Telangana

Karimnagar: Karimnagar Local Authorities Constituency MLC election went off peacefully in erstwhile Karimnagar district on Friday with 1,320 electors exercising their franchise for a polling percentage of 99.70 per cent. Local bodies’ public representatives including ZPTCs, MPTCs, Corporators and Councilors cast their votes in eight polling stations established across the old district. Though polling was […]

Sangareddy: Medak Local Authorities Constituency witnessed a record 99.22 percent polling as 1,018 voters exercised their franchise against the total voters of 1,026 at nine polling stations across erstwhile Medak district on Friday. The polling stations in Toopran, Narayankhed, Zaheerabad and Sididpet recorded 100 percent of polling. Only eight voters stayed away from the election […]

Jangaon: Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao directed the officials to prepare a status report with complete information on the progress of the development works on the tourism circuit in Jangaon district to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. The Minister was speaking at a review meeting on the progress of works of Palakurti-Bammera-Valmidi tourism corridor […]

Adilabad: Forest Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy exuded confidence that TRS candidate Dande Vittal will win the Adilabad Local Authorities Constituency (LAC) MLC election with a huge margin. Speaking to the media after casting his vote at a polling station in Nirmal on Friday, he said Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao called up the Minister and […]

Khammam: Polling for Khammam Local Authorities’ Constituency (LAC) MLC election passed off amid mild tensions on Friday with 96.09 percent voters casting their vote. Congress leaders staged a protest in Khammam complaining that ZP Chairman L Kamal Raju and others remained in the polling station even after casting their vote. Police had intervened and dispersed […]

Nalgonda: About 97.01 per cent polling was reported in elections to Nalgonda Local Authorities Constituency of the Legislative Council on Friday. Of the 1,271 electorates, 1,233 voters exercised their franchise in the polling held at eight polling stations in the erstwhile Nalgonda district. Polling was held in two polling stations in Yadadri-Bhongir district and three […]

Warangal: National Institute of Technology Warangal (NITW) and Southern Region Load Dispatch Centre, POSOCO (Power System Operation Corporation Limited) Banguluru, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Friday to cooperate and collaborate with each other for academic and research purposes. Director NITW, Prof N V Raman Rao and Executive Director POSOCO, Bangalore, V Suresh […]

Hyderabad: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has advised international travelers to check validity of their existing passport and apply well before the date of expiry of their passport under “Reissue” category. Regional Passport Officer (RPO) Dasari Balaiah said that many international travellers may not realize that having an unexpired passport was sometimes not enough […]

The State Government has been appealing to sanction mega powerloom cluster since last few years but there was no response from Centre, he said while speaking to media persons here on Friday. 

The elections were announced for 12 MLC seats for LACs in the State. The ruling TRS secured unanimous election in six MLC seats, while the polling became inevitable in the remaining six MLC seats.

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Hyderabad: The usual hustle-bustle at Singareni coal mine areas in the State was missing on Thursday with as many as 42,000 employees going on a 72-hour strike demanding that the Central government withdraw its move of auctioning four coal blocks in Singareni. The strike affected the daily production of more than two lakh tonnes of […]

Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court, comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice N Tukaramji, on Thursday directed the Central government to file its response on the issue of inclusion of ‘Gothikoyas’ in the category of Schedule Tribes in the State. The panel was dealing with a public interest litigation taken […]

Hyderabad: Telangana has advised the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to not only discuss the present drinking water requirements but also the needs of Yasangi season. This was proposed by Telangana Irrigation and Command Area Development Engineer-in-Chief Ch Muralidhar during a virtual meeting with the three-member committee of the board here on Thursday.After Andhra Pradesh […]

Hyderabad: Accusing the Centre of playing a double game in paddy procurement, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy on Thursday advised farmers to go for crops that fetch them good prices in Yasangi instead of paddy. Farmers should go for the crops such as pulses and oil seeds which have high demand in the market and […]

Kothagudem: Paloncha-based Nava Bharat Ventures Limited (NVBL) donated Rs 40 lakh to Oxygen Generation Unit located at ITC Limited, Sarapaka in the district. The NVBL unit head and Vice President Y Srinivasa Murthy handed over a cheque for Rs 40 lakh along with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to District Collector D Anudeep in the […]

Peddapalli: The 72-hour strike called by trade unions in Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) was total on the first day on Thursday. Except essential services workers, all others participated in the strike. As part of the strike, activists of various trade unions staged protest demonstration at mines and raised slogans against the Union government’s decision […]

Sangareddy: The Maternity and Children Hospital (MCH) in Sangareddy has performed 3,084 deliveries in the last four months, significantly up from 2,632 deliveries during the corresponding period last year. About 57 per cent (1,754) of total deliveries performed in the hospital during the period were normal deliveries. Increasing from last year November’s 669 deliveries, the […]

Mancherial: Employees of State-owned the Northern Power Distribution Corporation Limited (NPDCL) boycotted duties in protest against ‘false’ cases foisted against certain staffers of the department recently. They staged a sit-in in front of the office of the Superintending Engineer here on Thursday. A Joint Action Committee (JAC), formed by the employees of the corporation, said […]

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Kothagudem: The three-day strike called by Joint Action Committee (JAC) of SCCL trade unions was a success on the first day on Thursday as workers abstained from work on the day. The JAC comprising trade unions like TBGKS, AITUC, INTUC, BMS and CITU called for the strike in protest against the Central government’s decision to […]

Mahabubnagar: Three persons, including two women, died and three others sustained injuries when an autorickshaw collided with a car near Appayapally on National Highway 167 on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Jyothi and Vijayarani, employees of Devarkadra MPDO office and the autorickshaw driver. According to reports, the incident occurred when the car, which was […]

Hyderabad: Condemning Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal’s remarks that the State government was not supplying rice to the Centre, Telangana Civil Supplies Corporation Chairman Mareddy Srinivas Reddy said it was the Centre which was behaving irresponsibly and unnecessarily blaming the State government on the issue. Interacting with media persons here on Thursday, […]

Karimnagar: Elaborate arrangements have been made for the MLC election from Karimnagar Local Authorities Constituency on Friday. Polling will be held from 8 am to 4 pm. A total of eight polling stations – two each in Karimnagar, Jagtial, and Peddapalli districts and one each in Rajanna-Sircilla and Husnabad of Siddipet districts were established. As […]