Telangana

Yadadri-Bhongir: Laksha pushparchna (pooja with one lakh flowers) was performed to presiding deity of Yadadri, Sri Lakshminarsimha Swamy at Balalayam on the auspicious occassion of Ekadashi on Monday. The temple priests performed the Laksha Pushparchana for nearly two hours amid chants of Vedic hymns. A variety of flowers were used in the special ritual. They […]

Warangal: TRS senior leaders including Ministers Errabelli Dayakar Rao Satyavathi Rathod, Chief Whip Dasyam Vinay Bhaskar, State Planning Commission Vice Chairman B Vinod Kumar, former Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari and former Speaker Madhusudana Chary have cast about the suitable sites for conducting the ‘Telangana Vijayagarjana’ mega meeting on the outskirts of Warangal city here […]

Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao has distributed Chief Minister Relief Fund (CMRF) cheques worth Rs 61.44 lakhs to 170 beneficiaries from his Constituency in Siddipet on Monday. He said the State government will always be there to support the people who were in serious need. He suggested them to deposit the cheques in their […]

Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao demanded the Centre to reconsider its decision not to buy parboiled rice of Yasangi harvest season from Telangana State. He said that the Central government has refused to procure parboiled rice despite the repeated appeals made by the State government. Speaking to newsmen after inaugurating a paddy procurement centre […]

Laksha pushparchana (pooja with one lakh flowers) was performed to the presiding deity by temple priests as per the tradition.

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Seven persons were arrested by foresters on charges of poaching, possessing a tiger hide in Kagaznagar on Sunday. The hide, lower jaw and some bones of the big cat were recovered from them. District Forest Officer S Shantaram, in a statement, said that the accused persons were Kotnaka Dev Rao, Godugu Avinash, […]

Kumram Bheem-Asifabad: Where there is a will, there is a way. This adage was proved true by a woman who chose the most difficult and unusual job to keep the pot boiling. And in the process, she is also providing employment to nearly 60 persons. Meet professional woman pig-catcher Sujatha Ramanathan of Madurai in Tamil […]

Hyderabad: After successful completion of ‘Medicine from the Sky’ experimental project to deliver vaccines and medicines using Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drones in Vikarabad, efforts are on to extend the project in two more districts shortly. This will be taken up as part of phase II exercise of the project. Since, phase I […]

First phase counselling process to commence from November 3, seat allotment on November 14

Karimnagar: Huzurabad Assembly constituency polled 2.25 per cent higher votes in the bypoll held on Saturday when compared to the figures from 2018 State elections. The voting percentage stood at 86.64% with 2,05,236 electors exercising their franchise as against the total 2,36,873 voters in the constituency. Female voters outnumbered male voters with 1,02,712 women casting […]

Karimnagar: Collector and District Election Officer RV Karnan informed that the by-election for Huzurabad Assembly constituency was held in a peaceful, transparent and free and fair manner. Collector along with general observer Muthu Krishnan Shankar Narayana conducted scrutiny in the presence of contesting candidates and their representatives in SRR College counting centre on Sunday. He […]

Hyderabad: Telangana State Legislative Council is all set to witness a flurry of activity, with nearly 19 of the 40-member Council to be replaced with new ones over the next two months. While the Election Commission of India (ECI) has already released the schedule for six MLC seats under MLAs quota, appointment of another MLC […]

Karimnagar: Shifting of a VVPAT in a private car from SRR college to a godown after the Huzurabad bypoll on Saturday night, has become a controversy with Congress candidate Balmuri Venkat Narsing Rao staged protest at counting centre. A video of shifting VVPATs in a private vehicle went viral on social media. As per the […]

Mancherial: An unemployed youngster committed suicide by consuming a pesticide as he was allegedly depressed over the delay in recruitment notifications by the government. The incident took place at Babbera Cheluka village in Kotapalli mandal on Sunday. Kotapalli Sub-Inspector Nagaraju said that the deceased was identified as Asampelli Mahesh (25), a DEd holder from Babbera […]

Hyderabad: Four girls, who are making good use of technology to address few issues and making things convenient, were featured at the ‘Digital Generation – Our Generation’ virtual event organised as part of International Day of the Girl 2021. The digital girl innovators were scouted from Adilabad, Khammam, and Hyderabad, who used digital technology to […]

Karimnagar: BJP candidate Eatala Rajender expressed doubts over possibility of replacing EVMs while being transported from the polling station to the counting centre in the Huzurabad bypolls. He alleged that the Karimnagar District Collector and Commissioner of Police failed to control illegal activities of the ruling party in Huzurabad constituency during the last six months. […]

Mancherial: In two different incidents, 19 persons including a Councillor and public servants were arrested on the charges of gambling in Luxettipet and Bellampalli towns on Saturday night. As many 19 mobile phones and Rs 1.06 lakh in cash and playing cards were seized from them during the raids. Mancherial Assistant Commissioner of Police Akhil […]

Hyderabad: Two Kakatiya temples built about 750 years ago at Boyagubba village, Chityala mandal in Nalgonda district are under serious threat of negligence and demand immediate conservation measures. Archaeologist E.Sivanagireddy visited the dilapidated temples on Sunday as part of the campaign ‘Preserve Heritage for Posterity’. He sensitised villagers on the historical importance and features of […]

Warangal: Kakatiya University Vice-Chancellor Prof Thatikonda Ramesh, along with former Registrar Prof K Purushotham, released a Degree textbook titled ‘English for Careers’ recently. According to a press note released by KU, Prof K Purushotham, former Prof M Rajeshwar and Dr R Meghana Rao have authored the book for the use of the third-year students. The […]

Mancherial: About 10,000 Adivasis belonging to several parts of erstwhile Adilabad district and neighbouring Maharashtra thronged Padmalpuri Kako Etmasur temple on the banks of Godavari at Gudirevu village in Dandepalli mandal on Sunday. They visited the shrine as a prelude to Dandari-Gussadi, an important cultural and religious affair of the ethnic tribes. The tribals performed […]

Mancherial/Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Several parts of both Mancherial and Kumram Bheem Asifabad districts felt mild tremors on Sunday. Mancherial district experienced the tremors for the second time within last eight days. Tremors were felt in Mancherial district headquarters, Luxettipet, Bellampalli, Nennal mandal, Madaram township of Thandur mandal, Rampur and Royyalapalli villages of Kotapalli mandal at […]

Sangareddy: Excise Department officials seized 3 kilograms of ganja from a peddler at Sulthanpur under the purview of Patancheru Excise Department on Saturday. Following a tip-off, the Excise officials caught Akula Isaac, a native of Pendurru in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, at Sultanpur village and recovered 1.56 kgs of ganja which was packed into […]

Warangal: Police authorities here sought the help of people in enforcing some discipline among road users by clicking photographs of traffic rule violators. People have been asked to shoot photos of traffic violators capturing the registration number plate of the vehicles and send them by WhatsApp to the police authorities so that action could be […]

Hyderabad: The results of Telangana State Physical Education Common Entrance Test (TS PECET) 2021 will be released on Monday. Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) chairman Prof R Limbadri will announce the results in presence of TS PECET 2021 chairman and MGU, Nalgonda, Vice-Chancellor Prof Ch Gopal Reddy at TSCHE at 3 pm. Candidates […]