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New Delhi: The government on Wednesday decided not to resume scheduled international flights from December 15, less than a week after announcing the decision in the wake of rising concerns over the COVID variant Omicron. Aviation watchdog DGCA said the effective date for resumption of scheduled commercial international passenger services will be notified in due […]
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Have you ever tried breakfast in a bottle, meatless meat, meatless burgers, veganised Mysore Pak, and ghee Mysore Pak using just coconut milk? Well, head to Hyderabad’s first-ever Vegan Market at Phoenix Arena in Hitech City to find them and many more. Organised on the coming Sunday – December 5, by vegan startups Alt Mart […]
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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 […]
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Hyderabad: Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar said on Wednesday that a proposal of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) for a fare hike would be submitted to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. Addressing a press conference here, Ajay Kumar said a quick announcement on the fare hike would reduce some burden on the RTC which […]
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Hyderabad: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who is currently on a nationwide tour to promote his recently released film Antim: The Final Truth, will be visiting Hyderabad today. He will be present at a meet and greet event at Forum Sujana Mall in Kukatpally. The event will be at 4:00 pm. A tweet by the official […]
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Sabarimala: As the annual pilgrimage is progressing at the famed Lord Ayyappa temple here, Travancore Devaswom Board, the apex temple body, has made arrangements for devotees to offer ‘e-kanikka’ at the electronic hundi collection in the temple complex and nearby areas. As in the previous years, the arrangements for the digital payment was made in […]
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Hyderabad: The first lung transplant surgery at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) was carried out on Wednesday when donor lungs from a brain dead 47-year-old daily wage earner, were transported through a green channel in the early hours from Medicover Hospitals, Madhapur to NIMS Punjagutta. Thanks to the green channel created by the city […]
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Hyderabad: The threat posed by the latest coronavirus variant, Omicron, has prompted authorities here to postpone the Sunday Funday programme at Tank Bund. Urban Development Special Chief Secretary Arvind Kumar tweeted on Wednesday saying in view of the uncertainties regarding the new coronavirus variant and keeping precaution as a priority, the event would not be […]
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Hyderabad: Breaking stereotypes and barriers, Jai Bharathi, founder, Moving Women Social Initiatives Foundation (MOWO), and her team travelled on two-wheelers across the country covering more than 20 cities and 11,111 km. Moving Borders Tour which went on for more than 40 days was organised by the MOWO in association with Shell Foundation and the UK […]
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Hyderabad: Gattipally Shivalal might be just three feet when it comes to height, but he is standing tall in the dwarf community now by becoming the first dwarf in the country to earn a driving licence. The 42-year-old, who works at a private company in the city, saw the need to be self-reliant since it […]
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Hyderabad: TRS legislators lashed out at the BJP government at the Centre and the State BJP leaders for making contradictory statements, leading to confusion among farmers in Telangana. They stated that without clarifying on the quantity of rice that the Centre was willing to procure, the State BJP leaders were instigating farmers in Telangana to […]
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Hyderabad: New guidelines to screen international arrivals from at-risk countries, where the new variant of SARS-CoV-2, Omicron, has been reported, has come into force at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad, from Tuesday midnight. Adequate manpower, including senior doctors, and infrastructure have been arranged by the State government to implement the new guidelines, which involves conducting […]
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Hyderabad: For the second consecutive day on Tuesday, proceedings in the Lok Sabha were disrupted and the House was adjourned twice amid protests by Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MPs demanding clarity on paddy procurement, a law on Minimum Support Price (MSP) and compensation for families of farmers who lost their lives during agitation against the […]
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Hyderabad: The State government has completed preparations for a probable third Covid-19 wave by augmenting vital medical infrastructure and imparting training to healthcare workers to handle a possible surge of Covid-19 infections. As part of these efforts, 28,000 beds in government hospitals in the State now have direct medical oxygen lines for Covid patients. Overall, […]
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New Delhi: New Covid variant Omicron doesn’t escape the Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RTPCR) test and Rapid Antigen Test, Indian Council of Medical Research Director General, Dr Balram Bhargava, said on Tuesday. In a virtual meeting with states and UTs on public health response measures and preparedness amid reports of Omicron variant in many countries, […]
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Hyderabad: Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Tuesday said the Centre was hatching conspiracies to cheat farmers in the State on the paddy procurement issue. “The ire of the people is reflected in the statements made by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhara Rao during the media briefing after the Cabinet meeting on Monday,” the Minister said, […]
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Hyderabad: It was somewhere in the late 2000s that there was a sudden surge witnessed in the elevation of Indian-origin executives to head global multinationals and mostly tech giants. While Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella and Shantanu Narayen were made the CEO of Microsoft and Adobe respectively, many other India-born and Indian-origin executives rose the ranks to […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao expressed grief over the demise of renowned Telugu film lyricist and Padmasri awardee Chambolu (Sirivennela) Seetharama Sastry. He said Seetharama Sastry had won the hearts of both scholars and general public through his literature which blended with any musical form. He remembered that Seetharama Sastry turned his debut film’s […]
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Hyderabad: A gang that exploited a few loopholes in the vehicle registration certificate issuing process and forged RCs apart from cheating the Regional Transport Authority was busted here on Tuesday. The Cyberabad Police Special Operation Team arrested seven persons, from whom 1,200 fake RCs, 29 stamps, printers and other material were seized. The arrested persons […]
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Medak: Finance Minister T Harish Rao instructed the Medak RDO to immediately procure paddy from farmers of Alladurgam Mandal in the district on Tuesday. The Minister, who was on his way back to Narsapur after a surprise visit to Narayankhed Area Hospital in Sangareddy district, saw the farmers protesting at the Alldurgam Mandal headquarters. Harish […]
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Hyderabad: Noted Telugu lyricist Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry passed away here on Tuesday afternoon. According to a bulletin issued by KIMS Hospital, he died of lung cancer related complications. Sastry was admitted to KIMS Hospital, Secunderabad, on November 24 with pneumonia and was put on ECMO to support his lungs in ICU and was under close […]
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Hyderabad: With Parag Agrawal being named as the Twitter Chief Executive Officer (CEO), he becomes a part of the Indian-origin executives who are now helming the top global tech companies. And we have a list to be proud of – from Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, the […]
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New Delhi: The government will soon bring in a new Bill on cryptocurrency after it is approved by the Union Cabinet, said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday in the Rajya Sabha. A Bill on Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency for introduction in the Lok Sabha has been included in the Lok Sabha […]
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Warangal: The CPI (Maoist) has expelled its politburo member and senior most leader Kobad Ghandy accusing him of abandoning the ‘dialectical and historical materialism, principles of Marxism and class struggle” and “for selecting the way of getting happiness through mysticism.” In a press release dated November 27, 2021, party national spokesperson Abhay said that the […]
