In a rare case, addiction to mobile game, PUBG, almost cost a 19-year-old from Wanaparthy his life. The BSc second-year student landed at ICU of a hospital recently where doctors attending to him said he developed brain clots (thrombosis) and was suffering from acute weight loss, poor nutrition, dehydration.
On a day when BJP leaders in Assam dubbed the National Register of Citizens (NRC) final list, announced by the Union home ministry on Saturday, as ‘faulty’, party leaders in Telangana demanded NRC be implemented in Greater Hyderabad. They want NRC in the city to begin from September 17, the Hyderabad Liberation Day.
Expressing serious concern over dengue ‘spreading like a wildfire’ in several parts of the state, the Telangana high court on Friday asked the government to explain the steps taken to contain the disease, giving it a week to respond.
A traffic inspector carried a sick man across a waterlogged route on Sagar Ring Road on Friday after heavy rains lashed the city.
Over 150 stray dogs were allegedly poisoned and hastily buried at Auto Nagar dumpsite on Friday. The incident came to light after an activist followed and waylaid a vehicle hired by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to transport the carcasses to the dumpyard.
The second additional first class magistrate court in Khammam on Friday issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against former MP and Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury in an alleged cheating case.
A software company owner was allegedly killed by his business partner in the latter’s KPHB Colony house. The incident came to light on Thursday night when cops searched the house of the accused, Hemanth Mathe, in KPHB Colony and found victim M Satish Babu’s semi-decomposed body.
Following a prolonged recessionary phase, real estate activity in Hyderabad has doubled over the last few years, show market records.
Mounting pressure on the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to approach the Centre to officially celebrate September 17 as ‘Telangana Liberation Day’.
Taking a cue from lotus leaf and rose petal, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, developed waterproof material using fly ash, an environmentally hazardous substance produced by thermal power stations.
A car mechanic from Hayathnagar in city was arrested on the charges of kidnapping and murdering a 15-year-old girl in Jadcherla. Mahbubnagar police found the Class X student’s body in the bushes near Shankaraiahpalli village
The daring act of a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Vikul Kumar saved the life of a businessman at Nampally railway station on Thursday morning.
Gearing up for the upcoming municipal polls expected to be held in the next two months, TRS working president KT Rama Rao on Wednesday constituted committees with general secretaries for municipalities.
The Congress on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to director-general (forests), government of India, urging him to withdraw in-principle approval given for uranium mining in Amrabad Tiger Reserve.
Along with a fresh stock of homes and offices, about a dozen new malls – small and big – are set to spring up across Hyderabad over the next 12 to 18 months, reveal industry surveys. And while the IT corridor continues to be the hotspot, multiple micro-markets too are now opening up as preferred destinations. The frontrunners: Uppal, Nagole, Vanasthalipuram, Karmanghat, Moula Ali, Malakpet among others.
Three school students were killed and 20 hurt after their school bus rammed into a road divider and turned turtle while they were on their way to hostel for lunch on Wednesday afternoon in the temple town Vemulawada. Due to the high-speed impact, two students were flung out of the bus and crushed under it, while the third student succumbed later in hospital. The bus driver and school management have been booked.
A 20-year-old man, reportedly suffering from a mental illness, sent the police on an unusual ride by stealing a patrol bike parked near Chaderghat police station on Tuesday night. However, by accessing the GPS location of the bike, police intercepted the offender, K Madhu, at LB Nagar and arrested him.
Ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations, a Telangana Rashtra Samithi corporator distributed 1,500 notebook with images of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and two other TRS leaders printed on them, at a government school on Wednesday.
A fire broke out at a pesticide factory in the Cherlapally industrial area and spread to two other factories around 5 am on Wednesday. Though there have been no casualties, property worth over Rs 10 crores was damaged, fire officials said.
Task force police have busted a hawala racket and arrested seven persons for illegally transporting cash worth Rs 5 crore near Jubilee Hills on Monday night. Acting on specific information, the west zone team of task force kept watch on the movements of certain suspects on Monday and intercepted them at Jubilee Hills Check Post at 11 pm.
The Telangana high court has permitted Enforcement Directorate (ED) to record the statement of Radheshyam, CMD of Hisar-based Future Maker Life Care Private Ltd, in connection with a money circulation fraud case booked by Cyberabad police last year.
Telangana workers staying illegally in Malaysia can return home by availing the amnesty scheme extended by the Malaysian government. The amnesty, which began on August 1, will be in force till December 31.
A silver crown, two gold rings and two gold necklaces of Lord Sri Venkateswara, the presiding deity of Tirumala, are reported missing from the high-security treasury of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) here. Though the ornaments were found missing during an audit in 2017, the alleged theft came to light only on Tuesday after a former member of the TTD trust board released documents related to the audit.
A 25-year-old woman junior doctor was assaulted at state-run Niloufer Hospital on Monday night, following which doctors staged a protest at the hospital on Tuesday morning.
The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) is looking for sponsors for issuing free application forms and bus passes to students of various government schools.
A 45-year-old woman, who arrived with her husband in Tirupati on Saturday, was found dead at a lodge in the city on Sunday. The husband, who is the prime suspect, has been missing since Sunday. Police booked a case of murder. The couple identified as M Cynthia and Murugan, residents of Chennai had arrived in Tirupati and booked a room at a lodge near Peddakapu Layout in the city on Saturday. While Cynthia had furnished her identity proof, her husband did not, but his name was registered in the lodge’s register.
Former CBI special judge B Naga Maruti Sarma on Monday deposed before the ACB court principal special judge in the infamous cash-for-bail case and claimed he was offered Rs 40 crore for setting mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy free on bail. Later, Sarma’s successor T Pattabhi Rama Rao and a High Court judicial officer were trapped by law-enforcing agencies for accepting an alleged bribe to grant bail to the mining baron.
In a major boost to organ growth experimental studies, researchers of Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H) have developed collagen through a breakthrough technique using marine waste.
Three persons were arrested for allegedly selling plots belonging to a woman by preparing forged land documents from different locations in the city on Monday.
Months after tasting success in four Lok Sabha seats in India’s youngest state, BJP is making fresh moves to have elections conducted on party basis in Secunderabad Cantonment. Elections in 62 Cantonments across the country are due in January 2020.
Passengers onboard a Hyderabad-Chennai TruJet flight had a narrow escape, on Monday morning, after the aircraft made an emergency landing at the city’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), following an alleged fuel leak. The ATR flight, 2T 201, took-off from RGIA at 8am with 42 passengers. Within 10 minutes, it developed a technical snag and was forced to return to the base.
Barely a fortnight after elected representatives warned ‘underperforming’ Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials of repatriation to their parent department, IAS officer Dana Kishore was removed from the post of GHMC commissioner.
Motorists following traffic rules will be honoured with movie tickets by the city traffic police as a sign of appreciation. The Panjagutta traffic police said 25 motorists who had no challans issued against them would be given coupons to avail free movie tickets from any PVR theatre in the city.
Zohaib Moinuddin, a resident of Kings colony, Shastripuram, lost his arms in an electric shock earlier this year. The incident occurred on March 29, when Moinuddin was putting up a signboard on the second floor of an apartment in LB Nagar, where his father was setting up an eatery. A part of the signboard touched a live wire and the impact threw him 4ft away.
Over 6,000 runnersput their best foot forward for the ‘5K & CXO run’ on Saturday before the curtain-raiser running event of Airtel Hyderabad marathon 2019 to be held on August 25.
Justice P Naveen Rao of the Telangana high court favoured abolition of the current practice of releasing overloaded vehicles after their seizure upon payment of penalty.
The Telangana high court got three new judges. With this, the number of judges has gone up to 14, including Chief Justice, from the present 11.
Six-hundred women from 16 states allegedly send their nude photos and videos in return for a front-office job in a five-star hotel to a software engineer in Chennai masquerading as an HR manager and ended up being blackmailed for money by him.
Three persons were arrested by Hyderabad police for allegedly cheating a businessman by collecting Rs 12 lakh with a promise to provide the victim with Rs 2 crore worth 500 denomination notes, all in old currency form.
The surge in dengue in the city is not only a pressing health issue for people and health authorities, but with many cases of severe dengue, the disease is weighing heavy on people’s pockets.
An auto driver was allegedly murdered by a private financier and his accomplice in Miyapur for failing to repay a loan on Thursday night. The drivers severed head was dumped a kilometre away in Bollaram.
An expert in nanotechnology metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M), professor Budaraju Srinivasa Murty is all set to take charge as the new director of the IIT-Hyderabad (IIT-H), putting an end to the race for the coveted post.Six-hundred women from 16 states allegedly send their nude photos and videos in return for a front-office job in a five-star hotel to a software engineer in Chennai masquerading as an HR manager and ended up being blackmailed for money by him.
As many as 30 camels were rescued in Kadapa by animal welfare groups from Hyderabad, including the Greater Hyderabad Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GHSPCA), Bharatiya Prani Mitra Sangh (BPMS) and Gau Gyan Foundation (GGF).
Days after body of a 70-year-old retired railway employee, Maruthi Suthar, was found chopped into pieces and stuffed in six buckets, the victim’s son, wife and daughter were arrested on Thursday for the murder. Police said that the accused family members had searched online the ways to kill the victim. The accused have been identified as Ganga Bai (58), wife of the deceased, his son Kishan Suthar (40) and daughter Prapulla (29).
Rachakonda police on Thursday busted an international human trafficking racket involving a minor girl from Bangladesh and arrested three persons. Two of the accused are Bangladeshis.
In a setback to the state government and relief to Navayuga Engineering Company Limited (NECL), the Andhra Pradesh high court on Thursday suspended the pre-closure orders issued by AP Power Generation Corporation (APGENCO) cancelling the Polavaram Hydro-Electric Project (PHEP) contract. The HC also directed the state government not to entrust PHEP work to any third party. The state government had issued fresh tender notification on Aug 17.
A surprise inspection by GHMC officials in the IT corridor revealed unhealthy sanitation practices by grade A IT parks and buildings. In two days, Rs 10 lakh penalty was imposed on commercial establishments littering in public places.
To help prisoners deal with mental issues and prevent possible cases of suicide, prisons department authorities screened 1,250 inmates of Central Prison, Chanchalguda and identified 55 who have signs of depression. Psychologists who conducted various tests over the past three months are now providing them help to overcome their problems.
Next time you visit a passport seva kendra (PSK), show your passport application reference number (ARN) registered on your mobile phone instead of carrying a printout. All that the applicant will have to do is to show the SMS to the PSK staff to process the application.