Telangana

Hyderabad: After a gap of two years due to Covid restrictions on annual cattle fairs, the horse breeders and traders from Telangana are back in business and participating in the annual fairs in different places. At the recently held animal fair in Malegaon in Loha taluka of Nanded district in Maharashtra, several traders attended the […]

Hyderabad: Registering an impressive growth in citizen centric governance, Telangana recorded the highest cumulative number of e-transactions per 1,000 population with 1.38 lakh transactions among all the States in the country between 2014 and 2022. Further, the State has been at the third position in the country in terms of the number of e-transactions per […]

Mahabubnagar: After Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s announcement to fill up 83,039 vacancies in different government departments, TPCC president A Revanth Reddy assured notifications for two lakh jobs, if the Congress party was elected to power in the State. Not confining to job offers, he also announced that four women would be given Ministerial berth […]

Adilabad: The birthday of MLC and Telangana Jagruthi president Kalvakuntla Kavitha was celebrated on a grand note across erstwhile Adilabad district on Sunday. Various social service activities were organised to mark the occasion. Telangana Jagruthi’s Adilabad district president Rangineni Srinivas Rao and members distributed fruits to patients of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS)-Adilabad […]

Hyderabad: The blue revolution is truly on in Telangana with the State surging ahead in fish farming, and fish production valued at Rs 4,844.67 crore in 2020-21 – an increase of 145 per cent over the 2017-18 figure. In the first year after the launch of the fish seedlings distribution scheme in 2017-18, fish production […]

Hyderabad: Buoyed by the success of the party in the Assembly elections in four States, the BJP top brass from New Delhi have reportedly decided to visit Telangana from April to prepare the party for the next Assembly elections in the State. As announced by the State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar a few days […]

Hyderabad: Telangana is among the few States in the country that has been ensuring 100 per cent treatment of biomedical waste generated in the State through incineration or autoclave. This is despite the surge in generation of biomedical waste due to Covid pandemic. In 2016, about 13,220 kgs of biomedical waste was generated a day […]

Karimnagar: The recent surfacing of a sloth bear in the Satavahana University campus has been giving sleepless nights for Forest department officials who have been unsuccessful in trapping it so far. Besides placing cages, the forest officials also placed cameras in different locations of the campus to track the movement of the wild animal, but […]

Hyderabad: A man, his son, and grandson drowned in a lake in Telangana’s Warangal district on Sunday. The incident occurred in Chinna Gurijala village in Narsampet mandal of the district. The deceased were identified as Krishnamurthy (65), Nagaraju (35), and Lucky (12). Quoting the eyewitnesses, police said Krishnamurthy was washing his feet in the lake, […]

Hyderabad: In a move by the Commissionerate of Technical Education that would further improve the quality of education, a total of 39 government polytechnics across the State have been identified to go for the accreditation of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) in the first phase during the academic year 2022-23. These government polytechnics were […]

Karimnagar: Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao would lay foundation for Manair River Front, uninterrupted water supply programme and also pending works under Smart City programme in Karimnagar on March 17. BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar conducted a review meeting with the officials of Roads and Buildings, electricity, police, […]

Mancherial: A female adult sloth bear that got caught in an iron snare was rescued by Forest department officials from the forest near Gudipet village in Hajipur mandal on Sunday. Foresters said the anteater was stuck in the wire noose while it was quenching its thirst at a water body in the forest. A rescue […]

Hyderabad: A Menhir dating back to the Iron Age was discovered alongside a roadside at Ellarigudem in Maripeda mandal in Mahabubabad district by archaeologist E Sivanagi Reddy on Sunday. The archaeologist noticed the Menhir during an archaeological survey and heritage remains in Maripeda mandal as part of the ‘Preserve Heritage for Posterity’ programme. The Menhir […]

Hyderabad: Telangana reported 50 Covid-19 infections on Sunday, taking the cumulative number of Covid infections in Telangana to 7,90,351 while the overall number of fatalities were 4,111, according to the health bulletin. The health department conducted 16,128 Covid tests on Sunday out of which results of 508 samples were awaited. A total 164 individuals had […]

Warangal: MLC Surbabhi Vani Devi said the voluntary organisations like Lions Clubs International (LCI) were reaching out to the needy with more effectiveness than the government organisations. Addressing the LCI members at the Basara Vyasa Maharshi Region Meet (Dist 320 F) held here on Sunday, the MLC said her father and former Prime Minister late […]

Mancherial: Collector Bharati Hollikeri suggested farmers provide healthy farm products to the public by following natural and organic ways of farming. She along with MLA N Diwakar Rao laid the foundation stone to an organic products outlet here on Sunday. Bharati said that farmers were increasingly using inorganic fertilizers and pesticides while growing crops and […]

Khammam: Emphasis was being laid on the expansion of sports infrastructure in Khammam district to promote sports and games, said Sports and Youth Services Minister V Srinivas Goud. He along with Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar inaugurated an indoor stadium constructed by Telangana State Sports Authority (TSSA) with an expenditure of Rs 89 lakh at […]

Medak: Finance Minister T Harish Rao said that they will build ultra-modern Dhobi ghats at all the 33 district headquarters across Telangana at an expenditure of Rs 2 crores each for the benefit of the washermen community. Addressing a gathering after unveiling the Chakali Ilamma statute in Medak on Sunday, the Minister said that two […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad/Mancherial: Telangana High Court judge Justice K Laxman expressed concern on growing violence against children and stressed the need to reduce crimes against them. He along with Collector Rahul Raj formally inaugurated a special court for disposing cases booked under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, here on Sunday. Justice […]

Kothagudem: Health and education were the main two focus areas for the GSR Charitable Trust, with focus on taking quality health services to the rural poor, said the Trust chairman and Director of Public Health Dr. Gadala Srinivasa Rao. The Trust organised a mega free health camp in Kothagudem on Saturday for people in agency […]

Warangal: R Srikanth, an assistant professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) at Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science-Warangal (KITSW) was awarded the PhD degree by Kakatiya University (KU) Warangal. KITSW Principal Prof K Ashoka Reddy said Srikanth submitted the thesis titled ‘Effiecient Image Segmentation Approaches Using Optimisation Techniques’. He did his […]

Warangal: Jackson Social Welfare Society of Bapujinagar in Kazipet conducted it’s 21st mega blood donation camp at the government school, Bapujinagar here on Sunday. West MLA D Vinay Bhaskar inaugurated the blood donation and appreciated 50 donors and also handed over appreciation certificates to them. The blood collected at the camp has been handed over […]

Hyderabad: To improve overall healthcare services including bed-side care for patients, sanitation and ensure availability of manpower in government healthcare facilities, the Telangana government has decided to adopt Integrated Hospital Facility Management Services (IHFMS) by incurring an expenditure of Rs. 7,500 per hospital bed in a month. The enhanced allocation of Rs. 7,500 from the […]

Hyderabad: MLC Gutha Sukhender Reddy filed his nomination for the post of the Chairman of Telangana State Legislative Council here on Sunday. He submitted the nomination paper at around 10.40 am to the Secretary of the State Legislature. This would be his second term as the Chairman of the Council. He was accompanied by Ministers Vemula […]