Telangana

Hyderabad: The State government on Tuesday extended the last date for registration of colleges and students on Telangana e-Pass website for sanction of fresh and renewal of scholarships for the academic year 2021-22, up to March 31. Admissions to various professional, degree and postgraduate courses were not completed so far due to the Covid-19 pandemic, […]

Nalgonda: The police were surprised after seeing a tattoo of a ganja leaf on the hand of ganja peddler Deepu Sankar, who was arrested on Tuesday. The 31-year-aged Deepu Sankar of West Delhi was arrested by the police while transporting ganja in an RTC bus. A tattoo of a ganja leaf on his hand surprised […]

Hyderabad: The Managing Director of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation, VC Sajjanar, addressed the employees all over the State virtually, on Tuesday. The meeting, which was conducted before the Medaram jatara special operations, was attended by a total of 40,000 employees. While appreciating the work of drivers, conductors, mechanical staff, supervisors and officers, Sajjanar appealed […]

Warangal: A team of Commissioner’s Task Force police apprehended two persons while attempting to sell a leopard skin at Khanapur village in the district, and seized the hide worth estimated at Rs 20 lakh from the duo on Tuesday. The accused were identified as Boda Balakrishna (28) of Pokalagudem village, and Badavath Tirupathi (63) Pusala […]

Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao took serious objection to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comments on Andhra Pradesh bifurcation in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Denouncing the Prime Minister for saying that Andhra Pradesh was divided against the spirit of Samkhya, Rao said that the BJP acted against the spirit of Samkhya as they had failed […]

Hyderabad: In a scathing attack, the TRS slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for questioning the creation of Telangana State. They said the Prime Minister had proved his visceral hatred towards Telangana once again, but remained mum in justifying BJP’s failure to support a progressive State like Telangana. They demanded that Modi apologise to the people […]

Nalgonda: The police were surprised after seeing tattoo of a ganja leaf on the hand of ganja peddler Deepu Sankar, who was arrested on Tuesday. The 31-year-aged Deepu Sankar of West Delhi was arrested by the police while transporting ganja in an RTC bus. A tattoo of ganja leaf on his hand surprised the police […]

Kothagudem: Employees of the Irrigation Department have demanded payment of agency allowance for which they were eligible. A delegation of Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers union leaders and irrigation department employees submitted a memorandum to the ITDA Project Officer P Gautham on Tuesday in support of their demand. The union leaders R Phani Kumar and D Narasimha […]

Adilabad: Five villages in erstwhile Adilabad district shined in implementation of Sansad Adarsh Gram Panchayat Yojana (SAGY), an initiative of union ministry of rural development, for the year 2021. The ranks were declared by the Centre recently. Patnapur village in Boath mandal of Adilabad district achieved 12th rank in the national level by scoring 85.92 […]

Hyderabad: Students from the Telangana Tribal Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TTWREIS) have come out with flying colours in the recently announced medical seats allotment through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2021 counselling. While 80 students were imparted intensive coaching by the Society, a total of 43 students secured medical seats in the […]

Karimnagar: Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths on Tuesday caught a senior assistant of District Headquarters Hospital while accepting a bribe from his colleague for official favour. According to ACB officials, Surender, working as a senior assistant in the District Headquarters Hospital, demanded a Rs 12,000 bribe from Ramesh, a lower cadre employee, for clearing medical bills. Not […]

Kothagudem: The demand for demerger of five gram panchayats of Telangana merged with Andhra Pradesh at the time of bifurcation is gaining momentum once again. Different political parties in Bhadrachalam took to the streets in support of their long-pending demand. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao had also made a statement in the State Assembly in […]

Nalgonda: In a joint operation, Task Force police and Chityal police on Tuesday arrested seven persons at a dhaba hotel at Gundrampally in Chityal mandal and seized 460 kg of ganja and Rs 4 lakh cash from their possession. The arrested were identified as Pabbala Surya Prakash(25), native of Yacharam in Ranga Reddy district, Banothu […]

Hyderabad: Vennampally, a village in Saidapur mandal in erstwhile Karimnagar district, has bagged the top rank under the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), union Ministry of Rural Development. The State government’s ambitious Palle Pragathi, a programme aimed at developing rural areas, has yielded good results as seven villages from the State have been ranked among […]

Hyderabad: A two-judge Bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili affirmed that there was a need to have certain parameters that decide the eligibility of a person in availing State’s welfare schemes. The Bench was dealing with a writ plea that contended that transgenders have […]

Nalgonda: TRS MLC Gutha Sukender Reddy on Tuesday said the people of Telangana will teach a fitting lesson to the BJP in the next elections for the discrimination shown by the Narendra Modi government towards Southern states. Speaking to the media at his camp office here, Sukender Reddy said the BJP government at the Centre […]

Suryapet: The death toll in the diesel tank explosion at Suryapet rose to three with one more person succumbing to injuries on Tuesday. Erpula Laxman, a worker at the gas welding shop where the accident occurred, died while undergoing treatment at Osmania hospital in Hyderabad. He was a native of Chinthala Cheruvu area in Suryapet […]

Hyderabad: There are clear indications that Telangana has reached the end stage of the Omicron-driven Covid third wave, said Director of Public Health (DPH) Dr G Srinivasa Rao here on Tuesday. The daily Covid infections and positivity rate has declined steadily in the last few days, an indication that the Covid third wave has reached […]

Hyderabad: In a clear sign that the new BA.2 sub-lineage, popularly known as the stealth variant of Omicron, is becoming predominant in Telangana, genetic researchers have reported 256 Covid positive cases of BA.2 origin in the State between December 2021 and February 2022. While there are still questions over the impact of the new sub-lineage […]

Hyderabad: The union government sanctioned a total Rs 309.53 crore for the development and modernisation of tourism infrastructure and facilities in Telangana since 2015-16. Of this, Rs 242.19 crore have been released till date. Responding to a question raised by Zaheerabad MP BB Patil in the Lok Sabha on Monday, union Tourism Minister G Kishan […]

Hyderabad: Rajya Sabha MP J Santosh Kumar on Monday said the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has said that the green cover in Telangana had increased by three per cent. The Rajya Sabha MP tweeted: “Yes, It’s official. The Ministry goes on record saying that forest cover has been increased by 3% in […]

Hyderabad: The School Education Department on Monday issued a notification for admission in Model Schools for Classes VI to X for the academic year 2022-23. Aspirants can submit an online application from February 8 to 10. Hall tickets for Class VI candidates will be available for download from April 8 and the entrance examination will […]

Hyderabad: Social Welfare Minister Koppula Eshwar here on Monday asked officials to examine applications pertaining to Telangana Overseas Scholarship Scheme (TOSS) on humanitarian grounds and render justice to eligible persons to avail the scheme. Participating in a meeting conducted with senior officials to review various schemes being implemented for the welfare of SCs, he said […]

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