Telangana

Hyderabad: Industries Minister and TRS working president KT Rama Rao on Wednesday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over rising inflation and issues concerning national security. The Minister, in a tweet, shared images of news clippings about Chinese infiltration and rising inflation and wondered what one should call a Prime Minister who could […]

Hyderabad: The much boasted ‘Double engine’ model governance can be a farce, if water tap connections extended in rural households in different States, are considered a parameter. Leave aside, growth and development, in many BJP ruled States getting a water tap connection in rural areas can be a task for many. While 70.99 per cent […]

Hyderabad: Students who want to pursue engineering education have to shell out more fee as the course fee has gone up in several private engineering colleges across the State. The Telangana Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee (TARC) which has taken up fee fixation in the private unaided engineering colleges on July 7 has fixed Rs.1.73 […]

Hyderabad: Telangana State Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (TS EAMCET) for engineering stream which concluded on Wednesday saw 91 per cent students taking the test. A total of 1,72,243 students registered for the entrance test which was conducted on July 18, 19 and 20 of whom 1,56,812 appeared. On Wednesday, a total of […]

Hyderabad: Industries in Telangana will create about five lakh jobs by 2027. The State will be one of the major contributors among the Southern States that are expected to generate about 25 lakh jobs during this period, said Suchitra Ella, Chairperson, CII Southern Region. Addressing a press conference in Hyderabad on Wednesday, Ella said that […]

Hyderabad: The two pump houses that were submerged due to rains at Kannepalli and Annaram will be operational by September. Power has been restored near the pump houses. Officials dismissed reports that the repairs of the pump houses would cost around Rs 400 crore. They said the company that built the project will repair the […]

Kothagudem: With the inundation in flood affected villages subsiding the district administration has intensified its efforts to restore civic amenities in the affected villages in the district. Panchayat Raj Director M Hanumantha Rao, Khammam District Collector VP Gautham, Commissioner of Police Vishnu S Warrier, who were on flood relief duty, visited several flood affected villages […]

Hyderabad: Efforts will be made to discourage people from opting to purchase vehicles including cars, tractors, harvesters and others under Dalit Bandhu and T-Pride schemes. Their Increasing numbers will reduce the demand and affect the economic growth of beneficiaries. Instead, focus will be on encouraging a group of beneficiaries coming together to set up manufacturing […]

Mahabubabad: Dr Voore Gurundha Rao of the Zilla Parishad Secondary School (ZPSS), Kambalapally, in the district received an award from the NCERT. The award carries a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 10,000. The physical science teacher presented a research paper on “The effectiveness of ‘7e’ learning cycle model and simulations on high school […]

Hyderabad: Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) Chairman and Managing Director N Sridhar on Wednesday asked officials concerned to take necessary steps to supply coal to thermal power stations in five States. At a review meeting here, he instructed officials to take precautionary measures so that coal transport should not be affected in spite of heavy […]

Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao has said that the Siddipet Municipality was aiming to make the town into zero landfilling towns by recycling all the waste effectively. Addressing the citizens after laying a foundation for a footpath, drainage, and flood drain work in the 14th ward of Siddipet Municipality on Wednesday, Rao has said […]

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 […]