Telangana

By Shikara Academy Hyderabad: This article on Lokpal and Lokayuktas is part of the series that deals with Constitutional and Statutory bodies. Conditions of service of the office of Lokpal: The salary, allowances and other conditions of service of — The Chairperson shall be the same as those of the Chief Justice of India Other […]

By Deepika Reddy Hyderabad: This is in continuation to the last article on GO 36 focusing on the eight point formula. April 5, 1969: All important political leaders of Telangana region including Marri Chenna Reddy, Achutha Reddy, ChokkaRao, Hayagreeva Chary, S Venkata Rama Reddy, S Venkatesham, LS Narayana and Govindh Singh participated in a meeting […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said farmers were convinced with State Government’s intentions to avoid paddy cultivation in Yasangi and were taking up alternate crops extensively across the State. Despite repeated pleas by State Government last year, many farmers did not take up cotton cultivation. As a result, they failed to reap good profits, […]

Suryapet: Three persons including a child were killed and two others sustained serious injuries when a speeding car hit a motorcycle on Gudibanda bypass flyover on the outskirts of Kodad town here on Thursday. The impact was such that a couple and one of their children flew off the flyover and fell on ground. Death […]

Karimnagar: Union Government’s yet another attempt to vilify the Telangana Government on paddy procurement issue fell flat on its face, when Civil Supplies minister G Kamalakar made a point by point rebuttal of the allegations levelled by none other than Secunderabad parliament segment MP and union Minister G Kishan Reddy. Speaking to reporters here on […]

Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chander Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavilli on Thursday directed the state government to file all the related documents relating to the open place adjacent to the Kollapur Palace in Kollapur Town of Nagarkurnool District. The panel was dealing with a PIL […]

Hyderabad: Devulapalli Prabhakar Rao, (84), Chairman of the Telangana State Official Language Commission, is no more. He was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the city and breathed his last on Thursday. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao expressed his condolences on the demise of Prabhakar Rao, who was serving as the Chairman of the […]

Nagarkurnool: Amrabad Tiger Reserve (ATR) officials said for the first time a Black Baza was sighted in the reserve on April 9 this month. This was also first time Black Baza was spotted in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, they said. ATR Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Rohit Gopidi confirmed that a Black Baza was spotted in […]

Siddipet: Medak MP Kotha Prabhakar Reddy has made a surprise visit to Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Mirudoddi Mandal headquarters on Thursday. The MP has interacted with the patients to know whether the staff was attending to them properly. He has also gone through the Outpatient register and staff attendance register. Speaking on the occasion, […]

Warangal: Followers of Warangal and Hanamkonda District Congress Committee president Naini Rajender Reddy and Jangaon DCC president Janga Raghava Reddy have almost come to blows at the University Arts and Science College ground at Subedari in Hanamkonda on Thursday. This unsavoury incident has come as a shock to Congress senior leaders including TPCC president A […]

Khammam: A two-day national level technical symposium would be organised at Swarna Bharathi Institute of Technology (SBIT) on April 28 and 29, informed the institute Chairman Gundala Krishna. He along with the college Secretary and Correspondent G Dhatri and principal Dr. G Raj Kumar released a poster of the event at the college here on […]

Khammam: Congress being a secular party would never join hands with BJP, stated senior Congress leader V Hanumanth Rao. Referring to alliance with TRS he however, maintained that he was not an astrologer to predict the future. He felt that if the political strategist Prashant Kishor joins Congress it would benefit the party. Speaking to […]

Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for upgrading the Railway workshop at Dahod in Gujarat into a locomotive production factory on Wednesday even as Telangana continued to be denied of any Railway project, said Telangana State Planning Board vice-chairman B Vinod Kumar. In a statement issued here on Thursday, Vinod Kumar said […]

Khammam: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in the State were trying to draw political mileage from the death of their party activist, alleged CPI leaders in the district. In a statement here the CPI state secretariat member Bagam Hemantha Rao and others said that BJP and its frontal organisations have been plotting to pollute the […]

Peddapalli: Paddy procurement has started across the district. District administration made required arrangements to procure paddy from farmers. Local MLA D Manohar Reddy started the procurement process by inaugurating Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies (PACS) centers in Bompalli and Raginedu of Peddapalli mandal on Thursday. Though the central government refused to procure paddy from the state […]

Medak: Two persons were killed in a road accident as a tractor slipped into a road side gorge at Pedda Thanda in Regode Mandal on Thursday. The victims were Ganesh (28) of Pedda Thanda and Ravi ( 26) of Chowdari Pally Thanda. While Ravi was driving the tractor, he lost control over steering at a […]

Siddipet: To promote the use of the menstrual cups among the women, the Siddipet Municipality has distributed menstrual cups to women employees working in Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, MEPA, Health, and Welfare during an educative programme on Thursday. Since most of the women were using the harmful sanitary pads, the municipality under the guidance […]

Hyderabad: The seroprevalence, which estimates the percentage of people in a population who have developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, is 92.9 percentage among general population in Telangana while among Health Care Workers (HCW), it is 93.1 percent. The seroprevalence survey was carried out by National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and State Health department between January 4 […]

Nalgonda: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Thursday said that the state government has decided to take up jobs recruitment drive after finalizing the zonal and multi-zonal system with an aim to give no choice to the candidates from other areas in the jobs recruitments in Telangana state. Launching free coaching for Sub-Inspector and Constables […]

Hyderabad: In the wake of the recent rise of Covid infections in New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, the Telangana health authorities on Thursday issued an alert and urged people to take precautions like wearing masks at crowded locations and Covid booster doses to vulnerable individuals. Director of Public Health (DPH), Dr G Srinivasa Rao […]

Nalgonda: After successfully translocating four 100-year-old trees in Palamoor early this week, Green India Challenge (GIC) has now decided to translocate 50 trees, which are over 50 years old in Nalgonda. The district administration is taking up road widening works in the town and as result 50 trees were getting affected. Accordingly, a request was […]

Warangal: With as many as 10 professors retiring from service this year, the Kakatiya University, the second biggest varsity in Telangana State, is going to face severe academic and administrative issues. And it is unlikely to retain the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)’s ‘A’ grade in the coming cycle. Moreover, the very existence of […]

Mancherial: Leaders of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), an affiliate trade union of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), were forced to call off a meeting and retreat after miners objected to the union government’s move to auction four coal blocks of SCCL and on the issue of income tax on employees of the coal major, during Singareni […]

Mahabubabad: An independent councillor of the local municipality was axed to death in broad daylight at Pattipaka road here on Thursday sending a chill down the spines of many people. The deceased person was Banoth Ravi Naik (34), who got elected from the eighth ward of the municipality. The incident occurred around noon when Ravi […]