Telangana

Kothagudem: The volunteers of Animal Warriors Conservation Society of Hyderabad have come to the rescue of stranded pet, stray animals and birds in flood affected areas on the banks of the river Godavari. A team of nine members, including the society founder P Pradeep, J Santoshi, Sanjeev, Raghav , Prabhu, Manish, Chetan and Ramakrishna travelled […]

Hyderabad: The unprecedented rains in Telangana last week led to flooding of two pump houses of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS). The natural calamity, however, has fuelled a spate of unsubstantiated charges by politicians and some others about the efficacy, sustainability and functioning of the project. Here is the point-by-point analysis by OSD in […]

Sangareddy: Sangareddy Police have busted a gang that was looting the locked out industries in Sangareddy and Vikarabad districts. The IDA Bollaram Police and Jinnaram Police led by Inspector Surendar Reddy and Venu Kumar have nabbed the seven-member inter-district gang and seized Rs. 4.84 lakh in cash, two autos, a goods auto, and several instruments […]

Jagityal: Two farmers drowned after falling in a rivulet near Dharmapuri town on Wednesday. According to local people, the deceased persons accidentally fell in Gerillavagu in the outskirts of Dharmapuri temple town while chopping off a tree located on the bank of the rivulet and died. They were identified as Katkam Srinivas (43) from Dharmapuri […]

Hyderabad: Telangana requested Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to take necessary steps for a site inspection of RDS right canal on top priority and restrain Andhra Pradesh from proceeding with canal construction immediately. In a letter to the Board Chairman, Irrigation and Command Area Development (I&CAD) department Engineer-in-Chief (General) C Muralidhar urged to depute a […]

Hyderabad: To design, develop, and deploy Technology Enabled Laboratories (TEL) for polytechnics and engineering institutions in Telangana, the State Board of Technical Education and Training (SBTET) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP) division. To provide comprehensive experiential learning for the […]

Hyderabad: Known for his humanitarian acts, actor Sonu Sood has once again come forward to help an undeserved child. This time it was Mohammad Safan Ali, a seven-month-old native of Karimnagar, Telangana, who underwent a liver transplant surgery successfully.  The child was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia, a rare condition in medical parlance which subsequently led […]

Karimnagar: Telangana Rashtra Samithi activists on Wednesday staged protest demonstrations across the erstwhile Karimnagar district in protest against the imposition of five percent goods and services tax (GST) on milk and milk based products by the union government led by the BJP. Based on TRS working president KT Rama Rao’s instructions, TRS workers staged dharna […]

Suryapet: The TRS members on Wednesday staged protest demonstrations across the district against the imposition of GST on milk and milk based products by the Centre. Under the leadership of Zilla Parishad Chairperson Deepika Yugender Rao, the TRS members staged a dharna at the main centre of Thungathurthi and raised slogans against the Centre for […]

Rajanna Sircilla: Irrigation officials of Mid Manair reservoir in Boinpalli mandal lifted six flood-gates to release 21,429 cusecs of water into Lower Manair Dam on Tuesday night. Officials have lifted gates as the project is getting inflows from its sources following incessant heavy rainfall for one week. While the reservoir is getting 15,000 cusecs of […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Transportation system between three mandals such as Koutala, Chintalamanepalli and Bejjur, and Kaghaznagar town has come to a grinding halt with backwaters of Penganga river submerging culverts and a road at Parigaon village in Sirpur (T) mandal on Wednesday. Following discharge of surplus water from irrigation projects in Maharashtra, Penganga river was […]

Hyderabad: With the flood waters receding in the Godavari River, people in Bhadrachalam town and other flood-hit areas in Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem district heaved a sigh of relief. The water level in the river at Bhadrachalam stood at 47.70 feet at 9 a.m. on Wednesday but the authorities have not withdrawn the third flood level […]

Hyderabad: Coding, programming or jobs in the IT field or as engineers do not seem to entice engineering graduates in the State anymore, with several of them looking towards making a career in the legal field. This is evident from the number of BE/BTech graduates who are in the race to crack the Telangana State […]

Sangareddy: Finance Minister T Harish Rao lashed out at the BJP-led union government for not announcing any flood relief to Telangana though the State was hit by heavy rains. Addressing the gathering after laying a foundation for Rs 50 crore works in Sangareddy Municipality here on Tuesday, the Minister said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar […]

Hyderabad: TRS MPs on Tuesday staged a protest in Parliament against the rise in prices of essential commodities, GST on food items and inflation besides rising prices of petrol, diesel and LPG cylinder. They staged the demonstration with placards in front of the Gandhi statue on the Parliament premises. Soon after the session began, the […]

Kothagudem: The flood situation in river Godavari has been easing and the water level has come down below the danger level of 53 feet at 3pm on Tuesday. The water level was 50 feet at 7 pm. With the water level receding in the river and inundation subsiding in the flood-affected areas sanitation work was […]

Hyderabad: The BJP government at the Centre on Tuesday exposed its paradoxical approach towards coal imports by stating that the gap between demand and supply of domestic coal was reduced to a mere 3.66 per cent in the power sector in 2021-22. Ironically, it has been pressurising the States as well as power generation companies […]

New Delhi: The ruling parties of at least four States including Telangana Rashtra Samithi, objected to the States’ finances being discussed at an all-party meeting on the Sri Lanka crisis. While the Centre maintained that it was mentioned to underscore bad consequences of fiscal prudence and freebies, the Opposition parties asserted that it was not […]

Hyderabad: The BJP government at the Centre, which has consistently short-changed Telangana in devolution and allocation of funds in various areas of economic activity and development, has, by its own admission, turned a blind eye to the sufferings of the people of the State even at times of natural calamities. Given its blatant discrimination of […]

Sangareddy: The woman delivered a baby girl in her sixth month of pregnancy when her amniotic fluids leaked in the 26th week of her pregnancy. When the private hospital management, where she delivered the baby, told the woman Reddypally Arundhathi that there was no hope of survival of the infant since she was weighing just […]

Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice S Nanda on Tuesday disposed of a writ petition questioning the jurisdiction of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in adjudicating a matter pertaining to recovery of a loan. The panel was dealing with a writ petition filed by […]

Hyderabad: A high power committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will visit Telangana to assess the damage caused by torrential rains that lashed the State last week. Telangana BJP State president Bandi Sanjay Kumar tweeted saying that he called on the union Home Minister Amit Shah along with BJP national general secretary and […]

Nalgonda: The district Collector Rahul Sharma on Thursday exhorted obstetricians to strive to bring down cesarean deliveries by creating awareness in the people particularly women. Speaking at a meeting of “Cesarean Section Audit”, which was attended by gynaecologists and obstetricians of government and private hospitals here, Rahul Sharma said that obstetrician and gynaecologists should register […]

Kothagudem: The residents of Kannaigudem gram panchayat in Yetapaka mandal of Alluri Sitaram Raju Manyam District in Andhra Pradesh have demanded demerger of their village with Telangana as they were not being cared for by AP government. Scores of residents of the village took to the streets shouting ‘Jai Telangana’ slogans and staged a dharna […]