Telangana

Hyderabad: The Covid-19 pandemic had ravaged almost all the sectors with education being one of the most impacted ones with schools and colleges forced into a temporary closure for more than 16 months. While some private budget schools were on the verge of closure due to the effect of the pandemic, several new private and […]

Hyderabad: The Pilgrim Special Train in Ramayana Circuit of IRCTC will stop at Bhadrachalam Road Station on its journey from Rameswaram to New Delhi. IRCTC, the premier Travel and Tourism Company under Ministry of Railways, has planned a series of departures of pilgrim special trains during this festive season and with the gradual resumption of […]

Hyderabad: District Collectors will release an ex-gratia amount of Rs 50,000 from the funds available in the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to kin of all the persons who died of Covid in the State. To ensure the ex-gratia amount is released to deserving persons, the State government will follow the guidelines that were earlier […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TS BIE) said it would not hesitate to initiate stringent action on junior lecturers who have not reported for the Intermediate first year exams spot evaluation works, which commenced on November 6. The Board on Wednesday said junior lecturers from government, government sector and private junior colleges […]

Warangal: SR University Vice-Chancellor Prof GRC Reddy said that they were making all efforts to provide quality and innovative education considering them as the prime principles. “Beyond the expectations of many existed established and well known institutions, SR University, one of youngest universities in Telangana, had secured first rank in NIRF ranking in the State […]

Mancherial: Meanwhile, MLC K Kavitha expressed shock over the incident which claimed four lives and expressed condolences to the kin of the bereaved families. In a statement, Kavitha said that she was shocked by the mishap and assured that the government would extend all support to the kin of the victims. In the meantime, Government […]

Hyderabad: A meeting of Vice-Chancellors and higher education officials on Wednesday stressed the need for universities to utilise the services of the alumni for the all-round development of the campuses and for the benefit of students. The varsities were also asked to expedite the networking and registration of all their alumni. The virtual meeting was […]

Karimnagar: The Karimnagar District Cooperative Central Bank (DCCB) has announced postponement of the proposed centenary celebrations of the bank which are scheduled to be held from November 14 to 20 in Karimnagar town. In the wake of issuance of notification for the conduct of elections for 12 MLC seats in the State and the implementation […]

Khammam: Leaders of several trade unions demanded that the State government should pay increased wages to municipal workers as per the recent 11th PRC recommendations. Speaking at a meeting here on Wednesday, the Telangana State Municipal Staff and Outsourcing Workers Union (AITUC) Manda Venkateshwarlu alleged that Khammam Municipal Corporation officials not only deprived the contract […]

Rajanna-Sircilla: BJP and Vishva Hindu Parishad activities on Wednesday staged a protest at Vemulawada Rajarajeshwaraswamy temple executive officer’s chamber against abnormal hike in prices of various pujas in the shrine. Led by BJP district president Pratapa Ramakrishna, the activists demanded that temple authorities reduce the hiked prices of different pujas. In this regard, they also […]

Hyderabad: It is becoming a lot more like winter with each day in Telangana, even as the season is still slowly setting in. Mornings, especially, have become colder, with many areas including Hyderabad already witnessing temperatures plunging below 15 degrees Celsius. Across the State, the lowest minimum temperature in the last 24 hours, till 8.30 […]

Hyderabad: To build pressure on the Centre for procurement of entire paddy crop for Vaanakalam (Kharif) season, the ruling TRS has geared up its party cadre to stage State-wide protests in all Assembly constituency headquarters on Friday. The Ministers and MLAs will lead the protests in their respective Assembly constituencies. They will be accompanied by […]

Nalgonda: One person died and five persons injured in a road accident after a lorry hit a state-run bus on the bypass road at Miryalaguda in Nalgonda district on Wednesday evening. The TSRTC bus, which was comming to Miryalaguda from Dachepally, was rammed by the truck from rear side. Among the injured, one passenger died […]

Mancherial: Two constables were suspended for allegedly bringing disrepute to the Police department. An order to this effect was issued by Ramagundam Commissioner of Police S Chandrasekhar Reddy on Wednesday. According to a statement, the suspended constables are S Thirupathi, working with Armed Reserve in Bellampalli town, and R Srikanth of Mancherial town police station. […]

Mahabubabad: District Collector K Shashanka said that the government would take all the steps to provide and improve infrastructural facilities in all the colleges in the district. Reviewing the facilities available in the colleges with the principals at the Collector’s Camp Office here on Wednesday, Shashanka asked the principals to submit the reports on the […]

Karimnagar: BC welfare and Civil Supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar has invited the BJP workers and all other politicial party workers to join in the demonstrations to be organised by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) in all assembly constituencies to pressurise the Union Government to procure paddy and save the farmers in Telangana. The minister said […]

Rajanna-Sircilla: Collector Anurag Jayanthi instructed officials to speed up the paddy procurement process in the district. The Collector conducted a review meeting with officials to discuss the paddy procurement process at his chamber in the Collectorate complex here on Wednesday. The Collector said that out of 265 purchasing centers, 248 centers were already inaugurated. 16,904 […]

Kothagudem: Gone are the days when people feared to go to government hospitals for treatment especially, for childbirth and preferred private hospitals spending huge amounts on medical expenses. These days, government hospitals have become a favoured place for people to get treatment as the Telangana government has improved medical infrastructure at the public health facilities […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Two siblings were arrested for allegedly decamping with cash Rs 4.25 lakh from a woman vegetable vendor, in Kagaznagar on Wednesday. Police recovered Rs 4.22 lakh in cash from them. The brother-duo was identified as Chunarkar Devaji and Chunarkar Shankar of Gundi village. On being interrogated, Devaji and Shankar confessed to committing […]

Hyderabad: Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) on Wednesday ordered a probe into the roof collapse incident in underground mine of SCCL’s SRP 3 and 3A incline at Srirampur in Mancherial district. V Krishna Reddy (57), B Laxmaiah (60), G Satyanarayana Raju (32) and R Chandrasekhar (32) died in the incident. Reddy and Laxmaiah were working […]

Warangal: Warangal Commissionerate’s Task Force team raided five pan shops and two kirana shops in AJ Mill’s Colony and Matwada here on Wednesday and seized banned tobacco products from their possession. The seized property along with accused persons were handed over to the concerned police for further action. The seized Gutkha was estimated to cost […]

Kothagudem: CPI(Maoist) Central Committee spokesperson Abhay called upon the public across the country to make ‘International Action Day’ on November 24, opposing ‘Operation Prahar,’ a grand success. In a statement released to the media here on Wednesday, he wanted people to take out rallies, stage demonstrations and conduct public meetings in all villages against Operation […]

Hyderabad: With its strong presence in the local bodies, the ruling TRS is keen to record a clean sweep in the biennial elections to 12 MLC seats scheduled to be held on December 10. The party which is confident of retaining all 12 MLC seats, has a strong base of 16,000 elected representatives in the […]

Siddipet: A host of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leaders and elected representatives from erstwhile Medak district met Finance Minister T Harish Rao and congratulated him as Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao allotted him Health Ministry as an additional portfolio. The State government had issued a GO on Tuesday allotting Health Ministry as an additional portfolio […]