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Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday announced the state government will provide a subsidy of Rs 25 per litre to the poor ration-card holding families in the state for petrol used in two-wheelers, saying that the poor and middle classes have been hit hard by the rising prices of petroleum products. The subsidy […]
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Mumbai: Mumbai on Wednesday reported 2,510 COVID-19 cases, the highest daily addition since May 8, and one death, taking its tally to 7,75,808 and toll to 16,375, a civic official said. The spike in the country’s financial capital has got pronounced since December 20, when just 283 cases were reported. Tuesday had witnessed 1,377 cases […]
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Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brainchild initiative of demonetisation has become a “failure” as evident in seizure of a huge pile of cash from a businessman’s residence in Uttar Pradesh. “You should ask the Prime Minister as to how so much of cash was found despite the demonetisation […]
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Hyderabad: Houses in Hyderabad are becoming more and more affordable, according to a new study. The housing affordability ratio in Hyderabad has improved in the last decade from 53 per cent in 2011 to 29 per cent in 2021. In the last six years itself, the city of Nizams saw about 8 percentage point improvement […]
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Hyderabad: Three star and above hotels, clubs and pubs in the jurisdiction of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda police limits have been instructed to ensure that only the guests who produce either electronic or physical certificate of both doses of vaccination, were allowed for New Year celebrations. In the guidelines issued here on Wednesday, the tri-commissionerates […]
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Hyderabad: The mega Dairy Cooperative Society Amul has announced the setting up of their largest state-of-the-art plant at Wargal, Gajwel with an investment of Rs.500 crore. Amul selected Telangana to set up its largest plant in southern India with a capacity to process five lakh litres per day of milk expandable to 10 LLPD to […]
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Vijayawada: With ten more Omicron cases coming into light on Wednesday, the number of COVID variant patients in Andhra Pradesh increased to 16. It is said that some travellers who had arrived in the state from abroad had tested positive for Omicron. Three in East Godavari district, two each in Anantapur and Kurnool and one […]
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Hyderabad: Director Sukumar has announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for each of the production workers, as a symbol of gratitude for their support during the shooting of his movie ‘Pushpa: The Rise’. “My production team needs to be lauded for their relentless support. The production boys, cameramen, light men, and all the others […]
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Hyderabad: Telugu actor Manchu Manoj took to his social media handles to announce he has tested positive for Covid-19. He also urged his friends who had met him since last week to get themselves tested to be sure if they are the clear. On Wednesday, December 29, the ‘Mr Nookayya’ actor updated his fans about […]
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Hyderabad: “Wah… What a scheme! What a shame!” — is how TRS working president K.T. Rama Rao reacted to Andhra Pradesh BJP chief Somu Veerraju’s promise of cheap liquor at Rs 75 if BJP is voted to power in the state. Addressing a public meeting at Vijayawada on Tuesday, Veerraju had also said that if […]
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New Delhi: Smartphones have evolved substantially in the last decade to meet the changing demands and expectations of the consumers. With the current momentum, foldable smartphones are set to witness a massive 638 per cent jump in sales in India in 2021, and are expected to touch a record 3 lakh units sales in 2022. […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad Police Commissioner CV Anand, on Wednesday morning paid a surprise visit to the Punjagutta police station and inspected the functioning of the police station. The Commissioner went around the police station and inspected the reception desk, the surveillance cameras control room and records maintained at there. Later interacting with the media persons, Anand […]
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Nalgonda: Majority of the farmers in the district appear to have decided to go in for paddy cultivation in Yasangi despite the State government’s categorical stand that it would not procure paddy following the Centre’s refusal to buy rice. The farmers are hoping to mill the paddy and sell the rice to traders in the […]
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London: One of the epicentres of the Omicron variant — has seen a drop of about 40 per cent in new cases of Covid infection, suggesting that the new variant could be less severe than Delta. The seven day rolling average for new infections plummeted by 35 per cent from an all-time high of 23,000 […]
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Washington: Amazon’s Alexa told a 10-year-old child to touch a penny to the exposed prongs of a phone charger plugged into the wall. As per The Verge, the device seemingly pulled the idea for the challenge from an article describing it as dangerous, citing news reports about an alleged challenge trending on TikTok. The child’s […]
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Geneva: The overall risk associated with the Omicron variant remains ‘very high’ which could cause widespread disruption to health systems and other critical services, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. In its weekly epidemiological update, the WHO said on Tuesday that “The overall risk related to the new variant of concern Omicron remains very […]
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Hyderabad: Telugu star Allu Arjun, who is buoyed by the success of ‘Pushpa: The Rise’, broke down in tears at a post-release event as he expressed gratitude to the film’s director Sukumar. As the ‘Ala Vaikuntapuramlo’ actor described his early career, he said that Sukumar’s directorial ‘Arya’ marked a turning point in his filmography. “I […]
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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday claimed that after Muslims, Christians were the new target of the Hindutva brigade, citing the government’s refusal to renew the FCRA registration for the Missionaries of Charity. Chidambaram, who is senior election observer of the Congress for Goa, also claimed that the mainstream media had banished […]
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New Delhi: Financial intelligence teams probing the recovery of around Rs 200 crore during raids in Kanpur-Kannuj have now found that perfume and compound businessman Piyush Jain has links across 50 countries. The teams have also taken around 100 samples of compounds which will be sent to the lab for tests. “Around 100 samples of […]
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Portblair: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted Southeast of Portblair in the early hours of Wednesday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) informed. According to NCS, the tremors of the earthquake had a depth of 100 kilometres and occurred at around 5.31 am. “Earthquake of Magnitude: 4.3, occurred on 29-12-2021, 05:31:05 […]
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Hyderabad: A new tune wafts through the air at Saradanagar Colony in Hafeezpet, every morning. Morning walkers are greeted by the twittering of birds. As these chirpy little creatures hop on the trees, the modern facades cocooned in quietude as though not perturbed by the ear-splitting noise coming from the construction of high-rise structures a […]
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Hyderabad: The city in recent years has undergone a major metamorphosis in terms of infrastructure with flyovers, underpasses, Road under Bridges (RuBs), and Road over Bridges (RoBs) built as part of the State government’s Strategic Road Development Plan (SRDP). The Municipal Administration & Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao on Tuesday tweeted a list of […]
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Sukma: Sahdev Dirdo, a 10-year-old boy who shot to fame after a video of him singing ‘Bachpan ka Pyaar’ song went viral on the Internet, was on Tuesday injured when the motorcycle on which he was riding pillion skidded on the road in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, police said. The accident took place at around 6:30 […]
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Nirmal: Superintendent of Police Ch Praveen Kumar felicitated Dodle Anwitha, a police constable and writer of Basar police station for bagging national award, Empowering IT Police with IT, here on Tuesday. It may be mentioned that Anwitha was chosen to present the award for outstanding services to the Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and Systems. […]