Telangana

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 The water level in the river at Bhadrachalam stood at 47.70 feet at 9 a.m. on Wednesday but the authorities have not withdrawn the third flood level […]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 […]

Hyderabad: Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSSPDCL) Chairman and Managing Director G Raghuma Reddy on Tuesday appealed to consumers not to share the details of bank accounts and credit or debit cards. He also advised them not to follow suspicious links for payment of electricity bills. The consumers may register their complaints with […]

Warangal: SR University has got the 91st place in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in engineering category and is positioned in the rank band: 101 – 150 in the university category, said Chancellor SR University A Varada Reddy. Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, he said that the NIRF rankings had been […]

Hyderabad: The Nizamabad police on Tuesday arrested a six-member gang including a juvenile on charges of snatching smart phones from pedestrians. The gang members had stolen 22 smart phones from pedestrians in the last six months by travelling on two motorcycles without number plates, said Nizamabad Police Comissioner KR Nagaraju. He said 22 stolen mobile […]

Adilabad: A notorious ganja smuggler was arrested for allegedly murdering a degree student a few days back. He was produced before pressmen here on Tuesday. A knife used for committing the crime was recovered from him. Adilabad DSP V Umender said that the accused person was Thorat Preetham from Ambedkar nagar in the district headquarters. […]

Hyderabad: Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) on Tuesday entered into Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with three national and international institutions. The Murdoch University, Australia and PJTSAU have signed the MoU to promote the advancement of international understanding, dissemination of learning and strengthening of cultural ties. Both institutions are also planning to initiate dual […]

Hyderabad: The Godavari floods at Bhadrachalam has sparked a fresh row between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar blaming it on Polavaram project and demanding reduction in the height of the project. He also sought merger of five villages in Andhra Pradesh near Bhadrachalam with Telangana that would help in taking […]