Telangana

Mahaububabad: An eight-member gang led by a pastor was arrested for their alleged involvement in chain-snatching incidents in Mahabubabad district on Wednesday. The Central Crime Station (CCS) police along with Thorrur police nabbed the gang on the outskirts of Thorrur town and recovered 30.25 tolas of gold ornaments and four motorcycles worth Rs 18 lakh […]

Karimnagar: Telangana State Co-operative Apex Bank Chairman Konduru Ravinder Rao on Wednesday visited the Karnataka State Cooperative Apex Bank (KSCAB) in Bengaluru of Karnataka and interacted with the Apex bank officials. KSCAB managing director Devaraj received Ravinder Rao in the office and introduced all the officials of the bank. On this occasion, the Karnataka apex […]

Hyderabad: Amid reports of coal shortage in the country, the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) has asked the area general managers (GMs) to work collectively to achieve the production targets in the current financial year. At a review meeting conducted with GMs through video conference, SCCL directors S Chandrashekar, N Balaram and D Satyanarayana said […]

Hyderabad: The State government on Wednesday constituted a special committee with officials from Forest, Veterinary and Agriculture departments to come up with effective measures to control the monkey menace in the State. An article on how monkey menace was forcing farmers to stick to paddy was published in these columns on November 29. The issue […]

Kothagudem: The State government and Telangana police have been making persistent efforts to keep the State free of Maoist activities, Director General of Police (DGP), M Mahender Reddy said on Wednesday. The DGP was speaking after a tour of Maoist-affected areas on the inter-State border in Mulugu and Kothagudem districts apart from visiting a police […]

Mulugu: A farmer, who consumed pesticide on Tuesday night, died at the MGM Hospital in Warangal on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Bethelli Kumar (42) of Shivapur village of Eturnagaram mandal in the district. Kumar had cultivated paddy in eight acres. While he owned two acres, he took six acres on lease. He harvested […]

Nalgonda: TRS MLC Gutha Sukender Reddy on Wednesday said the Centre was responsible for the inconvenience being faced by the farmers in selling their crops in the State. Addressing a media conference here, Sukender Reddy said the BJP government had not been able to stomach the growing popularity of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao following […]

Khammam: Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) leaders demanded the Labour Department officials to take immediate steps to clear pending files related to the benefits of the Workers Welfare Board. A large number of workers staged a protest at the District Labour Office here on Wednesday in support of their demands. Speaking on the occasion, […]

Nirmal: Forest Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy advised farmers not to believe in the statements of BJP leaders and get cheated by the party. Addressing the media here on Wednesday, Indrakaran slammed the BJP leaders for making contradictory statements over the procurement of paddy. He said it was absurd that while the Centre declared it would […]

Dubai: The NRI community in the Gulf region is in a dilemma with the new Covid-19 variant Omicron playing havoc with their travel plans. Thousands of NRIs who had planned to travel home are now adopting a wait-and-watch approach amid travel restrictions placed by India and some other countries following the outbreak of the new […]

A solo show by Kandi Narsimlu, known for his intricate paintings of life in Telangana villages, is on at Kadari Art Gallery till December 2 

Hyderabad: Telangana reported 228 lightning incidents from 2018 to 2020 while 8,095 incidents occurred during the same time period in India, according to a report shared by the Ministry of Earth Sciences https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1776751. In 2018, the State witnessed 68 lightning incidents followed by 96 in 2019 and 64 in 2020. In India, 2,357, 2,876, and […]

Hyderabad: In a bizarre scenario, many people have been receiving vaccination certificates without getting the jab at all. In case you received the Covid-19 vaccination certificate on phone despite not being fully vaccinated, get in touch with the Telangana health department on its Covid-19 helpline 104 and on WhatsApp at 9154170960 to register your complaint […]

Hyderabad: Health Minister, T Harish Rao on Wednesday said that in the next few weeks, Chief Minister, K Chandrashekhar Rao will lay the foundation stone for construction of the 1000-bed super-specialty hospital in the over 60-acre campus of Government Chest Hospital, Erragadda. The Health Minister said that all the proposed four super-specialty hospitals in and […]

Hyderabad: The boat service from Nagarjuna Sagar to Srisailam on Krishna River has resumed on Monday after a two-year gap due to the lack of sufficient water in the river and then the Covid-19 situation. According to a Telangana Tourism official, governments of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh had given permission for the resumption of […]

Hyderabad: The Central government continues to be evasive to the State government’s demand for clarity on paddy procurement. Though the TRS MPs have been demanding clarity on the procurement policy from the Centre in Parliament, the latter is yet to come up with any convincing reply. For the first time, however, the Centre went on […]

Hyderabad: The Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned twice on Wednesday amid continuous protests by members of the TRS over farmer issues. This is the third consecutive day that the House was disrupted since the winter session of the Parliament commenced on Monday. The TRS members raised slogans and displayed placards over farmer issues in the […]

Hyderabad: The Technical Education department on Tuesday released the Telangana State Integrated Common Entrance Test (TS ICET) 2021 special round seat allotment. Out of 25,252 MBA seats in 264 colleges, 20,201 were allocated to students and 5,501 were vacant. Similarly, 2,540 MCA seats were allotted out of 2,576 available seats in 42 institutions in the […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Electricity Regulatory Commission (TSERC) on Tuesday said that it has received Aggregate Revenue Requirement (ARR) filings from TS Discoms for the financial year 2022-23. The filings pertained to operational and financial performance, sales forecast, load forecast, power procurement plan for the ensuing financial year, expenditure and revenue projections including revenue from […]

Hyderabad: The Ministry of Ayush did not supply immunity-boosting Bal Raksha kits to Telangana under National AYUSH Mission (NAM). TRS MP KR Suresh Reddy sought details of allocations under NAM in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. In reply, Minister of Ayush Sarbananda Sonowal said the Ministry of Ayush had sanctioned Rs 6,683.91 lakh (Rs 4,010.34 lakh […]

Hyderabad: Health Minister T Harish Rao on Tuesday directed authorities to expedite works related to establishing eight medical colleges in Telangana and the multispecialty hospital coming up in Warangal. Harish Rao said that the larger aim of the State government is to ensure improvement of health care services in rural areas and to achieve that […]

Hyderabad: In a bid to curb drug peddling and substance abuse in the State, the Telangana Police have developed a Drug Offenders Profiling Analysis and Monitoring System (DOPAMS) for profiling Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) cases. It will be supported by the CCTNS software being used by the State Police. DOPAMS will enable the […]

Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice A Rajasekhar Reddy dismissed a batch of writ petitions challenging a notification issued by the government in banning/restricting sale of gutka and other tobacco products across the State. The panel observed that a similar question was dealt by Mumbai […]

Khammam: As the stage is set for the opening of licenced retail liquor shops for the new liquor policy period 2021-23 on Wednesday, Adivasi, SC and Goud associations are gearing up to check benami traders. The associations wanted the officials to safeguard the reservations the State government provided to the communities ensuring a livelihood to […]