Telangana

Hyderabad: To discourage government doctors from prescribing branded drugs, the Telangana government on Thursday directed them to only prescribe generic drugs while providing free consultations to patients. A generic drug prescription will provide an opportunity for the pharmacist at the government dispensary to issue drugs available in the stock, instead of forcing patients to purchase […]

Hyderabad: The prestigious Telangana Health Profile initiative, which was launched on a pilot basis in Mulugu and Sircilla districts, has concluded on Thursday. The health profile initiative involved collecting blood samples and other physical parameters from 5,20,301 individuals in Mulugu and Sircilla combined over a span of 70 days by 446 teams of field level […]

Karimnagar: Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Secretary, Sandeep Kumar Sultania opined that development of the state as well as the country was possible when only villages were developed in all fronts. Sandeep Kumar Sultania participated in the fifth phase of Palle Pragathi programme held in Gattubuthpur of Gangadhara mandal on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, […]

Yadadri-Bhongir: The General Surgery Department in the AIIMS Bibinagar completed 100 major surgeries, in the state-of-the-art fully functional operation theatre. An institute press release said the theatre was working at its optimum to take up a variety of major and minor surgeries. At present there is only one operation theatre which is being shared by […]

Mancherial: District Forest Officer Shivan Dogra said that documents of ownership or Pattas would be given to the eligible as per Forest Rights Act 2005. She along with Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA)-Utnoor project officer Ankith addressed pressmen at Thallapet village in Dandepalli mandal on Thursday. Shivan clarified that the documents would be provided to […]

Hyderabad: The daily Covid infections in Telangana have continued to rise with health authorities on Thursday reporting 122 cases in the State out of which 94 were from areas under GHMC. On Wednesday, 116 Covid infections were reported of which 83 were from Hyderabad. With no fatalities getting reported on Thursday, the total number deaths […]

Karimnagar: Municipal Corporation of Karimnagar has begun efforts to provide respite to the residents of the town from monkey menace. Based on a recent council’s resolution, MCK entered an agreement with monkey catchers at Rs 10 lakh to catch monkeys in all 60 divisions of the corporation. A total of 150 monkeys were caught in […]

Adilabad: A war like situation can be sensed in forest fringe villages situated in different parts of erstwhile Adilabad district for the past few weeks. And, this war is between dwellers of these villages and forest department officials. People living on the fringes of forest areas have been tilling the lands allegedly belonging to the […]

Karimnagar: To increase the strength in local government schools, a sarpanch of a gram panchayat has come up with an innovative idea of extending financial support to at least 50 poor students this academic year. Besides uniform, books and other facilities, Rs 500 monthly incentive will also be given to each student enrolling in in […]

Khammam: Old Khammam Municipal Corporation (KMC) building in the city which is being transformed into city library with artistic murals has been attracting the attention of the citizens. With the inauguration of the newly constructed KMC building at Gattaiah Centre recently Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar decided to use the old building to establish a […]

Hyderabad: State-run super-specialty hospitals have started to get more patients and conduct a large number of procedures covered under the Aarogyasri health insurance scheme when compared to private hospitals. The Aarogyasri health insurance scheme was always a domain of private hospitals, as their share of beneficiaries in percentage used to hover at around 70 while 30 […]

Rajanna-Sircilla: Stage is all set for the inauguration of Government Primary School in Malkapeta of Konaraopet mandal constructed by the former Law Minister Chelmeda Ananda Rao in the memory of his mother Chelmeda Janaki Devi. In the entire state, it is going to be the first school developed as part of Mana Vooru Mana Badi […]

Kothagudem: Kothagudem Medical College principal Dr. RL Lakshman Rao refuted news reports that claimed denial of permission to the college by National Medical Commission (NMC). Speaking to the media here on Thursday he said in the wake of an application submitted seeking permission for Kothagudem Medical College a NMC team inspected the college on January […]

Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao said the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and the Congress party had lost credibility of people since they were just indulging in spreading lies. After welcoming several key BJP and Congress leaders from Siddipet town into the TRS fold at his Hyderabad residence on Thursday, the Minister said that the […]

Hyderabad: Firing salvos at the BJP government at the Centre for its failure in addressing unemployment issue in the country, TRS working president and Minister KT Rama Rao demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fill around 16 lakh vacant posts in various Central government departments and affiliated organisations immediately. He announced that the TRS will […]

Jangaon: Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao laid foundation for laying the road from Ramavaram to Tirumalagiri with one rupees crore, and from Ramavaram to Neelibanda thanda to Tirumalagiri with three crore rupees from the Construction of Rural Roads (CRR) grants at Ramavaram village of Kodakandla village in the district on Thursday. […]

Mancherial: A gang of four women thieves, who were stealing gold ornaments by diverting the attention of owners of jewellery outlets, was arrested in Bellampalli on Thursday. A total of 57 grams of gold ornaments worth Rs 2.8 lakh recovered from them. Briefing details of the arrests, in-charge Deputy Commissioner of Police Akhil Mahajan said […]

Yadadri-Bhongir: Three persons including two women died on the spot in a road accident on the outskirts of Bhongir mandal in the district on Thursday. The victims were Dandeboina Narsimha(45), his wife Rajyalakshmi(36) and his relative Dandeboina Jangamma (35) from Tekupamula village of Valigonda mandal in the district. The road accident took place at 1 […]

Hyderabad: Even as the union government termed India’s ranking last out of 180 countries on Environmental Performance Index as “unscientific” and “refused to accept it”, Industries Minister KT Rama Rao called for a serious introspection. He suggested that all the State governments and the Centre should come up with an action plan on the lines […]

Warangal: People living in the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC), mainly the poor living in the slums, are suffering a lot due to non-availability of the potable drinking water, thanks to the utter negligence of the Public Health and Municipal Engineering Department and the water supply wing of the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) in […]

Sangareddy: A couple was found hanging at their residence at Ram Nagar in Sangareddy town Wednesday night. They were Ch Srinath Reddy (32), and Ch Raghaveni Mallika (29). While Srinath used to run a private finance company, Mallika was working as an HR professional in a Software Company in Kukatpally. After seeing the couple hanging […]

Siddipet: Several Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress leaders from Siddipet town joined Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in the presence of Finance Minister T Harish Rao at his residence in Hyderabad on Thursday. The BJP District General Secretary Daripally Srinivas, Town BJP Minority Cell President MD Ibrahim, Town Congress leader Krishnapuram Babu along with over 100 […]

Hyderabad: The new variants of Omicron — BA4 and BA5 — have started to drive up the daily Covid infections in several States, including Telangana, raising fears of a possible fourth Covid wave. Senior health officials from Telangana are keeping a close watch on the possibility of the fourth wave, even as many are pointing […]

Hyderabad: In what is being seen as a move blatantly orchestrated by the BJP government at the Centre to create hurdles for Telangana, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) which had promised to procure the entire raw rice stocks supplied by the State government, has now taken a U-turn citing alleged irregularities in stock registers […]