas Reddy, Dr Tirupati Reddy Yerramreddy, and others have donated 10 beds with ceiling ventilators, pulse oximeters and other equipment worth Rs 20 lakh, said Hospital Superintendent Dr Bhukya Ventramulu. Similarly, under the Mayur Nirman Trust, donor Venki Narayana donated […]

Mahabubnagar: Tourism Minister V Srinivas Goud launched a Dhobighat, which is equipped with state-of-the-art laundry machinery, at Old Palamuru here on Friday. It was constructed at a cost of Rs 52.04 lakh. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was taking all steps to protect traditional occupations of all castes, […]

Khammam: Telangana State Teachers Federation (TRTF) district president G Jeevan has asked the State government to take into account category seniority in allocating employees to new districts. In a statement here on Friday, he urged the government to give priority to local cadre employees. He asked to announce the district-wise details of total sanctioned posts, […]

Sircilla: Textiles Minister K T Rama Rao on Friday demanded that the Central government sanction powerloom clusters to Pochampalli, Narayanpet, Gadwal and Dubbaka and sanction Rs 1,000 crore by including the sector in the Prime Minister’s Mitra scheme. “A lot of development would take place if these clusters are established. In this regard, a number […]

Sangareddy: An Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) team, which launched a Covid tracker website, has predicted that Omicron variant cases may peak in India on January 27, 2022. IITH Professor M Vidyasagar, who is part of SUTRA team, said Omicron cases in the country may touch 1.5 lakh cases. The wave, however, will totally […]

Hyderabad: The State government has increased the honorarium to anganwadi teachers, mini anganwadi teachers and anganwadi helpers by 30 per cent over the existing honorarium with effect from July 7, 2021. In all, as many as 67,411 anganwadi staff would benefit from the State government’s decision. Anganwadi teachers will be getting enhanced honorarium of Rs.13,650 […]

Sangareddy: When Covid-19 pandemic struck India in early 2020, it became imperative to have a single consolidated “go-to” website for relevant information at national, State, and even district-level. The website http://covid19india.org was started at that time and was the most popular website for such information, in addition to the Ministry website. In August 2021, the […]

Hyderabad: Performance variation of frontline executives and line managers is huge and is a cause of lower productivity in the fast-moving consumer goods and consumer durables segments, stressed HR experts who participated in a webinar organised by HR solutions player TMI Group. The webinar, anchored by TMI Group CEO Ravi Ramakrishnan, focused on the frontline […]

Nizamabad: Roads and Buildings Minister Vemula Prashanth Reddy on Friday said the main objective of the TRS government led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was to provide better health facilities and treatment to poor people. Speaking after inaugurating eight ICU and half a dozen oxygen beds at Velpur primary health centre, he said the […]

Khammam: A degree student from Khammam, Uma Maheshwari has secured place in the final list of cadets selected for the Republic Day parade to be held in New Delhi in 2022. She is studying B Sc. final year at RJC Degree and PG College here. A statement from the college here on Friday informed that […]

Yadadri-Bhongir: Independent candidate of Nalgonda LAC for MLC elections and Congress ZPTC D R Nagesh on Friday said it was unfortunate that Congress did not field a candidate in the elections even though it had more than 300 voters in erstwhile Nalgonda district. Speaking after casting his vote at a polling station in Bhongir, he […]

Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice N Tukaramji directed the Telangana High Court Registry to place before it rules and practices followed by other HCs in appointing Junior Civil Judges. Law graduates filed a batch of writ petitions questioning the qualification of three-year advocate […]

Karimnagar: Karimnagar Local Authorities Constituency MLC election went off peacefully in erstwhile Karimnagar district on Friday with 1,320 electors exercising their franchise for a polling percentage of 99.70 per cent. Local bodies’ public representatives including ZPTCs, MPTCs, Corporators and Councilors cast their votes in eight polling stations established across the old district. Though polling was […]

Sangareddy: Medak Local Authorities Constituency witnessed a record 99.22 percent polling as 1,018 voters exercised their franchise against the total voters of 1,026 at nine polling stations across erstwhile Medak district on Friday. The polling stations in Toopran, Narayankhed, Zaheerabad and Sididpet recorded 100 percent of polling. Only eight voters stayed away from the election […]

Jangaon: Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao directed the officials to prepare a status report with complete information on the progress of the development works on the tourism circuit in Jangaon district to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. The Minister was speaking at a review meeting on the progress of works of Palakurti-Bammera-Valmidi tourism corridor […]